The WAN Show - Intel i7 Exclusive DLC & Illegal Game Modding! - December 9, 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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all right guys welcome to the WAN Show
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where we are halfway through actually being set up for the show but I figured
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you know what I had better just start
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this in spite of the color being completely wonky ah there we go fixing
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the lighting live here for your viewing
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pleasure that is to say your pleasure that gets better as the viewing
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experience goes on because it started out uh completely in complete can
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something be completely incomplete or if
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it was completely incomplete would it just
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be nothing it was completely incomp I'm
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just stalling for time Brandon I'm clearly stalling for time don't question
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it it's not helpful all right let me get the dock up
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here we go oh that was awful I apologize
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sincerely to our loyal twitch viewers out there who I'm sure uh we're not real
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pleased with that noise you have Pella to thank he's a jerk so there's that
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he's not actually a jerk he's very nice mild mannered even I would go that far
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as to call him mild mannered uh we've got a lot of great topics for you guys
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today PewDiePie vows to delete his Channel at 50 million subscribers JK
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doesn't delete his channel um steam
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users enraged over Intel exclusive
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content in game wow it's like who thought that one
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was going to end well nobody I hope uh Ubisoft Executives finded 1.2
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million for Insider Trad trading during
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Watchdogs and South Korea makes game
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modding illegal that's right my friends
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illegal game modding so let's go ahead and roll the intro which I am fairly
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certain is not going to work properly but I'm over it look at that look at
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that slow guy I I have no idea what's causing this
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it's like a complete and utter mystery I tried a different video format and like
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it was playing in real time but then it
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would just jump around so that's not
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actually that much better uh hey John we're
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live I don't know where joh is but John's going to be joining me pretty
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quick here I might even go get a chair
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for him we'll
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see pella's gonna get a chair for him mild mannered
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Pella getting oh wow yeah not powered by Razer comms is a very old very old intro
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um red and then what else who else is who
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else is sponsoring the show today wait hold on a second hold on a second ma
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Weldon is a sponsor
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today okay well I will have to so this
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is what see this is what happens when Colton's not here for one day we tease
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Colton a lot but he's basically the glue
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that holds this entire operation together and uh he's the kind of person
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who's organized enough to go gee there's a ma Welden spot on the W show today
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maybe we should ensure that there are ma Welden
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for the
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host uh uh um do you need to
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like um John Will Survive he will survive that I will oh
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as long as he knows how to love he'll always be alive um my car sucks the snow
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and it's snowing here yeah well you drive a Mustang I'm not sure what you were expecting what does your car not
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suck at it is after all americanmade
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with a troll oh and the shots fired is coming early on the show today here you
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gotta he's pulling me yeah you gotta yeah as I'm I'm being pulled okay hold
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on okay all right so I think since we're
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starting a little bit late we are going to jump right into our first topic
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there's actually a lot of great topics this week thank you thank you Nicholas
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light are just are we doing you are the light of my life I hate you I don't know
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any other people with the last name light so you kind of won it by default
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are we doing an on air shirt change I'm uh I'm going to change mine on air but
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I'm going to carefully do it without showing my nips because that's not
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allowed uh due to twitch's terms of service so I'm just gonna no shirtless
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dudes on Twitch this no shirtless dudes on Twitch no shirtless anyone because
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twitch is about equality so um if women
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can't be shirtless then men can't be shirtless and that's just the way it's going to be to which I would say no I'm
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not going to say anything so hold on let me just get my laptop in the way here
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yeah sometimes it's better not to say anything am I allowed to show bare shoulders I know nips aren't allowed
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this is where I know the line definitely ex yet we need censor censor things that
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wasn't a nip that was just a weird mole I have on my chest it's
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true okay there we
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go so why is the show late
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today just kidding nobody asked but uh
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just in case you were thinking maybe you
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would ask if you thought that you would get any kind of meaningful answer from
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me it is because I was trying to make a
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hard drive waterproof truly an important scientific
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Endeavor for the betterment of all Humanity if there ever was one I don't
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know how many times I've been you know
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at SeaWorld or not at SeaWorld but like at a water park or something and like
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you know what I wish I had right now a 10 tby hard drive but specifically a
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waterproof specifically see one for one
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that is 100% of our respondents to our
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survey let's see let's check out the that have confirmed that they want a
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waterproof hard drive can't find anything wrong with that logic so there
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you go um that's what I was working on did I succeed or did I not succeed well
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you're going to have to stay tuned for the video I don't think you're going to have to wait that long though because
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we're a little bit behind on filming so there you go all right so the original
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poster here was Ali Zi
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2000 on the Forum and of course there's a gigantic
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Forbes ad before I can look at the article the original article is from
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forbes.com PewDiePie trolls everyone
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doesn't actually delete his YouTube channel did anyone think he was going to
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delete his YouTube channel Taran appar at least at least a
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couple people here did I'm not going to name names but some folks did Taran you
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are so freaking Gable
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he does this kind of crap all the time I
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did not know that he did not know that apparent know I I mean I don't even
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watches content I knew that that's just
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embarrassing ah okay maybe we can get centered at some point here I think you
