Tech Showdown Finale - Candy Battle Pt. 4
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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7,538 words · ~37 min read
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we lost the vision a little bit yes i don't think this should be here really
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this probably shouldn't be here the majority of this shouldn't be here these
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people are probably okay because they're carrying candy yeah but we should like build this out of candy
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yes we totally lost the vision that's i'm gonna throw a lot of that on me
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okay but like let's tear a bunch down and rebuild it
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with candy with candy done so we can use the white uh things as like candy
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boulders as candy boulders we can glue them together we can make the trees like
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we're originally planting we can build this largely out of kitkat and some other things i think that tree
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could have leaves of this yeah like so we can use some of the stuff as
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platforms to put more candy but nothing can exist without candy i do still want
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to leave this okay but then it needs to candy everywhere it needs to be central
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candy park yeah yeah yeah i know i know and then like but we can like make a
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bench out of kitkat like this shouldn't be
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here because that should be two little broken pieces of kitkat and one long
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actual piece of kitkat got it you know what i mean yeah candy construction land
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needs to totally happen over here that's gonna look pretty sharp we should like
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ship this to Noctua when we're done i know right
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here someone finally made a computer that makes sense with your color scheme
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i think i left the screws for the keyboard in the keyboard box
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hey the screws to the keyboard or inside the keyboard good job previous me
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my hope is just that the judges appreciate attention to detail rather
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than gimmicky light shows
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they probably won't luke not helping
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okay so all right where were we so we need to jump on desk lighting
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lighting get the pump mounted so it works with the front res
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and we need to paint the keycaps
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let's take a look here we got a fan cable there but
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come in the box i guess i could look
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oh boy
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another leg on there yeah yeah throw it on there okay
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so originally i was gonna tie these two lights on top with the light strip in
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between but the way bob put the other three lights in we didn't need to do
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that but left us with this tail leg on
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our lighting kit and so i've just got an RGB strip and
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this will fit right in here and just help illuminate all that and
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once the lights are down just a little bit all the white will catch all the light
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and look really awesome i hung out with some canadians at the bar once and they
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tested me to make sure i was worthy they
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only had a couple questions they want to know if i'd watch hockey
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and if i drank beer and do i like to fight and i said yes to
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all three and they said you're in just kind of have to
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pull forward i think the highlights on our case are going to be obviously color
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you've got bright colors uh white and pink it's really clean you look at it
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and we've done just a little bit of modification
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and so you can still see where it looks like the the stock chassis but by adding
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a reservoir in the front on the outside i think it's
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probably one of the biggest okay i need if i'll i'll push in on it
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let me push forward when you slide here we go
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tada ted says our system looks incomplete
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like we don't have enough time the whole thing our whole thing is a
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disaster i think we both kind of look like we don't have enough time to be
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honest i think we're pretty close i think we
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should have no tools down tonight
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yeah keep on working just keep on working
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i've got nothing else to do yeah we're not going anywhere
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if you guys are down i think that might be better for everyone
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i mean there's always yeah we want we want two systems that are done
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for sure yeah we got judges coming tomorrow so
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even if you guys got to be done
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off camera last night we did finish up the cabling for the back of our case
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and i gave in
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and we did the be and then i also sponge painted some of the mistakes so
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i think it looks pretty clean uh so we're ready to put that finishing
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touch on the back so plan for today then you're on
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diorama town
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and then i'm on cotton balling the bottom so i have
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actually a blue sky panel thing that i
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put in my car last night um honestly
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i don't think it's going to work that well it's got like a corrugated brown
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backing so what we're thinking now
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is we just create
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cloud that our city is floating on and then we've got like a letter to the
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judges that we can write so we're going to leave that
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with our setup and hopefully they'll understand that this is a city floating
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in the clouds made of candy
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awesome that looks great that looks really good actually that's
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really sharp damn all right
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okay okay what if we use these little cone
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things and we reduce some of the action that's going on up here
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uh yeah you want to use the cones yeah so as like caution this is where
