Futuristic PC Build Battle - Tech Showdown Ep2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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5,384 words · ~26 min read
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welcome to Tech Showdown episode two if you're not familiar with the format you
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can one yes one also you can click that
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corner that's one this is two basically
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what we do is we take a theme and we build a computer around that theme with
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a very limited budget and very limited
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time and today's theme is a future a future or the future future
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future future so let's see what's in our future or not right now yeah I think
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mine is similar okay let's
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go so the idea behind Tech Showdown is
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that neither of the participants other than the secret ingredient which is the
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theme of the future knows what the other is doing but I think based on very
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cryptic conversations with Luke that we've both taken a worst case
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scenario interpretation of the future and run with that today and while I
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think on some whoops I'm I'm
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okay dang it while I think it's
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impossible for us to actually have come up with the same
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idea he thinks the same thing so do two
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impossibilities make a possibility
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no unless they do man like I don't know
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the viewers are going to be in on it the whole time if we're building the same
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computer I don't think it's impossible though oh you have got to be kidding me
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I don't have my orange screwdriver kill
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me now Jake maybe he borrowed it sometimes he
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borrows it he's not allowed to but he does it anyway
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yes success okay um so he's building his
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computer already I'm actually I'm quite a ways away away from that I have some
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work to do on the case before I can
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start on that now last tech
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Showdown I was heavily reliant on
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something I had never done before being executed with a reasonable degree of
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skill um it was almost an entirely glitter themed PC for
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today I'm going back to skills that may
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not be fresh in my mind but at least I
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have scissors construction
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paper and glue sticks the label maker is key my
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friend open
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Josh why is the case derping Josh I
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blame you for any problems that happened
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today this this this is our color
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palette for the day
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welcome
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I'm going to spell out my theme but not
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actually in
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order there you go that is my Bleak
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future I'm going to reveal to the camera
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just because it seems surprisingly likely that he's gone
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with a similar
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theme you got to get away get get away
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run run run
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run I really hope he's not also doing this
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okay oh man I'm just kind of scattered
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right now I'm going to I got to get my thoughts together my my future is so
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depressing that uh it's hard to even
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execute any like it's not even really funny the first thing we're going to
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need is a striped a striped color
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scheme on the one side panel
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here because it's all about it's all
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about the uh the greatness the greatness
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of the effect of This Magnificent
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event and I really hope that I bought
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enough construction paper and I'm really
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not sure I went and I returned some of the white sheets
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at the last second uh not realizing um what colors I would need so
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I need a straight edge um Luke do you have the level all right yep that'll
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work and now I just need a pencil how do I even get
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in
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oh why is it such a piece of sh God damn it why is it so
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what a sh way to waste time with a can
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of primer that we had at work I should have just trusted the paint I
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brought do racist jokes fit into your
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theme
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trying to open it I don't have I don't have scissors
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C I don't have scissors excuse me John yeah oh my
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God all oh measuring tape Luke can I have a
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measuring tape uh see the advantage to being on that side is that you actually
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have easy access to most of the tools the disadvantage is that you have to
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hand me the tools oh
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wow hey I'll show you how I can grab
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things the better to grab you with my
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dear um do you mean like it's not allowed because we're both
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men oh maybe we have the same
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future okay oh my goodness I have burned
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like 20 minutes cutting out six
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Stripes this is not
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good I didn't even measure how many I needed I might have cut extra oh what am
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I doing I think I cut
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extra um what about them where I don't
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know okay I might have to start going a little faster but if I'm planning to
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overlap them I actually don't really need them to be that precise at all so
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I've been wasting time either way D I'm speeding up this is how it was
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with the glitter I got faster just in time to not need to do it anymore we're
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going to have what would look like a pretty
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traditional um stars and stripes kind of arrangement here but in the corner I'm
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going to put the face Trump oh yeah oh he's
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beautiful he's beautiful
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wait it's red and white right okay we're
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just we're going to have to approximate it all right here we go I'm going for
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gold for my next trick I'm going to add more glue in
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retrospect I think it may have been better to start at the bottom I mean
