1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,240 okay 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:10,000 it's when show time again or that is to say it was when show time about 20 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:13,679 minutes about 20 minutes ago thank you for your patience um those of you who 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:17,199 are watching on youtube in a certain way not very meaningful to 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:23,439 you we were on time today in some time zone we were on time 6 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:24,800 it's five o'clock somewhere 7 00:00:23,439 --> 00:00:29,519 which is irrelevant because we don't start at five yeah wait yes we do oh 8 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:31,840 crap but not in that time zone no not my uh 9 00:00:32,239 --> 00:00:37,680 um can we blame uh daylight saving time uh 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,160 oh yeah that was last week 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,440 yep so actually no one's gonna be watching this week anyway like i go look 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,840 at the viewership statistics probably everyone was like um 13 00:00:48,239 --> 00:00:53,440 everyone everywhere else in the world probably thinks that it doesn't start 14 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:56,640 for an hour it doesn't start for another hour yeah so no we're for we're 40 15 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:01,520 minutes early whoa 16 00:00:58,559 --> 00:01:08,000 oh my goodness we are early for like most of the world that's fantastic 17 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:12,000 we are so good at this yes like online content creators yeah um all right so 18 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:18,320 we've got a great show for you guys today yeah we specifically 19 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:22,320 went out of our way to avoid talking about it last week 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:26,960 and the reason was that honestly i just needed a little bit more 21 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:31,680 time to figure out what the heck was going on here 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:34,240 the g-force partner program yeah on the 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:39,360 surface this looks like some pretty jank pretty scummy stuff 24 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,880 and um below the surface 25 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,640 um well we'll talk about it later 26 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:50,720 um but yeah i mean realistically if i was gonna say it's all good i would have 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:55,520 said that before yes um there was another 28 00:01:52,159 --> 00:01:59,280 big news item this week security flaws 29 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:00,399 found in AMD zen processors uh from cts 30 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:04,640 Labs wow that's been a drama and a half so i 31 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:09,759 think that even technically started last week too but especially this one 32 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,360 super muddy waters last week and it's a little bit a little bit more clear now 33 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:17,520 like still kind of confusing did you ever play the game at the beach where 34 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:21,520 you would like you would like stomp and then you'd get like the like the kind of 35 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:25,360 godzilla looking cloud that comes out around your foot and you'd be like oh 36 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,440 that was fun stomp and then you would get to the point 37 00:02:26,319 --> 00:02:31,040 where you couldn't really see the cloud anymore because it's because you just 38 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:36,160 mucked up everything so that was last week 39 00:02:33,519 --> 00:02:40,400 now we've left it for a few hours and like we can go sort of stomp around a 40 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:44,480 bit again but it's not it's not clear either what else we got 41 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,000 okay um apparently another NVIDIA thing they're 42 00:02:46,239 --> 00:02:52,080 both just slamming it this week apparently they're going to announce rtx 43 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:56,640 or ray tracing technology which is pretty interesting 44 00:02:53,319 --> 00:02:58,080 and another company's removing another 45 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:01,120 headphone jack well it's the same headphone jack yeah 46 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:07,800 that's fair well i guess it's a different headphone jack you know what well it's the same kind that's just 47 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:07,800 really interesting yeah 48 00:03:25,519 --> 00:03:30,319 this video brought to you by spectra 49 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:36,959 and fresh books 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:41,280 can you eat either of those things no that's a real bummer because i'm 51 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,280 super hungry 52 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:50,480 i was like i thought i thought you were like spilling into a spot for the other 53 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:52,480 guys no oh no okay no no not really i'm 54 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:57,040 sure you could have these oh i'm not going to eat reaper jerky 55 00:03:54,239 --> 00:04:01,280 savage jerky's not sponsoring like they're right there yeah they're 56 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:05,920 right there and i'd feel better well first i'd feel worse 57 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:09,120 then i'd feel better and then i feel much worse 58 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:15,599 all right why don't we jump into the news um this is going to be like not 59 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:19,919 very many topics but a very long time yeah i'm not ready for the GeForce partner 60 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:24,639 program are we jumping to that not yet yeah yeah let's talk about let's talk 61 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:28,800 about something kind of trivial wow you and i are gonna have to play uh 62 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,680 what's going on we're gonna have to play share the power adapter over the next 63 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,960 little bit here because i've only gotten ten percent but that's okay i'm gonna oh i'm on 64 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:41,199 battery saver already well okay then i'm gonna turn down my screen brightness 65 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:49,120 a bit okay sony removed the headphone jack from the 66 00:04:43,919 --> 00:04:51,360 xperia xz2 and xz2 compact uh they 67 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,840 outlined the details of why they did this in their blog this was originally 68 00:04:53,280 --> 00:05:00,000 posted on the forum by die hard live uh would you what do 69 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,639 you mind doing die hard to live die hard to live yeah i can do a straw pool heck 70 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:07,680 yeah do you even consider 71 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:15,600 sony phones when buying a phone that is a fantastic straw poll 72 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:18,080 would you consider a sony phone now yeah 73 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,880 here in north america sony's market share is like 74 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,479 this is one of the reasons why i want to do this poll though because we don't 75 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:30,720 necessarily have just a north american audience exactly it'll be a little 76 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:35,120 skewed because we're live right now yeah if this was the if we were able to 77 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:38,479 get these results from the youtube audience i think it would be different 78 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:43,120 than what it's going to be now someday when we're streaming on Floatplane 79 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:46,479 and that stream we can then go we could have like perpetual pulling that like 80 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:51,600 sits right under the video and that would be super cool that would totally work um i mean yeah it's all sort of 81 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:55,440 theoretical at this point because Floatplane is not 82 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:58,240 particularly fully featured at the moment 83 00:05:56,639 --> 00:06:02,400 um last week i'm not trying to be a jerk or 84 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:07,600 anything last week hit a little deep that that comments fair though yeah 85 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,520 uh okay so i've gone ahead and i've dropped the straw poll in there but this 86 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,400 was originally posted on the forum by die hard to live 87 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:20,000 and they basically outlined the two reasons 88 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:24,560 for removing the headphone jack that subjectively um 89 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:28,479 are probably about the worst reasons that you could do anything 90 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:32,400 and contribute to um in my opinion oh my god was that 91 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,759 actually okay i hadn't read their two reasons before was that actually it or 92 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:40,880 did we just like come up with that contribute to probably why i think 93 00:06:38,639 --> 00:06:44,240 probably why the straw poll results will be what i think they will be 94 00:06:45,039 --> 00:06:51,919 so it's not good go ahead and pull up the results here would you consider a 95 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:56,720 sony phone remember we didn't say would you buy a sony phone yeah we said would 96 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:01,360 you even consider would you even think about it at all uh we've got 26 percent 97 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:07,759 of you saying yes 74 percent of you saying no and only 500 98 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:12,240 of you even bothering to vote which is some pretty low numbers for these when 99 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:17,199 show struggles which i'm going to put that category as a wow i really don't 100 00:07:14,479 --> 00:07:20,960 care and no one is even no one is even still voting like the results aren't 101 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:25,680 even rolling in anymore oh wait yes that yes they are oh oh and it died off 102 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:29,520 pretty hard at 6 35. it died off pretty hard it's like still kind of going it's 103 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:34,720 not okay so here are the reasons that sony outlined 104 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:39,280 