The WAN Show - AMD Facing Class Action & Loans for YouTubers?? - Nov 6, 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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14,891 words · ~74 min read
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what up y'all and welcome to the show I'm lonus like you
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don't F and know I guess be I stole that
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I didn't come up with that yeah I thought you stole the thing in
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the pre-show not that I listen what in the pre-show the joke what is the joke
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okay we got well why don't we why don't we get into what's going to be on the show today and then we'll get into what
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we stole and what we came up with on our own okay that we should tell people we
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have a terrible show coming and see how many people watch uh they'll all watch
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they'll all watch because they know that there's no such horrible show to there's
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no such thing as a terrible land show because the worse it is the better it
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gets his voice is gone I know mine is
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very clearly here which is probably a problem yeah no what oh
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sorry all right let's just roll the intro
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yeah all the twitch all the twitch trollers you guys get wrecked Get
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Wrecked today because half of the people are like there's no sound and the other
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half are like lol Linus's voice yeah so
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so get wrecked Get Wrecked yo I got sponsors and stuff oh yeah
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excuse me a little slow on the trigger there so they're still they're still up
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there there we go all right guys welcome
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to the show should be a good one actually we've got some great topics
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today I think the thing on everyone's mind right now is oh yeah right what's
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on the show today because we didn't do it prior to the intro yeah I was
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wondering about that uh I didn't do my hair today either that's probably on
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everyone's mind too um so main topics this week we've got Microsoft kills one
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drive un limited storage G the douchiest way ever y yeah
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the what they did is not popular for very good reason yeah
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YouTube has apparently arranged a loan
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program for YouTube creators very
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interesting what else we got Activision Blizzard to acquire King Digital so the
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guys that made Candy Crush mhm they're like oh the top five grossing games
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which is Candy Crush and some other version of Candy Crush
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like okay Wicked yeah super cool I'm
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very very happy that you brought that up also AMD is facing a class action
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lawsuit over misrepresentation of a product and we'll have to we'll dig into
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what that means a little bit but I think that I think the thing that's on
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everyone's mind is why lonus keeps
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telling everyone what's on their minds and the reason for that is because
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I firmly believe that the thing on everyone's mind is I'm just where are
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you going with it nowhere okay this whole time I'm like what what is he
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talking about he's he's waiting for it to have a point cuz usually I do yeah
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yeah not today no today my point is not today carefully hidden in my trouses
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there will be no points today it's going to be a soccer game oh
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with no ball does anyone remember that way an episode how long ago is that I
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don't even know I don't even know I was I was doing doing uh I was doing I was
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filming a video or writing a video or something that's my whole life doing
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things related to videos and um and I
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was like blah blah blah something I called it on the W show and for a minute
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I thought to myself I should go try and find that clip so we can play no nope
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nope there is there is literally over a
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hundred hours of w show someone messaged
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me on Twitter once saying that he had watched the entire back catalog of w
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show over the previous like month or something my God and I was just like
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why I mean it's news to do with that
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week don't get me wrong like it's cool I love the dedication like major props
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that's awesome but
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why the early ones like the really early
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ones maybe for like Nostalgia no no no
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but because we barely talked about news ever we had like one topic a week
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Nostalgia news today yesterday we'd talk
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about our like crazy sports game that we were planning yeah that's true we did
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talk about that and like we we would do like other random things then again
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making the argument that the show is about news today is sort of uh is sort
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of like pretty rough it's like standing on one stilt
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with like a balanc beam on your head and
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like potted plants on the be soccer on one side yeah like we actually I mean
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we're at least 10 minutes into the show we have not talked about any news yet we
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inted four of them that's true we did do
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that but sometimes we intro topics and then never talk about them there's also
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that problem I don't even remember where I was going with this so Activision
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Blizzard to acquire King Digital and
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this this is definitely the kicker here for
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5.9 billion yes friends 5.9 billion what
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is this ad 5
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billion um thing whenever I yawn I'm going to make it look like a
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roar that's Majestic thank
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you are you going to make the sound
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no preferably not I think I would prefer
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that too um all right so they paid $18
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per share which is a 20% premium over the trading price man it is good for
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investors when companies acquired okay I don't understand how this works I think
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you might if you're acquiring a company why don't you just buy all the shares
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why do you have to pay a premium because everyone ends up paying a premium because those people own it so it's kind
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of like if you want to run basically they're like actually I don't want to
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sell this much and then they're like what about 20% more and then they're like oh okay sure yeah well those
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shareholders don't get to make the decision unless they're unless they're a
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majority or they can form a majority of the shareholders then they get to make
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the decision but for the sake of the shareholders including the majority
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holders who definitely get paid more if they're paying more than market value um
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in their best it's in their best interest to ask for more than just the
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like day-to-day trading value like yeah okay if you don't just want to own a
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share of the company you want to own the majority of the company then you're going to pay extra now the conventional
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wisdom the the consumer wisdom would be well hold on a second if I'm bulk buying
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something then I should get a discount yeah but it's think of it more along the
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lines control and that matters a lot you're not just getting 400 popsicle
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sticks yes you are you now run the company that makes the 400 popsicle
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sticks so think of it in terms of like if you're if you want to run a highway
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through an area typically the property owners except in cases where the
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government of whatever country it happens to be is a gigantic tool um
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typically the correct way to do that is to offer the people in the way more than
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their land value um some people don't want to move and in those cases they
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sometimes end up getting less because because etc etc etc cuz now they've got
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you know the one house that's like next to a super highway that curves around it
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like there's a lot of there's a lot of different ways it can go but typically
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the sort of the best practice way is to offer people more than the assessed
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market value so that it's a quick and easy transaction and it's done and no
