The WAN Show - Go to McDonalds, Get More Pokemon! - July 15th, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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9,843 words · ~49 min read
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oh boy hi welcome to the WAN Show guys how are
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you doing today it has been a long journey I hope you're well but we
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finally made it it's a great day today it's been a very frustrating hour and a
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half or so uh basically the computer I
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streamed from right before the WAN Show that some of you may or may not have
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watched I mean it's kind of been a while everyone who watched that stream is probably in bed by now probably um
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yeah so the computer that I streamed that stream from decided to it yeah does
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not it boots into Windows sometimes and
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then when it does it locks up within about two minutes it's having a bad day
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there you there you have it yes I know the camera is a little green um yeah I
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don't it I don't know what to tell you guys about low audio because I just
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listened to it so there's that um but
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there you have it we are finally here we
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are finally here and
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uh apparently Luke looks terrible damn
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dude well sorry sorry sorry sorry to
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sorry to hear sorry to hear that Luke Luke's had Luke's had kind of a rough
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spell here you know damn
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dude Luke looks different Luke got
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fatter as for being so quiet I'm literally listen to the stream right now
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so it's fine uh all right so guys let's
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get right into it we've got uh not a not a lot of time here based on the time
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that it happens to be right now and how little of it is left so topics Pokemon
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go is obviously the worldwide poo storm
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that is taking the nation and the world
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it swept pretty much everything um tops
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daily Twitter users and sees more engagement than Facebook something that
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not many apps can boast and we've got a lot of news around
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Pokemon go it's going to be actually some pretty fun conversation the csgo
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gambling debacle continues valve has
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issued a statement so we'll get into that and sort of what that means in a
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little bit here um it is customary for the co-host
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to do two of the call out topics he's new at this don't worry folks sh it's
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okay PC shipments in the US are growing for the first time in quote unquote ages
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it's only been a few years but it's still been quite a long time uh and then
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also Nintendo is releasing a miniature nest with 30 built-in games so that
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could be cool that actually sounds freaking awesome let's roll the intro go
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away go away Colton go away go
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away at least I'm hoping the intro will roll at some point here
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yep you should go do the thing so Colton doesn't have it it sure is supposed to I
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will I will uh
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seriously wow uh
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so I am not sure if we are oh oh oh we
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are we are we are we are broadcasting a thing I
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oh I pulled the network versions that's why it didn't work um so
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the intro will not be occurring today
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and Nick will jump into our first Pokemon go topic while I change my shirt
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does that mean that the sponsor stuff isn't on there yes it does okay we should probably fix that yeah we'll
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figure that out okay anyway so as lonus
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alluded to earlier Pokemon go has topped Twitter daily users and sees more
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engagement than Facebook currently uh so it's now the biggest mobile game in US
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history approximately 5.92% of the us
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Android population engages with the app on a daily basis which is insane um so
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that's the highest percentage of daily users on Android or sorry the highest
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percentage of daily users on Android is in Australia uh at about 7.98% of all
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Android users in the country um and like is it even officially launched in
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Australia maybe people in the chat can tell me but uh I don't think it is I
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could be wrong though uh and then the current Peak daily active users is just
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over 20 million people uh Candy Crush
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Sager reached approximately 20 million back in 23 or 2013
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so remember how big the scope of that was uh it's even bigger than Candy Crush
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and then Clash Royale only reached about six million at its peak in 2016 uh so
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it's closing in on Snapchat on Android right now which is pretty insane and uh
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professional yeah look at you huh and apparently the Pokemon go Android
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application could even pass Google Maps on Android in terms of daily users like
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what what yeah so more people are trying to find a map to where to find Little
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Monsters than people who are trying to find a map to get to their grandmother's
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house I'm just G to move somewhere to actually do something productive yes I'm
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gonna move the mic right next to you okay and so uh so on Monday the average
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iPhone user spent 33 minutes in Pokemon go uh be the average iPhone user yeah
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the in America in America wow yeah uh
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and that beats Facebook which saw about 22 minutes and 8 seconds on average uh
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and I mean to be clear Facebook has probably more staying power than Pokemon
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go yes but don't I mean don't quote me on that maybe Pokemon go will be the new
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social media app and it will completely overtake everything ever and replace
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YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat and Instagram all at the same