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the cable is going like instead of hide it like point it
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out to make it kind of cool sure you know what i'm i'm down i'm into that
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that was okay
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okay that's gonna say central park
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and i'm hoping one of the judges is going to appreciate it enough
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for it to be worth something this time i'm spending on it so i
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decided to go with like something that would look like it could be a letter so
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it's like a weird slightly cursive p which i think will be pretty good
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because i want it to look appealing
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i think we're gonna lose but i think we did a pretty good job so i'm okay with
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it we've done worse
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okay how's it look from the particulates it's still good you'll see it yeah i
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don't think you're going darker though start getting a little red
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knock it up just a bit yeah we can bring it up just add a little more red
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oh perfect
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it's about the whole package okay what size
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i mean i don't know about too many hearts because i know i wanted a girly
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thing it's a candy thing that's where i was like using some of
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the white ones too
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brown over spray
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oh look at him oh my god he's getting out the paint he's got the brush
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two minutes left watch your head oh yeah
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i think we're done
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i think we're gonna sit here stand here yeah we're gonna eat candy
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hold on we should just eat some candy i feel like sometimes what you see on
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camera personalities and what they're like sometimes when they're sort of in
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that reality setting and they're filming and you are under time constraints you
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never know what's going to happen i'm expecting to see
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some bomb ass computers and if i don't i'll be very disappointed there should
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be at least one with fireworks coming
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off of it and if there's not i don't know what i'm doing here
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bob and rod i know rod does some pretty cool stuff with machining so i feel like
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theirs might look more uh sorry Linus but i think it might look more
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professional i think it might look more like they uh they used some real tools to put
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it together so one of the things that i'm going to be interested to see is what do they do with the keyboards
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because obviously it has to be functional and if you're putting candy
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on a keyboard some things can really go wrong so
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i don't know that's going to be pretty cool to see what they do from rod and bob i i expect
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to see something a little more you know it's exciting but it's not
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gonna like blow your face up with its ridiculousness you know it's gonna be
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like oh refined and i don't i don't mean that to say
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anything rude about Linus and luke i just feel like you know
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they're they go balls to the wall
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that's inappropriate i think i'm more interested in
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well well well
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this is ridiculous this is way better than i expected yeah
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what there's actually like presentation
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candy station do you think they might have had a little extra time
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yeah what i couldn't have made that in four days this is far too much effort
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for luke and Linus i'm just gonna say right now
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i mean a table that's been painted and look at this i mean they
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really went all out there's even rocky wait there's candy
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inside of the machine i'm not really
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seeing the flaws i was expecting to see
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like the the candy tray they just put candy in it you can't see all the build
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up oh you were coming in here being like i
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mean that's what i do they're not going to be able to pc as good as i could it's
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pretty impressive i think when i was thinking of like a candy theme i mean i
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was actually picturing candy just taped and glued onto things
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so my expectations were way different than what we're seeing here it's it's
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the overall presentation but like you know are we supposed to give them extra
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points because they just got some candy and jars here
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yeah oh it's on fire we put labels on the jars we picked the
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candy out oh we even sorted some candy oh you labeled a jar wow do you want a
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job organizing my warehouse maybe i think so because function and usability
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is on the list so if i'm sitting here this is gonna save me so much time from
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going to the kitchen i can just eat my candy here and i don't have to do anything else that's very true but
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seeing pink cable ties back here going the extra effort
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that's that's another level leds
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this is you know it's a little rough around the edge oh
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wow seriously oh my god i can't believe she
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knows they are like nitpicking
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oh yeah yeah a little bit very disappointed
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very disappointed it's not even that bad but i'm just looking for things at this
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point okay let's take a look let's see the mouse
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does it work yes is this a real fly or is this part
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of the setup
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well you never know maybe they were like you know flies hang around food sometimes i will say
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if there's a key that i'm looking for and i don't know where it is i'm screwed
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ah yes there's a what they painted over all the
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keys so you can't see the letters oh yeah that keyboard isn't