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one's raising a poop storm about it um so basically with the acquisition they
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take two of the top five highest grossing mobile games in the US which
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are Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush
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Soda Saga yes that's two games
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apparently that's like come on two of the best games World of Warcraft and
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World of Warcraft burning
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Crusade even then like World of Starcraft and Starcraft brood War but I
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don't even know if that's fair because I is it this is probably I don't know I've
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never played it's probably just a skin it's probably not even like an expansion
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it probably has different sound effects oh God they're probably equally happy
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but different equally happy yeah
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probably so basically um CEO of Activision Blizzard
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said the combined revenues and profits solidify our position as the largest
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most profitable Standalone company in interactive
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entertainment I mean I guess so but you just bought a company for 4.9 billion or
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5.9 billion that did uh hold on what was
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it 2 point something it's not in my notes why is this not in the notes 2.1
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is it 2.1 billion 2.1 billion in Revenue
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now with that said it should be noted that for a microtransaction driven game
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like Candy Crush 2.1 billion revenue is basically as good as 2.1 billion profit
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I mean yes they have to you know pay
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some dividends or whatever and I guess they probably have at least six
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programmers to develop a game like Candy Crush six
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probably a fair amount behind it I I know I mean they have to process all
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those payments somehow y you know you need an infrastructure for that um so
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okay but but still you have to make sure that people have to pay more in order to
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play your game that's you know there's you got to put some effort in in front
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of stopping people from having fun yeah marketing marketing is marketing is key
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um tell me something we've had a lot of
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mobile game companies off for us advertising dollars and every time I've
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said no because it's stupid um did we
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ever do it maybe there was an exception actually I don't remember I don't think
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so but maybe there was one where they were like they did something that was
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sort of somewhat different from what anyway if if Activision Blizzard came to
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us and was like we want to do an ad spot for Candy Crush would you do
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it I want to hear from twitch chat
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should okay hold on we we got to we got to get a straw pole going here kids uh
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should we take that candy m i I know
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people that like Candy
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Crush I just super don't does that mean
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it's wrong I don't know I mean there was the whole there was the whole there is
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the whole argument that um you know
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these are these games are are predatory twitch chat why are you guys posting the
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answer we don't look at that stop spamming so people can click the bitly
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um cuz we're going to show the straw pole not the twitch chat I love you guys
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but come on um so there is the argument
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that microtransaction games are praying on the same people who are addicted to
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gambling or addicted to well really
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gambling but people who have addictive personalities um with that said I
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wouldn't want to yeah okay fair enough fair enough so we've got 26% of you
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saying we should take that candy money with 52% of you saying no and 23% of you
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voting for turn up the way that you should um the thing is I think we have
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enough really solid respectable
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companies that we work with that I actually kind of enjoy doing ad spots is
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Activision Blizzard not a respectable company but I don't like that
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product okay I'm just saying it's a respectable company though yeah you
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could make that argument yeah Al although they've done some dumb freaking
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crap yes like oh my God they basically
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killed Starcraft 2 yes they did do that
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yeah that's cuz like there's an argument to be said that they pulled the like
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okay they didn't actively do anything to kill it but they also just didn't
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actively do anything yeah it was like their baby and they were like I'm going
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to leave it in a field with wolves and
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just see what happens you know like there's these Riot games guys what
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they're they're cuddly they're furry don't worry about that we'll just leave
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our baby in the field it's okay that's basically how Esports was like two three
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years ago yeah so um uh so yeah I don't
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remember where else right I remember where I was going with this so tell me
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something it used to be blizzard okay
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yeah but now we've entered you know the
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the the the modern the modern era you know the '90s the 2000s
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hyphenated names man that's a thing so now we got Activision Blizzard act the
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blizzard King so no no no one does that
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no one does that my parents talked about that okay my mom's last name's Sebastian
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my dad's uh my stepdad's last name is newfeld that's a very political topic
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everyone please keep that to yourself okay so my stepdad's last name is
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newfeld and they're like let's go by sefel and I'm like that's stupid because
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sefel is not a name that's just a thing
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you invented that's like we could go by like JX ymb like my name is Smith no no
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you guys should have gone by C3PO actually stupid thank you um been your
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last name you should have had numbers in your last name so so so anyway so my
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half siblings have hyphenated last names and and this really raises a legitimate
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concern sorry burkel is putting decorations on his wall berl no it's
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okay it's okay I want him to show them sure okay you'll bring them so anyway
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this raises a legitimate concern what happens when hyphenated name people
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marry each other so is it activation
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blizzard King pictures or King act
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activation or King Activision Blizzard like what would we okay your call or
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Activision King blizzard King Activision
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Blizzard activ King blizzard Activision act act how can you make it sound more
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like mro microtransactions
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yeah bring bring your stuff out show the audience blizzard activation yeah yeah I
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I cracked up when you're putting that stuff on the wall know that's what you
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yeah here bring bring that bring that stuff over here okay so you got to explain how you do okay so hold on hold
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on let me let me explain let me preface this really quickly so I gave all the
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editors because we got to do our editing Dan tour like for a number of reasons
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number one you guys have been asking for it number two the folks who contribute
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like LG who gave us monitors for our editing den and like so white right now
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um Intel Cooler Master Logitech uh razor
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steel series like Silverstone tons of guys threw a bunch of stuff at us to
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have like the ballest editing Den ever
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and the only thing they asked for was that we make a video showing people our
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Ballin editing Den which we have not
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done but the problem is that it looks kind of crap right now because the walls
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are just bare so I gave all the editors
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um what was the budget $150 which I
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don't think anyone stuck to yeah I know
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I did I think each editor got a $150 budget to decorate their personal space
