The WAN Show: Watchdogs Runs at 792p... & New Noctua Fans - May 16th, 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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13,372 words · ~66 min read
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you're are going okay uh nope not that one the
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other one Chrome and then yeah Chrome's stupid
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restore session that's just Absolut recent yeah it's
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ridiculous and just doesn't work
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sometimes wow Chrome you are so terrible
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I just love you I just love you to
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pieces recent tads none
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it's like yeah I know the computer trash but it's just like really like really
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like oh man the D Dem black magic
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drivers man they were you know we were doing real well for a bit and the funny
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thing is that's even on their fancy like $1,000 or $22,000 however much it costs
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like 4K capture card and it just like
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sometimes oh no no no cuz this was an HDMI one no it is on the intensity Pro
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cuz sometimes it just outrights like yeah no blue screen sorry not so see you
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all right so you know what guys I hate to kind of make you sit through this but
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because it will take me about an extra 6
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to 12 hours to have the wow archive up
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if we uh if we don't do like if I cut it
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together afterward there are a few reasons for that um and it's absolutely
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terrible so we're going to kind of just start over and then we're going to Nuke
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our first topic so we're going to do an extr extremely quick intro paid
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prioritization on the internet Watch Dogs is going to run at crappy
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resolutions not on the PC uh knock to a fans new one's coming an Adaptive sync
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is also coming
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boom
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create your own beautiful website and ASUS with the g750 JZ this laptop is so
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great that I use it with my
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mate don't hate
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I can't rhyme in your response is too
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late all right so let's move on to our
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oh I guess since it was one of our headline topics we better at least sort
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of talk about it very briefly so FCC approves internet fast lane basically
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that's just a way of screwing over people who don't have the money to pay
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for the fast lane you know what's funny and we actually I guess we didn't talk
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about this last time around but it really is like that because calling it
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calling it an internet fast lane is actually the very best way to explain
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what it is it is a way of making sure that the people who don't have way too
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much money so that they just don't even care anymore um just all get stuck in
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like sitting in traffic and wasting their time they're taking a three lane
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Highway and making it so that one of the lanes is paid for only so the other two
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lanes have way too much traffic all the time and then this one's awesome but
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only has really rich people on I mean um so have you ever have you ever been to
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Toronto uh for like a half an hour okay
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so Toronto has basically they have like
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two kind of not quite but like two somewhat equivalent highways and one of
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them is a toll Highway and the other one is the sit and don't move Highway and
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the toll highway is so expensive because
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you actually you get told when you get on and then it actually keeps track of
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how far you go and then tolls you like based on how far
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you went at the exit and the way like
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the the way they enforce this is it's it's all cameras but get this if you try
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to dodge the toll they'll actually they keep records of all the vehicles
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matching a given description and when they catch you they look for patterns
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and when they catch you they hit you with the entire Bill plus interest so
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like it's absolutely brutal and basically I remember I forget I forget
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how much it costs but I was there and
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um and and I worked it out and it was something like an hour of your wage per
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day if you were making like okay money
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just to get to and from work aside from gas aside from insurance which of course
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the the local government is also collecting taxes on yeah it's just
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absolutely brutal that's nasty so that is what a fast lane is a fast lane is a
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way of saying saying you got lots of money all right man you don't got lots
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of money you can go get in that one get in Highway that doesn't move ever yeah
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pretty much okay okay so this is pretty
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fantastic this was posted originally on the Forum by death Jester we're going to
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go ahead and share my screen here Watch Dogs the Watchdogs experience so okay so
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here's a quote from the article which was on the Ubisoft blog our nextg system
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or on nextg systems the game will run at 900p on PS4 which actually is not that
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bad upscaled 900p is not that bad that's
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what like 80% of the resolution of 1080p is that's it's still not 1080P and 1080p
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is kind of meh on a TV though remember you're playing on a TV so 1080p is like
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as good as it get not not everyone plays these on TVs that's true but you're
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still playing on a 1080p display especially like dorm room people yeah
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yeah okay so so you're playing at 1080p so 900p not that bad it's going to run at
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792p on the Xbox
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One what is
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792p like they're just they're just inventing things it's like what it's the
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highest it's probably the highest they could get that sits at 30 FPS yeah but
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it's two better than 790p why didn't you go with 790p why not 793 highest they
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could possibly get where it sits stable at 30 FPS I tell you that was it it runs
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at 30 frames per second on both on both consoles and um basically what Ubisoft
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had to say is while some new gen games now offer native 1080p it was much more
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important to deliver an amazing NextGen experience than to push a few more
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pixels onto the screen and this is a quote resolution is a number just like
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frame rate is a
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number
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oh no resolution is not just a number resolution is one part of the overall
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visual Fidelity but that assumes that
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the resolution is at a reasonable enough
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level that it's not detracting from the
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experience experience is a word just like how gameplay is a
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word how did I ever do this show without
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you oh right less
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expensively you don't pay me for the whole show and actually at the beginning
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when I first came on you didn't pay me for the show at all for like a year and
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a half or something I don't think it was a year and a half I think it was I don't