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time uh but probably not so this is very much a hype train at the moment and I
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don't expect them to be able to sustain these kinds of numbers over the long
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term like someone like Facebook has managed to do but um still it's
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incredibly impressive I mean when you consider that the average iPhone user
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spent half an hour in Pokemon go that means for every like old person like me
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who didn't play it at all so this is US statistics remember yeah that's fine so
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for every old person like me who didn't play it at all that day someone played
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for an entire hour like if you look at
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pretty much anyone who does Vlog style
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content on YouTube right now like they're just walking around being like
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everyone here is playing Pokemon literally and I'm sure that it's
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more prevalent in the really concentrated areas uh like LA and New
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York where a lot of these guys reside I mean I've seen a lot of people going oh
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I can only get like four Pokemon in my area which is in like Montana or
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whatever but I mean just the sheer
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number of people who are engaging with the app on a daily basis is ridiculous
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absolutely abolutely ridiculous so the original article here was from Tech crunch let's go ahead and pull that up
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yeah absolutely love it you know what's kind of sad is I've been so busy this
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last week I have not only not played Pokemon go I haven't seen anyone play
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Pokemon go right I I haven't installed it yet I pretty much haven't been
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outside of work or my house yeah in this
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last week or so it's been it's been a sort of a challenging challenging period
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here it looks very fun though yep so I
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guess yeah that's that's great oh actually here's a few more numbers as
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far as the installs go so uh Pokémon go
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Android installs and daily active users
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so in New Zealand 60 New Zealand and
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Australia love their Pokemon go that is absolutely fantastic between 6.6 to
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almost 8% daily active users and about
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15 to 16% of people have it installed
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pretty incredible so let's talk about some of the worst news with respective
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Pokémon go this article is from tweak toown let's go ahead and pull this
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up San Diego residents brush with death
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while playing Pokemon go fall off
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cliff wow they were both taken to Trauma
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Center suffering moderate injuries according to battalion chief Robbie Ford
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of the I'm not even going to try and pronounce that local fire department
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presumably where they were playing the game incat sure let's go with that
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sure so one of them fell somewhere between 75 and 100 feet and the other
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one approximately 50 feet and was found
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unconscious by firefighters holy crap the dude who fell a less or a lower
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distance was the one who was knocked unconscious so like he should be darn
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happy that his friend like fell a little better and was able to go yo dude we
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just fell off a cliff playing Pokemon please come save us like ridiculous
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unbelievable and then uh there was also a teen hit by a car while playing
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Pokemon go so the original article here is from Gamestop excuse me Gamespot
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that's completely different things actually even though it's just a couple
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letters Mo shifted yeah so 15-year-old female from Pennsylvania was hit by a
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car and hospitalized for injury injuries to her collarbone and foot uh in
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addition to numerous cuts and bruises the her mother says I blame the game
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because she would not have been out of my house my daughter is a
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Hermit so that's that uh I would like to
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clarify what a Hermit actually is before
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we actually go any further with this story well like a Hermit used to be
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someone who lived on like a royal property right but like never went
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Outdoors or something uh oh no I had not
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heard of that I thought Hermits lived in seclusion maybe like away from other
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people so you can't live in seclusion in
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your parents house yeah I'm just I'm going to look it up because you got me
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doubting myself a person living in solitude as a religious
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discipline so or decide yeah discipline
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okay yeah so so your daughter wasn't a Hermit for one thing just to be very
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clear about that and for number two you cannot
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blame an app on a phone for your
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daughter leaving the house for your daughter walking across a major highway
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yeah she says at 5:00 in the evening
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which is Rush Hour
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fantastic what else we got here uh a US
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Holocaust Museum asks players to stay away uh so somehow us Holocaust museum
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has been designated as a Pok stop um so that's you know developer
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slightly overlooking something there I would say uh the communications director
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of the museum has said that they're trying to get the museum removed from the game and that playing the game
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inside a memorial to victims of Nazism is extremely inappropriate which I would
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agree with uh a Dutch hospital has also asked that players refrain from entering
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the build their building uh with the sole purpose of playing Pokemon go after
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some players ventured into restricted areas uh and they posted a cute little
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picture through Twitter there uh where they said there's indeed a sick Pokemon
