Scrapyard Wars 7 Pt 1 - NO INTERNET
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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3,522 words · ~17 min read
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okay
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i don't know the rules this time me neither i'm always the one who announces
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the rules but i don't know what they are Colton Colton no internet dude
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no internet no internet
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okay how are we supposed to build a computer with no internet they've got two thousand dollars to
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build the best bang for the buck pc but
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they have to do it without internet they've got three days to do it and on
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the fourth day we find out who the winner is in this edition of
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scrapyard wars brought to you by dbrand
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okay so the one way
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that you can benefit from the internet
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is if you ask someone a question and without any prompting
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they use the internet to find the answer for you
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i'm at a complete loss right now because i know a lot of people will look
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at the at the amount of money i'm holding and they'll go well that's easy
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but what's not easy is bang for the buck i can't spend it
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all i have to shop as though i have
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as close to zero of it as possible
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if we need a paper map it's us up to us to go get one which is actually slightly
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problematic because i don't know where the heck you buy one i think i'm just gonna get in the car and start driving
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basically the only places that i know how to get to are bcit
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quantlin technically but i don't know if they have computer courses there and
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best buy because other than that i pretty much use gps to
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get everywhere and i can't now not even the not on the internet gps in my car
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thanks thanks rules i rarely think of like using google maps as using the
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internet but i can't use google maps so i can't i
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don't know how to find anything good luck
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you too for real though yeah i genuinely hope you do quite well
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because one of us needs something thanks d brand
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nice guys nice guys d brand this is your idea
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well i didn't think it would be like this it didn't occur to me that i couldn't
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use email i actually kind of wonder how necessary
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the map is because i'm not going to be able to find
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anywhere that i don't already know okay so the girl in there was really
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helpful they don't carry street maps anymore
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but she did have this handy-dandy printed map of the local area
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which i guess is better than nothing like i really appreciate the help but i
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do have to wonder what the purpose of this is
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they've got their location circled and highlighted
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but who who are they giving this to they're they're already here thought
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process right now is i've found a few
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terrible ideas at best buy but the guys there were really helpful
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and they did what they could um
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and we have some options okay so
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potential idea the it's a little low spec but it's
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really cheap uh because i think it's been like in an
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oh it was an open box return from like a long time ago that's just been sitting
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in the back uh 300 watt power supply a10 7800
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eight gigabytes of ddr3 the powerslide would need to be cranked
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up because i'd need to put a graphics card in there
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it's really cheap we're gonna try a little bit more
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sneaker networking i'm gonna go to bcit my old
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university and brandon's old university i'm really hoping i can find someone
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carrying like a gaming laptop or something like that that is a big goal
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approaching random people has been difficult for me mainly because i don't
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want to be a burden on people or annoy them i'm
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certain that won't bother Linus at all
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okay so i got this street map of
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the entire fraser valley for six dollars
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crap uh excuse me this might be a bit of a long shot i see
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you're cleaning up though do you happen to have a phone book
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yeah no phone book okay
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that was worth a shot what about an old computer are you selling any computer stuff
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okay it was worth a shot thank you stuff that is the most desperate feeling thing
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i think i've ever done there is a very distinct possibility
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that i am going to end up having to go to a computer store and buy a computer
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what is geeks rs let's find out what geeks rs is here there's no parking way
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to go geeks r us more like losers with no parking spaces
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on us hi hey how's it going uh good uh what
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kind of a store is this exactly i was just driving by computer repairs
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computer repairs um do you guys deal in used hardware at all
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like selling it or just having it well i mean
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both i guess what do you need um like second gen
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core i7 third gen give me a second sure when i get more
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desperate i might get to the point of just going to computer stores and asking
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people there but that's like pretty rude to make a deal with me
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under the table on some stuff that they own on the side
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like that's the kind of thing that they would keep on the on the dl on the cl
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you know even if it's like something you have personally i'll deal under the
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counter anything i'm desperate okay so what would be what would be fair
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pricing for these i'll leave that up to you oh yeah it's up to you guys
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honestly i would give it to you if you i would take it for free i
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can't take it from you i mean the i5 6400 you wouldn't give
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that away you can't get award for it it's useless to us
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so here's the situation um these guys have some older used stuff
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but they don't have pricing for anything because this is all in the like put it
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in a bin and take it to free geek once a quarter pile so i think what we're
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probably gonna have to do is keep exploring but
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this was a solid lead unfortunately the best graphics card they've got that's
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not a quadro is a 7770 and i think that
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might be a little bit underpowered for our purposes okay
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thank you very much this has been very helpful um we'll just put it in the bin
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okay literally we have a wall of bins wall of beds they just can i see the
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wall of bins i mean you know we've got all our different memories and
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okay you know this is where you keep your memories our memories i've been for
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my memories too just because you know you've got everything server parts okay
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do you mind do you mind if i just kind of poke around in here a little bit
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excuse me have a really random question so i noticed you were working on a laptop
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that wasn't a mac i just wanted to ask if
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you or anyone you know are trying to sell any computer parts
