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hooray welcome to the show we both have new attire today as you may
or may not have noticed luke has my wonderful dolphin christmas sweater that
thing that he's wearing the best dolphin christmas sweater ever and i have what i
think is probably going to be our most popular t-shirt design ever good reason
too it's both rocking the keep on digging shirts
yeah and then truthfully i actually have a horrible christmas sweater too so it's
it's getting to be that time of year and uh here we go yeah oh yeah
shark christmas so start christmas and dolphin so i
think obviously the first thing we're going to talk about on the show today is
sharks versus dolphins who is superior
uh well i think sharks would be more superior in like a
physical aggressive kind of matter
and then dolphins are more superior in like the logic and apparently sex kind
of matter better at sex well aren't they aren't
they the only other mammal that has sex for five i think this is the fa no i
think it's pigs actually i think this is the pigs have half an hour
fun times but i don't think they actually do it for like recreation
now we're gonna have to consult the twitch chat because if there's anything
i would expect the twitch chat to be an expert on
it would be it would be animal sex oh no
oh man somebody said dolphins can kill sharks maybe but like no one's like oh
no there's a dolphin this is true i was actually hoping you didn't know that uh
dolphins can be can be a big problem if they if they get aggressive because
they're uh they're super powerful that's why the whenever you go like swimming
with dolphins you only swim with the female dolphins yes you don't send the male dolphins because they'll wreck you
uh okay we've got a lot of people saying that they're right luke's right dolphins
have sex for pleasure apparently
okay i don't know if twitch chat knows as much as they think they know dolphins
kill more people a year than sharks and rape them um i'm thinking that's not
actually what happens it's possible they kill people
it's the second part that i'm a little uncertain about there's there's yeah i'm
not gonna get into it but there's there's some stuff for that second one
yeah i'm sure there's i'm sure there's an incident
but um anyways moving on we have some pretty cool topics this week that don't
have to do with sharks or dolphins actually like not at all yeah
christmas dolphins um so some cs go vac pros uh cs go pros got vac banned there
we go i got vac pros pros what um anyways
we'll talk about that more later gopro
cs gopro and it's like a little dude with a deagle but it's absolutely just
and now that we've started this it's only a matter of time until some like
counter terrorist agent starts is that is that me hey hey
it's only a matter of time until some light counter terrorism agent starts
wearing a gopro on all his apps cs gopro
just becomes youtube sensation immediately anyways also
bittorrent is introducing some possible if you want them to be their pay gates
which pay a lot more to the contributing artist than most other services
dell's 5k monitor is rumored to be
coming in at a much lower price than we had originally anticipated i'm guessing
they got somewhat surprised by apple's pricing of the imac
retina 5k and then origin pc it looks like i'm
assuming i actually don't know if it's going to be a limited
time offer but it sounds like it for their fifth anniversary they are going
to be selling their cases both the mid tower um and the full tower
stand alone so you don't actually have to buy an origin pc in order to get that
pretty fantastic genesis and millennium
case that allows your motherboard to be oriented five different five different
ways four different ways there is no additional dimension that the case
creates it goes like flat and
you you don't have the side panel and it just comes side panels off so it's like kind of a
test bench but not really and if you got it going fast enough you could probably
get it flying case put jets on the back and put
some little case wheels on the bottom and just hope it works people are complaining about the background noise
the window's open because it's hot in here and we're wearing christmas sweaters because tis the season to sweat
buckets because we're in bc so there's no snow
oh yeah
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we have done a few i guess if we like throw shirts out
yeah actually okay i have done clothing giveaways i've um
i have actually thrown shirts at events yeah yeah mainly the paintball one yeah
yeah and and at ncix events oh i've i've
thrown many shirts actually okay so okay that is potentially not the biggest
clothing giveaway i have purchased no i think it would i think it
still would be if you argue that a swag shirt is only worth the actual cost of
printing it and with the swag shirts like if you caught
four of them it's not
really yeah it's not a wardrobe no
unless your name is luke well yes but then i do have different ones of all
my swag shirts you would wear two of the same one
probably i do have two the same one they would both be in the rotation they are
you know the uh the the like teal blue twitch shirt yes i have two of those
okay i like that shirt that doesn't surprise you it's good i'm glad you have
two because you'd probably just wear it twice as often if you didn't have two
and then you'd smell all right let's uh get into our first uh
our first topic of the day so this was posted by tank slayer on the forum and
there's actually a lot of different sources for this one including talkandroid.com but that's the one we're
gonna fire up here excuse me it's actually x
tank slayer x yeah i don't care so so one plus
not solving issues with defective devices ignoring rma requests now the
article has been updated with oneplus statement that they are working on uh
growing their team and expanding their capacity for for customer service
related stuff but that doesn't change that some
of these testimonials are
pretty pretty condemning so know what they could do to completely solve this
problem they should just have their rma system
like a lottery so you get invites
to be able to rma your phone so like you you sign up on their website
oh wow you have to phone warranty lottery yeah so your
serial number just gets assigned an arbitrary warranty period so some people
get like a 10 year warranty on their phone and others get like 48 hours
and it just averages out to you could you advertise a one-year warranty on
your phone it's an average if it was an average warranty someone gets like a 100
year warranty and everyone else gets a couple hours and they just hope that that dude just throws the phone away
after a while yeah so it's no secret that we're not huge fans of the way
oneplus has conducted themselves since their inception uh not very long ago um
it's amazing how many people send me one
invites i have some people just email them to me without even asking if i want
them and i'm just like do you have any idea how many of these i've gotten if i
wanted a oneplus one i'd have bought one by now it's really not that hard to get
an invite if you really want one um especially especially now where they're
not only accepting invite um invite customers but they're even
opening it up for pre-orders from time to time whenever they do production runs
at the oppo factory so anyway what happened was i used her on reddit stated
that he was being helped to fix his audio issues and when a flash of his
phone did not help customer service apparently ignored his rma request and
after 11 days he posted his concerns on reddit so the statement from oneplus is
we prioritize the experience of our users above our else our team is growing rapidly to etc etc etc etc um if you
guys want to discuss this more actually the thread on Linus tech tips forum is
one of the more um i don't know just generally it's a
really really good it's a really good thread people being very respectful having
balanced discussion bringing lots of fat look at look at look at ghost he's all
on top of it it's awesome it's a bot yeah look bought
how does that work so when you post something specifically when your account
posts something and then it has http colon slash slash in it that bot will
just nuke how do i not know about these things
because ghost is awesome because like i i've been spamming it and you guys
didn't tell me well it's fairly new
yeah ghost got really tired of me not instigating like an actual chatbot
so he was like i'ma just make my own so he did good job
you are the man and like the best part is that i'm not
gonna go over like all the different things that it does but certain things that it does are drastically better than
all the free bots out there and are like reasons why i've been holding off
because i'm like oh they just suck right so yeah he solved those two cool kind of
great all right let's move into our next topic well this is cool that me this
means there's actually a point in me posting things like the source links for
the stuff that we're about to talk about oh and it didn't it doesn't have an http cool inside it does that
it does it does bowls well all right it didn't work that time ghost you are
hereby no it did something else you are hereby uh deducted one internet cookie
but it's okay because you earned six interesting pieces this is the last thing you did
all right so this is key size kiss
this was posted by dismo on the forum i'm gonna go ahead and pop this up on my
screen here anyway i'm sorry why does it have a cooldown
you can only do it once every 90 seconds oh all right then um oh it's probably so
if you spam the crap out of it probably to keep me from getting banned there we
go okay banning myself all right so this
i mean i think the headline is a little bit sensationalist um mr eric mcbride
over at Android authority i don't think that kiss connectivity will make chords
obsolete but i do
agree that i mean if kissing made chords obsolete
what would we need the internet for you could just kiss girls in real life
well i guess or boys yeah whichever anyway the point is that
this is we don't really have a ton of confirmation about exactly how the heck
it works but what they have said still wouldn't solve long-distance
relationships i'm sorry long distance okay the connectors used
in kiesa's wireless kiss connectivity are currently able to transfer up to six
gigs of data per second to put this in
perspective the latest wi-fi standard can handle up to 1.35 gigs a second and
that's very theoretical i've never seen it go anywhere near that fast and that's
using a bridge or like a like a media a media bridge
and a high-speed router as opposed to a router and then the kinds of weak sauce
clients that typically people are using so this they showed off transferring a
1080p movie file although we don't
actually have confirmation of the exact size of the file but i would guess it's
in the given that it did it in five seconds i would guess that it was in the
six gigs range but it could be anywhere from two and a half to twelve gigs um