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to make it look cool some people went with Saye reasonable choices this guy
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was fishing around for broken monitors for some reason I thought nothing of it
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what you got I want another I wanted another monitor so I put two my favorite
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people on a third monitor that's going to sit get here and talk and never
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change yeah okay I'll sit down look you
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said LG sponsored it a nice little LG screen for my desk how beautiful is that
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to go with the Samsung one yeah the Samsung also for your desk and look it
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can you see how much clearer the Samsung is in this I don't know it's really up to you
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folks there look at that anti-glare screen on the Sams yeah so we got we got
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ourselves a Tim and Eric fan right here so yeah okay go you can go back to the
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work you're doing I thought they were CCO monitors sinko no that's a different
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one okay walk in front of the camera when you
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call me out okay yeah sorry I just wanted to
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show you guys that so yeah how how far are we into the show right now I think
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we've done one Tech topic we're about 20 minutes in yeah this is a news show yeah
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all right why do I look so pale today on
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the subject of news you look kind of pale
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today I literally don't think I've been outside during the day because the build
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log I that might be why I don't think you can lose a tan in like three days
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no no no no no no no because it wasn't days this is a lifestyle this is ongoing
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lifestyle lifestyle effect okay that's fair um
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Microsoft this is a great headline kills the one drive party oh my God ends
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unlimited and downgrades storage options
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they they were not content this was so
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brutal they were not content to Nerf this a little bit they nerfed One Drive
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can you think of an equivalent in gaming history can you think of a reason to use
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it now I already still wasn't using it I
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know so like why would anyone use it now
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equivalent in gaming history okay yeah an equivalent Nerf okay I and okay
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twitch chat twitch chat let's see if you guys can come up with something too
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because okay well submit your submit
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your ideas how about you Twisted Fate League of
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Legends okay that's mine that's your the Nerf that happened to Twisted Fate fate
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was like the best character and then he went to like completely unplayed this
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was like way way way way back at like
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the beginning or the pistol from Halo 1
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to Halo 2 oh that's a good Nerf cuz the
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pistol in Halo 1 is basically a sniper rifle shotgun assault rifle and tactical
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nuke all in one and then the pistol and
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Halo 2 is like well it's a pistol and
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the enemies have energy Shields good luck
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uh what what wait what do we got we got okay oh my goodness it's going so fast
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well so many people are bringing up stuff from like CSG go M
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41 was it Nerf that bad I don't think it
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was I mean okay why don't we why don't we give people some why don't we give
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people some context here uh let's let's
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give some context for What Microsoft did to one drive so they had a free option
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storage capacity was 15 gigs they have
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nuked that down to five they have cut it
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in oneir okay for all users current and
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new to be fair these effects if you are current user happened 12 months from now
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so you're good for a year but still so you're good for a year and then your
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junk disappears um which from from my I
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don't want my junk to disappear me neither unless it's disappearing in uh
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sorry uh um in mustard in mustard thank you um so to be I mean this flies in the
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face of everything that CL storage is supposed to be I mean when when when
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Google offered Gmail and they were like G cuz we're G's wait no I think I had
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something to do with Google Gigabyte really yeah no it was Gigabyte
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it offered a Gigabyte
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of I hate you it offered a Gigabyte of storage at
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a time when hot Mill offered like 25 Megs or something laughable like that so
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so so that was where the exes came from so my remember remember remember the
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counters I don't want to talk to you like how much more drive space they were
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adding all the time do they still have that I don't know that was actually
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super cool cuz that was sick yeah but that is the point that is the point of
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like cloud storage is like it's always expanding always getting cheaper and
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it's always a safe place to keep your data where companies don't just turn off
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turn off your space if you like don't check your email for a year and don't
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get the notification or whatever like I I I I thought it was supposed to be like
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like pretty safe so which like actually if I wasn't doing this show I probably
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wouldn't have heard about this cuz I basically never check my Outlook account
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nope I wouldn't have heard about it it is attached to things though and if I
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did use one drive for like a few things they would be gone now Microsoft says
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the changes are arriving due to Microsoft discovering that some users
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were abusing the online storage service
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however this pissed me off so I'm just going to wait for you to that has
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nothing to do with your free account holders who were allocated 15 gigs who
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presumably someone at Microsoft can
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figure out the conversion from gigabytes to terabytes to megabytes and how much
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hard drives cost and and and maybe like I don't know run some basic freaking
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rudimentary numbers and find out you know how much each each Gigabyte of
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storage costs in a Cloud Server somewhere because this is like pretty
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well established [ __ ] at this point pardon my French um okay they say in
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some extreme cases users were storing in excess of 75 terabyt of data on a single
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Office 365 account the reason for that is because they got unlimited storage so
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it's because a few people using something that they were literally
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allowed to use even in the fine print that they were paying for paying
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customers as apparently hurt all the free guys as well you give someone
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unlimited access to something then you're like whoa whoa whoa we didn't
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mean that unlimited that's [ __ ] I'm
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do this all the time the correct response to the extreme users who
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frankly were being very unreasonable who
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cares it's un they were they were what
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they should have done was adjusted the
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paid customers to a terabyte or something or two terabytes or something
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or made them get like a business tier unlimited account which was way more
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expensive or something or something and and just targeted the unreasonable users
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cuz I get it 75 terab of space for like
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what does Office 365 cost like a $100 a year or something like that not a like I
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I can't I can't remember I I have a subscription I should know this they screwed up though they shouldn't have
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said it was unlimited so and if they're going to backpedal backpedal in a way
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that's reasonable and makes sense um so
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anyway they are no longer offering unlimited storage I think that pretty
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much goes without saying they are cutting it back to one ter of one drive
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storage with your subscription um so the 100 Gig and 200
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gig one drive paid plans are going away
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as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 gig plan for1 199 per
