Tech Showdown - Candy Battle Pt. 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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3,126 words · ~15 min read
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let's copy the world's ugliest fan
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do you want to go to the warehouse now and start doing water cooling and then we'll head out okay afterwards let's go
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look for water cooling okay and then yeah we can come back
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both teams were given permission to do their water cooling with stuff from the
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Linus warehouse problem is luke and Linus didn't
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actually get the message so the bs mods guys get the first crack at it
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at the link below we could do cream accents
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with a brown base
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we have to commit to something it's two o'clock
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yeah okay let's do it then i don't think it's the greatest idea
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i've ever had but like i think for us to win this we really needed like a super
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killer idea and i don't necessarily think that we
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have one so let's do it so let's get this banged out as fast as we can
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do you want this kind of candy color or do you want
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this kind of this kind of candy color okay here's here's a crazy idea i'm
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sorry i'm changing gears on you again that's weird but if this is
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gold brown we could reuse the gold caps
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and do the base brown
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but that would be that would match the theme that would match the color scheme
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but not the overarching theme forget it i i said a dumb thing and we're all gonna
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just forget it brandon wasn't recording that anyway this is a pretty ambitious project that
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we've put in it in front of ourselves
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everything's [ __ ] we're [ __ ] you know we're gonna lose right yeah let's
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just try not to get humiliated yeah like i don't want to give them the
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satisfaction okay i'm just going to cry i think because
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that's probably fair
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everything's [ __ ] let's just give up let's just take all the candy off the
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shelves literally jam it into our tower
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and build a computer
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oh my god
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that could have to be kind of cool i think we could make that work a dark spin to candyland the dark side of candy
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and like the the like d on candy land is like
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if we could illuminate the candyland sign i don't think that would even be
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that hard um and have the d like kind of falling off
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and not illuminated oh god okay that is a lot of work that's
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like two hours of work yeah but the candyland sign would
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probably be pretty important okay what color
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green no because it doesn't look like grass
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so we get fake grass from somewhere and then i'm not worried about the color too
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much so we could just go with brown okay so i think what we're gonna do is
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kind of divide and conquer rather than trying to tackle everything together we
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have the general theme kind of figured out
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luke kicked my ass with his diorama skills in the second
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tech showdown something like that so luke is in charge
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making this the
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why don't you guys like talk a little bit or something you know
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okay and then i am on transforming this
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desktop surface and figuring out how the uh
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scenery is going to work
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so i'm going home depot he's going to michael's we're both going to look for
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some inspiration and uh i'm like on a roll with this we'll be
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vlogging it up while we're there this dress right now so i'm going to get this finished so i got to coat this
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i gotta figure out some paint coatings for some other stuff
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since i'm covering things i might as well figure out this horrible zit on my nose
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now that i'm out of earshot i'm finding this place pretty oppressive
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i just got to get out of here man working with luke the worst it's the
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worst so we've stripped down the case where no
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we're painting it painting it inside outside some accents colors
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pulled the tray out everything plastic rubber is gone we're gonna be doing hard
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line water cooling right um hopefully to
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GPU and CPU we also might use these gigantic this is a 400 millimeter
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reservoir these might be actually mounted onto the desk
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and not inside the computer which will bring the hard line
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across the computer and the desk and tie the whole thing together so we don't
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have an actual plan really no
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but we made it look like we did we have elements we
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we just wanted them to sweat a little bit so we what we when we get a good mod
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it usually revolves around a lot of elements so we're trying to just develop
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each key element okay some of the things we know that we're going to use we're
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going to have we got to have movement right
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we know that we're going to do some big candy like giant well we hope as long as
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we can find them we want some big giant yeah lollipop whatever things um we're
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gonna of course light the underside of the desk we're gonna try to use the
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sawhorse desk parts right um we're gonna
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try to enclose those with acrylic and then we were probably gonna do something
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with some sort of signage or a whole front skirt on the front of the desk and
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do some sort of uh signage like call it
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uh something something candy shop like win winning