and that would translate to 512 megabytes per second to 24.57 megabytes
per second which is just bananas did it hold on a
second no i did the math wrong there it should have been 10 seconds to be
whatever the speed i said was okay anyway somewhere between 512 megabytes
to 24.57 and it can only do it a couple of
millimeters away right now so we're not talking about like
you know i'm just like this and i'm like bippity boopy boop and it goes over to
his phone you know as fast as a usb 3
wired connection we're talking about more like an nfc touch style and like
make sure you get it aligned just right yeah kind of arrangement
the initial demo of the technology was by their ceo eric allmgren and they
claim that um
no i already said that so whoa no yeah it was touchscreen um so i i
don't know what else there's to really say about this other than the one big problem is that it doesn't
use any kind of existing technology like one of the ways that we've seen nfc file
transfers before in the past is things like and i'm holding up an iphone haha
nfc derp i can pay for things yeah thank you um so one of the ways we've seen nfc
file transfers implemented in the past is with an nfc handshake and then a
direct wi-fi connection for example whereas kiss connectivity is not going
to rely on any kind of existing connection it will need a dedicated chip
just for this although it looks like they're already in the process of
working with a couple of large oems um dell is probably going to be one of them
given that one of their devices was used for the demo and then samsung and Intel
are also investors so that's already some pretty heavyweight players
even if just samsung rolls it out that is a huge chunk of the smartphone market
that could be enabled with this technology i'd like to see it in palm rests of laptops yes did you read my
comment and steal it
that was that was going to be my whole thing that i was going to actually be able to talk about i put a i put an
additional bolt see i'm not going to put bullet points in
the dock anymore i put it in it goes Linus's thought integrated into laptops
question mark because you know what would be great integrated laptop you
know what congratulations for your good idea thank you you did good you were
insightful i was actually thinking about uh that i want to talk about this topic
next yes sure we can do that um i was actually thinking we might get more into
that on after party or okay you know what we can get more
into on after party sure let's do it during the show but maybe not quite next
sure um so so yeah integrated into laptops like right now one of the big
problems with phones that faster wireless connectivity could fix is that
you're either running around for a cable and using the old stupid traditional
folder-based file transfer technique or you're using something that's inherently
slow like you're backing up to dropbox herb derp i'm holding up an iphone again
uh excuse me i mean airdrop
to all of my other apple devices that i don't have all my friends who use apple
who actually don't to my iphone 4 that actually doesn't support airdrop
every time i'm like oh yeah i'll just use airdrop for this nope
nope not at all nope nope so um yeah i
guess that's pretty much it let's talk snapcash
this is interesting i did not see this one coming so
everyone knows what snapchat is you send picture messages to people in theory
they're deleted i had finger quotes
i had finger quotes i said in theory i think that pretty much covers so in
theory plus finger quotes means like totally not at all
we need a shirt that says that
totally not at all in quotes
um so snapcash uses square cash so if
you guys have heard of square um i actually signed up for square back when
they first started up basically it was just a little dongle that plugged into your phone so that you could so anyone
could accept credit card transactions with a very reasonable interchange fee
or or additional charge on top of it i actually i've never seen that in canada
but multiple places when i was going around europe was using square
so where cash is just more like uh more
more debit cardy okay so square square okay well hold on
hold on hold on square cash on its own is you just key in your debit card and
then it's more for like peer-to-peer transfers so you wouldn't expect to walk
into a restaurant and have them accept square cash and you just kind of go you
know bippity boopity in my app and you send it to to that person who then gets
a notification that um that they have been sent money
and they can accept it so that's more for like you know you're meeting with someone you know behind the alley to
trade computer parts
i mean i wouldn't use an electronic if i was buying drugs i wouldn't use anything
electronic but if you're buying computer hardware
it's all good can you not whatever you're about to say can you not silk
road what silk road okay okay i wouldn't use square i
wouldn't use my debit card can we say that much sure okay so square stores
your debit card information securely they say i don't haven't verified that
but they store it securely and then you can just use it so i've heard of people
using it for things like tip splitting when they're out for dinner it's like
hey i don't have any cash someone's got a credit card someone else
squares them some money awesome so okay so
all the credit card stuff is stored by square or snapchat not credit card yet
dedic okay all that information is stored by square or snapchat uh if you
use square cash square and i believe with snapchat it is going to be snapchat
but don't quote me on that one either there's not a ton of information about
this yet and honestly this is posted by king daddy daniel on the forum by the
way and i'll post the original article from techcrunch right here honestly um
the most information is in their hilarious video that has a bunch of
dancers running around and you know it's it's it's probably worth us just firing
up on the show because it's pretty funny what it's very
very over the top let's just go ahead and screen share here
okay
um oh that's weird
well i guess we don't get any audio but whatever he says buy this can you send
me some cash so the way it works is instead of relying on a dedicated
financial app you just use snapchat you type in a dollar amount and slow motion
for dramatic there you go the button turns green and you just send cash boom
just like that if the other person doesn't have it set up then it'll prompt
them to set it up oh my god and yeah so this is this is the
the video which is hilarious
um it involves a lot more dancing it it goes on for way too long it's over two
minutes long so this is going to be like the easiest way to steal money from
friends wow i see this end up i i see this end
up being terrible you always look at things from like this like dark dark but
you have people what evil people will do with it whereas i'm like you have to oh
this is such a cool way to be like you know bro here's 10 bucks for the lunch
you just got for me yeah bro at a frat party everyone passes out bro walks
around because he wasn't drinking and goes to everyone's phone and just snapchats himself hundreds of dollars
okay so the but okay let's let's let's do let's
do let's do benefits and drawbacks analysis okay so easy to steal yeah
extremely i would say benefit is if you do send someone out to buy something for
you you no longer need to give buddy your pin
or your credit card which is something that which is something oh come on you're going to use
paypal for that why not
why would they have paypal well everyone has paypal do they i don't
know anyone who doesn't have paypal my mom has it my grandpa has it i don't
think i have a personal paypal account really yeah
you're weird i have a company paypal account my wife has a paypal account i
do not have a paypal account what would i need it for
i don't know i'm not going to buy anything with paypal i get rewards on my credit card
and then merchants get to pay for it that's right best buy ceo man who hates
interchange fees that withdrawing money from your card into paypal still count
as so you'd still get rewards from your credit card
i can't remember i can't remember not anyway i have no
idea okay the point is if this is much faster it is much faster there okay so
and and and you say paypal but i know
that you've given me your debit card and told me your pin to go buy something for
you that's still easier than this no no no
no this looks legitimately pretty easy assume okay assume now that you're not
20 something and you're no the reason why you actually have snapchat but the
reason why this is not as easy as just giving you a debit card i don't do that
with everybody um god
it's because uh you don't you don't know what the
price is going to be so what like the guy like gets the store
rings to the whole transaction and then calls you and it's like hey they could
come back and be like yo dog it was 1862. and you could boop
me that much yeah i think it i think it's awesome i think the potential to
exploit it is definitely there i think that kids today need to learn to put
pins on their phones um that their friends don't know because the phone is
more and more and more tied into
so many things you can do i mean even apple's way of validating apple pay with
touch id i believe you can also enter a pin so if someone knows the pin of your
phone all of a sudden they can buy things which is a whole other ball of
wax compared to they can like text your friends and be like
no i'm ugly yeah yeah phone pranking post on facebook i
hacked your facebook nah yeah no
not so much all right so court rules this is posted um by tech
dreamer on the forum rules yeah court rules yeah if i fought that then i would
be alone excited me and lawyers so this was uh from this
is from engadget.com and of course i
don't have an http on that one boom engadgetgut.com
um originally posted by tech dreamer and
a u.s court ha in san francisco has ruled that due to the first amendment so
this is freedom of speech predominantly google can arrange and rearrange search
results any way it wants so this is um
this is from a complaint from a
they figured they were a competitor of one of google services that google was
intentionally down ranking them in google search results in order to drive
more exposure to their own services and
basically this ruling it doesn't it doesn't rule
out google being attacked for this in other regions or by other by other
companies but what it does do is it sets a precedent that google can now point to
and say well hey it was already ruled that we're allowed to arrange our search
results however we want so
yeah that's how like referencing different
chords enjoy that it'd be like google versus whoever um i
just honestly they were already doing it anyway yeah
even whether it was legal or not they were already doing it and they were going to do it forever i mean it is it
is no great secret that when google
launches some new service that everyone hates like google plus then all of a
