The WAN Show - Ubi Digs & Dreamhack is a joke with CS:Go as the Punchline - November 28, 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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all right we're live and uh we were in here kind of pumping ourselves up
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pre-show I don't know if you guys heard that but we're like are you ready to
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rock and then some chick Drives By and
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she's like yelling out her car window I don't know if she was replying to us not
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but that was pretty awesome timing either way the timing was most
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exceptional really good yeah so she might have been which was fantastic
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anyways what do we got going on we have a great show for you guys today and we
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are just we are both burning to talk about what's going on with csgo like
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multiple times leading up to the show in spite of the fact that we've barely seen
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each other today we've like started talking about it and then we have to we
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have to like give ourselves disciplinary stop stop no no save it for the show
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save it for the show so we're going to talk about what's going on at dream hack
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right now team fanatic and csgo um also Ubisoft has taken a small break from
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digging at least on Assassin's Creed Unity they might be following up with
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some more digging with their other franchises but we got to give them
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credit where credit is due and when they do the right things if we're going to
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like if we're going to REM on them for doing the wrong things then we have to congratulate them for doing the right
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things um what else we got today uh Azo
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has an x99 board coming out which has two 10 G Nicks and two gigabit Nicks
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which is insanity I have two Nicks as
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well there are two people named Nick who work here yes what else we got I was
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trying to find more Nick jokes it is not December yet so well as long as you you
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know use an older joke it might have a couple Nicks in it
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oh yes okay Nintendo also files patents
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for Game Boy emulation finally and that's I think mainly on uh Android I
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think but anyways we'll talk more about that later all right we've got a couple
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of people complaining that there's no sound but then we've got other people
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enjoying the Nick joke so you're going to want to refresh your stream there
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oh wow epic fail there we go well
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it well while we're wearing Christmas wear yay Christmas
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everyone oh did you see the fan art of the of the Christmas shark so good that
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was so awesome I tweeted it out earlier this week all right no I now I'm going
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to we're going to have to have a little bit of discipline Let's do let's do
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Ubisoft first okay so hold on let's just find the let's find the unity topic here
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oh that brought up opportunity uh okay so this was posted
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by Raph banan on the for the original
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Source isst Link in chat I'm sorry post a link in chat ah yeah that's right wait
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do you want to do those uh you need to I need to there's reasons there's new
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functionality added because reasons we'll try to fix that for next week good
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enough for me because reasons is good enough all right so there's the link to
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the thread on lestech tips.com and the
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the basic premise here is and I'm even going to remember to screen share with
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you guys this week I'm going to be okay well the page isn't really loading but
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the awesomeness all right so there there you go wait I don't usually load the
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lineus tech tips Forum page that's right I usually load the source link yeah I
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know um okay so assassin's creed. ub.com the head of the game Studio behind
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Assassin's Creed Unity has emailed players apologizing for bugs in the
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video game yep and offering them free
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content which is pretty cool I know a lot of people were talking about how um
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they should have I can't even find this topic I read it but I can't see it in
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there anyways no worries I know what's going on I know a lot of people were
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actually talking about how they wanted a recall on the game entirely stupid that
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was a stupid article and no one recalls a video game the only reason you would
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recall anything is if there's like a a
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safety hazard or it doesn't even do what
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it said it did it's still an Assassin's Creed game yeah it doesn't run very well
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but that's more of a yo dog you probably
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shouldn't pre-order our stuff anymore type situation than a recall situ how do
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you even recall it's like recalling a movie well yeah
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that's a good point CU you could have already possibly had the experience um
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but then you could recall a car after someone's driven it for a long time
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that's true but you wouldn't give them a brand new car I don't even know you
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wouldn't give them their money back you fix it okay that's how a car recall
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Works a patch is basically how a car recall works so they already recalled it
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if they're patching it you know what that's kind of funny what about the ev1
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if we made game developer call their
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patches recall notices well okay I don't think that's
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fair because some patches could be like adding features
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not fixing things so that could be an expansion pack or a DLC but it's but if
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it's a bug fix they have to call it a recall notice they might not they might
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but they're taking it from you that's
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true they're not recalling it that's true so and since okay anyway case so
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recall is dumb um basically anyone who bought Assassin's Creed Unity will get a
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free copy of dead King's DLC which is
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pretty cool and I believe it's people who bought the season pass are eligible
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for a free Ubisoft game so you can pick from uh Raymond raving R raving rabbits
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I'm going to completely stop you because you're already wrong uh the crew Far Cry
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4 Watch Dogs Assassin's Creed Black Flag Raymond Legends you never let me have
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fun Just Dance 15 I was going to come up with stuff like Prince of Persia Sans of
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time no it's actual like good games like
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even games that aren't even out yet so you can get a copy of the crew mind you
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mind you the crew might just be setting yourself up for disappointment again
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although we'll we'll get into that topic next so I mean I I don't know what else
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there is to really say about this kudos to Ubisoft happy they addressed it the
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season pass will be discontinued they it's not like they've completely learned
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their lesson they didn't come out and say we aren't do seasons passes anymore
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we're going to deliver all the content we can at launch and then if an expansion pack happens it happens and
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it'll be an expansion pack not a nickel and diing you for every little thing DLC
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I'm okay with the expansion packs I'm even okay with when they're like yeah
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we're going to finish the game at this date and then we're going to work on one
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and it'll be ready when it's ready probably a year from now but when
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they're fixing like in-game currency to buy you know treasure chests and crap
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and open chests versus having the game actually like eyeball floating around in
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the air like having a big part of the game be like oh yeah you need to be
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online so you can open these chests and then being like Oh yeah you're having performance issues just go offline I
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just shut her down what yeah I did we even cover the thing where they wanted I
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think it was PS4 players to delete their friends list what or something like that
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oh crap I can't remember I kind of ignore conoly so I don't know yeah uh
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that's kind of funny okay do you want to move into the crew the crew so yeah so
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hold on by the way there's two days left in the keep on digging shirt campaign
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I'm not wearing the right shirt but this is also Highlander so it's a lus techtip
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shirt so you've got that much right yeah 50% did I pass keep on digging shirts
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are still available at uh teespring.com keep on digging with no G uh those are
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going to be available for another couple days um I wor mine to the gymm and I
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think people thought it was like a a workout thing really yeah I actually had
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quite a few people like reading my shirt I don't know that's totally off topic but anyways um um so the crew will not
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be given to reviewers before its a release date Ubisoft is claiming that
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this is because the crew is supposed to be a very large expansive World
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experience with a lot of other players in it and reviewers wouldn't have been
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able to experience that whole dynamic ecosystem therefore rendering it invalid
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and I get that it's kind of like if you weren't going to provide like okay okay
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well hold on there's flaws in the logic but just can you bear with me for I'm
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I'm I'm I'm nodding cuz I'm with you for now you were going to jump on me I was
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going to add stuff actually you were going to jump on me what for what I was about to say so for me it would be about
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like um not providing reviewer copies of
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wow like original that's actually exactly what I was going to add okay okay but but then that would be stupid
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because if you hadn't provided reviewers copies of wow that would because they
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couldn't experience an MMO the way that it's meant to be experienced with other
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players that would basically mean that you didn't test it at all which leads us
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to the next part where they see where they say that the Ubisoft The Crew
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release will be smooth the the the I
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believe it was one of the lead de lead designer says he's confident that it will go smoothly reason being we've
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reaped the benefits of a lawn beta program with thousands of players all
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over the world playing the game at the
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same time why exactly weren't reviewers able to get this game was it because
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there weren't thousands of players all over the world being able to play with them oh it seems like you solved that
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problem give reviewers the damn game what are you doing
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God and like wow had an open Beta yeah I