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you can't tell what key is which no you can't that's a point off for functional
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functionality functionality floating what is this font
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i can't give you extra points if i can't read it that's like the most basic
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script font that you can find in a word processor it's like i think it's
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actually called script life is simple sorry do you want to go
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forward i think you should read it you've got your voice
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life is simple in this floating paradise i'm on the clouds the blue collar candy
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folk are hard at work in the factory making the most delicious candy treats
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for the citizens while the
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candy town express makes its way through candy town central
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park central park central park didn't you
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just have a video with that in it i thought that
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that's okay why is this blowing your mind i have
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like sort of an inside joke it's hard to describe it's like it's like a general
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positive sentiment if you're like hey let's you want to hang out tomorrow
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central pack you know or like no or like what do you think of
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this thing i just did ah central back it's nonsensical they're appealing to
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you yeah you can't let yourself be biased by this i know but clear appeal
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i don't know i don't know if i can be objective but anyways continue but our
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chocolate themed candy factory makes more than just yummy things to eat it
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also makes the fastest most beautiful frames
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for the hottest most intense games nicely done
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so sit and enjoy a relaxing and refined computing experience with the people of
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upper candy town all right
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gaming should be intense but it shouldn't be stressful yours
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some signatures some signatures not sure what they say
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well i think we should take a look at this because i see a lot of things going
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on here number one as a sanitary precaution i do like that
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this desk definitely kept everything contained whereas we've got kit kats
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sitting very close that is a health concern it is oh my
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gosh
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and also you know i mean sometimes computers do get a little warm depending
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upon what you've got going on here taking yours apart now
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i'm so is health concern a judging category
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chocolate covered everything you can see the letters on the keyboard which is
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very important oh my god
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i know pointing out the fly no that's got your life this is not fair
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this is not fair this is a personal touch
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this is i don't know if i can be objective now central pack
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central back i don't know that i can be objective why are you the favorite one
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oh that's true
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you know i don't know i didn't know you had this much control over line of texas i didn't know either
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let's make sure that this works okay that works
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very important it's functional oh yeah you have to make sure yeah oh man
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the train is functional my heart
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they did a really good paint job though yeah
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is this a paint job i'm assuming that is paint yeah because it's
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pretty well done the back of the monitor is fine the front's fine we got to do the same test
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oh yeah yeah uh i found a flaw
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that's where that thing fell let's talk about it
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i found what appears to be either just some uh
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some bad touch of paint over here or a fingerprint
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which means we may be able to identify the creator
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to the lab and then you do a batman
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so um okay what is this what's the deal so we got chocolate
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yeah because like the other one you know there's kind of like a distinct pink and
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pink and white theme but like we got chocolate here and then we got multi-colored keys so what are
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these what is this just kind of a general candy thing
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i don't know are these custom or is this why why are the media keys just black
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out that's a good point looks like it was bought as a set to me did they run out
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of fun paint or i mean i don't think this is or did
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the set not come with it it's got to be a set
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that doesn't count so there's a couple there's one
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i don't know if it's a fingerprint there's a splotch right there
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and then there's if you get the light right oh yeah there's some there there's
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some there well there's one down here there's one right there
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steve and i are very disappointed about this yes yes
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can't believe it how about does this one have the same flaws oh my god if they
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looked at your monitor anywhere near as close as they're looking at mine they
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caught the really the only flaw on our monitor which is like
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a little mask yeah but you guys got paint on this okay
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you guys need to talk less so we can hear the judgments
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this is very this is like a a a pretty
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nice diorama though you know i can there's definitely two different
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feels here like this is like this feels like it could be an actual in someone's
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actual room if they were like super into candy and pink
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and this feels like and this feels like you know it's like
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more of an art piece to display right so central park and
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yeah central pack i mean they are both so incredibly different
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that it's really it's going to be a difficult decision i think