sudden it's everywhere yeah duh
i don't know i i don't think it's that big of a deal um i think it sounds
a little bit scary but i don't think it's actually going to be they can't
abuse it any worse than they already are really because if they do people will
stop googling things when being the second there's no loyalty to a search
engine in particular the search engine things like their their applications
like their calendar or their email there's there's some loyalty there
because they've managed to drive us as a business to
give them a monthly payment in order to use these services because of how well
integrated they are but for especially something like using a search engine
which is what this complaint is about there is no loyalty if bing starts
returning better search results for me i will switch tomorrow i'd love to use
bing it's just useless i switched from alta vista to google that quickly
because alta vista stopped working and google started doing better
same thing with dog pile like those of you who are who've been using
the internet long enough to remember the pre-google days
there are other search engines it's just that they suck so if google
degrades the quality of their results by prioritizing their own crap aggressively
enough we'll just stop using it and they'll lose their primary source of
income so it's not going to happen i know ask.com is still a thing but like
not really and i remember ask jeeves yeah
was huge yeah i think i went uh altavis
to ask jeez google actually i think was was what i used alta vista used to be
awesome you could find everything there and then it just went to complete
garbage you know it is it is amazing how bad bing is yeah i know every time i
install a new Windows os i think i've told this story before every time i
install a new Windows os i have to use ie until i'm not lazy and i install some
other browser so i'll use ie and the default search engine will be bing
because i'm not going to go through all those other steps to manually change my
search engine and then it's kind of a pain to add it so i'm lazy um and i will
use bing until it infuriates me and it's usually gone within three searches
because it doesn't find anything it doesn't find it yeah i don't know and
like you search the exact name of a product
and it will find you everything else it possibly can yeah then you put that name
in google and the first result is the product page from that from the
manufacturer yeah what am i looking for like some obscure
reference to like it's coming out in six months from some message board from six
months ago no i wanna look at it um
new york this is the coolest thing ever what new york city is awesome to replace
public this was posted by the uncons it's whatever something um so the
original articles are from absolutely everywhere uh so the verge has got an
article uh techcrunch ars technica business
insider i'll post the verge one here because i'm apparently because that's the one i
copied although i'm still mad at them about that really stupid piece they did
on gamergate yeah um it was really stupid but like it was really stupid but
like basically everyone else is really stuff like that too that has talked about it that's true
everyone was stupid yes but the verges
was like late to the party and stupid so they didn't have the advantage of not
having everyone else's stupidity to look at and not follow them off the cliff
like a lemming so there you go yep this is going to be
called linknyc and they will be replacing 10 000 pay phones
who uses payphones with pylons towers posts capable of
providing free public wi-fi at gigabit speeds 24 7. there's also a charging
station for your mobile devices you can call any number domestically in the us
and it features a tablet-like interface that can service that can provide
services like directions it's awesome not paid for with taxpayer money instead
it is advertiser driven and the residential version will not have ads
the project is estimated to bring 500 million dollars of revenue into new york
city in its first 12 years and what a boon for the residents brilliant new
york city planners you guys are awesome your kids are awesome your dogs are
awesome and especially your ideas are awesome mainly your dogs are awesome
they wear rocket packs like they're super stoked when you come home that's
how forward thinking they are yeah
anyways uh i i was when you when you first said ads i i was working before
the show so i didn't have big billboards on the pylon yeah like that's cool i was like oh you're gonna
inject ads in my browser all the time it's gonna suck especially on mobile when you like can't see anything already
but then no that's fine if it's on the side of the thing like it's new york
city yeah stuff
everywhere i don't know if it's gonna really change much it's not confirmed
whether seamless hopping from pylon to pylon will be supported so you may have
to treat it kind of like um a phone booth you know where you actually kind
of have to stand next to it to make a call and then kind of boogie on to the
next place but the and one concern that i have is if you're if you're set up and
depending on the way the pylon works like even if you don't seamlessly roam
if you do if you do a connection hop at all
every mobile os actually i haven't tried blackberry you have so maybe you can
correct me on this in a long time um iOS and Android both of them handle
degraded wi-fi connections extremely poorly and they don't switch over to
mobile data nearly gracefully enough Windows phone does it incredibly well it
goes oh crap this is bad and switches
over to your mobile date mobile data connection so you hardly even notice when you're browsing but that's a big
issue when you're at the fringes of a wi-fi coverage zone so if you were
walking down the street doing something on your phone
then if you reach edges of these pylons all
the time and you're automatically jumping on them it could be very very
disruptive so that's just my one thought on it um
other than that it's it's amazing in every way have you have you used shotgun
wi-fi yeah i have it's surprisingly good yep and i wouldn't be surprised if it worked
something like that yeah so the way that works is the um the the internet
provider that i'm on just by being a customer they have wi-fi hotspots in all
kinds of places like they're all named the same thing and
they're all open so you automatically connect and then there's like a web sign
in thing but it's really good at remembering your account like really
really good so every single time that it detects this open network your phone
will connect to it and it signs in immediately and it's all fine yeah it's
super cool like even my um um
i don't know what are they what are they called baby doctor
uh whatever the family doctor for uh for my
wife's pregnancies like their waiting room has a has a shaw open hot spot
awesome yeah yeah i guess i won't be using my mobile data right now right
okay uh dell's up
2715k 5k monitor this was rumored to be
coming in at 2500 uh this was posted on the forum by big
streams by the way and the original article is from guru3d.com
but uh i think apple might have forced
dell's hand a little bit here i think dell was really hoping to have you know
um to resurrect the expensive monitor
business that has basically disappeared since 30-inch 2560 by 1600 monitors
can well those never came down in price but the 2560 by 1440 27 inch varieties
did and ever since that business kind of went away it looks like they were trying to resurrect this they wanted 2 500 for
a monitor and then apple turned around and [ __ ] slapped them by giving you a
fairly decent computer attached to that same panel in a beautiful enclosure for
thirty five hundred so
no brainer go for it and you could use that computer as a monitor right
no really the imac there's no functionality for that at all no um
older imacs yes they had some feature i forget what it's
called who cares it's some apple feature um but i wish they just had a display input
but this one uses um so and actually dell's implementation is very different
from apples we'll talk about that in a moment but the apple one uses a custom
wider like it's physically wider and has more pins it is a non-standard
displayport connector interesting that they worked with AMD on presumably uh
in order to drive that panel as a single tile display so what that means is
there is no input right that could drive it yeah
all right then yeah so i get it yeah and i understand that it is better to have a
single tile display so you don't see that weird tearing we have one dual tile
display in the office and it's not an ideal solution
um but dell's is gonna be a dual tile display so it'll use two displayport
inputs because displayport 1.3 isn't here yet and it'll have um okay here i guess i
might as well just do a general spec i don't know if i would move up yet then a
5120 by 2880 resolution with eight millisecond graded gray response times a
thousand to one contrast ratio 350
uh hold on what oh 178 178 viewing
angles so basically basically anywhere you would ever be looking at
the screen it's got a double anti-reflective coating to allow more light to pass through the glass in the
panel features an anti-smudge coating to help wipe away fingerprints uh 99 RGB
100 srgb color space and calibrated with
a delta color delta e of less than two
12-bit internal processing so it's a 12-bit lookup table and the panel is
10-bit so it would be potentially useful
for folks who use adobe applications on quadro or
um crap fire pro cards
um and they want to work in 10-bit color although the workflow is
still fairly broken and yeah
so yeah i guess there's not really much
else to say about it other than i don't think it makes a ton of sense i was
gonna say i don't i don't personally think it's ready i don't know if i would jump yet if i wanted a 5k monitor i
don't think this would be it if Windows
uh is able to start scaling better that's a big problem then this would be
actually i would see this as the way to go for
productivity applications versus media consumption because it is exactly four
times 2560 by 1440 so the scaling could
be relatively simple that's one of the reasons that it speculated that apple
went with 5k as opposed to 4k or ultra
hd excuse me for the imac retina
because really you didn't need to go 5k on that to make it retina like it's
overkill it's insanely sharp yeah um
but the flip side of that argument is that
5k is not going to be as good for content consumption because you are
going to get interpolation because you're going to be running any movie
content at a non-native res and there will be no 5k content anytime soon so
upscaling from 1080p to 4k has that advantage of being exactly four times
excuse me two times the resolution four times the pixel count um and then
scaling to 5k is just sort of sort of a random arbitrary amount more than that
so there you go i see 5k
as the creator resolution and i see 4k as the consumer resolution but we're a
long way away from either of them really being practical in Windows because of