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know pretty sure reviewer could have jumped in the open Beta that solves that
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problem I I left that off until we got to this part because the whole thousands
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of players thing like yeah they solved that problem tons of but like every MMO
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that I really know of is had an open Beta at some point if they've closed the
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beta down by now then arguably yes
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there's no one on the servers but then you could also say well hold on a second
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why don't they just leave the beta users
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in there until lunch it's not like other games haven't done this before or even
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send all your beta users a message and be like oh did you want to keep playing
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the game we're opening the servers again for 72 hours for whatever and then just
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don't tell them oh by the way there's also going to be reviewers on the servers who cares it doesn't matter so
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then you know you've got your your reviewers running around there's a bunch
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of people who've been playing the game for a while so they so they get to have
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that experience whereas reviewers actually that's another really good
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point that I just made um whereas reviewers are going to be jumping into
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it with a whole bunch of noobs all over the place which might actually
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negatively affect the gameplay experience so if you have that long-term
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beta group that can kind of lead people around and get people in on missions and
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stuff that might be more helpful UB should be watching because that's a
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perfect idea you take your beta you end it four weeks before launch or whatever
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then you open up like a 72-hour period when you hand out the reviewer keys so
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that everyone who's been starved for it for the last few weeks gets to jump in
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and the world is nice and active with people who know what they're doing
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ah you know if you want to surrender like your business practices division to
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lus Media Group I'm sure we can handle that that'd be totally fine stop making
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games that suck common sense and logic anyways uh so those were posted by
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I ort Master race on the Forum the original article there was from
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digitalspy.com for the crew not being given to reviewers before release and
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then for the crew uh Ubisoft is sure
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that the crew launch will be smooth uh the original article there was was from
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pcgamer.com and that was posted on the Forum by Master
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disaster yeah okay so can we please yeah
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yeah let's let's do it let's do it let's do it all right let me scroll all the way down this is the main event today my
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friends um hold on let me just I'm just
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I know right this is unbelievable so I'm
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just going to bring up uh okay whatever the source that I have for it right now
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is basically a Reddit thread with people talking about it so I'll just fire this
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up but dream hack Winter 2014 fanatic
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uses boost against ldlc so let's go ahead and fire this up
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this was originally posted on the Forum by uh oh crap I forgot to put down the
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uh the op here but I think that's
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important giving people credit for contributing to the news section of Linus Tech tips.com uh here's the Reddit
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discussion right here um warning this thread contains spoilers
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oh okay I guess spoiler alert if you follow Esports events um yeah that's a
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good call spoiler alert don't miss for this part I guess although it's like
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literally everywhere so good luck okay so here do you want to so ldlc and
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fanatic are teams one and two they played the first game ldlc won they
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played the second game fanatic uh fanatic one and to give you a little bit
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of History a few fanatic players have been kind of pointed at pretty heavily
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in this recent hacking Point people out game that's been going on and a few of
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them have quite a bit of public evidence against them yeah um what's his face
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there was a there was a good compilation of of gifs yeah GI for um I still say
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GIF yeah I know I'll find it I'll find it goad
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going keep going the third game was on map Dore overpass pretty interesting map
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and a map that valve has asked their competitive teams to help them in terms
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of tuning and fixing anything things that should be balanced or fixed on map
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anyways uh the game was going 12 to3 at
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halftime ldlc was essentially wrecking fanatic uh which is that's fine um but
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yeah 12 to3 at halftime and in the second half fnatic was on the CT side
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that's counter ter side a boost at the a bomb site was found where if they use a
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couple players to kind of stack on top of each other they can get up on top of
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something by pixel walking a little bit I think they were pixel pixel walking a
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little bit all this is a little bit early on so they could see the three main pathways on the map from this kind
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of Perch Way on the back and they could use a sniper it's not like they could
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just see them they could use a sniper to shoot people from there um and actually
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kill them from extremely far away from a position that you should not be able to
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see and or kill those people from yeah there's a screenshot on the lonus tech
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tips Forum of the like the the developer view of the map where you can see where
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the oh that's interesting um where you
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can see that the areas that they're walking on are not supposed to be areas
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where you can walk and basically the the reason for that is that you'll you'll
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tend to curve surfaces so you can end up with stray pixels that can be that can
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be stood on um even though that's not the way that that surface was intended
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to be used so it's it actually clearly states in the dream hack rules that
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pixel walking is not permitted although
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I don't believe an official judgment has been passed down yet um because they're
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going to be reviewing it and they have committed to do something uh by the end
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of today um but honestly with with all
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the Poo flying around right now over
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cheating in csgo um with I mean we talked about this on the show last week
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but with with hacks as blatant as
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pressing a button and then zeroing in on the head of the nearest enemy uh being
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used and you know there's a lot of denial about whether it's been used in
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competitive play or not but there's also evidence stacking up against
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way more scrutiny than they otherwise would have been under and even if even
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if the I'm going to go ahead I'm going to call it a cheat because there is just
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no way even if the cheat gets allowed
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here we go we've got an imager screenshot of the dream hack rules pixel
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walking is illegal even if they end up getting away with this the community is
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going to hate them for doing this and
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like this is this is stupid most like uh we've talked a lot about how like it's
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very specifically Esports it's not Sports BL um that's something lus likes
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to bring up all the time uh but something notable about that whole idea
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is that basically all the sports I've ever
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played have pretty aggressive Sportsman
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sportsmanship uh like rules guidelines
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you can get in trouble you can get put in penalty boxes you can be kicked out
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of games you can be kicked out of leagues for Sportsman like conduct you can get like big fines $10,000 much tens
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of thousands of dollar fines for doing unsportsmanlike things in a game and
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this is one of the least sportsmanlike things you could ever do I would almost
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argue that in a fit of rage mid-match swinging out at someone is almost not
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the same as this cuz this wasn't one round this wasn't right after you got
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nailed by some dude this was for the
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rest of the match it was 12 the three they ended up winning what was it 16 uh
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1613 so the other team got one more game one more match after they started using
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this and I believe that match was pistol round before they were able to buy a
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scout on the second round so that they could start sniping from that position
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and then they won everything I think that's how it went I didn't actually see it so for people who don't pay much
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attention to Competitive Gaming like when you're just in a pub um you can see
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a kill cam a lot of the time so yeah sorry uh yeah like just a public random
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match on the internet you can see a killcam and you can see where guys hit
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you from and you can even spectate the other team a lot of the time not the
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case here so until they could go back
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and watch the match replay or figure out where this guy was in a place where
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where he should not have been they had no way of discovering
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um where they were getting hit from even yeah there there was there was a lot of
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confusion trying to figure out where they were getting hit from guys were
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dying and then guys were kind of looking around going like where the heck could
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we have possibly just been shot from and then that guy was dying uh it was a mess
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I think there might have only been one pathway that they could have possibly
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gone that wasn't under vision of this sniper and eventually that sniper got an
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auto sniper so it was just mowing people down and then they could just
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essentially win everything because if there's only one path that they could
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possibly come be coming from in Counter Strike you're you're going to win like I
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don't know absolutely ridiculous completely pathetic insanely
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disrespectful um I have I I don't care about that team at
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all everyone on that team should just be kicked
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out I don't know that's absolutely ridiculous I hope dream hack solves this
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properly I hope valve solves this properly there should be sportsmanlike
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conduct rules um there's rules against
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what they just did so hopefully they figure it out um I kind of hope that
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they were pixel walking just so that everything is no matter what