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winning team candy shop we just ran into
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the pink lamb right here and so uh we know that our competition is in the
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store so we're gonna let some air out of their tires to slow them down just a
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little bit you know i just i thought this was gonna be like
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you know a by the rules competition these guys
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just keep camping it up in my aisle here
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camping it up in my aisle we're trying to scope out the
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competition oh the hide yourself
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yeah as if you guys have anything worth hiding
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okay that's the we are so [ __ ] just [ __ ]
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off that's the underside
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like it's fine okay so i have a little bit of this gold left
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i don't think it's enough so i bought another one but we can return that if we
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don't need it this was just in my car don't worry about it ignore that
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so this is i believe the same gold but new
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it's not the same at all so that's cool
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these are these are rollers
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so what i think i'm actually going to do is i'm going to go chocolate brown on
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the edges and green turf on the top so the desk
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actually has like a two-tone look and then do you want to do chocolate brown for the legs too
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not necessarily i still think we should get the wrapping paper which it just
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occurred to me we appear to already actually have
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oh okay so i wonder if we can just borrow that
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here's a white there's actually a bright red spray bomb in the workshop right now
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okay check out my toy store haul as well okay one quick thing i got the fondue
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machine they didn't really want me to vlog in the store so here's my vlog for
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getting the fondue machine i also got a bunch of multiple chocolate for it uh oh
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yeah so hazmat guys
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um yeah i figured we could just like comically cross that out
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and write something else i think i think this will be good i don't know
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what is this that's like accessories and stuff you you have to buy them at like
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see their heat sealed you have to buy them as like these sets this is just a
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bunch of extra stuff so i have um i have like a pallet
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that's cool and i have like a cage that goes around it
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if we wanted to have like some finished candy in there
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i have um i tried to get as much of this kind of this could be like wasteland
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behind the computer because i don't know absolutely this could be yeah um and
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then our hazmat guys could work on that i got the hazmat guys come with hatchets
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for some reason so i got them to throw in some brooms
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for them cool okay so hazmat guys have brooms now but they only came with
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hatchets yeah i know right or like pickaxes or whatever you would
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call that sure okay they're mining plutonium with pickaxes
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yeah sure why not so right so this is the um
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the like area behind it or whatever and
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these guys are like working on it or whatever yeah cool i love that so we
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should leave a sig like a fairly significant amount of space behind the computer if we can
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okay um maybe the behind the computer isn't
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even hidden on an angle behind it it's like beside it over here
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and then candyland is over there cool that's good you sound worried i'm
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[ __ ] worried i am like i could not possibly be more
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worried right now we are we're gonna get our ass i think
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them being allowed to do like super crazy multi-loop water cooling and us
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not is like not really fair oh i don't think that matters i think that's a
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complete waste of time super matters oh no way are you kidding me
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stephen what yeah but remember like
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he's going to go wow there's his water cooled yours is not you're [ __ ] plebs
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absolutely we are not allowed yeah
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doing it now is probably an issue yeah even then i don't think look i
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think if we try to go head-to-head that's for the keyboard
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if we try to go head-to-head those are stupid
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um like hardline water-cooled build versus
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hardline water cool build we're gonna get our asses kicked anyway
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they're gonna do a better job of it right so we're better off executing
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our style better than they would execute their style or
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if not better than funner and i know founder's not a word but that
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was sort of my point sure we're the funner team you know
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it's like we don't really get it but we seem nice you know
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one of our shirts don't fit yeah
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some nice pink spray paint thanks bro we got
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uh steel rod we got stuff from the candy
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shop oh you're excited about that shop stuff a bunch of paint prep stuff
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our chalkboard that we talked about uh we got some
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of these lights right here that we're gonna use above and below RGB yeah RGB
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everything all the stuffs and then our sparkly uh stuff we showed you
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we got some sparkly glitter glue stick things
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and then all the associated like you know supplies paint rollers that kind of
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crap nothing too exciting so all right let's get moving we're going to go in
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there yeah we're running outside bye
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we don't have to worry about the edge because we're working all right