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know when it was it was a year and whatever mons I think that a year is
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just a period of
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time oh no oh man so okay guys this is this
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is the problem with this okay like look look at it this way when you're playing
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a game like Battlefield 4 where it's available on the PC it's available on
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the PlayStation 4 it's available on the Xbox 360 it's available on all these
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platforms that gives you an opportunity to evaluate the importance of like
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gaming hardware and you know what I think when you and I were doing our
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evaluation with the gen versus last gen versus entry level PC we pretty much
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agreed PlayStation 4 you know what not a bad value the the difference and we this
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was Assassin's Creed at the time and that was running at 900p at the time
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wasn't it uh I think so it was something like that I can look at up it was 720p
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on uh it was 720p on Xbox one for sure
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and I think we could agree and just jump
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in if I'm saying things that are totally unfair but I think we could agree that
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PlayStation 4 looked a hell of a lot closer to the entry level PC like
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basically yeah yeah sitting a distance away from but the Xbox One experience
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because the resolution was so low even though maybe they're running similar
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detail levels and they've got the same physics simulations and all that
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gameplay stuff that is really important the resolution was so low that it
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detracted from the experience it was very noticeable it was it was obvious
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and your eyes kind of went oh like crap like this would look good if it wasn't
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for yeah that that people are saying 1080p now but I think there was0 I think
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there was an update no there was an update so the point is that up to a
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certain point resolution's just a number
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and when your TV is going to be you know 20 ft away from you or something like
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that 1080p versus 4K you may not even be
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able to tell depending on the screen size and stuff too depending on screen size depending on distance depending on
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content but 1080p versus 360 P you'd be
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able to tell and then like 1080p versus like you know whatever the lowest one
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like is it like 144 or like whatever the
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like lowest vertical line resolution is
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going to be distracting and terrible and
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I it's in my mind 792p for something that we're going to
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call a nextg gaming experience I I
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understand what they're doing but it's a totally unacceptable gaming experience
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in my mind but I don't blame Ubisoft for
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this at all no not their fault in fact
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Ubisoft I'm going to do this you know why they push the
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experience that they needed to push that's right and on the platforms that
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can do it they're going to deliver that experience they had the balls to say
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look we're going to make an awesome game that looks fantastic and has a bunch of
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really cool features does and it does and you know what if people don't buy
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the right Hardware fine then they're going to get a lesser
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experience and like we're sorry but like we did our best man we did our best and
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deal with it honestly this the stuff ubisoft's been pushing out lately has
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been really cool other than you play you play terrible yeah you play is terrible
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really bad but like the game this live stream brought to you by Ubisoft you
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play terrible oh wait hold on Noe no no no um one actually fairly interesting
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thing is Mario Kart 8 on Wii U is going to be 1080p 60 FP hold on hold on this
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is great this guy's like is such a suck up sometimes and then he probably hasn't
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seen the part of the stream you play is terrible yeah you play is awful really
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bad yeah you play as awful very possibly the worst one what I think Ubisoft
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should do is they should just like uh make a deal with valve where they can
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have their own up play but they can just skin steam a section on Steam like
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there's the up playay section on Steam no valves should just sell them a
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license for steam no way that would be so good that
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would be awesome that would be awesome if anyone from valve is watching please
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rescue them you you know that they need to have their own thing so they can feel
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like big boys like like they have their online content distribution thing let
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them build their own you can still make money off yeah you can still make money
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off of it this way just let them license it so they can feel like they're doing
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their own thing everyone's a winner
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everybody everyone's a winner because it's so much better than origin and you
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play and then and then maybe part of the license contract can be that browser
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based what's that Battle Log Battle Log has to go away yes oh man I would be so
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happy valve can rescue us all valve can literally save the whole universe okay
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I'm sorry you were talking about Mario Kart and how marioart Nintendo is going
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to be delivered Nintendo Mario Kart 8 on
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Wii U 1080p 60fps including split screen
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multiplayer they're just like nope it needs to be in this experience and it
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looks really good and it has new features and all this kind of stuff stuff and boom done I mean part of
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Nintendo's thing I I think they benefit from resolution more than other guys
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because their graphical style it's kind of like blizzard where they're just like
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okay we're going to make stuff that's really easy to run and then we're going
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to call that a graphical style yeah but it looks really good but it works that
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cartoony style works I mean that's not going to help
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Nintendo stop losing money but and it's
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not going to help watch dogs in any way no because Watch Dogs is not cartoon
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this great who's this on Twitch uh adal
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valant Battle Log is so much fun yeah it's basically its own game the game the
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game is can you make it work press the button I don't if it works it's like
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playing slots you know every time someone wants to play
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Battlefield with me I'm like let's see
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cuz I don't know and half the time it's like nope can't play okay good luck have
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fun oh fantastic someone wants to know what
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are the aftermarket buds on my ie80s um nothing these are just these are just
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stock ie80s and I love them they're amazing they're my favorite they're my
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favorite earphones ever um not because Sennheiser paid me to say that in fact
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my relationship with Sennheiser has been very Rocky at times but I definitely do
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love their products what's what are those tips that we used to use comply
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yeah those were nice comply actually reached out they want us to do a review