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at AMC but we'll have but we'll look after him well please don't visit him
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and it's like a Pikachu with little Band-Aids and stuff if you want to show that yeah I I will it takes a second
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sure oh okay yeah but
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like oh I mean it's one of those things
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where it's like I know that in Skyrim it
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is considered acceptable to just walk into anyone's house or any building just
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pick stuff and just start like bashing things with a sword to open them up you
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know like this is this is the typical RPG player Behavior yeah but that don't
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lean away from the mic oh sorry uh this is the typical RPG player Behavior but
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but while we are looking for Pokemon in
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augmented reality we're not supposed to be just like behaving as though we're
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looking for Pokemon in augment okay so
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we are supposed to be behaving that way but we're supposed to remember that we
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are also operating from within the real world and that is that is not that is
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not considered the the most most appropriate way to yes well you get the
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point I hope hopefully yes so here's the
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uh uh I don't know I don't know what he needs the tissues for but you know oh
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right he's got a cold that's right it's a little Pikachu got some snot that's
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the AMC uh Twitter post which is extremely cute I'm glad they at least
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had a sense of humor about it yeah um but like that's serious apparently
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people were going into their basement um where there's like where they
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essentially sterilize like bed sheets and stuff like holy crap you're exposing
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yourself to like serious possible like
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pathogens harmful pathogens and tainted bodily fluids and ah
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just I understand that it's Pokemon and that you're stoked to go catch Pokemon
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but like have some sense please please
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um in a little bit more positive news uh there's a Long Long Island pizza place
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uh who has their sales who has had their sales increased by
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75% uh by using Pokémon go lure
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yeah this is a huge thing so Luke and I were actually talking about this earlier
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this week and um it is I don't know if
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this is confirmed at this point it was a speculated thing earlier in the week
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when we were discussing it but apparently I want to say bread garden
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had made it a chain wide procedure nice
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to constantly spam lures at their
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locations in order to draw in people who were playing Pokémon go and this has
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become and that this is this is amazing to me because it's almost like um like
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something I've talked about before on the show and just in general is how
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computers had this um progression that
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they followed where they were kind of slow and not really useful and only like
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nerds used them and then over time they
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got more accessible they got uh less expensive they got more powerful they
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got more functional and this happened over span of here you can sco over a
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littleit too this happened over a span of decades in the case of computers
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right and phones have gone through just
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this accelerated version of that right
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where the first smartphones were kind of like stupid and quite frankly didn't do
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much I mean people forget this but the iPhone couldn't copy paste I mean come
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on it couldn't copy paste and that was only what like 10 years ago N9 years ago
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I don't even know if that was 10 years ago like 2008 or something like that so
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like eight years ago maybe yeah so so that was not a long time ago and now
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they've gotten to the point where I feel like a lot of phone reviewers are just
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kind of bored of phones because it's sort of the same thing year to year the
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camera's a little better but like it was already pretty good okay so I'm taking that whole thing
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where computers and phones have gone
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through this these this the this much accelerated progression through the
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stages of of just for nerds then exciting to everyone then it kind of got
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boring right so it feels like as a mobile app Pokemon go is going through
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an accelerated version of previous social applications where it's like you
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know Facebook was just used on on a Col
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on a single college campus and then multiple college campuses and then all
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of a sudden it went massively mainstream and now your grandma's on it okay but
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that took a long time and what also took a long time was
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advertisers figuring out how to leverage the platform and ruin it for the users
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right okay so all these platforms YouTube Facebook Twitter they start out
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free and then there's ads and then
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there's sponsored tweets and then there's you know companies trying to
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spend lots of money on attempted viral videos or whatever the case may be it
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goes It goes commercial yeah Pokemon go
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took like two days to go from free sort of microtransaction
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but but free fun app to businesses
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figuring out how to cash in on it and spamming lures in front of their stores
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in order to get you to buy more pizza which leads us finally into let's be
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fair there though because I actually don't have that big of a problem with
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this because they're not saying oh yeah we have a lure in here you can only come