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the fans have been painted as well
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offsetting the weight of the fan blades although potentially causing damage down the line
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but it looks like they may have missed you oh there's like a thing over here ah
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what are they like cleaning up the garbage in the back oh my gosh yes they
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are there's like the main diorama over there and then in the back they're
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hiding the garbage this is cool you know toxic waste one thing that they did do
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is they're very thoughtful and they're thinking of this whole design that's
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true oh that's extremely dusty
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it's dirty
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how long has this been sitting
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how would they how would you even put dust on something intentionally i don't
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know this isn't i'm impressed i'm impressed with their attention to detail
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yeah very impressive very impressive yeah
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that pant splashes on the inside this one you know
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the uh kind of splotches here the ones on the monitor
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whatever's going on on the top up here it's just like a
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wannabe grip tape paint i guess oh man he's being harsh i feel like
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i feel like this has to be luke and Linus because
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bob is a really good painter
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and i'm not saying that this isn't a good job but well then why don't you
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look at his paint job a little closer stephen okay wait what's going on here
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is this a fake reservoir like they have a tube going
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here that looks like it's part of the regular loop but oh it's running in the
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middle is there a tube going through it the tube's going through it oh is it oh
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okay
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there's no fluid running through it but it's completely impractical to cool a
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CPU with candy so i mean you need more more coolant yeah exactly so i don't i
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don't know but but it looks cool it does it does look cool
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but we don't even know the thermal conductivity of that candy
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going into this one of the judging criteria was the wow factor and for me i
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think i might have actually said wow so bonus points for that yeah yeah when she
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walked in she said i was like wow like the second i saw you guys you wanted to
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buy it i was like you guys won i just and the florida ceiling
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oh yeah that says wow yeah yeah when i walked in and saw this this was by far
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exceeding any expectations that i had coming into this you know when they said
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candy was the theme i mean i pictured taping down candy on things and just
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sort of going really overboard with a theme what they did here was really took
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that theme and played to that from the colors i mean they even went so far
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as going to the craft store and getting these random party supplies and wrapping
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it all the way around the desk they even wrapped this around the back that's
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definitely something thoughtful this desk
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i mean they've got these custom panels here to house some display candy
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the only complaint that i have is they also were talking about you know if a
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normal person who is not completely tech savvy would come down and sit at this
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keyboard they painted over all of the letters and numbers and symbols so that
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may kind of hinder some functionality the mouse also custom painted i think we
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all have kind of have that same discussion of if you really want to use
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the mouse you're probably going to end up pulling it out of
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the uh the socket here but you know
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so zip tied back how is this famous
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but yeah like is she like a low sensitivity gamer the free samples
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definitely were a plus i know we've been talking about this
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imperfection here uh using the candy to cover up the flaws
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but i think that's what we all do so i'm okay with that the case is very well
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painted i love that they completely modded this front panel they even went
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so far as putting candy inside of the case and i feel like it is placed
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strategically so hopefully none of it will melt which is could be a disaster
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um i kind of do like the rainbow
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led RAM that they have in there too i know we're discussing
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maybe it should have all been pink but it does kind of play into the whole
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candy theme i also like that their candy is in jars i know that might sound crazy
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but the competition has candy all over the table
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they made a candy station sign they even have a nice little list of
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modifications which i feel like this is one of those things where you walk into a candy store and it's like oh this is
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the menu of what we have they this is crazy
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i'm super overwhelmed and i also think this might have been suede because if
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they knew i was a judge then this is something that i would
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definitely be gravitating towards so
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a plus so i would say some of the negatives definitely the mouse doesn't
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work as it should the keyboard they painted
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over all of the letters and numbers so i feel like if any normal person who comes
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down here and does not have this entire thing memorized like most of us they may
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have a few issues with that there are a few little smudges of paint the free
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samples kind of hide imperfections but
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i'm not gonna knock that too much and hopefully you didn't want to wirelessly
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charge your phone because they did rip out the qi charger for the free samples
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which to be completely fair is okay in my book everything else though looks pretty good
