The WAN Show - WAN from Japan! Intel Skylake & Apple Watch Reviews - April 10, 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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8,785 words · ~43 min read
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ready what
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the what's not ready when the intro
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rolls we're not going to have any of the oh yeah I can do that live no it's okay
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don't worry about it welcome to the W
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show guys we're from Japan show yeah the W from Japan we're going to have to be a
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little quiet today cuz we're in the lobby yeah we're in the lobby of like
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the most Kick-Ass hotel ever by the way this place is awesome this place is
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absolutely incredible it's great they gave us kimona
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things what is that music that's you
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what it plays here it doesn't matter if it's muted or not hey shut up it's
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deposit jeez um so anyway the the thing
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behind us that you guys see is like this
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amazing little enormous Koi pond yeah
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there's like a huge Koi pond like these salmon sized fish and like this gorgeous
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like plant-like and trees growing out of the Cliff face and all kinds of cool
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stuff like that Cliff salmon sized
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fish salmon siiz you know what okay
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we're both pretty tired salmon sized
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fish the fish I caught was the size of a
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salmon and it was a
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salmon was it a big salmon I don't know
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just an average salmon I guess average salmon but it was
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delicious yeah don't worry about it yeah
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okay so we have topics we do oh yeah we
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do have topics yeah but like okay here
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I'm just I'm going to show this to you guys because this is straight up the
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most like the best wow broken no no
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that's last week this is like the most broken worthless wow dock that we've
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ever had it has literally no actual noes
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it just has stuff that happened this week that neither Luke nor I has had any
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time to look at because I've been on vacation and he's been covering for me
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on vacation and oh apparently ghost is
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actually working on it right now trying to fix it yeah ghost
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ghost there's no
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hope and it like won't matter cuz we suck right now yeah we're like how much
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have you slept in the last like 4 days
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oh 4 days probably 6
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hours cuz it was 2 hours before I came on this trip and then I've had uh
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2.3 I'm counting a hot dog as a third of a meal so I've had 2.3 solid meals in
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the last uh one of those meal was like
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one of the most amazing things I've ever had though yeah but yes but yes but
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included raw chicken yes so that was weird that was pretty
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bizarre um so I've I've been super sick
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and so I haven't rested well either so
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yeah we're we're going to like hang with you guys for a bit and this is going to
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be the W show this week welcome to the tired show from Japan and we're we have
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the fresh books thing sitting there this entire time you know what fresh books is
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cool man whatever we have topics we have
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top right let's roll the intro yeah all right cool
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I don't know if I fixed the audio or not it's like cutting out it's weird is it
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yeah kind of bizarre it's a new age thing oh
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jeez all right you new to this live live
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scene editing no don't do the live scene editing that's stupid I got it I got it
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that's not even okay that is one of them frook you didn't do that fresh books
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fresh FS squares space squ
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face Linda no big deal I did it no big deal
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yeah you got this all right guys so um
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you don't have oh wait can you open Twitch chat and paste
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L paste
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links oh we're awful they they're asking
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us to get Ed and par on the show in twitch chat
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is it's not going to happen it's just it's not going to happen that's all I
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can say okay so no we were supposed to
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fly out of wherever we are back to Tokyo
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at like 600 p.m. at 6:00 p.m. instead
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we're trying to reschedule our flight at
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the airport in the morning so we have to be at the airport at 6: a.m. so it is
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now almost 1:00 a.m. here we have to
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wake up at 4: yeah it's going to be
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awesome but sweet what we were doing while we were here was actually pretty
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cool so for those of you who don't know uh we were sent to Japan by Logitech to
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take a look at the Omron Factory so
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everyone kind of knows um Cherry right
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they make switches that go in keyboards and it's slightly less common I think
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for people to know Omron even though they're kind of like the mouse switch
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like the the mouse micro switch equivalent to Cherry like if it doesn't
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have rron switches in the mouse you might as well not bother
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so rron and Logitech partnered up over
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the course of 2 and a half years to create the RoR G switches and they're
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both so proud of what they've done that they invited us all the way way out here
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to actually have a look at one of well
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actually both but we only filmed one of them but the production lines for every
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single RoR G switch that goes in well