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keep drifting is it like my personal magnetism like like I'm a positive and
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you're a positive so it's like a I'm not a positive aulive magnetism I've worked
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here for a year and a half you know I'm not a positive you you have your positive
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moments I appreciate that L um so basically he made a video called the
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video deleting my Channel at 50 million said he would delete his channel once he
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hit 50 million subscribers he actually offered some fairly plausible sounding
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Logic for it um something along the lines of you know uh I started up
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another Channel and was able to grow it very quickly because I'm that amazing um
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and that was that was I think he called it yeah Jack Septic Eye 2 and the idea
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behind creating that one was wanted another gold play button um meaning he
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now has as many gold play buttons as we
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do Shameless just because it's true what
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you're saying is true just because we only have 15th as many subscribers on
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our primary channel does not mean that we don't also have two golden play
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buttons so there's that anyway he actually deleted the Jack septi 2
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Channel as a way of fulfilling his bargain uh of the rationale that he was
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offering up also seemed to have to do with some of the algorithmic changes
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that YouTube has allegedly been making this has been kind of big news over the
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last week or two plus depending on how
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far back you go because we actually first started complaining about it
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probably about um let me just see if I
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can find if I can find that email chain
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that I had going with our YouTube
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rep no that's not it well whatever I can't find it but it was uh oh is it
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this one I don't know I think it was I think
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it was about a month ago something along those lines where basically it wasn't
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that we were observing that the channel was getting um crushed out right but we
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were observing that in particular our new videos were performing very poorly
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and for those of you who were wondering if we were ever going to weigh in on this I guess I guess I wasn't going to
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it wasn't on our topics for today but I will um so pretty much what happen
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happen was our newer videos were not performing very well and uh YouTube
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basically told us well then uh get good Noob and we kind of went uh okay I guess
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that's pretty much we're trying yeah that's all you can do we really do get
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up every day and try and get good it's
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it's it's absolutely true my car was even doing this on the roads and I still
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got here just so I could uh get good I guess yeah thank you for
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that um all right let's move on to our
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next topic then steam users enraged over
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do you have the dock up um are you shared on it well I was but not on this
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laptop because it's not my laptop I did look at it before we started so I have
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I'm familiar with most of these stories at least a little bit oh so you're one step ahead of me then well what Google
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account are you logged into here uh let's see I am logged into oh luk so
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there you go so that's probably shared on it just um I do not condone the
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hijacking of other employees I'm using
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this with permission are you I am oh good okay I share an office with Luke of
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course I talked to him about it well I um
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okay as long as you guys have a safe word for your sharing so
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steam man this was just like complete
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disaster start to finish uh posted originally on the Forum by Z mule and
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the original article here is from polygon.com
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who who thought this was a good idea
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steam users enraged over Intel exclusive
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content in game inspiring quick
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reversal and it's more than just there was some content in the game that was
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exclusive to Intel users it was actually
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exclusive to Intel Core i7 users so uh
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here we go the developers of Arizona sunshine for the HTC VI and the
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controversy began over two pieces of content in game
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um okay so the controversy over the two pieces of content began with a post on
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the game team page asking why one machine the player owned could play The
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Horde mode in single player and the other could not so the developer
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explained that The Horde setting and apocalyptic mode were locked to machines
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running core i7s until March of next
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year we're talking a thre Monon
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exclusivity period for buying a core i7
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thoughts so so I can see that this was
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not mentioned at all to anybody before the release of the game so which like
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which direction was the deception in did they advertise all the content but then
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everyone found out oh you have to have an i7 or was it the other way around
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where they didn't advertise whatever the extra content was but then if you have
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an i7 you found out after the fact hey there's all this extra stuff all of a
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sudden um I I don't know if that matters a
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whole lot either way but I could see people being extremely extremely upset
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if they were promised something that they just weren't given so I from from
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my mind I see your point but I actually don't really think that it matters yeah
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it's deception like either way so not even if it's deception it's just a
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really bad precedent I mean you look at
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how upset The Gaming Community gets over
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stuff like NVIDIA Gameworks where NVIDIA is legitimately going out and building
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tools that game developers can use like
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kind of copy paste I'm simplifying it obviously but can copy paste into their
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game for some fire effect or some hair
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effect or whatever the case may be look at how upset people are about the very
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idea of a piece of gaming content not
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being platform agnos tic at all especially the fact they
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weren't open about it and here yeah I mean here the message is even worse so
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vertigo games responded working with
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Intel allowed us to create even more content than we originally planned
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including these modes and the physics systems in the game making Arizona
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Sunshine one of the richest VR experiences possible which is just
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another way of saying Intel handed us
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three big bags of money and we invested
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those into our game and we agreed to lock down the game well at least parts
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of the game for core i7 users only entirely artificially in exchange for
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aforementioned money now if we're talking about a feature that they
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implemented that straight up wouldn't work on other Hardware so something like