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invalidated uh yeah I used to watch
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Counter-Strike a little bit I probably won't ever watch it again
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after the the last little bit that's been going on Shooters in general are
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quite notorious for people hacking in them Counter-Strike has always been on
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the top of that list of people talking about games that people hack in so this
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is just kind of ridiculous well I say I think top of that list is a little bit
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aggressive what else would be I know something like cod
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hacking maybe not in competitive play so
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fair fair point
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ah okay um well I don't know I guess what else is
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there to say I wish I could find the
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um I wish I could find what are you trying to
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find the uh there's there's a the collection of GIFs that I was talking
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about from fla oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
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I'm sure Nick would be able to send it to us yeah I was looking at it before
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but basically it's just it's just like hilariously bad like you'll be looking
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over here and the camera just it does like it doesn't reload and then snaps
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and and then smooth movement again and then he and then you can tell he moves
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his Mouse to where the guy's going to come around the corners it's just just
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unbelievable and like how some of this stuff is working is you'd be able to see
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at a land oh my
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goodness hello truck you'd be able to see at a land if
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someone was using a wall hack where they could see through the wall so a lot of times it just puts your mouse cursor
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there um so one thing that I noticed even in watching one of these uh Gifts
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of fla was he was going smoothly across
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and then his cursor snapped onto someone's head and then he went smoothly
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across again and then came around the corner and shot at where the guy was but
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by the time he had moved around the corner that guy had happened to move so he shot exactly where the dude's head
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was previously but he had moved and I'm like
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dude what the hell like he pre-fired
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around the corner and missed right um very possibly um all right so let's go
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ahead and move on to our next topic I I just I okay I guess sorry one last word
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um valve dream hack administrators you
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have to do the right thing and the problem the problem with something like
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this is that it's not just one player
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deciding to go ahead and exploit
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something this was a team decision U
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their M their their coach after the match was asked about it the interviewer
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basically paraphrase just kind of went I don't really know what to say like how
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long have you guys known about this and he goes oh a couple of months um so
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there's there's even more there's more controversy the person who discovered
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this this exploit was actually posted a video on YouTube about it and claims
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that fanatic told him to take the video down and then they've allegedly just
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kind of had this in their back pocket and chose to pull it out at a quarter of
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a million dollar tournament on a map that valve had asked people the Prof
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to help them fix and help them tune up and there's been patches and updates to
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that map and if they knew this glitch was there they probably would have fixed
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it so this isn't a matter of like one player spitting on a referee you know
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what I mean and an unsportsman this is an unsportsmanlike culture within this
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organization and when you call it professional Esports professional
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doesn't just mean that you get paid to do it there's a there's a connotation
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that comes with the word professional that means I mean when I say
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I'm a professional YouTuber that means I make money by being a YouTuber but if I
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were to say that I want to behave like a
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professional then there's a whole lot more that comes along with that the word
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means so much more than just I I do this as a profession and you know seeing
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seeing them you know congratulating each other on the successful execution of
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this tactic means that this is just a
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fundamental problem with this organization there's there's obviously
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some diamonds in the rough people like Pasha P Pasha is awesome there's other
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guys in the community that are awesome but there's just so much junk to sift
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through to get to that and obviously like there might be a disproportionate
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amount of good people in the organization but how much the guys that
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are screwing around get attention makes them much a much larger group yeah so
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here's a good look at it you guys I'll go ahead and zoom in so just to be clear
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this is what pixel walking is so this is
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obviously not a part of the map that is is intended to be stood on um this
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guy right here has to jump on someone
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else to get here and then he has to jump on top of him uh so he can basically see
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the entire uh the entire I think that's
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what four ways they can go and he can see three of them it's yeah yeah I think
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it's I think that's what it was three main pathways on the map yeah kind of
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ridiculous yeah pretty pretty embarrassing like how pissed and or
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disappointed would you be if you were ldlc wrecking that whole match going 12
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to3 at halftime like really really good setup for the next uh next team switch
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and then just getting killed from nowhere for the entire rest of the match
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just to come out of it and figure out that they were essentially glitching ridiculous all right so I
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guess that's all to uh that's all to really say about it for
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now yeah um are you still trying to find that
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gift list yeah I would really like to find it that's incredibly frustrating
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that I can't find it but uh but it's okay all right all right so let's move
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on to the next thing a Nintendo patents Game Boy emulation so this was posted by
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aing on the Forum and the original article here is from Pocket Gamer so
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let's go ahead and fire that up
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um there you go Pocket Gamer oh someone
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posted the gift list right before I did that oh oh oh
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terrible terrible um oh oh hold on maybe
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we got it oh this isn't the one that I was looking at unfortunately that's not
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as extensive right yeah no there was one I had that was crazy long one that was
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awesome yeah yeah not the right one unfortunately okay so let's move on to
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uh so what does what does apparently Nick has sent it to you apparently Nick
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oh oh he has okay uh this better be the
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right one Nick no that's the that's it's the same one I'm pretty sure there's one
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that's longer than that but okay anyways all right yeah no no it's okay
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it's okay it's okay let's move on let's move on okay so Nintendo patents
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emulation on for their Game Boy systems original article here is from Pocket
26:13
Gamer I'll go ahead and share this on the screen so these are some
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illustrations from Nintendo's patent for an emulator that runs on mobile phones
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so there's an illustration of someone playing a game boy um okay there were
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some more illustrations in the you can read a lot more details about like the
26:30
least helpful image patent thing I've ever seen yeah there we go so they've
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got some more details about it so the idea is maybe we could see it integrated
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into Airline seats uh we could see it
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running on computers potentially on I
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guess that's supposed to be a tablet it's like yes this is a 1990s
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pocket PC that uh like palm palm like
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black and white monochrome display thing for some reason someone's playing GES so
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basically there's an example of an emulator architecture virtual core kead
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emulation sound blah blah blah Etc I mean those of you who are familiar with
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emulation will probably already have some idea how it works but the way that
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it's never worked in the past is with
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official sanctions from the original developers of the games now in some
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cases they're just not really around
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anymore in such a state that they would be able to that they would be able to
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defend anything so you go back you know far enough things like Neo Geo or like
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MIM emulators yeah but Nintendo on the
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other hand has the resources and has the existing presence to take the emulation
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communities um well really they're fun
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away from them I guess if you it depends
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on how they do this so if they just kind of go okay we're going to patent
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emulation so that anyone creating an emulator for a Nintendo system is
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infringing our patent and we can legally go after them and then they're just
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going to sit on all those IPS and all those old games then that's just that's
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a super doofy thing to do and they they need to go just get their heads out of
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their butts if the intention is to patent it and then create an emulation
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console and then sell the titles at a reasonable price then I have no problem
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with them monetizing their old IP in
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such a way and that was bound to happen eventually we've seen a little bit with
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things like the Virtual Console on the Wii and on the Wii U whereas if we if we
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saw them create more like cuz those Virtual Console games like just the
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whole way they were doing that where they reporting them was just stupid yeah
28:43
when they could have just run an emulator in the first place and then
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they don't have to report anything yeah yeah um so so yeah it depends on their
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approach if they're going to wait and like remaster everything or whatever
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else then that's super crappy because there's something to be said for those
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retro experiences and you you can't buy
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those retro games anymore unless you're ebaying it in which case the original