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right now the Logitech g910 yeah that's it so uh that's what we did we checked
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it out I was amazed at how different the
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Japanese approach has been to the German
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approach and we'll give you guys more details in the actual video but that's
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what we're doing here so I don't think oh here it is for now I guess uh I guess
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what I'll do is go ahead and kick off our first topic so this week apparently
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the Apple watch reviews landed actually I I did check out some of the reviews on
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the Apple watch and I guess the the main summary here um so like some some
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headlines uh so Gizmodo says Apple watch
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meta review it's not perfect but it's still something something that the
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general consensus is is its first gen
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and it's got some first gen sort of Ness
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about it but you know it's a great start
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or it's really cool or I'd love to have one or it's a fashion piece and I kind
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of look at this and I go
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how okay now to be clear I may end up
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eating these words because I haven't got one yet I do plan to get one I do plan
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to use it and I do plan to give it a fair Shake because it's not like I just
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hate apple or something I really respect a lot of what they do and I really like
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a lot of their products but the Apple
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watch unless I am somehow a complete
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idiot and having a screen on your wrist that isn't on without a motion
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activation gesture um is
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asinine and seeing reading between the
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lines in a lot of these reviews with pretty much everyone across the board
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going it's first gen it's first gen
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first gen issues there are some first gen things to work
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out what that means is don't buy this
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yeah do not buy it yeah that's a terrible terrible idea and if you buy it
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you're basically dumb because what does first gen mean it means
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beta pretty much yeah I mean it's not
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every first gen product has first gen issues so when you say
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that you're basically saying it's a bad
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not finished product and to me it feels
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like an awful lot of sucking up is going on right now for the sake of making sure
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that you don't get taken off Apple's favored journalist list because that
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list does exist yeah we've never been on it so we have absolutely nothing to lose
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you will never be on it I think all they all they have to do is watch this stream
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dream right now and us ever being on it is a foregone conclusion no I don't even
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have anything against Apple we'll just never be able to be on it yeah we're
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we're actually we're just not cool enough I think not even just that but
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like we're I think we're too objective I don't even think that's it because anch
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was on it their objective but then it didn't Anon like end up working there
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yes but that relationship came later MH
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you know he went from being a p guy to buying a Mac and trying it out and
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falling in love with the experience for some reason so that's like that's fine
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that's why we're not going to get for some reason so maybe it's not
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because we're objective it's because we're
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sassy um so the Apple watch reviews the airport there are some there are some
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good things that came out of it so some people are talking about how the
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functionality is great um how it you know feels really good you the fit and
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finish is really nice um having it on the wrist attracted a lot of attention a
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lot of compliments um did but I I
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continue to have the same issue with any
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oh no
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but I continue to have the same issue with
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um no I'm not going to no I'm not going to miss a beat I'm not going to let you
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screw me up I continue have the same issue with screens that are not always
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on and battery life that is just barely borderline like the funny thing is uh
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One reviewer who gave a fairly overall positive sounding review said something
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along the lines of I equate it to my experience with the first iPhone and
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that raises a couple of alarm bells for me number one the first iPhone was
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revolutionary um but wasn't actually a
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great phone by any stretch of the imagination and number two is that if
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this is like the first iPhone to you then have you even used another
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smartwatch because that was what was amazing about
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the first iPhone was how different it was the Apple watch is not
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fundamentally different from other SmartWatches um in the way that the
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iPhone was different from other phones at the
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time so basically dude it's got that like
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menu with all the circles I know that's
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different well you could say stupid things like that about Android Wear too
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no and the associated devices no that's that's no this is different you can like
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flip through the pages I don't know of any Android were watch that I can spend
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10 grand on that's true different hold
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on you could probably find a way like if you dip an Android were watch and gold
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and be like it is now 10 guys yeah like if you put enough Swarovski crystals
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around it I mean Lord knows I've seen people do that with cell phone cases
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so who knows it's probably possible to
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bedazzle something with $10,000 worth of
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ssky Crystal that needs to be a world