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uh physx yeah where it's just like mind you okay physx is another
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like or like H like hdr10 like there's some
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things that just don't like there's some Hardware that just does not support it
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sure okay okay outputting hdr10 to an
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HDR display sorry that's only going to work on the latest Polaris gpus and
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NVIDIA 10 Series yeah but this is more like it's an HDMI output limitation
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right this is more like just an artificial limitation on purpose and
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it's it's one of those things where like I've had
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conversations with people at Intel uh
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where and actually I you know what I'm probably at Liberty to talk about it
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because the person in question uh is no longer working there you're going to go
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with probably I'm going to go with probably yeah I'm going to go with probably I mean you're not you're not uh
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legally allowed to counsil me up here anyway so I'm not that's that that
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that's absolutely true yeah you're going to have to pass a whole different bar for that um so I have had conversations
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with Intel where this gu and I don't know where he got it from but was
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insisting to me that a core i7 was the
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best VR experience to which I
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replied I mean maybe in a completely immeasurable
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way because a core i5 like a latest
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generation core i5 especially going back I mean they enabled it for fifth sixth
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and seventh generation core i7 so you even have to go back a generation
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um so especially the latest generation core i5 I guarantee you is going to run
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a game any game on the market right now
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just as well as the latest generation core i7 you don't need eight threads to
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game you just don't you just don't not yet maybe in time but as it stands now a
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core i5 6600k will perform just as well
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as a 6950x in pretty much any game now I
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believe they may be some exception City skylines scales a little better it
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scales a little bit better but it's not
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the difference is like a couple of frames it's not ridiculous it's not the
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difference between unplayable and the
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richest VR experiences possible that's
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not what happens there so fans
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revolted most asking why this hadn't been mentioned before launch vertigo
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games then basically ran to Intel went
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yo this is actually causing more problems than the money could possibly
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compensate for we really need to undo this because it's bad PR for you too
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then they went back to the gamers apologized and unlocked the locked modes
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for all players this reminds me a little bit of something a little bit of
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something that Intel did I believe it was I think it was about a decade ago
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maybe a little bit longer when they had they actually wrote their own compiler
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for programmers I don't think a ton of people were using it but they found out
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later on it would only take advantage of certain um CPU instruction capab ities
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if it was an Intel processor the system was running even if it was even if it
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was AMD and even if the AMD chip supported these instruction sets it just
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wouldn't run and there was a huge controversy over that I remember and
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they they were legally required to put a disclaimer on so so yeah it was it just
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reminded me that a little bit I guess so yeah I mean this
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is like I don't think it's quite I mean
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okay the fact that it's not disclaimed very well is really really crummy but at least
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they aren't handicapping the performance of someone else's system like at least
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they didn't have the game developer you like like your example use a compiler
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that's going to make the game Run worse on other things they just soft lock
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they're also just like completely like denying people content though so you
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know I guess it just depends on your perspective but definitely not good I
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mean one way or another neither of us thinks it's good neither of us is
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pleased neither were the gamers and you have to give at least a little bit
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of credit where credit is due at least they came out reverse the decision and
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now everyone has access to the content I just figured out why not very many
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people are watching wow today it seems to be related to the fact that I forgot
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to record an intro for the show and upload it to YouTube so bear with me one
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moment you doing it now go watch the wow
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twitch.tv/ Linus I forgot to do this before the show so I'm actually
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recording this during the show but it's 4x3 for some reason don't worry too much
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about that just watch the show it'll be great twitch.tv/ linch John's helping
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hi yes so if you want to lead our next topic I'm gonna go ahead and upload that
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to YouTube okay because I derped do you
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care what order I do these things in or not I do not care okay so next topic uh
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so South Korea has effectively uh made
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game modding illegal uh so they've passed an amendment into law with with
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the intent of shutting down video game hacks and modifications and based on the
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law manufacture or distribution of
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programs that are not allowed by a game company or its terms of service or
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actually against the law so this includes aim boders hacking programs
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scriptors basically anything that's not allowed by the terms of service um the
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punishment for this is actually is is theoretically pretty steep uh 5 years of
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jail time or the equivalent of $43,000 in fines um part of this is in
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response to um hacking communities for certain games particularly OverWatch um
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hacking is run rampant with OverWatch in South Korea uh so blizzard has been
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trying to take its own action against players that are doing the hacks but now
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with this they're also going to have the full vacing of the South Korean
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government so thoughts on
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that so
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okay
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um on the one hand do I believe that
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being a jackass online should have real
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world consequences when you are and if you
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really break it down when you are effectively wasting someone else's money
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you are robbing them of enjoying something that they paid for no you're
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not stealing it from them you're not like stealing their game but let's say
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for example someone um bought a a TV and
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they brought it home and they put it in their living room and they wanted to
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please don't ride a bicycle in the warehouse for the love of everything
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that is good why do I have to say these things
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safety meeting safety meeting yeah safety safety meetings Okay first Monday