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and I was just kind of like how do you do a review of a piece of foam that goes
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on the end of a yeah we could do like a 30 second review we could do a review of
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just the tip I guess we don't want the whole thing good
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but they break down and then you have to buy new ones and it gets expensive you
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done I mean edzel buys them but my whole
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thing was I don't want to get hooked because yeah I I cannot okay I can
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afford to buy foam tips but I would feel
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stupid yeah it's yeah it's not like that
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much money but it just seems like an investment where you're like wow do I
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really need to do this I'm locking into this commitment but you know what in the
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grand scheme of things they do sound better and they are way more comfortable
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way more comfortable if they had like a subscription service as stupid as this
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sounds they should have one though soent
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has a subscription service yeah like well I mean one of our sponsors Dollar
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Shave Club like if you told if Dollar Shave Club came to us and they're like
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yeah we have this great idea you're going to buy razors online I be like wow
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you're an idiot that's a terrible idea that's a terrible idea but the whole
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subscription model makes it actually work really well because you're
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committing a small amount of money spread out over a long period of time
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and then you don't have to think about it because to me it's really about the hassle I'll tell you what if anyone from
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comply is watching if you guys figure out a subscription model where it like I
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just get a new set of tips once a quarter or something like that and it's
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inexpensive and like I get a discount for being like part of the club kind of
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like what again one of our other sponsors 54 where they take their store
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and they basically go okay look you sign up for the subscription and you have
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half price off of MSRP and we send it to you once a month like if comply figures
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out something like that where they get the commitment from me so they can rely
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on the business and I get a discount and the convenience I will commit and I will
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start using comply tips so recently came out of their like beta phase they're now
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selling normally beta food I know with
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the way beta tests go like well they have they have FCC approved even though
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that's still kind of sketchy but they do have a nutritional label now and all that kind of stuff so that's kind of
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good they have a nutritional label but
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nutritional labels are just
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numbers this is not going to end like
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ever um we need a t-shirt resolution is
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just a number and then it should be all like pixelated and shitty looking yeah
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that's actually not a bad idea guys let us know if we need to do that you know
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what I'm I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to just jump on this we we have to
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make that t-shirt need uh resolution is
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just a number t-shirt resolution is just a number just like yeah and the text
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should look crappy and low res okay I'm
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I'm sending that to edzel I'm trying to think of some way that you can include just like FPS is just a number it's it
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would be too long it would be too it would be too long for one and then for
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two the only way that I can think of that you could style it properly would be like lagging the the word the letters
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out and that would just look really weird yeah and like if you want the the
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words to be low res enough to kind of get the joke it's going pretty big
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they'll take up space so you can actually read it and stuff so yeah resolution is just a number t-shirt
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we're going to we're going to get on that you guys yeah I'm sorry our t-shirt
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supply chain takes so long we're looking into some other options um so stay tuned
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on that you guys yeah but yeah so they they win Subscription Service recently
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and I think that's really smart because a big problem with that whole thing
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sorry we're back to talking about soilent I've lost TR I had to think about it for a second what is he talking
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about subscription condoms that probably
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exists it probably does it would make you feel really insu like it would
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wouldn't it make you feel crappy when you start to get a stockpile and you'd be like Oh I'm not oh
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no I'm not doing very well here there's you you know how I
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sometimes try and find like people that want to do pre-rolls and stuff like that
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um I I was watching a yeah this is going to go there um I was watching an old
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Archive of one of The Young Turks videos
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on some topic I don't even remember why I was watching it but there sponsor for
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the video was some condom website and I thought about it and I had like written
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the email being like maybe we should contact them and I was like no because I
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was like well our target audience would be so big for them wait because they'll have large
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penises well I mean you probably do but
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yeah but I meant more the male side yeah
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we should totally do it why not I did I wasn't a huge fan of the website oh okay
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if it was like a better service or a better website then I probably would have actually sent the email but it was
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kind of okay okay yeah cuz if we can find I guess well there's the challenge
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if we can find a not sketch yeah online
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condom seller well like durx wouldn't be
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sketch but then it would have to be like a subscription service to them or
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whatever so and like I don't know if that's going to work but anyways back to
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soilent again um my biggest problem with
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it is like the second you run out you're like okay well I'm going to have to wait
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two weeks or something until I get more so the time to not be using this for a
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while right cuz you you can never be on cycle properly can never actually test
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it yeah exactly so now they actually have a subscription thing you can sign
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up for a month or whatever weeks or I don't know I didn't really look that a far into it but you can get a
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subscription and they're like yeah it'll show up a little bit before the end
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because it's not that big of a deal because this stuff lasts for like years
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before it expires so it'll show up before you're out and you're good it's
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like okay cool and then if you listen to everything he just said and you imagine
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he's talking about condoms that works too actually all of
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that would have been accurate would yep I was paying
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attention awesome I mean whenever we're
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talking about condoms I'm definitely paying
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attention subcription so this is a topic SS o e l e dude we're you know what
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normally we don't we don't no normally we don't change people's names on The