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record like is there a world record for the the most bedazzled thing I think I
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saw an entire bedroom that was oh no that was like done up yeah is that what
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that thing was called the bedazzler yeah I think so I'm going to look it
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up bedazzler uh yep yep yep that was it oh
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man that thing was amazing
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all right let's go ahead and move on to our next uh our next topic here uh the
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new Macbook appropriate to get about the
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bedazzling but it's all good yeah we're not going to talk about bedazzling
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that um this is another thing so isn't
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this the same this this is basically exact oh I I just posted it this is
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basically exactly the same conversation we just had except to a much greater
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degree because I could make the argument that the Apple watch is adjust
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justifiable product if you are an Apple iPhone user and you want a smartphone
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and you don't want a pebble yeah if all those things then you want a smart watch
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Apple watch if that as well if also have
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$350 plus than Apple Smartwatch yeah
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um with the MacBook I fail to understand
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how apple is receiving positive reviews for this thing yeah and I even skimmed
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through a few of the reviews and I found things like well a lot of the complaints
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about the new Macbook like not having enough ports are similar to complaints
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about the original MacBook Air and how it didn't have enough ports so it's good
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well actually the original MacBook Air was a slow ass dog with not enough
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ports and that never changed yeah it wasn't a great product
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yeah it was revolutionary in that it was extremely thin it was the first Ultra
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Book like the first really good super ultra thin Ultrabook
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machine but it wasn't a great computer
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it had a fatal flaw that made people upgrade them pretty darn quickly when's
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the last time you saw a gen one
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air no and so I've got people I've got
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dude when he pulled out of the notebook the not notebook the the the
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Manila sleeve yeah that's impressive it
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was where is the new Macbook is not enough thinner than an existing MacBook
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Air cripples itself and the big argument
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that I see supposed professional reviewers making are that it's
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fanless it's as if the ux305 doesn't
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exist that's what it is right that's the isus one right I don't know there Lenova
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ones as well uh familyless one yeah I
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saw them at CES blah blah blah blah blah you're on Japanese Google yeah Japanese
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Google well I'm google.ca and then do it
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no no that's the new one yeah yeah it's as if the ux 305 doesn't exist I mean
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it's the same fundamental Hardware idea
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where you've got what is essentially a tablet on an extremely small PCB inside
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a laptop chassis and then the rest of it filled with battery
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and it's fanless because it's extremely
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low power and so I see the same thing being done oh it's first
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gen but it's good is it first gen or is it good because it
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doesn't have any ports um it's not very fast and it's
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extremely expensive so you pay the early adopter
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tax that's not that's not the kind of
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thing that normally gets a glowing recommendation no yeah like I I've done
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I'm fairly notorious for early adopter tax on certain things y Oculus and
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whatnot but at the same time every single time I've done it I've recommended that people did not do it so
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I just this is probably not a good idea don't do this it won't retain value it's
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blah blah blah blah blah and you know what I saw I saw a couple reviewers who
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managed to say um you know I like it
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I've got someone saying stop talking about Apple no one cares actually you're
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objectively wrong um so anyway I've I've had some reviewers saying because okay
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hold on let's back up for a second the reason we're talking about this is not
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because this is ground we haven't covered and not because the Apple watch
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or the MacBook the new one uh are
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particularly interesting products to me personally but because it's in much the
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same way that for all the negativity
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that came along with it gamergate was supposed to be about exposing the
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problems with gaming journalism here I see a big problem with tech journalism
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where you have to really read between the lines to find out what the reviewer
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actually thought of the product where they're saying it's good it's first
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gen it's
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expensive which one is it it's either good and you should buy it or it's first
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gen and it's expensive and you probably shouldn't buy it you should probably wait a little while uh so it's to me
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it's a big it's a big problem let's go ahead and uh move on to our next topic
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though not that I'm giving into pressure um Netflix can now ban VPN
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users with updated terms and conditions no you didn't even know this yet did you
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no yep no so there you go uh it turns
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out that just like other competing services that have gotten more serious
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about blocking International users from using the US service so annoying Netflix
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is cracking down on it I mean the thing half the stuff on the Canadian Netflix I
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know like actually there's way less Canadian Netflix sucks yeah it does but
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the reason that Netflix has to do this reason and I know you know I'm not I'm
