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Welcome to the WAN Show. I'm sorry you had to see what I was doing there right

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before the show started, but you know, I mean, I'd hate to have that hanging over

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me during the entire show, so it's better to get things out of the way.

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Um, so we actually've got a pretty short

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show for you today, guys. We've got uh

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mandatory device kill switches potentially coming to California. So

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that is to say that the owner, not the manufacturer,

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I mean, oh, the potential for abuse is so there, but the owner of a device

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could go, "Hey, that jerk mugged me. Well, I'll show him what for and just

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turn the thing off." Or, uh, maybe you could disable certain functionality.

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Right now, it's not like there's a standard that's completely ratified or

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anything like that, but that could be coming. And as a consumer, I think that's a fantastic idea.

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There's a standard for what it has to be able to do. Yes. And we'll talk about that when we

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do the actual topic. But right now, we're teasing them. Teasing. Sony is in

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talks to sell off their Vio line in much the same way that IBM sold off their

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ThinkPad business. So, we might see Vio notebooks in the future. Uh, but they

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might take on a very different form if at all. So, stay tuned for that as well.

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More information from uh Bit Torrent Sync. Someone is actually making

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something called SyncNet, which is essentially a a a way for you to access

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web pages without them being um like

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normal IP domains, but because it's all sourced through Bit Torrent Sync, so

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we'll talk about that later. And Oculus Rink Rink.

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Oculus Rift has its first launch title, which will be Eve Valkyrie, which has

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been kind of thrown around at all the different trade shows lately and looks amazing. So, that was probably the

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smartest move they could have possibly done. He's got hockey on the brain because Olympics, Oculus Rink, VR hockey

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would be so awesome. It's uh they have every sport VR.

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There's like not AAA version already. People are working on it.

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Oh, I'm so stoked. It's going to be awesome. Pretty epic. Have you seen the flight

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one? Someone's like there's no echo. No, no, the echo usually comes when I switch to

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my notebook as a source, but I have already disabled it this week. Sorry.

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What' you say? Yes. Um uh yeah. No. Have Have you seen

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the flight one? No. Flight simulation VR as like a bird.

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You fly around. I did hear about that. Yeah. Yeah. You just like you just like fly around. It's

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like so good. A so good. I'm so excited for stuff like

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that. I'm so excited for like But then they need like a combat mod.

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Well, yeah. Bird dog fighting and like hawks and like a bird MMO.

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You don't get an epic mount. You are an epic mount. I know. I'm an epic mount.

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jump into our first topic here. Um

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do outer net or sync net all the nets. You can decide which net you want to

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talk about first. I want fish nets, but I'll settle for outer net. Let's go ahead and uh get

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this bad boy fired up. All right. So, just before we even start

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going in, I I found their uh it's it's about this, but before we start like

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talking about how it actually works, why is my screen sharing not working? I went down to their like like support

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us donate area. They they support PayPal, Amazon

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payments, direct payments through their website, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin.

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Really? I was like, wow,

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you guys spent a really long time on your like ability for people to support,

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maybe spend more time building outer debt. Um, it's a really interesting

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idea. They want to support it. Hopefully, Linus gets his laptop working at some point in time.

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Yeah. In the meantime, go ahead. But they want it to work through hundreds of miniature satellites that

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orbit around the Earth. And all these satellites would be constantly

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broadcasting um like like Wi-Fi data essentially, but

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broadcasting it downwards. So, for the mass majority of people, this is going to be one-way communication. you'll be

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receiving the information and they'll transfer stuff like uh news and

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information, crop prices for farmers, Bitcoin blockchains, Ubuntu, Wikipedia

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in its entirety, uh some music, movies and games, but that's not necessarily

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the main focus, uh educational courseware, emergency communications,

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and many other things. And this is uh mainly designed for people that don't

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necessarily have access to the internet because the goal of this project is that

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everyone should be able to be connected. Ow. Um two-way communicate communication

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is only going to work for very specific uh users and very specific use cases. So

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it's going to be more focused on say there's a big natural disaster and mo

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most communication lines are down. You'll still be able to access out internet for two-way communication but

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most people are not going to be able to. This will also extend to certain people

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in in areas where some sort of regime regime not regime regime might be

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restricting you from accessing the internet. Um Lionus feels

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in its unfiltered in its unfiltered entirety. Speaking of unfiltered

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entirety, um you know what? Oh, I do have one more idea. So go on if there's

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anything else you have to say. I mean really guys, okay, so to be clear, this is not internet for everyone. The outer

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is not the same as the internet. The idea is it's more like um like the radio

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would have been um you know 60 years ago.

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So they can push you information and and uh one thing that's cool that makes it

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not like the radio actually is that users can help push uh what what is

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priority on the internet at that point in time. So if something really big is

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going on like what's been going on in Ukraine um uh users could push that so

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that it's on the outer internet. So you can push it through SMS or certain phone

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apps so users kind of control what's on there. Obviously, Wikipedia in its

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entirety is kind of a really important thing to be on something like the

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internet because it's a massive source of information. Um, but more news and

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that kind of stuff I think is going to be very userdriven. Um,

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yay. That's honestly about it. But it's

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actually really interesting. My favorite thing is the like in case of disaster,

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you will gain two-way communication. And something that they're thinking about a

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long-term goal is that everyone will always have two-way communication, but

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that is not a launch goal at all. That is a like, hey, maybe way the heck down

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the line, this can be supported because that would be awesome. Even one way is amazing. I mean,

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something that has really baffled me is with everything going on in the Ukraine

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right now, why is it that every headline

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is about Justin Bieber? Yeah. Because I mean, and it's one of those

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things where look guys, I'm not I'm not going to make this show about Justin Bieber. I've had a lot of people asking

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me to talk about Justin Bieber for whatever reason. Um,

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I think it's cuz we're Canadians. I don't know anything about him. I don't really care.

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I don't know what songs he sings. I don't know how old he is. I don't know

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who he's dating. And I really don't care. And the thing about all this

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sensationalized uh celebrity gossip is that the harder

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you ignore it, the more it will actually disappear from your life. You won't even

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notice it anymore if you just stop caring. And the outer I think would be a

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fantastic way for people who don't care about Justin Bieber to hopefully

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be able to tune in. Yeah. Hopefully.

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Although it could turn into another Twitter. It's userdriven. So,

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but it's nerdy enough that I think it'll be users that aren't

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Bieber. Yeah. Um but I mean, you know, like anything, it might turn into that eventually. But

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I still I still believe that looking at looking at the technology in the way

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that it is intended to be used um this

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there's so much potential for it to be more like an unfiltered in terms of

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censorship but filtered in terms of nonsense and garbage news source that

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people could really come to rely on. I mean, one of the problems with the

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internet is that it relies on

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groundbased communication hubs that can

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be located within areas that restrict

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their citizens from having access to information. And that's what the

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internet was intended to be used for. Unrestricted access to information for

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everyone and the ability to contribute to that information that everyone has

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access to. outeret might not allow everyone to contribute immediately but

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it will give everyone access to it which is um quite frankly

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amazing. I mean it's it's if they achieve this then I mean this is

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to me that it's a step that's as big as

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the internet was in the first place from my perspective from a from a human

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rights and equality perspective because because people uh say people in

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the Ukraine that's where that short-term two-way communication could be dropped

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in is you could get help while you're in the Ukraine if something's going on if

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you're somewhere else if there's a natural disaster like I don't think it's necessarily only natural disasters

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because right when the Ukraine same thing started going on. There was all those live streams, right?

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Mhm. And you could actually fairly easily figure out what was going on. I don't

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necessarily know what happened, but I'm not getting as much information out of there as I was before.

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And now I'm not hunting for it super actively every day. But it would be nice

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if there was a stream of information that I could just go to easily all the

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time and get updates because for me so far, it's been honestly a lot of manual

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hunting just to figure out what the heck's going on. And it shouldn't be. I

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mean, it doesn't make sense. It's such a big deal. It is compared to Bieber

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and everyone's focusing on I can't even remember what the most recent thing is.

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Olympics, but well, I wish it was the Olympics. Do you?

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Instead of Well, instead of Bieber. Well, okay. Yeah, Olympics greater than

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Bieber less important than almost anything else. I mean, don't don't get

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me wrong, national pride is great and

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the spirit of sport and people cooperating and competing, it's all

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great. I just don't think the Olympics is as big of a deal as,

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you know, giant super important things. Yeah. Like what's going on in the Ukraine

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like like super important things. I think Coca-Cola should find some other

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way to get their message out there. I don't even know if Coke is I know Samsung is a sponsor of the Olympics.

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You hear about Samsung um because

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they're a sponsor of the Olympics. Any athletes that are using non Samsung

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devices have to cover their logos. It might have been specifically Apple, but

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uh but yeah, they they like during the ceremonies and stuff, they have to like

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cover up the logos on their device. I'm just sitting here going, it's like,

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okay, that's brutal. There's a lot of comments about my

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sunglasses. Well, it happened to be sunny out today

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and so you should wear them for the entire had my sunglasses on and because

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I would rather put them on my head than hang them around my neck with a strap,

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which are the two options if they're not on your eyes, I went and I put them on

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my head when I came in. But because you guys want to uh talk about the

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sunglasses, I'll give you something to talk about. I'm wearing them for the rest of the stream. So there you go.

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All right. So the next topic is actually another net that is

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exciting and terrifying at the same time. This one doesn't feel This was

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posted by Oh, shoot. Our last topic was posted on the forum by Sorry. I

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sometimes forget to do these calls for you guys

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by is it Sean the by I said showing the dock.

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Altis Altis.

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If people want me to be able to pronounce their names on the stream, they need to have names that I can

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pronounce. So that's all I have to say about that. Anyway, the next one's from

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Top War Gamer. So this is SyncNet.

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Syncnet. SyncNet is interesting. My favorite thing is like one of the first

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quotes you see when looking for this thing at all is SyncNet is experimental.

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No security auditing has been done. Only use it if you know what you're doing,

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which is insane. Which basically means don't use it.

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Don't. I mean the way Okay, so the way that it works if you guys aren't

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familiar with Bit Torrent sync why don't I do the Bit Torrent sync rundown and

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then you can do the um the how it relates to this rundown.

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Okay, so Bit Torrent sync is actually magical. It's it's one of the easiest

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ways to share files um with yourself

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remotely or with other people in a in a secure and private manner. So, Bit

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Torrent Sync is an application that you install on any PC with storage or any

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device. It actually works on iOS and Android phones as well. And uh what it

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does is it actually allows you to create

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shared folders that use a 33 character

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secret, which is just another way of saying password or whatever. Anyway,

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they call it a secret. A 33 character secret to determine who has access to

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it. So, what you can do is you can create this folder, create a secret,

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enter the secret on your phone, which is as simple as scanning a QR code when

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you're sitting in front of that computer, and then you'll have access to those files on the fly. Between phones,

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it's also amazing. So, you can use Bit Torrent Sync to send files between

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phones using a local Wi-Fi or data or whatever it is that you want to do

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simply by sharing a secret or scanning a QR code with each other. It's faster

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than almost anything else out there. And unlike um things like Samsung's

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proprietary technology where they want you to put the phones together and then

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it'll transfer. It's like but only if your friends all use Samsung. No, come

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on. Uh it is completely not locked down to any particular platform. So uh Bit

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Torrent Sync is awesome. And one of the other things that it does is the more uh

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the more shared folders there are distributed on devices all over the

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place um the faster you can get access to it. So, if I had my photo library,

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um, say I had it on Bit Torrent sync here at the office, I had it on Bit

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Torrent sync at my house, and I had it on Bit Torrent sync at my parents house.

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If I wanted to grab one of those photos on my phone, I would get the cumulative

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upload speed of those three locations. So, I've created a private cloud all

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pushing to me at the same time, which is

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awesome because if you get together with some friends and you create Bit Torrent

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sync shares, you have to trust your friends. It has to be, you know, not private data, just to be clear. I'm not

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suggesting this, but if you bit torrent sync each other's stuff, you can take

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advantage of your own private internet, which leads

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into or your own private cloud storage, which leads into a new concept. So, how

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this works is what you're doing is instead of transferring just random

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files, you're transferring somewhat specifically tuned HTML files and then

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uh there's a specific browser that's going to be made that can access that.

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So, what you're doing is instead of going to a URL, you're typing in this

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secret into the URL bar and then that instead of going to sorry, an IP is just

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going to a folder. So, when you go there, you download it.

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You download the entire website. entire website which is a security hole

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and then you become a node. It's one big hole. That's all it is is a

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hole. Like it's not secure at all. No. And then and then you become a node.

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So it actually essentially if if someone has a massive website on here, it

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becomes easier for them to host it as time goes on because more and more

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people will access it. Then they all become nodes. So instead of bandwidth cost going up, they either stay the same

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or go down. Um, now it wouldn't work for content like a

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forum because you can't download the entire

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Linus techtips.com forum. Well, you could, but you get a singular snapshot and it's

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not going to update very well. Like, you can update it because it's Bit Torren in

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sync. So, as changes happens, it can be synced out, but something like a form

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where it's moving that quickly is not really going to work very well. Um,

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something like uh a chat box is not going to work. Um, something like a news

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site or a blog would actually work really well or just anything static in

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general is going to work fairly well. And then if you have updates like once a

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day or something like that, that's not going to be that hard to sync out to

00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:52.639
everyone because it's a synchronization folder. It you can just get an update

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while it's sitting there. Um, as he

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said, you can make a secret key. What you can also do is actually make what's

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called a read key, which is a read only key. So people can't if if they tamper

00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:08.319
with your files, it won't be streamed back out under that key, which is

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interesting and a good idea. You're still harboring a whole bunch of files

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from some random dude. Yeah. And those files that are on your

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computer can be updated just like that at any

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time by that dude. So if someone

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say that they don't get possessed by a demon and decide to do something evil

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and completely take over your computer steals their secret, but let's say someone steals their

00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:42.320
secret, breaks into their house. Okay, figure we're talking realistic stuff

00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:47.039
here. Someone break figures out who they are, breaks into their house, sits at

00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:53.200
their computer and updates the website and does whatever they want because they

00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:57.200
have all this data stored on your PC that is just going to sync itself to you

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and then next time you access it, it can do probably whatever it wants. There's

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now there there are ways that they could figure out how

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to advance this and possibly put security in place and all that other

00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:14.000
kind of stuff, but it's sketchy as all hell right now. So, be careful if you

00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.360
want to go test this. Um, I think that we should probably go as

00:18:15.760 --> 00:18:21.679
far as to say don't test this. Probably let's do that. Don't test it.