the way that ui elements scale so poorly so so so poorly not good at all
and that was kind of uh almost like sad seeing you work on your
mac knowing that it's 5k and like it's fine
yeah i know right now it looks gross it does i'm like damn it like every single
time we hook up a 4k monitor to a computer i'm like this is unusable like
it looks so stupid and then you turn on the scaling and it's like
now just some things are unusual yeah yeah it's like this is still super
stupid what are you doing oh it's really frustrating oh
we've got scopopex on twitch chat saying
letterbox equals no weird
interpolation come on man you're gonna buy a 5k
monitor and then you're going to run black bars on all sides of your content
are you kidding me that's even worse
i would rather i would rather have approximations
than gigantic black bars all across all around the content
speaking of black bars all around the content this was originally posted by
sephiroth on the forum origin pc to sell
copy link url sorry i'm just copying the link for you guys i'm trying to make a better habit of this black bars better
job doing this they're going to be selling their millennium and genesis
cases stand alone this is something that
i i okay we asked for actually yeah lots of people asked for it because it's a
cool case so check this out guys um have you ever
called up a boutique pc builder and
asked them to buy their case because i have never called up a boutique pc
builder okay i did it once when um here i'm just gonna i'm just
gonna fire it up here alienware star wars
uh that's the drive cages on these cases are badass by the way
there we go this is this is the one
i called alienware and asked them if i could buy one
that was back when alienware's case was actually a reasonably
quote unquote cool design i was younger and vinyl wraps were not nearly as
common or as accessible and i thought this was a stunning piece of star wars
artwork that i would happily put my computer inside even though i had a
better actual case like a better designed
better laid out case at the time i thought that limited edition one
was worth it and i know a lot of people asked for voodoo pc to sell their
modified lien leak standalone it was a very beautiful case
but uh origins is is really cool as well so the neatest thing about them
is that and this is part of their five-year anniversary celebration the
neatest thing about them is that you can mount your motherboard in whatever
orientation you want so we'll go ahead and fire up their video here
this is such a slick video
they're just showing off yep
so right side up upside down facing up either which way whatever you
prefer and then their their drive drive mounting system is absolutely drive
cages are sick sick um they've got a they've got an add-on thing that you can
put underneath it so you can add more drive cages or more rads
really cool case and uh i don't know how much they're charging for it but 3.99
and 4.99 not sure if you want the or wait no no
399 and 449 there we go not cheap um not
out of the question either i believe the 449 one it says it's like the full tower
or whatever i think it's just the add-on on the bottom and the same case on top
yeah i'm pretty sure yep but yeah they're pretty sick i got to
see them at what was that e3 i think i first saw one back at um
ces that was when they launched it yeah yeah NVIDIA had it in their booth yeah and uh
yeah i thought it was pretty cool they're cool all right so why don't we actually do our why don't we do our
sponsors all right in a timely manner for a change last few
weeks i've like completely forgotten about it well that's 5.50 let's cover
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yelling at people yelling at people is not a skill well
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that makes you actually hike as far as you have to hike in that bloody game by
the time you got an epic mount
you'd be great if you mount up you have to run
like so if you if you get 100 speed mount you would have to run 100 faster
than you normally would be moving so if you get like a flying mount you're
just like full out sprinting so no one would even want mounts anymore the value
would plummet it would cause an economic crisis
more crap to why the walk button would be used so much
more because i wouldn't want to go slowly the whole game would come to a grinding
hole if you had like if you had like a noclip hack and you were just sitting
above the world you just see like these entire towns of people
walking like this that's the middle of a fight and it's
like i can't get away from this scorpion cuz i'm too tired don't stand in the
fire i'm too tired to move i have to stand in the fire heal me heal
me i'm just gonna i'm gonna stay right here in the middle of this area of
effect spell it'll be fine just deal with it
um okay so on to our next one we should
make that video game so it can fail oh kickstarter yeah
yeah okay so our next sponsor is 5'4 club and we are this is more of a
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offline last time is what a cool thing
for a college student yeah if you could like show up it's like your
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having to go to a store and feel like everyone is judging you whenever you try things on that aren't cool which is what
i do yeah this is what happens when we shop
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there you go problem solved oh geez okay so shall we tackle how
shall we tackle that big topic now which big topic the like our big topic our big
topic okay sure okay let's let's know how you want to do this but you go to
town okay so we recently launched our
our crowdfunding campaign we had talked about this online show before how we're
going to be moving into a new office and some people have been extremely
receptive and we've actually got over is that is that right
since we started the show it's gone up that much
well remember it's being manually updated right okay so it might even be
more than and that's the canadian value yeah that's fine i know yeah okay it'll
be a little bit more than that some of you have been have been awesome you've
been incredibly supportive um whether you've actually contributed the campaign
or not you've been supportive of the idea um some of you have raised some
objections to it raised some concerns voiced some concerns something some
objections there have been objections so what i said on twitter uh this morning
was that i would try to address what i thought were the most common objections
here on WAN Show today and then what we'll do is i'll commit to do a short
after party with you guys where we'll do some uh some twitter and twitch interactions
so you guys can let me know if there's anything that you're still concerned about so
question number one why don't you guys have lower contribution tiers like a
dollar the answer is right now everything is going through paypal and
for very small transactions their proportion of the payment is actually
much higher especially for something as small as a dollar so rather than
encouraging the members of our community who can least afford it the people who
can only afford to give a dollar to basically give money to paypal i would
just assume you guys keep it and support us in some other way by like say for
example watching videos you don't have to give us money yeah watching videos
describing liking disliking posting on a forum having a forum account
all of that is is more helpful than padding paypal's pockets as far as i'm
concerned um question number two your stretch targets are ridiculous why are
they so high the answer is you're right they were ridiculous they were much
higher than they should have been initially and a big part of the reason for that is we weren't really sure how
much momentum the campaign would have like we didn't know if it was going to
be overwhelming outpouring of support or if it was going to completely go nowhere
and we didn't want to trap ourselves by putting ourselves in a situation where
all of a sudden we've got to hit every stretch stretch target commitment in
like a week or something like that so now that we can see how things are
tracking we have completely rearranged the stretch targets to make
them much more realistic and much more attainable in fact the first one has
already been achieved we have finally fixed luke's twitter handle on the lan
show yes and it's possible that the second one has actually been achieved
already it's possible that more have been achieved there's a slight problem
thank you sorry i have to interject here for a little bit thank you mr wizard
there's like no way that anything would be even remotely running right now if it
wasn't for mr wizard like not even close so i just want to put that out there um
thanks mr wizard and the the problem
lord wizard from now on lord wizard uh
or the wizard the the problem is the call that we're making to get the amount
raised dollar value doesn't take into account uh money that is pending okay so
we can't get the actual value so we're currently hard coding that just so you
guys know like overnight or something if it doesn't move for a really long time
it's not it's not because we're not counting your donations it's because
gotta sleep for a little bit wake up and then we'll manually update it all right
question number three aren't you guys a business why aren't you seeking investment or taking out a loan the
answer is because some of you want to help us nope that's the wrong answer yes
we are business but those of you savvy enough to figure out these types of
business strategies should also be savvy enough to know that moving into a much
larger space is going to cost a lot more than 50 000
our goal for the campaign even in the short term so we're exploring every
avenue necessary to grow and keep delivering the best content we can
regardless of how much we raised during this campaign and then the question
number four then is sulim why are you asking for money at all and the answer
is because some of you want to help us in this way we've done campaigns like
this before with similar rewards things like badges on the forum and people have
said that they're happy to be able to contribute in this way in fact a lot of
people don't like the recurring contributor system that funds the forum
and prefer something that's a one-shot deal the last time we did this was over
a year ago so it's not like we're turning around and running a new
crowdfunding campaign every other month or anything like that it's something
that we have been asked for so for those people who do want to help us out like
this then we want to send our gratitude and to everyone else i mean we're still
grateful because every contribution even one view on a video counts the thing to
realize here is this is all optional we're not holding our content hostage
we're not saying we're gonna stop making
tech videos if we don't hit this goal nothing happens if we don't hit the goal
it's just if you guys want to contribute if you want to see some of the cool