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telling you because you're my co-host not because I think you don't know not
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that we shouldn't cover it again I the only reason why I said I know is because we've covered this four or five times I
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but it's because Netflix has has to protect their ability to even negotiate
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content deals with the IP owners and the thing is even if it's the same movie the
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same you go across borders there's different people controlling it that's
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right and there's different uh there's different agreements in place like for
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example let's say movie X okay maybe in
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America it's on Netflix maybe in Canada
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it hasn't made it that far down the price chain yet and it's still being
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shown on cable TV for
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example so that is why they actually
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have to enforce it because if they don't enforce it they're going to lose the
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content relationships that they have in the territory where they're strong like
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the US yeah now for me personally um I see a future where this
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digital distribution is just worldwide and everyone can either suck it
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or well that's basically the only option
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um the thing is but they're going to run into the problem again of uh it's it's
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not easy enough so people are just going to start pirating well no that's exactly
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it it has to be easy and it has to be Global but the problem is that the easy
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solution came along so Netflix to me is kind of like the steam of movies and TV
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shows yeah and then all the other guys are going to kind of look at it and
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we're seeing this already with services like Hulu all the other guys are going
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to look at it and go oh holy crap that's really profitable maybe we should
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actually develop that business model and so much like we're seeing with origin
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and up play we're going to see fragmentation to the point where instead
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of one service like Netflix you're going to just have a Netflix and
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a Hulu and a boou and a set Flix and
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whatever all the different things end up being called
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and once it's actually managed by the
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owner of the property then they can wait
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for whatever Global deals are in place now to gradually expire and they can
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roll it out worldwide because ultimately that's going to earn them more profit anyway yeah and that's the only thing
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that's going to motivate any of this is looking at how successful Netflix has
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been and how they can cut middlemen out of the equation and that's an excellent
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way to do it like how HBO what is it HBO GO or is HBO something else I think it's
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now now HBO now sure I think they're two different I think they have both of them
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I think they're two different things um but yeah HBO isn't necessarily going to
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want to push all their stuff to Netflix so they're going to have their own service super got people calling for sex
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flick and boou yeah yeah cuz you said set flick oh I said set
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flick whatever I guess it's kind of quiet yeah trying to be quiet! but I'm
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ending up getting louder and louder I know I've noticed that I'm like an
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embarrassing person to be around you are
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much much like Taran bringing water through security two two times yeah both
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both times we went through security brought water through yeah that guy is
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such a caveman it's just like you put him in
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any civilized we were in the terminal to
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go to the plane and he got like the the lady that was serving us food to fill up
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his bottle with water and I'm like you're going to just forget and then he
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just forgot and I was like damn dude you didn't even take a drink from it at all
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was completely useless like we were boarding in like half an
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hour like what oh man oh I love that guy he's
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fantastic dinner tonight was hilarious like there was okay I think
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probably the funniest part of it was this is like a a we actually Omron
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treated us to about the baller dinner I think you can see behind us this place
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is pretty nice yeah this place is incredible we had dinner um here at the
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restaurant in the hotel and we had our own Chef who sat in a little room yeah
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next to the room where we ate and prepared the food as it was brought out
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it was how many courses 11 11 courses
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ridiculous we had two dedicated servers
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in addition to the dedicated chef and all the food was like crazy y but I I
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laughed internally when one of our hosts told me that it was not going to have
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any Seafood because the second I lifted the
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like they had these paper covers over your over your setting the second I
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lifted it up there was a roll with
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sushimi wrapped around it just like okay
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cuz I don't I don't eat seafood so throughout the course of the meal how
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much Seafood was there not a ton but
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there was Seafood well there was the pra tempura yeah there was was the sushimi
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thing there was the there was more SE there was turtle or something yeah they
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wouldn't tell me what it was till I ate it yeah there wasn't much of it I was
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kind of sketch about that yeah wasn't a lot of it either uh what else was there
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there was there was little bits here and there I would count raw chicken as kind
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of more hardcore than okay it's not
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technically raw chicken seafood yeah seafood
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seafood okay it's not some of the stuff was like amazing though like I really