for making this decision and you got to remember the the strong opinion on this 105 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:42,160 would be a yes anyone thinking no like it's kind of effort for them to be like 106 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,120 yeah no so like there's probably a way higher 107 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:50,240 percentage of people that actually wouldn't consider but anyway reason number one 108 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:55,280 it looks more sleek without it so by that logic a human would probably 109 00:07:52,560 --> 00:08:02,319 look more sleek without an anus but you probably shouldn't remove it 110 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,319 reason number two 111 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,520 i thought you were gonna hold it together on that one but you couldn't no 112 00:08:06,479 --> 00:08:13,520 not quite reason number two 113 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:16,000 other companies are doing it oh 114 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:20,479 so painful now in fairness is that actually what they 115 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:24,960 said in fairness to sony in fairness to sony hold on a second 116 00:08:23,199 --> 00:08:27,680 um here okay look do you want me to read 117 00:08:26,479 --> 00:08:33,039 the whole thing this is part of the shift to our new 118 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,360 ambient flow design language in order to 119 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:39,760 create the beautiful seamless design our designers needed to remove the headphone 120 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:44,640 jack plus we were aware of the major market trend towards wireless headphones 121 00:08:41,839 --> 00:08:48,480 over wired headphones so yes they literally did they literally did 122 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:53,360 say that um so okay 123 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:57,040 in fairness to sony in defense of sony something that i'm not a hundred percent 124 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:01,040 sure if they deserve right now um 125 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:05,120 no one cares about their phones anyways no that is not what i was going to say 126 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:08,320 be clear there i was also kidding in fairness to sony i never oh i never said 127 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:13,680 the announcement video live i was trying to figure out why so few people i used to like their phones until we had so 128 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:17,279 many of them just bend in half yeah uh well two i think 129 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:21,680 three burkles mine yours burkles did too yeah 130 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:25,360 oh i didn't even know that yeah how do you manage to do that it was a compact 131 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:29,519 oh the compacts have the same issue as just less likely it was just burkle 132 00:09:29,519 --> 00:09:36,320 he's an action man um probably more action in his pants wow i meant like wow 133 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:40,480 okay actually my defense of sony is actually worse than anything you've said 134 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:43,760 in defensive in sony's defense the last time they tried to do something really 135 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:48,080 innovative that was probably really expensive from 136 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,839 an r d perspective because remember sony was the one that made waterproof 137 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:54,800 mainstream that was cool that was very cool that's why i used to really like 138 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:58,240 their phone and then they still didn't manage to sell more phones because of it 139 00:09:56,399 --> 00:10:02,080 but that's a whole other issue the last time they tried to do something they 140 00:09:59,519 --> 00:10:06,560 were the first to have a 4k display now creating a 4k mobile display you 141 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:12,399 guys got to understand when you have a feature on your phone 142 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:14,880 let's say oneplus uh launches a 2560 by 143 00:10:12,399 --> 00:10:21,440 1080 mobile display oneplus did not go and get that freaking 144 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:24,160 panel created they are a relatively small player 145 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:28,240 and when you're a relatively small player doing relatively small volume you 146 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:35,040 don't get to walk up to samsung's display division or lg 147 00:10:30,839 --> 00:10:37,040 or uh auo or phillips or whoever it is 148 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:42,880 you don't get to walk up and be like yo we need a custom sku it needs to have 149 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:44,480 this color gamut uh this uh response 150 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,839 time it needs to be this size at this resolution they're gonna laugh you out 151 00:10:46,079 --> 00:10:52,240 of their office you get to do that when you're apple 152 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:56,720 when you're samsung believe it or not apple's notch display was custom created 153 00:10:55,519 --> 00:11:00,800 just for them because until apple did it of course 154 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:04,320 after apple does it which ties into sony's other reasons yeah of course 155 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:10,880 other people want it but until apple did it nobody else was gonna want that okay 156 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,480 um so so sony would have had to actually 157 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:18,560 create a 4k mobile display in that form factor 158 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:20,240 for that phone that quite honestly they 159 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:23,279 probably didn't sell a ton of based on our straw poll results and also you can 160 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,360 just google it and just see like the people around you 161 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:32,320 what phones they're using so they didn't yeah when's the last time you saw one so 162 00:11:29,279 --> 00:11:34,880 so sony didn't probably get a great roi 163 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:38,000 on that particular you know breaking the mold kind of investment although even 164 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:41,519 then giving them credit for breaking the mold in that way is 165 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,160 not entirely fair because they were just following an overall market trend they 166 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:50,320 were just trying to get out ahead of it in a way that was totally meaningless and stupid yes and almost never even 167 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:55,519 worked anyways the phone ran in default 1080p almost all the time and then you'd 168 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:58,399 like view a picture that was in 4k and you'd have to wait a second and then it 169 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,640 would just like and then change resolution it was really 170 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,680 weird it was very odd almost everything ran at 1080p 171 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:10,399 but anyways so i can see how they don't want to take 172 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,680 any risks because you have to move a lot of devices to 173 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:18,720 make up for any kind of r d investment 174 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:19,760 beyond just even the basics 175 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:23,920 um but i'm just i'm disappointed i i was 176 00:12:21,839 --> 00:12:29,440 thrilled to see that samsung still had the headphone jack on the s9 and s9 plus 177 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:34,320 um i think that you know what yeah the mainstream is moving to wireless but 178 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:38,480 samsung is going to sell some handsets just for that and i really hope that 179 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:40,880 they do get rewarded for it yeah all right 180 00:12:39,519 --> 00:12:45,519 what do we got for our next topic here 181 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:50,079 oh should we get into the invasion these are all big deep ones i just have such 182 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:54,959 this thing if you want to go pretty light and easy no no let's just let's 183 00:12:52,959 --> 00:12:59,120 just get this out of the way okay so the g-force partner program this was 184 00:12:57,519 --> 00:13:05,760 originally posted on the forum this is actually an 11-page topic over on our 185 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:08,240 forum and it was posted by wm groom ak 186 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:12,720 and this lady or gentleman whichever it is um okay let's go ahead and get screen 187 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:19,200 share going on here uh basically read an article over on 188 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:20,480 hard ocp from kyle bennett and 189 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:24,959 said this found all of this interesting 190 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:29,279 if his reporting checks out because 191 00:13:26,959 --> 00:13:34,560 basically and and this is sort of the problem 192 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:41,440 this came to light from AMD bringing some of the details of what's called the 193 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:43,839 g-force partners program or gpp 194 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:49,120 to his attention and you gotta look at that's yeah you gotta look at no matter 195 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:54,720 who it is like i i get that whoever you're a fanboy of whether it's 196 00:13:51,760 --> 00:14:01,279 AMD or Intel or NVIDIA i get that there's this like tribalism 197 00:13:58,959 --> 00:14:06,399 thing that's that's wired into us as human beings and 198 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:11,760 when someone else does it it's the worst and when we do it it's just us getting 199 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:14,320 back at them for being bad people 200 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:19,199 but you got to understand that any time any any company brings something to your 201 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:23,680 attention oh hey um have you noticed them doing this 202 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:28,480 there's an agenda at play there's room for spin almost every action is selfish 203 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:33,440 whether it's helpful to other people or not there's some amount of element that is usually selfish which is okay in a 204 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,199 lot of cases but it's just something to be aware of yes it's you got to live your life sort 205 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:42,000 of thinking about that