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does this stuff set like instantly or what
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holy crap I'm going to start building them from the bottom up I don't even
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remember what color I started with anymore I don't know when this thing is
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ready going to take that as a
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no how long does it take okay I'm just
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going to wait for this to heat up and try to do something else so careful of that
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Brandon it's going to be very hot is
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this even going be enough oh my
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God I'm cutting my sand right
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now cuz I need that to be done
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first I'm just short I don't have the
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corners it might be okay
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because I bought
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uh this stuff
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so I might be able to Like Glue in that right
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there is this thing not plugged in oh my God that's the problem holy sh this
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stupid extension cord isn't plugged in is this stuff supposed to make your
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eyes burn super
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glue all right so this is pretty good but we're going to do some more I'm
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especially going to try to hit the sides up cuz I don't really know how they're
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doing at this point try to work some some golden magic
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here I'm going to hit up the white here
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again someone's going to leave a message being like wow he's doing that so
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wrong I'm a professional I've been doing
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it for 5 years
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hey foam boards look at it fused
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together
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whoa
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how's that
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look Bob is going to kill me Bob's going to be like Luke you're an idiot and I'm
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going to be like Bob I'm sorry Bob I don't know what I'm doing
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Rod's going to be like this is why we
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lost no
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no that was a mistake too wasn't it now it's too
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liquidy I'm just ruining
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everything no
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what is all this God damn it I just
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lost
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okay now we have a design decision to
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make when we tried to fix the white it
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got all this crap in it when I sprayed the top of the case I guess that paint
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is very dusty and it leaves a lot of r Rock like dust in the air and you can
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see there's a bunch of that crap in the white and it doesn't look good so I'm
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going to try to get a bunch of it off in the most delicate way I can which is not
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very delicate and uh then I'm going to try to start over I
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guess try to like sand this panel or
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something and I'm running
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out
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I work
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out the super glue is a little bit crazier than I had
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hoped okay so this is the wall this is the wall that separates
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Mexico and the US that apparently Mexico
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is going to pay
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for maybe blue painters tape wasn't the
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greatest idea that's still very visible isn't it
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back to square one again not like we're not used to
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that perfect done okay let's go
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there we go oh that side panel though
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wait oh
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no it's upside
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down oh no okay think Linus maybe if I could
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peel up the whole
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thing and I could put the whole thing back
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on the other way hold on a second let's
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think about this is it better upside down like if the idea is that I've kind
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of designed a new flag with the portrait of the grand
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leader here is upside down okay okay
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okay you know what we're going to call that intentional editors cut out the
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part where I realized that it was upside
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down for the other
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side I don't want Windows right Windows
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represent people being able to come into your
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country so instead of a window I'm going
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to have a wall a red white and green
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wall it's going to look a little something like this yeah that's right
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I'm going to need my hot glue I actually grabbed my own hot glue gun just in case
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Luke was going to be reliant on the hot glue as
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well also it was adorable look at this
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thing no unfortunately no but definitely
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pink all right when it comes to hot glue it's about length not
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girth the scary thing about all the the time I'm spending right now is that I
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haven't even begun on my
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diarama I just need a little bit more height for my construction
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project and this should take care of it somewhat match the other ones see
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there you go now that should actually work pretty well now I also brought
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myself a couple little characters so did
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I I'm not be kidding I hope we don't have the same
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ones I I sincerely doubt you have the same characters that I do I'm I'm pretty
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confident in my ability to be I went out and got a Styrofoam cutter do you want
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it um not yet thank you though I
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wouldn't have uh I wouldn't have offered you the same
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thing now we also need a
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lawn okay um you know what I actually
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don't know why I thought I needed did this foam board I am
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L what I'm going for here is kind of you know what I think I will I think I will
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use the foam board just because it'll allow me to lift the whole thing up
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after the fact uh
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which could help a little bit now I'm a little worried about not having
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actually at all started on the
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computer but um I will get to that later I hope wow I'm
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already down to the hole in the glue stick I have used a lot of this and I am
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nowhere near done fortunately I can switch to hot