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in if you're buying Pizza as far as I know no no they're just providing a safe
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place for people to congregate where you can also enjoy some food and
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drink if you so choose yes and I
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actually prefer this because like they're placing lures here whereas other
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people are placing lures in the middle of parks in the middle of the night and
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holding people up at gunpoint yeah no I'm not okay I'm not saying it's wrong
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right I'm just saying that by the same logic um you know we're just putting the
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W show here and we're just saying you know hey uh linda.com you know hey it's
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a thing and you can you can sign up for it you can not sign up for I'm just
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saying like that that commercialization the advertisers taking over and figuring
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out how to leverage the platform happened so fast we have to remember
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though that it's very similar to Ingress
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true so a lot of this stuff did develop over time in Ingress but the impact was
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much lower the impact was much lower because Ingress wasn't this
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phenomenon um but I mean it's you know
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what you're saying is true but there are a lot of other factors I
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think all right all right so let's see
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there's not much left so the Lindo L lenio whatever Pizza Bar in Long
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Island New York started using the in-game lures as of Monday July 11th it
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was reported that Pokémon go had 7.5 oh wait what the crap is this I think some
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of the notes got mixed up okay anyway there this is wow nean has confirmed
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that retail establishments will be able to pay to have their shop become a
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sponsored location that hosts rare Pokémon attractive items or a gym so
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this is where we start getting into issues and this leads into the next topic this is this is happening so
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unbelievably fast the Pokemon go partnership with McDonald's is on Source
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says according to Gizmodo Source everyone is using the same like two
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stock images in Pokemon go it's awesome for their articles I mean it doesn't
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matter you could you can use any picture Pokemon go you want completely doesn't
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matter at all but like all right let's get into the det details here what do
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you got okay so uh redditors discovered
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decompiled code in Android and iOS versions of Pokemon go earlier this week
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and part of that code indicated a potential sponsorship deal with
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McDonald's apparently uh so as Lina said
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a well-placed source has confirmed with
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Gizmodo that the sponsorship is moving forward and is set to launch in one
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country in Asia um and Gizmodo learned
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that every McDonald's restaurant in this country will either be a poké stop or a
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gym uh they're unable to confirm which
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country it would debut at but the guess uh based on several compelling reasons
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uh including that this country is the birthplace of the Pokemon company uh is
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that it will be Japan which makes a lot
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of sense uh and this could actually be
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the reason why the launch has been delayed in Japan because apparently
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there are a number of very upset people
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in Japan about the fact that it hasn't been released yet there for seemingly no
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reason uh this might be the reason maybe they said hey roll it out in us see how it
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goes if it's as crazy you guys as you guys expect it's going to be then you
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know we'll Pony up the money to have McDonald's everywhere in Japan be Poké
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stops and gyms and we'll launch there which like I don't know I find this
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whole thing a little ironic that it's partnership with McDonald's because
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Pokemon go is all about like hey get up and go outside walk around and be
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healthy and eat McDonald's
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W so that's a little weird um but I mean I
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guess it makes sense in a way again it's
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positive in the sense that they're providing locations for people to
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congregate that aren't some Bush in a park at 3:00 a.m. where some dude is
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going to try to rob you um but I don't know I just what are your
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feelings on it um honestly I am trying to put the lower
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or third on here right
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now and I hadn't technical difficulties I hadn't been listening to a bloody
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thing you said actually no I was okay McDonald's uh partnership with Pokemon
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go possibly launching in Japan yeah I don't mind it at all um mind it I I
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don't I don't mind okay so there's a couple things that I do mind about it so
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I don't mind people having like you said a safe place to go to play right to to
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congregate to do this somewhere that's well lit um somewhere that you know
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there's staff around with a phone to
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call 911 or whatever get attack or whatever emergency number happens to be
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um I don't even mind that you can go
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there to get some rare Pokemon like a
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you know Hamburglar chew or whatever the
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case may be like I don't mind that but
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what does bother me about it a little bit is that to say that McDonald's
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restaurants will be the place to go to obtain a rare Pokemon implies that you
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won't be able to get it anywhere else right so those rare Pokemon that you
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could otherwise get some other way are going to be limited to McDonald's so if
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if you're creating something special something different um the the the the
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the Ronald McDonald lacks or you know