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month in early 2016 the 15 gig excuse me camera roll
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storage bonus will also be discontinued in early
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2016 and Office 365 subscribers with an excess of 1 tab will be notified of the
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change and will be able to keep their increase for at least 12 months so
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basically they did it in the most dickish possible way super not impressed
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um I don't personally use one drive because I don't
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care um because it sucks the interface
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really isn't very good it's just it's really just
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not yeah I I'm super just don't like it
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um they tried to make it like clean and modern and honest I think they just
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messed it up yeah like anything the way
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to make something clean here's a pro tip
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okay here's how to make something clean it should integrate seamlessly into the
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existing UI of whatever device I'm using it on it's Pro tip okay that's why
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Dropbox does so well it's just a folder
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on your computer you literally like right click paste or like right click
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create public link share with some one it's very
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simple my mother still can't do it but
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it's a whole other issue um YouTube
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homes this is so weird it's weird but like it's it's kind
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of cool it's I think it's pretty cool yeah it's just like I'm I'm just when I
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saw this I was like wait is this URL right like are we all getting trolled
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yeah are we on youtube.com yeah yeah yeah yeah I checked that like I did I
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was pretty worried about that actually I was like https yeah yeah youtube.com
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there's no like it's not like do corn you know yeah or something SSL checks
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out it's verified by Google Inc like okay like okay so basically the way it
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works is YouTube has partnered with Lending Club to provide YouTube creators
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with a limited Finance option to put towards building their channels yeah um
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it's really not that different from any
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other business or personal loan except
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that YouTube is apparently facilitating it for one thing um the terms of the
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loan look there's some interesting stuff pretty good and it's at I believe it's
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at like something like a 5.9% interest rate and if you successfully increase
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your Channel's average upload frequency
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or watch time over a period of 12 months after you take out the loan you get a 5%
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rebate on the original Total loan amount so what is that pretty cool so basically
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it's it's a and I am not to be clear I
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am not an interest calculator whiz kid
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Guru who can who can figure that crap out in my head uh so so don't take my
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word for this 100% but it looks like if you pay it back in a year it'll be
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effectively like a 1 point something perish loan
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pretty cool if you need a chunk of money to develop your YouTube channel and you
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really think you can take it to the next level so one of the challenges that we
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had at lonus Media Group it's really it's really funny um a lot of people
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complained about our tip starter campaign where we asked our community to help us fund this new office people are
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like take out a loan it's like yeah we
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did we're not idiots we also voluntarily asked our
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community to help us because that helps a lot too and we said it was optional
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and you get literally nothing in exchange for it other than a cool badge
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on the Forum and we had to do some pretty stupid [ __ ] yeah we did do some
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dumb stuff and like some people I did like personalized thank yous for certain
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tiers and like but you don't you don't get like a t-shirt for it or anything
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because the idea was we were using it to make our our new office and our new
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workflow better and all that stuff and we did um but getting alone is not that
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simple okay especially if you're like a smalltime Creator like still living at
27:28
home with your parents and you don't have a mortgage to to to use as uh as
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collateral or not a mort you don't use a mortgage as collateral you use the house
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the value in the house is the collateral like if you don't have collateral um and
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this is interesting so there's two tiers that they're offering you can get up to
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a $35,000 personal loan if you receive
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an official invitation from YouTube that's a key you've been operating your
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business for less than two years and you have less than $75,000 of annual revenue
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through your YouTube channel um and then the second tier to get up to
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$300,000 a business loan you have to be operating for at least two years as a
28:07
business and you have to have over $775,000 in annual revenue and that is
28:12
one of the challenges because since the economic downturn of 2008 lending
28:18
criteria at least in some places has gotten a lot more strict and it's not
28:22
that easy to just hey I'm a business I've got a business idea you should give
28:27
me some money money oh I guess that didn't work well I'm falling for
28:32
bankruptcy yeah that happened enough times that the lenders kind of went yeah
28:38
no so I was not able to get a loan for
28:44
the things that we needed to do here until lonus Media Group had been
28:48
operating for two years fortunately that timing worked out pretty much perfectly
28:53
with when we got kicked out of our old place um and we were able to move in
28:57
here sort of perfectly because another month would have been great super
29:02
awesome super awesome yeah it's it's nice though cuz
29:06
I've seen some comments on the videos lately that are like yeah I'm you know
29:10
I'm not hating on these guys but like some of that content during the move was
29:14
kind of rough it's like we know we really had a lot of other stuff
29:20
to do like move and moving is not as simple as just
29:25
pick up the thing move it to the other place and put it down
29:28
it's really not um anyway I think this
29:31
is really cool and if you're a YouTube Creator that's kind of struggling but
29:36
you feel like wow $35,000 in or even remember up to 35 so
29:42
like wow I could really use a $110,000 loan and if Google's willing to kind of
29:46
vouch for me that I'm cool and I know what I'm doing um I could invest in like
29:51
that capture equipment or that camera gear or whatever else that I need to
29:54
really get this thing off the ground because honestly I get I probably get a
29:59
request a day from someone who wants to start a game streaming Channel and
30:02
they're like yeah all I need to get it off the ground and like do better is
30:06
like like this ba computer and stuff and I'm just like I'm sorry I actually
30:12
cannot send a computer to every person who tells me that they have a game
30:15
streaming Channel and they want to do better it's not actually possible it
30:19
does not grow in trees a lot of people think these guys have like tons of
30:23
Hardware it's falling out of their ears and from a certain perspective that is
30:27
kind of true but for most of the things we only have
30:31
like like one of everything so when we're like we probably have more we have
30:35
more camera equipment now than we have computers yeah I'd say that's true like
30:38
for sure and like the sweet build log
30:41
that I'm doing right now I'm just going to have to take apart like immediately
30:46
because we're going to need the things from it a lot of people are like lon's three-year-old has a way better computer
30:50
than no he doesn't that got taken apart like how long after literally one day
30:54
later yeah he's three what does he need a freaking desktop computer for he's
30:58
three we build things we take them apart it's like it's like weightlifters they
31:02
pick things up and they put them back down we build computers and we take them back apart we we don't we don't have 20
31:07
you know 67 6700k processors I think we
31:12
have one right we have one and that was like pulling teeth to get it's not like
31:15
it's not like free Hardware rigns from the heavens or whatever so so this looks
31:19
like a more realistic option for for a
31:23
startup Creator to uh you know if they've got some talent and that's the
31:26
thing is people are always asking me too like how do you get sponsored with
31:30
Hardware like people in twitch chat are like what illusion shattered oh my God
31:36
uh yeah it's like how do you get sponsored with Hardware have an audience
31:41
well I can't have an audience if I'm not sponsored with Hardware get
31:45
creative that's how literally everyone
31:48
did it I was literally everyone some
31:51
people know this I was starting a channel that no one knew about at all
31:55
before I joined you um and my plan was a
31:59
lot of my friends at the time were getting into building computers so build
32:04
their computer for them do it at your house film a video about every part
32:09
review every part in the computer also film building the computer do some
32:13
benchmarks with it film that just utilize everything that you can oh your
32:18
buddy just got a new phone borrow it for a day give him 20 bucks or something buy
32:23
them food or whatever borrow it for a day review the phone do whatever you
32:26
need to do get smart about buying and selling used stuff you can acquire you
32:31
can acquire things temporarily and then you can get rid of them very quickly and
32:36
not lose a whole lot of money on the transaction buy a cheap version of a
32:40
popular phone on Craigslist um resell it on Craigslist
32:45
for hopefully more than buy a different one review that flip it again start
32:49