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Forum like it's kind of against Forum policy but if if he or she ever wants to
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message me and get a name change we will take care of that for you so that I can
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pronounce your name when you post things that are helpful like
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this whatever anyway the point is excuse
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me the point is that nocta has released penis size is just a
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number and the entire twitch chat
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exploded oh my God that's awesome maybe we should have a low reses penis on the
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resolution is just a number shirt well it's like small enough that
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you can't really make out what it is yeah yeah like a low res cocking balls
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like right under the under the in the corner or something so it just looks
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like an underline or something yeah so it's just like four squares right oh
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there you go oh terrible that's awesome you know I
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don't think I've ever used that word on the stream before no probably probably
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shouldn't all right so Noctua has new fans coming you guys this is pretty
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freaking exciting new fans in new colors
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although the way the internet exploded about this news um kind of made me feel
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like they didn't really watch our computex coverage from last year like
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one year ago we broke this news showed
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off all these
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fans and it takes Noctua a year this is what I like about Noctua they don't seem
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to care about making money nope they just don't they just like so many so
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many fan companies or cooler makers you look at them and you just kind of go you
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know I wish they would just give up their precious money and spend a bunch
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of money making like a really great quality fan which they'd probably make a
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lot of money off of which well no I don't think so because like the you look
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at how much nocta spends on the packaging you know to make sure and you
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can't have a premium brand without having good packaging I think this has
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been proven time and time again I'm not criticizing them for spending money on
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packaging you have to so they've got their premium packaging they've got
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actually legitimately well-built products the amount of R&D I mean it
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took them a year to get these to Market I don't think after they were working
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yes I don't think their margin is any better than any other fan maker and if I
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had to guess I would guess it's probably worse so like on a bomb cost basis like
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you look at what the other guys can afford to spend on marketing whereas we go to nocta and we're like hey you know
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we love your products um you know we would have no problem Shilling the heck
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out of them because we think they're great and they just kind of go like we
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don't really have a marketing budget so
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yeah we thank you for loving our products we'll send you as many of our
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products as you want which is kind of awesome which is great which which
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actually use them all the time that was all we really wanted
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anyway but uh I don't remember where I was going
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with this right right right so I love that they just have the balls to have a
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product that's pretty much ready to rock like a year ago take a year to bring it
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out because that's how long it takes to get it perfect and I'm assuming it's
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perfect they are in the mail but we don't have them yet but anyway the redo
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line takes away some of the little extra
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like rubber grommets and brings back some of the older designs that we
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haven't seen in a while like the older S12 non- rux and cost them down a little
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bit to make noct tool quality a little bit more affordable which I think is
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great but and then nope oh these are the ones that have my attention I mean we're
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talking $30 plus a fan for industrial
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grade Noctua fans and they're black and
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they just have little brown accents and they have all the way up to IP67 water
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and dust proofness they're available at a couple of different RPM levels and
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Holy balls these are exciting because I
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well that it's the only fan they look
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really sharp that really matters if you want the and I again I haven't even
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touched them yet but because of noct to's reputation I'm comfortable saying
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they're going to be the only fan in terms of the highest possible quality PC
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Fan Experience that you're going to be wanting to look at so and those those
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rubber accents on the end can one probably be changed in color pretty
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easily yep um and two they're removable so that'll be even more easy to change
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the color and and they're the dark dark brown yes not the light brown that a lot
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of people complained about anyways yeah I'm I'm all right with the color I don't
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mind it it's like a chocolate color as opposed to like like a digestive problem
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and if ASUS stops making golden motherboards maybe it'll be okay ASUS's
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motherboards I'll have you know are the gold standard oh and that is why they
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are gold speaking of ASUS is JJ ever
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going to join us here I I we haven't had our video chat open so I don't even know
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if he has uh has tried to send a friend
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request or anything I don't see any requests and I don't see any emails from
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the uh the jmeister so maybe JJ will
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join us next week I don't know boom oh you know we never showed the results of
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that straw pole that we ended up crashing the stream over wanting to show
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them are you happy with your ISP why
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wow a third of the people say yes remember though our time zone for this
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show is very well lined up with Australia oh yeah that's a good point
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they should definitely be answering no all of them should be answering no
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anyone from Australia go back and change your answer seriously he said yes
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wrong not good enough a full 24% said
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cucumber I you know what I might have said cucumber cuz you don't put multi
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options do you nope nope you have to
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choose one option you got to commit yes no or
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cucumber oh man we haven't even covered anything we
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didn't really have much of a show lined up today because we were expecting JJ to
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talk to us and tell us about z97 we talked about
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stuff we talked about FCC we talked about Watch Dogs we talked about uh
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Noctua fans we talked about nocta fans okay well let's talk about how Xbox one
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is slightly less unfair now so um they
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did a couple of things here that I think I would look at and say wow that's
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really commendable if they weren't so terrible in the first place so number
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one is the fact that like honestly I've never owned an Xbox okay no I have owned
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an Xbox I have an Xbox 360 and an Xbox
