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hahaha it's that magical time of year again but who knew that the best present

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you least expected was a special end of the year tech news roundup episode

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that's right we're taking a look back at techlink's biggest tech stories of the

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year and then looking to the future to see what technological and meme-worthy

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delights 2020 will bring so put on the old 8k u-log yeah yeah

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grab a cozy blanket and mug of hot cocoa

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because it's the 2019 christmas special

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but first i have to get rid of this how you saw the movie yep yeah you like it

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nope look the holidays are all about happiness hope and hot cocoa but i'll

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tell you who's probably not having the best time this year guesses

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wrong Intel

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because in 2019 AMD challenged Intel to

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a match of fisticuffs that didn't turn out so good for team blue after being

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the less powerful cheaper underdog for years AMD ryzen and threadripper

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processors are starting to look like the no-brainer choice for not just

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multi-threaded applications like creative stuff but also for gaming while

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Intel started the year off strong with a 28 core high-end desktop part more

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speculative execution vulnerabilities like spoiler and mds kind of pulled the

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wind up from their sails i could have said spoiled it there pulled it right

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out queen then AMD launched 3rd gen verizon

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led by the excellent 16 core 3950x

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forcing Intel to launch their 18 core core i9 10980xe

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at 999 us james that was half the price

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of its predecessor you knew that competition which didn't

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even do much for it because it was more or less on par with the 3950x which is

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150 bucks less it's too late

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AMD also launched new epic cpus that were also awesome followed by the launch

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of the high-end desktop threadripper 3960x and 3970x which solidified team

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red's new position of dominance so far Intel's only real defense has been to

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slash its prices and move its launch embargoes to six hours before AMD's

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not to mention that Intel's desktop chips are still stuck on the 14

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nanometer process and they don't have the PCIe 4.0 support added in AMD's new

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chipsets look i could go on but that's just not in the

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spirit of the season let's just hope Intel pulls it together a bit in 2020

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because dr lisa sue seems fine when she's the underdog i do not want to see

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her become her uncle jensen i mean jen's is he's he's actually not her uncle

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they're related they're like second cousins once removed or something

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but they're family and that's what christmas is all about

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next up it's the u.s china trade war that huawei found themselves smack dab

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in the middle of a story about a war but it's christmas james

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chris there's a christmas war movie the the christmas war wonderful life kringle

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versus the elves die hard ah

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thank you edsel merry christmas so huawei has been suspected of sketchy

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spy-ish behavior for years but last december things came to a head when the

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daughter of huawei's ceo who was also the company's cfo meng won joo was

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arrested here in vancouver at the request of u.s authorities in february a

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huawei lab was raided by the fbi on suspicion of stealing trade secrets then

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evidence surfaced that indicated the company had incentivized its employees

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to steal apple parts and clone them and after that a series of reports emerged

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about huawei having back doors in their network equipment

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get out of there guys and even though the evidence was flimsy at best a number

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of countries started banning huawei equipment from the rollout of 5g

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networks but not the uk they still wanted to give huawei a

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chance and data and to end their data that's

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what i call the christmas spirit well as usual trump didn't have any of that and

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he made an executive order to ban u.s companies from doing business with

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huawei he does have a scrooge mcduck vibe the

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ban meant players like google Intel and qualcomm had to scramble as they

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reconfigured their deals business stuff had meetings plotted a

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new trajectory for q4 what did businesses do

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for their part huawei said they would accelerate work on their Android

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alternative and they've already released a phone with no traces of google apps

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that was so close i'm leaving it parts of the huawei ban

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have since been lifted but relations between the us and china are still

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pretty frosty i would say i hope things thaw out come spring but i don't really

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trust huawei either so i guess we'll just have to leave this

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one up to old santy claus cheers and you're not likely to find a

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story with more twists in it than the saga of folding phones

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it's not a twist i expect you to call me out on that it's like a bend it's not

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this is your christmas gift thank you thank you so much i appreciate it a

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chinese company called royal actually showed off the first real folding phone

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the flex pie at ces last year and frankly

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this year i guess frankly i don't think anyone was impressed but that didn't

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deflate people's interest in the concept an Intel patent was later unearthed

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showing a tri-fold design that's two two folds actually but three

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it's a pure that folds out like a flower exactly samsung finally unveiled the

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galaxy fold on february 20th with a price tag of 1980 us benjamin's followed

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quickly by huawei's reveal of the mate x which seemed like a more advanced design

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with a more advanced price tag to boot i've never seen one

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me neither also oppo showed off an extremely similar design but swore that

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it wasn't copied

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in april the galaxy fold got sent out to reviewers who promptly tried to peel off

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the screen protector and broke their phones because it wasn't a screen

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protector it was just a part of the screen

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don't you hate when that happens killed my screen off whoops between the fake

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screen protector issue and the phone being vulnerable to dust and debris

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there was too much negative press around the galaxy fold and samsung delayed the

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launch to september people had much nicer things to say about it then

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meanwhile we started to see rumors of foldable devices coming from microsoft

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motorola even apple well some of those

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rumors panned out as in october microsoft unveiled the surface duo a