in everything that you do 206 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:47,199 so the basic summary is that the story 207 00:14:45,199 --> 00:14:51,839 began when several sites including heart ocp were alerted to the goings-on by a 208 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:56,800 uh by AMD in a blog post from march 1st NVIDIA 209 00:14:54,880 --> 00:15:00,240 outlined their new GeForce partner program which ostensibly 210 00:14:59,199 --> 00:15:07,279 helps consumers identify brands 211 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:10,399 that deliver the g-force promise 212 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:13,279 of delivering the best pc gaming 213 00:15:10,399 --> 00:15:18,079 platform bar none so let's go ahead and pull up NVIDIA's blog post 214 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:22,720 that NVIDIA is very good at this oops there we go 215 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:24,959 uh let's pull up NVIDIA's blog post that 216 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:28,720 NVIDIA is so good at this um sort of 217 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:33,920 puts it in the shiniest possible terms what they're doing here 218 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:37,600 this is the headline the GeForce partner program helps gamers know what they're 219 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,279 buying oh boy 220 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:45,279 i was having trouble figuring out what i was buying before i'm sure glad that i 221 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:50,160 know now like last stream we talked about how confusing Intel skus are yeah 222 00:15:47,839 --> 00:15:54,720 graphics card skews are not a huge problem on the NVIDIA side 223 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:57,839 yeah actually and even on the AMD side yeah it's pretty straightforward they're 224 00:15:56,079 --> 00:16:02,000 not that bad higher number is more better there was a little bit of confusingness for a section there but 225 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,920 it's kind of the first number is the generation and then beyond that higher 226 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:09,839 is more better i think it got a little bit confusing on 227 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:13,680 the AMD side when we had like fury and nano and actually no NVIDIA does have 228 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:17,839 some stupid bs going on right now where the three gig and the six gig version of 229 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:22,639 the 1060 are actually different cards yeah yeah uh okay that's fair so hold on 230 00:16:20,079 --> 00:16:27,279 a second well wait a minute is NVIDIA rescuing us from themselves 231 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:30,720 is that what's happening right now we also had that stuff where the titan xp 232 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,199 and the titan xp that that was okay that was really 233 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:39,920 annoying that was really so um especially when the whole community 234 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:44,560 nicknamed the first one the xp yeah and then they called their next one the xp 235 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:50,240 okay okay so fine okay fine you know what then let's play let's play NVIDIA 236 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:54,800 advocate uh go wait let's play NVIDIA advocate and say they did need to do 237 00:16:52,079 --> 00:16:59,120 something about this confusing industry so let's have a look at what they said 238 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:04,160 the oh man wow this starts off horrible like right within the first two lines 239 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:08,400 the GPU and software of a gaming pc make all the difference in a gamer's 240 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:12,160 experience and together with our add-in card and system partners we're dedicated 241 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:18,160 to building the best pc gaming platform bar none this is the GeForce promise 242 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:22,640 partner program is designed to ensure that gamers have full transparency into 243 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:27,039 the GPU platform and software they're being sold now i'm a 244 00:17:24,559 --> 00:17:30,640 i'm a let you finish but do you ever read stuff that just makes 245 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:34,240 you like tired i'm doing it right now 246 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:39,120 because i'm sure where you were going with yeah 247 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:43,760 i'mma let you finish but there was no ambiguity here 248 00:17:41,679 --> 00:17:49,360 there there's already marketing incentives and in some cases 249 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:56,559 like basically an ARM twisted behind the back like this 250 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:59,120 where NVIDIA really has a lot of control 251 00:17:56,559 --> 00:18:04,400 over the the badges that are put on for example a product box or in the case of 252 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:09,039 add-in cards even the overall design like you could take a picture from the 253 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:14,480 side of an entire shelf of cards made by MSI ASUS Gigabyte evga 254 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:18,080 and all the NVIDIA ones would be basically the same yeah they're really 255 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:23,679 because NVIDIA has mandated and they have lots of levers they can pull to 256 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:27,280 control their partners but NVIDIA has mandated that they need to kind of look 257 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:29,840 like this and the levers that they can pull include pricing 258 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:33,440 um allocation of the hot parts that 259 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:40,160 actually sell um partner support so things like providing 260 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:45,840 engineering support for your custom boards um access early access to the 261 00:18:43,679 --> 00:18:49,120 parts so you can begin development ahead of other guys and if all this kind 262 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:53,520 of stuff has existed forever and it's like totally kind of fine kind of kind 263 00:18:51,679 --> 00:18:58,000 of there's there's some issues in some realms but most of it is fairly standard 264 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:01,679 practice okay fine is a relative term most of this is fairly standard practice 265 00:18:59,919 --> 00:19:06,720 for a lot of different industries yeah depending on how it's done so the thing 266 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:09,760 is that we we get a lot of uh we we get a lot of sort of feedback from our 267 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:15,520 community that the perception is that we're sort of like friends of NVIDIA 268 00:19:13,679 --> 00:19:20,240 but the reality of it is we're not friends with anybody um we are a 269 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:24,640 business and we have business partnerships 270 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:27,039 and from a product perspective we like 271 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:32,160 NVIDIA products just fine from a um sort of 272 00:19:29,679 --> 00:19:36,400 how we perceive their reputation within the industry 273 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:40,400 we have some misgivings ones that we have brought to light in the past 274 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:46,240 uh particularly actually i think probably the most recent example is the 1066 gig and three gig that's an 275 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:49,760 extremely recent example we didn't like the way they did that well i mean like 276 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,880 we mentioned at this show but there's also the recent change to GeForce 277 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:59,280 experience yes we've also mentioned that which was like we put them on blasts for that and 278 00:19:57,919 --> 00:20:04,480 i still don't install it and i still don't recommend it and while i am 279 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:11,120 not always at liberty to talk about especially the sources of the the the um 280 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:15,280 the frustration with NVIDIA that takes place behind the scenes 281 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:19,120 there's a lot of it that we're aware of and there's a lot of ARM twisting and uh 282 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:25,440 you know it's you know think about it think NVIDIA is like the 283 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:31,600 partner that stands there posing for a picture with you 284 00:20:28,159 --> 00:20:32,840 and has their foot on your toe yeah 285 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:37,919 being like smile properly man that's the perception that 286 00:20:35,919 --> 00:20:40,080 i get a lot of the time please come say hi 287 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:48,080 so let's continue reading about the g-force promise here 288 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:53,520 this transparency into what you're buying is only possible when NVIDIA 289 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:55,039 brands and partner brands are consistent 290 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:59,360 so the new program means that we'll be promoting our gpp partner brands across 291 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:04,080 the web on social media events and more so this sounds like oh NVIDIA's is doing 292 00:21:01,679 --> 00:21:07,919 great things for their partners gpp partners will also get early access 293 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:14,720 to our latest innovations and work closely with our engineering team to bring the newest technologies to gamers 294 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:18,480 partners are signing up fast they see the benefit of keeping brands and 295 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:23,520 communication consistent and transparent does this not have like a um 296 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:29,200 uh which which harry potter movie is it where uh uh umbridge takes over the 297 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:34,240 school as the the professor the the the the prim and proper yeah you know 298 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,280 lady who turns out to be like an absolute monster i don't know the name 299 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:42,159 of it but i think it's the second last one yeah i don't know i don't remember anyway it's like not really important 300 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:47,120 yeah the point is does this not have like yeah kind of a rules for you know 301 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:52,320 proper behavior as students kind of vibe to it the program isn't exclusive partners 302 00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:56,480 continue to have the ability to sell and promote products from anyone partners 303 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:00,960 choose to sign up for the program and they can stop