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whoa we're resurrecting tech showdown

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we were thinking we should call it something else but then we were talking about other names and one of them was in

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use by a law firm or something so

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tech showdown it is except we're changing the format now it's two teams

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competing to build a themed pc okay that's exactly the same as before

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but now we've got four days so we're going to build something totally

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kick-ass this season is brought to you by synergy and the theme is

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candy

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now in a stunning turn of events it was brought to my attention this morning

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that rather than each luke and i being paired with a professional modder

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luke and i will be squaring off against two professional modders

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so i wish us the best of luck building a candy themed pc and a candy

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themed full desk setup to look freaking awesome or at least be tasty failing

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that yeah and there's no real clear rules so uh

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go

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tech showdown is brought to you by synergy2 in partnership with g skill be

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quiet and cable mod synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and

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keyboard between multiple computers so simple that anyone can use it learn more

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at the link below so in fairness to you guys you should

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understand who you're building the system for we've

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got three celebrity judges our minor celebrity judges are going to

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be riley from ncix tech tips and steve from gamersnexus

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and then our um sort of headliner celebrity judge is

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actually ijustine so she's coming all the way up here

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and the three of them are going to contribute to who actually

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wins so keep that in mind

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you've got okay okay can we take this board yeah we have markers we got

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markers baby we got three markers

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we got all the markers

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oh yeah that's one big difference there's no barrier hey we don't need

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markers everyone everyone can see what everyone else is doing this is like

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tripping me out like i want to hide stuff but okay i think the first thing we have to

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deal with though is your uh your sponsor logo shirt here

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that okay so you got to do one of two things yeah you got to start eating

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these to fill in

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or we could find some tape or something you look ridiculous

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i think these belong over there don't they oh yeah they're called dum dums

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yeah these go over here you guys

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these are dum-dums

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there you go you know here you go here you go smart

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guy you don't have those in america do you

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i think no don't they call these rockets down there

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or no our smarties no wait our rockets are

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your smarties and you guys don't have our smarties you have the lame like

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powdered candy smarties so okay my my grand idea okay

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see you are everything that is wrong with us staying organized you just put a

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not working marker back in the pile of working markers

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yeah it has to be um okay so where this

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can go though is another level there's one where it like comes out of

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the top of the computer and flows down and then there's like a little river but

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then how do you recycle that that's gonna be pretty uh pretty bonkers but

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one thing that i observed about these tables that we're using already is that

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they could actually be configured that way

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but how do you get it back up okay um so

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here's the thing there's no fixed budget for tech showdown it's all

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within reason so i don't really see any reason

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you know that's not within reason why we couldn't obtain something to help

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us do that now here's how we take it

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to like a crazy level though

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this is i believe what a 180 watt CPU

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okay i know you're going with it

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that would be awesome i mean what could unlock the power more

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than this i feel like that might be hard to communicate to judges

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and then we could have like an info like this is how it works

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card that's worked in the past

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yeah we could

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oh man oh okay having like four days to work on

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this in some ways is actually like like like ah too much pressure yeah yeah yeah

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okay okay and this is actually you know i haven't even

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looked at what hardware we're using yeah okay

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okay this is not attached so these are just like saw horses

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so let's open our case first and then we'll worry about how to plan

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it's a big tower basically blank canvas yeah it's a big tower okay okay so here

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here we go like i don't want them to know too much at this stage but

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we need um river

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okay so we have to yeah yeah we could probably buy a thing that

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would come with that but it would have to be continually which makes a little

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bit difficult yeah and how do we keep it from like gunking up

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probably needs to run for a little while

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if we okay so these like are designed that it

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won't matter but our extra stuff we will have to be pretty careful about sure

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but like the the river part i wouldn't actually worry about it too much but we

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just have to get it back that's the part that i'm really worried about

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because yeah you can like slant the table and stuff oh no we can't do that because that

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would make a terrible user experience i imagine that they're

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going to get really creative and do all kinds of crazy stuff and that might hurt

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them okay so cotton candy idea it would be it'd be difficult to

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get cotton candy that you could apply and it starts to like you know to keep

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it that clean fluffy yeah stick it yeah

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we've got it so the desk the desk has to we have to do some paint work with the

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desk oh my god okay the desks kind of remind me of like you

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know when they pull taffy at the fair they're always on a big workbench and stuff and sometimes they've got those

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big machines that like stretch the taffy like automatically it's like how cool

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that's to build that if we have this big table area what if we created a game

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like candy land like a candy land

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candyland or candyland game where it's like a board game where you have to move

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spaces and then we incorporate el like lions

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detectives or something or whatever on the top we could paint this white and

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then do like some sort of a like um

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like a big game board or something maybe no problem

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okay can you help me yeah

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okay priorities priorities let's get you not looking like

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a smack tool what is that

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it's well it doesn't sound dumb i mean then mission accomplished

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whoever ordered the t-shirts may have ordered the wrong one for luke

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Colton okay and i'm definitely touching your butt i'm okay with this which is

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definitely a little weird but that's

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hopefully fine i mean it's all right yeah it looks not as bad but it's

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definitely still kind of bad because like look at this look at this

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endlessly look just start eating candy then

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i tried but you didn't try

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which is why we're here

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wow let's do that

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let's do that let's do that

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so this pretty much goes on this side

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what about like regardless of what else we think what's that

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not sure yet where is this gonna sit like if this is a complete battle