29:06
creator of the content isn't getting anything for it anyway yeah and there's
29:10
that whole there's that whole piracy argument which frankly I've talked about
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this before but I think is silly where it's not stealing if you don't actually
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remove the object from the other person in order to have it for yourself um and
29:25
if you weren't going to buy it anyway then it doesn't represent a lot Revenue
29:28
opportunity for the person that you are whose content you are enjoying um that's
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dumb but what isn't quite as dumb is if
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that content creator is no longer providing that content in any usable way
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to you well then what are you supposed to it's impossible to purchase if it's
29:46
not possible to purchase anymore
29:49
then like we're not talking about you know a limited edition Sennheiser orus
29:55
headphone where they make 2,000 of them and then they they're not available for
29:58
purchase anymore we're talking about something that is lines of code and
30:02
they're just opting not to sell it anymore and so they're the ones that are
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ultimately predetermining that there is no Revenue opportunity to be had and
30:11
they're forcing piracy it's it's it's much the same way where I think there's a gray area even with things like movies
30:17
yes okay you can buy them used but there's no you're not but not even just
30:20
that you can buy them used for one but you're not taking away their revenue opportun probably in the Nintendo store
30:27
some stuff a lot of stuff not that much
30:30
I mean do you know how many games there are for Super Nintendo yeah but you know
30:33
how many games there are that no one is interested in playing at all on Super
30:37
Nintendo okay yes I'm just saying that in some cases it can be justified if
30:41
there's no way to obtain it legally it's in much the same way that in some
30:45
countries there are a lot of movies that you just can't obtain because there's no
30:48
licensing deals in place and it's like well come on what people are just
30:52
supposed to move so they can you
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know watch uh
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Song of Ice and Fire I can't remember what the stupid TV show's called Game of
31:03
Thrones remember what the book's called that's
31:07
funny wait isn't it Fire and Ice uh ice
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and fire oh I said it wrong once I said
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Fire and Ice in like an audible.com integration or something and I got torn
31:18
apart I didn't mess up mine yeah well
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yes anyway um so I guess that's pretty
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much oh yeah so so the big news here is there are popular ROM sites that are
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already pulling all of their ROMs because ROMs have been a very legal gray
31:33
area up till now is it stealing if no
31:36
one is selling it I don't know who knows also I don't think anyone
31:42
was really pursuing it cuz they're not selling it anymore so that's
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right interesting okay kim.com is now
31:49
free so the original article here is from kit Guru and the poster on the
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lineus tech tips Forum was ful grim and I don't know I don't know how closely
31:57
you've been paying attention to the whole kim.com thing I can't find any of
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the topics but thank God for control f um I a little bit not enough probably um
32:07
I know he's just frustrated and I've heard lately that he might have gone
32:11
bankrupt um well that's not a good do the bankruptcy I I think he declared
32:16
himself bankrupt his ex-wife now has control of the Family Trust And if
32:20
there's a trust I suspect that means the money is not exactly all gone um so then
32:25
he had to get a new lawyer something something something something something
32:28
anyway the point is um kim.com was one
32:32
of the founders of mega upload which was taken down crap I think it was back in
32:37
2012 Wikipedia has a pretty good history of the whole thing but the the the case
32:42
against him and they were trying to get him extradited from New Zealand to the
32:47
states for some reason and the whole thing's been just kind of a a mess I a
32:52
complete sham um but the the argument
32:56
against him was that he was responsible or and the sit's owners were responsible
33:01
for the um copyright infringing content that was uploaded to the site and then
33:05
downloaded and the arguments went something along the lines of because I mean obviously Mega uploads defense was
33:10
well hold on a second we didn't put it there and we comply with dmca takedown
33:14
notices but then the counterargument to that was well you guys actually have
33:18
Advanced Filtration in place for things like child pornography where it gets
33:22
taken down automatically every link to it gets taken down and the file gets
33:25
removed like you guys are actually taking this series iously whereas
33:29
copyrighted files um the way that the
33:32
dmca takedowns worked is all they had to remove was that link to it and then the
33:37
way that uploads to mega upload worked was that if you uploaded a duplicated
33:41
file then it would just say yo that file's already there so do you want to
33:44
just link to that one and then a file
33:48
could have many many many links to it so it created it created basically a
33:51
bottleneck in the system where it was almost it was very difficult to get
33:55
things removed from it um and there are some arguments to be made like the way
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that they would incentivize users to post popular things because uh the more
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clicks it gets I think they actually even had an incentive program where they would pay people to upload things that
34:08
were going to get a lot of cck back then I didn't use mega upload much so I'm not
34:11
really sure well their revenue model was based on Advertising so they needed
34:15
traffic traffic traffic traffic traffic and then obviously the response to that is well hold on a second just cuz we're
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incentivizing people to um yeah thank
34:24
you just cuz we're incentivizing people to visit our website doesn't doesn't
34:27
mean that we're encouraging copyright infringements so back and forth back and
34:31
forth back and forth at the end of the day I mean come on you can't put me in
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jail because someone uploads you know a
34:41
an MP3 of Kanye West or whatever the
34:44
kids listen to these days to linest Tech tips.com if we do our best to remove it
34:50
once we receive a dmca takedown and or not even do our best cuz our best is
34:54
very subjective but if we remove the infringing content once we receive a
34:58
dmca takedown notice so um so he walked
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today uh there was a there was like there was a hearing and uh his comment
35:06
on it is actually pretty funny he posted on his Twitter that the hearing was just
35:10
like the entire mega upload case nonsensical or nonsense excuse me and um
35:17
I guess that's all I really have to say about that yeah kind of ridiculous I'm happy he's free I mean I don't
35:21
necessarily think that enabling content piracy is the most you know Noble of No
35:27
but how that whole situation was dealt with not correct messed up like
35:32
completely not fair and completely messed up uh the original article here
35:36
is from techbot this was posted on the Forum by Miss thrope and Google Fiber
35:41
rolled out in Austin Texas so congratulations to our buddies down in
35:46
Austin Texas you guys are super cool definitely cooler than us because you
35:51
have Google Fiber cuz you have Google Fiber One thing that I think is interesting is I know we're not going to
35:55
touch on this a ton but the internet access is a human right 93% of people
35:58
that use the internet think so 83 83
36:02
whatever talk about like a very specific target audience um pulling users of a
36:07
system and asking them if they think other people should use that system as well and should have the right to use it
36:12
especially internet people because you ask internet people about whether people should have the right to do anything and
36:17
they're bound to say yes and then you ask them if they should have the right to use the internet and I like I can't
36:21
even imagine who the 177% of people who said no were yeah and possibly trolls
36:26
like I like I agree with it but like if
36:30
you're going to do a poll like this at least do one that matters and has it
36:35
like number at the end that's like oh that's interesting instead of like oh
36:39
that's people saying they like something cuz they already definitely like it
36:43
anyways um I mean if it's one of those things where the idea was just to get
36:47
people like us to talk about it and spread awareness of the internet being
36:50
important for freedom of speech and you know Freedom of Information access and
36:54
all that kind of stuff then good job yeah but if it was to like move any
36:59
political stuff then I don't think it really mattered but fiber man oh sorry
37:03
I'm jumping back what I found interesting is that Google is kind of
37:07
solving this problem themselves uh if you read part of this Google Fiber thing
37:11
you can get 5 megabits per second down and 1 megabit per second up with no
37:15
monthly charge just a $300 installation fee which can be spread out over 12
37:19
months and then there's no charge that is awesome Google's kind of just giving
37:23
people actually pretty damn good internet and a 5 megabit fiber line is
37:27
better than it sounds because a lot of the time what makes your internet
37:30
connection slow is not actually the the
37:34
sheer bandwidth it's it's the latency so
37:37
that's what makes something like a web page load slowly like sure on 5 megab
37:41
megabit you might not be watching 4K YouTube videos or twitch streams but you
37:46
will have quick access to the web which is the intention and then for 70 bucks a
37:51
month you get one gig up one gig down and one tab of storage across Google
37:56
Drive Gmail and Google+ photos and if
37:59
you pay $130 a month you get 150 TV channels and you can record eight of
38:04
them at once which is actually pretty intense so
38:09
um all right so let's let's move on to our next topic here um ASRock launches
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an x99 board with 10 gabit per second
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Ethernet so I'm going to go ahead this uh original article here is from
38:23
anon.com and I've been saying for a while that I would like to see mother
38:27
boards with 10 gig Ethernet built into them however I'm not necessarily sure if
38:33
this one is the answer so this is a workstation type grade board uh it's
38:39
estimated it's going to be out in December so it's not actually uh it's
38:43
not actually available yet but it's estimated that it will be out sometime
38:47
in December at the price of around $ 800
38:50
to 900
38:54
so I believe it's in the article here so
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it's actually got two 10 GB RJ45 ports
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at the back
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um and they are running off I believe it's an Intel chipset yeah Intel x520
39:11
T2 and then down here what do we've got
39:15
four two three four oh yeah two of them are 1 gbit and then two of them are 10
39:19
gbit the cooling solution actually extends down over the 10 GB Ethernet
39:26
port so presumably that's dealing with the extra heat being kicked off by the
39:29
chipset uh that controls that and then there's also an active cooler on the uh
39:34
on the uh the PCH down here that takes
39:38
care of all your sta connectivity USB and all that kind of stuff so this is
39:42
one Beast of a board but looking at the
39:45
article so there's a couple plx chips under that heat sink with the cooler as
39:50
well um so they can actually do 16x 16x
39:54
16x 16x with four PCI Express cards
39:58
but here we go a shoot I can't find it
40:01
anyway I can't find the discussion about it but basically there were people
40:04
saying that oh well you know that might actually be a pretty good value because
40:08
at $800 to $900 it includes you know a $400 10 GB Ethernet card but you can
40:13
actually get 10 gbit Ethernet cards for
40:16
like 350 I believe and of course this is
40:20
going to be the one time that new egg search completely lets me down
40:25
networking wired networking so I'll I'll look this up sort of offline and then
40:28
I'll go find something here uh wired routers do you want to cover the next uh
40:34
next topic I was completely off page give me one second I will try to find it
40:39
I can use that we'll see we'll race we'll see who can find things first all
40:43
right Supreme Court is talking about tackling online threats for the first
40:47
time and this is actually kind of scary
40:51
for a few reasons it's it's coming up because Anthony alones I might be saying
40:56
that right is convicted after writing graphic gory fantasies about viciously
41:01
murdering his wife and other women and posting them to Facebook
41:05
e yeah sorry I've already read them but saying that out loud is just really
41:10
you're a gross dude um oh by the way I found it so it's 333 bucks so at $800 to
41:15
$900 but that's for a single port one just to be clear so at $800 to $900 you
41:19
can buy yourself a pretty nice x99 board and a 10 GB Nick if you really want one
41:25
and not spend that much and depending on how you feel about ASRock you'll have a
41:29
lot more options in terms of the motherboard okay so Supreme Court yes I
41:33
already said the gross part so we can continue on from there I'm just hoping you all remember it um the Supreme Court
41:39
is judging whether a uh sorry where is
41:43
it uh essentially I can't remember exactly where it's here in terms of
41:46
wording and I know exact wording is very important for legal stuff but a lot of
41:51
it is based around uh literally would it be a teenager playing from League of
41:55
Legends or a grandfather posting on his flight Fishing Forum so what they're trying to describe with that is is the
42:00
threat real if anyone here in the audience has played online video
42:07
games kind of expecting everybody can
42:10
you not um you've probably heard at some
42:14
point in time a really bad comment from someone
42:18
yeah like there's that classic one I'm an xmarine with X number of confirmed
42:22
kills I'm gonna come in yeah yeah the copy pasta like there's I'm going to
42:27
whatever your mom there's like there's all the crap that gets thrown around
42:31
online and like every time anyone says that I'm just like oh whatever you can't
42:34
think of something better like it's not oh no I'm fearful for my life or my mom
42:41
because those are really common insults on the internet but like I like that
42:46
that's the problem with this is we have to be really careful with that line
42:50
because like that negates almost anything said on so many platforms but
42:54
then that's going to open the door to so many people slamming the legal system
42:59
with like oh look at this screenshot I got in League of Legends of this guy
43:02
saying he's going to come attack my mom like oh my God and then the flip side of
43:06
that is I mean the flip side of that is that we might need something do we need
43:09
