Tech Showdown - Pixel PC
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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5,405 words · ~27 min read
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welcome to tech showdown the theme this time is pixels that's it last time it
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was future we we all saw how that went so hopefully it goes a little bit better
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this time i'm here with severus and i'm here with ant venom we've got some game
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streaming game youtubing guests to go along with our well potentially very
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game oriented theme but first introducing the hardware so Corsair
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provided their 600c case a nice clean blank canvas for us to work with we've
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also got h115i water coolers rm1000x power supplies along with some
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dominator platinum memory to go with our maximus eight extreme assembly
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motherboard our MSI gtx 980 ti gaming
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graphics card our 6700k processor and
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last but not least are cable mod cables and lighting so beyond all that stuff i
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just listed the rest is up to the imaginations of the two teams and i wish
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the other one luck not because i want to wish them luck because they don't seem
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to [ __ ] need it because this is gonna be my third time losing if i go down
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again here so i wish myself an aunt venom luck
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we got this i'm confident let's go
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Intel skull canyon nook features a 6th generation core i7 processor and
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Thunderbolt 3. learn more at the link in the video description
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okay so now one thing i'm a little bit concerned
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about is this top panel doesn't seem to
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yeah it seems to be like riveted
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in a way that i was not expecting it to be hang on let's see what we're doing
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there i mean oh at the top here oh that shouldn't matter yeah it's like
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we're not doing the original thing on that remember i mean look look what's
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set there like that's not even required no you're good okay yeah so the top
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panel is your problem okay the right panel is your problem yep left panel is
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my problem and the front's my problem how did i wind up with like the two like
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showcase pieces it was great
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hey man you wanted to be a guest so you know
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i'm not saying i'm not owning up to the challenge i'm going for gold here well
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you said you wanted to win so we're giving you the uh i wanted to be among
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the team that took luke down that's right that's right we're taking luke
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down he's not he cannot be undefeated
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yet again okay so this is nice this front canvas comes off for me like
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really really beautifully wow which is going to give me a lot of uh
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a lot of room to work here so i have to get started on this right away
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because i'm relying on multiple layers of paint to dry fortunately it's
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extremely hot today okay let's take all the crap off just oh
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so i gotta get started on this right away okay i think
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i'm gonna we need to do painting really really quick i'm going to lay everything
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out though
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uh which is the top that matters sorry which is the top for this this is well
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the clip goes on yeah this is the top okay
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okay yeah this is top yeah should we have uh brown in the middle so there
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should be a brown stripe in the middle look up an image
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well there is no top down
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yeah the path brown and then we'll build it up on the other end right okay so six of them there we go
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regardless of my planning for the uh for the paint here i need to get this first
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layer on like extremely quickly here so
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i hope this tape works properly um
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okay paint oh all right i need to paint all of
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these yeah do all are all of them like that
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have you tried this one backwards i don't want to like reveal anything
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does it actually i don't actually know if it matters no it has the arrow
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oh it's just it wiggles a lot i just go arrow towards you
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it just wiggles a lot unless it's not oh
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whoa it's pretty tight it's pretty tight yeah yeah right now i'm just sort of
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tracing over this area right here and then i'm going to like practice cutting
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this material and then make sure i get the cut really smooth because sharpness
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is like a key thing here making sure that it all looks really really good
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it makes sense with this so i am working on a multi-layered paint
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job that is going to be
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the dog from duck hunt here and a duck
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so this is going to require about six layers of paint which means i need to
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get started painting it
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immediately because i mean it makes sense because our guest today is sky does minecraft
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right wow you went there
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it almost like it even though i know it's going to turn out really well it
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makes me feel so useless as i'm going along because i feel like i could be doing so much more at once
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i did not check the drying time for this paint not that we had a choice because
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the colors that we needed were only all available in this uh this tremclad rust
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paint stuff but it wants one to two hours to dry i'm gonna have to find a
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faster way to do that okay so it's a hot day
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but where is the hottest place you can think of on a hot day
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inside of a black car or at least a car that used to be black
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so this is the sky color for the front of my case
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and i'm going to be basically baking this dawn
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in the inside of my car
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now that will hurt its adhesion
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but i only need this to last for a few hours
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so step two is i actually need to take my design
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and count pixels well okay yeah that's fine i'm just
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gonna draw myself a grid and use this