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okay thank you very much uh i'm working on a project right now
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which is like a competition where i have to build a computer sure i'm not allowed
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to use the internet to find any of the parts
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and i can't buy them from traditional brick-and-mortar stores i have the case
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and if i still have the case but i do have the RAM just had to find it i never
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needed to go to the it desk we talked to the first guy behind the i.t desk who
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yeah has some stuff at home that he's looking to get rid of which is hilarious
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he had some RAM and a case which is unfortunately
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like in the lowest section of things that i
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need right now but i have his number he's going to contact me when he figures
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out what that stuff is and maybe maybe he'll know someone else who has
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some more things as well apparently i bcit as a whole just finished their
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finals last week and is currently in like marking time or whatever so it's
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basically just teachers here so plan a right now is to go to a bunch of
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different repair shops cell phone repair shops laptop repair shops stuff like
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that and try to see if they might know anyone or they themselves outside of
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that work have some computer components that i can buy
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video description okay so
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here's a 1366 xeon now the problem is that uh it's an e5607
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whatever that is no internet i don't know i've been conditioned by the much
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higher quality of information on the internet to not bother to ask people in
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stores their opinions what if i showed up with an apu
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as long as i could run fortnite at 1080p
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that could be an excellent value
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so they've got an a10 5800 series not
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sure exactly what chip it is here's some ddr3 though
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that's potentially interesting so this is a four gig two by two kit and it
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looks like they've got a couple of them okay
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well you know what this has been very helpful gentlemen
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and um we may return i'm assuming a motherboard
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in this bin is dead okay no the motherboard seemed like
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it's worth a shot the workstations aren't dead the xeons in here aren't dead but
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they're going to salvage they're going to salvage are they
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okay thank you very much gentlemen
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possible that i'll return my options are somewhat limited
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how did people get the word out about things
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before the internet signs
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let's go decorate my car selling
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really such a long message selling your
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i can't do like block letters i wasn't paying attention in that class
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in grade four you know
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what is this shut up i have literally
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never done this before this is just based on watching other people do it
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tell you
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i'm not sure if you're purposely trying to no i'm not
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want to buy right yeah my plan for the next few days is to try
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to come up with a better plan than this
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now i don't think it's enough to have this on the inside it's kind of hard to
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read through the dick butt so i'm going to put it on the outside of
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the car yeah it should be fine
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where are you taping it onto i'm going to tape it onto the back window was
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there any doubt that i was going to go full ed that's not even a good job
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of wrapping it just shut up i'm working on it okay that's fine got this
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okay this might have been no advised
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that's not going anywhere let's go find a phone book this seems
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like a total long shot but do you guys have a phone book
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i know right got a bit of a long shot question do you
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have a phone book uh i'm your neighbor from about six doors down
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long shot question do you guys have a phone book hey uh long shot question do you guys
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have a phone book it is amazing how hard
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it is to find a phone book i was laughed at
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literally laughed at
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do we get a shout out in a video if we do
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do you have one no you can't say yes until we don't
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that's the the art of negotiation would not say that we say what we have before
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we declare what we have you guys are savages
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oh my word
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oh okay
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ed our our good neighbors cover star thank
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you very much i can bring it back in four days
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yes we have a phone book
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oh i mean this feels like a total shot in
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the dark but video production services if i can find
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an old workstation holy crap there's a listing for
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industrial vibrators
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you've just dialed a number that isn't in use
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oh for two would not be a good start here
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i don't think that's alpha video productions anymore
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hi uh this is a bit of a random question but do you guys have any old
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workstations that you're looking to get rid of like for money i would pay for
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them uh what do you mean exactly
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um like you guys do video work right no we don't oh never mind thank you you're
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under video production services in the uh yellow pages so i feel weird
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for cinematography wow yeah okay that makes sense thank you
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okay bye
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okay here's a post house they will have powerful workstations for
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sure the customer you are calling is unavailable at the moment please try
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again later i mean do this many businesses just disappear
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is unavailable at the moment please try again later
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hi um this is a bit of a long shot question but do you guys have any like
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pc gaming stuff systems
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we don't unfortunately do you know anyone like even if it's not
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willow video who who has some gaming hardware that they might want to get rid
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of um your best bet is honestly craigslist and
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online like ebay amazon uh you could try crazy bob in downtown
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langley he signs up has run stuff including pc stuff
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oh okay i'll give that a shot thank you okay crazy bob downtown langley
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okay let's try some pawn shops i've never had
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luck with these before though but the thing about pawn shops
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hi i was wondering if you guys have any computers or computer hardware
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we have laptops laptops say
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do you have anything like gaming grade yeah we have an alien right now
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really ital i7 quad core with 16 gig
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memory
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right multiple drives
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that's Windows home 7 premium okay uh
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and what what are you guys asking for that one 12 49.