participating at any time 304 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:04,480 there's no commitment to make any monetary payments 305 00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:07,760 or product discounts for being part of the program 306 00:22:05,679 --> 00:22:11,840 gpp ensures our engineering and marketing efforts support brands 307 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:15,360 consumers associate with g-force that transparency will give gamers the 308 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:18,880 confidence needed to make their purchase whichever products they choose 309 00:22:23,039 --> 00:22:29,440 now i don't often feel the need to read out an entire press release from a 310 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:33,760 company because a lot of the time frankly i feel like companies should pay 311 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:37,679 me to read their stupid press release like honestly press releases that's not 312 00:22:35,919 --> 00:22:41,600 journalism that's not object that's not objective that's advertising they 313 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:46,720 literally pay someone to write it and then they pay like market wire to 314 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:49,039 distribute it that that's what it is um 315 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:57,840 okay so on the surface this sounds like everything about this 316 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:04,320 is voluntary and terrific but let's look at the state of the GPU market right now 317 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:08,799 if you if you can get gpus you are making bank because of the whole 318 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:11,919 cryptocurrency mining thing and pent up demand from gamers who haven't been able 319 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:16,320 to get gpus because of the cryptocurrency mining thing 320 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:22,000 if you can't get gpus you are basically plum out of luck and 321 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:24,960 NVIDIA without doing anything 322 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:29,280 that could open them up to a lawsuit can plausibly say 323 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:32,240 we just didn't have enough for you you were on the list 324 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:36,400 sorry and if you're let's say someone like 325 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:40,640 evga for example you have 326 00:23:37,679 --> 00:23:43,760 other businesses you sell motherboards you sell 327 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:47,120 crazy ridiculously high wattage power supplies yeah you sell power supplies 328 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:50,400 you sell cases even but let's be honest 329 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,520 when's the last time you saw an evga motherboard out in the wild 330 00:23:55,039 --> 00:24:01,520 so they sell they sell motherboards but do they sell a lot of them compared to 331 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:05,039 someone like an ASUS or a Gigabyte no not really and that isn't to say that 332 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:12,240 they're bad boards that's just to say that they aren't as popular and that 333 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:15,440 evga's business is very reliant on gpus 334 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,679 so if evga couldn't get 335 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:21,360 allocation of gpus to say that their business would suffer 336 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:27,200 would be a gross understatement so NVIDIA's blog post outlining how 337 00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:31,039 this is all very voluntary it just ensures that they 338 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,720 get the benefits of being part of the partner program 339 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:38,559 it comes across a little bit disingenuous because 340 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:43,600 that's not what's going on here what's going on is that if you don't join the partner program 341 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:47,200 you're not going to get allocation and your business is going to suffer and 342 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,799 you're going to have to lay off real people with real families 343 00:24:49,679 --> 00:24:54,240 who won't have a job anymore and won't be 344 00:24:53,039 --> 00:24:57,919 able to support them and that's something that if i'm a company like 345 00:24:56,559 --> 00:25:01,039 evga that for the most part my experience 346 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:05,840 with them has actually been very positive i would like to believe that they care 347 00:25:04,559 --> 00:25:10,400 about um so you're pretty much joining the 348 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,640 GeForce partner program so 349 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:22,480 let's go to the heart ocp article huge shout out to kyle for for doing what he 350 00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:26,400 was doing here so hard ocp began interviewing aibs and oems 351 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:31,919 i'm going to re-share this in twitch checks i showed it wow yeah go ahead hit twitch chat with that it's really 352 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:36,720 important um so they began interviewing aibs and oems who communicated a few 353 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:42,480 things one that the GeForce partner program 354 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,080 has terms in it that are likely illegal 355 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:48,960 number two that the GeForce partner program is 356 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:54,559 going to likely tremendously hurt consumer choice and number three that 357 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:59,520 the GeForce partner program will disrupt business with companies 358 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:07,120 that are currently doing business with AMD in particular AMD and Intel 359 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,960 the other thing that he gleaned and we 360 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:13,200 haven't been able to verify this because here's what you guys 361 00:26:10,799 --> 00:26:17,520 got to understand i don't i've never seen the agreement 362 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:21,600 and i know for a fact i will never see the agreement 363 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:26,960 it would shock me if anyone ever saw this agreement out in the public but 364 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:31,600 what i know about agreements like this is that let's say for example that uh 365 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:37,039 uh um a gag order was done in an illegal 366 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:40,799 fashion let's say i made you sign some kind of an agreement that says this is a 367 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:45,279 very spicy agreement yeah spicy agreement okay if you talk about this 368 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:51,679 agreement i will kill you and you will authorize me to kill you oh okay 369 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:54,480 obviously illegal 370 00:26:51,679 --> 00:26:58,400 but let's say it wasn't murder let's say it was something slightly less black and 371 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:02,400 white than that like i'll kill your company yeah like that 372 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:08,480 which to a lot of people is kind of close 373 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:12,480 yeah i mean people have committed suicide over their companies 374 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:16,880 yeah so let's say that it was something like that 375 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:25,039 you could you could you could you could break the agreement at some point but 376 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:26,640 until you fight me in court and prove 377 00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:31,520 that depending on the way it's wording because expensive lawyers can do expensive 378 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:37,200 lawyer things depending on the way it's worded the onus could be on you 379 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:40,960 to prove that you don't owe me whatever it was 380 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:46,960 so your business could effectively be destroyed in the years and after the 381 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,279 money that it costs you to fight me 382 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:53,440 so even though i have an illegal term and i have a potentially illegal 383 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:57,440 punishment for it you don't want to be the one who steps 384 00:27:54,880 --> 00:28:02,159 out of line because i can punish you in the meantime in ways that would destroy 385 00:27:59,919 --> 00:28:05,520 you to the point where it would never matter 386 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:10,240 if what i did was illegal because you wouldn't even exist to take a payout 387 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:15,279 anymore five years ten years down the road when you would be in a position to 388 00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:19,200 finally get your payout now that 389 00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:23,440 is a real possibility and i'm not saying that i know that that's what's happening 390 00:28:21,039 --> 00:28:28,640 but what i do know is that nobody is coughing up this agreement and 391 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:31,679 i do know that agreements like this do exist 392 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:35,039 okay so with all of that in mind 393 00:28:35,919 --> 00:28:42,480 further information that hart ocp is publishing 394 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:46,080 alleges that the GeForce partner program and i think okay to to 395 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,000 i'm not disagreeing with anything that you're saying okay but to play a little 396 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:55,440 bit both sides oh i know i know but to play a little bit of both sides yeah 397 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,960 alleges is a pretty important word here 398 00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:02,640 like there's a lot of as well according to 399 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:07,679 kyle bennett's article on heart ocp and a lot of it makes sense 400 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:14,640 and i'm explaining how it could make sense but it lines up pretty okay but like 401 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:19,840 okay yeah so thank you yeah are you at our legal department 402 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:24,080 i was sort of at one point long time ago um but okay i don't want to talk about 403 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,080 this 404 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,960 but like yeah i just want to make sure that's clear because while this might 405 00:29:29,679 --> 00:29:36,480 make sense and all that kind of stuff it's not technically 406 