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nice big piece of paper here and i'm going to take one of those
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pencils that you yeah hate it on so hard
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i'm just breaking down my graphic here that i want to use
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into how many squares by how many squares i
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need here i noticed speaking of squares that they already managed to have
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something painted before we started here so i'm not really sure how the [ __ ] that
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works this is for the mario road up on top
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sure so this thing which will play
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these things that's not descriptive right
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is theoretically going to go up here
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so that it can be accessed from this area
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all of these are going to be used literally
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i guess i could probably leave with that to the theme um yeah and then we're
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gonna use this
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along with these which we will color to make sense with
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this and these which will create the thing that
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he's coming out of um
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and then that whole situation is going to go up here
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and then this
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you can maybe figure out from what he's doing right now pretty self-explanatory
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if you know what's up yeah yeah and then
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there's gonna be some of this stuff going on
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and then uh these guys are gonna explain everything
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and like how it all works with like this thing and stuff
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um and yeah the other stuff you'll just have to kind of come along see how it
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goes that might be the one
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i'm just checking to see which ones are the sharpest by rubbing them against my
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bare fingers because
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okay this cuts right now to make sure that i
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know how this is all going to break apart and like how it's going to look so
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i think i might be okay but i might do
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what i might do is cut a little bit too big and then just sort of
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make it make the cuts thinner and thinner until i get the perfect shape
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so i'll say to figure out all right
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just the fact that i have these lines that cut on made this like such a brilliant find because the scissors are
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just kind of like gliding with it this is this is probably going to look super
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sharp yeah i need your i need your uh i need a
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judgment call over here for a minute okay
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to make my life easy i can work with centimeter-sized pixels yeah
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and that will make this graphic
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go to about here okay so it'll be about this big
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that's but that means i'll have to cut off his head about here sticking with
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the bottom wait what do you mean so like it's gonna go from the chin up
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i'm gonna it'll it'll mean that i'll have to make a lot of adjustments to
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okay to the size of my grid okay um
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i mean if you think we got to do it then we got to do it so i'm just oh actually
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you know what you could do is there a way you can like zoom in on that picture super far and then we could
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like use a scroll wheel and like actually see what it'll look like cropped
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with the duck i could see it but i mean the whole hand so you think we need that
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basically down to that that's what i'm thinking personally okay
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so this is not the right size oh my god there's there's a CPU sitting here
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just what the heck all right
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you really only care about getting the tops of these and some of the sides
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i'll sort of piece it together so that the ones that i get the sides of
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will also go on the sides of the the build
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and the ones that have the non-painted sides
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those will go on the interior and hopefully math works in our favor
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and uh we have enough with a half sides painted
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oh yeah
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okay what do we got yeah a little bit wide on each side i
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might end up making it a little bit taller just while i'm cutting it okay
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and then we'll surround it with blocks
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yeah there's no way to take this off and cut it
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so i like really if i screw up the cut we're just like done
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oh man if it's screwed up or if i scrub the top
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of the case like i i can't get another case
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i'm a little worried about this one
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all right good so first incision made i'm actually really satisfied with that
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result my one centimeter by one centimeter grid
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that i need for the big the big my big contribution to the
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project so aunt and i have divided up the labor so each of us is taking on one
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smaller project and one bigger project
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so we're prioritizing the bigger ones right now and then whoever has time left
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over will actually build a pc i guess
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well you'd be surprised how often that's happened every single time
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that's perfect ah it's so good
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so good we we actually should do an install the install pretty soon not all of our
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blocks are the same size you know what that just adds to the charm
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that goes there sounds like Linus is doing a lot of the
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work over there yeah i thought this was supposed to be a team project
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this was like the best find am i gonna really free ball this one
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free ball freehand this one
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i hope i didn't make this too big i don't know if we have enough
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blocks oh really like i thought we got it a lot
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but yeah the
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magic doesn't happen
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so it's just sort of making it look close to right at this point
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that's about the best we can do i think it's fine
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people say picasso was a great artist i say check this out