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But here you go. This is what it is. Uh, it's it's really interesting anyways

00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:29.919
because in the future, like I said, certain security things can come in hand. maybe only certain file types can

00:18:28.080 --> 00:18:32.960
be transferred over this system, blah blah blah blah blah. Uh certain things

00:18:31.840 --> 00:18:40.080
aren't going to be supported. It'll probably be very raw, a lot of textbased sites, stuff like that. Um which which

00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:44.720
is interesting enough, but we'll see where that goes. There there's ideas for

00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:48.400
things like colored coins and name coins being brought in so that you can have

00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:53.919
more easily accessible things like actual domain names going to uh secrets

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because right now it's sync colon slash and then a 33 character secret which is

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uh a little bit crazy. Um so hopefully

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that gets easier at some point. Namecoin can al also make it so you can easily

00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:11.840
look up who's running a website instead of just this random secret key. Um, so

00:19:09.280 --> 00:19:17.039
yeah, I don't know. It's freaky and scary and possibly amazing and possibly

00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:23.280
one of the scariest things on the internet. All at the same time, it's going to enable things like um certain

00:19:21.280 --> 00:19:27.679
groups that could otherwise be oppressed to be able to get information out there.

00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:31.200
It's also going to enable things like really, really, really, really creepy

00:19:29.120 --> 00:19:36.640
people on the internet having stories of images and websites and stuff like that

00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:38.000
being really hard to take down. So yeah,

00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.760
we always have to look at the bad side, but then there's also the good side.

00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.320
It's like the force, basically. It's like those Jedi we saw fighting in the

00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:47.360
park the other day. Yeah. Awesome little Jedi.

00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:52.640
I know. Um, baby Jedi. There's ideas in the future for

00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:56.640
converters of sorts. You can convert a website uh like just a standard website

00:19:54.880 --> 00:20:00.960
into something that can work on this this SyncNet thing. Um, and there's

00:19:59.120 --> 00:20:04.240
ideas for maybe Firefox and Chrome plugins, so you don't actually have to

00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:07.200
have a dedicated browser for it, and you could just type into the URL bar or

00:20:05.919 --> 00:20:12.720
something else, whatever the plugin works, and then Firefox and Chrome could

00:20:09.360 --> 00:20:14.080
interpret that. By the time my son is in

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high school, the internet as we know it could be a

00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:23.600
marginalized part of the internet because there's going to be pirate bays

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internet. There's going to be syncnet internet. There's going to be

00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:30.720
potentially outer net. Some of which will provide services that are actually

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more important than what the internet does today.

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Isn't that amazing? Especially because the internet is being like it's losing net neutral net

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neutrality. It's being way more commercialized every single freaking

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Was Verizon throttling was Netflix, right?

00:20:43.679 --> 00:20:48.720
Yeah, I think so. But then they're denying it, I think. Yeah, they can deny they can deny

00:20:47.919 --> 00:20:52.159
whatever they want, but they were denying it. Yeah. Yeah. So, allegedly.

00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:57.760
Allegedly. As long as you say allegedly, then nothing really matters. It's like that

00:20:55.360 --> 00:21:02.320
NBC story. It's like the phone was hacked while I was in Sochi. It's like

00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:05.120
no, you were in Moscow and it was hacked because you did something stupid, not

00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.320
because someone there was actually attacking you. You're an idiot. Um,

00:21:07.360 --> 00:21:14.480
allegedly an idiot. Allegedly an idiot. We don't want any lawsuits here.

00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:18.080
None at all. I Yeah, I don't know. That whole thing is so stupid. He just went

00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:23.600
to some site and clicked on something that he shouldn't have. And then was like, oh my god, people are hacking

00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:28.320
people in Sochi and it's like, what? Oh. Oh god. Anyways,

00:21:25.360 --> 00:21:30.960
I mean, there are problems in Sochi, but that just isn't one of them.

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Or it might be, but it didn't happen to him. It was this completely different

00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:41.039
thing that happened to him. All right. So, uh, next, this is unbelievable. So,

00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:45.760
um, believe it or Okay, believe it or not, this unbelievable thing is not

00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:49.600
being reported on by us because we happen to be a Twitch partner and we're

00:21:47.280 --> 00:21:52.720
streaming on twitch.tv right now. I think they don't call it twitch.tv. I

00:21:51.280 --> 00:21:55.679
think that's an old people thing. Twitch.tv saying dot.

00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:58.960
Really? I think so. Yeah. Guys, let let us know.

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Let us know. What would you say? Twitter. Twitch TV.

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I think it's an old people thing to say the dot in a website.

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So you'd be like Facebook com. No, that's just Facebook. Like I don't

00:22:09.760 --> 00:22:15.440
think you say dot like you never say the ending.

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Yeah, I don't I don't think so. But maybe I'm mistaken.

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But I don't say facebook.com. I say Facebook. I read something really interesting. Um

00:22:21.360 --> 00:22:25.760
apparently, you know what? I don't know if I put it in the doc or not. Let me

00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:30.320
let me check. Okay, don't worry. We're going to get to this in a moment. I say twitchtv.tv when I'm referencing

00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:36.799
the company. I say Twitch when I'm referencing the website. Okay, this is sort of unrelated. Oh,

00:22:34.080 --> 00:22:42.799
bollocks. Where did it go? Okay, I saw an interesting article. Um, it was like

00:22:39.919 --> 00:22:51.679
a linguistics article about the way that the period is changing in meaning to

00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:54.480
mean um irony or anger because so many

00:22:51.679 --> 00:23:01.679
sentences in text message communication and without periods. And I have at times

00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:06.960
been called a grammar Nazi. And yet I find myself very often not using a

00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:11.039
period. Question marks, exclamation marks are much more likely to be used

00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:15.760
when appropriate. And I think it was even commas, but don't quote me on that

00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:19.919
part. But the period was much less likely to be used. I think it was

00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:20.960
something like 30 to 40% of the

00:23:19.919 --> 00:23:25.440
situations where it would be appropriate, a period was being used.

00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:28.960
Uh, I see I see on forums and stuff I see it much more commonly properly used,

00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:32.640
but if I'm doing instant communication like like Steam chat or something like

00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:34.480
that or if I'm doing text messages, if someone uses a period, I'm usually like,

00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:40.400
whoa. And that's exactly it. Online communication, I think, was something

00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:44.559
like 10 to 15% more likely for people to use a period. And then text messages

00:23:42.159 --> 00:23:50.159
were the worst. And it stems from things like 160 character or 140 character

00:23:47.280 --> 00:23:55.520
limits on SMS and Twitter. But um the the reason the article was written was

00:23:51.919 --> 00:23:57.039
because uh a textbook writer's son was

00:23:55.520 --> 00:24:00.799
reading the textbook, I guess, you know, proofreading exercise. Got to leverage

00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:06.000
that free labor when you can uh before they move out and was like, "It it seems

00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:10.159
like you're angry and the way it's written." And then the example given in

00:24:08.159 --> 00:24:13.840
the article was like like a it was like a text message screenshot that was like,

00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:16.880
"Are you mad?" And then it said, "No, period." What does that mean?

00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:22.400
That means yes. Right? Because when I was reading the

00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:25.120
article, I was like, "No."

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And then I saw that example and they're like, "Are you sure?" No. Period.

00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:33.600
Absolutely. That means yes. When did this happen?

00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:37.840
I think that's been going on for a really long time. I don't think that's very new.

00:24:35.600 --> 00:24:41.600
No, it's not new. But why didn't I notice? I'm old.

00:24:39.360 --> 00:24:44.799
You are old cuz I noticed and everyone else noticed.

00:24:43.120 --> 00:24:49.360
Why you remind me of these things? Why do I ask you these things?

00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:54.000
Someone says, "Dots's not an old thing." I either say Twitch or twitch.tv or

00:24:51.760 --> 00:24:59.520
lines techtips.com. Um, the septagon is digging the shades.

00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:05.279
Thank you. These were these are the most expensive I think these are the most

00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:06.720
expensive piece of apparel I own.

00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:12.640
They're Oakley's maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Because I uh like I always used to

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:17.279
lose sunglasses. So what I did was like I really wanted some nice sunglasses and

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:21.440
I and my wife believe it or not was basically like look we'll get you cheap

00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:25.440
sunglasses and if you cannot lose them or break

00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:30.799
them for about whatever period of time she gave me then you can buy whichever

00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:32.480
ones you want. And I was like okay. She

00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:36.159
really does have to manage me that way. It's sort of sad. Um but I made it

00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:39.600
through the trial period. So I got myself some nice some nice Oakleys and

00:25:38.159 --> 00:25:41.440
I've taken extremely good care of them. You've had those as long as I've known

00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.600
you. They don't have any scratches on them pretty much whatsoever. I keep them in

00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:49.039
their case, but um I I digress.

00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:54.000
All right, we should do a Twitter blitz on the period thing and we should move on to the Twitch thing.

00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.120
Yes, I do want to move on to the Twitch thing. Uh please inform everyone about

00:25:55.600 --> 00:26:00.720
the World Cancer Day folding week. Yes, World Cancer Day folding week. Only two

00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:04.240
days left. Better than nothing. Uh there's more information in the line of

00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:08.080
tech tips folding at home forum section. Do you think NVIDIA will come out with a

00:26:05.520 --> 00:26:12.799
GTX 7? I got no idea, man. Uh, I don't want to speculate on cards that uh that

00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:17.760
aren't out yet. Where did I get my Domo plush? Uh, it was on Amazon. Bummer

00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:21.679
about Austin Evans's pad and burning up. Yes, it was. Although there should be

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:25.440
some news about something to do with that tomorrow. Uh, do you think the

00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:31.279
concept of transcendence is possible? By the way,

00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:36.640
love the show. Constantinos

00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:38.400
C. Do I think the concept of

00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:43.360
transcendence is possible? It depends what you mean. I think

00:26:39.840 --> 00:26:45.600
I think a genre can be transcended.

00:26:43.360 --> 00:26:49.440
I think a state of consciousness can be transcended.

00:26:47.520 --> 00:26:51.200
Would you disagree with that? Depending on what state you're in in the first

00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:56.640
place? Yeah, I'm going to say that that really I think there's a top level. You know, I

00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:59.919
think if you spend your life in a drunken stuper, you can transcend that.

00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:07.600
Yeah. But I don't think if you're in a coma, would coming out of the coma be transcending? a mental state

00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:09.760
potentially. Okay, you know what? I don't want to get into this.

00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:13.679
We're defining it way too much. Michael says Terminator. Thank you,

00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:17.440
Michael, for bringing us back on topic. All right, so let's

00:27:15.919 --> 00:27:20.000
Terminator. Yeah, I think he's talking about your

00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:29.360
glasses. Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah. All right, so Twitch TV is fourth in US

00:27:26.159 --> 00:27:32.960
peak traffic as of the uh I think it was

00:27:29.360 --> 00:27:34.640
a week ago. What?

00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:40.240
You have got to be kidding me. The companies only existed for three years

00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:42.640
now. Okay. I think the stat is a little

00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:48.559
bit deceptive. And I will explain why. Okay? Because one of the things about Twitch

00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:55.200
TV is the inefficiency of their broadcasting. They do not

00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:58.480
transcode their broadcasts prior to

00:27:55.200 --> 00:28:01.520
broadcasting them. So that's why when we

00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:03.360
cranked our bit rate up to 8500 kilobit

00:28:01.520 --> 00:28:09.200
per second basically no one could watch the stream

00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:14.960
which we didn't really realize because I assumed that they were that they were

00:28:12.320 --> 00:28:18.799
able to more easily transcode on the fly but what they can transcode on the fly

00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:25.679
and that's how people can watch a 1080p stream at 720p. But when you feed them a

00:28:21.760 --> 00:28:27.039
huge file, like a massive bit rate file,

00:28:25.679 --> 00:28:33.279
they have a lot more difficult time with it. They're not able to do that much with it because even with their one

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:36.320
minute delay, that's not a ton of time.

00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:39.200
And I remember talking to their COO uh

00:28:36.320 --> 00:28:43.600
back at PAX uh where he was just basically saying he's like, "Yeah, look,

00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:49.520
one of the reasons that we need so much bandwidth is that a lot of the content

00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:52.720
is going out in pretty much the form that people are broadcasting it in. So

00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:57.919
when you watch something in original quality on Twitch TV, you are getting

00:28:55.600 --> 00:29:02.880
original quality if both of the network connections and Twitch at the time can

00:29:00.159 --> 00:29:06.799
handle it, which is insane. When you select original on YouTube, even for

00:29:05.360 --> 00:29:11.679
something like 4K content, you are getting a seriously downsampled piece of

00:29:09.919 --> 00:29:17.120
content. In fact, a great example of that is uh look at that. I still have

00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:20.240
the tweet up. Um Marcus Brownley, MKBHD,

00:29:17.120 --> 00:29:22.159
is actually um I don't want to use the

00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:27.279
word bitching, but it seems appropriate here. Is complaining about the

00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:31.840
compression on YouTube. Yeah, it's not can't zoom for some reason. is

00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:36.640
complaining about compression on YouTube changing even the colors in his videos

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:41.520
to the point where his shirt goes from looking vibrant and orange to looking

00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:46.320
kind of dull and red. And so that is what you're getting on other platforms

00:29:43.360 --> 00:29:48.399
whereas Twitch is pretty much giving you what

00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:54.799
exactly what it is. Yeah. So while their bandwidth use is

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:58.720
through the roof, I don't necessarily think that gaming is more popular than

00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:02.240
Hulu. necessarily, right? Because Hulu is going to be

00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:05.919
much more efficient. Yeah. As is Netflix, as is YouTube.