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whatever actually that's that's that's what they should just call McDonald's
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food in general oh my god oh no and
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McDonald's never sponsored the L show oh no um that was awful okay so wasn't
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great if you're creating new content around it and I can be a purist like a
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Pokemon purist who doesn't care about
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the MC
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Squirtle hey Burger King we got your backs you know what I'm saying um where
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where I don't care about thex Squirtle then I can still be a completionist um
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when it comes to the actual Pokemon and the actual uh
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achievements and whatever else is part of the main game right but if you're
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going to go okay yeah if you want you
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know you have to buy five Happy Meals to get a
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Mewtwo then then it gets then it's pretty frustrating to me and then it's
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something that I'm not not necessarily a huge fan of someone says mix Squirtle
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leak Squirtle leaked yeah well was kind of where I was going with that um oh no um
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like that brings up an interesting point though because I think they're only I
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think Pokemon go currently like I said I haven't played it yet I don't know
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entirely what it's all about um I think they only either have gen one or gen one
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and gen two Pokemon I think it's just gen one Pokemon um but there's like
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hundreds now yep so maybe they're going
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like hey sport check if you want you know the legendaries from gen 3 to be
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sport check exclusives like pay us money
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like that's I agree I don't necessarily like that and you know what there's ways
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that they can be smart about this as well um like for example timed
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exclusives are a lot more palatable to me than forever exclusives so if you are
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rolling out new Pokemon very slowly and
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you kind of go okay if you want to be the first place where you can get one of
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those then the obsessives who absolutely
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have to have again like a like a gen 3
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legendary or something like that fine they can just go to McDonald's and buy a
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Big Mac I don't care but the people who can wait a couple of weeks if they can
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still get one in a legitimate manner then that's super cool I I I
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don't mind that at all y for sure and I
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like to be clear I don't think there has been any confirmation of like this
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Pokemon will be specific specific to this retail location or anything yet
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right but we're just saying that it would be concerning if that did happen
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y oh man like there's some like there's some pretty there's actually some kind
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of uh some kind of scary stuff in there like for example what if in Manhattan
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McDonald's set it up so that you had to visit like every McDonald's in Manhattan
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to get oh
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no that would be very troubling um
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should we do the chat app one yeah sure let's do it okay Soh apparently Jonathan
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Zara was a beta tester in the summer uh for Pokemon go uh he could see that it
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offered users no way to chat with one another so he was like Hey I should
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probably create something around that um and he said that especially in a
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location based game of course there should be a chat so you can text your buddy and be like Yo dude here's where
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I'm at just caught eradicate it's dope
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uh So within five days of the the launch of Pokémon go Zara's free app for for
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Pokemon Go Chat is approaching 1 million users and hitting servers with 600
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requests per second that is unbelievable
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and apparently now it may drive him bankrupt because the server costs are
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getting like ridiculously high you know the guys I'll give him I'll give him
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credit for sticking to his principles here um so this is the original article
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here is from the verge.com I'll give him credit for sticking to his principles so
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he says he doesn't want to ad support it
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because he hates
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ads and doesn't want to draw attention
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from the Pokemon company and I'm like okay because you
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know what makes sense the definition of selling out is compromising your
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principles for money that's the definition so if you love ads and you
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think ads are great and you have no problem with ads personally and you kind
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of go okay well you know so there you go
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I consume ads therefore I will also serve ads and people can consume them
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and ads make the world go around and this is great then there's nothing wrong
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with having ads in your application or your content or whatever else the case
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may be but if you you hate ads you
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adamantly refuse to use products and services that are supported by ads and
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you just kind of like nope nope I do not agree with this I refuse to take part in
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this then I got to give him credit for sticking with his principes
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and not implementing ads with
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that if you have a super successful app
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and you are providing a service that people are willing to either endure ads
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or pay for it is not very business smart
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to be spending your own money maintaining it when you have a community
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of literally a million people that wants
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to use it yeah and like the
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the pay for the app thing is what he wants to avoid in order to not attract
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attention from the Pokemon company because like that would probably result