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so good okay so i think i'm good i ended up i cut off
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one pixel on the wingtip here
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which i don't think really affects the look
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and gives me one pixel of margin on either side
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so now what i have to figure out is
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the order in which i want to do the colors
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so what i want to do is layer my tape onto this template i think i really wish
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i had used the shiny side which i would feel more confident about removing this
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from but i want to layer on my tape cutting really really sharply in such a
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way that i can remove layers as i want to apply more paint
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wait no that won't work hold on i need to cover it more as i want to apply more
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paint wait
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so i just need to file it down a little bit nice but like it turned out really
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well so the stenciling on the back obviously it's not showing through at all yeah that's great so
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just file it down a little bit and it's gonna look sharp i mean it already does
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look pretty sharp okay so i really wanted to do this with tape
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but it does not appear as though i'm going to have a choice which might mean
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my lines will be a little bit less clean but i think that's a sacrifice i'm going
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to have to make here so i'm going to go see how dry it is i'm going to do my dog
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and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to use the x-acto knife
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to cut out color by color and then i'm going to use tape
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to fill in the gaps as i do other colors
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part of me was worried that this would like bubble or some something like that and
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i'd have a real problem on my hands
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in fact that actually looks kind of fantastic
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that paint is still tacky though that
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is a huge problem because i can actually live with the
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other colors being tacky because i'm going to cut away my top layer as i go
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but this one cannot be i think i need more airflow
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this paint i can tell you one thing for sure this paint's going to be wet when
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the judges are judging
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i've never used one this big to do this job i don't know if this will work
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this is too big but it might work it might work later
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whoa it's all good you okay
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all right so right now like i made this second shape i mean i haven't cut it so
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it's not a time waste but i looked at that and the way that this has to go on
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the side panel and i'm like yeah maybe not the smartest idea maybe i should get
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something of the same width so i'm gonna do that i'm pretty worried we are down
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to an hour and a half and i have basically not started painting yet the
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good news is that this second panel is relatively straightforward so
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not a whole lot to go wrong
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all i'm hearing over there is time is a problem so i don't i don't really feel
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bad at all like i don't actually feel like time is too much of a burden for me
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right now i'm feeling good everything about everything we're doing takes forever
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we are not doing well for time thank you for asking all right so yeah Linus is using the
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x-acto knife so like as you can see i still have like a lot of cuts to make here but i think i'm just going to leave
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this be for now and then work on this material for the shape that's right
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there and then we'll pretty much be good to go and like looking at this
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we're looking at this versus looking at that like that's gonna be way easier to
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cut i'm not even gonna have to think for that this is like the little pew pew
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thing that's it's a square okay snap
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that off do that right there
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and bam final shape so all i need to do is take the x-acto knife to this guy and
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we're done like this entire side panel
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you know you can have a look at what that looks like does it look
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like pixel art like is it perfect no does it look like pixel art yes
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so the term five foot mod okay so i'm starting to get deeply worried about
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drying times here this is still very tacky
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not to say it doesn't look good i think it looks great it just feels very tacky
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so i'm a little worried about how
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i'm gonna get my stencil on top of it
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without completely destroying the finish and i really don't have a lot of time to
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wait anymore so what i may have to do is build myself
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some kind of scaffold or something that gets it very
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close and then i may just have to spray down
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as straight as i can in order to get the lines as clean as i
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can but you can see where he's gonna be
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yes all right
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all right so we're we're done our cuts that took a while
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but now i'm gonna move on to like assembling the computer and just making
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sure that we have a completed like machine that we can showcase off
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so this is either going to be a moment of triumph
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or a moment of despair
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hey that's not bad i can live with that
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you see my no signal oh god why okay
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HDMI
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i've never included an amiibo before it's kind of weird
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don't screw up i think i might have done the power
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light and not the hard drive
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so first things first i'm going to
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touch up that little spot right there
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so the good news is i did all of this in pencil
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so if i catch the light just right i can see the lines
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that could have been bad so i pick up the processor and i have it in this hand
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and the heat spreader just falls into my other hand
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so this is all i got for like