00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:12.399
It still shows growth. It still shows So maybe maybe like bandwidth isn't the

00:30:10.080 --> 00:30:16.399
best way of measuring this while your computer crashes, but um it still does

00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:20.799
show growth. So there's some actually really interesting stats. Uh the three

00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:25.039
most watched games in 2013 were League of Legends, Dota 2, and Starcraft 2,

00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:28.399
which is all not surprising whatsoever. League of Legends viewing has gone up

00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:32.080
258% since 2012, which is insane. But even

00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:39.120
more insane, I guess, because it's newer, is Dota 2 viewing has gone up 58%

00:30:36.399 --> 00:30:43.120
since 2012. Um, they're they're saying that when people look back in the

00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:46.880
future, they will see 2013 as the tipping point for streaming. And I don't

00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:50.640
see that surprising at all. Basically, everyone I know now has a Netflix

00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:53.679
account and is streaming movies. And basically everyone I know that's into

00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:57.600
gaming has watched some sort of Twitch stream at some point in time, even if

00:30:55.520 --> 00:31:02.159
that was just for a gaming competition. Um, and then I do know a few people that

00:30:59.360 --> 00:31:05.360
just watch Twitch streams almost 24/7, which is pretty insane as well,

00:31:03.840 --> 00:31:10.240
which is another thing that I actually think is probably a little bit deceptive

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:13.520
about these numbers. Uh, because I think

00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:15.520
that compared to a service like Netflix

00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:18.399
where if someone starts streaming in Netflix, they're going to sit and watch,

00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:24.000
they're very likely to be actually in front of that screen. Um, you look at at

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:28.640
the way that game streaming works, people aren't a lot of the time watching

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:33.760
the game. This is this is a radio broadcast and watching the game is

00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:37.600
often, yeah, it's entertaining and it's there, but you might actually have it

00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:40.320
minimized or you might actually have it tucked away on a secondary monitor.

00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:44.559
Tab in and out every once in a while. Tab in and out. You got it running on your tablet next to your computer and a

00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:51.360
lot of the time you're not you're not giving it your undivided attention. So, Twitch is a big deal. gaming is a big

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:55.760
deal. I just don't think that um you know com you know comparing it to some

00:31:54.159 --> 00:31:59.440
of these other things I don't think that it's one of what YouTube or

00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:03.200
of what you do. Yeah. And I don't think it's it's a 12th of

00:32:02.399 --> 00:32:09.120
YouTube either because it is pushing that much. Well, that the the Google thing

00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:13.519
the bandwidth. Oh, okay. That's true. Yeah. So, I don't think it's even one 12th of

00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:18.080
YouTube. Never mind being whatever proportion of that is actually YouTube.

00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:23.360
Um so, yeah. So, yeah. Anyways, uh the average age of users is 21 years old,

00:32:19.840 --> 00:32:24.320
although I seriously doubt that. Just

00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:30.399
putting that out there. I mean, it's one of those things where I can't tell people what to do, but I had

00:32:27.679 --> 00:32:33.919
someone um ask about registering on our forum. Um they said that they put in

00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:39.679
their birthday and the forum said they couldn't join because they weren't 13.

00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:43.919
Um, I suspect that a lot of people um

00:32:39.679 --> 00:32:46.320
circumvent that in a way that um is is

00:32:43.919 --> 00:32:52.000
pretty evident if you look at Steam's stats for how many of their users are

00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:53.200
born on January the 1st.

00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:59.200
Last time we brought that up, someone was like, "But I'm actually born on January the 1st." Like, oh wow, that's

00:32:57.600 --> 00:33:01.919
actually surprising. Most people that say they're born on January the first

00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:06.000
really were not. 93%

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:09.679
This is old news. This is from like 2011, so it might have changed now. But

00:33:07.840 --> 00:33:11.760
the point is that people don't fill out their their birthdays correctly when

00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:17.440
they I'm going to be 100% honest. When I go fill out a birthday, it's too I'm too

00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:22.159
lazy to actually put in the accurate one. Like I'm always old enough for everything, but I just click on the drop

00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:24.480
down spin and then click on something. I actually do it really.

00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:28.480
I enter my birthday. I never do. I know. No, I it's it's a weird like OCD

00:33:28.159 --> 00:33:32.880
thing. I do for things that I'm like, "Oh crap, I'm really worried about recovering this

00:33:31.760 --> 00:33:36.159
account at some point in time and they might ask me how old I am." M.

00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:39.360
So I do for that kind of stuff, but a lot of the time on Steam, it's actually nothing to do with your

00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:43.440
account. You might even be signed in, which is ridiculous. Which is ridiculous.

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:48.880
Yeah. Except if they have family sharing enabled.

00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:50.960
So like in the future, this might I know. I know.

00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:56.399
I've always been like, "What the hell? I'm logged in." And then when you accidentally just click next and its

00:33:53.919 --> 00:34:00.399
default is not old enough and you just get locked out for like a day.

00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:07.760
Like come on. Like please stop. Um some other interesting stats. So 68%

00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:12.639
of Twitch users have decreased their TV watching in order to watch more Twitch.

00:34:09.919 --> 00:34:18.560
58% of their 45 million monthly unique visitors watch more than 20 hours per

00:34:15.919 --> 00:34:20.800
week. And again, I think this is a stat that might be a little deceptive because

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:26.800
idling and whatnot. It's easy to leave a Twitch stream on while you're sleeping. In fact, uh we

00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:32.159
had uh we had a problem back somewhere I used to live where one of the tenants

00:34:29.200 --> 00:34:37.919
would just leave Twitch streams on all night and we had some bandwidth usage

00:34:35.359 --> 00:34:43.440
problems that our ISP was pretty annoyed about because even streaming like you

00:34:40.720 --> 00:34:48.879
know hours on Twitch like not an entire day on Twitch you can use like 15 20

00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:51.200
gigs like no problem in a day and uh you

00:34:48.879 --> 00:34:55.919
know that that full quality streaming. So that uh that's that's just something

00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.599
you know that I think is you know we have to temper our enthusiasm a little

00:34:57.359 --> 00:35:02.800
bit. No, I know like it's still huge but it's still massive.

00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:07.599
Yeah. So that that comes out to Twitch users running an average of 106 minutes

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:12.320
of content per day and 12 billion minutes every month. Not each user but

00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:15.920
in total 12 billion minutes every month which is

00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:20.480
how many lives is that? Does someone want to do the math and maybe tweet me

00:35:17.520 --> 00:35:24.079
with how many lives that is per month that are basically sacrificed to the

00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:27.520
Twitch gods? You know, I was I was wonder how many lives have been

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:30.400
sacrificed to the Linus. I was just going to tell you um I I

00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:33.839
looked at it the other day. That's what made me think of this. Actually, this

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:38.240
made me think of that and I went and looked at our number. So, every day I

00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:44.480
think about a year and a half gets sacrificed to the Linus Tech Tips gods.

00:35:41.040 --> 00:35:45.599
Um in terms of minutes watched. So, has

00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:50.240
that been a life yet? Oh, more. Oh, yeah. Every day, a year

00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:54.800
and a half. So, that means in a year about Oh, wow.

00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:56.240
Yeah. 500 years or so get sacrificed to

00:35:54.800 --> 00:36:00.079
the Linus Tech Tips gods. Oh, wow. Isn't that crazy?

00:35:58.640 --> 00:36:02.720
That is pretty crazy actually. Yeah. I mean, you spread it out among

00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:07.359
enough people. Increase that number. We have to increase that number. We need to commit our genocide.

00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:11.280
Our genocide. Our based genocide.

00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:18.160
So there's about 900,000 broadcasters

00:36:14.560 --> 00:36:20.240
per month. 5,100 of those are partnered.

00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:24.160
So a mass proportion of the broadcasters are not actually partnered. And there

00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:28.480
are about 6 million total videos broadcast per month, which is pretty

00:36:26.160 --> 00:36:31.599
crazy. An interesting statistic would I didn't think about doing this would be

00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:35.520
to split down like how many broadcasts there are versus um how many

00:36:33.359 --> 00:36:38.960
broadcasters versus how many videos and how many videos versus how many minutes.

00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:42.160
So, like how long is the average broadcast seen for?

00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:46.720
Right. Be pretty interesting.

00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:53.359
All right. No one no one has done the math yet on our bill. Oh, okay. There we

00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:56.480
go. About 325 lives, says Mitch. Oops,

00:36:53.359 --> 00:36:58.000
wrong one. So, uh, yeah. Yeah.

00:36:56.480 --> 00:37:01.359
Yoinkerman's like, "Yep, I always fall asleep to Twitch." So, that's a thing

00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:06.000
that I just think is less likely to happen with a service like Netflix.

00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:09.599
Yeah. Um, if they all stop at the end of the movie anyways, wouldn't it?

00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:12.800
Depends. If you're watching a show, it'll keep it'll keep running. Like,

00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:15.520
I've fallen asleep to net. I'm sure that's happened at least, but

00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.520
not nearly as much. Yeah, I think it seems less likely. And

00:37:17.839 --> 00:37:24.480
I've got a few people backing me up on always filling in the correct birthday.

00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:29.040
Looney, thank you. Yamuda says 86% of statistics are made

00:37:26.640 --> 00:37:34.240
up. Thank you for that. Um, okay. I had one person backing me up on always.

00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:38.960
Looney, too. Then it would be Looney, wouldn't it? Okay, I love you, Looney. Fine, be like that.

00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:42.800
That's awesome. I see how it's going to be. All right, talk about your

00:37:41.359 --> 00:37:49.040
Yeah, I want to talk about this. So, this is an Indiegogo campaign that I

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:50.320
actually um that I Oh, you know what? I

00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:57.599
don't know if you guys are going to get audio from this or not. Where is the uh

00:37:55.359 --> 00:38:01.520
where' the Where' the plug go? Is that it? Oh, I'm stepping on it. Well, that

00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:06.240
explains it. All right, here we I'm just going to throw this in. So, this, my

00:38:03.359 --> 00:38:11.040
friends, is the aird do. And I actually tweeted out about it and I uh and I

00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:13.680
posted a link on the forum before I had actually tried it just cuz I kind of

00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:19.520
looked at the video and I was like, "Oh, that's really cool." Potentially,

00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:21.680
I was totally not interested and then I watched the video and I was like, "Yep,

00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:26.320
okay, cool." Also a car dock all built into one

00:38:24.640 --> 00:38:31.280
charger built into the base and then on the face here is a phone. Yeah, I just want to skip to you know

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:35.760
what, whatever. Uh, so the point is he got in touch with me and uh, so guys,

00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:43.280
it's here. I'm just going to throw the Indiegogo link in here. It's not cheap.

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:46.160
I think it's about 75 bucks um, even

00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:51.040
with the Indiegogo discount. So, I think it's going to be about a hundred bucks

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:53.280
retail, but it's really cool. So, check

00:38:51.040 --> 00:38:59.599
this out. Here it is. Oh, it's stuck. Okay, so it's a Chi wireless charger.

00:38:56.079 --> 00:39:02.079
And I should probably do this. Okay. and

00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:06.800
uh or charging dock. So, you got a micro USB here. You can run that down to uh

00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:12.720
your your cigarette outlet in your car or whatever else. It comes with a kit

00:39:09.520 --> 00:39:14.160
that has Where is it? This is just like

00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:17.760
a pre-production one. We're going to be doing an unboxing and review. So, I'll

00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:20.960
give you guys full impressions once I've really had a chance to use it. But, I

00:39:19.839 --> 00:39:27.119
just want to give you my initial impressions right now. So, it comes with the cigarette adapter. It comes with a

00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:30.880
cable. comes with. Uh, see, I never really do unboxings like this anymore.

00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:36.400
So, it's like it's like back to the old days. This thing is like batshit crazy.

00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:43.599
Feel the material on there. This could stick to anything. I'm like I

00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.000
could probably stick it to your ARM.

00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.920
Yep. Nice. Not going anywhere. We should leave it and see how long it lasts.

00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:52.320
Yeah, we should see how long that stays there on his sweaty ARM. So, it comes

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:57.839
with all that stuff. Then it comes with another another piece here that is got

00:39:55.119 --> 00:40:02.160
to be the best bendable ARM I think I've ever encountered. It's about the

00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:07.200
thickness of my pinky. And check this out.

00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:12.160
That's what it takes to bend it and then it stays. It doesn't go. It just doesn't

00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:16.400
move anymore. And then it's got uh an articulating ARM here. And then it's got

00:40:14.240 --> 00:40:20.880
like a more standard suction cup on the bottom piece here. Okay. But the real

00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:25.280
magic and they actually this is hilarious because they call it magic.

00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:30.240
Okay. Let's see what does he say. Okay. Okay. And I got to I got to call him out

00:40:27.040 --> 00:40:33.599
on this. Magic foam

00:40:30.240 --> 00:40:37.359
and magnets hold the phone to the air

00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:39.599
dock here. Really? Magic foam anyway.