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foldable Android phone and the surface neo a foldable Windows device both

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slated for release next year although they don't actually have bendy displays

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their laptops so they're laptops it's technically cheating they're not

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actually foldable phones but i'll let it slide because

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happy hanukkah yay something

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wow and also in october motorola took the wraps off their modern razer and

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although the phone looks sick the specs do not and it's actually been delayed i

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just heard about that today will we get more and better phones in

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2020 probably

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it's time for the christmas stuffer that's a i should have called it that

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idea now it's time for the stocking stuffers brought to you by drop.com yeah you can

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hope for a great present or you can just buy what you want right now

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get it in there and drop wants to help you out grab something for yourself or

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that audio file in your nice list with their deals of the decade

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like the open back hd58x for 130 bucks

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down from 150 or the massdrop sennheiser pc37x gaming headset for just 90. down

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from 120. you really want to treat yourself well the mr speaker ether

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closed headphones normally 900. are 750

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bucks these deals won't last long so give yourself some love and check them

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out at the link below on to the stocking stuffers 2019 saw a bunch of companies

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get delusions of netflix and pour a ton of effort into making cloud game

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streaming a mainstream thing microsoft started talking big about project xcloud

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and we even got rumors that xbox games might be streamable on the nintendo

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switch in the future other rumors initially made it seem like google was

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developing a game console until they revealed that it was in a box the future

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of gaming isn't a box james get your

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think outside of it way outside wow

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that's right it was actually stadia a netflix for games type thing but wait

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you still needed to buy games ah

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it was as confusing as that light just was but you wait you didn't need the

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controller unless you were playing on tv it

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it was a confusing mess at launch but thankfully they cleared things up by

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claiming stadia would have negative latency

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while we were waiting to test that claim microsoft and sony announced a shocking

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and vague cloud gaming partnership that we have yet to see the fruits of now

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google's promising many more games features and quality improvements for

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stadia in 2020 but what the heck is steam cloud gaming steamy pile of games

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more steaming

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5g technology actually started rolling out in 2019 with sprint verizon and at t

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using a mix of existing spectrum and new millimeter wave tech to bring super fast

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wireless speeds to a few dozen cities across the us provided you're standing

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in the exact right spot in the middle of the street at t kind of jumped the gun

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in the early game trying to convince people that it's 5ge network was

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actually 5g instead of just the rebranded 4g that it definitely was and

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they got sued for it those rascals

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come on guys t-mobile on the other hand rolled out what they call a nationwide

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5g network covering 5 000 cities with sub gigahertz while only six cities got

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the fancier millimeter wave stuff there's a pretty short list of phones that can actually use 5g right now but

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rich people will be getting more in 2020. facebook didn't have as bad a year

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as they did in 2018 but there were still enough sketchy security incidents for

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the company to maintain their reputation as being probably the worst of the

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silicon valley crew sucker oh you're just coming out with these

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puns today friends call them suck call me suck

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in april facebook was caught asking new users to disclose their passwords for

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their email accounts and mark zuckerberg

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actually asked governments to help regulate the company which is fine

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because everybody and their dog is now investigating facebook for various

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reasons in july facebook both launched their libra cryptocurrency and paid a 5

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billion fine to the ftc for its security breaches

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facebook what a parry

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facebook seems to know now that being the biggest social network in the world

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comes with some baggage and if they're gonna survive they're gonna need to be a

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bit better at concealing the fact that mark is actually a reptilian from the

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planet dada grab god

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that was stupid but he still deserves a mug of hot cocoa just as much of the

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rest of us james that's the best of a spirit have you seen him drink

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see him drink i gotta even imagine

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and our last story is the controversial one of the epic game store it launched

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last december with epic pledging to only take a 12 cut from games revenue leaving

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an 88 cut for developers valve takes a

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30 cut by default with that number going down as a game sells more copies epic

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then started buying up exclusives like they were hoarding for a long winter and

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they even bought psionics the developer of rocket league now this would have

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been slightly less annoying to the gaming public if egs had even a fraction

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of the feature set that steam has but after a year the store is still pretty

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bare bones the backlash seems to have died down a bit and it seems like epic

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is playing it safer now i guess they snagged enough users to meet tim

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sweeney's objective of shaking up the industry i'm shocked

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we're shook it might not have been the gift that everyone wanted but he did

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also give out a crapload of free games he's kind of like a incredibly smug very

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stubborn santa claus oh and i almost forgot cyber truck that happened this

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year remember that

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it was just like that best part of 2019 hands down well we

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could go on talking about our favorite tech moments of 2019 forever but then i

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wouldn't have time to dip ginger schnapps in my hot cocoa or roast

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chestnuts by an open fire get out of here

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it's time for a new year oh that was bad keep that

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red keep it okay have you ever rose to chestnuts by

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an open fire you ever played with this giant flashlight oh here shining my eyes

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it's really fun oh god that sucks i don't like do no

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that's not the christmas spirit oh no all right whatever you guys are

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celebrating this holiday season happy holidays and jingle bells all the way

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home say hi to rudolph for me

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season's eatings