stretch targets then go ahead and contribute to the campaign or don't it's
fine it's cool like we're still cool it's all good
um yeah travis just sent me fire in all capital
letters and i'm like what he's like things are on fire i know what you did
you announced oh my god
um so next question is why do you guys have any cool physical rewards and this
actually ties into the last one we're asking for money so we can move
into a bigger space hire more people and make better content not so we can sell
you a bunch of stickers t-shirts and hats if you want to contribute to Linus
media group by buying a t-shirt then go buy a t-shirt we have t-shirts
we don't need to do a campaign for that um so on both of our
web shops we have a variety of different shirts the usual complaint about the web
shops when people say well i'd like to buy a t-shirt except is omg the shipping
is so expensive to which i'd reply well then i guess you figured out why
physical merchandise would basically kill any possibility
from this campaign of this campaign funding a move the cost doesn't go away
because it's a special crowdfunding t-shirt so out of that let's say a 25
reward tier i'd say is pretty typical for a t-shirt actually on the high end
we'd still be paying eight dollars a shirt because we do all of our shirts on american apparel and up to another 13
more for international shipping and we're in canada so we don't even get
cheap domestic shipping to the us and people were people were wondering
too about like like science stuff that's even way worse because we'd have to give
it get it shipped over the border to us and then back over the border somewhere
we actually wanted i mean and these are it's not like these aren't ideas we've
had we wanted to do signed posters um we had them printed they're here but the
problem is that the design didn't end up looking good at all so we canned it but
it is something that we do plan to do at some point it's just when we're doing a
physical merchandise thing we we don't plan the idea of this is for us to be
funding making better and more content for you guys not to fund us sitting in
the new office um you know packing boxes
to ship t-shirts all over the world or whatever else and yes that's a bit of an
exaggeration because you could get a service to do that but then again you're spending even more of the money on
having a service take care of it for you yeah um which leads us to the last
question i don't want to contribute because investing in a company without
any roi is stupid i want to be a stakeholder to which i would reply we
don't want stakeholders and i suspect neither do the people who are
contributing to the new office expansion the closest thing that we actually have
to direct backers for our company if we had stakeholders and all of a sudden
there might be pressure to start paying dividends instead of using that money on
responsible things like new gear and sets and employees uh we'd be
potentially accountable for the kind of content we're making to some random that
the community has never even met um people are contributing the ones that
are contributing because they want me in charge not some shadow lurking in the
background potentially pulling strings so we've stayed away from investment
other than this crazy person investing everything um because it is a scary
concept of other people having control over the company so we're not really
interested in that and i can't emphasize that enough by the way here's the link
to the to the campaign um i can't emphasize enough
that just because we're crowdfunding this
doesn't mean that i'm not personally invested and that we're not reinvesting
the company's profits into it it's not like i mean you guys i think
see that you know it's not like i actually
drive a lambo i i don't actually just
blow all my money on frivolous crap like we're trying to do something here we're
trying to make more and better content all the time and i hope you guys do
genuinely see that um and right now
being in a kitchen is just not the right way for us to to move forward
with this so so that's where we're at
yeah i just yeah i have to give a shout out again to mr
wizard for being awesome we were both up to ridiculous hours of the morning last
morning this morning last night this morning anyways um he had like three
hours of sleep before he went to work and i think he's at work right now so hi mr wizard you're probably not watching
because you're probably busy working um but yeah so anyway we uh we made the the
big the big thing here is i think we we made the reward tiers a lot more fun
super fun and a lot more attainable so we're like 400 bucks away from releasing
the original stormtrooper rap audio something that a lot of people asked for
and i said would never happen but luke and nick insisted
uh WAN Show made up as girls comes another three thousand after that uh
luke does a Linus tech tips video under fire i'm actually so excited so we get
to throw stuff at him the entire time he's filming
Linus does the Linus tech tips video in upper body paint that the entire rest of
the company gets to draw on him and design um Channel Super Fun comes 22 uh
2200 or 2500 after that and is going to
be our video where luke and i each get the remotes for shot callers that each
other wears for an entire day so it's going to be the most aggressive day or
the like most kind and polite day yeah
ever really not sure which way it's going to go with that but basically
we think we fixed it i'll stick around for after party and i'll talk with you
guys if you still have some concerns and let's go from there but for now i think
we've spent enough time during and let's move on to
oh oh balls oh um uh awkward
uh yeah there we go let's move on to keep on digging our
ubisoft segment of the week ubisoft room
actually oh no that one's that one's good i'm actually gonna move that lower
third when i talk about the next one this is updated in real time okay cool
in real time now like it's like oh just now yeah oh okay so we're like 150 bucks
away from stormtrooper in real wizard time and yes we're like 150 bucks away
from stormtrooper all right so ubisoft says they will improve assassin's creed
unity performance they still don't seem to be actually acknowledging what the
problems were this was originally posted by that cool blue kid on the forum and
the original articles are from assassinscreed.ub.com and kitguru.net
i think i'm going to go with the kit guru link for you guys since uh
since it's not necessary not a uv page
basically they plan the following revisions streamlining some technical
aspects of navigation so they've this is
really funny i love the way they word this we've fixed a number of edge cases
with our detection system to smooth certain behaviors during parkour we've
fixed a few objects which were improperly tagged to smooth navigation
okay because that was the only problem people had with the game i guess and
edge cases no we're not talking edge cases guys we're talking performance
issues across the board all right next
up uncertain edge improved task of scheduling we've tuned the way the
computing tasks are prioritized and paralyzed by the processor cores to
improve frame rate in certain edge cases parallelized
okay and then tweaking performance for reach high points we've optimized the
reach high points during the camera swooping sequence to improve frame rate
a little bit and they're saying crowd size does not affect frame rate and is
not the issue i don't think anyone was saying crowd size with the issue because
honestly the models are not that detailed compared to
come on like anything i mean they're detailed compared to like
rome total war
but again i i can't say this enough you're losing to
freaking cod okay so the models aren't aren't that
detailed in the first place i mean but they in their own in their own
promotional materials and their own statements they're saying what was it
notre dame alone was how many polygons
yeah i don't remember it all but it was a crazy amount polygons
all the buildings are absolutely insane and that's where the
alleged rumored draw call bottleneck is
occurring not from on-screen characters
uh scaling notre dame i'm sure not on-screen characters aren't exactly easy
yeah but i can't imagine that reducing crowd size wouldn't help to say they
don't affect it is silly yeah but to to
to think that that's the problem yeah as i don't think correct either no
all right so uh it would be nice if they just had a slider where you could just
control crowd size so you're like hey done
that was it for keep on digging uh let's move into something ubisoft did that i
personally like ubisoft removes field of view controls
in some far cry 4 torrents i just thought that was funny this was posted
by in mcgorr on the forum and the original article we have here is from
gamespot.com so i'll go ahead and post that but certain far cry turrets contain
an error which removes the game's field of view controls alex hutchinson a
creative director at ubisoft montreal wrote on twitter pc players if you're
online complaining about the lack of fov control
you pirated the game uh in september electronics are
electronic arts placed a bug into pirated copies of sims 4 where the image
becomes increasingly pixelated this is not the first time we've seen a strategy
like this and personally i really i really like it because
i really liked the um what is it like game game
game creation simulator a game tycoon or something yeah but not everyone can like
include that game with their game or something like where the where the game you fail
and your company goes bankrupt because because of piracy yes that was the best
and like no i know and of course not everyone can do something like that i just thought that one was super good
what i like about this this strategy is how realistic it is
instead of going okay our drm is unbreakable
instead of even bothering to say that they just go okay we're gonna put drm in
we're gonna at least get around like and to to imagine that drm doesn't stop some
pirates is stupid it's stupid you're stupid go be stupid
somewhere else because drm does stop some pirates the problem is that it also
interferes with regular players and i think you could make arguments for it
getting being gotten rid of it all but this
is not a draconian drm scheme in and of
itself i'm not saying the game doesn't have drm so just hold just i'm just i'm
hold on i'm i'm trying to bring up a different thing the digging thumbnail is
coming back okay okay okay it's coming back for ubisoft but what i like about
little bugs like this is that they're realistic they accept that people are
going to pirate the game and what they do is instead of trying to stop them
brute force they create social pressure on pirates to shame them into not
pirating the game and the thing about putting in a bug like this especially
one that appears later on in the game is that you're not punishing the guys who
really did download it pirate it as a demo and then