start building up that that that uh that kind of that slush fund of acquiring
32:54
things and and and cycling through them so uh people people are saying I had NC
32:59
Hardware to start to build an audience yes I did that's yet another example of
33:03
get creative find a solution my solution
33:06
was I worked with a local retailer and people are like oh yeah I emailed my
33:10
local retailer and they said they're not interested well of course they're not interested you sent an email who cares
33:15
what you think you sent an email you didn't even show up you got to show up
33:19
if you want to play the game
33:22
kids right there's other also like shadier
33:27
ways to do it that I'm not going to go over um but whatever let's just say it I
33:31
mean a lot of people starting up buy things from places with great return
33:35
policies and return them that's legitimately what I'm
33:39
planning to do with the Surface
33:42
Book they got a 30-day return policy that's not my problem thing yeah and
33:47
it's like I don't know what do you want from me yeah it happens it honestly
33:51
happens a lot like it's it's it's about get it done that is what any job
33:57
especially if you're self-employed is about get it done there's basically
34:01
always a way to work
34:05
harder um anyway yeah very cool um I
34:08
didn't really read any of the notes you got to be 18 or older to qualify it's not there's not really that
34:13
much to say it's it's a loaning thing the the loaning Lending Club or whatever
34:17
already existed there's just a couple special terms for YouTube that's it and
34:21
the 5% rebate just for I mean that's bad if all you have to do is upload more
34:25
content in the year then if you don't get that 5 % rebate then go home you
34:30
you're not cut out for the YouTube game unfortunately we couldn't even do that
34:35
with line ofps it's like more videos on LPS would just be insane that's okay
34:39
though because we don't need yeah yeah
34:43
we're good yep we're good thanks to our fantastic Community our great sponsors
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like linda.com
34:51
yeah learn things about making videos
34:55
maybe say for example yeah I mean that is the wow that would be a really good
35:00
way to even if you took out a very small
35:03
YouTube loan if you're like y window I
35:06
just need like 5,000 bucks okay I need like I need like a a couple generation
35:11
old camera to get me going I need like a a crappy tripod a used slider a lens and
35:18
a linda.com subscription here I go I'm like taking my game to the next level it
35:23
is amazing how far you can stretch a small budget anyway sorry sorry on on
35:27
the topic of of linda.com which for some reason I'm I'm like blanking on my My
35:32
Talking Points I've done you can learn a whole bunch of stuff they have uh
35:36
production training so you can learn things about Premiere which is probably
35:41
kind of helpful business photography yeah uh productivity applications
35:46
business is pretty huge on there yeah they got more than 3,000 courses
35:49
available from Top experts you can get a 10day free trial at
35:54
linda.com wow one thing that I very much like on there is that you can download
35:58
things yes you can download and watch on your mobile device on the go so you
36:01
don't have to be streaming it you can make notes you can make playlists so you
36:05
and your friends can learn along with each other um like I IAL I think I've
36:09
talked about this before but I'm just going to do it again like uh my son's
36:12
already reading and he's like three three and a half or something like that
36:18
so that kid's going to hit like kindergarten grade one he's going to be
36:21
straight up bored so my plan because I
36:24
am a complete programming no nothing
36:28
is I'm going to like seriously start at his level and start learning some of
36:32
that stuff with him and a tool like linda.com is going to be is going to be
36:35
awesome because like I already recognize that even though I'm fairly techy a lot
36:40
of people don't understand this but the cold hard truth is once you have a job
36:45
and you have kids and you have say for example anything else in your life you
36:50
know I'll I'll get a I'll get a lot of flack like oh why doesn't lonus know how
36:54
to use Snapchat or whatever because quite frankly I I don't have to and
36:57
don't care and I've got other stuff going on because I don't have time to
37:01
sit if it's not like if it's not my job to do it and it's not taking care of my
37:05
babies and it's not like any of these other legitimately very important things
37:10
I I don't know and that is how old people get out of touch and I recognize
37:16
that not being up on at least the fundamentals of programming is going to
37:20
be a huge difference between me and the generation that's following me so if I
37:25
want to keep up I have one shot at this
37:28
as he's getting older this is my one chance for him to not be speaking a
37:32
language literally a language that I completely understand when you guys
37:36
starting that um probably when he's around five cool yeah that's that's kind
37:41
of that's kind of my plan so I I need to get him into badmon if you ever need
37:44
like help or whatever super interested that' be cool thank you yeah um that's
37:49
like an off the show thing but like yeah whatever yeah I'm thinking I'm thinking
37:53
around the time he hits five uh I really I want him in martial arts I want him
37:57
doing like some kind of competitive sport not
38:00
that I'm saying martial arts isn't competitive I know but a team sport um
38:04
maybe team maybe maybe not I don't know um I want him swimming swimming is like
38:10
necessary um and then my wife wants him doing a musical instrument he's half
38:14
asian so I'm assuming he'll play the piano um piano is really good though I
38:19
know I I'm not dissing The Piano I'm just saying I'm just saying like and I'm
38:22
not I'm not not trying to stereotype I'm just saying that there it's a better
38:27
chance then not if it's like what instrument did
38:30
your parents make you play it's like okay so it's the Asian kid piano right
38:37
it's like no piano and
38:41
flute no offense what was really Co when
38:45
I was at BCIT they had a piano in the common Hall and it's it's BCIT so I'd be
38:52
sitting there studying and then every once in a while chat's exploding I know
38:55
I should I should pull the lind third off that part at least it's it's BCIT so
39:00
every once in a while someone would come up and play the piano yeah and like
39:04
there was amazingly good people and it was wonderful I don't know
39:09
I got like classical music played to me while I was like live classical music
39:13
from very skilled pianists played to me while I was studying I was like this is
39:17
amazing oh violin sorry I missed violin
39:20
oh yeah that is a legitimate alternative yeah um you know I if if I was going to
39:28
pick up an instrument it would be the violin for one
39:33
reason I have small fingers so a real guitar is not an
39:38
option no that's not actually the reason because I think that the problem
39:45
with fiddle music and yes I know a fiddle is a violin it's just a different
39:49
style of playing I think the problem with high energy violin music is that
39:53
it's all like country music I think that high energy violin and if people have
39:59
artist suggestions um Twitter not now
40:03
who's that super famous chick on YouTube doesn't she play violin y y y isn't that
40:07
high energy yeah but like
40:10
okay if people send me suggestions on Twitter later tonight I will check them
40:14
out and I will let you know which ones are the ones that I'm thinking of any
40:18
something Sterling L Lindsay Sterling
40:22
Lindsay saying percussion gives you athletic
40:26
skills Lindsay Sterling lindsy Sterling okay anyway my my my point is that's the
40:31
style of music that if I was going to create anything I would want that to be it so so that's that that would be my
40:37
thing I have no idea where I was going with this right we're done l.com
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40:52
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40:56
yeah you too buddy why are you wearing those shirts oh uh very good reason
41:01
reason we'll tell you later okay okay
41:04
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41:11
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company site yet I doubt it I doubt it
41:36
oh yeah if I click is it going to be
41:39
there NOP are everyone even on here
41:42
there are literally no pictures at all is Colton on here no oh yes oh he has oh
41:47
my God Colton's profile is pathetic okay
41:51
so it starts at the beginning so I get I get six lines Luke gets seven lines Ed
41:58
who who actually did the site in the first place gets nine lines Brandon I I
42:05
believe updated his teran's got like eight lines and then we got lazy Nick
42:10
has three lines Colton gets one in 1.1
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line read his line though read his line Colton does sales and business
42:19
development but in a lighter capacity than
42:22
Nick wow oh my God who who wrote that I don't
42:28
know probably
42:33
Nick you some col works here but he's
42:36
not as cool as Nick so oh man that's
42:41
brutal do you hear this John is our first foreign worker who is writing this
42:47
stuff United States of what what you so wrote them no I
42:54
wrote some of them I didn't wrate Colton's
42:58
I wrote I I rewrote Dennis's terrible
43:01
one that said that was like racist he wrote his you wrote yours you
43:07
wrote it yourself col you're terrible yeah hey you're still on your 90-day
43:11
probation you're fired for writing a terrible bio for yourself I had one day
43:16
left of my probation Squarespace tries to give us these beautiful tools and we
43:20
just write terrible things on them yeah so the website looks good the point
43:24
we're trying to make is that your Squarespace site will be functional and
43:28
beautiful but it is still up to you to make sure that the content isn't totally
43:32
rub the tagline is build it beautiful but there's an actionable part of that
43:36
which we're apparently not really do build like they don't just do it for you
43:40
it's not it's not like do a lot of it for you it's not like lie there like a
43:45
vegetable beautiful oh oh dear like it's
43:48
ridiculous yeah you have to actually put some amount of work into all right so if
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purchase all right let's can we just try and do like a straight sponsor read for
44:05
this one can we try just I mean we can try Okay
44:12
so fresh books I'm deciding whether to go there
44:17
or not cuz there's talk in Canada of
44:20
legalizing prostitution okay no we won't go there so fresh books for your small
44:25
business whether you're a a plumber or a PC repair person or one of those
44:30
plumbers or if you're working on anything else any time of day fresh
44:35
books when you're on the go you know if you're out in your plumbing van and
44:39
you're Plumbing things and you want to keep track of your your hours and your
44:44
invoices I am sure I'm getting a complaint about this uh fresh books
44:48
allows you to keep track of all those little details you can send invoices to
44:52
your clients um they have intuitive and
44:57
easy to use tools you can uh you
45:02
could poor nick uh you can send invoices
45:05
to your clients you can bill your clients through the app via VIA credit
45:10
card so you can get a confirmation when they when they viewed it you can uh wow
45:16
um oh this is great freshbooks actually
45:19
just launched their deposits feature so
45:22
if you're like a house painter for example um you you would take a deposit
45:26
at the time of booking the job because frankly as a former house painter I can
45:30
tell you that's critical absolutely critical so that you can go buy paint
45:35
and show up at the job with paint and brushes and stuff um so you can take
45:38
your deposit and then you can build a balance also through freshbooks so
45:42
what's the point of freshbooks okay cloud-based accounting service that
45:45
allows you to focus on running your small business instead of crunching
45:49
numbers about your small business every day at the end of the day so visit
45:52
freshbooks.com and enter when in the how
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to do here About Us section my phone is going berserk right now um oh