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One okay I do I own two Xbox were both for not for really personal use much I
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could have used them but you did didn't
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right so one of the biggest issues that I had from day one like when I found out
27:06
as a PC Gamer traditionally anyway this was posted on the Forum by rafy um when
27:11
I found out as a PC Gamer that they had an Xbox Live gold membership that I had
27:16
to have to like update my profile or
27:20
voice chat with people or play multiplayer I was just like what are you
27:24
are you high like are you stupid like if
27:27
we just and I kind of said at the time I remember saying at the time look if we
27:31
all just boycott this it'll go away like
27:34
that instantly it'll go away because
27:37
they have to sell consoles and they have to sell games and if we refuse if we
27:42
just all stand there and not pay for it those subscription fees will go away
27:47
looks like it's happening Microsoft is getting a little desperate and then the
27:52
other thing that's terrible in the first place is the fact that the connect which
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was forced to be bundled with the Xbox
27:59
one you were forced to buy one if you wanted an Xbox One um is now an
28:04
option um and I mean connect is just
28:07
like it's one of those things where you know what a $100 Delta and I wanted an
28:13
Xbox one I would probably buy the connect option I have a young family for
28:19
kids you know what casual connect games
28:22
I would rather and and this is like this is like that kind of thing that the
28:26
gaming Community makes fun of and I wholeheartedly agree with you guys it's
28:30
all kind of silly and you'd have the control of being able to stand in your kitchen and when your kid won't get off
28:35
the Xbox just be like Xbox off like it's
28:38
one of those things where I would rather my kids play at a game that at least has
28:42
them waving their ARM around if nothing else I don't I don't want to see I don't
28:47
want to see my son like Flack do life
28:51
this for four hours at a time I it's one
28:54
of those things like I I don't know like I did it as a kid I turned out all right
28:58
but at the same time I just I don't know it just seems
29:02
like it can happen you just probably want a mix of things like my parents
29:06
were cool with it but I was extremely active I was in tons of sports and all
29:09
this kind of stuff but then I would also lay completely across the couch and play
29:13
more win for days on it right so like I don't know like I don't know what the
29:18
right answer is but I but I will say that if I was going to buy the kids an
29:21
Xbox game I would rather like you know Dance Off challenge or whatever versus
29:27
like you know blood blood sport 16 kind
29:31
of Duty yeah Call of Duty like Space
29:35
Edition or whatever that don't worry the amibas have ai yeah we we got like a big
29:41
time actor to put in the trailer because we don't know what else to do who just
29:45
plays a character that he has no matter what definitely very recently played
29:49
like no differences I know it's exactly the same
29:53
person have you watched that at all yes I have yeah I'm just like
29:59
wow why is this even a video game why don't we just make it a movie then at
30:03
this point I legitimately looked up to see if he was actually playing the same
30:06
character like I was wondering if they had made a deal with Netflix or
30:09
something to like integrate the show into the game I was like oh that's kind of interesting that's an interesting
30:13
idea nope it's like oh okay guess not so
30:19
anyway I I I don't know remember where we were going with this but uh so you'll
30:25
be able to buy the connect separately later this fall you can get the console for $100 cheaper without connect
30:30
someone's calling me and uh something else right Xbox Gold is no longer
30:35
required for popular entertainment experiences like Netflix and Hulu Plus
30:40
and that's baffling to me why did you ever need that in the first place yeah
30:43
and I can't imagine that Netflix H Hulu Plus and those guys really wanted that
30:46
to be there at all they've probably been pushing against it as well but what can
30:50
they do right yeah you know I used to play Halo 2 online so I had to have a
30:54
gold subscription and what I would do is I would have my whole friend written out
30:59
and then every single time that uh you
31:02
know you were a sucker were Su every time my one month would uh close you
31:07
would get a one month free if you made a new MSN
31:12
account so I had my whole friends list written
31:16
out I'm not going to go into what I did from there your friends must have but I
31:21
had a hard copy of my friend yeah they
31:24
did that is so annoying
31:28
oh it's the first okay Luke's freaking
31:31
like gonna have to read him because he's a jack at bum Pooh head I was like I I
31:39
was paying for my games at that point in time and like there's no way I'm going
31:42
to pay that much money for this stupid Online subscription that I don't want to
31:46
do and there like there's no way your parents are going to buy that for you no
31:50
nope I I I I I've I've I've met I've
31:53
spent enough time with his parents to be like yeah they're pretty supportive but
31:56
like you f figure it out yeah I paid for I played ever Quest back in the day I
32:00
paid for those I paid for those monthlies that's why you got into Eve
32:05
online because you could earn your subscription fee
32:08
yeah uh wow subscriptions I think my parents helped me out a little bit
32:12
though but then it was my brother my dad and I and we all played together like my
32:16
mom came and played with us sometimes too and stuff so it was like we're all
32:19
yeah that was kind of cool and for a lot of times we even shared an account all
32:23
three of us so yeah all right so you
32:27
know what's funny is there was a post in this thread so this was originally
32:30
posted by Tech fanatic on the Forum thank you very much for posting that
32:34
said that like haa lonus was so down on
32:37
AMD's free sync LOL show you know goes
32:41
to show him and I was a little bit confused by that was I ever at any point
32:45
down on freesync a little bit what did I
32:48
say you said it wasn't going to work but then I think you I think I said it
32:51
wouldn't work with the scalers now yeah and I'm pretty sure specific words were
32:55
current form and said that that was NVIDIA saying that yeah um and I know I
33:02
know that you said it won't work in its current form and when the news first
33:05
broke on uh NCH I actually posted that
33:09
to Facebook and I was like holy crap does this completely invalidate g-sync
33:14
existence yeah so I don't know where all this came from but I am totally 100% on
33:20
board with AMD's free sync now called
33:23
active sync there there's one thing that I'm a little bit sketched out about so
33:27
far and that was doing some reading it's not 100% clear to me what cards it's
33:32
going to work on because it looks like they're saying R9
33:38
290x and 260x which would basically be um Hawaii
33:44
version whatever it is the new ones um
33:48
so not the Reb Badges of the Tahiti core ones which would really suck which would
33:53
be really sucky and then there's no mention of NVIDIA cards now what I think
33:59
is AMD's whole stance lately has been
34:02
Open Standards this and that so I sincerely hope that it's an open
34:07
standard uh but I would hate to see it
34:11
happen where NVIDIA is pushing a gsync standard and AMD is pushing an Adaptive
34:17
sync standard and we end up with monitors that support one or the other
34:20
or both because and this is something I have criticized NVIDIA about asking
34:26
people to lock into something is kind of sucky I do understand that if you
34:31
develop the technology like they they basically built their own scaler
34:35
hardware for monitors it's not just a software trick I mean if you're
34:39
developing the technology I understand that you want to benefit from it and the
34:42
only way you're going to benefit from it is a license fee to the monitor guys and
34:46
selling more graphics cards to go with those monitors but that doesn't mean I
34:49
have to be happy about it um and I I
34:52
think that it will be definitely the wrong path if both of them try to do
34:56
that I mean the good news about adaptive sync is unlike gsync it looks like it's
35:01
going to be a very simple implementation so anything with DisplayPort
35:05
1.2a uh will have adaptive sync as part
35:08
of the Vasa standard um which which
35:12
pretty much I mean you know don't don't quote me on this six months down the
35:18
line really don't quote me on this but if that happens active sync is going to
35:23
just be in any monitor with a DisplayPort Port because remember guys display
35:27
port is free to implement on your monitor compared to the license fees
35:30
associated with HDMI so it'll just support active sync and I really don't
35:35
know what the future of gsync will be one thing that NVIDIA did say openly was
35:40
that we really want the gaming experience to be better and that's why
35:45
we made this technology so I really hope that if they managed to move the
35:49
industry forward that they still feel good about themselves and that we all
35:53
still remember who did it so that's I guess all I have to say say about that
35:57
and I I say the same and it's not because you know I've got you know a
36:02
raging you know hard on for NVIDIA it's
36:05
because I do appreciate anyone who pushes the industry forward I don't have
36:09
a ton of love for Apple but I appreciate that they pushed resolution forward even
36:14
though they don't even make displays why did it take apple to to develop the
36:19
retina concept boy and like I appreciate other
36:24
things they do like the fact that they focus on accur color for their displays
36:28
whereas everyone else other than Google seems to be and HTC is doing a better
36:32
job lately I mean well everyone's doing a better job lately but Apple started it
36:36
and so I I think we just all need to appreciate the guys who innovate even if
36:40
that Innovation isn't inventing or actually building something if it's just
36:45
awareness and making people understand that something needs to happen so there
36:49
that's what I have to say about that I guess there's some other stuff in there isn't there something about like
36:54
potentially DisplayPort 1.3 as well uh well DisplayPort 133 will be able to
36:59
support 8K although it'll have to change the
37:03
connector to be able to support H 8K or 4K 3D so that's not necessarily tied
37:08
into the actual adaptive sync thing that's just talking about future display
37:11
port connectors and if anyone wants an explanation of adaptive sync basically what it means is that your monitor will
37:15
only refresh when your graphics card outputs a signal so it's just like gsync
37:20
