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Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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hello and welcome to the Linus tech tips or Linus media group whatever q a video
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in this video i posted a thread on the forum and then posted on twitter and hit
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all that kind of stuff and had people ask random members of the team questions
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grabbed questions from that list on the forum and then went around asking
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everybody what the i don't know the questions ask them the
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questions and they answer the questions relatively simple concept this is a q a
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let's get started
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the cooler master master case 5 lets you make your mid tower pc case your own
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with a variety of modular parts and accessories click the link in the video
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description down below to learn more oh yeah i definitely drive the pink
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civic and i wouldn't say that i get more attention than i'd like i mean i'm the
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kind of person who goes and puts my face all over the internet for two million
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people to you know watch me do embarrassing crap or
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yeah driving around in a pink car is the least of my concerns
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uh we would love to do more factory tours it just really depends on what
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brands allow us to tour their factories like there's a lot
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that goes into the planning and the approval process and all that
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because not that many brands actually want to show off what goes on behind the
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scenes you know if there's anything less than perfection from the qc side that
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reflects poorly on them so um i'm talking to a few people right now
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maybe expect to see something within the first half of next year but uh yeah we
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definitely want to do some more factory chores just hang on a minute here
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so the rsi is a lot better i've been using a
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powerball lately you can look it up it's like a little
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gyroscope it's very powerful it gets spinning really fast it exercises every
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single muscle in your forearm and i've been using that at least once a week
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also working out helps a lot and also i changed my mouse to something that is
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more ergonomic i can work i can get back to work now well i found it in uh
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australia that's where it originated and
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it never been there and then it made its way over here to
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canada with the australian people and i
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started to mimic it from those aussie folks those lovely chaps but i don't
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know i just used to live where there was lots of aussie people at the ski hill so
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i thought their accent was cool so i tried doing it myself subconsciously
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pretty much any accent i just subconsciously start talking like that
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in my own head if i'm around somebody long enough ah so that was a great deal the 8 SSD
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array back when i bought it would have been considered a smoking hot deal
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because i got the ssds which were
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like a crazy blowout price with a promo
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on top of it and i bought it at my staff discount which was way lower than what
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we were selling them for which doesn't happen very often and i paid just under
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a dollar per gig for about a terabyte of SSD storage and
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then on top of that i bought a raid controller card for about five or six
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hundred dollars so the whole thing came to about 1500 or about a dollar and a
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half per gig for storage that was faster than anything that came out for like
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three to four years after that uh we have received some negative
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feedback due to Linus's antics in the past but my response is always like if
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you sponsor this channel that's what you're gonna get and then i don't really hear much back
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and they usually keep sponsoring the channel so
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i don't know um
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yes i'm going to do more videos on the channel i have a mechanoid
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gk15 whatever coming up uh robot and i'm
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also going to do the flycli scooter um
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sort of thing it's got a powered electronic wheel in the back
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which is uh both of them are actually spoiler alert kind of disappointing and
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then other robot videos i have planned for later as well you
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know basically robots like robots
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whenever i have time dog
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there's no plan just winging it every day
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keeping it fresh
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keeping it fun
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keeping it real those are the only things that we plan on doing at channel
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super fun and doing your best every day reaching
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for the stars trying hard to do the best job that you
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can do at what you're doing
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uh basically that what else can you what else can you say i don't want to give
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you some plan like yeah we've got a five year plan it's actually really
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structured out there's a whole graph and pipe chart and
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pie graph and pie something
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i don't know i didn't even know i'd be doing this last year what do you think
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i'm gonna be doing next year i don't know i could be doing something crazy so
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keep your eye out for some crazy stuff to go down
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taryn dawg
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right now we use Windows movie maker uh obviously
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it's just it's the best because it comes with
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Windows so that's very convenient i think that was all i wanted to say about that do i
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find myself becoming exhausted from video editing not really it's it's
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exhausting in a different way right because you're sitting down all day yes
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we can stand up and down with this up desks mostly i found myself sitting down
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and what i'll do is um every time that i finish a video i will set it to render
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and then i'll go bother brandon i'll stand up and i'll walk around and
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that helps a lot in fact i kind of want us to get a little bit of like light
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workout equipment so we can just like do some pull-ups or something like halfway
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through the day you know that'll keep you like it's less tiring to move your body
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you can start to feel your muscles just
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degrade if you don't use them um yeah i do have
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a personal youtube channel it's it's dumb you won't like it
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it's just about how premiere is missing a lot of features and has a
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lot of bugs and i just complain endlessly about all of the problems with
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premiere some people find it very enjoyable there's also a tutorial
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three and a half hours long if you want to watch that
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on that channel you know check it out if you want
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i guess if you're into premiere and who
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would be the best settings for media encoder for
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outputting videos are the presets because they already exist it takes no
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effort
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uh if we stopped doing sponsored content
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we would not be able to pay anyone so
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all the channels would pretty much die
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honestly i think that's something that's always come pretty easily for me because