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glue for most of the upcoming construction and I do have a fair bit of
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that okay so here we
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go my first diarama project since
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elementary school I guess I should kind of map this out a little bit I could use
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a piece of paper so I need four in the front and six in the back so 10 10 P oh
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man this is getting kind of brutal
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um
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okay so on this side I want sparkly gold
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then I'm going to put the mannequin head on a slight angle give ital trunk hair
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put money all around it and diamonds um and maybe label uh label
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maker some of his quotes So this side's
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going to be all Glam and
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Glitz
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those look sufficiently Fed Up Now
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please God don't kick it on our way out and let's
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go and then so this is going to go here and
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then it's going to have this on it to
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the top
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bit so this is for the power supply I
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was told that I can't wreck the power supply
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so I am going to not wreck the power
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supply get it it's plating gold
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plating 48 68
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48
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168 this stuff which is um like a paint which I should be
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able to squeeze out so I can like get
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some of this stuff done if I want to um so that's an
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option I have
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uh uh this
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thing so Brandon accidentally stepped on my side panel a few
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times and and it's
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here it was on this corner and
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then all over okay I don't think he steuck on that one all over this one
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used up a whole bunch of paint I don't have enough paint anymore to paint the
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back of the brackets and I don't have enough paint to fix
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that so I don't really know what to
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do trying to figure out some way to fix it
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but I have no
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idea why isn't it sticking at
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all what the f I know there's a giant fing line this
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is great
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I'm that's that's
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that's and I don't even have a hot glue
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gun come on
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off Jesus
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so that is the outer walls of my house
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now your glue gun works perfectly to
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Warcraft 2 reference wao it's still melting the
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styrene under the paper oh craps
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cicles look at me I can do
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crafts meanwhile the wives and girlfriends of all the people watching
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this video are just like he has no idea
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what he's doing did he just use c42 hot
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glue on foam board it's stuck to my hand that's going
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to be the White House a little Trump leg on top okay I don't remember what these
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are for oh this is awful everything about it
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is awful crap I wish I had my wife to
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help me with this kind of up to
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there what I'm going to need in order to make it somewhat realistic looking some
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Windows should work the second
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time okay there's my
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Windows yeah baby I am going to glue this down so I'm
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committing at this point there's no time to redo everything that I've done on it
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anyway so I am going for the Gusto
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here
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okay oh I never checked the centering on the oh boy well I hope that's somewhat
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close actually to the eye that seems okay I think we're all right okay so
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this baby is going to go in here and
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this is going to go right here then I got to figure out my
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pillars okay there's my top
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piece
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oh that'll do it all right rock on Linus
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you marvelous Stud I'm sure the entire internet is
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going to be criticizing my rolling technique
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too is going to uh wow the
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judges oh I love
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it I got to tell you Luke you were up again against some
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unexpectedly legit diarama skills here I
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have spent the majority of my time on my diarama so far which is not because
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that's what I wanted to do but that's because that is what happened you to
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finish I hope so lonus always
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finishes cuz I need the joke to be visible but I also don't want it to look
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completely like comical and
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huge I had a originally intended to just have a face there but um just because of
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the dimensions I think this works a little
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bit
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better
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I'm still pushing towards the Finish Line I still got to build a computer
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so
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I I don't really know what to do
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here but with how much time I'm assuming we have
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left I will not be able to I'm not going to be done by five either so okay okay
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well that's
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good I needed it I'm going to get wrecked too hard see what lonus didn't
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know is that you could put your budget
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literally into your computer so my solution here is to Plate
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my graphics card with money if the judges see money
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they might want to take it in order to take it they obviously have to you know
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vote for me cuz that's how voting Works isn't
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it this is so not really
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okay this this whole build is so not
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okay okay so we're both super overtime I kind of have a feeling that lonus is
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kind of done and is just kind of doing stuff so that the contest is able to
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continue because I'm literally not done yet okay apparently he's still doing
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things I still think I'm going to get completely wrecked at the end but I'm
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just trying to like have something that's that's yeah