46:03
wow Nick saw it coming a mile away
46:07
please don't bring up prostitution we
46:10
just got a new rep please this is their
46:13
first spot why I hate you guys so
46:21
much you know why you know why that tagline probably says that Colton does
46:26
it in a lower capacity than Nick why cuz
46:29
I don't think we troll Colton and we
46:32
troll the crap Nick Nick I think Nick's goingon to have a heart attack in his
46:36
30s if he makes it that far yeah sorry
46:40
about that right what else do we got on the show today I love this show yeah H
46:46
oh this is this is some good stuff so AMD faces a class action suit over
46:52
bulldozzer misrepresentation now to be clear the
46:56
class action suit does not allege that AMD marketed their product as a
47:00
bulldozer only to have customers buy it and realize that all their dirt was
47:04
still there yeah that would be disappointing that would be disappointing um no what the what the
47:10
suit alleges is that AMD Mis represented
47:13
the core count of for example their eight core bulldozzer processor so the
47:19
way that AMD's module system worked and
47:22
I say worked not because there aren't still processors that use it that there
47:26
are but because it looks like with their upcoming Zen course that's going away
47:31
the way that it worked is that each module had two integer units and then
47:37
some shared cache and a shared floating Point Unit so from the sort of strictest
47:44
traditional standpoint they were not
47:47
full cores but people who say that
47:50
they're like hyperthreaded cores are not correct either because they they they
47:55
can process much more than an individual
47:59
core were the best way that I would describe them is like is one and a half
48:03
cores each um so where's this going oh I
48:08
don't know probably nowhere everyone probably gets a $10 rebate in eight
48:11
years or something like that going to go through um cuz honestly my thing on this
48:17
is yes it was kind of weird to an average consumer to be completely honest
48:22
y I agree but it wasn't like they didn't
48:26
try but well yeah but try AMD try and like
48:32
effective is not the same thing and you got to understand that we're not just
48:36
talking about consumers who went to the store and bought an fx 8150 okay we're
48:41
talking about consumers who went to Best Buy and bought an HP Pavilion something
48:47
or other cuz it had more cores than the because it had eight
48:51
cores that tag down there AMD's try does
48:54
not extend to that one tag under the I got my $20 rebate for buying whatever
49:00
RAM in whenever the hell like some ramus
49:05
crap or something yeah really yeah wow okay it showed up check for $20 I was
49:10
like okay whenever I go to the bank next I
49:13
guess that's cool I don't know yeah only
49:17
took like two years I think I swear AMD
49:20
fans are the most difficult to penetrate
49:23
group on the entire internet anything
49:26
350 is8 cor stop being stupid actually
49:30
it's not that simple life is very rarely that simple that's I guess all I can
49:35
really say about it at this point because I give up unless you're playing
49:38
the piano um all right so I guess that's uh
49:43
that's pretty much all that yeah the blah blah blah results in etc etc okay
49:48
oh um so it's still a little early for
49:52
us to wear them no no no no trust me bad idea okay well forget then um there's
49:57
LTT stickers available so over on teespring.com LTT stickers we've got uh
50:05
apparently 56 people have bought a lius
50:08
tech tips logo sticker um for $9 where's
50:13
the I haven't seen the stickers yeah well it's pretty simple it's just like a
50:17
lus tech tips logo there you go so it's
50:20
just a short 7-Day campaign it's available for another 4 days um
50:24
something a lot of people have been asking about lately stickers aside so
50:28
you guys can check out the stickers if you're into that but stick oh oh right I
50:32
was I'm supposed to bring this up the reason it has like such huge black
50:35
borders is so that you can kind of cut it to whatever size you want I was going
50:38
to say I was like how big is this does it even say how big it is like actual
50:42
dimensions I don't know I don't know anything about this it just says it's
50:46
landscape this is a lick Knight Pro lick KN a lick Knight project lick this is a
50:51
Nick light project that sounds like a Shovel Knight thing yeah lick Knight
50:55
lick Knight oh you sizing chart and thing so it's 3.6 in do it by 5 in oh
51:01
maybe you can buy different sizes you buy different sizes you pick your size
51:05
ah there yeah so there you go scker so
51:09
it's a Nick light project and um he asked me to bring up that you could just
51:12
cut it to size and I was like okay sure that sounds cool but then what if you
51:16
wanted a 5 by seven what if you just want to calm down so we've had a lot of
51:21
people asking not about stickers necessarily but about our other merch
51:25
because they've noticed that our district line store is completely empty
51:30
um we are going to be launching a new store very soon on Teespring that will
51:36
happen and when we launch cuz because Teespring has traditionally just been
51:40
like here's a design we're doing a campaign but we're going to have a store
51:44
and when that happens we're going to bring back if not all most of the
51:51
designs that we've ever done so they will all be available again and then the
51:55
way that it works is they'll all be kind of like mini campaigns so it's going to
52:00
be sort of like I don't know what I would call it like it it it' be kind of
52:04
like it'd be kind of like a mass drop page that never goes away so like every
52:09
time it reaches 50 people who commit the counter resets and it ships those 50 out
52:14
yeah or something like that right I think I think that's how it goes yeah
52:17
that's so that's pretty much like kind of how it's going to
52:21
work um this is interesting so Apple
52:24
patents yeah a witchless Force touch
52:30
keyboard I mean it's not like this idea has never been thought of before like a
52:34
laser projected keyboards tou
52:37
keyboards like I just I even read the headline and I was like
52:41
don't so the idea is that this would allow their MacBooks to be thinner than
52:46
ever I don't care thinner than ever lighter than
52:53
ever you're not going to buy a Macbook anyway what do you care I
52:57
well because then the rest of the industry will do it yeah like I like
53:00
that's basically how this stuff works usually in the past Apple was leading
53:05
all of these kind of things for the last little while maybe not so much in every
53:11
department or any of them um but
53:15
nowadays if Apple does this it's very possible that everyone else is going to
53:18
do this and honestly their current popular laptop thing didn't we use that
53:23
for scrapyard Wars MacBook Air yeah yeah
53:27
that was F popular laptop thing I don't know anything about those guys whatever
53:31
um the battery lasted a long time the keyboard was actually pretty good it web
53:36
browsed just fine that's all I needed it for it was great I didn't pay for it I
53:40
don't care how expensive it was wasn't relevant to Scrapyard Wars to be clear
53:44
we also didn't keep them we also didn't keep them I'm just saying like I didn't
53:47
buy the laptop so I know people are going to be like but it's overpriced and
53:50
I'm gonna be like I know that doesn't make it a bad piece of Hardware exactly
53:54
it was fine I actually it was it was good whereas arguably a laptop with a
53:59
touchscreen keyboard is a bad piece of Hardware probably bad regardless of it's
54:02
price now with that said okay you've used the steam
54:06
controller right so having haptic feedback for when you move back and
54:10
forth on something with a better with a
54:14
with a better vibration motor yeah could be not terrible and more on that later
54:19
as someone who who I personally feel that on the
54:25
MacBook 15 which has the the force touch
54:29
trackpad the actual The Click feels a
54:34
lot like a click it really does if they
54:38
executed it perfectly maybe you've got my attention
54:42
but what they would have to do is maybe have like they'd have to have some way
54:48
for me to find the Home row still yeah it would have to be like you'd still
54:51
have to have like a grid on it or something that I can feel even if the
54:54
keys are touched if they solve that it might not be that bad of a problem my
54:57
thing is being able to feel the keys still I don't look at the keyboard when
55:00
I type but I can feel physical Keys yes
55:04
so if they find some way to solve that problem sure but I just haven't heard
55:09
anything about that all
55:13
right lus doesn't smoke he's coughing because he's sick it's amazing how many
55:19
people were like getting super judgy
55:22
about yeah we'll talk about that next it's amazing how many people were
55:25
getting super Jud about how I smoke and I'm a bad person on our um our our our
55:31
old office tour oh because I had a pack
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of cigarettes on my desk oh those were
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the they were literally FX C cigarettes
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okay we paid like a fair amount so that we could get fake ones so that he
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wouldn't have to smoke uh let me see if I can find the uh
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here they are here they are they're from new rule effects.com
55:56
that is the pack of cigarettes that was on my desk okay so y'all can just y'all
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can just calm down thank you
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um all right let's move on to our next topic Diablo 2 Starcraft 1 and Warcraft
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3 HD remakes possibly coming now thank you to
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be clear possibly coming is just based
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on a job posting it's okay I'm going to read out the job posting no timeline at
56:28
all yeah so like don't hold your breath or hold your pee or hold anything
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compelling stories intense multiplayer endless replayability qualities that
56:37
made Starcraft Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 the Titans they are today evolving
56:40
operating systems hardware and online services have made them more difficult
56:43
to be experienced by their loyal followers are by their loyal followers
56:48
our or or reaching a new generation we're restoring them to Glory blah blah
56:52
blah blah blah we need your engineering talents so like they're doing something
56:56
whether or not it's just compatibility for newer systems or is actually a HD
57:00
remake I don't know because it says right on it some responsibil is listed
57:03
as own implementation and curation of features new and old diagnose and fix
57:09
all the things crashes Deadlocks overthrows Heap Corruptions
57:13
Etc so it's it it is very unclear what
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restoring them to Glory means but they're doing something and
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that's cool I would love for it to be HD remakes yes Ultra HD please actually yes
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but then with the way blizzard goes you know maybe not so much maybe not Ultra
57:29
HD maybe it'll be like
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960p wrecked in Blizzard's defense their
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art style does their their like low
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polygon count art style does translate
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really well to high resolution screens and and all that stuff I'm not I'm not
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hating on the I'm sure the twitch is exploding already they know what they're
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doing um yeah they do know what that's
57:56
super cool if they released an HD remake of Warcraft 3 I would be Head Over Heels
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happy don't worry about that one ignore that one this one why super boring Oh I