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love these they have these Bizarro not really candles but like those are cool
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yeah some kind of fuel that basically
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what what they do when you light it the whole thing torches instead of just like
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a little Wick and then there's a metal Bowl above it and it's basically like
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pre-calibrated so that you get the right stick under it and then the right amount
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of water and the right amount of food and once the flame dies the food is
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cooked I was like
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that's amazing so they had like these soups these broths that your meat would
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sit and cook in while you ate other things and then once the flame died you
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knew it was ready to eat and so there was the uh the steak was amazing oh my
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God the the beef like the tender beef in the in the broth was
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amazing um yeah it was it was pretty awesome I lonus was too sketched out to
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finish his raw chicken because that is pretty sketchy that was a stroke of
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Brilliance I'll let you talk about your Brilliance so we had like the Hot Pot
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thing that he's just talking about when there was the the beef and a few other
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things in it it was like a small it was 11 freaking courses and there was hot
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pot so it wasn't like the most giant hot pot thing ever but um I took Linus's raw
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beef which he had ditched on to edel and edel had no raw chicken raw chicken
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sorry which he had ditched on to edel and then edel had in turn dished it on
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to me and I I cooked it in the hot pot
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it's of Genius it was it was a lot
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better I was I wasn't into the raw chicken I will admit I The Taste was
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fine cuz like the outside the outside was kind of like cooked dish like it was
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like ex it was like blue steak I think they like dropped it and then
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immediately flipped it in a pan that was on low no no I think it was a little
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more than that little more it was it maybe a little more than blue steak
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slightly yeah but it was not cooked but it was not cooked like it was not cooked
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um and what they said was that at very high-end restaurants in Japan it's okay
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to eat there's other there a bug there's
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other stuff like that too like the puffer fish orever you like the puffer
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fish you like die from if it's cooked improperly
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yeah oh wait is that illegal now I'm not
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sure I think it might be I don't know but yeah crazy stuff yeah anyway so they
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claim that it's okay so I did eat a piece but the texture for me was just
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abominable like I could not eat it I just I just
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about haed all over all the table and
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made a total mess of everything cuz that
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texture like I don't eat raw fish either so
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yeah um all right let's go ahead and move on to our next topic yeah boom LG
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may have accidentally leaked an upcoming 8K iMac what d d d
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more
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K uh personally um I don't see it as
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incredibly unlikely no um 8K would be
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what a little over double the pixels of 5K maybe maybe quite a bit more than
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that actually whatever I haven't done the math I don't care it's not going to
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happen the math is not happening at the moment I'm sure someone will correct Us
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in twitch twitch chat will post exactly what it is congratulations for using a
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calculator um but anyway I I don't see
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why they couldn't do it they already created a custom interface for the 5K
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iMac so they've shown that they're willing to do that so just taking that
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modified DisplayPort and going even
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wider does nothing but add design complexity and product cost something
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Apple has shown in the past that they're willing to do because they have an
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unlimited R&D budget and they have great
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margins so if they spend because a lot of a lot of companies if they spend
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another $3 on it it like breaks their
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margins on that product whereas Apple if they spend another $3 on it they'll
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charge you another hundred and everything's fine everyone's
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happy so um true Apple has confirmed
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nothing about this but I I guess that's
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cool I'm personally not that super
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stoked on highres displays past a point
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I think that moving to 4K is probably
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about as far as I'll need to go at any
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size lower than about 32 in for I hear
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you and I know your arguments all but you haven't seen an 8K screen I haven't
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seen an 8K screen but what I have seen
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is a 5K screen from this close what I've
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also seen is the evolution of 1080p smartphones to 1440p smartphones and how
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little that mattered I know I'm just saying so while it could be marginally better
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looking at how one thing that Apple did extremely poorly on the 5K iMac is they
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equipped it with a GPU that's just plain not adequate um and I even ordered the
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beefier version with the R9 295x the 8 gig card versus the r9290 and
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these are mobile these are m m cards uh with 4 gigs of RAM and that thing
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stuttered all over the place so I I I
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don't know what GPU they would put in an 8K iMac that would fit within the
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thermal envelope unless they're going back to
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NVIDIA and they do that from time to time yeah they they do just they can
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swap that's fine they just do whatever they
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please I don't know got people asking for 1080