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:39,600 complete it's it's all alleges okay 407 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:42,320 so kyle's article further alleges that 408 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:47,279 in order to have access to the GeForce partner program 409 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:52,000 partners must have their own gaming 410 00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:54,240 brand aligned exclusively with g-force 411 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:00,159 now think about that for a minute because that's been a huge trend over 412 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,320 the last 10 years or so i think rog 413 00:30:00,159 --> 00:30:06,000 just celebrated its 10-year anniversary with the rampage five 414 00:30:04,399 --> 00:30:11,760 extreme they had a 10-year anniversary edition of that port and rog was one of 415 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:14,000 the to ASUS credit this was ASUS doesn't 416 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:18,480 always get marketing right but to ASUS's credit 417 00:30:15,919 --> 00:30:23,200 they built the rog brand when i called it a stupid idea way back in the day so 418 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:26,880 kudos to them and uh the rest of the industry basically was playing follow 419 00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:32,320 the leader and that's yeah i would also say they they have nailed it a few times 420 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:36,720 ASUS's rog um 421 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:39,120 gigabytes aorus um lenovo's legion 422 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:42,559 uh who else do we have dell's xps or alienware to a greater extent xps is 423 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:47,600 less gaming these days it used to be different engine has been having more of an issue getting its 424 00:30:45,919 --> 00:30:51,200 well they just launched that's fair like ces 15 months ago or something like that 425 00:30:49,679 --> 00:30:57,600 so give them some time but it also alleges that all of these brands 426 00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:00,240 will have to be exclusively aligned with g-force 427 00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:09,600 so even though NVIDIA's blog post says partners continue to have the ability to 428 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:15,440 sell and promote products from anyone the gpp documentation allegedly says 429 00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:18,320 that those who do not participate will lose 430 00:31:16,399 --> 00:31:22,640 benefits like high effort engineering engagements early tech engagement launch 431 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:26,720 partner status game bundling 432 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:31,440 sales rebate programs i'll get back to that one social media and pr support 433 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:34,799 marketing reports and marketing development funds so let's get back to 434 00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:39,679 sales rebate programs and marketing development funds for a minute here 435 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:43,840 the way the tech industry works and there's a reason for it because if you 436 00:31:41,679 --> 00:31:47,279 gave every mom and pop computer shop a one dollar discount they would take it 437 00:31:45,679 --> 00:31:51,600 straight to price and sell the product for cheaper which as a consumer you 438 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:55,679 might go wow that's great but it isn't necessarily because we 439 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,799 talked about this previously when Intel wasn't providing the support 440 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:06,159 that we feel like they should on their previous generation chipsets um 441 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:11,600 in terms of patching for spectre and meltdown but the problem with just charging the 442 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:14,720 bear amount is that it doesn't give you the the 443 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:19,440 business um war chest that you need to well to go to 444 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:23,840 war in the event that you have to and it's one of those things where 445 00:32:22,159 --> 00:32:28,240 it kind of relies on a business to behave in a manner that is in good faith 446 00:32:26,559 --> 00:32:32,720 acting in the consumer's best interest but a business that is making a healthy 447 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:37,519 profit is in a better position to as an extreme example still exist 448 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:42,080 a year later when you come back for warranty support you actually need the 449 00:32:40,159 --> 00:32:46,640 companies that you buy things from to make a profit 450 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:48,880 yeah does that make sense okay so anyway 451 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:52,000 the problem with the it industry is that it tends to be and it's kind of a 452 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:56,880 cultural thing i'm not going to get any deeper into it than that but it tends to 453 00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:00,399 be a race to zero industry volume volume volume 454 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:03,919 take down as much margin as you can so you can take the volume that your 455 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,039 competitor would have been doing force them under 456 00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:10,960 and then someday we'll raise the prices yeah and you do eventually see that like 457 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:14,640 the hard drive industry enjoyed a short period of great margins when basically 458 00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:18,320 everyone was gone and then they were supplanted by the SSD industry in the 459 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,919 mainstream and to be clear hard drives are still doing fine in the cloud 460 00:33:19,919 --> 00:33:25,919 they're not going away or anything but that business is a b2b business which 461 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:29,840 tends to be lower margins so there was like a there was like a golden hour 462 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:33,760 there for the hard drive industry uh here do you need this yeah go for it 463 00:33:31,919 --> 00:33:38,720 um right so the way that the tech industry 464 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:42,679 works is that the pricing is fixed you just say okay look 465 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:49,200 a core i5 8600k that's 200 u.s 466 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:53,840 and then the way that you actually provide promotions or the way that you 467 00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:58,080 make someone like formerly so when i worked at ncix the way that ncix was 468 00:33:56,399 --> 00:34:03,679 able to differentiate from mom and pop shops was not the sticker price it was 469 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:08,639 the back end support because every CPU we sold we got a couple percentage 470 00:34:06,159 --> 00:34:13,280 kickback at the end of a quarter and every CPU we sold well you know 471 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:17,359 during black friday we might get five bucks or 10 bucks off now all of a 472 00:34:15,359 --> 00:34:21,200 sudden mom and pop in order to compete with us have to sell below cost 473 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:25,359 giving us an advantage that's the way that you actually stay 474 00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:29,200 competitive and to be clear this isn't some kind of like subversive cloak and 475 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:33,839 dagger nonsense because within sort of the the mainstream stores 476 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:37,040 that you shop at best buy new egg i mean okay some of these are kind of dated 477 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:42,000 references tiger direct memory express canada computers um uh micro center 478 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,599 uh amazon the programs are basically across the 479 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:48,960 board pretty similar and whenever someone finds out that they get a god 480 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,800 approach that someone else got a program that they didn't there's outrage and 481 00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:55,520 usually the brand ends up kind of doing something to make it up to you and then 482 00:34:54,240 --> 00:35:01,760 the other guy complains about that it's all negotiations it's business as usual 483 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:07,200 now the problem here is that with gpus in particular 484 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:10,160 NVIDIA maintains a lot of control 485 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:15,359 over the pricing at every level to the partners and to the end users through 486 00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:18,800 tools like these kinds of rebates so they sell the chipset to the vendor 487 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:23,440 at some price x but then NVIDIA could 488 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:27,440 decide a week later to go well you know what here's a sell-through rebate 489 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:31,040 effectively lowering the price without actually lowering the sticker price 490 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:34,640 meaning that someone who has a multi-week in some cases lead time 491 00:35:33,359 --> 00:35:39,200 between acquiring chips and then turning them into boards 492 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,440 delivering them to retailers and eventually selling through them might 493 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:47,599 effectively have a bunch of stock that's overpriced now and no real recourse for 494 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:52,240 getting rid of it and so it's at NVIDIA's discretion to support you to 495 00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:57,040 get rid of it which is a fairly direct way a fairly 496 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,920 strong but indirect way to sort of choke 497 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:03,920 out a company that's right so game bundling 498 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:07,280 mdf and sales rebate programs are basically like saying 499 00:36:05,839 --> 00:36:13,440 you'll never make money on graphics cards again if you were to remove all that stuff 500 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:17,040 yeah okay 501 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:20,880 um i forget where we were going with this but partner brand aligned 502 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:25,119 exclusively with NVIDIA partners have the ability to sell and promote products 503 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:28,240 from anyone but the allegedly this behind-the-scenes 504 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:32,160 documentation says they'll get all of this support cut and to be clear the 505 00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:34,079 public documentation doesn't say any of