legislation in place to keep people from acting like complete doofus wads on the
43:15
internet doofus wads see if this comes into in if this comes into play
43:20
everyone's going to be calling each other freaking doofus wads and the maybe
43:23
the world would be a better place if we called each other doofus wad instead of
43:27
talking about what we're going to do to each other's mothers I like your mother so I my mom's pretty nice I don't know
43:32
if she's seen the the probably um yeah I
43:36
don't it's it's it's a very fine line
43:39
that they have to walk so the accused claims his posts forment as rap lyrics
43:44
not as genuine threats which and and
43:47
then if all of a sudden we're going to go okay well no it's not okay to say
43:51
those things in rap lyrics then we get into freedom of expression and art and
43:54
all that kind of stuff and so I suspect this will not go through I
44:02
suspect he will walk away completely scot-free from all of this and the
44:05
Internet won't change and while he's
44:08
kind of maybe I haven't read his post but just the that description and maybe
44:13
I should if I want to com but I really don't want to um but just that
44:17
description is disgusting and from that description maybe he's a disgusting
44:21
person I haven't read them again and that could be glorifying whatever it
44:25
could be a uh what is all when the title oh uh sensal title it could be a
44:31
sensationalist thing it might not be that intense probably is but I don't
44:35
know um but while that is disgusting there's going to be a lot of people on
44:38
the internet that might even just be joking to a friend yep it could be
44:42
within friends something is said someone else sees it and then goes like oh
44:46
sometimes people don't put SL sarcasm like almost ever ever yeah I know it's
44:52
fairly common on Twitch to do the Kappa thing what if you don't know what Kappa means and then there might be common
44:57
elsewhere there might be a casee by case I mean so so a lot of the argument here
45:01
is around arguing for an objective standard meaning that a threat would
45:05
count as a threat if a reasonable person would think the statement is a threat
45:08
and reasonable person has a legal definition yeah it does um and then so
45:13
there's also subjective intent so whether he intended to scare his wife
45:16
with the threat might be more important here not necessarily whether he intended
45:21
to follow through on it and a lot of spousal abuse is spousal abuse is a
45:26
great example because threats um are are
45:30
used to to great effect because the way
45:33
that it the way that it works and this is actually a super creepy conversation
45:37
that I had with my mom once about someone that she knew who was the
45:42
subject of of a of a of a beaten beaten
45:45
wife sort of situation and what she said
45:48
was he only hit me once but after that this is enough yeah
45:55
you know what I mean and so if the idea is that uh is is that this is a verbal
46:01
threat with maybe some weight behind it in in the past maybe there's some
46:05
history there then is it really any
46:09
different um yeah so I'll be interested to see how
46:13
that goes let's move on to the very
46:16
sensationalist headline here this is from kit guru.net original oh I don't
46:20
think we said the op for the last one that was rayu yeah [ __ ] whatever kit
46:25
guru.net posts active Activision using YouTube copyright system to hide
46:30
glitches in Call of Duty um so let's go ahead and post that
46:37
up there also share this on the form here now this is a little bit sort of
46:41
jumping the gun and Activision has fired back and said whoa whoa whoa hold on a
46:46
second uh we're we we didn't intend for
46:50
it to uh for it to hide you know game
46:53
bugs you know we want those reported fix
46:57
that stuff but what we intended um so it
47:00
says glitch SL Che videos that's the important word here in the headline from
47:04
kit Guru what we wanted was for people to stop posting cheats we're trying to
47:10
get cheating reduced in the game and having people not post it all over the
47:14
Internet would be pretty freaking helpful if you guys would all just
47:18
please help us out with this a little bit we're trying to make it a fun gaming
47:21
experience not full of CSG go professional players who say yeah
47:25
Counter Strike yeah CS go and like while that's honorable
47:30
and everything and actually probably not a bad idea they're going about it the
47:33
wrong way cuz this can permanently hurt channels yep and I mean it's it's for
47:38
them to hear about it from so so this was an email from Machinima to some of
47:42
their Partners Yo Dogs maybe you know ease up on this because uh you might get
47:47
you might actually get because okay the problem is that a YouTube Community
47:53
guidelines strike has the potential to
47:56
per ban your channel if you get a few of them and to get one for something as
48:01
innocuous as posting an in-game glitch or an iname cheat fine almost all the
48:06
time um so so using using the using the
48:10
takedown policy on YouTube is is and
48:14
causing potentially irreparable harm to channels is not the right way to deal
48:17
with this um so I still I still think
48:21
Activision's digging here even if their goal may have been Noble
48:27
they and but the thing is a lot of the time I think big companies make because
48:30
they can they can retract their their claims and the strikes do go away um and
48:35
Strikes do expire eventually as well I've had a strike in the past um it was
48:39
a complete misunderstanding but I didn't end up filing my dispute early enough or
48:44
something something I knew I wasn't going to get any more strikes so I didn't deal with it and they expire
48:47
after I think six months but um you know a lot of the time they might just not
48:51
even think about it hey this is someone's livelihood and these strikes
48:55
can get their YouTube still isn't
48:58
necessarily understood properly by everyone I don't understand YouTube
49:02
properly I I made a video where we threw stuff at you I thought it was comedy
49:06
gold and it turns out people hate it so there you go I yeah shows you what I
49:10
know yeah actually we've we've done I've
49:14
done a few unpopular things lately I'm on a bit of an unpopular role but the
49:18
truth of the matter is I'm human um you know I I thought the whole thing with
49:23
the uh the teasing future videos and the innuendo I thought that my response to
49:28
it was funny apparently a lot of people didn't think it was funny what what was your response to
49:32
that you didn't see that I don't think so oh yeah in our test bench video I
49:37
basically said something along the lines of uh well we've been receiving a lot of
49:40
complaints about teasing future videos at the beginning of our videos and the
49:44
amount of innuendo in our videos so I'd like to I so I wanted to you know
49:49
formally address this but instead here's a teaser of an upcoming video and then I
49:53
compared open test benches and closed cases to box versus briefs which is not
49:58
actually sexual no no and that's an
50:01
important distinction here because I had people giving me thought you going
50:05
somewhere somewhere else with open test pches boxers and briefs I I didn't I
50:08
didn't think that there's a lot you could do with open test pches I mean it is arguably potty humor but is it sort
50:16
of it's underwear come on underwear is low brow but it's not like but boxers
50:22
and brief is also kind of just one of those Classics you know what I mean um
50:28
so yeah it's okay I I had intended for the way uh for the way it was going to
50:32
work in the intro I had intended for it to also have kind of a a humorous
50:36
acknowledgement that what I was doing was stupid and not funny where I wanted
50:40
a hook to appear from the side of the screen and then reach for me to pull me
50:44
off the stage but we couldn't find anything we could have used this boom
50:49
stand yeah boom pole would have worked perfectly we were in a hurry and we
50:53
couldn't find anything to kind of do that with and then yeah
50:57
oh well apparently it didn't work so yeah apparently it wasn't funny anyway
51:02
so there you go guys some people thought so I thought so
51:07
still some people thought my thing with you guys throwing at me was the main
51:10
complaint I got was that they couldn't understand but then like I rewatched it
51:14
and I could hear everything so I didn't really get that part I understand that
51:18
it was kind of distracting but uh yeah I guess oh well
51:23
we tried we tried sometimes we fail and
51:26
that's okay that's fine we hope you guys forgive us speaking of forgiving us uh
51:31
Panasonics Lumix cm1 I am willing to forgive anything
51:36
Panasonic might have ever done in the past okay I was wondering where you're
51:41
going with that one I wasn't going anywhere with that Toms hardware. posted this one and this looks
51:47
freaking awesome now I originally said this back when Samsung did the Galaxy
51:54
camera why isn't it a
51:58
phone why isn't it a phone well Panasonic finally did this right so the
52:05
here I'm just going to go ahead and pull pull this up the Lumix cm1 will have a
52:10
1in sensor in what is otherwise a phone
52:14
a like a lens and it's planned to go on
52:17
sale for somewhere in the neighborhood of a very very entrylevel kind of I
52:25
don't I don't even know what to call like a high-end point and shoot cuz it's
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it's kind of in the I think it's in the 900 lb range so it's not cheap okay I
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was going to say a high-end phone but I thought that was dollars not pounds no
52:36
it's a bit more expensive than a high-end phone but it's uh okay so here
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we go blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah the Lumix cms1 pixels are four
52:46
times bigger compared to the Lumia
52:49
1020s um and but it has so it has half
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as many pixels but they're four times bigger which means they can capture
52:56
light so in comparison the HTC 1's Ultra pixels were only 40 to 80% larger than
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other high-end Smartphones at the time
53:05
so basically what this is going to mean is we're finally going to have something
53:10
that just Shear to the way that physics works okay bigger light capturing area
53:17
much larger much better much bigger lens element in front of it better pictures
53:22
this should be assuming they don't completely screw it up the better best
53:26
smartphone camera available period and
53:30
it's not going to cost that much more than an iPhone 6 or 6 plus I've wanted
53:35
this for a little while cuz there's a lot of people that want their phones to
53:39
be able to last a while be able to call and text people and take good pictures
53:43
like that's all they really want and there you go so 20 megapixel Stills in
53:48
both JPEG and RAW formats as well as 4K video recording although only at 15 FPS
53:54
which is likely limitation of the Snapdragon 801
53:57
so so that's from the Tom's Hardware article um let me just see blah blah
54:02
blah blah blah so they've decided to position it more like a camera than a
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smartphone from the like the overall look of the device to the controls and
54:11
they're also calling it a compact camera with smartphone technology but I hope
54:16
people glom on to this cuz I think it is really cool I'm really tired of phones
54:21
being sold based on their cameras which frankly none of them are that great we
54:25
might as well have a camera that's sold based on the incredible additional
54:30
functionality it has thanks to not only Android because we've seen Android
54:34
cameras before but also the fact that you can actually just make phone calls
54:38
from it and literally only have one device that you need to carry around
54:42
with you for people who are shutter buds pictures really cool I like that a lot
54:47
yeah the ring around the lens will allow manual control of aperture ISO shutter
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speeds and white balance and it's expected to be available on December 1st
54:54
sorry it was an estimated €900 pound cuz dealing with those features on a touch
54:58
screen is sometimes really not cool so that's actually nice that they're making
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that Hardware stuff no I think it's fantastic uh what else we got here we
55:05
actually don't have a ton of topics left we've been blowing through stuff sup oh
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don't you guys use Squarespace yes but not on Linus Tech
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I've talked about before but it feels very self-serving so you can get affordable images from Getty Images so
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that Squarespace is basically ensuring that people who build Squarespace sites
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will have them look as good as they expect them to look cuz you could make
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sent you have you made much progress on your Squarespace site yet nope oh all right
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I've been busy on our own oh yeah you've been busy on minus Tech tips.com like
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moving it all over the Internet and doing unscheduled maintenance and all
57:38
that kind of stuff I do want to make progress on it though and I still plan
57:41
on it I also want to get a not Moto X so
57:45
that I can take better photos to put on it right which is like a thing you
57:49
should get that new Panasonic one it actually looks really no I know I am
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interested in it I was interested in one previously but then it wasn't coming to
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North America at all and it wasn't this fun it was a different like camera with
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a phone on it kind of idea cuz I think that's really cool cuz it's like I used
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to be a pretty crazy power user on my phone but that was when I was commuting
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a lot on public transit to school and to work and stuff so I would use it for
58:13
games and work like I would write essays
58:16
on my phone or I would do whatever on my phone so then I was ah so I was on my
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phone a lot and now I'm not on my phone as much so now I use it for like texting
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Hangouts Instagram calling you're a
58:28
social media junky Instagram Twitter like all this Stu which is not difficult
58:33
for your phone to do and then I try to take pictures on it I'm like wow you
58:38
should get an iPhone it's really bad at doing this all the photos look horrible
58:42
I tried to take a picture of uh that chunk that the fan took out of my finger
58:47
right why did you take a picture of that so I was like look look what the fan did
58:50
I don't know whatever um and like the Moto X would not focus on it cuz I had
58:55
to get my camera my phone too close to it but too close was like this far away
59:00
I'm like just do it oh I'm so tired of
59:03
camera the way that camera apps still give you a hard time about locking Focus
59:07
really really really bothers me it's like no just touch it's easy to use
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Touch anywhere on the screen to take a picture that is not easy to use if I
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wow no I thought it was I thought you get
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I thought it was I thought you kill him sad
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liess why are you mocking