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a way to keep from spraying over the black that i've
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already done
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i don't know what the hell this is
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okay so that's two out of four colors the next ones are gonna be the ones
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where it really takes shape and i can probably do both of them in one go here
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on these fans we get these like different color rings so just to try and like color match everything we're not
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really too sure if like this color this color will really work at all so just to
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be safe we're going to go with white and just kind of go for safe as far as the
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fans are concerned so that we don't have to worry about you know getting any of
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the colors wrong everything i do now
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can completely destroy
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the project
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okay
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oh [ __ ] i think i just made a huge error
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oh my god dude destroyed it in a good way like
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the thanks [ __ ] no no they own like
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dude
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i'm shaking
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beautiful oh it's so beautiful nailed it
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okay that's like the unreally bush you have
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there yes i know okay
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here's my glove need my glove for the love
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oh
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like didn't expect what you were doing at the bottom there that brought it all together
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don't tell anyone but that was dead because this is like my specialty in my
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field um i decided to create like actually a little story around this rather than just placing everything at
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random so like as you can see like this this guy right here he this guy right
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here has no idea what's coming like everything behind him it's like everything in front of him is like nice
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and lovely everything behind them is just like danger danger danger that
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lighting in there right yeah um
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although cablemod sent us some kits that are uh magnetic oh it came unplugged
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came unplugged the RGB came unplugged
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i have to make a video dude i know
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is this actually working yeah it totally is
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plug in the controllers
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yep got it got it got it got it got it whoa jesus that's very bright
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not the most amazing looking thing ever unfortunately
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uh tape would have worked better but
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we might just have to live with that and by night i mean we will definitely
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just have to live with that
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okay i might have made a small error defined small
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uh let's say an upside down area
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desperate times call for desperate measures yeah that's amazing
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you're gonna do do the eighth
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i like it love it okay we're done done
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okay peace bros i'll see you in the judging room well
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okay so we got to move ours over there how do you want me to do this
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i just want to stay where you're at and then i walk it through the office uh
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sure yeah let's do that so because the way it hangs down it's
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gonna oh will it close i don't know yeah i think it's gonna be
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close uh hold on
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i mean if you cut it open dude i could like i can't believe i just
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thought about it but you know what i forgot it was inverted
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kaboom sucker done okay we're done
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perfect okay
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i love the build already they're trying to butter us up by saying hey take a
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mint so there's free mints in one of five collectible tins
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you want the squid one oh i was gonna go for the star one we were gonna leave
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sugar cubes yeah we couldn't find any that was gonna
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be they didn't have them at the dollar store that was aunt's idea and i was like oh it's brilliant i want to do it
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i don't know if these are real mints or not no this is cool this playable though
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like holy crap okay the case looks wicked oh you guys have a
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screen that is a beautiful duck interest that's all this guy right here
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and that's the system that's playing right now yeah it's not so computer
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there's donkey kong on the side of the glass side of the case it looks very
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cool the aesthetic is dank um
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all the buttons on this controller this is very nostalgic
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all right let's see what we got going on here because i spent the past 45 seconds
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just like marveling at how all the buttons on this are mapped correctly
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we've got like an homage to dk here like with all the ladders and whatnot um
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there's i'm not looking at here there's like a big mario sock over the heatsink
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it's kind of crude but it still looks pretty cool there's a bunch of like tetris blocks in the bottom space
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invaders machine so there's like a mario diorama on top
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it looks like they used a couple of little shot cups to make pipes which is
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pretty sweet oh and it has like the flag and everything oh this this little thing is
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official it has super mario brothers 30th anniversary on it that's pretty
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that's pretty sweet so i like this this is cool but over here we've got an
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official ant venom minecraft style wait it's like minecraft
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as well as duck hunt but it's like a
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8bit.com what's the theme what duck hunt was no i know but like
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but like is this like a minecraft duck what's the theme i don't know there's a
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thing on top of the graphics card the little orange guy do you know what does do either of you guys know what that is
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a little orange guy i don't know i don't actually play it's a creeper i don't play minecraft okay it's a creeper from
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minecraft yeah Colton knows yeah okay that's pretty important it's actually
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pretty clean overall yeah they did it pretty good oh that's that's yes plug