and it will reduce tearing and leg and it really does make a very big
37:24
difference it's like fantastic fantastic low persistence is cool man yeah and low
37:29
persistence on top of that is going to turn the LCD gaming experience into
37:33
finally legitimately better than a CRT gaming experience yeah you know how
37:38
people were talking about so many years later yeah yeah this is totally off
37:43
topic completely but you know how people were talking about how our office was dirty in the office tour video yes have
37:48
you seen Palmer's office no oh my God
37:53
there's just like the the side of his desk there's like an Ang angled pile of
37:57
garbage that goes all the way up and touches the top of his desk on both
38:01
sides and then on both sides of the door there's just like stuff and none of it's
38:06
like none of it necessarily looks like you should throw it away it's just stuff
38:11
just all over the place the whole top of his desk there's a laptop sitting like
38:14
angled on top of a bunch of books and other crap and like just is the top of
38:18
his desk worse than my desk was back at NC you remember the piles of paper that
38:23
I used to have on my desk right I think they're like I don't know cuz I didn't
38:26
get like a top down view M I got it from the side but that's got to be one of the
38:31
closest to your desk I've ever seen like it's it's insanity and there's like an
38:36
interview going on in there and he's just like yeah whatever I don't even care the number the number of PE 8K is
38:42
just a number uh the number of people
38:45
telling us or asking why we didn't clean up the office before we did a tour oh
38:50
you guys the number of hours that went into
38:54
clean up before that tour happened C
38:57
you wouldn't have even believed this place there was like okay here I'm going
39:01
to put this in perspective for a minute all that stuff in the garage was in the
39:06
house okay yeah so that's step one step number two all of the shelves the one in
39:11
Luke's office and the ones downstairs for the camera equipment were in the
39:16
house or sorry we didn't have the table
39:19
all that was on the floor yeah the table that was out in the garage that's just like a dining room table that has like
39:24
pedestal style feed under it so there's like not really any room under it that
39:28
was what we were using in place of where Brandon's shelf is so like all the stuff
39:33
that's on that shelf was either on that under it or on the floor in the in the
39:37
fastest possible green screen area sometimes when we had to shoot a fast as
39:41
possible we legit had to like rearrange
39:44
the piles of stuff on the floor so the lights could illuminate the green screen
39:48
correctly you guys have no idea like it's actually everyone around here has
39:52
been marveling lately at how easy it is to work right now it's it's it's quite a
39:56
amazing you can walk in a straight line for at least 2 seconds without running
40:00
into anything yeah and before like shuffling your foot forward would have
40:04
run into something I think Brandon's agility has leveled up at least six
40:09
levels since he started working here because that guy he almost cables he
40:13
almost ended up with the nickname cables if we hadn't started calling him Boll
40:17
before we started calling him cables he would have been cables for sure because
40:21
that guy when he first started working here you put a cable in a room he would
40:25
trip over it 100% like the number of times he has
40:29
almost destroyed the Sony fs700 camera the $8,000 camera I can probably count
40:35
on more than one hand yeah because of like tripping on something or hooking it
40:39
on something and like and then oh man there's this one time when he didn't
40:42
lock the tripod head oh no and it it was going down so fast that I I swear the
40:48
lens mount would have broken or something and then he's like w and he
40:51
caught it oh uh yeah and like he he's learn
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learn the the foot flick yeah the footlick which most nerds that I know
40:59
know which is when you're like walking across and you trip on traditionally an
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Ethernet cable but it could be anything your foot goes under it and then you
41:07
fall forward whip your foot back and then slam it forward so you can land and
41:12
you're okay you look kind of weird but you're okay but it doesn't pull on the
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total inside joke okay he's going to he's going to freak out he's going to be
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like dude really okay so the ASUS g750 JZ as far
44:40
as gaming laptops goes with go without
44:44
getting into the ones that are like so thick they legitimately don't fit into
44:48
backpacks in fact I actually have ASUS's
44:52
purpose built what did I just drop hopefully nothing important nope so I
44:56
have ASUS's purpose made Rog laptop that actually goes with the g750 JZ or any
45:02
other similar ASUS gaming notebook that's also uh well this size um where
45:07
was I going with this right yes so it's the gaming laptop that without going
45:11
into kind of the ludicrous specs is pretty much as good as you can get it's
45:16
got now you're just listing off rappers
45:20
oh I didn't even mean
45:23
to I was doing so good
45:27
I will give you 50 cents to go
45:31
away I I'm sorry I had to oh man oh man
45:36
I was doing so good and then he said ludicrous and I was just like boom
45:40
you've completely derailed
45:43
me okay so I'm trying to talk about this
45:47
laptop here so without getting into the ones that are absolutely crazy run crazy
45:51
hot and get like 30 minutes of battery life the g750 JZ is about as powerful as
45:56
you can get the onboard Graphics I mean okay I shouldn't say onboard the
45:59
built-in Graphics are a GTX 88m which is
46:03
actually a about equivalent to a GTX 770 desktop card and then the onboard CPU
46:08
onboard CPU why am I even saying these things you just you threw me for a loop
46:13
here I was doing so good I lifted up my laptop I put it back down I sat here I
46:18
just like looked around in the background and then ludicrous all right well I'm just going to have to make my
46:23
way through this as best I can here so the cooling is fantastic good enough
46:27
that we can actually run these laptops on our laps and wow I just got the 50
46:32
Cent reference I didn't get it till
46:48
now oh that was good okay okay can we do
46:54
we have our composure yeah
46:57
okay okay this laptop is very powerful
47:02
it's portable it's fast it runs really
47:05
cool it's high quality cuz it's made byus it's got a great overall fit and
47:10
finish to it we found that it's great for video editing it's great for gaming
47:15
it has a surprisingly excellent price to Performance ratio compared to thin and
47:20
light gaming notebooks and even compared to a desktop it's not as far off as
47:24
we've traditionally seen in the past you should check out the g750 JZ if you need
47:30
something that is while not super thin and light still portable and will
47:34
deliver a truly great gaming experience I mean we were able to run BioShock
47:38
Infinite on Ultra you were able to run pretty much everything you threw at it
47:41
like desktop grade specs I did my normal benchmarking sets for good graphics
47:46
cards so maximum everything essentially like Luke has different uh presets for
47:50
the games depending on what kind of a tier of product we're running and so we
47:54
were able to run all of the like Enthusiast class tiers and without the
48:00
laptop um something to tears I'm missing
48:03
the word there bursting into tears although that would be like water
48:09
cooled Next Level laptops they burst into tears when you put them into under
48:12
performance we need the snacks on this show do you have any M&M's no actually
48:22
a I was like what of course not ah a oh
48:27
my goodness oh yeah okay so I was I was
48:31
actually trying I was like I didn't prep my Jay-Z joke this week which like
48:35
needed some prep so I was like I'll just let him go and this week will be a calm
48:39
week and then nope not at all not at all
48:42
he said ludicrous I didn't even mean to on that
48:46
one I didn't even think of it that
48:50
wasn't even the spelling that was in my head no nope all right so posted on the
48:55
four Forum by someone anyway this is an article from an NCH The Shield gets
49:00
portal and half life too which uh here
49:03
if you want to run through this with everyone I'm going to go get the like
49:06
epic NVIDIA swag that they sent over here where you can find it it's a little
49:10
bit higher up there I don't think there's really actually that much to say
49:14
uh you can talk about how amazing it is yeah it's it's kind of awesome I really
49:17
appreciate that they're bringing this back because honestly it's been a really
49:22
long time since it came out so you could probably play it again and it would be
49:25
totally fine and having it on a shield is definitely something where you just
49:29
play it while you're like going to bed and it's not actually that big of a deal
49:33
um if you get portal and halflife 2 together it's about 10 bucks on Android
49:37
which is actually awesome because that's about the same price as they are on
49:40
Steam which is fantastic uh this is just way too cool
49:45
we have to show this like now yeah I know right I was so stoked when this
49:48
came in I guess he's got to get hooked up first um when it first launched it
49:52
ran on an ATI x800 Pro or uh slxt or
49:56
NVIDIA 6800 Ultra or gt and that Tegra 4
50:00
chip should theoretically be faster that's incredible and that's not even
50:04
Tegra K1 yet and Tegra K1 is like right
50:08
around the corner yeah they they're already leaking stuff for shield 2 which
50:11
will be running it so which is extremely exciting so we're at the point where
50:15
NVIDIA has done a lot of gum flapping
50:18
about you know console grade gaming experience on mobile but you look at how
50:24
long they've been at this like ever since the the whole the the original
50:27
Tegra and the Tegra 2 they've been saying look this is where we're trying
50:30
to get to It's actually kind of cool it's
50:35
actually happening yep it's actually happening and half is finally like half
50:40
lifee 2 Portal 2 this kind of stuff they're actually games that I really
50:43
legitimately want to play on the device I mean the funny thing is as soon as I
50:46
heard the announcement that Portal 2 was going to be coming I think two days
50:50
prior I had finished playing Portal using gamestream yeah yeah yeah it's
50:54
like so yeah I just played played through I played through the entire game
50:58
on my shield with gam stream fine right yeah you didn't have any downsides
51:02
didn't have any issues um but anyway so cool okay so this uh this was sent to us
51:06
from NVIDIA they hadn't like given us any preparation for what it would was
51:11