00:40:37.359 --> 00:40:43.440
And magnets is basically the same as saying they're magic. So that's like

00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:48.320
saying that there's magic holding the magic and then it has wireless charging

00:40:45.839 --> 00:40:53.839
which in my mind is also magic because it works with magnets which are magic.

00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:56.319
So it's like magic cubed. And the thing

00:40:53.839 --> 00:41:00.800
that really got my attention when I looked at the Indiegogo video was the

00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:05.640
demo where he takes a phone, puts it on like this, and listen to this.

00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:12.240
He loves the sound. The sound is amazing. Okay, so this one

00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:15.599
came really dirty out of the box and really wasn't working that well and I

00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:18.960
was like, "Oh, my one doesn't stick to it at all. I'm I'm not impressed. I

00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:22.720
don't like it." So, but then what I did is I washed it. So, it's just you just

00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:27.440
wash it with water. I mean, be careful. Don't put like water all over it or

00:41:24.560 --> 00:41:31.200
anything like that. Um cuz there's like electronics inside and stuff, but you

00:41:29.200 --> 00:41:35.839
just kind of wash off the surface and then boom. You throw a phone on it,

00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:40.160
shake it around. It's going to Whoa. Okay. So, it's not perfect. uh it's

00:41:37.839 --> 00:41:44.400
going to hold up pretty well to any kind of normal vibration that you would have

00:41:42.319 --> 00:41:48.480
in a car, especially if you're at an angle that's somewhat reasonable. And

00:41:45.680 --> 00:41:54.000
this is on an HTC1, which is not a validated device. Um if you give me your

00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:58.800
G2 for a sec. Okay, let's just go ahead.

00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:02.720
There we go. So, let's go ahead and stick the G2 to it. So, this is not a

00:42:00.560 --> 00:42:08.400
validated device either, but plasticback devices are going to be more able to

00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:12.200
stick to it. So, I can shake that around

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:12.200
and listen to this.

00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:18.160
So, I don't know. Scared of it ripping the back off at some point in time. If you have a if you

00:42:16.720 --> 00:42:23.520
have a back removable device, like I bet you my old S3 Yeah. it would just take the back right off.

00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:27.599
So, and it does have magnets in it, too. So, some phones and tablets actually

00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:32.319
have metal plates in them for magnetic mounting. So, that holds it on. And then

00:42:30.319 --> 00:42:35.920
the magic foam, which is actually I think it's some kind of nano thing. The

00:42:34.319 --> 00:42:39.839
magic foam holds it in place. So, I think it's really cool, especially cuz

00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:44.160
just having it in your car and then just being like bloop and it charges and it

00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:48.480
sits there well enough that you can easily do whatever navigation you're going to do. It's not going to come off

00:42:46.640 --> 00:42:51.359
in transit. So, we're going to do a full video of it, but I just thought that was

00:42:49.839 --> 00:42:55.119
really cool and I wanted to call out their Indiegogo campaign and give you

00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:59.760
guys an opportunity to get it for $25 less. This thing is still sticking to my ARM

00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:02.560
somehow despite being bumped like Yeah, of course it's sticking to your

00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:06.720
ARM. Oh, hold on. Can I get it off? Yeah, there we go. Okay, so I was able to pull it off. So, you can see how

00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.960
dirty he is. It was gross before you put it on my

00:43:08.560 --> 00:43:14.880
ARM. See the skin cells? Ew. How would you

00:43:13.839 --> 00:43:19.280
got to troll you, you know? I know. It's all about the troll. Are we moving on to the next thing?

00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:23.040
Yeah, let's move on to the next thing. Okay, so Oculus Rift, it has a launch

00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:28.800
title and they're actually going to be co-publishing it, which is really interesting. Uh they've been doing a lot

00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:32.720
of stuff lately in that realm, but the idea that they have an actual exclusive

00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:38.800
launch title and the fact that it's Eve Valkyrie is kind of huge because Eve

00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:45.680
Valkyrie has won tons of awards like uh PC game of the year at E3 2013 or PC

00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:49.280
game of 2013 um from PC gamers, which is

00:43:45.680 --> 00:43:50.400
pretty crazy awesome. And it's also, in

00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:53.680
my opinion, probably the most well-developed game for Rift.

00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.359
There's been games that have been made for Rift. I have not. Oh, it's amazing.

00:43:55.839 --> 00:44:01.200
I've seen like every possible video on the internet. It is so amazing. It's like it's unlike

00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:05.680
anything you've ever tried. Exactly. Which is exactly what they

00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:09.200
need. Oculus Rift needs that killer app to bring people to Oculus Rift because

00:44:07.680 --> 00:44:12.640
there's all these different virtual reality goggles coming out and they're

00:44:11.040 --> 00:44:16.319
going to need something that splits them apart. So, they're obviously moving in

00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:19.839
that direction with this and other things. Those other things being

00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:24.079
recruiting people like 3D artists, animators, gameplay engineers, and more,

00:44:22.319 --> 00:44:26.960
which they're doing right now. They're actively trying to hire these people.

00:44:25.520 --> 00:44:33.040
So, if you are one of those, be sure to check it out. Also, um they have hired

00:44:29.839 --> 00:44:35.200
David De Martini, which is kind of scary

00:44:33.040 --> 00:44:41.680
because he was the senior vice president at Electronics Arts.

00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:43.839
Yay. Helping publishing.

00:44:41.680 --> 00:44:48.640
Don't like it. Anyways, moving on. I have another thing I don't like about

00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:51.680
it. Um, I mean, okay, I guess it's fine

00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:53.280
as long as it's not exclusive, but

00:44:51.680 --> 00:44:57.280
you've written here first exclusive Oculus Rift launch title. Is that

00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:01.200
correct? Launch. Yeah, at launch. It's only going

00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:05.599
to be on Rift at launch. Okay. I don't know if it's like forevers.

00:45:03.839 --> 00:45:10.800
Yeah, because I mean the the the direction that I see the industry moving

00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:12.960
is less exclusivity and more openness.

00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:17.040
And I just I feel like if you try to turn Rift into

00:45:15.359 --> 00:45:20.720
it it says exclusive. Yeah. Um now I don't know if that's going to

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:23.200
be forever exclusive. I don't know if that's just some games are launch

00:45:22.319 --> 00:45:28.000
exclusives, right? Uh we've seen that actually quite a bit where it's exclusive at launch and then

00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:32.560
it can be distributed after that. And I mean I get it. I mean I get it

00:45:30.160 --> 00:45:37.200
because developing for a particular VR goggle is going to be different from

00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:41.440
developing for another one. And if I'm Oculus and I'm investing heavily into

00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:46.160
this piece of hardware and the marketing and the production and all and and

00:45:43.520 --> 00:45:52.319
hiring John freaking Carmarmac and all this stuff, I want to make money on my

00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:57.520
investment, but I just, you know, I don't want to see

00:45:54.880 --> 00:46:03.119
I mean, even Nintendo has finally begun to yield on firstparty

00:46:00.560 --> 00:46:06.400
titles for their first party systems. They haven't said what they're doing

00:46:04.640 --> 00:46:09.200
exactly, but they'll have some mobile content coming.

00:46:07.680 --> 00:46:12.400
Yeah, but most people are assuming they're going to be extremely short demos.

00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:17.119
And I'm assuming that, too. Wallpapers. And I'm assuming that, too. But progress

00:46:16.319 --> 00:46:21.760
is progress. Yeah, that's true. But like a two-minute

00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:26.960
demo and a wallpaper, I don't think is exactly what we need. Um, need more than

00:46:24.160 --> 00:46:31.359
that. But I don't know. So, David D. Martini is going to be working with uh

00:46:30.240 --> 00:46:35.520
he's going to be figuring out how to partner effectively with big partners, small developers, all the way to the

00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:39.280
individual who wants to make something for the Rift, which is interesting and a

00:46:37.520 --> 00:46:43.359
good idea. He's from EA and that's scary. I mean, I don't know. With all of that

00:46:41.359 --> 00:46:46.800
said, just because someone's from EA doesn't mean that they're evil.

00:46:44.560 --> 00:46:50.640
I know. And I'm hoping that maybe he left EA because he wanted to do

00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:54.640
something different. And I'm hoping that Oculus was clever

00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:59.040
enough to hire someone that has a philosophy that's similar to theirs. And

00:46:56.560 --> 00:47:03.760
I mean, anything that pushes more Oculus Rift development and more titles

00:47:01.520 --> 00:47:09.760
honestly is is big thumbs up for me because I am buying one 100%. You guys

00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:13.359
can mark my words. If I don't buy one, then

00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:18.319
you can I don't know, call me foul names or something like that. I'm very

00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:21.839
probably planning on just whenever the next developer kit comes out, retiring

00:47:20.560 --> 00:47:27.119
mine and giving it to like the high school I went to and then just moving on to the next one

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:33.359
because if they release a developer kit for Crystal Cove, oh,

00:47:31.200 --> 00:47:38.560
all over that. Like that thing looks so cool. And I'd love to have a 1080p panel

00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:43.200
and the OLED thing. Uh the the low persistence OLED. Yeah.

00:47:40.319 --> 00:47:48.000
Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing. So down for that.

00:47:44.640 --> 00:47:50.880
All right. So Sony

00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:52.960
does something that's not surprising. Well, I was going to pretend it was a

00:47:52.319 --> 00:47:59.040
little surprising. It's not that surprising. I mean, when's the last time you

00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.960
actually saw someone using a Sony Vio

00:47:59.040 --> 00:48:05.359
notebook? Um, probably when I used to work in a

00:48:02.640 --> 00:48:09.520
repair shop. And not not not I'm not saying

00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:13.920
I didn't I didn't mean it that way. I just meant because I saw a lot more

00:48:11.200 --> 00:48:19.839
laptops then. Um, we didn't particularly see a lot of vios there. Um, but like

00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:23.760
yeah, honestly I don't see them a ton to be completely honest. Usually in

00:48:21.680 --> 00:48:28.079
classrooms you see either an army of Macs or you're somewhere that isn't

00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:32.960
business and you see an army of cheap laptops. So it's

00:48:30.240 --> 00:48:36.720
or an army of expensive laptops that are HP or Dell.

00:48:34.720 --> 00:48:38.480
Yeah. Or like business class or ThinkPads.

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.640
Yeah. Yeah. I I just and and you know looking

00:48:41.040 --> 00:48:47.920
at some of the stuff that they've done over the last little while I just kind

00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:51.680
of scratch my head like the the the the

00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:53.760
Vio Duo 13 is actually an Ultrabook that

00:48:51.680 --> 00:48:57.680
I will be giving away shortly. I have a huge giveaway to announce in the next

00:48:55.680 --> 00:49:01.920
little while here. Um there will be a proper video about it, but I'm going to

00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:06.480
give you guys a sneak preview. But as much as it's an interesting notebook and

00:49:04.240 --> 00:49:10.960
it's a high-end notebook and to to get it for free in a giveaway will be

00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:14.720
awesome, don't worry. It has some design decisions that were made that I just

00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:19.680
kind of look at and I go, "What were you thinking?" Which one was that? This was the one it So, it's a it's a

00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:23.520
convertible. So, basically, when the screen comes up, it goes I want to sort

00:49:21.680 --> 00:49:27.119
of make this visual for them in a way that's easy to understand. So, the

00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:31.760
screen comes up like this and then slides down like that. So, it only goes

00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:37.599
at a fixed angle. You can't adjust it. And then the hinge back here is actually

00:49:34.319 --> 00:49:39.760
exposed. Whereas something like this,

00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:45.040
which I think is called a pin wheel twoin one, makes a ton more sense. It's

00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:50.880
a notebook. It's a tablet. Nothing is exposed. And I

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:56.559
can fully adjust the angle of the screen when I'm not using it as a tablet.

00:49:53.920 --> 00:50:00.960
So, yeah. I like and I saw someone in the

00:49:59.040 --> 00:50:04.960
Twitch chat, well I'm on a V laptop right now. It's like yeah they exist.

00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:13.040
We're not trying to say that. Um it's just quite a few years ago I saw them

00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:14.400
all the time and now not nearly as much.

00:50:13.040 --> 00:50:18.079
That's more where I'm I mean it can't be helping that the uh

00:50:16.160 --> 00:50:23.119
that PC sales have gone down what was it 7% in the last year. And when you're

00:50:20.640 --> 00:50:29.760
someone like Sony where your market share is

00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:31.760
not uh you know dominant um that 7%

00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:36.480
hurts a lot. That might have been the difference between scraping by and not

00:50:34.160 --> 00:50:41.760
making it. And I mean Sony hasn't quite gotten over that they're not a premium

00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:46.319
brand anymore. So they designed these products. They put a lot of money into

00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:51.520
the R&D of bringing them to market and then they're not a premium brand

00:50:48.240 --> 00:50:53.680
anymore. And I don't think people really

00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:59.520
accept it. And I mean, there are regions where Sony still has um some brand

00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:03.920
mystique. And quite honestly, I find it baffling when there are products that

00:51:01.520 --> 00:51:08.640
just aren't that great that somehow manage to have like this that get put on

00:51:06.640 --> 00:51:15.359
this pedestal. I mean, products like honestly Samsung um a lot of their stuff

00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:17.280
fantastic. Some of their stuff, how was

00:51:15.359 --> 00:51:24.000
anyone even accepting this? I mean, their Galaxy high-end phones, the the S3

00:51:20.720 --> 00:51:26.079
and the S4, particularly the S4, how was

00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:31.440
that competitive with a lot of the other stuff? Yes, S3 was. Sorry. S4

00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:36.160
build qualitywise, it just it was not up to par with other devices that cost the

00:51:34.240 --> 00:51:39.760
same. And I mean, Google came in and, you know, crapped all over everyone.