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okay that's that's pretty rough okay okay
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all right that might be outside of my budget thank you very much okay right
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good luck hello hi i just got a text from you over the
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computer system yeah sorry so who are you
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oh i legitimately just looked you up in the
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yellow pages i'm just looking for a workstation i thought people who work on
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video editing might have old workstations uh we have workstations but we uh we
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need them all why would he call me back
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the yellow pages is worthless
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it deserves to be dead how can this many places be closed
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what if i wore a shirt that said i want to buy a gaming pc
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and then people would walk up to me
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want to buy i mean it's not the worst thing i've
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ever done it's a pretty low bar though oh you can't even
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read it it's like way over under the ARM
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i'm not gonna tape it onto my back i already look like enough of an idiot
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okay so we've only got like an hour and a
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half left so we're gonna check out the local community center
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uh to see if we can get a list of events around here that maybe would attract
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nerds in the next couple of days and then we're gonna go to crazy bobs
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uh because apparently according to willow video they have stuff sometimes
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oh getting stuff in and out of the back seat is um
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gonna be a bit of a hassle now oops oh because you taped your door
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closed yeah so back when i used to paint houses uh
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this was how i used to drive
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with my hands at nine and three on the steering wheel because that's what they
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taught me in driving school
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this is the worst i want the internet back
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i think this is like really old
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because there's an overpass in front of us that straight up is not on our map
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call check out the overpass take this away from you now
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i need that no you don't i need that how am i supposed to know where i'm going
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you can't operate a camera and defend this map at the same time
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i think we are about to have a no internet
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experience here because i don't know where exactly crazy
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bob's is i don't immediately see it
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and i think i'm going to have to ask for directions
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this seems like a really long shot so
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while i do really appreciate them trying to help a brother out
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i i do not have a lot of confidence that
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this is gonna yield anything you can just wait here i i don't think
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this is a thing i feel like an idiot in this shirt i'm
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taking it off wow they have like everything here
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you know like army of darkness paraphernalia
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you know like that kind of store well there's a community donation center here
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there's a thrift store and there's a value village
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this is the editor viewer dual eight
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i think this is a film viewer here's another
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thrift store electronics section oh it's a dual shock too
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six bucks i'm buying it this is for me personally though this
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has nothing to do with scrap yard worse whoa
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what is this
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oh oh it's just a heat sink i thought this was a CPU
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that would have been unbelievable so i'm feeling pretty good i got myself
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a playstation 2 controller and a lead on an lga 2011 box heatsink so i was gonna
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just leave this here tonight
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but i need to get my badminton stuff out of my trunk
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yes i should have just done it on poster board ed thank you
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thank you captain hindsight i was saying that while you're doing it
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it's all hindsight now a big thing that i learned today is that
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the entire market for used computer stuff has moved online it's a high-tech
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category so it makes total sense that the people selling and the people buying
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time on scrapyard wars i don't want them
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to lose money either like i'm not in the business of just screwing people over i
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i don't want to be like i don't want to be rude or anything but like that's not
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worth anywhere near the sticker like not even close a
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fraction of it