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of every month um like I actually have to do that
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by law speaking of laws safety meetings anyway um what am I even talking okay
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okay so I I see it as a kin to someone your neighbor buying a brand new cool TV
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and he goes to watch Breaking Bad or something on it and you go over you you
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barge into his house and you stand in front of it and you
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go and you get all like cross-eyed and obnoxious because you haven't taken his
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TV but you're depriving him of enjoying it and something for so I think being an
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ass hat should have real consequences
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when it impacts the lives and the
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quality of life of other people
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on the flip side government backing of
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ulas well this is even that this is much more than government backing of a Ula
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because if you violate a Ula let's say you're playing OverWatch or Starcraft or
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whatever you do something that violates the to if so at least in the US if if
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and I'm sure South Korea there civil remedies of South Korea too but you go to court and you say oh well this person
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violated the to that's why we kicked them off and now there's litigation
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about it but that's your usual remedy it's a contract remedy you can kick
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people off for violating the T to so in
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that sense there already is government backing but we're not just now they're
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taking it out of the realm of private law and civil courts and we're saying
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we're going to come like like law enforcement will come after you and you could go to jail which is just on a
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completely other completely different level so right and we're talking again
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we're talking about you know going to you know
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presumably this is this is another gamer maybe even a gamer you know so let's say
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you're buddies and you're being a jerk and using an Aimbot or whatever else so
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this is a k to you being at your budd's house going in front of the TV and him
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calling the cops and them not just
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saying yo leave but them arresting you
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what was it a fiveyear sentence potentially up to five years putting you
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in jail for up to 5 years and finding
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you the equivalent of like
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$5,000 yeah so so so if you take it to
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the real world being a jerk example you
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can see how this is the wrong way to behave and there should be consequences
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but you can also see how given the you
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would you say my my example is fairly parallel it's yeah it's good I mean it's
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I was actually having a conversation about an unrelated issue um with someone
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earlier today about this that there's plenty of things that are frankly just
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dick moves in society but that that we don't criminalize you know we say we say
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this is bad and there might be some consequence for this but we're not going
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to NE necessarily Chuck you in the jail Cale for it that's right I mean there's
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there's a lot of stuff that is you know
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uh public urination okay well that
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actually is against the law but it is against the law but they but they throw you in the drunk tank for overnight or
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whatever and they let you out MH
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but but it's not a fiveyear sentence well sometimes some places put you on
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the sex offense registry for that so you're in there with like the child
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molesters and stuff maybe publication bad I understand what you're trying to
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say though okay let's talk about like graffiti then okay so graffiti is is a
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similar you are not you are not making it so someone's building doesn't
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function anymore yeah it's just not a nice thing to do you're wasting their
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time and potentially wasting their money property values will go down too which
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is exact actually exactly what we're talking about wasting someone's time and
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money so is it criminal yes but does it
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get a 5-year jail term potentially no
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mhm with that said do you think a big part of the reason why they might have
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such a high maximum is not because they necessarily intend to enforce that kind
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of thing for someone who installs an Aimbot and pawn some noobs or whatever I
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my guess but for someone who's creating an Enterprise out yeah yeah I mean my
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guess is that some person who's just doing something they think it's a joke
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they wouldn't get that they probably I also read that this was an amendment to
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something so maybe there's some other stuff that's punishable by a Max five
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years that would be more serious I mean I don't I know extremely little about
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how law in South Korea works but um it
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reminds me of um a case a couple years ago in Georgia where I think there it
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was I think it was a comp siiz student at Georgia Tech and they had just beaten
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the University of Georgia which is like one of their big rivals I think in the football game and he hacked into ug's
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computer system and put and just change put something funny on like one of their
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like University web pages it wasn't anything super malicious but he got
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charged criminally for that and taken in front of a judge and it kind of blew up
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because I think he was facing five or 10 years in prison like at Max for that but
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of course he didn't get that the judge was just like that wasn't good don't do
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that again they put him in like some sort of diversion program and it was okay but um as far as so this is
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probably something kind of similar but I guess if it is bad enough if you're winning some sort of huge Enterprise
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then maybe they could come down on you so very interesting very very
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interesting and there's also the uh the small matter of their president being
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mired in like impeachment proceedings now too so I don't know how that's if
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that would affect anything but there you
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are all right our next topic Ubisoft
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Executives find 1.2 million her for
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insider trading during um watch Watch
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Dogs it's funny isn't it funny that it's called Watch
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Dogs does anyone else get a kick out of this um they should they should have
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called the sequel whistleblowers speaking of oh you know
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what no never mind I was about to say something political and now I'm not
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going to but I don't know it was it was I was going to poke fun at Hillary for a
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change so do you think do you think I'm I'm evening out my karma well one no but
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I think the more obvious Target is Martha Stewart even though she's not a politician oh no I was I was going to
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poke fun at Hillary's whole um we should we need to come down on fake news fake
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news reporting thing I'm not even going to touch that because if you offer an
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opinion on fake news one one way or another it immediately becomes political
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so I'm not going to touch it but I this does remind me of the joke they made on