going to have anything to do with so it's basically just um a painted crowbar
51:16
uh it came in like this enormous box with way too much anti-static bubble
51:21
packaging yeah I guess when you're NVIDIA the only packaging you really
51:24
have is anti but uh there you go so it's a what would
51:28
Gordon do crowbar with a halflife 2 Lambda and an NVIDIA Shield logo on it
51:33
so this is freaking cool this will definitely live on the wall of Epic that
51:37
we need to recreate back here because we seriously need to redo the L show oh
51:41
definitely it's absolutely that's that's one of the coolest pieces of Swag I've
51:45
like ever seen 100% pretty pretty
51:48
amazing whoever thought that was a good idea was was on the money was not stupid
51:53
nope yay good job the better than
51:57
useless award the not stupid award that should be the only W that award that we
52:02
can possibly give out we should never have any other Awards other than better
52:05
than worthless better than worthless or better than better than all the terrible
52:10
words yeah yeah so we can just change whenever but it's essentially the same
52:13
idea better than putting nails in my
52:17
eye okay so this article from digital Journal honestly it's not the best
52:21
article I've ever read and uh I I don't know like I hate to I hate to generalize
52:26
about people but like this author needs
52:29
a better portrait James if you're watching dude please like it's like
52:35
selfie bad and it's like selfie in like
52:38
it looks like he took it on his webcam because you can see his screens reflected in his eyeglasses yeah it's
52:43
just like yeah he must have too yeah no see you can see yeah and like a really
52:46
old kind of crappy laptop webcam yeah so
52:50
James please please fix that um it's I mean it's not it's not that it's not
52:54
that bad but uh basically the point of the article which is you know like it's
52:59
it's actually pretty thorough for all of my for all my criticisms is that the NSA
53:04
and gchq are working on tour basically
53:09
and it is not as impenetrable as some
53:12
people would like to believe the main way that they are getting at your data
53:16
and tracking you is through browser plugins which still work with tour so
53:22
things like flash and Java that are well known to have
53:26
vulnerabilities um that just are gaping
53:30
that being that being said a lot of people that I know that try and set up
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secure setups that aren't running Java or Flash and they're running a
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combination of other things like there's there's you have to have a whole Suite
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yeah and the thing is that most of the community that was using tour already uh
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probably is doing that but we're talking about more mainstream people hearing
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about T and kind of going oh but then I still want to watch my YouTube videos so
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if you're unsure about all that kind of stuff um look it up there's guides on
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how to like properly set up your browser if you want to be anonymous and it's
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still you're still at a huge amount of risk but it's it's going to be a lot
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better than just running tour so the tour network has not been cracked but
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there are an increasing number of uh sites that are being hijacked do.ion
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sites that are being hijacked by law enforcement agencies and recording
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details of people that are visiting the sites and sending them to the NSA um so
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there you go guys he
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uh yeah so you're not safe anywhere I'm
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beginning to think that my like technophobe sister might have been right
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about all of this like she just she didn't even want a smartphone she
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doesn't want a computer she just like no pen and paper I was when I was doing
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research for that video that I'm working on right now I ran into something and I
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started asking questions about it I was like I feel like a tin Hatter when I'm I'm asking a few of these questions but
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then that's probably okay yeah because
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of what's been happening lately that's probably entirely fine and I might not
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even be that far off so I'm going to let you handle this are you sure yeah I kind
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of want you to read through part of this no I don't really want to you don't want to read through this all right go uh so
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Oculus Rift is being used to or the idea
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of oculus rift is being used to give chickens a freerange style lifestyle so
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they set up an Oculus Rift mix it in like a second life kind of idea and they
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can make the chicken think that even though it's confined into a coupe it actually has a free range roaming
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identity really VR for chickens like really what do you think
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about this I think that as Concepts go
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it seems more like a publicity stunt for VR in general and less of a uh practical
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thing I mean we are so many bajillion
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years away from a product like Oculus being able to
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be miniaturized and costed down enough to put them on chickens I mean the it's
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stupid I want chickens to have good lives but I don't think VR is the
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solution well there's two things one I don't think it's actually going to give
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you the benefits of free range because they're still confined to the thing and
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a lot of free range stuff is the fact that they can run around all that kind of stuff and two I'm not real oh is this
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fake yeah okay the whole point of the article was to see how many people they
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can convince okay so I thought you had maybe seen that but I don't think so
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anymore but everyone watching I bet a
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lot of people actually kind of thought that that was legit and you know what it
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maybe could be but I I read quite a few places that it's not so like yeah but
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that's bad and the fact that that sounds super realistic is really bad
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because imagine how many people you could sell free range chickens
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to next they're just going to like strap a TV to the front of the cage and be
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like yeah free range free has like a field on
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it they can see the field which makes them think they're in the
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field done all right so I actually kind
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of well when we were supposed to have JJ on here I kind of realized we have like
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barely talked about Intel's new z97 and h97 chipsets like at all so as usual Z
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versus h means that Z is overclockable and H is uh not so much uh the N9 series
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chipsets offer increased data transfer speeds for storage drives now supporting
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the m.2 specification allowing them to drive two PCIe 2.0 Lanes to the m.2
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drive giving it a total of about 1 GB per second of bandwidth compared to
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about 600 megabytes per second of bandwidth available over SATA 3 um okay
57:58
the same connectivity options are basically there so 14 USB ports six of
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which can be usb3 up to six SATA 3 six G
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or six GB per 6 GB per second ports an
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integrated gigabit Ethernet controller 8 PCIe 2.0 Lanes I believe that's all off
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of the chipset because you have 16 Lanes off of the CPU something along those
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lines they have upgraded smart response technology SRT so they're supporting
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hybrid hard drives with integrated flash storage so pre viously the feature
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required separate hard drives and ssds on separate connectors so I think
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there's one drive to which that's applicable the uh WD black squared yeah
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um okay Broadwell so new CPUs like
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legitimate new CPUs are not coming until sometime next year probably about a year
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from now and those will bring a 30% increase in power efficiency and z97 at
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least some of the boards are advertising that they will have support for
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Broadwell in the meantime we get Haswell refresh as well as Devil's Canyon so
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Intel has improved the thermal interface material on the CPUs so that they're