00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:44.079
Yeah, that's interesting. Right now, like people have asked me about buying phones. I'm like, well, you have a few

00:51:42.640 --> 00:51:48.160
options. They're all in the Google store. If you're if you're trying to buy

00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:52.640
a brand new phone, like just full out buy a brand new phone. I'm like, "Yeah,

00:51:51.359 --> 00:51:57.200
like there's there's not a ton of options. They're all in Google Store because if you try and do price

00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:59.599
performance outside of the Google store, like you're screwed. Everything's going

00:51:58.319 --> 00:52:02.640
to be $800, $900." And yet someone like Samsung gets away

00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:09.920
with it. I mean, you look at stuff like their smart TVs. I've complained about this in the past. None of the features

00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:12.720
work. like motion control this uh you

00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:17.680
know tracking that you know it voice control none of it works how do we

00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:22.480
accept this how do we let them get away with delivering something that's just

00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:22.720
not polished like at all um so I don't

00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:29.920
know plug in a chcast so some people I'm sure still feel that

00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:33.200
Sony is super awesome apparently Sony doesn't think so anymore so they're

00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:37.599
selling off that business unit I think the the rumored sort of on the table

00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:41.839
price is somewhere some more in the $500 million range. Yep.

00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:46.480
Uh the the random estimation is about $493 million.

00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:49.680
Um yeah, it's it's kind of interesting. Although not surprising, we were

00:52:47.839 --> 00:52:52.640
actually fairly recently talking about that like massive ridiculous

00:52:51.200 --> 00:52:57.520
over-the-top percentage of Sony bankrupting. Oh yeah, someone said, what was it?

00:52:55.280 --> 00:53:01.520
There was a uh there was an an article that claimed there was a 78% chance,

00:53:00.319 --> 00:53:05.760
we talked about this on the W show. Yeah. of Sony going bankrupt in the next

00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:08.480
I think it was some ludicrously short period of time like 2 years or something

00:53:07.520 --> 00:53:12.559
like that and I think what we said was well no

00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:17.119
they have a lot of assets that they could sell to keep them going for a

00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:20.480
really long time before they just declare bankruptcy. So

00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:25.839
yeah and we see the beginning of it and I I expect them to liquidate certain

00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:29.599
assets and then try to empower others to try and get profit going again and that

00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:35.119
looks like exactly what they're doing. If you were a buyer, would you even be

00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:40.240
remotely interested in this in the Vio brand? Because does the Vio brand mean

00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:44.240
anything without Sony attached to it? Is it the Vio brand you're buying though

00:53:42.160 --> 00:53:47.599
or are you buying infrastructure? You're well, you're buying both. You're

00:53:45.839 --> 00:53:52.160
buying a distribution system. You're buying the Vio brand. But the rumor

00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:55.359
right now is that Vio notebooks will probably disappear outside of Japan for

00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:59.280
a while anyway. So you're you're probably going to lose whatever momentum

00:53:57.119 --> 00:54:06.319
you had. But then look at this. They forecasted 293 million profit and lost

00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:08.720
1.1 billion

00:54:06.319 --> 00:54:12.480
for the year. Would you buy this business unit and this brand that

00:54:10.640 --> 00:54:15.920
obviously doesn't resonate with consumers?

00:54:14.160 --> 00:54:19.839
I think that was a total for their company. Um I'm not entirely sure but

00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:23.839
Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. So not just Val Laptops, but like there

00:54:22.319 --> 00:54:33.040
there's interesting people looking into it. There's that investment group from Japan. There's also Lenovo or uh uh uh

00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:37.280
what am I trying to say? Is it Lenovo? Lenovo is a company that owns IBM or

00:54:36.160 --> 00:54:41.520
owns ThinkPad rather. Yeah, there we go. So, it's Lenovo that's looking into Vio, which is

00:54:39.839 --> 00:54:45.440
interesting because IBM just sold them ThinkPad. Yeah. So, I could see I could see them

00:54:44.720 --> 00:54:48.400
consuming it. IBM just sold them their server business as well.

00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:53.760
Really? Yeah. Is IBM just going to sell them everything? I don't know. I guess so. Maybe Lenovo

00:54:52.240 --> 00:54:58.800
is just gonna buy everything just like Amazon and Google are buying everything.

00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:01.839
It's interesting how these massive companies are just going on insane

00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:07.359
shopping spree. In the last few years, Lenovo came from

00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:11.920
absolutely not significant at all with funding from the Chinese government to

00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:12.720
being a dominant PC manufacturer. It's

00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:17.040
amazing that Chinese government backing

00:55:15.359 --> 00:55:21.440
is pretty strong. So, there's going to be quite a few things hit by this. um

00:55:19.040 --> 00:55:27.599
about 5,000 jobs are going to be cut. That's about 1,500 in Japan and 3,500

00:55:24.640 --> 00:55:31.920
overseas. Uh so it's not all just randomly Sony dropping part of their

00:55:29.520 --> 00:55:36.480
business. It's also Sony dropping 5,000 jobs, which is not good to hear as the

00:55:34.640 --> 00:55:39.920
job market in many places isn't super great right now. Um so

00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:44.559
could be worse. They could work for Linus Media Group.

00:55:42.240 --> 00:55:48.079
I mean, how likely is your job to end? I fire you Well, I haven't fired you in a

00:55:46.240 --> 00:55:52.319
long time, actually. Speaking of acquisitions, Amazon just bought a game

00:55:50.240 --> 00:55:58.720
studio. So, this was posted by Top War Gamer. And Top War Gamer, can you please

00:55:55.920 --> 00:56:01.280
not post mobile links when you link people to things on the forum? Come on,

00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:05.440
man. Lol. Lol. I don't think it's that hard to fix.

00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:09.280
Yeah. Yeah. But at least I I would Okay, I'm not going

00:56:07.680 --> 00:56:12.480
to harp on him that hard because he always fills things out. That's true.

00:56:11.040 --> 00:56:15.680
And I would way rather it was filled out and had a mobile link than wasn't filled

00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:20.079
out and had a normal link. True that. All right. So, there you go. Here, carry

00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:25.040
on. This isn't, in my opinion, that super

00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:27.599
interesting yet. Um, it it's interesting because of what might happen in the

00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:33.680
future. There's been a lot of rumors spinning around about Amazon maybe releasing a set top box console, which

00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:37.680
is interesting. However, that might possibly work. I don't know. Is it a

00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:42.480
Steam box? I don't know. Is it an Android system? Who knows?

00:56:39.040 --> 00:56:43.200
Does it use their cloud to do cloud

00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:48.640
gaming? Maybe. I don't know. Oh, there's a lot of different stuff spinning around about

00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:52.720
this, so we'll see what happens there. Um, it's also not the first gaming

00:56:50.799 --> 00:56:56.559
acquisition they've made. They they got casual game maker Reflexive

00:56:54.559 --> 00:57:00.880
Entertainment back in 2008. So, they're adding um these guys to the list. Double

00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:04.640
Helix is still fully intending to support Killer Instinct, which was a

00:57:03.040 --> 00:57:08.880
Xbox One game. So, they're going to be releasing more content, more characters

00:57:06.240 --> 00:57:13.040
into it. Um, and they fully expect to release uh more Killer Instinct games

00:57:11.040 --> 00:57:17.359
for Xbox One in the future. not that very many people watching this show

00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:21.520
care. Um, and yeah, so a lot of what Double Helix

00:57:20.079 --> 00:57:26.079
is doing is not going to change, but they're going to be a part of Amazon Game Studios. And there's all this other

00:57:24.720 --> 00:57:31.760
stuff going on about Amazon Game Studios. So, while this isn't interesting now, once Amazon actually

00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:37.359
does make a proper announcement about what their gaming system set top box

00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.960
possible, maybe possibly thing might be,

00:57:37.359 --> 00:57:42.559
uh, this might become interesting. And once they make announcements about what

00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:46.799
these gaming studios are actually doing, that might also be interesting. But

00:57:45.359 --> 00:57:51.839
right now, it's just they bought something and yeah, that's about it. So,

00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:56.000
there's not a ton we can actually say about that right now. Speaking of things

00:57:53.599 --> 00:58:00.880
to buy or not necessarily buy, our sponsor today is Hotspot Shield. So, you

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And I'm going to go ahead and post a nice little link for you guys in the

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00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:49.839
coverage of the Sochi Olympics if your coverage in your area isn't that great.

00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:53.119
I think it was you who shared a chart with me. Did I was looking for it

00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:59.040
earlier? I couldn't find it. It should be on my Twitter.

00:58:55.200 --> 00:59:01.040
Yeah. of how absolute rubbish a lot of a

00:58:59.040 --> 00:59:05.839
lot of count's coverage of the Olympics is this time around. And so with Hotspot

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Shield, once you get it installed, you can actually tell it what country you

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being from. So, if for some reason you wanted to watch something that is only

00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:21.680
being broadcast in the US, whether it's Netflix or whether it's uh an Olympic

00:59:20.240 --> 00:59:25.520
event, or you wanted to watch something that's only being broadcast in the UK,

00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:31.200
you could actually switch between them and get whatever coverage it is that you

00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:33.040
wanted. All of that instantly. So, guys,

00:59:31.200 --> 00:59:36.000
I'm going to Oh, yeah. Here, can you send me this link in

00:59:34.319 --> 00:59:39.200
I I posted in the Twitch chat. I can also put it in the dog. No, no, it's fine. I'll go ahead and

00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:45.119
click it in the Twitch. Oh, it might have flown away. It moved fast.

00:59:43.040 --> 00:59:49.440
But there we go. All right. So, I'll show you guys that link. Lionus's

00:59:47.359 --> 00:59:52.559
screen. And of course, guys, remember when you even when you sign up for a

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trial of Hotspot Shield, you're helping us out in a big way because they are one

00:59:55.040 --> 00:59:58.880
of our sponsors. So, this is this is super subject to change.

00:59:58.079 --> 01:00:06.000
Like, this is just all subject to change. But TV coverage, couple hundred hours,

01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:09.920
couple hundred hours, 240 hours, 539

01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:12.240
hours. um online coverage in the US. It

01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:15.680
looks like it at least was when this was released going to be cable and satellite

01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:18.640
subscribers only. Uh I've heard I've heard quite a few of

01:00:17.359 --> 01:00:22.720
these things have already actually changed. Y um but this is where it

01:00:20.640 --> 01:00:26.400
started. So other things will be add-on layers essentially. So if for whatever reason you're not

01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:31.359
happy with your coverage here, I'm going to post that link again. And someone's

01:00:29.200 --> 01:00:36.960
like, why didn't you go to Sochi to cover it? Well, it isn't technology.

01:00:35.200 --> 01:00:40.160
There's no like overclocking Olympics there.

01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:43.160
It would be in the mountains though. Although

01:00:43.359 --> 01:00:48.079
actually we don't really cover the overclocking Olympics either anyway. So

01:00:46.640 --> 01:00:52.079
No, frankly, they aren't that interesting.

01:00:49.680 --> 01:00:54.240
No, I'm way more because it's not representative of what you're going to

01:00:53.599 --> 01:01:01.440
be able to do. I don't know. I mean, my problem with professional overclocking really comes

01:00:57.920 --> 01:01:02.880
down to the personalities. Like remember

01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:08.640
how hard it was for you to get an interview from anyone? God, I felt so

01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:11.760
useless at that event. I was like, okay, they're focused on working and I have to

01:01:11.359 --> 01:01:20.000
stand. And that's fine. I respect that. I get that. But at the end of the day, in my

01:01:17.200 --> 01:01:23.920
mind, it is the obligation of a professional

01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:30.319
sports person or a professional competitor to advocate for what they do

01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:35.520
to make people interested in it because there was stuff there that was really

01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:41.599
interesting, but no one wanted to show it to us or talk to us about it. Like

01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:44.079
when I was at Gigabytes thing at uh CES,

01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:50.559
uh one of the overclockers there had a graphics card that was had a full PCB

01:01:47.200 --> 01:01:52.240
and then it had the back PCB of a

01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:56.799
different graphics card or like some EVGA like weird thing like soldered to

01:01:54.799 --> 01:02:00.880
it so they could like plug in more PCI Express connectors and get more power to

01:01:58.160 --> 01:02:04.640
it. And I'm like who's covering this? That's awesome.

01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:08.640
Yeah. And that's really cool. But then no one will talk to you about it.

01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:12.319
Yeah. It's interesting. Um, also a problem that I have with it is it's so

01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:16.720
hard to replicate at home. There's a lot of insane binning that's

01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:18.880
going on. Uh, like just throwing away tons of parts because they're not good

01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:25.280
enough. People are like, "Trade secrets, my friends." You know what? I don't care

01:02:22.720 --> 01:02:30.559
because you can have a trade secret that no one's talking about and no one's

01:02:26.960 --> 01:02:32.720
watching and maybe doesn't exist 5 years

01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:38.079
from now. If you care about having a job, you have to be open about it. It's

01:02:35.680 --> 01:02:43.920
like look at any professional sport. Do they hide how to dribble a basketball or

01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:48.720
do they want all the youth in the world dribbling wanting to dribble a

01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:51.839
basketball just like LeBron James? That

01:02:48.720 --> 01:02:53.920
is how it works. That is how you get

01:02:51.839 --> 01:02:58.799
people engaged and excited about what you're doing. I don't hold anything back

01:02:56.319 --> 01:03:02.720
from you guys about what we do here. I'm willing to explain anything we do,

01:03:00.640 --> 01:03:05.680
whether it's on the computer side or whether it's even on the YouTube or

01:03:04.160 --> 01:03:10.240
social media side. And I love answering questions about this stuff because I've done it quite a few times even.