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iron the controllers like come on yeah
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then push the purple power button on top oh they're cool oh that's cool they put
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a little zelda emblem here too that's pretty sweet i do like the setup here
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the game is frozen though so oh good you good you good
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okay berkeley's going to keep playing um super mario we're going to finish
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looking at at the minecraft slash
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old-school 8-bit case here so we've got pong over here so what's
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going on oh look at this side so on this side
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on the mario case we are we so they also
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they both want the space invaders here that's interesting so space invaders you
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have one that goes from pac-man you have actual pac-man
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who apparently is missing an eye but that's okay okay
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i feel like the nes build has a lot more going on the inside a lot more going on
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here you have like over there all you really have was the one what would you
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call it the creeper the creeper from but here you've got like
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like the ladders and stuff from dk you've got the mario sock as basically a
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RAM cover and we don't know what's in that song
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all right so i'm gonna give the uh mario
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themed pc i'm gonna give it a 7 out of
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10. overall i liked it it has a little bit more kind of wow factor when you
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first initially see it but with the theme being pixels and stuff the more i
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looked there's a lot going on but i think some of it was a little bit kind
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of shoddily done the theming for the most part um is really really good all
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the way through um the dk ladders on the front you've got the mario sock as a RAM
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cover um most of this build has been touched in
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one way or another by the theme which i really appreciate so um in all i think
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that the nes build
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no i did not forget deserved a nine
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uh well i spent the whole time playing video games on the nest build and it had
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free mints and it looks cool uh i would say it's almost a 10 out of
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10 except it's a little bit dirty you know it's not very clean but you know
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what a little little spit shine and polish this bad boy could be a ten but
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it gets a nine for me as written right here and i wrote
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sivides name on it all right so the minecraft theme build for me
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gets an 8 out of 10. i just like it it's uh it's clean it
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looks good um i think everything all in all was pretty well executed so
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when i looked around the outside i thought the um the paint job especially
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for the duck hunt on the front where it actually looks like the duck is fleeing
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in terror very realistic i think the diorama on top is slightly more
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realistic than the nes build because there is a background but
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basically nothing happened with the inside which was a little bit disappointing but a good score i think
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is deserved for this so this one gets an eight for Linus and ant
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venom well i'll start off by saying i did
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really like the paint job on the front i thought it looked great and if Linus was
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involved you know that's a great paint job for Linus so i think he really put
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in the effort and he worked hard and
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uh but no it looks really cool i wish they had almost carried through the like
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blue paint job throughout the case because that would have looked really cool or like just like paint on the
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other panels that would have been awesome but it still looks good uh the one the pong side i thought was
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kind of shadily painted i can't really remember
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it shoddily painted it wasn't as good as the front but obviously the front of the
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case is what you're gonna see the most if it's like in a desk or something um
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but yeah i thought it was good it just didn't have the extra little flare that
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was on the other pc build so
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therefore i gave it an eight out of ten which is still good that's like
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wow wow
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did we break it and now a message from dollar shave club
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who has a completely different set of
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talking points today actually that's weird okay
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dollarshaveclub.com has a special offer for new members who
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join today cool they've actually never done an offer before you'll get a free
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month of the executive razor when you buy a tube of dr carver shave butter
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this is the first time they've ever done something sorry this is the first time
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they've ever done something like this is in the script i just i said it early because it's the first time they've ever
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done something like this and once you try dollarshaveclub.com you'll become a
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proud member like millions of others one
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reason is because they deliver amazing razors right to your door for a third of
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the price of what the big razor corporations charge which means that
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when you join dollar shave club you can afford to shave with a fresh blade
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anytime you want which feels fantastic
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so you'll have the executive blade you'll have the shave butter and they've
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got other products as well including their aftershave as well as their one
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wipe charlie's peppermint scented butt wipes for men although they are
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perfectly good just like all of dollar shave clubs products for women as well
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they ship to the us canada and australia and the call to action again is right
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now new members who buy a tuba shave butter get the executive razor for free
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it is down at the link in the video description dollarshaveclub.com
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Linus all right well gg everyone thanks for
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watching tech showdown we will see you again at the next one where hopefully i
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will finally get the victories that i have deserved every
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time don't forget to subscribe and like and all that stuff