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South Park Martha Stewart Living with an electronic ankle bracelet oh yes yes yes
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but anyway yeah all right so basically
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getting back to our getting back to our Watchdog story here in mid November a
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French Finance regulator has accused had accused five Ubisoft Executives of
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insider trading back in 2014 including the head of Ubisoft Montreal so
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theor de fin handed down the fine ear
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today Ubisoft has told Kotaku that the publisher will be appealing the judgment
28:28
they believe those involved didn't intentionally commit any crime so the
28:32
AMF is specifically accusing those execs of having prior knowledge of the
28:36
watchdog's delay and then taking advantage of that privileged information
28:40
to sell their shares before the value dropped I sure as hell would have sold
28:44
my shares before Watch Dogs came out oh
28:47
good lord I'm glad I don't didn't own any Ubisoft shares and I didn't know it
28:50
was going to be delayed and it was going to be a terrible Port because uh yeah
28:54
then I could be in trouble right now so the delay announcement caused Ubisoft
28:57
shares to dropped 25% in value back in
29:00
2014 Ubisoft is arguing that due to the processes and timetables involved in
29:04
game development those involved couldn't have known about the delay at the time
29:08
that they sold shares which to which I would say okay
29:13
maybe I don't run a major game developer
29:16
but to say that at any stage in a
29:22
project an executive wouldn't have any
29:26
ability to find find out if you know
29:30
we're somewhat on track or if we're going to be I how late was watch dogs
29:35
again I don't remember how late it was it was like really late it was really
29:40
late and really unfinished in a lot of ways which is another indicator that
29:45
they were more late than even they ended up being so to say that you know I would
29:52
have no way of knowing at an early stage in the pipeline of production of a video
29:57
project of our s whether it's going to be delayed is just kind of asinine um
30:03
this just seems like some butt covering because insider trading is sort of a big
30:07
deal um and based on the 1.2 million euro
30:12
fine apparently others agree so there's that MH that's not a small amount of
30:17
Euros that's many euros that's many euros that's over one million euros
30:23
yeah okay so here is some bad news for
30:28
Pebble owners specifically and Smartwatch enthusiasts in general if
30:34
there was any doubt left in your mind that the Smartwatch Market hasn't taken
30:39
off the way that uh Smartwatch makers
30:43
would have liked to believe that it was going to then this pretty much seals it
30:49
Fitbit formally announces that it is buying Smartwatch maker Pebble rumored
30:55
to be something to the tune of a $40
30:59
million acquisition making it about 15
31:03
million more than Casey neistat's
31:06
beam and Casey neistat so there you go
31:10
in the few years that you existed Pebble you at least managed to achieve a higher
31:14
valuation than Casey neistat one
31:20
person I'm I'm disappointed I'm actually disappointed in a lot of things I'm
31:24
disappointed in the way that um SmartWatches haven't taken off the way
31:28
that I'd like um a more vibrant Marketplace means more Choice more
31:34
options more development um and right now like there are certain like my my
31:39
wife wants a new smartwatch she's actually running a uh Pebble time no
31:43
Pebble time original Pebble Pebble time I think don't look at me yeah sorry
31:48
she's running a pebble time I'm pretty sure uh the one with the color e in
31:51
display the first the plastic one though not the steel um and she really likes it
31:57
but it's not not particularly feminine and so she's been asking me to find her
32:02
like a really functional like a women's smart wom's Smartwatch and the Apple
32:08
watch is great if you like the iPhone
32:11
but um my wife doesn't like the iPhone
32:14
and right now there are not a ton of great options out there and um one of
32:19
the things that Pebble was doing differently is they weren't building on
32:23
Android Weare um so it was actually legitimately different and it was a
32:28
pretty good experience on both Android and iOS at least the last time that I
32:32
tried it um the other thing I'm disappointed
32:36
in is how this whole thing is is going
32:41
down with respect to supporting pebble's
32:44
existing customers so let me just see
32:47
here we go so Fitbit acquired the
32:51
technology but they are not acquiring
32:54
the hardware products so what that that effectively
32:58
means is Pebble is right now effective
33:02
like immediately when they announced this uh December 7th 2016 they are no
33:06
longer promoting manufacturing or selling any devices they'll continue to
33:11
work as normal no immediate changes to the pebble user experience will happen
33:16
but and this is the next bullet point Pebble functionality or service quality
33:21
may be reduced in the future so basically what that means is there will
33:25
be absolutely zero ongoing developments so Android you know uh what's Oreo or
33:32
you know whatever what what else is o oh
33:35
o desserts oregano oregano oregano oh I
33:39
wasn't listening to most of what you guys just said I was going to say creme
33:42
brulee but that doesn't start with an o you guys are both awful I that's not the
33:47
point I contribute Oreo he comes up with oregano which is the right letter but a
33:52
spice and you come up with Creme Brulee which I don't think has a single o in it
33:57
no it doesn't an O dessert huh that's a
34:02
really good question orange something you could go orange cream orange
34:07
creamsicle orange orange creamsicle is orange by
34:12
definition there are cream soda and lime
34:15
flavored ones that are pink and green but do you have to append that and if
34:19
you just say cream sickle by itself isn't understood to be the orange
34:22
variety that is a wonderful question one
34:25
that I'm sure no one in our audience cares to know the answer of and if they
34:29
did they would Google it and post it inat which someone probably will no no I
34:33
I was discussing it too I'm just orange sorbet there we go orange
34:37
sorbet that's just I mean just putting orange in it is kind of cheating though
34:41
um all right so anyway Kickstarter backers who haven't received their rewards will get a full refund it may
34:46
take up to 10 business days blah blah blah orders including Pebble to order
34:50
pre-orders which have not been charged for are no longer being accepted
34:54
warranty support gone warranty support
34:57
no longer available for Pebble watches this is a crap move and Fitbit you guys
35:02
are not very nice people for doing this um because what nice companies do when
35:07
they acquire a business is they provide
35:11
warranty support and honestly it's something that wouldn't have been that
35:15
hard to do Pebble has existing inventory presumably that they are not selling
35:20
anymore all you have to do is allocate a
35:23
little bit of your customer care like a little hidden part of the website
35:27
somewhere and a little corner of your Warehouse to
35:31
Pebble stuff and kind of go okay we'll provide warranty support for x amount of
35:35
time or until all the pebble products are gone we'll do our best we'll provide
35:38
90 days or whatever the case may be um to Sheba when they acquired ocz they
35:43
continue to offer warranty support for the uh EOL ocz products it's in my
35:49
opinion the right thing to do but because at that point it's your product
35:52
that's right so I mean except that they didn't acquire the hardware products
35:58
so I think that's just pretty crappy um
36:01
and if you want any third party accessories then you can buy them on
36:04
like Amazon or Gadget wraps or whatever the case may be
36:08
so really don't like the way they handled this and um I I don't I'm not
36:14
really not sure what else to uh to say about it apparently jobs were offered
36:19
mostly to software engineers at Pebble
36:22
uh Pebble founder and CEO um will not be
36:25
staying on with Fitbit after the acquisition basically it's largely a grab for Pebble
36:30
software assets and
36:34
platform bommer hope your Pebble doesn't
36:37
break it will at least maintain services so that existing Pebble devices continue
36:42
to work as normal but continue to work as normal is sort of a meaningless thing
36:46
to say because what's as normal the normal will change as you know Oreos and
36:53
you know parfet and whatever the case may be come out on the inside yeah think
36:58
of Q dessert do they do they make do they make dessert kiche is that a thing
37:02
or they all just Savory like with the cheese and stuff I don't know if anyone
37:06
makes dessert kiche well think of another q dessert then because I got
37:11
nothing can you mix Keen wall with sugar
37:15
that sounds disgusting but sounds awful it does um speaking of things that sound
37:21
not awful Squarespace that's right Squarespace
37:27
doesn't sound like much of anything really what does Squarespace
37:32
sound like to you it sounds like like it
37:35
reminds me of like a cubicle that you work in because it's square and it's a
37:39
space that you work in I was going to say it sounds like where the cool kids hang out which is kind of the same thing
37:44
I guess oh yeah let's like over to the
37:47
the square space and get totally lit and YOLO stuff I don't know so what
37:53
Squarespace actually is is a platform for building your very own website
37:58
whether it's for you personally you want to put up like a portfolio or a blog or
38:03
whether it's for like your sports team that you coach on weekends and you got
38:08
saddled with like what I have to create the website for the team I don't know a
38:11
bloody thing about website creation Squarespace makes it easy because their
38:15
templates all I can't remember how many they have think it's like a couple dozen
38:20
all of their templates are easy to use and look great not just on a square
38:24
shaped screen but also on a rectangular screen Square rectangle they should call
38:28
it like they should call it Flex quadrilateral space yes quadrilateral
38:33
space I've never actually tried to run a Squarespace site on a circular display
38:38
but now I'm tempted yeah yeah hey you have your uh some of the Smartwatch
38:42
faces are circular not that one yeah not this one but well okay so we're going to
38:46
put a pin in that one for now but basically every website comes with a
38:50
free online store they've got their cover pages feature that allows you to
38:53
build a one pager in like minutes and
38:56
everyone can now publish content in Apple news format directly from their
38:59
Squarespace blog module making it available to millions of potential