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i mean i think it was uh kind of a stretch for a lot of us to
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really kind of dig in and find some imperfections and the key charger
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who cares about the chi charger man why does the t charger matter alright so
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over here we've got our chocolate wonderland central pock
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clearly a nice little inside joke which
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inside jokes are fun when everyone's included but i guess that's not how
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inside jokes work i mean they even went so far to make this nice little printed
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out note she's after us for the inside joke in
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the letter i mean and she went and she put it like on top
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of yeah yeah like probably not hold on stuff over here
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the number one downfall i would say to this as somebody who is a candy
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connoisseur this is not sanitary there's no way you
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should be leaving candy out like this i mean there are actual flies i don't know
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if you guys can see this but they are landing on the candy and these gumdrops
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have dust on them so that is definitely some points that i'm gonna have to take
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away as somebody who may want to potentially eat this you shouldn't it is
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no longer edible i will say though they did a really great job of the overall
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theme when you look at this you definitely can say yes we get it it's a
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chocolate theme i mean this entire case is very well painted your hands
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this is really well painted
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every little bit of it kind of has sort of a chocolatey feel they did a really
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great job of painting this monitor that there was a point i would have been
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convinced that this was manufactured this way there are a few smudges in the
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back here but overall at least the front where it really counts it looks really
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really good they did take a little bit more attention to detail in the inside
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here they painted some more of the insides as you guys can see here
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uh the one thing that i would say is i'm not really sure why they decided to leave all these racks there you probably
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could have removed those and if they were gonna leave those in it could have
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been something cool to sort of add a little more integration of the candy
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theme but when i walked in
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i don't feel like this had that wow factor that we were all looking for as
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far as functionality goes let's just test this out
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so say i'm sitting here for a day of work
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all right it's time to edit i'm using my mouse and i start knocking
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over candy and i start knocking over these little figures this is not
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that functional why is she moving your mouse off the pad
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oh yeah small city definitely have to take off some points for that the
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keyboard looks great this is not custom painted as far as i can tell
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these four buttons here don't match the rest of it but i do like
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the keyboard it looks great there's black in the rest of it
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i don't know i caught the black house i was like
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we thought about it we thought about we thought about doing them uh what accent
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cream yeah yeah start moving stuff around you can see
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the paint peel a little bit so there may be some strategy to where
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things are placed like for example
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this bribery tray uh when you take the candy out there's
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some paint peel in here but
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that's also kind of a custom tray so they've removed the cheat chargers some
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points for that they've got uh
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a tray i guess to put stuff in instead there's some paint damage but overall
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not so bad and countering that the front panel here
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is a custom panel so the feels like just a plastic shroud has
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been placed in okay maybe we didn't give steve enough credit
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internally the liquid cooling continues you can see it goes through this sort of
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fake false reservoir with candy in it it's a nice touch there
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there's a black smudge on the paint for the
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side panel in the front corner of the case
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but overall considering it was a four-day competition
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the paint here is looking pretty good it's
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it's not peeled really anywhere except for that one spot there's two chips well
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one chip where it looks like accidental damage a smudge over here
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the rest of it is i mean there's no the monitor doesn't have any smudges on
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it unlike the other monitor i think the only thing really to take points off for
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would primarily be those chips and smudges that the one or two there are
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except for usability so the
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cable mods leaving here that's being used to contain all the cables prevents
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me from actually using this mouse where i want to which is back here further on
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the desk so i think that's my review of this one
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moving on to the other one they had a note here that was clearly
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not addressed to me so some uh i've got some ethical concerns
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with this system already uh so i don't know we might have to disqualify one of
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the judges but uh i'm not saying that we should i'm just
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saying it's it's an idea to consider
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yeah in terms of the system itself so layout
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is the table's a lot less impressive they just kind of put like a green
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mat on top of it as opposed to the other one which is all
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custom painted uh some fuzziness going on the bottom to look
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like marshmallows i guess but that's really all there is in terms of the