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K what what I guess we should probably
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do uh sponsor spots yeah so so uh yeah
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probably take some Linda courses on video production then when those guys
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talk it won't all just be completely over my head you know probably still
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will be because I think they do it on purpose sometimes so that you'll just like go away I'm pretty sure cuz I'll
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I'll ask about something or I'll say something and well I've caught them
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doing it to you before because one of them was trying to make you think that
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it took like hours and hours to Tween something in Flash and I was like no it
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doesn't I remember that that was a long time ago but yeah those buttheads anyway
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when you talk about cameras with people online okay that's a pretty unlikely
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scenario the point is if you're not sure if you're going to like it you can try
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it out for free at uh whatever the link
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Isom you don't have the it's not on the thing I don't I don't change scenes very
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well linda.com I'm really bad at changing
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scenes right there yes you are he was telling me that apparently while I was
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gone he straight up just didn't show you
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guys the Articles super long periods of time actually no I'm tired that actually
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made a help M ma help apparently it did not I said ma help so it's not doing
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we're not doing good ma help just next
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up squar space you can make a website even if you're super tired and can
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barely talk and say MAA because Squarespace is that easy because you can
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apparently use Squarespace yeah yay it's simple powerful and beautiful they have
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24/7 support via live chat and they have templates that allow you to make sure
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that your website's going to work on a mobile phone on a laptop on a desktop or
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I mean probably even on like a Jumbotron
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even like an 8K iMac you know what we should do just to be like complete
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buttheads is we should like take go to a
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baseball game and like pay them to put limus communia group's website on the
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Jumbotron yeah or or something like we should find a way to find some
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completely stupid display and put our put our corporate website on it and see
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if it scales okay that'd be wonderful we should try it I'm I'm actually I'm I'm
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kind of I'm kind of tempted to do that that would be pretty fun anyways it's
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only $8 a month and if you get a year of it you get a free domain which is pretty
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domain and save 10% and get a your square space you know what we should
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totally do is we should turn offer codes
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into like a popularity contest so they should use like offer code lonus if they
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if they if they like me better and they should use offer code Luke we should
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actually have two offer codes wow that would be I'd be I would be really
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interested if we could get some stats from like Squarespace if they were like
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yeah 30% of the people signed up with
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and 70% of them went with Luke or we should have like a we should have like I
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like LMG in general but I hate both Luke and lonus we should have like a third
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option that would be wonderful because knowing like knowing our guys they'd all
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pick that one squarespace.com and then and then there'd have to be one
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more that was just squarespace.com bananas so we can get like most of the
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votes anyways um right so last one is
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fresh books this is actually a relatively new sponsor for us in general
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we've had them on fast as possible but I
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think we've only had them on the W show once so basically it's a tool for small
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business owners um if you say for example you're like a an online tool
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yeah an online tool accessible in many places so not a hammer necessarily
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unless you had an online Hammer
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yeah like a band hammer or unless you saved money using fresh books cuz you're
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able to properly invoice people and get that and track that invoice and then you
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able to buy a hammer with the time you saved or money you made money you made
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okay anyway the point is if you're a small business owner like let's say for
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example you're a plumber um you can use their you can use your phone to go ahead
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and do things like uh log miles and log hours so you can send out invoices
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easily to your clients it's all easily payable by credit card for your clients
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so it makes life a little bit easier for them and let me tell you as a small
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business owner half of the battle getting a client to pay is making it
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easy for them like if you want to do the
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you know wire transfer check dance to
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you know save $6 in Bank fees here or 20 bucks in transfer fees there or you know
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in the case of my wife you know a buck 25 for a check here yeah we all have to
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drive to deposit our checks it cost more than that I think we've all collectively
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offered to like have it deducted from our paychecks I think legally we can't
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do that y live with it anyway the the point is if you if you
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check out freshbooks.com slw show you
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guys can try it out it's extremely affordable and it helps you manage both
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your time and your business better so
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give it a shot and uh save your money and buy a hammer save your money save
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your time and all of that good stuff and buy a hammer buy a hammer yeah are we
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allowed to just say buy a hammer with the money you saved yeah I guess so we
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can give advice it doesn't have to be good advice hammers are legitimately