39:03
readers that's not to say that anyone will actually necessarily care about
39:06
what you're posting in your blog but if they did they would have a super
39:10
convenient way to access it so you can start a trial with no credit card
39:14
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supposed to say that anymore offer code when to get 10% off maybe I'm wrong I
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thought we had a directive not to say you shouldn't you are officially not as good of a Luke as Luke sorry it's
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workout like a regular wash it would just still stink workout stink no well
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no not it wouldn't stink but what would happen with a lot of my workout clothes
41:15
was they would smell fine when they're dry and then the second I sweat in them
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again it smells like I never washed them at all it's got like that that rank kind
41:25
of like like painful when you inhale it
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kind of and it's embarrassing cuz I'm on a badminton court right so I'm like
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moving around and people are like are like lunging through my stink whiff you
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know Zone thing and anyway it's gross so if they could do like like track pants
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about oh no no it's fine I gave up on you your lost cause MH oh so oh so
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you're giving me a preview of my employee review next week okay awesome
42:24
at least I know at least you do MH um I
42:27
hate to surprise you all right so Toms has been hard at
42:32
work benchmarking the snot out of the upcoming kbl lake
42:38
i77700k so we've got some excerpts here but obviously if you want to see the
42:43
full numbers then you should definitely go and check out their review over at
42:46
tomshardware.com um but there you go
42:50
it's a little bit faster in terms of
42:53
Maximum overclocking speed than um the
42:56
67 K on the same board so they don't have z270 boards yet so we don't know if
43:02
that'll make much of a difference but traditionally it hasn't really done a
43:06
whole heck of a lot moving on power consumption
43:12
is really is it that much higher wow than a okay I haven't
43:18
actually read the review so that's um that is not a small Delta there
43:22
interestingly overclocking it from 4.2 to 4.8 GHz doesn't make much of a
43:26
difference difference a little bit 15 15 watts but
43:32
like here they're pretty close at stock speed it's a pretty big difference and
43:37
then finally here's all the rumored I guess sort of rumored I mean Intel's
43:41
road maps are not exactly rocket science to figure out um once again we're going
43:46
to get two k skes once again they're going to be like a little bit better
43:50
than or worse than the other and they will be
43:53
overclockable once again we are maxing out at four cores you're going to get
43:57
you know hyperthreading for eight threads on the i7s and uh you know
44:02
what's really great about all of this for me what's really great about all of this for you lonus what is great about
44:06
this for me is that this
44:11
video from Techquickie the most viewed video
44:17
ever on Techquickie coming up close to the most viewed video I have ever been
44:22
involved in I think this is my second most viewed video of all time the fire
44:27
truck uh fire Tru I believe is still ahead of it yes thank you for bringing
44:30
that up is still
44:34
valid one two and a half year wait one
44:38
and a half hold on yes that's two and a
44:41
half years later where I explain that
44:45
cor i3s have two threads with hyperthreading and core i5s have four
44:49
cores with no hyperthreading and core i7s have four cores with hyperthreading
44:54
or they have more cores up to I think the one thing that's now wrong is the up
44:59
to how many cores in i7 can have CU I believe it was either six or eight at
45:03
the time and now 10 but but I mean hey
45:06
consistency in branding is very important so there there you go so thank
45:10
you Intel for maintaining the status quo
45:14
for the last two and a half years so my video can continue to be a rock star um
45:21
even though the comments under it are astonishingly cancerous it's funny
45:24
anytime a video of our goes outside of our core viewer base um
45:32
it is amazing how quickly the uh the the the the like hate
45:39
comes back it's not really that surprising though honestly not a good
45:45
classif classification there are several I5 processors out there that out preform
45:49
preform the i7 boring dumb video from a guy who looks like he have he have fake
45:54
teeth Yep this vid looks like deeply gin
45:59
Pleasant Jan Pleasant like I'm not even trying lonus Tech tips ripoff oh it's
46:05
lonus oh oh Steph okay very cool info we got that by
46:10
the way lonus it's j it's not gigahertz it's gigahertz also I can't believe that
46:16
after the two-minute Mark you really start explaining the actual topic this could have been done a lot
46:20
better um apparently I'm looking Dandy
46:24
as F this guy kind of talks like popey
46:27
you talk absolutely nothing like Popeye no I talk absolutely nothing like
46:33
Popeye um yeah so there's that pause this video
46:39
anywhere and it looks like he's taking it up the bum well let's see let's try
46:44
there's only one way to know for sure if that random person on the internet is
46:50
right I mean it's probably possible I
46:54
believe everything I read on the internet
46:57
okay well he said at any point you just have to no no that one's not very good
47:03
so there oh okay yeah there I'd
47:10
say you look very normal in like the the
47:14
full two seconds before that and that's the one so far we're at about
47:17
75% yeah still
47:21
okay
47:24
okay yeah all right well I got to I got to give it to random internet comment or
47:29
number number seven there
47:35
um okay oh oh so I have as long as okay
47:41
if we're if we're done making like jokes about butt stuff I have heard a rumor of
47:47
an unclocked K skew of a core I 3 I'm
47:51
not sure if that's been confirmed but just keep a lookout for that for an
47:54
unlocked core I3 like an i3 whatever
47:58
they did the Pentium anniversary edition before so there is a precedent for this
48:01
yeah yeah so it that would be that would be pretty cool so all right I am about
48:06
to win another bet so I won my trump
48:10
will win the election bet and I am about to win who you bet oh it was that other
48:15
guy so yeah it was you looked at me so no no and I'm about to win my bet about
48:22
the iar that I made probably about eight or n years ago
48:27
mhm cuz I was like How can Apple
48:31
continue to increase asps their laptops
48:34
already cost as much as a decent car maybe they'll just sell cars I was
48:39
at Tim Horton's with my camera guy back at NCI and I was like they're going to
48:44
do a car and he was like No And then my prediction Beyond car was house they're
48:50
going to do like templatized houses that
48:53
are all basically the same and if this house is good enough for Tim Cook it's
48:57
good enough for you they might have like like an i house and an i house plus so
49:02
two different sizes and I think that they are going to fully integrate their
49:08
basically controllers that they've managed to hypnotize half the freaking
49:12
population into carrying around so they're going to take these and they're
49:16
going to integrate them with your self-driving car and with your auto
49:20
autonomous house and the whole thing is going to work together like billio and
49:25
damn well you're going to like it so uh
49:28
yes can I help you taking this for the laptop just sign it out loan
49:34
out we have a system for these things the I house plus would have a basement
49:39
but the mortgage would be twice as much Lenovo
49:42
phone Lenovo phone the Fab yeah um I think so I'm not
49:48
sure someone handed it to me Dennis was asking if I had it because it signed out
49:52
to me or something oh that makes sense
49:55
cuz origin in my office yeah sorry I didn't know it
50:00
was signed out to you the system sort of works anyway so
50:04
Apple has acknowledged for the first time that they are investing in self-driving cartech in a letter to us
50:09
transport Regulators Apple said it was excited about the potential of automated
50:13
systems in many areas including Transportation adding there are significant societal benefits of
50:17
automated vehicles to be realized Apple has registered several car-related internet domains including apple.car and
50:22
apple. auto we have an Apple Auto Glass
50:25
here I wonder if they're going to have to change their name company spokesperson for Apple said
50:30
the letter to the national highway traffic safety administration was prompted by its heavy investment into
50:33
machine learning and autonomous systems that it wanted to help to find the best practices in the industry the five-page
50:36
letter including written by blah blah blah etc etc etc whatever I was right
50:40
we're all going to find out I was right and it's going to be great I'm going to be happy you sound like a um a radio
50:45
disclaimer yeah sorry about that okay nostr Linus you have any other
50:48
predictions about Apple for us Alex Goes High posted on the Forum oh I guess not
50:53
Windows is coming back to ARM
50:57
yeah these are my arms let's see your
51:00
arms no no all right well Windows is
51:03
coming back this time with 32bit x86
51:08
compatibility which is like not good enough but is a lot
51:17
closer to where it needs to be so this is not the first time that Microsoft has
51:24
been capable of running Windows was on an ARM-based machine in fact um those of
51:29
you who were around when it happened the
51:33
Surface RT was an ARM powerered Windows
51:37
Microsoft Surface tablet it was or two
51:41
in one technically I guess but it it was not a great experience it was a it
51:46
wasn't it was just called Windows RT like it wasn't Surface RT well yeah but
51:50
it was it wasn't a direct oh the OS was Windows RT yeah that's what I said so so
51:56
yeah yeah yeah no no I was sorry I was talking about Surface RT running Windows
52:00
RT Windows RT which I they but they had to change I think the code base because
52:04
it was ARM is that right or uh so yeah so basically it was based on Windows 8
52:09
but it could run on ARM and they ported Microsoft Office and in fact they
52:14
couldn't even sell surface RTS with an included copy of Microsoft Office like
52:19
not a trial like they actually included the full office suite that you could use
52:23
on it and it still wasn't enough to make people
52:27
get into it because it couldn't run
52:30
regular x86 applications meaning why am
52:34
I running Windows at all you're just limited to like maybe some things you
52:38
could find in the Windows store and a few other things so this is new
52:41
Microsoft demo Photoshop running on a