01:03:08.319 --> 01:03:14.160
The reality of it is if you're not constantly innovating, people will catch

01:03:12.240 --> 01:03:19.280
up to you anyway. So if you just sit there and jealously guard your secrets

01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:23.119
and try to prevent other people from furthering what you're doing, well, how

01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:26.720
are you ever going to learn from them as well when they innovate and they

01:03:24.640 --> 01:03:28.720
discover it's all about sharing? And that's what I think a lot of people

01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:32.559
don't understand, which is actually exactly Have we released that video yet?

01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:37.359
Which one? The 2014 update. No. So, which is exactly what a future

01:03:35.839 --> 01:03:40.960
video will actually be about is how we're planning on trying to be agile

01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:45.280
again because we always try to plan on being agile, trying to change things. It actually

01:03:43.839 --> 01:03:49.920
Okay. Right. I promised to give some information about the giveaway. So, this

01:03:47.200 --> 01:03:57.200
giveaway is going to be for the crate computer. So, that's a 4670K

01:03:52.559 --> 01:04:00.319
GTX 780 500 gig SSD PC that's built onto

01:03:57.200 --> 01:04:02.799
the back of a 27in gaming LCD. Worldwide

01:04:00.319 --> 01:04:05.359
giveaway. Okay. We're also giving away an ASUS GTX Titan.

01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:08.720
Boom. And we're also giving away a Sony Vio 13

01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:14.000
Ultrabook. Boom. Three things all at the same time. And

01:04:12.640 --> 01:04:20.000
all you're going to have to do, there's going to be a video coming up on Techquickie that you're going to have to

01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:25.280
comment on. And then the Titan and the Vio Ultra book are going to be a little

01:04:22.160 --> 01:04:27.119
bit different. So, the main prize is the

01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:33.440
crate computer, and anyone can enter that one. But to enter into the other

01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:36.480
draws, you must either be a social media

01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:39.839
influencer with 10,000 followers on some

01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:42.319
platform or another and share the video,

01:04:39.839 --> 01:04:47.119
or you must get a social media influencer to share it and credit you

01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:52.480
for sharing it with them in the first place, and then you will be entered for

01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:55.200
a chance to win the Titan. So, I am I am

01:04:52.480 --> 01:04:59.920
enlisting you guys to help spread the word about the crate computer giveaway

01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:05.440
by incentivizing you with a chance to be in a much smaller pool of people who

01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:07.440
could win a GTX Titan. Imagine someone wins both.

01:05:06.799 --> 01:05:11.520
I'm sorry. Imagine the dude that wins the crate also wins the Titan. Is that possible?

01:05:10.160 --> 01:05:14.799
Are we allowing that to be possible? I don't think we can allow that. Just roll.

01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:20.799
Yeah, we'd have to roll. We'd have to draw the crate computer first. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the Vio Ultra

01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:23.520
book is for the influencers. Yeah.

01:05:21.359 --> 01:05:26.880
So, anyone who shares it who is an influencer is in the bucket to win the

01:05:25.440 --> 01:05:30.559
Vio, which I don't think there'll be that many. Maybe 10 or 20 influencers

01:05:28.640 --> 01:05:34.480
tops. That's great odds on a thousand notebook. And then the Titan for the

01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:39.440
people who get influencers to share. And then the crate computer, which anyone

01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:42.079
can join. Y. So, it's going to be crazy.

01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:45.440
Someone's like, "Of course you have to have a a stupid garbage book or Twitter

01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:49.280
account. What the hell are you talking about?" I said you have to leave a

01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:53.440
comment on the tech wiki video for a chance to win the crate computer.

01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:59.039
I did that. That actually that No, no, no. Yeah, good try though. Someone's like,

01:05:55.839 --> 01:06:00.960
"Sell out." Sell out to who?

01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:02.880
I don't understand what just happened. But let's ignore the Twitch chat right

01:06:02.559 --> 01:06:06.319
now. Wow. Most people have said good things about

01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:13.760
it. Yeah, I I love you guys mostly, but some of you don't get it. All right, so let's

01:06:10.240 --> 01:06:16.480
move on to our next topic. Uh here we

01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:20.160
go. Ah, yes. California.

01:06:18.559 --> 01:06:26.079
There's a California bill that's proposing a mandatory kill switch for

01:06:23.680 --> 01:06:30.640
phones and tablets in 2015. Really cool. That's actually really cool. So,

01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:34.880
more than down. So, there's some requirements that it has to make. They're not making you use like a

01:06:33.359 --> 01:06:38.240
specific one. They're not like, "Oh, yeah. Lowjack has to come pre-installed

01:06:36.640 --> 01:06:42.000
on every single mobile device." No, they're not doing that. But, but it has

01:06:40.319 --> 01:06:46.240
to meet certain requirements. So, those requirements are if I can find it really

01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:48.880
quickly. Uh, of course I can't find it really

01:06:47.359 --> 01:06:53.440
quickly. Once activated, it should be able to prevent phone calls, internet

01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:56.880
access, and the ability to run apps. Um, you can also

01:06:55.680 --> 01:07:00.480
It also has to be able to restrain people from doing a hard reset. Um, it

01:06:59.119 --> 01:07:05.359
has to be able to restrain them from returning the device to factory condition or downgrading to a different

01:07:03.680 --> 01:07:08.799
operating system. So, basically, it has to be able to be on there all the time.

01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:12.480
Yeah. because you shouldn't be able to remove it and it should be able to

01:07:10.799 --> 01:07:16.640
restrict you from phone calls, internet access or running apps. So, it

01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:22.640
essentially renders your entire phone useless and you can't remove it.

01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:26.960
So, this comes this stems from um an increase in muggings that are targeting

01:07:24.799 --> 01:07:30.799
mobile devices. I mean, what is something that you could basically

01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:36.480
assume someone will have on them that they can give you in less than 10

01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:37.520
seconds that is reasonably valuable and

01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:42.160
easy to flip? Super easy to flip. Super easy to flip. It's not going to be

01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:46.559
jewelry necessarily. Actually, I was reading a really interesting article on

01:07:43.680 --> 01:07:52.559
the resale value of diamond jewelry, and it's like nothing. It's it's like

01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:57.359
pennies on the dollar basically because the assumption is that it's probably

01:07:54.880 --> 01:08:01.520
stolen. Plus, there's the fact that uh diamond retailers are buying at

01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:05.200
wholesale that is so much lower than the retail prices that people bring in

01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:08.400
diamond jewelry for trade-ins and they're just like they usually just end

01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:12.319
up keeping it anyway because it's just not actually worth anything.

01:08:10.319 --> 01:08:15.760
And so, so jewelry is not necessarily the answer. So, you just walk up like,

01:08:14.240 --> 01:08:18.719
"Give me your phone." Because people's wallets won't necessarily have anything

01:08:17.440 --> 01:08:22.000
of value in them. uh card now. Yeah. It's going to be plastic. It's

01:08:20.799 --> 01:08:27.040
like, "Yeah, here. Go ahead. Take my wallet and just let me take my driver's license and like, you know,

01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:29.920
and the leather and you can have everything in it." Yeah. You can have everything in it

01:08:28.799 --> 01:08:33.600
because I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to place a phone call right now with

01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:38.640
like someone else's phone because you probably just stole my phone, which is the only valuable thing. And I'm going

01:08:36.480 --> 01:08:42.400
to cancel all those cards. Yeah. I don't know. Oh.

01:08:40.799 --> 01:08:48.159
Uh, they're going to be pushed pretty hard. Retailers are going to be fined around uh $500 to $2,500 per device

01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:52.239
that's sold that doesn't have this type of technology. Yeah. So, it's not set in stone or

01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:56.319
anything, but the fine could range anywhere in there. And it's important to

01:08:54.080 --> 01:09:02.159
note that per device word. So, a retailer that sells 10,000 phones that

01:08:59.679 --> 01:09:06.319
aren't equipped with this technology in California could be looking at whatever

01:09:05.040 --> 01:09:12.640
the math is for 500 five, you know, millions of dollars

01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:15.120
in fines potentially. So, kind of a

01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:17.679
really big deal. Um, I think it's awesome. One thing that they are

01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:23.520
expressing worry about is that no one's really going to want to make a phone just for California. Um, but they were

01:09:21.120 --> 01:09:27.359
saying that if that does even look like it starts to happen, uh, they're going

01:09:25.440 --> 01:09:31.520
to push really hard for basically everyone else in the states to back this

01:09:29.040 --> 01:09:35.040
as well. And it looks extremely possible that that is going to happen regardless

01:09:33.759 --> 01:09:39.920
of whether or not people are worried about making phones for California. There are other states that are very

01:09:38.080 --> 01:09:44.560
interested in proposing a bill that is essentially the exact same thing. And

01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:50.159
I'm totally down for that. Totally, completely down for that because phones

01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:50.480
getting stolen is a huge deal.

01:09:50.159 --> 01:09:57.600
Yeah, that's that's about all I have to say. I'm happy. Me, too.

01:09:55.840 --> 01:10:02.719
Something less happy. This is the rumor mill. That's my

01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:04.320
on-screen keyboard. Posted by a Hi,

01:10:02.719 --> 01:10:10.640
Carrie. I should know how to say this by now. Uh, you post a fair bit of news.

01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:12.880
So, the rumor mill says GM107

01:10:10.640 --> 01:10:17.600
is a new core that could be coming from AMD at some point here. This is from

01:10:15.360 --> 01:10:20.159
videocards.com. What's up? You said it. AMD.

01:10:19.280 --> 01:10:24.960
Did I say AMD? Yep. Oh, sorry. NVIDIA. The NVIDIA logo is

01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:32.480
clearly visible there. So, don't mind don't mind the man behind the curtain.

01:10:28.239 --> 01:10:35.120
Um, so there's a even bigger NVIDIA logo

01:10:32.480 --> 01:10:39.920
there. Thank you for that. Okay, you've got the summary in the dock. So, so

01:10:37.520 --> 01:10:43.360
essentially it's a hybrid between GK 107 and GK 106. For all of you guys that

01:10:41.679 --> 01:10:46.400
were super excited for a big massive card, maybe not so much. Uh, the slower

01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:51.440
variant. Oh, I don't think we ever said this. Yeah. So, rumor on the street, word on

01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:56.640
the street is that this is Maxwell. Yeah. Maxwell, but 700 series Maxwell.

01:10:54.080 --> 01:11:02.560
700 series Maxwell. So, not GTX 800 series. Um, not a 20 nanometer chip. So,

01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:06.640
this is still at a 28 nmter manufacturing process. And then like you

01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:10.960
were saying, somewhere between GK 107 and GK 106. Okay. Go ahead.

01:11:08.400 --> 01:11:15.360
Um, so the the focus of it is extremely low power. So, the slower variant, the

01:11:13.360 --> 01:11:18.239
GM107-300 will be used for a GTX 750.

01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:25.120
Rumored allegedly. Rumored. And then the GM 107-400 will

01:11:21.440 --> 01:11:27.840
rumored allegedly be used for a GTX 750

01:11:25.120 --> 01:11:32.400
Ti. Rumored allegedly. Um, we have a chart down here that shows speeds. And

01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:37.840
the speeds are not oh my god fast. But the power usage is

01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:42.880
oh my god low. Some of these are actually going to be able to even be

01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:46.800
used without any extra power or just a

01:11:42.880 --> 01:11:47.840
single six pin, which is interesting and

01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:52.400
boring. Well, come on. You can't call power savings boring. You know what? I

01:11:51.040 --> 01:11:56.560
actually had a really interesting conversation with a guy from Intel um

01:11:54.880 --> 01:12:00.480
when and it was just like everything is off the record. It wasn't like official

01:11:58.320 --> 01:12:05.040
Intel, you know, jargon or anything like that, but I was he was like, you know,

01:12:03.120 --> 01:12:08.560
what's your take on what we've been doing for the last few years? And I'm

01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:11.440
like, it's boring. It's the typical enthusiast response.

01:12:10.159 --> 01:12:16.080
You guys haven't done anything that's lit my world on fire in terms of driving

01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:19.920
up performance. And he's like, you know what? You know, power savings aren't

01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:24.239
boring or aren't interesting. And I'm like, well, no. And he's like, well, you

01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:29.280
know, what about this? What if that die area that we saved on making the CPU

01:12:26.880 --> 01:12:34.719
more powerful is what enables your notebook to go from sleep to wake in

01:12:32.719 --> 01:12:36.880
like, you know, a second. But they're not talking about that.

01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:42.159
Who? Intel. Intel. I know. Um, no, no, no. I'm just

01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:45.760
talking about like the the conversation I was having. No, I I know. But he's

01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:50.080
like, but you have to consider like, have we not introduced exciting

01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:54.960
technologies? And I'm like, okay, yes, you've

01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:59.440
introduced exciting technologies. It's just that the performance hasn't excited

01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:03.440
me. And I kind of go and I'm kind of sitting there going, "But I see your

01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:07.120
perspective because just because saving some power doesn't excite me personally,

01:13:05.360 --> 01:13:12.159
the enthusiast, doesn't mean that it isn't having an impact." I mean, if we

01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:13.760
can take this card and have it be fairly

01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:16.960
close to this in terms of performance, so it's probably going to have jacked up

01:13:15.679 --> 01:13:21.440
memory frequency because that's what NVIDIA's been doing lately. So even though it's only got a 128 bit,

01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:27.920
it's hard to see. Sorry. So I can't highlight. It's a picture. Way to go. Uh, so even though

01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:30.239
it's only got a 128 bit bus compared to

01:13:27.920 --> 01:13:33.360
192bit bus, the overall specs are similar and if it has faster memory, we

01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:38.560
could be looking at very similar performance, but at just over half of

01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:45.280
the power consumption. And then something else to think about is the global impact of this. I mean, if a

01:13:43.280 --> 01:13:50.239
hundred thousand people, hypothetical number, are using this card versus that

01:13:47.440 --> 01:13:53.920
card, we are saving all of that power and all those resources for the world

01:13:53.040 --> 01:14:00.400
when we're gaming. And that is awesome. It just it's not exciting.