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thought it was interesting I've had it for like almost a whole year yeah I know
58:07
okay but it's beta now but who cares okay fine you can do it if you want yeah
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let's do the next one then all right all right the new senheiser
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orious have you ever wanted to spend $55,000 on a pair of headphones and now
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you can yeah if you're one of the 250
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people a year who will be permitted to buy it
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so in 1990 this is this is like straight
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off of sennheiser's website senis well Tech Insider but I'm pretty sure they
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got it straight off of sennheiser's website in 1990 Sennheiser Engineers set out to
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create the best headphones in the world
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the result was the legendary Sennheiser Orphus a pair of $16,000
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our audio file headphones so sophisticated they even came with their
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own tube amplifier that looked like something taken from a mad scientist lab
59:05
if you're some kind of tool who has never seen a tube amplifier before
59:09
pretty sure he went off script there for a moment yeah sorry that last bit was me
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it was good though I I liked it so good empasis now thank you I never put it on
59:18
the wrong salable
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um oh classic joke careful that you might break it
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oh um so when I first got the press release
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for this you're going to fre out you ask for a review sample no no what I asked for
59:38
you're going to freak out what I asked for was the first unit and that I would
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buy them because you know what's really
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weird I know you're freaking out but you need to calm down no what was really
59:50
weird was I looked at this article and I was like maybe we should buy one I'm not
59:55
even kidding I'm not kidding at all I was like you know I look at Lou and
59:58
stuff and sometimes they just go crazy and they just buy something really cool
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then review it and I'm like maybe we should just buy an orus he does so many
60:06
headphone reviews like it might make sense so I was like I was like I
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straight up I was like cuz I was like I want to review this and they're like
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well you can't because Get Wrecked we're
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going to have a like an auditioning booth at CES you can hear them there and
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I was like no no you misunderstand I'm going to buy them but I want the first
60:26
won for being me and because I'm going to review it and then he's like okay
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well here's some more detail can we get it signed by senheiser I read into it no
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I'm not buying them anymore I read into it even further and only okay so only
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300 pairs of the original orus exist today and they typically go for tens of
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thousands of dollars on eBay much more than the purchase price and so my
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initial take on it was like I will just buy it and flip it because I don't care
60:54
because it'll be a limited Edition product and I can get rid of it down the
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line without it actually costing anything it's all about the slush fund
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right I talked about this you don't have to buy everything and then like put it
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in a vault somewhere you can buy it and sell it and get rid of it and to be fair
61:09
when I said I was thinking about us just buying it I fully expected it to be back
61:13
out of the door probably as soon as possible yeah the problem is that
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Sennheiser I think lost their way with
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what was so exclusive and interesting
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about the orus the original orus and they are producing 250 of these per year
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indefinitely so yeah I get it that
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that's only 250 units a year so you'll be one of like the only you know couple
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thousand people worldwide who can own one but I seriously doubt that for the
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best head even the best headphones in the world bearing in mind the original
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orases were already that and they go for
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about $3 Grand on eBay I seriously doubt
61:58
that there's more than 250 people a year that are going to be willing to spend
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55,000 us on also the best headphones in
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the world so I think Sennheiser has
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significantly overestimated the demand and at the same time killed what is so
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exclusive and legendary about the orus
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with that said it might still sound great and that's cool and that's fine
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but it means that from a collector standpoint they've pretty much made it
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irrelevant um from my personal perspective other people can agree or
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disagree with me but um I am no longer interested in owning one I will listen
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to them at CES on the CES show floor
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someone in twitch chat was like 30 grand just to listen to Taylor
62:43
Swift yeah hey you know maybe how else
62:48
are you g to shake it off all right maybe your boyfriend left you because you spent so much money on headphones
62:53
yeah
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ah so anyway some some details about it
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because I went completely off how he doesn't understand your purchasing
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decisions and I just met you and this is no that was the other one that was the
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different one um so handcrafted in Germany using over 6,000 components some
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components such as gold vaporized ceramic electrodes which sound pretty ba
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I guess Platinum vaporized diaphragms karata marble amplifier
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housing uh amplifier control is created using a single piece of brass once the
63:30
headphones are turned on the quartz glass vacuum tubes Rise Up from the
63:35
marble enclosure and emit a glow which by the way two bamps just kind of do um
63:41
they feature digital amplification which takes place inside the headphones
63:45
reducing interference from cord travel I mean we are talking some audio file
63:50
grade snake oil right here no would be badass they super won't so like I
63:55
understand that before we before we I get it it's okay it's fine they should
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send us on a factory tour where we see
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the whole line so they should show us
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like Parts not only just that but where
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they get the carara marble and where they get the Platinum that they're using
64:15
and then like we follow the whole chain of everything in yeah so that would cost
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what 50 Grand to make at least sure more
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than that probably You' have to like fly around and St you talk to CES or
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Sennheiser at CES okay you pitch it you know what honestly I would and you
64:33
probably know that at this point but I also super know that they wouldn't do it
64:38
so like and it wouldn't even make any sense from our perspective we're going
64:41
to be we're going to be trucking all over Europe so long to make a video
64:46
about how headphones are made when we legit already made a video about how
64:50
headphones are made how siser headphones are made no part of the video would be
64:54
like how they the marble and the
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Platinum so you want to you literally
65:00
want to make you want to remake I collect rocks and then listen to it on a
65:05
$55,000 pair of headphones that's what I'm hearing right now yeah you're
65:10
drunk I said I knew it wouldn't happen I
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just I don't know I thought it' be funny like like what actually goes into making
65:18
a pair of 55,000 freaking headphones a lot I would imagine yeah I also suspect
65:23
the profit margin is fairly sub want to solve the section of I would
65:30
imagine all right so this article here is from Android
65:35
authority beware of cheap USB type-c
65:38
cables warns Google engineer this is actually a very good point especially
65:42
early in the life cycle of a new cable standard it is very common for the now
65:48
I'm not saying that everyone has to run out and buy $200 HDMI cables from
65:52
Monster but you also shouldn't necessarily be buying 9 99 HDMI cables
65:57
off the back of a truck there is a middle ground and so buying a lowquality
66:01
cable particularly very early in the life cycle of a connector can lead to
66:06
issues because they might not undergo the appropriate tests and validation
66:10
depends whose truck depends whose truck so Google engineer Benson Le young has
66:15
been testing cheap USB type-c can can you can you imagine like someone at
66:19
Google just being like yeah so I'd like for my next assignment to be buying a
66:22
bunch of cheap USB type-c cables and like testing them like someone who whose
66:28
job it is to kind of go yeah okay I guess that seems like good use of your time um so I they all have self-guided
66:34
time don't they yeah they do so he might have just y an important feature with
66:38
USB type-c and 3.1 is support for 3 amp
66:42
charging and a number of the budget cables fail to match the standard
66:47
specifications which can be dangerous to your Hardware as Legacy devices may not
66:51
be able to handle charger currents when using adapter cables so B basically what
66:56
he found was that some of the cheap type-c cables were not suitable for his
66:59
Chromebook Pixel laptop it is amazing how many people at Google use
67:04
MacBooks like I was just like shouldn't
67:09
you guys be like trying to somewhat Practice What You Preach around here no
67:13
can you program on Pixel uh I I'm sure someone out there is
67:20
going to tell us that yes indeed if you tap into the underlying Linux blah blah
67:25
that's fine but but like naturally without fighting it I don't think so
67:30
like I I've actually never used a Chromebook I don't know how locked down
67:33
they are I am not even remotely interested in Chromebooks um they are
67:36
somewhat locked down they're okay anything you can do in a browser you can