52:44
Snapdragon 820 very freaking cool so this was at
52:48
the win HC Hardware conference in shenzen and they announced a range of
52:52
hardwar driven initiatives to modernize the PC and address two big goals
52:57
expanded support for mixed reality and to produce a range of ever more
53:00
efficient mobile always connected PCS powered by ARM processors so qualcom
53:06
powered Windows 10 um PCS will hit the market in 2017
53:11
with a full Desktop Windows 10 variant coming to ARM there will be a 64-bit
53:16
version running on qualcomm's latest and greatest processors so presumably the
53:20
Snapdragon 835 and the way that Microsoft describes it it will offer a
53:25
full Windows Experience with the ability to run not only universal Windows
53:29
platform apps from the store but regular win32 desktop applications it'll include
53:34
built-in emulation for 32-bit x86
53:38
applications and the emulation will be used only for application code the OS
53:42
itself itself and all system libraries will be native 64-bit ARM binaries
53:47
pretty freaking cool so actually no I had misunderstood an earlier part of the
53:50
notes so no this is the bomb so wow how
53:55
far along like do you think the Snapdragon 820 is
53:58
because the reason I'm asking you is you talk about the Photoshop demo which sounds extremely impressive and it might
54:03
be but I do know that there are um there
54:07
are versions of I think Photoshop I think they had it for like Chromebooks
54:10
or something where it part of it was Cloud processing so it I wonder if it's
54:15
maybe partially the same thing here it might not be I don't know I doubt it I
54:18
suspect you could and I I think we're going to see more of a move towards
54:23
offloading processing to the cloud at some some point um but right now it
54:29
sounds like it's just running natively on the device I mean if you're Intel
54:33
right now what are you
54:36
thinking well um let's see it what so
54:40
it's um let's see it's you're saying a full desktop
54:45
variant coming to ARM so I mean how many think how many you know sff PCS are we
54:50
or tablets are we going to see necessarily running this you know it
54:54
could be a lot but is there anything to indicate everyone's just going to pick
54:58
this up pretty quickly or here's my indication that people are going to pick
55:02
this up really quickly the iPhone
55:05
7 already in some benchmarks performs
55:10
similarly to the Apple MacBook
55:14
2015 does anyone need to use the squeegee to scrape off I have a scraper
55:19
thank you I've got a scraper too yeah thank you edel it's snowing outside so
55:23
already in some benchmarks Apple has caught up up to the throttled down
55:30
performance that you can get out of a very low power Intel processor and
55:36
already customers buying running out and
55:40
buying the Apple MacBook 2015 have
55:44
validated that this performance is acceptable for their use so with
55:50
Hardware offloading of let's say hvc
55:53
video decode like some some key video decode
55:57
and you know what what else would make it an optimal media consumption device
56:02
let's say the storage controller is still sophisticated enough that you have
56:06
fast storage performance so web page loading is really Snappy all that kind
56:10
of stuff that wouldn't be that hard to do yeah is there any reason for a basic
56:13
let's say a Chromebook like experience but on Windows or a Macbook like
56:19
experience that you wouldn't say okay yeah no I know a lot of people who would
56:22
be totally down for that in a Sleek device that lasts for like freaking 18
56:27
to 30 hours on battery or whatever the case may be the only thing that I would
56:34
think of is if you need to run something a little bit more specialized because
56:37
although like you know this ARM processor might be awesome but it's
56:40
still reduced instruction set so there are still going to be things that you
56:45
can't do it's not it's might not even be a question of performance it might even
56:49
it might be a question of is there there is thing I need to run can I even run it
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at all but other than that yeah which means it could be dog slow yeah but it
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should should TM should run I feel like
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for mainstream you'll paron the expression but mainstream usage it would
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it might be as good as you're saying so yeah
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sheesh that is
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uh that is that is pretty exciting speaking of pretty exciting I like
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flipped out when I saw this SG posted on the Forum thank you for that the
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original article here is from polygon
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wow Nintendo debuted the switch with
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Jimmy Fallon and it's actually a great
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video um it's NBC so I suspect oh wow
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it's playing I'm surprised um
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normally normally NBC stuff um I've had
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I've had trouble with it ends up region locked so here I'm just going to I'm
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going to go ahead and pause it we're not going to play the whole thing but
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basically oh this isn't even the same clip I watch on YouTube where is it hold
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on where is it where does he feel it here we go here we go here we go so it's
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under it's under thing Jimmy Fallon freaks out I mean half of it
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seems to be playing it up for the camera but that's his job so I'm not going to criticize him too hard but there it is
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actual switch Hardware holy freaking crap uh you fast forward a little bit
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there it is actually the Next Generation Zelda game um I'll give Fon this he either is
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legitimately a Nintendo Zelda fan or he
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really did his research he did a great job of the spot uh talking about like he
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he pulled out of his hat um you know quotes from interviews with shagaru
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mamoto like how he had talked about why it was open world and this and that um
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so he was either very well prepared or uh or he's legit like a Zelda geek um
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they showed it running in switch mode which is really really impressive to
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anyone who hasn't already seen an NVIDIA Shield portable or
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tablet um and yeah it looks pretty bananas uh
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there's still a few things I need to know about it I got to know how much it weighs before I'm willing to accept this
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as a mobile gaming system I want to know what those uh thumb sticks feel like but
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Nintendo has traditionally been pretty good about this yeah have you seen this
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video um I haven't seen it yet okay I will say just about your comment about
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the gam pad um the Wii U which which um
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my wife well my wife and I have a Wii U and wow uh it's it's uh the game pad is
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much much lighter than it looks so okay
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yeah it's worth it just for Mario Kart 8 but um actually that brings me to
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another question do you know if the uh switch is going to have any launch
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exclusives or is it just going to run Wii U games at first I actually don't
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know what I heard was that um yeah what
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I heard was that uh Zelda breath of the
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wild was going to launch for Wii U
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first and then you were going to be a able to play it on switch as well once
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that launches but I could be I could be wrong about that um I haven't been
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following that closely the last Zelda game I played was Twilight Princess so
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I'm sorry I've let down I've let down everybody I have let an entire console
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generation Pass Me By since I have played through an entire Zelda game can
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you believe Twilight Princess was 10 years ago time flies like I was playing uh Wii
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sports with my son the other day the original Wii Sports yeah oh wow yeah
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well I uh my Drive died so I actually replaced it it was like 30 bucks or 40
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bucks or something like that so I replaced it cuz I was like I mean I
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actually invested pretty heavily in the Wii like I have four nunchucks I have
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four wiimotes I have two classic controllers like I've got a couple of
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like steering wheel add-ons like I've actually got a bunch of crap for it I have do you have the we fit Fitness pad
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I used to my wife got it and she didn't
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use it I have a friend that also got one and it just sat in the corner collecting
60:54
dust so amazing how that happens actually did manage to sell it so not
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for what we paid for it but you know anyway the point is that um I I've
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invested kind of heavily in the Wii and I was kind of thinking you know it's not
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like it's not like it's not a novel gaming experience if you've never seen