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me my favorite one oh man so many people
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were focused on not liking the video that they didn't notice the awesome things that happened in it but when like
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my my hand got cut or whatever guys
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no that was fantastic anyway sorry I
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guess we can continue with the show the amount of face Palms in chat right now is glorious I know I know and you know
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it's always five forkable they keep changing things they keep changing their
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offer sometimes they're putting cash in the package sometimes they're doing free
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items sometimes they're doing a giveaway I don't know what these guys are doing
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the point is you don't have to leave your house and you can still look like
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you leave your house and shop and are like a you know look good okay Sony Sony
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compensating PS Vita owners after false advertising so in addition to
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overstating the device's ability to link up to the PlayStation 3 staff at the
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firm's Ad Agency are also accused of using their personal Twitter accounts to
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mislead the public so to qualify for the payout uh users must live in the US and
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have bought a Vita before the 1st of June 2012 those affected should be able
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to choose either $25 cash or credit refund or a $50 voucher which can be
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spent on a selection of video games or other services
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I guess that's pretty much all the that's pretty much it so if you happen to buy one go get your money yep so this
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was posted by howto Gaming uh on the Forum and the original article is from
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the BBC which can you do this topic in the least amount of words possible
63:10
because I think it'll be hilarious uh okay okay I will I will take that
63:13
challenge so I'm going to go ahead and uh I'll just screen share the um the the
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post here don't worry everything is fine uh so this was originally posted on the
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Forum by s00 six not fine uh hold on hold on hold on
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hold on hold on um oh no no no no okay I
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have an idea there we go all
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good yes sure all right soff 006 and
63:40
there's a video and the video is basically IGN
63:44
news saying a thing for like 30 seconds
63:48
cuz that's what they do and why is the Xbox one so big because I think we all
63:54
are pretty much on the same page about how the Xbox One is significantly larger
63:59
than the PlayStation 4 contains basically the same Hardware but a less
64:03
powerful version of it contains no internal power supply thanks to its
64:07
massive external brick whereas the PlayStation 4 has an internal brick and
64:12
the Playstation 4 doesn't have any overheating issues well Microsoft's
64:15
response is in as few words as possible
64:19
Rod which is no words only letters
64:26
what even is that RR o d yeah come on
64:30
you had several of them yeah raid Ring of Death there we go
64:35
so basically they said look it's for cooling and I think that they have a
64:40
great Point here there is no purpose in
64:43
personally I don't care about external power bricks I don't think they're a big deal if you have a game console you
64:48
probably also have a TV if you care that much tape it to the back of your TV or
64:53
something who cares about a power BR and
64:57
then having better cooling for the unit without adding additional cost for you
65:02
know like intricate heat pipe systems or or whatever else is a totally legitimate
65:06
reason to have something be a little bit bigger as long as it's not too big and
65:10
when you look at the Xbox One console well it's meant to fit in you know like
65:14
a like a media center cabinet and as long as it still fits in there it's
65:17
going to be fine and that's the problem is you know people going oh well you
65:21
know it runs like you know super awesome cool well you probably are running it
65:26
responsibly outside the cabinet you know
65:29
not next to a you know heater vent whereas we're talking consoles anyone
65:34
can buy a console and they could put it inside a cabinet with a heater vent
65:38
under it and run games with the door closed because it looks
65:41
nice it's it could be possible one thing that I have to bring up about the brick
65:46
thing people W out their TVs strapping it to the back of the TV is not as much
65:50
of an option if someone is playing in a dorm room and playing off a monitor
65:54
still could potenti be an issue CU you're not going to strap it to the back of your monitor okay well where's their
65:58
monitor sitting is it on the wall no
66:02
okay then they can put it under the desk there might be very limited room under
66:06
the desk well then they can tape it to the side you haven't lived in a dorm have you no that much space literally
66:12
matters speaking of that much space mattering uh guys let me let me know in
66:16
the let me know on Twitter if you want me to do a uh a video on my uh my plan
66:23
to well okay you kind of know this already I guess but I have like too many
66:26
pairs of headphones okay yes yeah this is a new
66:29
thing not that thing yet I haven't heard from Ruckus yet about the wireless
66:33
access points for the other thing I was thinking something else oh okay this
66:37
size thing with the stuff wow I'm trying to be super vague yeah you are being
66:41
vague why don't you just type it while I talk about the new plan uh so I've got
66:45
about 20 pairs of headphones and people kind of go well why do you need so many pairs of headphones and the reason is
66:50
that anytime I'm going to evaluate a pair of headphones the your your memory
66:55
for what's something sounds like exactly is on the order of seconds as opposed to
67:01
being able to listen to headphones 6 months ago and like remember and be able
67:05
to compare to something new so I actually have to maintain a fairly
67:08
substantial collection of headphones in order to do side-by-side comparison and
67:13
I'm not doing Blind AB testing yet but
67:16
at some point I'd like to switch to something like that in the future um but
67:20
for now I'm at least trying to continue to improve the process so that means
67:23
having things for side by-side comparison that means having a sound level meter so that I can make sure that
67:28
they are all dialed into the same volume before I'm testing because things that
67:32
are louder subjectively sound better to us that's fact that's that's like period
67:38
if you're not using a sound level meter in order to ensure that the headphones
67:41
are at the same volume level when you're listening to them then who knows I mean
67:45
it's it's just a freaking guess um so I
67:48
was wondering if you guys want to see me do like a Blog video or something on
67:52
like a management a wall management system for headphones or something like
67:56
that so let me know let me know on Twitter if you're interested in that
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um oh yeah no actually oh oh okay
68:05
totally unrelated to that but
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um uh SLI tiny PC something like that
68:13
okay go ahead and do another Topic in the meantime okay shoot where is that
68:19
another topic give me a second oh okay so Smash Bros was we 's
68:25
fastest selling title in the US that's not surprising at all I think everyone
68:28
saw that coming but it is official and
68:32
one of the biggest complaints I've seen about this launch at all is the fact
68:35
that it's difficult to go out and buy the controller adapter so you can play
68:39
gamec GameCube games on it because they're selling out so quickly which in
68:43
comparison to a lot of launches lately is not that bad of a complaint um it's
68:50
kind of awesome I think it was the Watchdog release on Wii U uh was so
68:55
underwhelming that it was outsold by some like super old game but I don't
68:58
remember what it was the stats for that isn't in here cuz like no one cared and
69:02
I know people at Nintendo are trying to push for like big new other like third
69:06
party AAA titles on Nintendo but no one cares just keep making games like smash
69:11
that's all we really want anyways anyways okay this is this is cool this
69:15
is kind of related to what he was talking about but only sort of uh this is an Indiegogo project that didn't get
69:20
funded I I tend not to like to talk too much about crowdfunding projects on the
69:24
show just because um so much of the stuff that I've crowd oh why is that not
69:29
working this was up earlier
69:33
today all right um well I tend not to
69:36
like to talk about it too much because so much of the stuff that I've um that
69:40
I've crowdfunded and so many of the stories that I've seen are just sort of
69:44
a disaster I don't like I don't like to give these guys too much attention if
69:48
they haven't done anything in particular to deserve it but this one is pretty
69:52
cool and if I could if I can get the page to load I'll bring it up but basically it's like an matx super tiny
69:58
case that is capable of having two graphics cards installed in it which I
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think is uh is pretty darn cool and if any any page with any kind of reference
70:08
to it would load maybe this Tom's Hardware one then I would be able to show it to you guys and you would be
70:11
able to appreciate its greatness do you want to move on to the next Topic in the
70:14
meantime while I struggle to Sure again I don't have one but I will try to find
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one um welcome to the show guys hope you're enjoying it as much as we are I'm
70:24
going to go off off sheet and talk about what happened with Inquisition a little
70:29
bit more uh stuff that didn't really end up in the video so we've had problems
70:32
with the past where there will be DRM on games that doesn't allow you to activate
70:36
it too many times and it would automatically activate in the background
70:40
if you change Hardware on your computer so if I'm testing graphics cards I'm
70:45
changing a lot of freaking cards um
70:48
especially if it's not working at the beginning so which it rarely is yeah um
70:54
so anyways that happened with Dragon Age Inquisition it it locked me out um after
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we had figured out like what exactly we wanted to do with the testing and how
71:04
exactly we're going to do it which was the unfortunate in-game Benchmark um so
71:08
I called them up I think unfortunate is a generous word to use to describe that
71:12
in game Benchmark is it is um so I guess I didn't call them up you have to go on
71:16
their website and sign up for them to call you which is not that bad I guess
71:23
but I would rather that I could call them and then get on the list for them to call me back um because doing the
71:29
site thing was just kind of annoying anyways they called me back in like an
71:33
hour or something and then the very nice
71:36
lady on the phone but very very nice lady surprisingly nice lady on the phone
71:41
um had to send me off to someone else and that was fine and then that dude that picked up was super nice um and
71:45
that whole experience was great and that was awesome and I was actually really
71:49
really happy because usually we trash on EA and I was like I'm finally going to
71:52
have something nice to say about them and then my game went invalid again and
71:56
I had to get them to call me again and they never called me oh EA you tried and
72:01
you know what this the people behind the phones are super nice but the policies
72:05
and the developers are probably awesome yeah so who's bad someone's bad
72:10
Executives I don't know that and the frustrating thing about this is we
72:14
actually had the same problem back with crisis 2 and um that one had a lot more
72:19
activations for one thing so it took us we had been through several you know
72:24
bench marking sessions with it before it ever actually ran out of activations and
72:29
then when we called them that time they said well we can't give you unlimited
72:32
activations but we totally understand your situation but we can give you 50
72:36
and we have easily run it more than 50 times since then so I'm pretty sure that
72:40
they gave it like a lot more than that so the fact that they didn't do it this
72:45
time is very very frustrating what he did was he reissued me the game he
72:48
actually deleted the game off my account and then gave it to me again oh that's
72:52
terrible that that means we can never use Inquisition as a benchmarking title
72:55
then because we'll just keep running out of them and we'll keep having to be
72:58
reissued games that's ridiculous and every single time we have to be reissued
73:02
a game we would have to call them back and it's going be super crazy frustrating all right so I found I found
73:06
this thing so Luke was talking about that case that I want built that is
73:11
about the size of a console and kind of how I want the internals laid out and uh
73:15
that's fine Silverstone has already given me heck about a not coming to them
73:19
with my ideas because they and probably very actually rightly so see themselves
73:24
as the leader in properly cooled small form factor cases in unique form factor
73:30
cases especially um and and B there were like well we have some concerns with
73:34
your idea because of this this this this this and this so I'm actually planning to discuss it with them at CES and we'll
73:39
we'll see if maybe something comes of it I have no idea but this is pretty cool
73:43
so this is a crowdfunded project that never made it um that intended to put an
73:48
matx board with PCI Express extenders
73:52
and the graphics cards literally right up against a side panel keeping any of
73:57
the of the air as long as you have a blower style graphics card um keeping
74:01
any of the heat from the graphics card from contaminating any of the other components and this was a critical part
74:06
of the design for my case was we were going to be able to keep it small by
74:10
using maybe a duct or something to have the graphics card directly intake fresh
74:14
air from outside filters of course and then blow it out the case and so I I
74:19
thought this one was pretty cool I think it's a shame it didn't get funded um but
74:22
then again maybe it isn't because maybe they had no real business model anyway
74:26
like so many crowdfunding a lot of people didn't know about it though like everyone in the comments is like oh wow
74:31
that's super cool wow that's beautiful superb awesome yay cool I had who hold
74:35
on a second their crowdfunding campaign was a disaster but apparently NC Tech
74:40
tips has one coming oh well there you go
74:43
so they're probably doing it anyways I'll be checking it out that's cool cool
74:49
well there you go that was a bit of a different spin on that than I
74:52
exped I've got uh Wheels from uh oh okay
74:56
the guy funded the first run out of his own pocket so like so many of these
75:00
crowdfunding campaigns the uh the crowdfunding is probably just you know a