buy it if they liked it to play it you are punishing the guys who didn't pay
for it and are playing through it you're punishing the people who actually did
enjoy it enough that they really want to keep playing it badly enough that they
really want that fov slider and you are making them come out and say
i'm using this i didn't pay for it and i'm going to go and be a customer about
it i'm gonna actually lodge a complaint i'm gonna actually
have this company spend money answering
my question when i didn't even have
when i didn't even have the respect to pay for the game right and i'm playing
it short so i like that yeah i think i think it's cool having
that little easter egg stuff by the way we just hit our uh rap goal thing
oh lordy so the release original stormstream rap audio is uh that goal
has been made um i have taryn working on
um updating the WAN Show soundcloud account
for an audio version of WAN Show right now so i figure we can release that on
that soundcloud account so i'll i'll tweet that out tonight i'm
going to see if i can do like playlists on soundcloud
because i wouldn't necessarily want that rap audio right in the middle because a
lot of people would listen you could release it on the forum yeah that would be dude why don't we
release it on the phone yeah um
i'll see if i can find it right now do you want to do you want to cover the the next ubisoft i put to keep on digging
sure i oh oh this isn't necessarily something else i just wanted to talk
about the the uh oh sorry this is your stuff never
mind okay yeah yeah oh
it's like a pretty much sure should i put the dirt back sure um okay it's like
in pretty much everyone that uses drm thing you are saying that to say that
drm doesn't stop some pirates is wrong that's false
you're right but you're not stopping
the people that are just downloading the game really because there's gonna be one
group of people that gets through and cracks it and makes it so it's just an
executable and then releases it so you'll stop a couple different teams
from getting it one will make through and it won't make any difference some
games are still more complicated than just running and executing not most anymore
that's true but some are especially
multiplayer games are quite a bit more complicated well in a lot of cases yeah
but then a lot of times they ignore the multiple game stuff like i don't know
how it works but i'm assuming right now with far cry 4 you don't get access to
the multiplayer part if you pirate it i would assume that i probably just get the single player part
um yeah the only time i've heard of like
cracked multiplayer stuff you play on your own private server
which is usually kind of lame i really didn't want to release this stupid rap
thing right uh and you know what i actually i think there's going to be
other stretch goals that you really don't necessarily want to do as well so
yeah i think you'll just have to get used to that one i think there's going to be
i'm it's pretty embarrassing um correct
well the reason why i didn't want it to be in that WAN Show soundcloud is
because you're listening to wancho and then all sudden it's like do you know
bleep about swag yeah blah blah blah terrible rap song pretty terrible i
really i really didn't want because the filter was what i kind of you guys are
taking away his auto tune what was what kind of made it okay for me
but now it's just pretty embarrassing so i'm i'm throwing i'm emailing myself the
uh the wave sound right now and then i'll i'll see if maybe we'll we'll play
it on after party yeah let's let's play it on after party
when we're doing the uh the q a and then we'll make it available for download on
the forum if you guys really want it
all right all right let's move into our next drm topic not related to ubisoft so
the keep on digging uh lower third can go away this was originally posted by
someone on the forum my browser is just where are we looking what is it it's
further down
there we go denuvo drm degrades ssds
this is supposed to buy ah ming on the forum and it's from gamemeg.ru
dot roo so games like lord of the fallen fifa 15
and unfortunately dragon age inquisition um are affected by this it's ea time
again yeah it's ea butter jelly time ea
butter jelly
um you know what's weird is i think that was probably more popular than the
badger badger song but i hear people reiterating badger
badger more than that that was early internet days like
it wasn't as good of a song no but you're better better so it's a lot more
catchy yeah anyway so it's not like it's gonna instantly
kill your SSD but users are reporting significant
increases in the rights on their ssds while running these games and it is
being attributed to the de nuvo drm
scheme up to around 30 gigabytes of data every 40 minutes in very small bits of
code that's insane now to be clear
ssds um are not as fragile as they used
to be and as a lot of people seem to think they are in fact tech report has
an excellent ongoing article i would like to find it to link it to you guys
right now but chrome completely crashed the greatness of the stormtrooper rap
crashed chrome so um
so i would i'd love to link that to you guys but uh basically they've taken i
think it was about a half a dozen consumer grade ssds and just put them on
a bench where they're being written to constantly and then monitored so every
once in a while they take them off the bench and see if they're still working and they all go way
past their rated write speeds which is already way more than most people are going to
write to it but 30 gigs per 40 minutes we can
extrapolate that to 45 gigs per hour for a game that you could potentially log a
hundred hours on game like dragon egg and aging position i logged a hundred
dollars easy on origin yeah
not origin i hate origin love origins
i don't know if it's gonna be quite as big of a game but it'll still be a very
expensive like it's going to take a while for sure
yeah um but that is still a completely unnecessary
thing to do that damages the computer hardware that the
game is installed on and i do not approve of that whatsoever that's so fun
all right what else we got here we got lots of great topics still this week
there's the wow thing there's the counter strike thing oh let's do the
counter strike thing okay how much do you know about this because this is very
much an in development story right now yeah so you guys will have to forgive us
if we're a little bit behind the eight ball or
forgive us if we're a little bit behind and take everything with a grain of salt
because a lot of this right now is kind of speculation speculation
it's speculation that's happening now yeah
there's definitely some weight behind the speculation yeah um but it's still a
lot of speculation now things that aren't speculation is that um two
players from top 20 global pro teams have been vac banned and i believe two
teams have been dropped out of the uh winter dreamhack tournament yeah so
we're talking a quarter million dollar prize
and they have been disqualified for players on their teams
and their teams have kicked those two players out of their respective teams at
this point in time um so they're not trying to back them up or fight it they
got kicked out yeah both players admitted to using uh to using an exploit
i'm gonna call it an exploit as opposed to uh let's just call it a cheat i guess
yeah yeah i mean the way that she was ex was
executed as you could call an exploit uh
theoretically theoretically this is all speculative but again it makes a ton
of sense on a lot of people this has been going around like through the grapevine for a while now that this
might have been happening so the fact that this is now
going on validates that a little bit but the idea
is that they were getting this uh hack
or cheat or whatever exploit whatever you want to call it through the uh what
is it called the steam workshop so even if you're at a quote unquote lan
event which is just where the other team you're playing against is also there and
your team is there you're not just on land you usually have an internet
connection because they're usually streamed um
even at a lan event where you're not using your own computer they would sign
into their own accounts because they want to show off their skins and stuff because it's cs go um and
then the steam workshop would automatically download it onto that
computer so you wouldn't see them like installing anything fishy it would just
happen automatically in the background um and the way it allegedly works it
could be it could be done very very subtly so
for example one of the ones i was talking to ed about earlier today was a
wall hack that all it would do was change the color of one pixel
when there is an opposing character on the other side of a surface so even
someone looking over your shoulder might kind of go
well and then and then move on because if they weren't aware of if they weren't
aware to look for something like that then how could they possibly know or
even stuff like um audio cues
like it could ping an audio cue if you're pointing at someone through a wall so if you do a sweep across a wall
it could ping at you if there's an if there's something there a lot of the guys wear earbuds yep there was uh
allegedly rumoredly speculatedly a panic
button uh one button sort of toggled aim assist all of this is unconfirmed by any
legitimate source it's based on code of the hack briefly posted to reddit um
there's speculation that there was so button toggle vision assist audio cued
vision assist and then button toggled aim assist where all allegedly within
this steam workshop allegedly downloaded
uh hacks so all of this is maybes both okay what's not maybes is both of the
players that were banned so cali spelled
k-q-l-y from titan and sf from epsilon
see these guys are from globally ninth-ranked teams and 19th ranked teams
overall have admitted to using them so
cali released a statement apologizing for the behavior and assuring everyone
that the cheating did not occur in a competitive setting and then epsilon uh
i think alleged uh admitted to using it once and also not in a competitive
setting although that looks like it's been pulled out of the dock since i was
reading it before the show so that might who knows everything is very much in
flux right now but the big discussion here is what do we compare this to
i mean i know no neither cheats were used in a competitive setting it just dropped down so what does it what does
it what does it mean for for csgo's credibility as an esport
it's rough that this made it through i know nick has been talking about like um
hellfire essentially like if this if this gets proven and if like certain
members not necessarily these two but certain very prominent members and he
has very good reasoning for all of this if they get brought out because there's
there's a list that the original guy that got banned posted yep trying to
take a bunch of other guys down with them where he said i think what he was in 95 he said he was 95 sure and
produced a list of other high-level pro players that he thought were cheating