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for one thing i used to work for a retailer so every video i ever did was
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effectively sponsored like i got paid a paycheck to make the videos so really
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nothing has changed in that regard i mean sure it's you know it's squarespace now or
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whatever but it's it's all basically the same thing and then number two is that i
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follow the valve principle that they at least say if not necessarily following
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through on it all the time and that's that you can't lie or try and deceive
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the internet because if you do they will catch you and they will never forget so
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i've always taken that very seriously it's it's even if i was a dishonest
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person what would be the point of trying to
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keep that from people because they're just going to catch me and it's going to make it 10 times worse when they do
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i don't really have plans to be sponsored for csgo right now but
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there might be something in the works in the near future
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it's unlikely that there will be a video with me rapping in it again although i
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may sing again at some point i do have kind of an idea festering in my mind for
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a uh a music video that i'd like to make at some point
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why you guys laugh stop staring at me every morning i come in
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and i i transfer trans i trans not all those files to china i
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need to send in all the scripts and re-transcode some footage
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to them and then i start shoot set up green screen and lighting
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and shoot and add it
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fast as possible and i added all of those i get this
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question every day on instagram twitter periscope
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um yes i got a bet
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right after the vote
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and do i like the bed yes thank you for the vote
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well the fine dropped okay yes i have um but
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i've never damaged it because of the drop i always caught it
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so i've never actually successfully dropped a camera i held my personal cam
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my black magic camera over a candle once to dry off water and it burnt a little
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bit of it so don't do that kids
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i think it's a good thing like the entire camera market especially for
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dslrs for video has kind of was stagnating for a little while and the
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mirrorless cameras give you the ability to do so many different things that you
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can't do with a dslr and companies like sony are actually pushing the camera
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industry forward unlike canon who are
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i don't really know what they're doing but they're not really adding much to
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the current market wow tips for starting your own business
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uh that's a great question um
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the answer is really different depending on a lot of different factors like i was
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at this talk that gary vaynerchuk was giving and some guys like can you help
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me save my business i bought a a small
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free to distribute magazine and we're
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struggling and gary vee's like
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i'm sorry to hear that man
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you gotta have a good you gotta have a good business idea and then if you do
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then the advice that i can give is go all in because otherwise if you
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accept failure as a possibility then i
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think that leaves that's just an excuse to allow it to happen
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i think keeping our opinion out of the sponsorship spots is really about
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maintaining an appropriate expectation with the sponsor i mean whether it's a
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Corsair or whether it's Intel or whoever else they understand
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that our editorial content is separate from our advertising content and it
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always will be and as long as they know that going in
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then when and if they complain hey you know
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um the answer is well that was our opinion
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so uh ts and you can either continue to
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advertise with us and get access to our gigantic audience which by the way we
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wouldn't have if we didn't give our honest opinion about things or you
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cannot and that would be fine too and so far i think we're at like 95 plus
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percent sponsor retention so they've all decided that us being honest with our
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viewers is more important than you know us always sugar coating everything hello
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Colton hey what's up question for you yeah what's the question what do you do in
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your average day at work i manage the
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company emails i reach out to new clients and i manage
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old clients i'm an account manager and
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uh i do a lot of other random crap too
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how did i get two copyright strikes on the channel that is a very good question
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um pure stupidity i would say um
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doing probably doing a bunch of them in a day
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um yeah i just mixed i mixed one i mixed
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two of them up in a like one month span
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so luckily i still have my job to get a job here what happened was
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Linus posted a video saying that he was looking for an assistant i was currently
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in school and looking for a part-time job he was looking for part-time hours
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so i was like hey this might actually legitimately work and i'd live
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relatively close to where i would be working so i shot in a resume i was not
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the most qualified he was looking mainly for someone to shoot and edit things i
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had literally never filmed a video using
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any device in my entire life and i had never edited any video on any system in
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my entire life but just like kind of faked it by showing him still shot
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images that i had taken and then put my computer on my resume my computer was
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mineral oil cooled fish tank you can probably find it in the video up here
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someone will put it up there um yeah so he brought me in more just to
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like talk to the dude that made a mineral oil computer than a serious
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interview but then hours later the vid interview finally ended and i somehow
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got the job so here we are i do not think that leaving school to
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work at this company uh from the start or whatever was a bad
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idea i think it was a good idea i don't think that it would have been a good
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idea for everyone in similar scenarios
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we had a pretty good base to work on and it was still a huge gamble uh sometimes
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i do wish that i just stayed and actually got
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my degree being that far in and then not getting my degree was a little bit
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frustrating i do kind of plan on maybe going back
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and finishing off an engineering degree at some point in time
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but yeah i don't think overall that it was a mistake i do definitely think it
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was right to go with this company i enjoy my job and it's going very well uh
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but yeah i would like to finish off a degree at some point so my decision to
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pursue tech as a career really happened by accident i mean i was
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really passionate about games and gaming so i started doing things like upgrading