67:40
do in a Chromebook anything else I would so yeah there's a fairly obvious reason
67:44
why probably almost none of them have Chromebooks um The Witcher is getting a
67:49
movie ad.com I didn't mean stuff like
67:53
that anyways it's so funny okay so
67:57
everyone watching the WAN Show gets to be all like hoyy toyy privy to this
68:03
before they watch the video because I am
68:06
going to be doing my steam machine video uh next week so I've got an Alienware
68:10
steam machine actually I had two Steam Machines one of which I sent back
68:14
because one video was enough for me to say everything I have to say about Steam OS
68:18
um I wasn't going to reveal that much
68:22
but what I will say is this
68:26
many of my complaints about Steam OS I
68:30
express and then later on in the
68:34
video I burn all the Linux Geeks and I I
68:39
say that in like a kind way like like I'm a geek you're a geek we're all Geeks
68:44
you're you could specifically be a Linux geek I would specifically be a I don't
68:47
know I'm I'm sure I could fall into a lot of categories I'm sure um so I kind
68:52
of burned the Linux Geeks that I predict
68:55
with my amazing powers of future prediction Hammer are leaping down my
69:01
throat when I talk about the limitations of Steam OS and telling me all about how
69:06
I can enable desktop mode and I can install this and do that and then sud do
69:11
that and all this stuff sudu
69:14
oh okay so later on in the video I'm
69:18
like yo I know that doesn't matter
69:23
because so you guys I have saved you the
69:28
embarrassment of typing a comment under that video and getting destroyed because
69:33
there's a very good reason why that stuff doesn't matter my steam machine
69:37
video is going to be really long it's not
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sudu I looked it up it's you pronounce it pseudo yeah I
69:47
know it's spelled pseudo okay yeah no I I actually looked it up cuz I was like I
69:51
need to make sure I don't say this wrong who says Pudu I don't
69:58
know that's interesting yeah no I talk to an obscene amount of Linux nerds
70:03
pseudo I know I know and I assumed it
70:06
was I've I've only heard Pudo is that GI and GIF or is there actually a reason
70:11
why it's I will look it up because I unless someone was trolling the crap out
70:15
of me how do you pronounce I know it's super admin do but
70:21
like oh this one says I've heard it said pseudo across Ross the
70:26
board um but this guy okay so the op here here
70:32
you go this is where the confusion comes in op says I'm just learning to use
70:35
Linux and while I've seen that the official way is
70:39
sudu I still want to pronounce itse sudo so which one do you use when talking
70:43
about the command CU like so there you go no one's wrong I know it's super user
70:47
do but like look at the word but it is way safer for me to say it the official
70:53
right way so that those people can be double wrecked when they realize that
70:57
they actually aren't pronouncing it right sudo sounds so dumb I don't I I
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yeah it's not my problem um so anyway my steam machine video is going to be quite
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long probably about 16 minutes and um
71:09
I'm not going to ruin the conclusion but
71:12
it's it's still in beta and
71:16
it's yeah it's been in beta for well it
71:20
hasn't been in beta for two years but it's been in is there anything that it
71:23
does that a normal installation of Linux
71:27
cannot do uh the video is it's a really
71:30
good video it's a really well written video it contains a lot of information I
71:34
would like you guys to watch it so I'm not going to get too far into it but uh
71:38
I have saved you I have saved you the embarrassment of pointing out to me
71:41
things that I do indeed already know not that people seem to care no one seems to
71:46
care when they say something that it turns out that I already in fact
71:50
oftentimes the top rated comment on one of my videos would be like lonus didn't
71:54
you realize and then like the like
71:57
couple of up votes comment that's next under it is like he said it right in the
72:01
video and no one no one cares no one watches the video as far as I can tell I
72:07
know it's super user too oh God are people telling you that it's
72:11
super user do I but like and the thing is they're going like literally everyone
72:17
they're like literally everyone says sudo and I'm like I've literally
72:21
actually not heard that like twice yeah
72:24
literally not super everyone Do's that
72:29
oh D oh no all right jetpacks my
72:34
friends yes my friends I thought we were doing a because they oh yeah well oh my
72:41
gosh are there still like three pages of topics how the crap did this happen I
72:46
think they're adding some while we're doing the show no no these were all here
72:49
actually I just now let's do the jetpacks topic come on I want to do the
72:53
jetpacks topic it's cool all jetpack
72:56
test flight skip to later on in the video to see it actually take off like
73:00
so many oh no never mind this isn't the is this another water one A different
73:03
one no no no no no this is a thing oh wow this is like this is a thing whoa
73:08
yeah no this is straight up a thing this is not a hovercraft
73:13
whoa so he's just going over water for like safety problem yes oh no no no
73:18
they've got they've got other videos they've got like test flights in their
73:21
facility that are not overwat who yeah
73:24
so they got some help from the city of New York this is a thing jetpack
73:29
Aviation check this out I'm not telling you to order one not that you can
73:33
because this is a prototype but these guys have apparently been working for 40
73:37
years quietly on an actual jetpack to be
73:42
clear it is not the same thing as a rocket belt a rocket belt is just like
73:48
burning some fuel and like shooting it out pretty much no no this actually uses
73:55
jet engines and carries its own self-contained Fuel and is light enough
74:00
for a person to wear and is like some super ba looking stuff I forget what
74:04
it's called the something something n the JB 09 I think they screwed up I
74:11
think they meant JP 09 or nine there's
74:14
no zero don't worry I screwed up too I'm
74:17
kidding I don't mean they screwed up no no it's it's called the jb9 is it like
74:20
Justin Bieber 2009 yes yes it is thank
74:24
you he should fly into one of his concerts like that and then slip on some
74:27
water and get sad and Le so their site is great I I tooled around on it for a
74:31
little while they've got lots of great information about the challenges that they've faced how they've overcome them
74:35
because there's so many concerns like I always just assumed you know non-
74:40
mechanical engineer that I am that jetpacks would always be impossible
74:45
because we would never be able to control the exhaust temperature so how
74:49
do you keep people from burning their legs off when they're flying them um and
74:55
and not a thing they have figured it out
74:59
and it is looking pretty cool so they're still working on a lot of RNG stuff a
75:03
ballistic parachute um a four engined version a simulator to reduce pilot
75:08
training time um improvements to the engines and computer management system
75:12
but this is some cool stuff hey hoverboards may never happen but
75:16
jetpacks wow you saw how aggressively
75:20
angry different organizations got about drones
75:25
how upset are people going to be about jetpacks I don't know I so want to
75:31
commute on one though man like yeah but like what's going to happen the first
75:34
time like a person runs into a plane they'll die and then what I mean like
75:40
politically oh I don't know I have a feeling these will never
75:44
be unregulated though in the way that thees were yeah yeah yeah I'm just like
75:49
are you going to have to like schedule flight time and like I don't know I
75:53
would what I would imagine to control towers and stuff no because like I don't
75:57
think you can go that high but you're still risk for take off no radio is some 60s technology the way that I imagine
76:02
this working is you would have totally use that I I know they do but I what I
76:07
no I know but my point is that that
76:10
would not work for this we need a new system so the way that it would have to
76:15
work is you would have to use individual
76:18
GPS you'd have to have individual GPS trackers on everyone everyone would have
76:22
to have a data link like a super fail redundant data link and then you would
76:28
still probably have to like it could even be like app managed so you could be
76:32
like I'm leaving this is my destination
76:36
you put your phone in your pocket your phone detects that you just freaking
76:39
took off the ground and then your jetpack reports in your status it knows
76:43
you need way you need a way for inair communication though so you'd have well
76:47
you could have okay that that could be radio that could be whatever but the way
76:51
that the actual tracking system would have to work would almost have to be
76:55
automated so it would have to be like you would have to everyone would have to
76:59
still have a headset and then you'd have to have instead of having like an air
77:03
traffic control tower everyone would have to intelligently from the mass
77:09
management system get the relevant alerts for them but what stops someone
77:14
from just not using a GPS device uh the thing that stops air traffic Towers can
77:19
detect well okay agencies that control
77:22
the air detect planes even if they're not reporting yes so the thing that
77:27
would prevent people from doing that would be the Interceptor police
77:31
enforcement jetpacks that show up on them and tell them to get the crap back
77:35
on their flight path so you could so I
77:39
mean that's the way that I really see it being done like what prevents people from taking a car and driving it into a
77:43
building technically nothing except that that's going to get you in an awful lot
77:48
of trouble so that's that's really the way that I see this being
77:52
regulated flight limit yeah like someone in chat just said a flight limit but
77:56
there's problems with that because like since when have you not been able to
77:59
take a limiting chip out of a car yeah but we're not talking about
78:04
limiting chips we're talking about law enforcement laying the smackdown on you
78:10
I know so so yeah I mean there's a
78:13
there's a lot of different there's people are saying jetpack way too slow
78:18
you got no idea what's up as the crow flies is pretty important in terms of
78:24
how quickly you can get somewhere like no traffic lights is pretty darn
78:29
important I could probably get to work faster from home to here flying you know
78:34
40 kmers an hour on a jetpack versus flying uh flying flying down the highway
78:40
at 80 kilometers an hour in my car like it makes a big difference and it would
78:44
be way cooler so I see a lot of problems
78:48
with your playing but for jet there's a lot of problems with my plan okay but I
78:53
know that but my point is that the current plan of centralized monitoring
78:57
and radio communication is not enough because it needs to be like a smart
79:02
system where the individual operators can can receive and transmit only the
79:07
relevant broadcasts to themselves so the
79:10
centralized thing just has to manage who
79:13
needs to communicate with each other and why so I would know if someone's going
79:19
to intercept me but I don't need to know about all that other stuff you don't
79:22
just automatically hear everything I know okay I know but I also won't have a
79:27
freaking console in front of me yeah I won't have pretty much anything in front
79:31
of me I might have a HUD if I'm lucky yeah so so something has something has
79:35
to be something has to be Cloud managed and intelligent in the background to man
79:41
to make sure that that stuff works
79:44
okay anyways after party thing yeah all
79:47
right peace Bros thanks for watching The Man Show we are going to be doing the
79:51
ultra wide Festival uh Afterparty thing where we go through some of the
79:55
honorable mentions here so uh stay tuned
79:58
my good friends and we will see you on the other
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side look at this guy HUD is pushing it wait 200 more years we have Huds today