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table layout for the system there are quite a few flaws with this
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one so the monitor has a lot of paint smudges fingerprints things like
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that on the back side of the monitor internally i think
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i don't recall seeing any major paint problems internally but i will point out
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that the fans are painted so that's an extra step
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the water block is painted which is an extra step i think the other one didn't have
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quite as much work done internally i'm told that this case was originally
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black so if that's the case then they
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i don't remember if these are white on the stock case or not but if they're not
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then that was effort too but on the front panel couple more smudges a couple
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more fingerprints kind of a grip tape feeling to the pan up here which means
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that it's got some white fuzz on the top the cheek charger works though so that's
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good there's some paint dust kind of on
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the the sound damping foam there's some
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paint dust on the dust filter but the fans again are painted behind there so
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give and take on each side power supply has been painted a bit
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a bit we've got media keys that don't match the rest of the theme
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so this this build overall i feel like it's a little more chaotic
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but the internal work
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completely there was a lot more done on it so like i said give and take on each side
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but i think that pretty much wraps up my review of both of these systems i like
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that it's called the candy station because it's a station for candy both
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literally and figuratively because
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pc gaming is a treat overall i really like how this one is
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more of a cohesive kind of singular design it kind of looks
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like an extreme home makeover when like the
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kid says i like pink and white and then they make the whole room pink and white
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like as a candy station it works there's accessible candy that's functional in
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terms of like there's candy that you can grab and eat also here i'll talk about
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that later you have room to use the keyboard and
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mouse and not like not be knocking over things as we'll get to what i want to
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understand is how all of these people are using their keyboards and mice
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do they do they move using my computer now
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i don't know it doesn't jump out at me as much as like whoa this is like an
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original thing that i've never seen before it looks like a clean pc gaming
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station build which is great it's it's not as much there's not much
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of a cool factor but maybe again maybe that's just me as a judge you know
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justine was saying that it like really jumps out to her so like that's fair
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that's fair i'm judging justine in this competition
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me too this is sort of a modding competition in
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some ways in literally every single possible way yeah
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this is this is a completely custom solution here with the reservoir on the
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outside i also really like how it kind of looks like cotton candy i don't know if that was
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intentional or not but it looks like cotton candy they
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captured the essence of it uh up here though in terms of
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functionality they took out the qi charger in order to have a receptacle
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for candy so that's i mean it's not so much a positive or a negative as it is
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a trade-off you're taking away the qi charging you're adding
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the candy bucket
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this is a bit patronizing like i can't tell what you did just saying what it's
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a candy shop they have free cycles i'm just kidding that's great
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so over here i'm very conflicted i'm very conflicted
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because coming right into this
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i have a letter written to me as if from a secret lover giving me
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something that i connect with immediately the central pack it's
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definitely not as universal of a concept but i i'm conflicted because i know that
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it's oh i feel i've got the feels looking at it
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i was like oh my gosh this is real but at the same time i know that it's
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just for me so i don't know is that sucking up i don't know oh yeah it is
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yeah it is yeah absolutely pretty clearly it's definitely sucking up i
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feel like it's a little more creative they kind of like used this as a canvas
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to paint this picture of the town of candy town what are the inhabitants
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thinking in their daily lives
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Linus brought this up seriously he did he's like every single person has to
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have a purpose if we could ask them what is it like
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what is daily life like in candy town is is
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pushing your wheelbarrow to work every morning is that hard on you
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does the candy melt in the hot sun sometimes
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these are the things that we want to know and it makes you think
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deep down so i really appreciate that i was very nice to see that they it's like
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a 3d experience there's the the the secret toxic waste dump in the back one
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thing i will say the other judges mentioned the dust and i will also i'm
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confused about how there is dust on this stuff like didn't you just finish this
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you wanted to lead in let's do this thing all right so uh for my scoring starting
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with the pink and white build pink and white one i thought had the fewest flaws
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in the paint but had some functionality concerns
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so overall concept and theme i gave it a seven
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aesthetics and execution i gave it an eight and functionality i gave it a 5.