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him in a lot of trouble but like if you're doing responsible advertising
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that's not like taking over the screen or like playing music at a ridiculously
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high volume or like weird like Pokemon porn or something like that like if
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you're not infringing on Nintendo or netics um intellectual property in any
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way and even like have a disclaimer to be like hey Pokemon company if you see
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this like I only have ads on here so that I don't go broke any profit that
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I'm making is going to ex charity or whatever and then they can still slam
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him with a cease and desist that can still happen and they can still shut
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down his app but at the end of the day at least then he hasn't paid out of
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pocket for it something that doesn't make a ton of sense I don't know I
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mean yeah like good on him for seeing an issue and like doing something to
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correct it but holy crap man everyone's
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like stop the Pokemon stop the Pokemon there's nothing we can do to stop the
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Pokemon yeah dude I'm personally not playing it I'm doing everything that I
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possibly I'm I'm I'm not letting my kids play it and I'm not playing it I've done
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everything I can to stop
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Pokemon like my kids don't even know what Pokemon is I didn't have to stop
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them but yeah they know what PAW Patrol is it's a new new generation that so 20
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20 years from now 20 2 years from now my
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son's generation there's going to be like some some like augmented reality
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Paw Patrol thing oh paw yeah Paw Paw
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Patrol it's awful it's the very worst problem I do not endorse it in any way
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shape or form um speaking of things that I endorse in any way shape or form first
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up is linda.com I'm going to go ahead
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great yeah um sorry what's great running the W show off the lapt l.com is used by
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I never get it wrong so our our second sponsor today is actually a new one it's
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called Ministry of supply and this is uh this is Colton's doing that we are
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wearing colored professional shirts on
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the W show today I'll just give a disclaimer this shirt is actually a size
32:11
too small for me because it was uh ordered for Luke so it's not like the
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shirts fit poorly this is just a shirt that's too small for me yeah it feels
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nice we ordered it for we ordered it for Luke because Colton way to go Colton
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apparently didn't realize that Luke wasn't going to be here this week so uh
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Luke's actually on vacation which is like amazing I don't think that's ever
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happened I am I I okay yes it has but
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there's always kind of been uh a reason for it right like he's gone on vacation
32:45
at the end of a business trip to a location so like we're he's in Germany
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anyway right yo I'm going to take a couple couple more days off I'll be back
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like a little bit later peace bro like that's happened yeah but he actually
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booked time and booked his own plane ticket
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yeah I think that's the first time like ever played for a plane ticket yeah
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anyway and he's visiting someone and coming okay you need to tell the people about Min right Ministry of Supply so
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sweaty um and you will still be clothed which is good I mean Dennis should
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probably look into this at some point or another for those of you who don't know
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Dennis like Dennis like can't keep a shirt on I'll walk into the he's like uh
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oh what's that actor that has this issue
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uh I forget who it is it's either like Matthew mccon or Ashton
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Kutcher I'm I'm just gonna google it because it's like 10 actors who can't
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keep their shirts
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on come on no freaking way the first one is Dennis I didn't even know that that
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counts Hugh Jackman okay so Hugh Jackman
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Mark wallberg okay Mark Wahlberg I also knew uh it's G to make me it's going to
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make me load a new page in order to keep reading the article so nope not going to
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do that but yes there you go so Dennis Dennis is one of those maybe Ministry
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Supply could get him taken care of everything's easy to care for no dry
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cleaning no iron oh yeah look at that
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this is right out of the box and it doesn't have that and you like threw it
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around and it's like super not lined and actually pretty wrinkle-free that's
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awesome I actually did not I I was I was actually G to yell at Colton about this
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too and then I just didn't have time because I was busy fixing the show I was
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going to be like yo you just brought me
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a button-up shirt right out of the box right out of the fold pre-folded package
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and you didn't even look for the Ste L I'm going to have lines like this and I
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but Father's day was actually a while ago again way to go Colton maybe if your
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father has a birthday in the summer it's the perfect gift for that yeah that's
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right oh we love Colton so no seriously
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Colton's in the chat saying give me a break why come on
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oh okay actually there's a bunch of notes in here so they've got their Gemini button-down shirt the Apollo
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dress shirt Apollo Polo Aviator two pants and Atlas dress socks which are
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all featured and we'll have linked in the in the W show description on the
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Youtube upload check them out all right let's move into some
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non-pokemon topics here I'm sure that we
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have some right oh yes okay yeah here we go so the original article here is from
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jones.com and this is aett uh this is a pretty serious pretty
36:29