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so these are yeah full
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by the time we get it cleaned off okay we're about to do that in the
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morning okay all right five minutes
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so from what i can tell those guys haven't done anything that looks good
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so um yeah we could just wait a whole another day
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don't touch that because it's not secured in any meaningful way
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okay the idea evolved from
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a flowing river of chocolate that the user can consume
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into having it be like like a candy
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place themed into having some things
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maybe be wrapped in foil but then be chocolate inside
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and then into now the tower is a factory
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and outside is like where the workers harvest the materials to make candy
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the guy can't even stand up what
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well no that's fine we'll just hot glue everything
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i mean all of those changes occurred within a span of a couple of hours
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meaning that there's been very little decisive action
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and very little time to act on it wait the decisive action is the action i
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mean this is what this is what i'm talking about because we get fun you know
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like that's what this project is supposed to be about it's not supposed to be all
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like serious who can build the best you know modded computer or whatever look at
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these guys they're like
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so i don't have the paint booth set up right now which means that
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this is pretty much our best bet
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um preferably
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yeah this isn't ideal tuck tape tuck tape hit
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me with the duct tape nice throw
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okay
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their measurement of a good day
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how much painting you can do maybe it isn't about painting
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and i'm gonna spring into action springing into action for day two
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let's get on this first things first i need to get another
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coat of my stain on here got my got my dark brown stain i got one
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here you know got other ones that i can't show you because it's too hot for
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tv i mean that's hot to some people i think
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like maybe we could do like a brick street kind of deal and use like
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kitkat bars and have the wheelbarrow there and they're like laying them out
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on top like GPU or something totally cool um this is honestly not the one i
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wanted they didn't have the one i wanted in stock but i think it'll get the point
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across uh it's probably good enough yeah
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so i'm gonna work on getting this while you finish disassembling i'm gonna work on
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getting this uh cut out and i want it to line up as perfectly
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along the sides as we can get away with i reflected a lot last night
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and i'm coming into today
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feeling a lot better actually
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today's a fresh day it doesn't have to be affected by the
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failures of yesterday
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so this is what we call the comfort surface
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i think we need a mouse pad or else we'll lose some points because our comfort surface is like exceptionally
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uncomfortable yeah no oh it's not exceptional i mean it's a
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little uncomfortable you definitely red mark your hand like real fast this has
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to come off and i need to do some more staining
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tell me objectively does it look bad like no and you're gonna cover it anyway
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so why does it matter okay fine good while luke and Linus are going with
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brown the other team is getting started with good old-fashioned white hopefully
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their plan for painting won't be as big of a letdown as it was in scrapyard wars
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yeah so i just finished cleaning off all the stickers that were on the case so we
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could paint where those were and then just kind of wiped it down with dinner
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to get it ready to paint
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okay so i got full coverage on the first coat i'm gonna let that sit it might
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take a couple hours
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i'm not sure how to get these grates off of some of these parts but i'm working on it great
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get it yes we'll make it great again
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we need to jury rig ourselves some way to hang things once
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we're done painting them honestly luke
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i think a good enough paint job
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plus our x factor could be enough to do this
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maybe because i honestly don't think the judges are going to look that closely at
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the paint biggest mistake yesterday was not just
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like going with something and then just like
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frantically doing it i think that's what we need to do for the next three days well that's yeah
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yeah i don't know if i agree on the first part but that is what we need to do now
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there's kind of a wild card here because uh like i really didn't see this team
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assignment coming i mean literally no one did i think
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not even Colton yep oh yeah you were here for that right yep
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Colton's like what that doesn't make any sense
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i'm not going to be the kid on the school yard that whines about the teams
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i'm going to be the kid on the school yard who makes the best of his crappy team
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luke and Linus might have a shot at making up for their slow start they're
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going full speed ahead with whatever half big idea they have but will it be
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enough find out next time on tech showdown