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computers and then from there i just really liked it and in a very short
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period of time i went from being a gamer who tinkers with his computer to make his
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games run better to really being a computer tanker who ran games
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periodically even though i'm not very good at them as an excuse to have a hot
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rodded computer and i'm really not sure exactly how it happened but part of it
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came from my passion for helping people with things i was actually a member of
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the ncis tech tips forum with like six or seven thousand posts or something
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along those lines just from just to talk about any excuse to talk
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about computers if it was someone wanting to pick a video card or someone
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wanting help reformatting their hard drive i was like yeah i can talk about
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computers if i type an answer to this question so um it just kind of snowballed from
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there i got kind of good at it and here i am today
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squirtle is still alive and running i actually have a lot of new parts for
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squirtle not all the new parts for squirtle that i want but quite a few of
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them a big part of the reason why we haven't had an update on it is that uh
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well one the plan changed i'm now actually going in a case not just gonna be on a
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test bench i have the case i have a lot of the other components but
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two three i don't know whatever uh we've been plugged with videos for the holiday
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season the holiday season like october november december are all our busiest
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months so probably in the next couple months after ces we will maybe hopefully
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see another squirtle update there will be another spiral update
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uh it's a little different having to share my office because i got very used
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to being alone over the like probably what was that year and a half that i
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worked alone but it's actually really nice having a close-knit team and being
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able to work with john in the same room is actually really helpful we bounce
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ideas off of each other we work on things together uh he helps me out i
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like to think that i help him out i like working with the team i like the
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team floor aspect i like the idea of new companies where a huge group of people
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work in one area so i've got one
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working on it maybe there'll be more people in the future
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so here i have two major things i usually take care of one of them is
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benching um there's usually when i'm benching stuff i'll try to choose a
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number of tests based on what exactly it is i'm trying to find out
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sometimes i'll do synthetics or sometimes i'll do like a load test to
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test things like heat power draw that kind of thing i've
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recently i started doing stuff more inside the case
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the other thing that i do a lot of obviously is writing i'm the main writer
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for fastest possible i also do some writing for ldp as well um they're quite
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a bit you know sometimes if i get a topic that i know a lot about i can just
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kind of go and it's really no problem a couple different things
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sometimes i'll choose a topic based on oh if it's a more technical thing that
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is a little straightforward because really you're just presenting the results but there is a little more to it
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than that um
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um about what your can we scratch this this is that what i try to do is find a
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way to make the numbers meaningful interpret it somehow say does this make
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um i'm also the one who makes all the graphs for the video so but you know i
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try my best to come up with a with a good conclusion
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besides that um i do like some general sort of tech support stuff around here
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um nothing but yeah that's pretty much what i do here and i hope i answered
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your question thanks for checking out the forum
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so the lct forum today uh i would
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view it as kind of a little bit stagnant in the public eye i'm going to say
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public eye specifically because this is the alpha forum and this is the
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currently viewable public forum this has been being worked on by a little bit
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myself not much though largely uh cat
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with a smiley face colonel mortis and blade of grass and this will be being
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pushed out to uh the the main site actually relatively
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soon if you're on youtube maybe by the time you see this video what we've been
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saying for a long time now is in the suggestions for features thread and all
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that kind of stuff like hold up we're waiting for the new forum
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this is it this is the new forum so we will hopefully finally be implementing
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some really cool stuff that we've been wanting to for a really long time for
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camera videos i hope i do a lot more i want to have a bunch
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of ideas that i want to do and stuff i want to try as for nab
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i hope we go i'm like 90 percent sure that we will but
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we'll see the exact urls of my youtube and twitch
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channels well twitch is relatively easy it's twitch.tv luke underscore lafr on
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there every friday after the WAN Show i do a
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game stream and uh
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usually on sundays i like to do an
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editing stream where i edit some videos for my personal youtube channel and on
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other random days i usually play games or edit videos or even 3d print things
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sometimes my youtube channel i just recently got a custom url for so it's
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youtube.com c slash luke lafrenier
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on there uh right now i'm just kind of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what works
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so i've got an ice bucket challenge a random joke video with my mom unboxing
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and reviewing a computer um myself getting stuck on a bridge and a vlog i'm
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planning on trying to get to weekly content within the next
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few weeks here yeah check it out um
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nikki v originated i was born in queens new york you know it was a hard growing
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up it was a struggle uh you know i grew up a screw-up i got
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introduced and i censored that part blew up
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uh you know it's a it's just a combination of my life everything that's
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happened to me up to this point this is all this is me all right
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this is all this is all me this is all this is real life you know this ain't no
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act i don't know nikki v is a combination of stuff i've
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there you go thanks for watching guys i don't know if
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this video was that interesting so let us know in the comments down below this is the first time we've done this style
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of q a and i'd love to do more in the future one thing that i want to make a
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note of is you guys can ask things if we do q and a's like this in the future but
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like technical questions and stuff like if you want to ask brandon how to film
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something specific you can ask him that if you're asked want to ask taran how to
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do something weird with editing or edsel how to do something weird with editing
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you can do that so go ahead next time we do q and a's go ham ask whatever
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question you want anyways yeah i thought it was kind of fun thanks for watching