serious sort of topic here the other original article is from the steam store
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so there's an in-game trading update
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from valve so they've acknowledged that there
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are a number of gambling sites uh that have started leveraging the Steam
36:46
Trading System great job uh being on top of that guys it's been a problem for a
36:50
while didn't really take a long time so good and they claim that there have been
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some false assumptions made about their involvement with the with those sites
36:58
they wanted to clarify that they have no business relationships with any of the sites they have never directly received
37:03
any revenue from them and steam does not have a system for turning in-game items
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into real world currency so okay
37:11
technically all of those statements are correct they claim that the sites have
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been using the open ID API in a way that is not allowed by their user agreements
37:21
and they are going to start sending notices to these sites requesting they cease operations through Steam and will
37:26
further pursue the matter as necessary and what they also had to say um this is
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from the article is that users should probably consider this information as
37:37
they manage their in-game inventory and their trade activity so basically dump
37:42
your items now I tried to find the link
37:45
for this I was looking at the Global Offensive Reddit yesterday and there
37:49
were claims that some of these uh illicit gambling sites had actually
37:54
disabled their trade Bots
37:57
so like people had like thousands of dollars worth of
38:01
inventory and they just couldn't get it
38:05
now there's some speculation that the sites are just updating their terms of
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service and updating their use of the API to abide by valve's clarified rules
38:14
but it is unclear exactly how they will do so um bottom line here is that valve
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seems to finally be taking a stand against unregulated gambling using their
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in-game items long overdue but I mean
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you can't it's like it's like if your
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kid's not doing their homework for a week and they're way behind and then
38:35
like they do it all finally you don't yell at them for doing it so I don't
38:40
want to be overly critical but this really is overdue um to be clear this is
38:45
very much an emerging story so as new information becomes available some of it
38:48
may become outdated and uh will require
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further updates as time goes on uh there's a group of trial attorneys
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that's taking on class action requests in the csgo gambling lawsuit or in a
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csgo gambling lawsuit so they're stated they're pursuing multiple class action
39:04
lawsuits in the US against valve and various skins gambling websites
39:08
connected to the game Counter-Strike Global Offensive working diligently to
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recover funds from us residents who have lost money on skins through these
39:15
illegal gambling contracts call 1 1800 recover your skins for help
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now it really does feel like a late night lawyer infomercial it feels like
39:26
those Billboards that are all over the place in like large American yeah
39:30
exactly exactly actually haven't watched that show yet is it good I I saw the
39:34
first season on Netflix I thought it was very good cool okay um I can't remember
39:39
his name but the GU the guy who plays Saul is uh a great actor I'm a fan man
39:45
I'm a fan what's his name yeah uh wink Winkler Henry Winkler is that right nope
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oh okay crap nope nope Noe that's not
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him no uh one other thing that isn't in
39:57
the dock but that I noticed uh twitch Bob Odenkirk wow Bob Oden how did I get
40:02
that wrong I mean I guess they looks somewhat similar not really not that
40:06
similar no not somewhat anyway The Fawns
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okay just forget it I'm pulling I'm having a Luke moment here like that's as
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bad as some of the stuff it's been a week let's just let's just say it's been
40:19
a week okay uh you know we carry on on
40:22
uh it's not in the dock here but twitch actually issued a statement that said uh
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uh that any you know in their terms of
40:29
service it essentially says that if a streamer is streaming something that
40:33
breaks the terms of service for of a third party then that is not allowed on
40:37
Twitch so they've essentially come out and said you guys can't stream gambling
40:41
sites anymore you guys can't take sponsorships from gambling sites anymore
40:45
wow I'm sure that they have been wanting to do this for a while I remember it was
40:49
a couple months ago it was getting super out of hand the csgo uh twitch page was
40:54
always just like gamble gamble gamble gamble gamble for like the top 10
40:57
streamers and they said something like you can only gamble on stream for 30
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minutes a day or something like that but it was so tough to enforce so I think
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they were just waiting on valve to finally make a statement on it and now
41:09
they've come out and they said yeah okay this is out of hand you guys need to
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stop doing this so I mean I don't know I like like I
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said valve is technically correct in everything that they've said but I think
41:20
that they're like trying to obscure the truth a bit because you can be darn sure
41:27
that betting on csgo matches has
41:30
increased viewership like I would personally say
41:35
that I believe that happened um you could also say that losing while betting
41:40
on csgo decreased viewership so I'm not going to try and say that there's a
41:43
correlation or uh yeah but I don't know
41:48
it's it's just such a nasty subject in my opinion all right let's move on to
41:53
another kind of nasty subject but it turns out they got it sorted out the
41:57
original article here is from Tom's Hardware NVIDIA GTX 1080 and 1070
42:02
DisplayPort incompatible with the HTC Vive this is
42:07
something I actually could have discovered on my own and been very very
42:13
frustrated by if I had upgraded my media center PC so I actually use the Vive in
42:19
my living room because my computer room doesn't have enough room for hollow
42:23
point anyway um so what this means
42:27
you're such a nerd I know what this means is that if you have a display
42:31
plugged in via HDMI already like say for
42:34
example a TV most of which do not have DisplayPort inputs if any um and you
42:40
want to use DisplayPort into the mini DisplayPort in in the little uh the
42:45
little input output box the 1070 and
42:49
1080 just wouldn't work with it yeah not my 980 worked just fine but
42:55
it was apparently a bug they have identified a solution and will'll be
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rolling it out in the next driver update which is this week the article is from
43:04
the 11th uh they rolled out a driver update today so it probably wouldn't be
43:08
a ridiculous assumption to say that that's probably it but I'm looking at
43:13
this going like that is such a huge oversight I would imagine people having
43:17
their display plugged in via HDMI and
43:20
wanting to use DisplayPort for the Vive being a pretty common thing I mean I
43:26
can't be the only one installing this somewhere I mean DisplayPort hasn't
43:29
even been mainstream on monitors for longer than a couple of years I mean
43:34
ASUS kind of addressed that with the stricks where they put two hdmis in yep
43:38
so if you want to learn more about the stricks we have a video coming to
43:41
YouTube next week uh yeah I think so just went to vessel last night see if
43:45
you have vessel you can check that out um in other news PC shipments return to
43:51
growth in the US wow glorious PC Master race am I
43:58
right no no I'm not right unfortunately
44:01
the news isn't all good and while PC shipments are up I think it what is it