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useful tools I wonder how how many let's do a straw pole how many of you own a
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hammer how many hammers do you own oh not how many of you own a hammer yeah
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wow I want to know how many I'm I'm going to answer the straw but I'm going
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to wait till people answer how many do you own um I will have to think because
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it depends on how you classify it is a sledgehammer a hammer yeah okay is a
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rubber mallet a hammer m
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is a mallet a subsection of
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hammer well um I'm pretty sure that's defined I just don't know off the top of
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my head a meat tenderizer I think would be a mallet but not a hammer okay so
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then no so then no okay is a hatchet a
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hammer cuz you can use the back of it because you can use it as a hammer uh I
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don't think so but it doesn't remove Nails in the way that a hammer would I
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could use like my foot as a hammer but my foot is not a hammer you can't use
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your foot as a hammer that's you could no you could that's stupid I have I've
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used my palm as a
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hammer there's a door in my place and the the door knob is so loose that the
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uh not bolt but the other thing that I
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can't think of right now cuz I'm tired will slide out and I have to get it back
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in so that I can actually close the door so I just hammer it with my bomb
37:31
so we should probably talk about like wo topics right yeah wo
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well I I thought I think int confirm Skylight launch oh yeah that's pretty
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important I think we knew this wasn't going to be a very
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good sleep deprived in the middle of
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nowhere this sounds like a horrible Teen Movie sleep depress arrived and in the
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middle of nowhere they decide to go off the trail into the cabin in the
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woods and there's a COI Pond and it's quite wonderful
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actually but there's a murderer and they get picked off one by
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one yeah and like there's a chick with
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boobs probably and for some reason she's in the shower when every time someone
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attacks and then when she's running away she could have actually totally gotten
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away but she tripped right yeah yeah
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which gave a really good opportunity for like a slowmo of her
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tripping you know what would be like a really
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cool like uh you couldn't do it with a movie like pre something pre-recorded
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but like a really cool like interactive
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storytelling concept whether it was done
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with um with live actors or whether it was done with like episodic gameplay
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okay is like uh what so the concept
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would be that the audience cuz you know how you always regret
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not being able to give advice to the actors please don't please don't open
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that door you know please don't come out of the safe room you're in the you're in
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the safe room don't come out of the safe room just stay in there what are they
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going to do to you in the safe room that they can't do to you when you come out of the safe room it was obvious right so
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what if there was like a concept where you could actually like everyone in the
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audience had like a tablet or something so it's like Twitch Plays Pokémon but
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with actors yeah so so you could actually dictate the terms of the story
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and they could have some preset branches but it could actually play out a little
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bit different every night so it's like Twitch Plays Pokemon but with actors or
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like Dungeons and Dragons but not with Dragons it's kind of like Choose Your
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Own Adventure yeah so you know what the decision is but you actually don't know
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what's going to happen until until it happens so I think that would be a lot
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of fun like as a as a play concept and then again as like as like an episodic
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gaming concept so the developer might not this tell
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games multiplayer Edition hold on a second this could be cool so the game
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developer wouldn't necessarily just develop One path but they could justify
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the expense of developing multiple paths
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by making it a microtransaction for you to try paths that you didn't
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choose that is a business model why did you just give people that idea cuz it's
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really good I don't know it's horrible that's a really good idea it's really
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expensive and a lot of microtransaction you don't have to pay every path uh yeah
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but then they're going to make you pay for any path and it's going to be
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ridiculous no you buy the game or okay you make it free to play and you can
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play One path for free i' play the game once and I do it
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my way I mean it couldn't be quite like Choose Your Own Adventure because I
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don't know if you read many of those but basically there was only one right path
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usually and then like every other path was like instant your head got cut off
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and alligators ate you like it was just St you go left or right right you trip
41:05
you die yeah pretty much whereas like I
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would you you should have a guaranteed number of of of decisions so you should
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be guaranteed a certain number of forks and then I mean obviously they can't
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develop you know 350,000 Forks so if
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there was something extremely unpopular they could just go generating tool yeah
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like this didn't work you know not enough people chose this can you pick
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another one or whatever else the case may be but I think that would be really cool and remember this is something that
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wouldn't have to happen over the course of a normal sort of game time frame it
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would be more like an episodic thing so it could actually happen over the course