75:04
way to help do something that they were already planning to to try to do anyway
75:09
um
75:13
moving I I had a few people comment that it was presumptuous of us to put we're
75:18
moving in our thumbnail when we were crowdfunding for the move the crowdfunding is to help with the move
75:23
we're moving to help us build sets we are moving we are going to move it might
75:28
take longer we might not be able to afford nice sets or you know proper
75:33
acoustic dampening this or that at first it might take us longer the crowdfunding
75:37
is to help us we are moving we have to move we cannot stay here yeah so so
75:42
that's basically all there is to that speaking uh speaking of the move um I
75:47
actually had kind of an interesting exchange with Logan from Tech Syndicate
75:51
today where and you know what the truth of the matter is I don't blame him for
75:57
this um because when I watched the part of
76:01
the tech that it came from it was obvious that they were goofing around
76:06
they were talking about my badminton gambling debts and Wendell building a
76:11
robot bird that was stuck in a Badminton Center that I uploaded a video of a bird
76:17
that was stuck in like on my lonus cat tips channel two or three years ago and
76:22
they like zoom in on the thing and they're like blah blah blah Illuminati
76:25
and like uh so somewhere in that whole
76:29
obviously goofing around trolling the
76:32
heck out of everyone segment they said something like we made $2.4 Million last
76:38
year and so amongst Robot Chicken bird
76:41
gambling badminton people decided that was true people decided that that was
76:45
true because I mean obviously we have a relationship with the guys at Tech
76:49
Syndicate we've collaborated with them on projects before so obviously lonus
76:53
shares all the financial details of company and and you know based on the
76:57
size ofan Chanel yeah based on the size of Logan's Channel and how many you know
77:01
hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars that Tech Syndicate brings in
77:05
obviously lonus is making making two M $2.4 million a year right um so I
77:12
basically went dude can you can you issue a public sort of retraction of
77:17
that uh because people are misinterpreting it and going oh you guys
77:21
are crowdfunding when you make $2.4 million a year and he like what why
77:25
would I have to do that it's a joke it's a joke and I'm just like it would mean a
77:31
lot to me just if he just said something so he's like okay and he sends out a
77:37
tweet today and so I like I retweeted and I'm like yeah obviously a joke and
77:44
then now now now he's emailing me he's like oh I kind of feel bad and so Public
77:49
public statement from me dude don't feel bad I laughed throughout the the whole
77:55
segment and I didn't even notice cuz I I
77:59
assumed that I hadn't even watched the part with the 2.4 million part because I
78:03
didn't notice it I had actually watched that part I just didn't notice it
78:07
because it was all silly and I was I was looking at you know Illuminati bird
78:12
conspiracy garbage not uh not not that
78:16
so yeah dude don't feel bad I thought it
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was funny it's just a couple people on the internet that apparently take things
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way too seriously and the only reason that I
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was upset and sort of asked for him to clarify it was because we are taking
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some Flack over our crowdfunding campaign in general and people
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misinterpreting him and then repeating it as if it's fact loses the context of
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the joke yeah and so that is the problem
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not anything about the joke that was an issue so
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anyway Sony has an Innovative watch I think
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Innovative is a word um this was originally posted by Tech dreamer and
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the original article here is uh the one that I liked better was from uh gizbot I
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think here um of an Innovative watch made entirely out of
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eaper so there's a I'm going to I need a
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faster way to like I need to set up like a tab system so that I can sort of alt
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tab tab and I can uh oh my gizbot link
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is no good anyway the watch is made entirely out of vaper they've got enely
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well okay the okay the strap and the
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watch surface are made out of e paper and the idea is that you can change the
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look of your watch uh very easily so you could have like it looks kind of like um
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you know leather or it looks kind of like metal finishing and with eaper that
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can actually be pretty interesting yeah they're claiming a 60-day battery
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although none of this has been verified off of a regular watch battery so 60-day
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battery life off of a watch battery um and here let me just fix the link boom
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there it is with the amount of jerking around we've had lately with freaking
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battery life I know I know I know I know
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but it looks pretty cool so there's uh there's a video in the in the CNet link
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here I'm just going to fire this up and you guys can check it out so there we go
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hopefully I don't get a uh hopefully I don't get a strike for this I've
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actually I've actually gotten um copyright complaints from playing
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promotional videos for things in my in land show wasn't it from someone who
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wanted us it was uh I think it was LG I want to say
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basically their their PR firm wasn't talking to the right people and
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miscommunicating something anyway so so the point is oh look how eye grabbing
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this is no I don't think it's that attention grabbing I think this is a bit
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of a silly video but I also think they're having some fun with it now you might have noticed that the company whoa
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hold on a second what was that that doesn't say Sony that says fashion
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entertainment s is
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for fashion entertainments and uh this
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very tired looking man tells us about how it can the the look of it can be
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customized it doesn't have a lot of the more traditional um or even expected
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Smartwatch features things like you know oh heart rate monitor this and and that
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but uh looks cool I don't know if I care oh I don't
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I'm not gonna buy one yeah but like I don't know if anyone should I like the
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idea I like the idea you get the combination of the annoyances that
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you've had or if if you're playing badminton it's either going to be a
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strobe light or when you actually want to look at it it's not going to be able
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to turn on so you have the annoyances of it just not always being on then you
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have it running off of a watch battery that only lasts for 60 days look at
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these shoes they change colors with every step it's a watch though it's not your
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shoes no no the the the technology they're looking at bow ties
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uh watches shoes here's the here's the bow tie one like I I don't know if the
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watch is the right product maybe the other stuff is a better product than the
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watch but the concept as a smart watch I don't think it makes any sense I think
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as like a fashion watch maybe but then you're probably better off getting
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something that isn't this and isn't going to die off a watch battery in 60
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days cuz replacing that it's a lot more annoying than charging something I mean
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I don't this will be eyeg grabbing that's for sure it's super cheap I guess
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it could work as a party favor yeah it'll be a long time before it's that
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cheap but um I don't know I think I think it's cool what they're doing uh
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it's it should be noted that there is no Sony branding on it so um so FES uh
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fashion entertainments is a subsidiary of son Sony even though they're not
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really talking about it and they've actually raised uh 3.5 million yen
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$30,000 from more than 150 supporters via crowdfunding in order to get this
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idea off the ground I do find it interesting that a company like Sony if
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we're going to get criticized for crowdfunding then Sony mind you Sony's
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more broke than us they have more assets but they I they
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they may have less due to assets I think they're not more broken okay but okay no
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I know I know but like if we if we look at it that's like the that's like saying
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like oh yeah the dude on the street has 15 cents in his cup and I own a house so
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I'm way more in debt and he should be giving me money like that's that same
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broken logic it is broken logic but they they made less money than us last year
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even if we only made a dollar we made more they made negative right but then
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they still have their assets I know they have the assets uh holy crap is it six
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o'clock yeah wow okay so
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um and and lonus is now
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broken yeah cuz there's a whole bunch of stuff that I still really wanted to talk
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about this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen um is it like totally just a
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concept yeah this is a crowdfunding thing I was wondering why that no but
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again they have a crowdfunding campaign even though most of the time the
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crowdfunding video at least sort of shows off a sort of functional product
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of some sort this secret bracelet is
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just obviously not even anything other
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than a pipe dream I mean the idea behind it is very cool so there was a simple
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sketch then a first molding now it's a dream okay a simple sketch and a molding
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the jump to dream is not real far not a whole lot of progress has been made
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basically the way they want this to work is you'd have this this bracelet that
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projects your phone onto your wrist and
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they're like oh yeah the way it's going to work is uh let's see no they don't
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have any diagrams here I I kind of wonder if this is just a way to drive
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more traffic to their secret app which is just a like an encrypted messaging
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app uh because I I can't imagine they're going to build this and you can even
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tell from their campaign video um like the campaign video looks pretty looks
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pretty sleek and if it wasn't so poorly done I might even believe they'd made
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some progress on it but this is just nothing and then this is just a motion
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tracked screen and then they're you can see like they're just kind
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of completely Faking It the motion tracking on this one's particularly bad
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you can see it wobbling around on his skin see cuz he's not holding his wrist
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still enough um so the way it's supposed to work is there's like a Pico projector
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thing here and then there's proximity sensors all along the edge here here so
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that as you put down your finger you stop the beam and it knows how far away
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your finger is it knows which beam you broke and then it's figure out where you
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pressed but the problem with that is they show things like typing on a keyboard and then if we go later on in
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the campaign video like I can see how people who aren't that techsavvy might
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fall for this but this is just straight up not going to work um I wish I could
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find the part of the video yeah there we go so with seven of those if the way it
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works is by interrupting the beams you will not be typing on a keyboard it will
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have no idea where you're pressing well with that level of detail