44:06
this quarter yeah uh they're still down
44:10
overall for the year and the growth is not is not huge they're up I they might
44:14
be up for the year in the US only but globally they're still down between 4
44:18
and a half and 5.2% and even them we're talking like
44:23
1.4% if you don't factor in Chromebooks
44:26
yeah and we're talking 4.9% if you factor in Chromebooks we're talking
44:30
literally like $100 computers so that's growth so that's that's unit count
44:34
growth to be fair y uh I believe that
44:37
these numbers only Factor like pre-built PC sales yep so that's been on the
44:43
decline for a long time as more and more people realize that building a PC isn't
44:47
as hard as we once thought it was or as
44:50
some people once thought it was right speaking of PC Building not be
44:55
that hard hard Terry Cruz pretty much took over our PC Master race yesterday
45:01
because he's building a custom PC and I got to say like I'm a huge Terry Cruz
45:05
fan that dude's Awesome Brooklyn 99 is like one of my favorite shows right now
45:09
um so I was pretty happy when I saw this
45:13
and uh there are a lot of memes going down some dank memes going on with h
45:16
with the Glorious Terry Cruz putting the PC masterace hair on him with his
45:21
Majestic figure and uh so he was you
45:26
know he created a Facebook uh video outlining the parts in his PC which now
45:29
has over 1.2 million views pretty darn
45:32
significant uh he was very humble throughout the whole process asking the
45:35
community for advice and uh checking what the community thought of his Parts
45:39
choices which overall were pretty positive he chose a core i7 6800k 2
45:44
terab SSD 32 gigs of Dominator PL platinums from Corsair and a GTX 1080 so
45:49
pretty badass rig and also he paid for
45:52
all those parts himself he wanted to make it very clear he wasn't doing like a sponsor deal or anything with Intel or
45:57
NVIDIA or whoever and uh he says that
46:00
he's building the gaming ring to spend more time with his son who is a big PC
46:04
Gamer but he admits that he's also got a fast growing interest in PC gaming so he
46:08
actually was part of the battlefield 1 pre3 event with like Jamie Fox and Snoop
46:13
Dogg I think that was the one where there was uh a lot of uh let's say fog
46:18
in the booth of all the people there um
46:22
that may have been that one Snoop was there so yeah you don't really have to
46:26
say any more than that yeah and uh he essentially said he really enjoyed
46:30
playing Battlefield 1 there he's hooked on gaming and you know he's he's made it
46:35
very clear that he's not going to be abandoning being this crazy like
46:39
muscular huge dude he's still going to be a very physical guy but he wants PC
46:43
gaming to be a bigger part of his life now which is uh pretty dope yeah that's
46:46
cool pretty sweet I mean if he gets into VR especially some of the more physical
46:50
games yeah he had an HTC Vive very nice on his table there so very nice pretty
46:55
cool I would love to see like Terry Cruz do some live streams and I think he's
46:58
already been on some twitch ads so like twitch get it going get it popping this
47:04
looks pretty cool original article here is from techradar.com
47:08
I mean this has been the the emulators
47:13
argument for so long look Nintendo if
47:16
you're going to tell us we're not allowed to emulate then give us a means
47:20
to legitimately acquire the games yep
47:24
and they've addressed this somewhat through retro console games but it's
47:29
it's not always that well done um this
47:32
actually looks like a fantastic
47:35
solution check this out the nest is back
47:40
it's a little mini Nest it's the same shape um but there's no cartridge to
47:44
install in it or anything like that it's a much smaller size and it comes
47:49
preloaded with 50 games 30 30 Games
47:53
sorry did I say 50 sorry 30 games in it has an HDMI output so you'll actually be
47:58
able to use it without buying yourself like uh what's that uh retro bit
48:03
retrogen whatever that thing that Luke just bought that super expensive low
48:08
latency analog to HDMI converter okay
48:11
I'm going to I'm going to go grab it off of his desk while you run through some of some of the details here but a native
48:16
HDMI output is awesome because you don't need any specialized Hardware in order
48:20
to avoid the horrible processing latency
48:23
that you'll encounter by trying to put a lowde signal into a modern TV I'm taking
48:29
over the show now it's mine uh but the
48:32
Wii are it will be available on November 11th of this year for $ 59.99 USD so
48:38
like essentially the price of a new Wii U game which is freaking
48:43
fantastic uh and there are actually some awesome and really classic games that
48:46
are going to be a part of this so Donkey Kong uh Final Fantasy the first one uh
48:51
Super Mario Bros 1 two three uh I think I started on two as well yeah I thought
48:56
Mystic Quest was the first one so I've played Mystic Quest cuz it was called
49:00
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest but it's not actually a Final Fantasy game oh it was
49:04
like rebranded for North America or something it was one of those situations
49:07
I don't remember the details interesting uh it'll also have the Legend of Zelda
49:11
the very first one as well as the second one uh which is not as great of a of an
49:16
experience I've not as welln I've heard it's a a bit of a subpar experience you
49:21
know uh but yeah like this is awesome like I will play the crap out of this
49:25
yeah and it's like what is it 60 bucks yeah 60 bucks the price of a new Wii U
49:30
game you can get 30 classic Nest games
49:33
in the little awesome HDMI Nintendo this
49:36
is the right way to do it I like it I mean okay well to be clear I don't
49:41
necessarily think that you should have to buy a piece of hardware for
49:44
this I mean if they have okay I personally like it what if they offered
49:48
this what if they also for 60 bucks had like a a package on Wii U Store package
49:53
on the Wii U Store yeah like I I'd like to see that as well I think people would
49:56
compl great I think people would complain because they would think that 60 bucks is too high and then um I'm
50:02
Wonder like I wonder why they're choosing to do it this way maybe it's
50:06
just like hey have this cool knickknack as well as all these games and like I
50:10
personally like having Hardware stuff like I when I used to buy more PC games
50:14
I used to like to buy the physical copies yeah because I like actually
50:18
having like a library of games instead of just like oh yeah my steam is at like
50:22
500 games now or whatever I don't know I
50:25
like having something physical I think it's really cool I like the design of
50:29
the nest it's you know a classic and having that on the table is like I don't
50:32
know to me it's badass one thing I don't like about the nest is the design of the
50:36
controller which they unfortunately didn't update yeah even rounded edges
50:41
guys come on please please they wanted to give us back the horrible experience
50:45
sorry it's frame Meister oh yes that's what I was thinking of that's what it is
50:48
my bad retrogen makes uh like emulator consoles indubitably something says
50:53
confirmed for old I mean it's true yeah but that hurts man
51:02
hurts real bad it hurts real bad um you know what I don't see a whole
51:07
lot else here that we really have to uh have to get into so thank you guys very
51:12
much for tuning into to the WAN Show we will see you again next week same bat
51:16
Time same bat Channel by which time I will probably have completely rebuilt
51:21
and reformatted the stupid computer that's next to me that I hate so very
51:26
much hit us up on Twitter if you want to see a build like streaming PC build
51:29
guide video oh yeah Nick's been bugging me he's like yeah you should like people
51:33
have been telling me they want to see build guides again yeah I know they take
51:37
a lot of time but like I don't know if it's interesting though like re building
51:41
the WAN because it's like it's like a
51:44
it's not that applicable to other people like we're going to build a completely
51:49
overpowered ridiculous machine and like
51:52
I don't I don't see that being that valuable to anyone else else but okay
51:56
well we'll talk about it offline all right all right all right see you guys next thanks for watching
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bye okay I gotta turn this down
52:05
quickly oh what the what the crap
52:08
there's apparently no sound in it anyway so okay
52:20
whatever oh while I was waving you had it over top of me so they couldn't even
52:23
see me wow you're such a d I know you why is there a hot spot oh
52:30
God at least we don't have another bpn at least tunnel bear is not on the show
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today