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station your two big objects are gonna be your case and your monitor

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so if your case sits on this side

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you know it blocks off so much then your monitor say sits on the front like do we

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do vase amount like on the monitors the monitors on an ARM how do we keep it

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like super clean do we mount the chassis like underneath or something yeah does

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it fit inside the the sawhorse things or something like

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that yeah i mean you want to be a showpiece so you don't want to hide it

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but it's huge i mean it blocks off

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yeah do we really want to have it and then also you got the back here i mean

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you're going to be looking at from this side but on the same side i mean you can do

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this we're incorporating the cable so then you monitor your battle stations

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here it doesn't have to be just candy though right like we could

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we could incorporate like ice cream i mean ice cream is

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technically yeah candy right

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like what's our like four things we're doing right

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so like are we putting a gumball machine in this

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like that's a major you know cut grind

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that seems too easy though it's i hear ya you know

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okay like how does a gumball machine

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and a reservoir work together like

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what if one displaces gumballs and one dispenses

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aurora fluid like it's a two loop system but it's not

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one's candy and one's coolant

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so should we stay away from stay away from doing crazy paint because

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there's no paint booth here there's no yeah the only thing i'm thinking you got

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this white canvas on these sawhorses i think that is something that we do

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so so we could paint we could paint this whole tabletop white

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as a starting point too i like the i mean i like the maple but

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if it doesn't work in the theme then no

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so these are standard regular keycaps so

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we might even be able to buy a keycap set for this but get them in time

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if we can get them at like maybe ncax or something or yeah or just amazon prime

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so it's just the caps of the keys that we can replace

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the black ones with some color

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synergy 2 is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than synergy one

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features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other

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computer without reconfiguring ssl encryption to protect your keystrokes

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from attackers dynamic networking so it

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detects the best route based on your setup and being able to always run in

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the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget and it

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even works across vpn's and tricky home networks if you get the pro version you

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can get access to other cool features too like clipboard sharing dragging and

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dropping files copy pasting lock screen synchronization and lots more okay so

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bob and rod are starting to get a few good ideas but just because they don't

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have a solid plan yet doesn't mean they've been sitting on their hands

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they've already assembled their monitor and are well on their way to painting

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their case and now time for a little cable management this thing can route

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you know all the way over drill holes route route

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everything down through so it's like perfectly clean

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i'm really hungry uh wait this is their plan

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yeah distracting dude this is their whole plan they know i like candy so

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they put all this candy here to keep me from working on the computer

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that's the whole plan no you guys are mean

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why you don't think i can sit here with all this candy

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and what if we put a res like on the corners and then straight

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anything between anything water cooling is probably coming from the supply

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here oh okay so we we have to go see what they have oh wait

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yeah which we could go we could go look at that

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yeah um

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okay we still need we need a good solid feeling though i know

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okay so the mouse i'm taking off the question mark there

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uh we can decide on colors later uh we may go together or you know what we may

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have to stay split up on all of this just send pictures yeah we'll just go

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we'll pick something really fun we definitely need to spend some time doing

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what they're already almost done doing which is taking this baby apart and

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figuring out but we need the overarching theme first

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i'm gonna be stress eating for the next four days

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i don't think our mods gonna be on par because neither of us has the

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fabrication or the painting experience that those guys do like they do this all

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day what i was mostly counting on going into

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today was luke having some kind of a kick-ass idea like mad max or whatever i

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mean he's behind me so this is a little awkward to say but like his idea was

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okay it wasn't like game breaker

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you know

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i'm having doubts about the foil i think we should go back to the original plan

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it's gonna rip yeah yeah

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i hope at this point i hope that we at least turn in a computer

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i mean it we'll have something yeah we'll have something

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oh my god what time is it it's two yeah

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should we build it no because we have to take this all

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apart to like we have to paint this they're obviously painting we can't not paint it

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maybe this is the gold foil and chocolate thing so gold all on the

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outside and then try to chocolate as much as you can on the inside

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so that it's a candy bar computer interesting

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okay and then we go with other candy for all

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the rest so we get those multi-colored keycaps and we go with other candy for

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the rest and we go with chocolate bar for the computer

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and then do we still do the brown desk or no

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i don't think it's i think we could because there would be

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enough contrast of the outside of this being gold

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how gold can we go though without ruining like airflow and how good of a

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job can we do of that this is a super modular case this whole

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look at where they're at because like i'm worried about stuff like this i'm pretty sure that

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yeah but how are we going to put it back in tidally because whatever kind of foil

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we're using is not going to be that strong

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we could do that we can do foil for some parts but i think a lot of it's gonna be

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like this is definitely gonna be paint this would be easy okay

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okay okay okay

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so we go golden wrapper outside

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and then inside all brown

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we could do uh cream and brown so we could do cream accents

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with a brown base

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we can mask off these fans and we can go like brown frame cream spinning

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so we are we are we are brown and brown and creamy i don't think this is an

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incredible idea but i think it's a doable idea and then we might be able to spend more

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time doing crazy things with the rest of the build it took us until two o'clock to even

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sort of have an idea it wasn't finalized by any stretch frankly

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our whole value add on this one is the

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idea because our execution isn't gonna be

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better so yeah i'm really worried right now

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will Linus and luke continue sucking next week don't wait to find out you can

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watch part 2 right now on Floatplane follow the link in the description below