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they have to come out with their own keyboard and it would have to be like
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you know how old phones that work where you like tap something a number amount
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of times so like if you interrupt these two beams twice no no it wouldn't be
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like that cuz they could have an onscreen keyboard as long as it all
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lined up and the buttons were nice and big then it could work CU it knows how
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far away you are and it knows which beam you can attract how far away you
86:19
interrupted that beam okay yeah so it could work but it won't work with any
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kind of traditional keyboard and it's obviously nothing more than just like
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basically like a a razor project uh is
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it Christine or CHR project Christine yeah
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from from CES last year apparently they're still interested in that I think
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they're having a hard time getting Hardware Partners called it uh what else
86:45
we got just cost so much oh this is this
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is one more just kind of silly thing that I wanted to uh I wanted to talk
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about so the a dedicated one key hash
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key is now available also a silly
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crowdfunding thing if I recall correctly so this was originally posted by Linux
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user on the Forum and uh here's the this isn't
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original he just ripped off the control delete
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keyboard yeah but now it's for social
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media junkies rather than people who want to restart their
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computers it's called hash key and it's an idea for a tiny one key keyboard that
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only does one thing put hashtags
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instantly okay cool it's actually doing not bad
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like the crowdfunding campaign because people are just going to get because he launched at the right time because
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people just want to buy it for Christmas stuff it's a cool stocking stuff not
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going to be available in time for Christmas I know but it's Christmas so
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you're in Christmas shopping mood yeah annoying my mom if she buys it I don't
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know 5 years before Christmas it's probably fine now one commenter here on Gizmodo
87:58
actually brought up a very good point and said have y'all ever seen a British
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it's a British Kickstarter have y'all ever seen a British Mac keyboard where
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is the hash key good who
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cares whoa we need to stop hashtagging things anyway they got their own pound
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yeah I didn't realize that um good
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actually need it I didn't realize that
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uh it's not called pound outside of North America it's it's always been Hash
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Hash sign and then a hashtag is I've never send I've never said pound key
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anyways yeah was pound until the whole social
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media happened thing as far as I could tell uh like of course there's there's
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situations where you should probably use it um but like don't a I hate social I
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hate social media hashtags I don't know I've never really been into it so this
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is cool um speaking of of social our Forum Adam The Geek just posted I just
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got a Pebble Steel since then I've since then I've been uh playing around making
89:05
watch faces made a wow watch face that's
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sick yeah that's awesome I love it so I just wanted to uh wanted to share that
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little bit of fan art I love this fan art stuff it's cool no one ever made fan
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art of us before except that one really creepy thing um oh yeah uh so this was
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originally posted by am on the Forum and it's from Hardware
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zone.com Sony is uh this is this is amazing so
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they're releasing the vpl
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gtz1 this is a 55
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kilogram so guys for those of you who think Imperial we're talking about 130
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lb something in that neighborhood 4K
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Ultra short throw laser projector it
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does 4K 60p over h HDMI 2.0 with four
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inputs it needs only 7 in from the wall
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for a 17 by9 aspect ratio image so you
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need like two people to hold this thing that is 147 in tall so you can fit it
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whoa what from 7 in from the wall it's a
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laser projector this thing is badass if
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you were looking to build the ultimate
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home theater setup and you kind of went you know what my home theater setup is
90:27
not going to have a projector mounted on the ceiling you only have to have it
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this far from the wall in order to have a home theater sized perfect Fork every
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single one of them is hand assembled in Japan okay how much does this cost
90:42
you're talking about home theater setup uh well you you you'd be a pretty you'd
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be pretty okay so like 50 Grand I think
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yeah 50 Grand us talking about those like Lottery home home
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yes so to put this in perspective this is 135 in uh would be like the typical
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4K projector distance um this one sits 7
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in away now it's not small it's a meter
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wide like it's huge that's really big
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but it's pretty pretty freaking cool I thought that was uh that was pretty darn
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sweet uh what else is there to say about it yeah I guess that's pretty much it I
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think that's pretty much it for the show for today unless you had anything else that you really wanted to hit
91:24
guys thank you so much for watching I mainly just wanted to talk about that
91:28
whole um which we already talked about dream hack
91:31
winter cuz that's just been ridiculous I wanted I wanted to show that Ubisoft was
91:36
still digging despite doing some good things they did a good thing they did
91:39
let give them credit I'm not taking off the shirt yet and I'm not going to tell
91:42
you guys to stop buying the shirts they have like one dude in the hole trying to
91:46
put dirt back in it and then they have another dude in the hole trying to throw dirt back out so I don't know they still
91:50
haven't solved their problems well the hope is that the guy putting the dirt in
91:54
will suffocate the guy taking the dirt out and then they can just keep on
91:58
digging they can get rid of that guy that's not the hope well that might
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be their hope based on their based on their goals yeah yeah yeah people are
92:07
bringing up Star Wars but I haven't been able to see the trailer yet you haven't seen it I have not seen the trailer yet
92:12
you know why I haven't seen the trailer yet is because last night someone linked
92:17
me to an imager post aming saying here's the Star Wars trailer and it was someone
92:22
secretly filming in a movie and I was like okay cool and then you get Rick
92:27
Rolled I'm like oh so it's not real so
92:30
every mention I saw of it after that I was like oh whatever it's not real it's
92:33
just people trying to spread this Rick Roll whatever I guess Rick Roll is coming back so I was just ignoring it
92:37
completely and then today so real we're filming that thing that I'm not going to
92:42
bring up that's coming on Sunday um and Brandon's like oh yeah have you seen it
92:46
yet I'm like well I got Rick Roll and he's like what I'm like yeah that's what
92:50
it is you got you got wrecked R yeah got
92:54
compl you didn't even get not only did you get Rick Rolled you didn't get to
92:57
watch the trailer so do you want to talk about it
93:01
uh you can talk I don't mind spoilers I'll watch the trailer yes I will talk
93:05
about it well the the trailer has a lot of like long dips to Black so there's
93:10
not a whole lot of spoiler to happen it's like it's like basically like a 2C
93:16
snippet and then it's like di to Black dramatically and there's
93:22
like like he's like couple seconds and
93:25
it's gone they're not showing you anything but but there's a couple really
93:28
cool shots that reminds me of the world of drainer trailer where it's just like
93:32
the orc facing at the screen like breathing angrily like not showing you
93:37
anything it was actually a really cool trailer no they are they are showing nothing but uh okay so there's there's
93:42
one shot that like made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and they've got
93:47
a couple of x-wings information flying like a couple feet over the water and
93:52
the water spray is like flying up behind them uh they've got obviously a Sith um
93:58
you know firing up a lightsaber that's actually got like a hilt on it oh yeah
94:03
but the the the design of the he Hilt isn't very good it's kind of stupid because there's actually like things
94:08
that they come out of so the traditional way that that was used the the handguard
94:12
was used is if the sword slid down it well that wouldn't block the blade
94:16
because if you slid down the blade you cut off the thing um there's nothing
94:20
preventing a lightsaber from being cut in half it would have to be like up on a weird angle or something but yeah okay I
94:24
got you so it is it is amazing how
94:28
emotion invoking just that music is yeah
94:32
that music with some kind of imagery to
94:35
it I I I I do love Star Wars and if i' I
94:40
think I said this on uh on netlink today
94:43
uh over on ncx Tech tips but if Abrams
94:48
screws this up he's going be called jarar Abrams yes I've read that
94:53
somewhere that's me I still like the joke even if it isn't yours because it
94:59
like Star Trek I enjoyed the movies but
95:03
there was really no risk that I wasn't going to enjoy the movies I'm not a treky like I I watched a bunch of Next
95:09
Generation with my dad when I was a kid but like as a as an adult and even as a
95:13
teenager I never got into any of the
95:16
Star Trek series hold up pause sorry apparently the dream hack match is being
95:20
played again from halfway that is [ __ ]
95:24
no that's not right that is super dumb
95:27
okay we I'm ignore that now we don't use the RW to describe things that are dumb
95:31
because that's not PC sorry
95:35
but I I acknowledge that you're anger is
95:40
not entirely unjustified and sometimes angry outbursts over an incredible
95:45
Injustice um don't make it through the
95:49
politically correct filter I'm sorry that's just stupid but that is
95:53
ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous hopefully that's not actually what happening hopefully he's trying to add
95:58
hold on hold on apparently that's not confirmed yet okay okay no the decision
96:03
isn't final yet okay good good anyway back to back to Star Trek um so I didn't
96:09
really have any emotional investment in it I was able to watch those movies as
96:12
just like fun space movies that I don't really care about Star Wars is a whole
96:17
other ball of wax I'm sure Nick has official verdict thing has not been
96:21
decided okay not been decided um so Star
96:24
Wars I have a much more I like read tons of the books and like I owned like Star
96:29
Wars like encyclopedia reference style books like The Ultimate Guide to
96:33
vehicles and weapons and characters and like read them cover to cover multiple
96:37
times as a kid like I'm a Star Wars kid so if he screws if I hear any mention of
96:45
medoran I will walk out of the theater do you know the old like straight up
96:49
Golden Black Box the VHS box yeah yeah yeah that one is like half destroyed
96:54
because of how many times I watched it as a kid well I'm a little older than
96:57
you so for me it's the one with the uh
97:01
the the Blue Star Wars text the um my
97:04
dad I think my dad had a version before that one purple Empire one and then the
97:08
uh maroon Return of the Jedi one in blackbox set yeah um but I also own the
97:13
gold one that's funny so uh so there you go
97:18
the remastered ones the the one the gold one is pretty bad it's got a lot of
97:22
remastered crap in it greo shoots first terrible but the one that I own before
97:27
that is the one that I grew up watching over and over again Han shoots first the
97:32
way that he should have it's not even a debate I don't even understand what
97:35
there is to debate about it you know people star Star Wars people need to
97:39
just get together and all go look we're not going to talk about this anymore because there is no debate any movie
97:44
where Han doesn't shoot first is not a Star Wars movie any movie that mentions
97:47
mclan is not a Star Wars movie any movie that has Jar Jar Binks in it is not a
97:52
Star Wars movie and and Revenge of the
97:55
Sith I can I I enjoyed it but I have
97:58
never once rewatched it so I I maybe I'll go back and give it
98:04
another shot um see if see if it still
98:07
holds up to being not complete garbage right use the force Harry quoting
98:12
Gandalf thank you for that jerk you're
98:17
banned all right now the twitch chat is full of han
98:22
han did not shoot first and so the show
98:26
is over thanks for watching guys peace
98:30
bye show is so over like over enough
98:33
that we're never going to do it again greo shot first until next Friday
98:39
yeah when we'll do it again yeah very
98:42
specifically at 4:30 PS yeah unless we're late
98:49
usually so like in any range specifically from 4:30 to 6
98:54
We'll Be Live we're only like 6 minutes late today or maybe
98:58
eight they're both even