01:13:57.120 --> 01:14:02.640
And it's not exciting.

01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:06.400
Like like it's cool, but it just and like with the the the technologies that

01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:09.600
Intel's coming out with, like that's cool, man. But

01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:13.520
well, it's more of an expectation management thing, I think.

01:14:11.280 --> 01:14:19.760
Yeah. Like like you expect there to be a significant difference between 3000

01:14:15.440 --> 01:14:21.840
series or between 2000 series and 4,000

01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:26.880
series Intel processors and when overclocked, it's just like

01:14:24.880 --> 01:14:29.679
meh. So, I don't know.

01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:34.000
Yeah, the Twitch chat seems to be with us that power savings are boring.

01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:39.360
The Twitch chat also figured I was selling out because I was doing a giveaway. I don't get that.

01:14:37.120 --> 01:14:42.880
I I think people are selling out. Are you selling out to yourself because

01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:46.719
you're driving techquicki which is us? Yeah. So you're selling to yourself. So it's

01:14:45.679 --> 01:14:50.080
like a loop transaction and I'm using my own stuff. Yeah.

01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:54.719
Like all this all So you are losing things

01:14:52.400 --> 01:14:59.760
to buy things for myself. For yourself.

01:14:56.560 --> 01:15:03.280
Is that selling out? I'm curious. I'm

01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:05.120
not going to ask the Twitch chat though.

01:15:03.280 --> 01:15:08.159
Except Except we're both staring at the Twitch chat. Except we're both staring at the Twitch

01:15:06.880 --> 01:15:13.679
chat. Yes. Yes, we are. Okay, we're not going to look at the Twitch chat anymore. Sorry, Twitch chat. All right,

01:15:10.719 --> 01:15:18.080
Titanfall minimum specs are out. And this is both surprising and not

01:15:16.080 --> 01:15:22.320
surprising at all. I mean, it it is based on the source engine, which can

01:15:20.080 --> 01:15:25.600
basically run on this, which I think was the point of the uh picture that Nice

01:15:24.400 --> 01:15:32.400
Hat decided to post, which is awesome. Which is awesome. Um, but I guess just,

01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:36.560
you know, next generation game, you know, super exciting AAA title that

01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:41.760
people are stoked about. I was expecting it to not run on an Athlon X2 2.8 GHz.

01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:47.679
My favorite part is the requirement for Windows 7 and then the 512 megaby RAM

01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:50.800
requirement and then Windows 7 having a it's not you can go lower than that, but

01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:55.040
Windows 7's like, yeah, you should probably go about one gig or two gigs.

01:15:53.120 --> 01:15:58.239
And if you're having a 64-bit operating system, which this game also requires,

01:15:56.880 --> 01:16:01.520
you should probably go about two gigs. Then the game's like, 512 megabytes,

01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:06.719
it's all good. Yeah, I don't know if I'd really want to play it with these specs.

01:16:04.400 --> 01:16:11.760
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think like I think it's going to

01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:16.159
install and you'll load it and then you'll probably want an upgrade. But I

01:16:13.679 --> 01:16:19.760
mean, for particularly laptop gamers, I mean, I don't know how many lands you've

01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:22.719
gone to, but a lot of the Yeah, I know you've gone to a lot of lands.

01:16:20.880 --> 01:16:26.480
I was like, what? It's just usually how I preface things. I know.

01:16:24.719 --> 01:16:30.239
But the ones that I've been to, there's a lot of people gaming on older

01:16:28.400 --> 01:16:34.400
notebooks because that's the kind of machine they needed. They're not going

01:16:31.840 --> 01:16:39.679
to buy a notebook and a desktop. And gaming notebooks out of all the types of

01:16:37.360 --> 01:16:44.800
gaming devices, even tablets that are optimized for gaming, I feel like uh

01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:50.000
degrade in relative performance to everything else slower than gaming

01:16:47.120 --> 01:16:54.960
notebooks. Um, if you buy on a bad generation of gaming notebook, you could

01:16:52.719 --> 01:16:58.400
have the next gen of gaming notebooks be a quantum leap forward in performance

01:16:56.719 --> 01:17:02.080
because it actually gets a core change in addition to a branding change and

01:17:00.320 --> 01:17:07.920
then it could stagnate for two or three years. So, you you either are are kind

01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:11.280
of up there or or like you're not at all and the the industry just moves forward

01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:13.920
without you. So, I think this is great for people who have a several year old

01:17:12.640 --> 01:17:18.080
gaming notebook and actually want to be able to play Titanfall because it looks

01:17:16.400 --> 01:17:22.239
pretty exciting. Yeah, actually I'm actually pretty

01:17:20.080 --> 01:17:25.679
stoked for it. Um, but then I'm kind of scared as well. But I don't know. We'll

01:17:23.440 --> 01:17:30.159
see how it goes. In other news of things that I'm excited for and scared, but I

01:17:28.320 --> 01:17:34.960
think the scared level, like the excited level this time last year was the exact

01:17:32.320 --> 01:17:39.120
same as the scared level is this time, like around now is the ESO beta.

01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.679
No, hold on a second. They do say that. Uh, no. You Oh, right. Never mind.

01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:47.199
That's Windows 7. ESO beta. Where is that? Uh, it's not in here, but ESO beta is

01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:51.920
this weekend. Um, I don't think that part's under NDA, and if it is, the

01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:57.120
entire internet knows, so shut up. Um, but like the the the NDA behind ESO beta

01:17:55.520 --> 01:18:02.560
is ridiculous. They're doing like a server load balancing level beta and

01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:06.000
it's still under NDA. Like everyone and their mom got a beta key, but they're

01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:10.320
like, "Nope, nope, don't talk about it. Don't stream it." Blah, blah, blah. Because it's ugly as hell. which is part

01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:13.440
of the problem and a whole bunch of other problems. But yeah, anyways, I'm

01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:18.080
going to stop talking about things that are scaring me. Okay, what else we got? We have the different sites supporting

01:18:17.120 --> 01:18:22.480
Bitcoin payments. Yeah, so you can buy uh

01:18:20.719 --> 01:18:27.920
you can buy things off Tigerirect and scan.co.uk

01:18:24.080 --> 01:18:31.120
by using Bit uh Bit Pay, which is using

01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:32.640
Bitcoins. Bit Kay Bitay is a little bit

01:18:31.120 --> 01:18:36.640
uh I don't know.

01:18:34.719 --> 01:18:42.239
I was trying to figure out like how Bit Pay works. So, I went on their website

01:18:38.880 --> 01:18:44.800
and went to the like how it works area

01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:49.520
and the YouTube video that they have specifically made for that is showed up

01:18:47.360 --> 01:18:55.199
as set to private. So, I was like, that's weird. So, I went to YouTube and

01:18:52.719 --> 01:18:58.640
was like, Bit Pay. I find their channel. I'm like, okay, cool. Maybe they have a

01:18:57.280 --> 01:19:04.000
new updated one and they just forgot to update the website. Click on the channel. This channel was like removed

01:19:02.480 --> 01:19:06.960
or deleted or something. I'm just like, "Oh,

01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:11.120
okay." So, in theory, the way Bit Pay works is

01:19:09.199 --> 01:19:15.199
that exchange rates are calculated every minute and can be grabbed through an API

01:19:13.280 --> 01:19:20.159
and shown on a website like tigerdirect.com or scan.co.uk, UK,

01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:27.280
which is kind of awesome because one of the things that was happening in the past uh was very early adopters of bit

01:19:24.480 --> 01:19:31.360
pitcoin payments. What they were doing was just taking like

01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:35.600
the high point and then going a little bit higher and then being like uh I mean

01:19:34.159 --> 01:19:40.880
sorry the low point and going a little bit lower and being oh sorry yeah the

01:19:39.440 --> 01:19:45.600
high point going a little bit higher than being like that's how much it actually costs. So that you'd get crazy

01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:51.120
charge whenever you tried to buy anything with Bitcoin. So, it's actually a lot more worth it to just go exchange

01:19:49.040 --> 01:19:54.320
exchange your bitcoins in to dollars and then buy the thing with dollars. But,

01:19:52.719 --> 01:19:59.280
this makes it more realistic to buy things with bitcoins. Um, it's honestly

01:19:57.040 --> 01:20:02.800
actually pretty easy and cheap for someone to set up. It's about 30 bucks a

01:20:01.040 --> 01:20:11.199
month to run as long as you're doing under about 30,000 20 $29,000 a month.

01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:13.199
Um, but then I worry about a few things

01:20:11.199 --> 01:20:16.320
on it. Like it it doesn't seem I don't know. It doesn't seem like the most

01:20:14.480 --> 01:20:20.480
secure thing ever. and their website's a little bit sketchy. Um, but it's

01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:22.880
probably entirely fine. I just worry about a lot of things like that a little

01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:27.760
bit more than I probably should. Here's a bunch of folks that are using it.

01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:32.800
Yep. So, it's not like they're really small

01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:36.480
and nobody's using it at all. That's very true. But then when you look

01:20:34.560 --> 01:20:41.440
into a lot of these websites, they're there are ones I recognize. NameCheep.

01:20:38.960 --> 01:20:43.920
Yep. A lot of them are just straight up

01:20:42.719 --> 01:20:49.520
Bitcoin websites though. Yeah. A lot of them are like an extremely large portion.

01:20:47.440 --> 01:20:54.320
Yep. Okay.

01:20:52.400 --> 01:20:56.159
Wow. There's a lot of stuff on this page. I'm not going to scroll through

01:20:55.600 --> 01:21:00.800
the whole really really long. Uh that's actually why I brought that out too is I have

01:20:59.360 --> 01:21:03.920
sketchy feelings because of like the YouTube page disappearing and all that

01:21:02.400 --> 01:21:07.840
other kind of stuff. But then there's also this which is

01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:10.560
actually really cool. They're like look at all the things we're working on right

01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:16.159
now, right? So you it might work. It might be

01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:19.040
entirely fine. Um, I don't know. I don't know how big the team is. Maybe it's a

01:21:17.760 --> 01:21:23.760
small team thing, so they just haven't noticed the YouTube thing yet, right? Uh, maybe it's something else. It's

01:21:22.159 --> 01:21:26.480
probably entirely fine. Massdrop uses them. That's kind of cool.

01:21:25.679 --> 01:21:32.880
That is actually kind of cool. Lots of good stuff on Mass Drop. Yep. All right. Well, I think we're about

01:21:31.520 --> 01:21:35.679
five minutes from the end of the show, so let's go ahead and see if there's uh

01:21:34.640 --> 01:21:39.679
We have quite a few things left, actually. Do we? Call of Duty is now on a

01:21:37.920 --> 01:21:44.480
three-year dev cycle, so this is interesting.

01:21:41.679 --> 01:21:47.520
uh they they added a a developer, it's called Sledgehammer, which I believe

01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:50.480
worked on a previous game in conjunction, which with another one of

01:21:49.040 --> 01:21:55.760
the teams, and apparently this was a knee-jerk reaction to uh the crazy low

01:21:53.679 --> 01:21:59.920
ratings that Call of Duty Ghost got. Apparently, it's sold fairly well. Um,

01:21:58.400 --> 01:22:05.040
the sales are going down a little bit more rapidly than they had hoped, but the initial sales were actually pretty

01:22:03.199 --> 01:22:09.840
all right, but I think that has in no smart small part due uh due to the new

01:22:07.520 --> 01:22:14.960
consoles. Um, because people just wanted games for them. Um, but yeah, they're

01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:18.639
saying this should help their teams be able to polish and ensure really high

01:22:17.040 --> 01:22:23.840
quality games every single time they have a release because now they have a three-year cycle instead of a two-year

01:22:21.600 --> 01:22:28.000
cycle. So instead of releasing a game and then trying to support it for

01:22:25.440 --> 01:22:32.560
another year while kind of working on a new game and then crazy working on a new

01:22:30.320 --> 01:22:35.920
game for one year, you kind of have supporting your game for a year and then

01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:40.159
crazy working on a game for two years, which is actually a lot more time.

01:22:38.400 --> 01:22:44.800
Yeah, that's that this makes such a big difference because I mean you look at even something like Battlefield 4, like

01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:48.480
how much patching is going into that game realistically?

01:22:46.880 --> 01:22:52.400
How much work is getting done on Battlefield 5?

01:22:51.280 --> 01:22:58.239
Okay. No. Yeah. Like you have to support the game. Yeah.