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that is my goal at the moment have something present anything exist for
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some form of reason that is my current goal explain
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to at least some level why the f I even
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entered this contest yeah all right that helps a lot
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it's these little finishing touches that I've got to start getting to right
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now so okay so first of all this is a functionality upgrade uh because I
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didn't realize until I was building the PC itself that my water cooler on the
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top the performance would be impacted by my diarama so I added uh an airflow
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shroud so that it'll be able to exhaust all of its hot wind out the back
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and then the last thing that I did was I created a sales
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brochure so that the judges will know exactly what it is they're looking at
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and be able to judge it as uh favorably
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as possible okay let's
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go this is really dangerous I can't see
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a damn thing I where I'm going
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is scary okay you're about to walk over a yellow cable John see it's fine what
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what that's my theme we did do the same
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thing what the
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m
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true how did we do the same thing is that the White House yeah okay mine's
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the wall on the other side there's people
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trying to climb over it is this oh they're both they're Donald Trump both
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of them hus look at this like Vegas look at this
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look at the little Mexican whoa whoa they're trying to get over they are
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blond haired okay I don't think they're Mexican okay are they trying to get into
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Mexico then can we even show this on the channel I don't I I think they're I feel
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like I ask that every week I feel like they're supposed to be ethnically
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indeterminate um I don't think it's really supposed to Matter What ethnicity
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they are oh so what have you done it just matters it just matters that
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they're not white okay so let's have a look here I thought I broke
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this is this
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okay oh it's a it's the border wall that
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he made the Mexican Government PID for okay yeah and apparently this PC was
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proudly made in Romania does it say oh Trump
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PC wow I don't even like Okay so let's
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see here um I like smells like cancer I
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like how we replace the flag 2 three four five six seven eight what are the
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nine Stripes emblematic where are the stars where's the blue on the flag yeah
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oh um is Trump looking Shifty oh so we
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have an American flag or but it's upside down it's upside down which is a signal
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of distress is is is the Builder of this trying to make some kind of political
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statement here or is this just for I I
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don't know P so we have a gold like a gold plated
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power supply a bunch of Canadian I mean Monopoly money sorry um we have diam
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plastic diamonds I guess and a glass of
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that might just be flat Pepsi but I'm going to just pretend that it's wine um
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so literally gold plated you know what actually the motherboard I like how the
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motherboard goes with the rest of the build as far as color scheme because it's sort of like a dark orange we both
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have the same motherboard John I didn't change
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anything I used black cable mod cables I used white ones cuz you used the white
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ones now there's lither on here you can
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see that it's kind of coming off like everywhere so which one look like
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there's a lot of painting done on this F so which one has the more impressive
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wall this one apparently they force the Mexicans to pay for it but this one has
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actual people this has emotion in it yeah your wall apparently has more
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emotion emotion my wall it gets sad
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sometimes okay feels he just called mine an
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elementary school project that is exactly what I
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did is this just taped on looks that way
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and it looks like it was attempted to be hot glued but that probably didn't work
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very well so it unless this is temporary to secure it while it was
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like are we supposed to take that off if we took that off does no no no no no
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don't take don't take it off don't take it ready this whole panel makes me feel
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safe really there's the gun the gun is
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pointed directly at the Temple of Trump's head is that is that symbolism
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is he being controlled by you know someone else
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M interesting this this build just got meta oh man I don't even know what to
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say to that I have nothing to say say
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for once so do we actually judge this based on quality well it's it's a very
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Square White House it appears to be missing the entire West Wing where the
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president's office actually is of course John knows some useless crap like that
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if you Google White House that's what comes up I do like how this one made an
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obvious reference to we made Mexico pay for it with the wall here it is in the
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it's in the isn't the colors of the Mexican tri color it's very accurate I
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like your dress so oh I do like how it say Trump president presal Hotel yeah
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well if you read this if you had read the it says thank
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you I told you you'd get it John's like well no it says this seems to be too
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about the standard of Trump's normal Bill quality though Trump's what quality
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normal build quality of his of his hotels and various other
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establishments wow um says scale replica and it's not
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and I just don't want to be lied to but that's
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trump it also says a bunch of other crap about by what metric is this 30% more
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Trump compared to a regular Tower um
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there's like the international unit of umum trump it's just it just is you
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can't this is trumped up judging is what we got going on here John is defending a
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metaphysical Point have we ever had this happen before I don't know I think
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they're being really harsh on my build here
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see he says what Trump brings to America do they even know the theme is the