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it before it's the definition of Novel my son loves it it's like can we play
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Wii tennis like yeah sure why not um what else we got here
61:22
today blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ah Samsung May permanently disable Galaxy
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Note 7 phones in the us as soon as next week original article from The Verge
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apparently they've gotten back about 90% of the devices but that means there are
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literally tens of thousands of people out there who still have not returned
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their note 7s the time to do it is now
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because they are actually going to Brick your device um you've already had like
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almost but October November almost 3 months to deal with it deal with it
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they're going to modify the software to prevent it from charging the phone will
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no longer work so stop stop fooling
62:06
around there's another rumor here this one was posted by good to good to Fu
62:11
fried fried something I don't know whatever it's supposed to buy a guy on the Forum uh rumor has it the Galaxy S8
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is not going to feature a 3 and 12 mm
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headphone jack it looks like The Dominoes have already begun to
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fall I will talk about this a little bit
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so I've actually been using um I've been
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using the iPhone 7 as a daily driver for almost a month now for the last little
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bit here uh reason being that I've been working on my MacBook Pro review which I
62:44
was supposed to shoot today but didn't but is fully written so we'll deal with that next week um and I wanted to
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immerse myself in the Apple ecosystem and uh so that combined with my time
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spent actually reviewing the device I have a more firm impression of what I
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think of the whole dongle dongle culture
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Apple being a dongle company that happens to make other stuff now that we're that we're heading towards because
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it's not just Apple yeah so Motorola
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already has their zforce um no headphone jack um I forget
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who it is it's one of the uh xiaomi or one of the one of the Chinese companies
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has had a phone without a headphone jack for quite some time
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and uh I'll say this other than one
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specific use case which I have found
63:34
very frustrating so I actually uh sleep
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with my headphones in and play at the same time yeah with my phone playing in
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my ears it helps me stay sleeping when
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the baby cries at night because I have to work in the morning my wife deals
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with her at night um other than that
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which has been very frustrating which is about a $10 solution if you just by a
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dongle it hasn't really bothered me and
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this is as someone who doesn't use Bluetooth headphones I just with that
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said I only recently started carrying my
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earphones around in a carrying case so now that I have a carrying case it's not
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a lot of extra effort to have a dongle in there for when I'm using the iPhone
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but if I wasn't still using a carrying case and I was just throwing my
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headphones in my pocket still it would bother me but as it is honestly it
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really just hasn't been that big of a you're so organized lus well you have to
64:28
be when companies don't put ports on their products I mean it's the same
64:33
reason that I carry a dongle for my razor blade um the second it didn't have
64:38
Ethernet I was like well I'm carrying a dongle forever
64:42
now and maybe I've just gotten used to it maybe we're all just going to get
64:47
used to spending another hundred bucks on the adapters that we need in order to
64:51
get the functionality that our products really could have had in the first place
64:54
if we were willing to compromise a little bit on their thinness and lightness but I'm not bitter if I sound
65:00
bitter it's because I'm not doing a good job of Faking that I'm not a little bit
65:05
bitter thinner and lighter oh it's a good thing Luke isn't
65:10
on the show because it means we can cover this really quickly originally
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posted by GA ran on the Forum wow after
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the blizzard shutdown Legacy World of Warcraft server returns this month the
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nostalrius team no longer waiting for blizzard helps to launch the spiritual
65:25
successor and we've talked plenty about nostalrius on this show so we're going
65:29
to call that pretty much good for today AT&T to cough up $88
65:36
million for cramming Mobile customer
65:39
bills original article here is from networkworld domcom oh you
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AT&T um some 2.7 million AT&T customers
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will share $88 million in compensation
65:55
for having had unauthorized thirdparty changes added to their mobile bills the
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FTC announced December 8th these refunds will represent the most money ever
66:04
recouped by victims of what is known as mobile cramming according to the FTC so
66:09
everyone gets like 35 bucks or something awesome I think it's a little more than
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that I'm going to pull out the calculator 88 divided by
66:19
2.7 32 so you were right good work $32
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you're welcome I guess you can go to like a
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Prime Time movie and get like one of the big drinks or something I don't know
66:32
yeah yeah that would work one big drink one big drink yeah I I should rather get
66:36
the popcorn cuz if you drink the whole big drink then you have to like go to the bathroom like in the middle of the
66:40
movie which is bad terrible it's awful it's terrible like that's the thing
66:44
about movies is like it's almost like they're timed so that during the climax
66:49
you're going to have to go pee and you can't enjoy it this is why I do not
66:52
spend money on beverages usually at the movie not only are they overpriced but
66:57
they will detract from your movie watching experience at some point and if it's something like James Bond where if
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you miss like one little bit you miss the whole thing then forget it this is why I wear a bag on my leg oh you you
67:07
have the stadium pal where you you just you just carry your urine around
67:11
strapped to your leg I mean is it really any different from carrying your urine
67:15
around inside your bladder yes because
67:18
yes because because it's outside of your body and it doesn't make a distracting
67:23
schluck schluck sound when you every time take a step so do you hate people
67:27
who wear Stadium Pals is this is this a thing do you hate these people I don't
67:31
hate those people I just think they should you know go home and rethink their lives so all right so on that note
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thank you for tuning in to the W show we will see you guys again next week same
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bat Time same bat tannel uh stay tuned for the broken outro yep that's broken
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all right are we doing after
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party we never do anymore because we do
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this at it used to be that we filmed
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uh before the end of the day if I recall correctly but now we don't
67:59
so I actually don't remember when the wo broadcast time changed but uh it just
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kind of
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happened someone please make a clip of the butt sex
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scene oh that thing where the guy said yeah no no I I I I know what it
68:22
is someone's asking why we didn't talk about about
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relive um radon relive capture stream
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and share your greatest moments and gaming wins with Radeon reive modify
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settings quickly conveniently and play seamlessly with the something something
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there now we talked about it up to 3%
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impact on frames per second um major streaming platforms
68:48
inapp toolbar which is just as awful as
68:52
NVIDIA's by the look of things I can't believe NVIDIA's redesign design of
68:56
their stupid uh Shadow play settings
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thing where it's like these ginormous buttons in the middle of the screen
69:03
instead of sensible toggles custom overlay features and
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details lots of different encoding support including 2160 P30 that's pretty
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sexy on the 470 and up um cool there you
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go now we did you're welcome
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bye