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going to run cooler and the word on the street is that z97 boards even before we
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put overclockable has well refresh processors on them are overclocking a
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little better and have the CPUs running cooler and I think that is pretty much
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it except uh we were supposed to have we were supposed to have JJ on to talk
59:17
about this stuff he's an extremely busy man I know no well it's it's true he's
59:21
like super crazy oh oh whoa hey there we go oh just oh
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oh oh just got back to the office out of the office due to an emergency it took
59:29
longer at the event location just got back into the office okay well maybe
59:32
we'll have him join us I think we've only got about 10 15 more minutes left on the show so guys uh you know maybe
59:38
what we'll do is we'll have JJ on next week I can't I can't say 100% because
59:42
it'll depend on his scheduling but I know you guys will probably want to hear from him about um what ASUS has done
59:48
that's amazing uh in the last little while that is what you will hear that is
59:51
what you will hear I mean he's uh he's so knowledge eligible so you know I look
59:55
forward to having him on the show I wish he'd been able to make it this week but there you go while you get that loaded
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up I have to call out a tweet some guy tweeted me I bet you could get two packs
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of M&M's for 50 cents yeah no no no no
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no no that was pretty good he didn't fit Jay-Z in though so I don't know he can
60:14
have three points three points not 10 points yeah all right posted on the
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Forum by Alex Goes High LG G3 press
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renders leaked she look pretty and then
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the completely impartial and unbiased headline says best looking phone of the
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year so here we go Phone Arena was the
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original uh poster I like the new design of the volume up down and power buttons
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so that's back here yeah because um the
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one thing I didn't like about the power button before was it was a strip right
60:47
which wasn't it was it was fine like it wasn't a big deal I didn't even bother
60:50
bring it up because it didn't matter that much but this does look nicer so I
60:56
we'll go through these renders like okay so there's a thing there and there's
60:59
some stuff uhhuh it reminds you a lot of that doesn't it yeah and why is everyone
61:04
doing gold phones please stop like can you can everyone please stop following
61:09
Apple like what makes Apple a leader the fact that everyone follows
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them like and it's and it's a stupid idea I'm not being an apple Fanboy by
61:20
calling them a leader I think the idea was bad I think the idea was bad and the
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people following it should feel bad that's all I'm trying to say gold
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motherboards like just stop it gold is
61:31
Gody yeah I'm sorry people with class wear white gold
61:37
gold is awesome Al like everyone but a
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metal I'm sorry gold is awesome when it comes in like a metal yeah like if I had
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like a if I had like a if I had like a gold brick or like yeah something I I
61:50
can't think of too many other things I would like to actually be yellow gold
61:53
like some sort of booly or a medal or a trophy yeah all of that's super cool
61:58
yeah trophies should be gold yeah I'll settle for brass I've never want a
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trophy in my life so I'd settle for any trophy really but you know what I I
62:06
don't know that I agree with the best phone of the Year thing because not
62:09
because this looks better but because it looks like the same damn thing like it
62:14
actually just doesn't really look any different to me I I don't I don't see
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the difference and maybe I'm just not picky enough but like brushed metal back
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back um I like how it looks but you're
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not wrong it looks pretty much the same and and I would if everything else is
62:32
equal if they're the same price and they basically look the same front-facing
62:35
speakers man it is such a big deal and it is so disappointing that was one of
62:39
my complaints about the G3 is if I held it in the right particular way sorry G2
62:44
G2 sorry yeah yeah if I held it in the right or wrong way it would cover up the
62:48
speakers and essentially manually mute the phone yeah because I would be
62:52
covering up the speakers I couldn't hear it anymore it was kind of an yeah and another ergonomic thing that
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people might not necessarily agree with me about but is that I don't like bottom
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mounted headphone Jacks anymore I complained about this in my 1 and8
63:04
review but I actually didn't properly explain what I don't like about it like
63:08
I said thing right sorry is it the car thing car thing cuz you put your phone
63:13
in oh that's another reason but no that was I don't like it because of cars
63:17
because if you plug your stuff in the bottom and then you try and put it in a cup holder oh that's another good point
63:21
okay no I was talking about what's more natural for me put it in my pocket so
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that I'm not putting strain on the connector um and so and not just that
63:30
but that that cuz that you could train yourself one way or the other but I like to have it right side up in my pocket so
63:35
I can pull it out of my pocket and glance at it okay and then the other
63:38
thing that I didn't explain very well is that if you have something plugged into
63:42
the bottom of the phone and you're using it right side up it's kind of in your
63:45
way and not so much on the 1 M8 if you're right-handed because it's it
63:50
could kind of come down here but using the iPhone 5S something I forgot to incl
63:54
includ in my review um where it's on the left it sits right under my pinky so
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when I'm typing it's like right in the way um especially if you have a right
64:04
angle connector on your headphones just like I do yeah which isn't that uncommon
64:09
both of these have it y actually yep uh
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Sony's CEO and executives are taking a 50% pay cut with no bonuses um they've
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lost money four out of The Last 5 Years this was posted on the Forum by top war
64:23
Gam the original article is from IGN and
64:27
I I yeah you know what top war gamer I think you nailed it I'm surprised it
64:31
took you this long to do it it's almost like a a knee-jerk reaction to oh well
64:36
Nintendo's doing this yeah therefore maybe that's the honorable thing to
64:40
do okay I mean I don't
64:45
understand why an executive gets a bonus
64:49
if the company isn't hugely profitable the my my favorite ones and read
64:55
hate massively is when the company is like failing and going bankrupt and
65:00
they're like massive exiting bonus yeah it's like uh no that shouldn't be
65:06
legal I I really I really wish that uh
65:10
this mobile site yeah I wish this wasn't the mobile site but aside from that I
65:14
mean I I I don't know I don't know how you can ever enforce something like that
65:18
because it all just becomes like you know a just like Buddy Club where it's
65:23
like yeah let's all make lots of money that sounds great yeah I think that's a
65:27
great idea too bonus for you bonus for you bonuses for everyone but I I just
65:33
think it's wrong I just think it is so wrong that when you are not making money
65:39
I okay it's one thing to I mean okay
65:42
I'll I'll use you know the business terms to streamline your
65:46
Workforce and you know be profitable and
65:49
make money because you cut a bunch of jobs no one likes that but I kind of get
65:55
it the company's profitable you're still you're maintaining your sales Target
65:59
you're doing the company things that you need to do which is to make money it's
66:04
another thing when you are cutting jobs
66:07
or not cutting job or okay it's I guess it's better if you're not cutting jobs
66:11
and okay no hold on if you are we'll get there we'll get there yeah
66:17
yeah so right so if you're making money that's one thing if you're you know
66:20
cutting jobs or even not cutting jobs and you're not making money you shouldn't be getting a bonus because a
66:25
bonus should be tied to Performance and if the company's not making money then
66:29
the leadership is not performing because leadership is responsible for everyone
66:34
like if he does something stupid ultimately who gets a cease and desist
66:40
or who gets a complaint it will be me
66:43
because I'm responsible for him so if he does something great then I should get a
66:48
bonus but if he does something crappy then I'm the one who has to deal with it
66:52
because ultimately I'm responsible for what he does and that's how leadership
66:55
works that's what taking responsibility for things is supposed to look like and
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so I don't understand why it took so long and I'm frustrated that that's a
67:04
thing and I guess I'm not really going anywhere with this now but the point is
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thank you guys for tuning in to the W show I hope you guys enjoyed it as much
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as we did I'm surprised there's so many people watching it's the weather's
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beautiful here maybe the weather sucks there in which case I'm sorry to hear
67:18
that but uh I think also bunch of finals ending this week there's still some more
67:23
coming a little bit later if you guys are have finals later than this I'm
67:28
sorry holy crap that sucks um but yeah
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thank you everybody for tuning in that was awesome all right peace out
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guys someone will get
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it