using the same hack yeah so certain members on there specifically the
fanatic guys two of the fanatic guys if if they got called out for actually
doing this and they got vac banned it could cause some serious rifts i mean
pro cycling has not recovered from doping
yeah major league baseball is a joke
because of steroids yeah shooters
have always been a huge problem uh even on console there's hardware hacks you
can do to controllers uh try not allowing people to bring their
controllers to events no they want to use their scuff they want to use their whatever there's approved controllers
for events and you can bring your own and you can hardware hack it you take
the thing apart add in a little bit of the last one i saw was a pcb that you
added in which made it so that you could just hold the trigger down and it would
shoot a semi-automatic uh weapon as fast as it possibly could while keeping it
fairly accurate you just hold the trigger down and it does it properly for
you that's cheating super cheating and that's something you
can do on a console so there's this cheating and shooters cheating is huge
and it's super frustrating it's really annoying as a player just playing
randomly because it happens a lot in lobbies i know yeah i mean imagine if
this is happening professionally where people are actually looking over the
shoulder of the person what's going on with people in their bedrooms playing
the game where mom doesn't care if they're cheating at cs go and think
about the amount of people that are cheating that you're not catching
because they're being very subtle about it yeah compared to that dude that's
like flying around the map insta killing everyone which happened the first day i
tried to play cod which was hilarious um
his name was like 420 blaze at yolo and he killed everyone on the map instantly
and was just flying around i was like wow
you are everything that's wrong with this game
it was fantastic it happened on stream uh anyways like it's it's bad uh i don't
know it's gonna i don't know if it's necessarily going to be the hellfire
that a lot of people are going to be talking about where it's just going to destroy the entire sport because it is
actually really old people have been playing cs go for really long earth's
counter-strike competitively for a really long time not necessarily csgo i
know valve seems to think it's a big deal they're flying's cracking down like
crazy they're flying in four teams to replace the two teams that were
disqualified from dreamhack to do a like a local pre-qualifier which is sick
that's super cool i'm happy they're doing that um i i'm not saying choice
they have to salvage their tournament yeah i know it's true i'm not saying
it's not going to be a big deal i just don't think it's necessarily going to destroy the entire thing um i think it
could seriously uh hamper the massive
growth that they've had over the last little while and could seriously plateau
them for a long time but think about it a little bit the thing about
games that has to grow up is is both
sides the fans are already growing up in
the sense that they're treating it more seriously like oh yeah okay the thing
about this is they were talking about this on um that sports radio station
that i listen to all the time they were talking about it um
when they got acquired by tsn and some of those guys were xtsn guys
from back when tsm started and were now being brought back into the tsn fold so
they were kind of reminiscing about how 30 years ago everyone told them they
were idiots for thinking that you could have an entire channel dedicated just to
sports that's the stupidest thing i ever heard and then they're like yeah look at
it now yeah tsn one two three four
eight ruby platinum emeralds yeah like
so so the the but the thing about the thing about sports and esports do
get qualified as sports in this way i guess
okay they're not sports esports but they get treated the same way this way is that the fans are very passionate and
they take it very seriously and that's what esports is finally gaining they're
being taken seriously they're not a joke anymore
so you're gonna lose that reputation if people start hacking turning it into a
joke and not having the players and the
organizations treating it as seriously as the fans are is going to create a
rift between the fans and the players and the organizers and that is
really hard to fix and when you have this momentum right now i i think if
this goes as deep as the allegations
would suggest that they could i think it could affect not just csgo but esports
in general because you because you look at the general complaints that people might
have about an esport oh well it's just software
so how easy is it to to cheat how easy it is to pretend that these guys playing
are really that superhuman yeah apparently this easy how are we going to
take this seriously anymore at least with a physical sport yes
there's there's blood doping there's steroids there's this there's that
we can catch a lot of it and they are actually doing it on some
level there's no cybernetic implant that you know tells the goalie where to be so
when the puck's going to be there and whatever and they just can be there already
that's the difference between electronic cheating and physical cheating is it can
happen in ways that the viewer doesn't even
understand is happening and all the respect that they might have had for a player or a skill or a tactic i mean
it's just gone how deflating is that th this is actually a big part of the
reason why uh some of the viewers i know are gonna be
like what when i bring this up but i've a long time ago i played counter strike
at a fairly high level but i've never really been interested in watching
counter-strike and playing on public servers has always
been kind of rough because every single time that someone does
something amazing you're like hmm they're probably cheating they're
probably cheating or that was the luckiest thing ever and that's actually
one of the reasons i'm going to go on like an old counter-strike kind of binge here if you don't mind well how old are
we talking like 1.6 okay that's not that okay 1.6 1.5 like really you're going to
go back to one place five old stuff um
if you were running and or jumping or doing something crazy with an op there
was like the really weird really low percentage chance that you could shoot
yourself if you tried to shoot while you're doing that if you like jumped off
of something and took a shot it was a very low percentage chance but you could damage yourself
so like no one really did it now some guy will jump off a ledge and
like aim up here with a pistol and get a head shot over there and be like oh yeah
no man no no it's just randomly shot over there it's like no
one of the videos that they have of one of the guys that got banned he shot way
far away from someone and got a head shot and people were just missing it
like oh no it's probably just like bullet stray because he was jumping it's
like no he was hacking then brutal come on
ugh i don't know so there you go
i don't know um brutal we can do a few uh let's do a few rapid fire topics
oh this isn't really rapid fire oh we gotta talk about this bittorrent opens
pay gate premium bundles the original articles on techcrunch.com was posted by
tech dreamer on the forum this is freaking cool
i mean i don't think it's going to turn bittorrent into you know a legitimate
content distribution network overnight
but they're giving 90 percent of the
funds to the content creator and when we
compare that to other services that exist like if you were to say publicly
publish your song behind a pay wall so that means people that just means people
have to pay for the content okay so behind the paywall on itunes apple is
taking what 40 cents on the dollar
something along those lines yeah so this is fantastic for new artists using
bittorrent as a distribution platform so peer-to-peer not bittorrent like yar
bittorrent like peer-to-peer connections um and getting 90 of the money for
yourself that's fantastic that's actually pretty freaking awesome
i guess that's all there is to say about it yeah there's not a ton to really add
but i think it's awesome and i do really hope people start using it i expect kind
of smaller groups to start using it and hopefully there was like one or two
really big bands to just jump onto it because that will popularize it and then
it can grow from there because hopefully this becomes a big thing because that would be great you can uh and the
publisher has a lot of flexibility and i'd imagine they're gonna continue to
tweak it over time but you can have some content for free there can be some
behind a paywall you can have content move to paywall
after a certain number of visits for example that's cool
also unlike itunes you can potentially have access to your customer information
that's one of the big problems that i have with platforms like itunes and like
youtube um or even twitch to a much
lesser extent than than you actually know twitch is pretty much the same yeah
is you guys i don't know who you are
yeah i have no way to communicate with you uh that's not true with twitch okay
yes you have a list of all your subscribers youtube used to have that
youtube took it away so i didn't realize twitch still had it okay i don't know if
you okay i don't know how you list of all your subs
i don't know if you have a list of all your followers i it's very different
subs are paying right okay okay so
youtube used to give you an entire list of your subscribers and even though you
couldn't send a mass email to them say hey i'm moving over to vimeo can you
please make sure to subscribe to me over there because that would facilitate
moving off of the platform right um but what you could do is you could message
them one by one and in the even earlier days uh you could even see the list of
subscribers for someone else's youtube channel yeah so some douche canoe um who
was a competing tech youtuber at the time actually went through my entire sub
list and messaged every single one of them i got so many complaints about it
blah blah blah do you know what this guy is doing like no oh my gosh yeah go figure it's brutal um
so i understand reasons why this information isn't exposed and i know
that google has improved that recently through google plus
where you can access some of your most engaged viewers and all that but that's
the problem with these distribution networks is they
lock you in like this whereas if you own the relationship with your audience then
you can move wherever is best for you and or best for them as opposed to being
stuck where someone just wants to take a big cut of
the money for something they didn't even create and aren't even going to watch
yeah that's kind of ridiculous uh someone someone in the chat sorry i was
trying to watch the chat for someone to correct me apparently uh you do have a
followers list okay so you have a sub list and a followers list apparently
douche canoe is not a thing i've heard that really was it me