that 506 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:41,760 okay heart ocp has been told that if a company does not participate in gpp 507 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:46,079 they feel not by NVIDIA yeah as if NVIDIA would hold back allocation 508 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,839 of gpus from their inventories this has not been spelled out contractually but 509 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:55,280 the feeling is that it's done on a wink and a nod 510 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:58,720 to be fair they said that the stuff we just 511 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:04,079 mentioned losing all these different things was in the documentation this is 512 00:37:01,839 --> 00:37:09,680 a feeling yeah the allocation bit is a feeling and then the next part that 513 00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:11,920 we're going to talk about is also a like 514 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:16,800 feeling yeah so it was expressed to heart ocp that publishing that article 515 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,520 could damage heart ocps relationship with NVIDIA 516 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:26,560 which well we've gotten to the end of it now i guess i guess we're in the same boat 517 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:28,160 look at that but knowing uh and like 518 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:32,640 okay to jump all the way back to the beginning of this conversation in terms 519 00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:36,320 of uh like there's always there's very extremely massively often 520 00:37:35,359 --> 00:37:41,599 i'm not going to say always because someone's going to call me on that in some weird way but there there's 521 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:46,400 basically always a selfish reason for everything whether it's all 522 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:49,760 this region is tiny or huge whatever um saying 523 00:37:47,359 --> 00:37:53,359 hey if you release this NVIDIA is going to be mad well 524 00:37:51,359 --> 00:37:56,480 saying that to heart ocp was probably pushing them to release it 525 00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:02,480 um because then again maybe not kyle's been in the industry a long time and he's 526 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:06,079 deeply connected they may have actually had his best interest at heart 527 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,599 possibly but from articles that i've read from him before too 528 00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:13,280 no issue but pushing that kind of stuff but let's go let's go let's let's take 529 00:38:11,359 --> 00:38:15,680 the helicopter up another thousand feet and let's go why were they talking to 530 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:21,119 him at all yeah yeah seriously so so the particular 531 00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:24,800 warning might have been in kyle's best interest but the fact that they're 532 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:28,160 talking to him at all is probably in their own best interest and i'm sure 533 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:32,720 they know that he likes juicy articles and also for the consumer's best 534 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:36,240 interest potentially like because remember there there could be a selfish 535 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,200 kernel but that doesn't mean that it doesn't benefit a whole bunch of people 536 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,359 and that you couldn't don't know how much rationalize the benefit you're 537 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:46,560 providing to yourself by saying well it also helps out all these other guys 538 00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:50,640 which is great in a lot of situations that's honestly mostly how charity works 539 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:54,160 but yeah like you just don't know how much 540 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:58,079 how much of this is helping other people how much of this is selling and for kyle 541 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:02,640 to talk about how this article could damage the relationship with NVIDIA 542 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:06,640 you can find a selfish colonel there too by saying that he's adding credibility 543 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:10,400 to his own publication by saying you know what i'm willing to 544 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:14,400 risk damaging my relationship with NVIDIA in order to bring you guys the 545 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:19,200 facts and in this case this actually does look to me and i do i 546 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:23,040 haven't seen the partner agreement and i won't admit to having talked to anyone 547 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:27,680 about this behind the scenes but this looks to me like it actually 548 00:39:25,599 --> 00:39:33,040 does have the potential to damage a relationship with NVIDIA NVIDIA is 549 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:37,680 um well it comes back to the portrait 550 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:41,520 NVIDIA smiles a lot and they they talk about partnership a 551 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:48,560 lot and what they mean is 552 00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:52,800 they have expectations of their partners and if their partners don't meet them 553 00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:55,800 well hmm 554 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:05,200 that's my perception and a lot of people think that we're like super super chummy 555 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:10,960 with NVIDIA but i've said before in the past and i'll say it again now 556 00:40:07,359 --> 00:40:13,599 we have done a grand total of three 557 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:19,280 sponsored engagements with NVIDIA we did some uh pre-rolls way back when 558 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:23,040 we first started and those were actually that was a complicated thing because 559 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:27,680 probably none of you even remember them it was 10 spots and they were all for a 560 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:31,760 particular evga graphics card but the funding was being passed through 561 00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:36,320 via mdf from NVIDIA 562 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,119 so that one hardly even registers number 563 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:42,960 two we went down to california and hosted 564 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:48,960 mod 24 their modding event we were paid what i consider to be a very modest fee 565 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:52,320 for that kind of an engagement yeah and the number three 566 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:55,599 this was the first time they had actually done flat out a sponsored video 567 00:40:54,640 --> 00:41:01,599 with us ever they did something with us in q4 talking 568 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:06,480 about how to game at 4k they were actually pretty easy to work with which 569 00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:10,400 was kind of refreshing um because we were able to talk about game consoles as 570 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,079 well we kept it very objective and we told them up front we were like look 571 00:41:12,319 --> 00:41:17,280 we never actually work with you guys on sponsored stuff but there's this 572 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,480 perception that we're in your pocket so you gotta understand we're gonna have to 573 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,760 approach this very carefully yeah 574 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:27,760 um and they were actually pretty cool about it but that's the extent of it we 575 00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:32,640 have worked far more extensively with AMD Intel ASUS 576 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,920 uh i think we've done more stuff with MSI 577 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:40,319 i mean certainly more stuff with the regular partners like um like uh 578 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:43,680 squarespace uh zotac we haven't really done much big stuff with more than but 579 00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:47,119 we've done but we've done actually yeah we've done a fair bit with zotek yeah 580 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:51,119 okay yeah yeah like most people 581 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:55,119 so there you go so 582 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:58,319 are we putting ourselves at risk given that the relationship was finally 583 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:02,000 starting to warm up and we were really getting some stuff done like us a 584 00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:06,319 dedicated sponsored video with us is one of the one of the biggest things that a 585 00:42:03,839 --> 00:42:09,359 partner can do with us um and we finally did one with them given things we're 586 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,440 starting to warm up yes we're putting ourselves at risk but given that our 587 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,880 business survived just fine for the five years prior to that no it's not a ton so 588 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:20,880 we're not going to act like white knights here or anything like that but i 589 00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:25,440 also said allegedly a lot we said allegedly a lot because perception and 590 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:30,160 that i'm not going to admit to having talked to anyone i'm just i'm going to 591 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:33,040 say this i haven't talked to anyone and i'm also going to say this i'm not 592 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,920 always a hundred percent honest with you guys 593 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:39,760 so you can read into that whatever you feel like speaking of honor there's a few there's 594 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:44,640 a i want to add one thing before we jump into 595 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:46,560 sponsor spots um but uh one thing i want 596 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:51,520 to add to is some of this stuff is future traceable 597 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:54,640 so you'll be able to tell yep just 598 00:42:52,400 --> 00:43:00,079 keep that in mind like one of the smart things you can do um if you're trying to 599 00:42:57,359 --> 00:43:03,599 keep uh an agreement under wraps is you could give everyone slightly different 600 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:08,240 terms that's fair yeah and that way if 601 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:11,680 it came to light you could kind of go okay 602 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:15,680 it was one of them them or them and then something else came to light you could 603 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:18,640 go it was them so 604 