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and for the brown system here i thought the
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the brown was a little off-putting i thought the theme overall was a little
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more chaotic but it had some functionality or the other one didn't so
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for that one concept and theme 6 out of 10
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aesthetics execution 5 out of 10
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for paint smudges and other problems with the paint functionality and
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usability 8 out of 10. so for me uh the candy station was very
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overall like a clean design i think it worked better as sort of like something
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that somebody would design for like a client uh
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so for concept and theme i gave it a seven
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aesthetics execution and cool factor nine
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functional functionality and usability nine because i think it was a little bit
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more functional than this one and for this one very conflicted
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but i got very warm and fuzzy feelings from the central pack
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overall it looked like a more artistic take with uh
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more candy and the whole theme with the with the town and everything so that was
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very very nice concept and theme i gave them a nine
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aesthetics and execution nine functionality functionality and
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usability six out of ten so i feel like the candy station
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definitely caught my eye not to be a stereotype or anything but it was pretty
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awesome so i feel like if i was a client i said hey i like pink and shiny
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sparkles and this was exactly what you get but as far as the concept and theme
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i thought it was incredible but i just felt like i just wasn't ready to give it
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a 10. so i gave it a 9 out of 10 but the aesthetics and cool factor i did give a
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10 because as soon as i walked in i was like wow this is awesome
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functionality and usability i did give it a 7 because i did struggle a little
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bit to use the mouse and you know i was a little bit worried about the candy
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inside like if i wanted to actually eat that it would be a little bit of a
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struggle so i had to really take that into the consideration also the keyboard
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too i felt like you guys i was like what if i need to find a letter that i'm not
37:57
sure of that's on there because you guys painted over it but overall i thought it
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was really fun and then we're over here to uh Linus and the chocolate factory um
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this was really it was pretty fun because chocolate is one of my favorite
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uh you know candy choices but the one thing that i didn't like is because i do
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love candy a lot the candy started getting a little dusty
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because it was being left out so that was a little bit of a struggle we also
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did notice some little paint smudges and stuff on the back but overall it was a
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very chaotic theme but it was very fun so so for concept and theme i gave it a
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nine out of ten because it was very fun aesthetics and execution and cool factor
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it was a six and then functionality
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seven because i felt like the mouse was too close to candy and there's candy
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that could be potentially melted places so
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that's my final offer this is what i didn't want to see on
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their faces you all did a very good job yes they
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were all great they were all wonderful this just one was more wonderful than
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the other
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i mean you can put the knife in but
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just just read it they told me
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put him down quickly is this close is this close is this
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close enough feeling really uncomfortable right now all right so LTT
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final score 21.6
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vs mods final score 24.4
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all right well good job oh yeah congratulations gentlemen good
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job good fight good work partner good job
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and uh a huge shout out to synergy
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whose awesome shirt i totally destroyed with
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brown paint throughout this whole ordeal we're gonna have a demo in a second
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showing you how synergy works but basically it lets you share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
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even if they run Windows uh macOS or
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Linux operating systems pretty freaking cool and huge thank you to our guest
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judges uh riley from ncix tech tips we've got stephen from gamersnexus and
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justine from well i justine but i'm not
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justine she's justine you guys get the point you can check out all of them at
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the links in the video description so it didn't go the way we wanted but uh
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sometimes that's how the chocolate melts
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or i don't know whatever uh no wait no that's that's ours
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okay well here you go second place i guess i'll read this to
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you candy is sweet but not as sweet as victory and now you have both
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congratulations you guys all right pose for your stupid picture what does ours
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say uh you aimed for sugar but ended with
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salt in a room full of candy you're the only thing bitter
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wow that's not very nice to be fair it's
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true though we're pretty bitter all right all right
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thank you bye so here's how it works once you've got
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synergy set up all you do is sit down at your computer see there's my mouse
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moving around oh what's this i've got Linus's macbook over here on the left so
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i just move the cursor over there and boom i type in some
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awesomewebsite.com and i'm using the computer as though
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this is connected to it but it's not and
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i've got something really exciting for you guys synergy 2 is coming it's got
41:34
all the same features as the original synergy so copy pasting between the
41:38
computers dragging and dropping files between the computers the ability to use
41:42
it on Windows mac and even Linux and
41:45
some new stuff they've got a super simple redesigned setup so literally
41:50
anyone can use it no typing in ip addresses rigmarole
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they've got bi-directional control coming so that they can automate the
41:59
client and server technology so you can control either machine with either
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keyboard and mouse which is pretty freaking sick and
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this is actually my favorite stuff they've got the ability to run it as a
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service in the background so it always is running even when you restart
42:17
and location awareness so you could have synergy set up at work and at home and
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all you do is plunk down your laptop uh next to your home machine pick it up
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take it to work plunk it down next to your work machine and boom you are sharing your keyboard and mouse
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automatically whoa so that's going to be coming sometime in
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november check it out at the link below
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you