maybe that's possible
i remember it was it was a big thing my group of friends got called douche
carts when you're at pax and we were like wow that's amazing and we kind of
adopted that for a little while there are so many great topics left we have to
go really fast keystone cat posted this this is from mumbaimura.com electronics
printed with a t-shirt printer holy actual crap this combined with 3d
printing would literally mean printing your own
consumer electronics very simple ones yeah yeah i mean we're
talking like what were they saying they printed like a four-bit
um hold on it doesn't show it's not in
the notes it's in the article but but super super simple stuff but the
electronic circuits are printed using unique materials environmentally
friendly methods by the way on top of everyday flexible materials such as
plastic aluminum foil and even paper resistors transistors and capacitors the
key components of a complex electric circuit are printed using non-toxic
organic materials like silver nanoparticles carbon and plastics so a
new startup company is being established to commercialize the invention and a
multinational biomedical company has also expressed interest in adopting the
application of printed electronics for biomedical devices
wow super cool a big deal you just talked
really fast sorry you got it though thank you that was a good job
um so that's cool oh NVIDIA's multi-frame anti-aliasing is has finally
been tested so our good buddy ryan shrout over at pc perspective has taken
a pretty i'm not going to call it in depth ryan but i'll call it correct i'll
call it a pretty a pretty adequate look at mfaa now the problem with the way
most people are going to try and look at mfaa is they're going to try and take a
screenshot or a fraps recording that won't work because the way screenshots
and fraps recordings work is they take an image of the frame
that is being presented at an earlier stage than the actual display output now
the way a works is it actually blends the
anti-aliasing that it's applying in one matrix on the previous frame and in
another matrix on the next frame together on the frame that the viewer
sees okay so it it does 2x mf msaa effectively in
two different ways and then presents it to the viewer as forex
msaa but they're calling it mfaa because it's
not quite the same thing because it's using this blending technique so
instills okay right so the way you have to capture it is by actually capturing
the display output using a capture card something that pc per already does for
all of their graphics card benchmarking anyway
so they went ahead and did some captures and you guys should definitely check out
the article where you can have a much better look at what they look like than
this you know compressed video view here but it looks pretty darn good in
relatively non-complex scenarios it
looks a lot closer to mf to 4x msaa than
to 2x msaa and the performance hit is
not as much as 4x msia in more complex scenes so there was one
from i think crisis 3 that ryan was looking at it didn't look as good as 4x
msaa but still better than 2x and the
performance hit is less so NVIDIA's technology looks like a winner
except right now it's only compatible with 20
games now so it's a white listed game support as
opposed to blacklisting the ones that don't work so it looks like NVIDIA is
going through and specifically validating games
once they add it to GeForce experience so it turns on and off automatically i
guess this is less of a concern but right now it just doesn't give you any
warning whatsoever if you launch a game and and it says and it doesn't come up
and say hey by the way your mfaa isn't working there's going to be more of a performance hit you might want to tweak
your settings so it just happens in the background on
whitelisted games and we have no idea what support's going to look like moving
forward there is no sli support yet so only single card support
um but it's working for now
for now in certain things
um Intel revealed it will offer ssds based
on 3d nand this was posted by qwerty warrior on the forum the original
article is from tech report look at that we're posting all the articles from our
buddies in the last couple of minutes here we got scott from tech report ryan
from pc well mind you ryan's not my buddy i kind of hate that guy but whoa
even more shots fired yeah i'm just kidding ryan if you're watching this i
know you're not you don't watch cool programming like
WAN Show too busy watching the pc per podcast oh
there's too many p's in that that's why it'll never succeed well triple wrecked
i guess all right so Intel 3d9 Intel revealed it
will offer ssds in the second half of next year based on 3d nand it is a
result of Intel's joint flash venture with micron it stacks 32 planar levels
uh to deliver 256 gigabit so 32 gigabytes of storage in a single mlc die
and the 3dn can also be packed with three bits for cell percel to hit up to
300 and
gigabit or 48 gigabytes per die the 3d
end will enable 10 gig ssds within the next couple of uh
i'm sorry 10 terabytes yeah that's what i meant to say thank you 10 terabyte SSD
yeah 10 gig ssds would be less impressive i again like i said i was
working before the shows i didn't get to see a lot of the docs so when you first
said this i was like yeah not surprising but it's cool to be able
to see some like the specs and the time frame i don't think costs are gonna you
know plummet immediately you know you look at
samsung they've got 3d nand the actual cost per Gigabyte right now is not that
much lower but give it a little bit of time and
we could see ssds much more competitive with hard drives
would be awesome so remember guys the benefits of 3d nand are that they don't
have to use quite the same crazy advanced process node technology so they
can actually use less sophisticated fabs potentially um also better reliability
because they're using larger processes better speed because of using a larger
manufacturing process so cool stuff all
uh round everyone in the chat was all like oh my god 10k guys last day
not yet not yet sorry guys i got everyone's panties all wet and i'm
not even going to do anything about it all right new york times square
new times square digital billboard is
100 meters across and eight stories tall has 24 million pixels and is powered by
three AMD fire pro w9000 gpus this is posted on fireuser.com
and are posted on the forum by ah ming and the original article is from
fireuser.com i'm gonna go ahead and post that in here you guys
wow today i posted all the links in the chat but i completely forgot about just
bringing stuff up on my screen and screen sharing
so it's like one of these days i'm going to learn to do both
so here's the article from fireuser.com it looks amazing
24 megapixels this is the highest resolution display in the world i
believe that's actually right now yeah three that's such a beast machine
it'll be really exciting to see the massive
error message before that happens actually there might be higher resolution displays but certainly
nothing this big yeah yeah and that page isn't loading anyway so apparently it
was never met so like when the page can't load on that screen it'll just be
freaking huge that's my favorite thing you guys probably all hit that page
whoa that's why i can't load correct that's actually probably it i i love
seeing error messages on public machines i don't know why whenever you see like i
remember when i used to go to bcit they'd had these like tall very tall
like uh landscape
why am i thinking this portrait portrait yeah portrait i don't know why i
couldn't think of that properly i have a landscape that's kind of this way yeah
just hold your head like this it could be like if there's mountains on
each side and you're looking in between them anyways don't worry about it um
yeah portrait mode monitors that would like show you a map of the school and
stuff and when they blue screened it was hilarious this is a giant super tall
portrait blue screen it's like oh thank you
awesome super helpful speaking of super
tall our last topic and this actually is a legitimate segue um is iso i always
say it wrong i always say it iso that's how it's pronounced in english if i look
at it phonetically i think there's a different way of saying it um
has revealed a new monitor with a one to one aspect ratio
1920 by 1920 resolution
26 and a half inches and they're saying sort of the sales pitch here this is a
professional oriented monitor it's convenient for longer content
allows for a compromise between vertical and horizontal monitors
that it does uses an anti-glare ips panel professional glitterate monitor
don't expect it to be cheap available q1 2015 and the least innovative thing ever
because we already had we already had five to four monitors 100
bazillion years ago and everyone was like nah let's go widescreen
so now it's an innovation to make it even more square than before that's
super weird i don't think this is really gonna work out for them super well well
remember they they're relatively low volume they're aiming at like
professional applications where yeah the picture of it is like super goofball
and it looks super old too yeah it's it's pretty silly looking here i'll
screen share with you guys so this is the flex scan ev2730q
oh apparently i'm on the wrong page there
we go looks a little something like that like it actually just it looks just
wrong yeah right 220 pixels by 1920 it it's funny
because you've never seen a square monitor before probably so like looking
at one looks unnatural and yeah weird it's like there's something wrong with
it so 78 more pixels compared to full hd
cool man can i just have widescreen please
you know it's funny cause
like i was never much of an advocate for widescreen at the beginning
uh when the affordable ones were 1440 by 900 and we didn't have enough vertical
pixels but then that problem goes away as soon as you have enough vertical
pixels on a Windows machine where scaling doesn't really work so you just
actually need more pixels to fit enough stuff on the screen
um but as soon as that happened as soon as we got 1200 vertical pixels i was totally cool
with widescreen then we moved to 16x9
and then we didn't have enough vertical pixels again and now to compensate we're
going all the way back to one to one apparently sixteen by ten is still a
great aspect i love sixteen by ten and i wish that there were more monitors me
too huge fan of sixteen by ten that's kind
of sad which is i guess all there is really to the lamb show today isn't it
yeah there's a few other things but i don't know if they're super important
you can do it if you want do what i don't know other things you think are
important no i said i don't know if there's that hydrogen car that's coming
that sounds super ball and cool yeah
i i'm still more excited about oh yeah elon musk is still worried about
terminator yeah yeah ai and badness i think he's talked about that before yeah
we've talked about him talking about yeah
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