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future can you go tell them the theme is not Trump the theme is the
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future nobody said
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that I mean I walked over here and I saw both Trump builds and I was like this is
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certainly a potential look at the future if you look at it as this side being
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America and this side being Mexico or Canada CU Trump will probably build a
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wall up here too how am I going to get back home then it's a great
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question M on that got awkward wow no I think this
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really feels like the future it's a little it's a little dystopian if
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they're going for the idea of a dystopian future I think they've got it it is a dystopian future do you think I
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want that Trump to turn the White House into a hotel just makes me mad when I
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have to watch them judge things I feel like I'm being judged what I almost
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wonder if it's happening is if Ed knows which computer is which and he's just
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trying to troll you I know he know you know he would and
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you know he knows I like the
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Simplicity while at the same time I don't like the Simplicity it's perfect
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for the average Trump supporter to understand it better but that's not me
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wow I'm pretty sure there should be doors in more places what a dick
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Construction the construction
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favor feels like I could have done it in the third grade so I give it a five ow
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five I thought five do they know how long we have to work on these okay go I
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thought that the overall approach to # Mega was fine um and I did enjoy the use
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of the Trump faces but at the same time there could
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have been a bit more continuity throughout the bill I felt like the
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Mexico wall was a bit weird I was a bit less brutal than edel giving Mega a
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generous seven out of 10 if it's a generous seven that's still pretty
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brutal I do think the execution was
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slightly crude because the theme seems just to be kind of trump face everywhere
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um which I mean which as funny as the
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Trump faces are and they are get me wrong I do feel like maybe a little bit
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more yeah there we go yeah I feel like a little bit more Nuance probably would
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have been good would have liked to have seen um the actual eagle and snake on
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the border wall so we don't mistake it for an Italian flag which I actually did
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at first overall not bad definitively
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trump-like and I gave it a six out of 10 six wow looks like no one made it
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through this round of layoffs I like the muted colors it kind
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of says Bleak future you know I feel
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safer I feel like I have my privacy
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intact here I have to give it a
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seven unfortunately it does feel too
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real and it scares me for me the Vegas
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build felt a bit more complete when I
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thought the theme was Trump not the
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future I would the theme be Trump why
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did you both build Trump computers I don't
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know I did feel like the uh the facade
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on the front of the build was a nice touch you know it does feel very Trump
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however shly done however shly done
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house um I liked the imagery of you know
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Trump being controlled by an outside force with the gun pointing directly at
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the side of the head I really doubt that
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was actually pointing the gun at
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his um I like the
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indeterminant uh racial family that doesn't let you know if they're trying
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to get into America or out of it over the Trump wall uh and I like the defense
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mechanisms of the stickiness of the styrofoam on the Trump
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wall while the money and the fake diamonds inside did provide a very trunk
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feel it was very unclear what the message was there whether that's you
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know America will become prosperous or America will spend too much or you know
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it's all just fake and and a sham um and
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overall in the theme of the future you know it's it's a bit tough to
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say that this really hit the nail on the head
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so uh I gave Vegas a slight Edge at
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7.5 how granular like the Precision all
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right you're up John with that I should do that first of all immediately I love
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how the front is very striking it reminds me so much of the trumpet
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International in Vegas looks exactly like it if you wanted the theme to be
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dystopia you absolutely nailed it you kind of nailed it with like the muted
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colors um with like all this going on back here this is super creepy because
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it looks like Donald Trump has like channeled his soul into like a young
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albino woman and then died so D I think
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Lennon said it best sometimes I Want to Hold Your Hand just means I Want to Hold
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Your Hand I should take more points off for that but um I what I really liked
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about this is that I think the theme on this one was much much more consistent
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if like I said if you're going for dystopia I think you nailed it so I gave
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you well I would have given you a nine but I took off one point off off this
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one and also one point off of this one because the theme was supposed to be the future and I honestly think it's very
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unlikely that Trump will win so Vegas gets an eight oo
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oh wow I did not see this one coming I
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actually didn't either crushing crushing defeat at the hands of the world's worst
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no one even noticed the paint job on the front literally looks like you dragged
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it across the floor while you were waiting for it to dry we did it's just
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better than conru so thanks for checking out this
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edition of tech Showdown I apparently
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lost again and not by a narrow margin
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but uh I think you can let us know in the comments if you agree with the
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judges or not
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oops um okay I was that was supposed to
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open the door oh my God whatever what happens if
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