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:22,880 even if i knew anything and i am being honest this is honest 605 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:27,440 answers episode whatever this is haslin has seen the agreement 606 00:43:24,319 --> 00:43:29,520 the answer is no i have not seen it and 607 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:34,880 i have been told by the people that i would 608 00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:34,880 never admit that i have talked to 609 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:41,280 that i will never see it and that they will never tell me any details about it 610 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:45,440 okay that actually did happen as well okay anyone that i won't admit that i talked 611 00:43:43,839 --> 00:43:51,119 to told me they would never show it to me and they would never tell me the details of it so that happened okay 612 00:43:49,839 --> 00:43:54,119 so there you go um 613 00:43:54,800 --> 00:44:00,160 yeah let's talk about let's talk about something like 614 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:03,599 not horrible here's spectrum glasses hey 615 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:07,359 like my my life is far less complicated right 616 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:11,680 now talking about spectrum glasses 617 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:15,760 instead of like stuff because this is just it's simple okay 618 00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:19,200 if you stare at a monitor all day the blue light a lot of blue light can 619 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:23,760 be bad for your eyes yeah this filters it without having a huge 620 00:44:21,599 --> 00:44:27,119 impact on the color accuracy of the world around you 621 00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:30,319 um and compared to a software solution like flux or twilight 622 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:34,160 um it's more effective there it's also kind 623 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:37,920 of weird like i i've got a flux equivalent on my phone i 624 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,040 don't know what it's called yeah um and it's kind of jarring yeah no it doesn't 625 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:45,760 it doesn't work that way um they're stylish they've got tons of different styles to 626 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:49,599 choose from including ones for kids um they're high quality like they feel 627 00:44:48,319 --> 00:44:53,200 good they feel good in the hand they got a one year warranty not just in the hand 628 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:57,599 on your face too it's like spectrum it works great in 629 00:44:55,040 --> 00:45:01,040 your hand and on your face spectrum you'll want them in your hand 630 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:05,520 you'll want it on your face that would actually be an interesting commercial for them to run it's just 631 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,040 they like hand people glasses and they're like wow these feel 632 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,520 these feel great and then they just like they won't put them on now try putting 633 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,839 it on your face and the person's like you know you should you should try it on and they're like no it just it feels 634 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,880 amazing so they're primarily focused on the 635 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:23,599 canadian and u.s markets but they're expanding to europe and they offer shipping internationally check them out 636 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:28,319 at spectrumglasses.com collections slash prospect or at the 637 00:45:26,319 --> 00:45:30,800 link right there i still think it's prospect 638 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:36,000 prospects yeah yeah yeah i'm an idiot uh use offer 639 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:40,160 code Linus to save 10 if i have a spectrum i would change our 640 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:44,400 offer code to use offer code idiot i would read it i would read anything 641 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:47,839 for money that's what people think of me so i 642 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:52,160 might as well just do it just embrace it speaking of anything for money if you're 643 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:55,280 a freelancer or a small business owner doing whatever it is that you do for 644 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:59,680 money freshbooks is here to help freshbooks is 645 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:02,640 the super simple to use invoicing tool that actually does a lot more than help 646 00:46:01,119 --> 00:46:06,079 you create and send slick looking invoices it helps you track your time 647 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:09,760 with their time cheap function manage your expenses and keep track of who 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are running super hard with 658 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:49,280 the allegedly thing everything's allegedly i love it 659 00:46:47,119 --> 00:46:52,720 um and then the other thing is people are saying that the offer code should 660 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:56,480 just be id20 oh yeah that could work 661 00:46:54,720 --> 00:47:00,720 it's not a bad offer code you're pretty good i'm hungry enough to eat reaper 662 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:04,800 jerky that's and i'm not being paid by savage that's pretty epic okay ask them 663 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,760 for a sweater i don't think i've ever done that from a company before i liked 664 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:14,720 their shirt i like the logo on their shirts i was like you guys should make a sweater 665 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:16,720 and they replied they're like what kind 666 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:21,680 because a high quality one maybe some of the freshest ingredients 667 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:25,160 it tastes great and isn't bad for you turkey sweater 668 00:47:25,359 --> 00:47:31,520 oh my god that would be really gross actually but like your girlfriend be 669 00:47:29,119 --> 00:47:34,240 like i can't wait to get that off of you and she's just like 670 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:42,560 that's probably not a good idea he well he asked if i wanted a hockey 671 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:47,440 sweater or like a more american-style sweater i was like that was a good point 672 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:51,440 it'd be kind of interesting to have a like oh hockey style savage jerky 673 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:56,000 sweater that doesn't help the hiccups yeah 674 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,880 water doesn't make it better oh no oh 675 00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:02,800 full plane under your Floatplane while you're all screwed up no do the AMD 676 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:07,839 don't do do Floatplane do full play no do flip 677 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,839 okay fine 678 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,359 i hate you so much 679 00:48:23,599 --> 00:48:26,400 that was a big bite 680 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:32,400 i haven't eaten in a while like you have to build up a you have to build up a 681 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:39,280 tolerance i'm like straight up crying right now 682 00:48:36,559 --> 00:48:43,920 okay i thought i did bad last week videos on 683 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:48,079 videos on Floatplane what are oems original equipment manufacturers i think 684 00:48:45,599 --> 00:48:50,079 everyone's heard this term yeah what is it 685 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:55,760 we explain cool scraping thermal paste oh by the way you're looking at the new layout of 686 00:48:53,200 --> 00:49:00,240 the Floatplane site yeah in order scraping thermal paste is Intel's 687 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:04,880 thermal paste actually that bad we get a bag full of processors delid them 688 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:09,839 harvest the thermal paste and then use it on a liquid metal CPU 689 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,880 against normal thermal paste cool 690 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:19,440 all right ah NVIDIA's first sli gaming setup 691 00:49:16,319 --> 00:49:21,359 reconstructed okay 6 800 gts on an 692 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:26,160 enforce board we've been working on that for a long time yep 693 00:49:23,599 --> 00:49:29,680 two thousand thousand two million dollar clean room drive savers data recovery 694 00:49:28,079 --> 00:49:32,880 tour you should watch this you like want to yeah i haven't seen it yet but i'm 695 00:49:31,119 --> 00:49:36,000 really excited Techquickie how does eye tracking work 696 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:41,599 i saw that thumbnail i was like whoa testing the 56 core system holy sh 697 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:47,440 we don't have bleeping on the lan lanchow this was a simultaneous or no this was a 698 00:49:45,839 --> 00:49:52,319 short window the laptop to buy right now the lg gram 699 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:56,160 2018 the added Thunderbolt great laptop um 700 00:49:54,559 --> 00:50:00,480 Intel CPU letters explained i don't think that's actually on youtube yet and 701 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:04,720 then we do do some exclusive content not a ton but i tested the NVIDIA shield 702 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:08,640 from the ncix auction so no spoilers but that's over there as well and i think 703 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:13,920 that's pretty much it for us yeah i think that's all we got on there right now you're doing pretty good yeah you 704 00:50:11,599 --> 00:50:17,440 recovered quite a bit no i i have i have recovered okay 705 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:21,599 so let's talk about the next completely aids topic posted by coaxial gamer on 706 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:25,520 the forum security flaws discovered in AMD zen 707 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:31,359 processors so this sounds on the surface like 708 00:50:28,319 --> 00:50:32,559 oh um either 709 00:50:31,359 --> 00:50:36,960 yeah you know what depending on what kind of a tinfoil hat you wear this could sound like a lot of things 710 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:42,559 this could sound like Intel trying to make AMD look bad this could sound like 711 00:50:39,839 --> 00:50:47,359 um AMD actually having security flaws and like them being all like 712 00:50:45,359 --> 00:50:51,119 being up on their high horse when Intel was dealing with their flaws wow they're 713 00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:55,200 a bunch of jerks or it looks like it may even be possible 714 00:50:53,359 --> 00:51:00,720 that this was an independent group looking to make AMD stock perform poorly 715 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,720 so they could short it 716 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,920 so cts a security company based in israel 717 00:51:04,319 --> 