01:22:55.520 --> 01:23:01.840
At least in theory. Uh for for a fair amount of time after you've released it,

01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:06.000
which really eats into that time for the next game. Whereas this I mean this is

01:23:04.480 --> 01:23:10.960
great. So by adding a full another development studio as long as they as

01:23:08.800 --> 01:23:14.960
long as they do a good job of it. Um they've they're able I believe this is

01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:20.639
the same number of teams that NVIDIA uses. So for new GPUs, I believe, don't

01:23:19.040 --> 01:23:26.320
quote me on this, but I believe NVIDIA has three teams. So each new graphics

01:23:23.360 --> 01:23:30.320
core, each new graphics architecture has a different team that worked on it every

01:23:28.320 --> 01:23:36.320
three cycles. That's how long it takes to develop a GPU. If NVIDIA only had one

01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:38.239
team, they would have fallen behind AMD

01:23:36.320 --> 01:23:43.040
years and years and years ago. And so that's makes sense. This is a business model that exists

01:23:40.719 --> 01:23:47.360
outside of games. And uh I mean if they're going to jam a new Call of Duty

01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:49.920
down our throats every year, it might as well be one that was worked on for a

01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:53.440
reasonable period of time. Honestly, I don't even mind the one-year

01:23:52.159 --> 01:23:58.560
cycle. I've talked to different people about this before. I just It has to be

01:23:56.080 --> 01:24:03.520
good. It has to be really good. And I haven't been I I was in like a love

01:24:01.360 --> 01:24:06.800
affair with Call of Duty 4, the first Modern Warfare, and a lot of the Call of

01:24:05.120 --> 01:24:10.400
Duties before that. And then it's kind of just gone down pretty hardcore

01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:14.000
lately, and I have not been interested. If they can fix it with this three-year

01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:16.480
dev cycle, I'd more than happily go back to Call of Duty. I just hate it right

01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:21.600
now. Right. Not into it at all. And I mean, you know what? That's a good

01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:25.199
point because I have no problem with a month-long release cycle. The more

01:24:23.679 --> 01:24:29.040
content you throw at me, the better. You look at something like episodic gaming,

01:24:26.960 --> 01:24:31.600
like what Walking Dead's doing, like what Wolf Among Us is doing. So, that's

01:24:30.719 --> 01:24:36.560
Telltale. I got no problem with that. Give me short content that's inexpensive and

01:24:35.199 --> 01:24:39.679
throw it at me really often. People don't have an issue with that. It's just

01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:44.400
something that doesn't meet their expectations. Speaking of which, I had

01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:48.960
completely forgotten about Wolf Among Us and Ed's

01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:50.960
out, so I am playing that tonight. I'm definitely playing that tonight. So

01:24:50.320 --> 01:24:56.320
stoked. Um, then there's Steam Music. Yeah, Steam Music.

01:24:54.719 --> 01:24:59.520
I'm less excited about this than I am about in home streaming.

01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:02.480
Yeah, this isn't the most crazy thing, but it has it's going to work within

01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:09.600
home streaming. Yep. So, this was posted by Neuronite. So, this still ties in with the idea of

01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:12.800
having a semi- lowowered device with almost no storage on one end and then

01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:18.480
having your beast machine on the other end because you can store all your music somewhere else in the house and then

01:25:15.679 --> 01:25:22.080
stream from it. Um, there is basically nothing in terms of features right now

01:25:20.320 --> 01:25:26.400
other than a play button that's almost a direct quote from one of their developers. Um, but they're taking

01:25:25.120 --> 01:25:30.239
suggestions and they're planning on putting in a ton of new features. If you

01:25:28.480 --> 01:25:34.080
want to sign up to be a part of the Steam Music beta, it's the exact same

01:25:32.719 --> 01:25:40.320
way that you'd signed up for Steam inhome streaming. You got to go to the Steam Music community page and join the

01:25:38.400 --> 01:25:43.520
community and then you will be in. Right now, it's only working with MP3s, but

01:25:42.159 --> 01:25:46.560
that's not going to last for too long. They are already working on bringing in

01:25:45.280 --> 01:25:51.199
a bunch more support for different formats. Um, like I said, it works

01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:54.800
within home streaming. And the idea is that there will now be an in-game player

01:25:53.040 --> 01:25:58.560
for your music. So you can change things without tabbing and you can it's it's

01:25:57.360 --> 01:26:03.199
just going to be a lot more easily integrated. It's not a music store at

01:26:01.199 --> 01:26:07.360
least as of yet. You can get game soundtracks through through Steam that

01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:12.159
has existed for a very long time. Um but it's not a music store in itself. The

01:26:10.400 --> 01:26:16.560
idea is you point it towards a directory on your computer. It finds all the music

01:26:14.159 --> 01:26:19.840
and then you can play it. That's pretty much it. And you can play it by using

01:26:18.320 --> 01:26:24.639
like the Steam overlay and it's super easy and super integrated. It's It's not

01:26:22.719 --> 01:26:30.800
the most exciting thing ever, but it's cool and I think it's a good move. I

01:26:27.679 --> 01:26:32.719
think it makes a lot of sense. Um,

01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:36.639
Lionus is looking up Goat Simulator. Well, yeah, we have to talk about this.

01:26:34.639 --> 01:26:39.520
I had totally forgotten until someone mentioned it in the Twitch chat. I

01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:45.440
posted this on Facebook earlier this week, but this looks like the kind of

01:26:42.480 --> 01:26:48.239
thing that if it's like five bucks, I would probably pay five bucks and play

01:26:47.440 --> 01:26:53.280
it for a little bit. This also isn't the first time we've seen it. This is just the first time

01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:58.120
we've seen uh this awesome demo. So, this is uh some alpha gameplay

01:26:55.120 --> 01:26:58.120
footage.

01:27:03.920 --> 01:27:11.760
And when you climb the ladder, the head just like goes like this. You can move

01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:14.239
stuff around, climb into stuff. See, you

01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:19.320
get the door for just doing things. Oh, his head is banging on the run.

01:27:16.320 --> 01:27:19.320
Yeah,

01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:25.920
because this is a, you know, game mechanic that makes sense.

01:27:23.360 --> 01:27:29.520
This better come with physics. Yeah.

01:27:26.800 --> 01:27:34.560
Oh. Oh, car plus ragd doll 64* 2.

01:27:33.679 --> 01:27:39.280
What? So, okay. I think we're done here. Yeah.

01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:44.159
But, uh, there you go, guys. You can check that out. Goat Simulator first

01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:48.960
alpha gameplay on YouTube. Uh, if you want to watch something that makes

01:27:45.679 --> 01:27:51.360
absolutely no sense but just somehow

01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:53.920
inten need to buy it. Yeah, I like really want it to be a

01:27:52.960 --> 01:27:59.840
benchmarking video. How to build a rig that's perfectly optimized for Goat Simulator.

01:27:57.440 --> 01:28:04.000
Yeah, we should actually do it. Um, for updates that haven't happened in quite a

01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:08.800
while. Um, the folding team is doing quite well. We're in 52nd position

01:28:06.320 --> 01:28:14.000
overall for folding, which is actually like kind of insane with how young the

01:28:11.040 --> 01:28:17.440
team is. um and just cuz like the forum hasn't even existed for that long and

01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:21.920
that's what drove the start of the uh Linus Tech Tips folding team. So that's

01:28:19.199 --> 01:28:26.880
epic. Uh we should be within the top 50 in about a week which is also really

01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:32.400
cool and we're number eight for active fold folders which is also huge and

01:28:30.080 --> 01:28:36.560
extremely cool. Um, the Star Citizen team, which you should join, is I think

01:28:35.120 --> 01:28:40.400
that we're we're number one in activity right now and we're number six in the

01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:44.239
world for member count. And I think honestly within the next day or two,

01:28:42.320 --> 01:28:48.400
we'll probably be number third, meaning we will be front paging for most members

01:28:46.480 --> 01:28:51.920
and we will be on the top and front paging for activity, which is epic. So,

01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:55.840
if you're looking for a team to join for Star Citizen, I would definitely join

01:28:54.639 --> 01:29:02.000
us. It's funny you mentioned the um the

01:28:58.159 --> 01:29:04.639
Steam music uh streaming because it's

01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:11.760
not in Big Picture on the Windows client, but I swear there was something

01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:13.920
about video in Steam OS and I'd have to

01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:18.560
fire up my Steam machine to to have a look at it again. But I wonder if uh

01:29:16.800 --> 01:29:22.960
local video streaming is something that they're looking at adding the idea. Yeah. And if if you read

01:29:21.040 --> 01:29:27.440
through the music thing, it plays into that very well because the guy's talking

01:29:24.719 --> 01:29:29.679
about how they're they're trying to be they're trying to make it so that's all

01:29:28.719 --> 01:29:33.440
you need. Yeah. You won't need anything else. So, so

01:29:31.760 --> 01:29:36.239
supporting video makes a lot of sense. And it's probably not going to be a

01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:40.000
thing where you can buy movies through the Steam store. It's probably going to

01:29:37.840 --> 01:29:43.520
be a thing just like how music works, which is where it's like point at this

01:29:41.600 --> 01:29:46.800
directory and then you can play things. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. That's

01:29:45.679 --> 01:29:50.880
probably how that's going to work. I really really hope that that comes because that would mean that I would

01:29:49.440 --> 01:29:55.520
pretty much never need to leave Big Picture on my HTPC. Whereas right now I

01:29:53.840 --> 01:30:00.320
was like, "Oh, okay. I guess I need like a video player if I'm going to legitimately replace my Windows

01:29:58.320 --> 01:30:03.520
machine." Not happening yet. Speaking of my Windows machine, I discovered

01:30:01.920 --> 01:30:08.960
something interesting about Steam and home streaming. And that is that even if

01:30:05.920 --> 01:30:13.360
you have a pretty powerful CPU,

01:30:08.960 --> 01:30:15.199
the CPUbased decoding is just not uh not

01:30:13.360 --> 01:30:19.520
low latency enough. It's not good enough to have a 1080p or even really

01:30:17.679 --> 01:30:24.080
stutter-free experience overall. I'm still using a Linfield

01:30:22.320 --> 01:30:28.800
760 or something like that. No, seven. Crap.

01:30:27.040 --> 01:30:36.000
I can't even remember anymore. Anyway, the point is that it was the last Intel

01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:40.320
CPU that didn't have a hardwarebased

01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:42.000
H.264 decoder on the integrated GPU. So,

01:30:40.320 --> 01:30:44.960
what I'm going to do uh this weekend is I'm going to take this graphics card

01:30:43.440 --> 01:30:49.040
home because it's the only one that we have that's actually short enough to

01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:53.280
install in my home theater PC. And I'm going to see if this makes the

01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:57.600
difference between that PC being able to run in home streaming satisfactory or

01:30:55.760 --> 01:31:02.000
doesn't. Cuz initially I thought it was power line network that was causing the

01:30:59.679 --> 01:31:06.080
frame drops as much as 20 to 30% of my frames were were being lost. Wow. And

01:31:04.080 --> 01:31:12.480
then I concluded that that wasn't it when I bought a 50 foot Cat 6 cable, ran

01:31:09.520 --> 01:31:14.560
it down my stairs like across my hallway and I was like, "Oh,

01:31:13.679 --> 01:31:20.800
oh, it's not fixed. Okay, I guess it's time to get a graphics card then." So, this

01:31:18.639 --> 01:31:25.199
card has a built-in H.264 decoder. Actually, this is a Kepler card, so this

01:31:22.239 --> 01:31:28.400
has an encoder as well. But there is so much more to be done within home

01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:32.400
streaming. For one thing, they've added some more resolution, so you can stream

01:31:29.920 --> 01:31:35.440
at 480p now. And I saw some interesting behavior when I was playing around with

01:31:33.679 --> 01:31:38.639
it. I haven't really dug into it again since I did my video. And they've

01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:42.639
changed some stuff since then, but I saw the resolution changing dynamically

01:31:40.719 --> 01:31:46.560
during a stream rather than just frame rate resolution.

01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:51.760
Yeah. And and it was like 1600 by 900 or 1680 x 1050 or something like it was in

01:31:49.120 --> 01:31:55.920
between. It was a tweener res. It wasn't 1920 and it wasn't 720. But maybe it was

01:31:54.400 --> 01:32:00.639
like my eyes playing tricks on me. I got to play around with it some more. Uh,

01:31:57.679 --> 01:32:04.800
but there's still so much more that they can do if they can figure out how to

01:32:02.480 --> 01:32:08.880
take advantage of Kepler's onboard hardware encoder, which I don't believe

01:32:07.360 --> 01:32:12.480
they're doing right now, and they can find a way to take advantage of, which

01:32:11.280 --> 01:32:17.679
they've already done, the hardware decoders, we could be looking at a a low

01:32:14.960 --> 01:32:20.960
enough latency experience that it will be kind of like sitting in front of it.

01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:25.040
Uh, I mean, and with good enough hardware now, even you can get pretty

01:32:22.800 --> 01:32:28.560
darn close, but we're just not quite there yet. Some people have raised

01:32:26.719 --> 01:32:33.280
concerns about the California bill, saying that's the exactly the same as

01:32:30.320 --> 01:32:38.320
what the um Ukraine government wants and how the Uncle Sam's going to have a kill

01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:40.560
switch on your device. I don't think I'm

01:32:38.320 --> 01:32:44.239
pretty sure it's 100% user controlled. Yeah. But I mean, it's I mentioned this

01:32:42.560 --> 01:32:47.440
earlier in the show, too. Just because it's user controlled doesn't mean it's

01:32:46.159 --> 01:32:50.719
doesn't mean that there isn't some sort of back door. And with all the stuff NSA

01:32:49.360 --> 01:32:53.679
is doing lately, that is actually kind of freaky. Usually, I do think of those

01:32:52.880 --> 01:32:58.719
things. Yeah. didn't really think about it this time. So, that's something definitely

01:32:57.600 --> 01:33:03.840
really important to consider. And to those speculating that I'm wearing sunglasses because my wife beat

01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:08.080
me, you are 100% correct. I knew you were going to say that.

01:33:06.480 --> 01:33:12.159
Thanks for watching the show today, guys. If you tuned in late, the archive

01:33:09.920 --> 01:33:15.280
will be up later. And nah, I changed my mind. Um, I think that's pretty much it.

01:33:14.960 --> 01:33:22.880
Yeah. Peace out, guys. Thanks so much for watching. See you later.

01:33:19.440 --> 01:33:25.040
Thanks for watching.

01:33:22.880 --> 01:33:28.880
Are you sure you thanked them enough? Thank you for Thank you for listening to

01:33:27.199 --> 01:33:32.080
me. Thank you for watching over top of this music that we love so

01:33:31.280 --> 01:33:36.239
very much. I really like this music. I do too. You're not even listening to

01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:40.000
it. I am. But I I'm vicariously listening to it

01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:43.960
through you cuz I'm dancing. Yep.