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of a couple of years or a few years much
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like a like a TV show might take a long time for the story to develop so Gamers
41:55
could actually play their way way through the Story in real time and then
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maybe at the very end or something you have the option to you know buy an
42:05
additional playthrough and you can play it completely differently or something like that yeah that's interesting uh
42:11
rumor XFX r9390 pictures I'm just going to randomly see the titles of things and
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then we can go back to going on tangents um right I guess I kind ofet are you
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completely ditching the live actor idea
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then and just going with video game no I I like the actor idea better it just
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seems a little bit harder to execute and a little bit less likely get there's
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really good improv actors like really really good improv actors and you could
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just throw curve balls at I'm has anyone done this before it seems like the kind
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of thing that feel like it's an improv
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thing but it probably not to the same degree right what you're talking about
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like they'd have to have you know in universities where there's that like oh
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well you have to input your answer to the question that's all and you use the
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little white clicker um it would basically be like that yeah so there
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would be options so the actors would have some idea what's coming but you
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know what the the director or the writer or they could shake it up a bit if
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they're if they're proper improv actors they're going to be able to react really
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well in the situ but the thing about straight improv is that it doesn't have
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the production values no of a proper Play No whereas what I kind of Envision
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is a proper play where you dictate how
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it goes wow okay I think that'd be really cool
43:30
like imagine like a murder mystery type play like they already do murder mystery
43:33
type stuff where like the audience has some interaction but imagine one where
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like the murderer can kill everyone and get away with it because the audience
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chose all the wrong things for the actors to stay in the safe room and then he just like closes off the air or
43:46
something like that right yeah like that'd be really cool yeah I think
43:50
that'd be really fun to watch it's interesting um so this is like super rumor because wccf Tech has actually
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updated the Aral in a very
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very deceptive way so they didn't
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actually manage to change their headline uh all they did was add a note
44:08
in the body of the uh of the article so
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you have to actually read it in order to know that that's an r9380 which actually
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says absolutely nothing about new GPU
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development um for AMD graphics cards because the rumor on the street right
44:24
now is that the r9380 is just an r92
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which means this is just a rebadged r9290 so the R&D that went into it was
44:32
probably an updated BIOS and a new sticker design
44:40
so yeah yeah that's about it I don't
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know so oh oh right Sky Lake yep um oh
44:48
we got to we got to close this off pretty soon because we really need to
44:51
sleep at least a couple hours toight we have eight minutes we have eight minutes
44:56
all right well then uh let's talk let's talk LC restarted that was pretty
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interesting LHC large hyr oh yeah uh so
45:04
the for the first time in two years the large hron collider has been fired up
45:07
there was a Windows update yep no no collisions but things are moving so
45:13
that's cool there wasn't a Windows update there wasn't a Windows update what are you talking about two years oh
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you're rude um Intel confirms Skylake
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launch it's coming in the second half of this year so that means we're not going
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to get it at comput which is a little bit un for I I was
45:30
kind of hoping for Skylake at computex I mean the thing that you guys need to
45:33
know about Skylake though is that it's not going to be like um a you know
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benchmark Crusher like you know something like conro was for example
45:42
it's going to be an incremental Improvement um it's not ddr4 on the
45:46
mainstream yet so it's going to use DDR3 and DDR3 L it's going to have uh 20 PCIe
45:54
gen 3 Lanes just like the existing
45:57
Haswell e it's going to have usb3 uh one
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thing that I do expect to see with Skylake is support for PCI Express based
46:06
ssds so NVMe right now there are very few motherboards that support Intel 750
46:11
series SSD that was launched recently we actually have a video coming on it
46:15
there's very few that support the 2 and 1 half inch one the 2 and 1 half inch one the PCIe one that plugs into a PCIe
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slot is fine very widely supported
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um so I guess that's uh
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about all there is to say about that we really appreciate you guys tuning in at
46:32
this totally unusual time for the W show we were planning to stream the W show at
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the normal time but we had an opportunity to take an earlier flight
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back to Tokyo so we could hang out in Tokyo for the day instead of just seeing
46:44
the airport so we that sounded like a really
46:47
good idea kind of figured we'd go to Tokyo for the day yeah since we flew all
46:51
the way here yeah so I think that's pretty much it guys I'm going to go to
46:55
sleep for two hours yeah I'm gonna go hit the can because I still got a mad
46:59
case of the Traveler's uh oh dang stomach thing going on oh jeez and like
47:04
eating things that make me feel kind of
47:08
gross doesn't help no no not not helpful
47:12
I'm probably going to hit my head on a few things and then fall over oh my gosh
47:16
it's hilarious his 6' threeness is so
47:20
out of place here like like the the I
47:23
have taller I have a few taller friends that would just be ruined here in the
47:27
doorways in our rooms here which are awesome by the way they're incredible in
47:31
the doorways of our room like it's probably like to hear like he's like
47:35
this to get through I yeah I was crouching down picking something up and
47:39
I like stood up and turned and whacked my head on one and it hurts so bad I've
47:45
hit my head quite a few times when we've been here but that one was that one hurt
47:49
Taran had a pretty good one too yes yes he crumpled a little bit yeah all right
47:54
good night you guys and uh we'll see you again then uh next week we have to we
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have to wait for it hold up this is going to be a little janky but I almost
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always do that too yeah that's
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cool oh I never checked out the straw pole
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results wow hamers yeah 40 43% of our
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audience owns four or more hammers I don't know if I believe that but what I
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do believe in is Linda uh
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