00:51:09,760 announced tuesday that its researchers had found 13 critical security 718 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:14,079 vulnerabilities that would let attackers access data stored 719 00:51:11,359 --> 00:51:18,079 on AMD's zen family processors including ryzen and even their epic server 720 00:51:15,839 --> 00:51:22,319 processors as well as install malware on them the vulnerabilities have been put 721 00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:24,800 into four groups called master key rise and fall 722 00:51:26,319 --> 00:51:33,440 fallout and camara thankfully nearly all of these 723 00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:37,760 vulnerabilities require root access in order to be exploited but it does get 724 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:41,280 sketchy the researchers gave AMD less than 24 hours to look at the 725 00:51:39,599 --> 00:51:45,920 vulnerabilities and respond before publishing the report now that's not 726 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:51,599 illegal but that is not considered to be industry 727 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:54,079 not being a douche practices yeah um 728 00:51:51,599 --> 00:51:57,040 what else we got here standard vulnerability disclosure calls 729 00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:02,480 for at least 90 days so that the companies have time to address flaws properly google gave Intel six months to 730 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:07,760 fix issues related to spectre and meltdown so 731 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:11,530 if it's less than 90 days that could be like rivals like google and facebook 732 00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:17,359 being like i've got your thing 733 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,839 yeah oh well you know we gave you enough time to fix it we're going public with 734 00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:23,760 this because it makes them look bad right it doesn't make you look that bad 735 00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:27,839 when a vulnerability goes public because everyone has issues when a vulnerability 736 00:52:25,599 --> 00:52:32,720 goes public but it's like already fixed so if you're trying to cause pr damage 737 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,920 to someone you might go live in 30 days 738 00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:39,680 so that you could be like well they had a whole month to fix this yeah and kind of plausibly say that 24 hours that's 739 00:52:37,599 --> 00:52:44,079 not even enough time to check your email in some cases uh the researchers 740 00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:48,400 pre-briefed media and a company that makes money by shorting the stock market 741 00:52:47,119 --> 00:52:54,559 before going live with it viceroy research published an obituary 742 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:58,559 for AMD just 30 minutes after cts Labs publicized the vulnerabilities 743 00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:02,960 so this is some sketchy stuff now 744 00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:07,040 i'm not saying that these researchers aren't qualified to do CPU research i 745 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:10,640 don't know there's been a lot of weird stuff too like people tried to deep dive 746 00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:14,400 this and one of the ones that i saw was like someone figured out that the 747 00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:17,680 backgrounds and all the videos were stock photos 748 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:21,680 so they're like they don't have real one on reddit they might not even have a real office or they may have a real 749 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:25,359 office but it doesn't look like super pro like that yeah but at the same time 750 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:29,680 if you pay attention to the backgrounds throughout the videos at one point in 751 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:33,280 time they're like middle frame on a photo that was taken mostly at the floor 752 00:53:32,079 --> 00:53:38,000 so like the person would have to be standing on like a 70 degree angle off 753 00:53:35,839 --> 00:53:41,119 the ground this way yeah for it to be realistic like i don't think they're 754 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:46,240 actually trying to fool people yeah it was also like a super over 755 00:53:43,839 --> 00:53:50,319 produced kind of video too like it had kind of a sleazy vibe to me but 756 00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:55,040 that's actually not surprising from a company that's probably not released a video like a kickstarter yeah except 757 00:53:53,440 --> 00:54:00,640 that the production values were pretty good so for some reason they spent money 758 00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:02,880 to make a good looking video but 759 00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:06,480 um here i think this is this is it 760 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:10,480 there's a great article from uh reborn.com i'm gonna go ahead i'll post 761 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:15,040 this for you guys banner but check this out like this is actually done 762 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:18,800 well so they put money into looking like they 763 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:23,280 had an office okay sort of but hold on but then look at this one 764 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:26,720 like that's that's the floor those servers are reflecting on this photo is 765 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:31,760 taken from the floor it's a reflective floor i think no no no oh i got that wrong 766 00:54:30,319 --> 00:54:38,400 yeah it's halfway down the server rack yeah never mind so all right um i thought that was the 767 00:54:35,839 --> 00:54:42,720 floor right here oh wait hold on are you great but no i i i don't know 768 00:54:40,559 --> 00:54:46,240 i'm not sure i don't i thought it was really 769 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:48,480 reflective polished floor but now i i kind of think that's just halfway 770 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:54,160 through this yeah so 771 00:54:50,839 --> 00:54:56,559 um does it does it look really really 772 00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:59,440 janky yes i guess that's basically all we have to say about that 773 00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:06,280 yeah so there may actually be security issues but um 774 00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:13,920 yeah there also might not be or they also might just be like giant jerks 775 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:17,440 all right um NVIDIA's ray tracing thing we're like 776 00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:22,319 out of time is there anything else that's like absolutely critical that we have to talk 777 00:55:20,319 --> 00:55:25,040 about this week i feel so bad james spent all day on this dock and we ended 778 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:28,960 up talking about the NVIDIA thing the whole time uh famous people play video 779 00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:32,800 games that's a thing that happens uh that's probably all we really need to 780 00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:37,520 say about that uh yeah ea is turning star wars battlefront 2 into a real game 781 00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:41,920 apparently i'm a real game no no one cares the progression is now linear 782 00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:44,559 um star cards or any other item impacting gameplay can only be earned 783 00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:47,680 through gameplay will not be available for purchase 784 00:55:46,319 --> 00:55:51,440 so basically they made their money i guess or people stopped playing i guess one of 785 00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:55,599 the two starting in april you'll be able to get appearances directly through in-game credits or crystals all they 786 00:55:54,000 --> 00:56:00,799 need to do is make it star wars battlefront 2 battlegrounds 787 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:03,200 or battle royale or battle extravaganza and then they'll make all their money 788 00:56:02,319 --> 00:56:09,440 back yeah they're going to be rolling out a bunch of new mods over the coming months 789 00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:12,160 cool so there you go make it that and you'll do great 790 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:15,119 um twitch prime now offers free games every 791 00:56:14,079 --> 00:56:20,000 month amazon just like spending that money hey 792 00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:24,240 pretty nuts apparently um 793 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:27,280 games for march 6 to april 3rd will be super hot which is actually amazing if 794 00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:32,720 you haven't played it yet great game oxen free shadow tactics mr shifty and 795 00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:35,359 tales from candle keep tomb of annihilation 796 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:40,559 next month will be tales from the borderlands steam world dig 2 kingsway 797 00:56:38,319 --> 00:56:44,480 tokyo 42 and dub wars much like humble bundles i would be surprised if these 798 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:49,359 stay awesome and it will okay it also looks kind of 799 00:56:46,319 --> 00:56:50,559 like they've got one more headliner game 800 00:56:49,359 --> 00:56:54,720 in each one and then some 801 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:58,000 other ones which may or may not be cool but i'm not super familiar with them 802 00:56:56,319 --> 00:57:01,040 twitch prime is included with amazon prime by the way 803 00:56:59,599 --> 00:57:05,839 so i mean i already would have recommended an amazon prime membership 804 00:57:03,839 --> 00:57:09,440 so i guess i recommend it a little tiny bit more yeah 805 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:15,280 um at the same time if you don't want the entire world to be taken over 806 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:19,839 maybe consider not buying from broadcom is not buying qualcomm anymore 807 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:22,880 because the us government blocked it it's official 808 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:27,040 and spacex is trying to reach mars in 2019 go spacex cool thanks for watching 809 00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:30,799 the lan show see you again next week same bad time same bad channel bye 810 00:57:32,319 --> 00:57:40,720 the WAN Show like 40 minutes of one thing and then like 811 00:57:36,799 --> 00:57:42,880 oh by the way some other stuff 812 00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:47,040 like the the time stamps this week are going to be like four things 813 00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:51,119 giant gap yeah wow we had a lot of viewership this week 814 00:57:51,599 --> 00:57:56,880 we should like do more expose on NVIDIA 815 00:57:55,440 --> 00:58:00,720 i mean i can't really think of anything at the moment but are you guys super all 816 00:57:59,359 --> 00:58:07,040 the twitch viewers are you guys super excited for the super clickbaity 817 00:58:03,359 --> 00:58:11,880 thumbnail and title on youtube go to ltx 818 00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:11,880 yeah oh we didn't do that