Tech Showdown - Candy Battle Pt. 1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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2,764 words · ~13 min read
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whoa we're resurrecting tech showdown
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we were thinking we should call it something else but then we were talking about other names and one of them was in
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use by a law firm or something so
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tech showdown it is except we're changing the format now it's two teams
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competing to build a themed pc okay that's exactly the same as before
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but now we've got four days so we're going to build something totally
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kick-ass this season is brought to you by synergy and the theme is
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candy
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now in a stunning turn of events it was brought to my attention this morning
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that rather than each luke and i being paired with a professional modder
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luke and i will be squaring off against two professional modders
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so i wish us the best of luck building a candy themed pc and a candy
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themed full desk setup to look freaking awesome or at least be tasty failing
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that yeah and there's no real clear rules so uh
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go
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tech showdown is brought to you by synergy2 in partnership with g skill be
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quiet and cable mod synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and
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keyboard between multiple computers so simple that anyone can use it learn more
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at the link below so in fairness to you guys you should
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understand who you're building the system for we've
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got three celebrity judges our minor celebrity judges are going to
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be riley from ncix tech tips and steve from gamersnexus
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and then our um sort of headliner celebrity judge is
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actually ijustine so she's coming all the way up here
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and the three of them are going to contribute to who actually
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wins so keep that in mind
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you've got okay okay can we take this board yeah we have markers we got
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markers baby we got three markers
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we got all the markers
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oh yeah that's one big difference there's no barrier hey we don't need
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markers everyone everyone can see what everyone else is doing this is like
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tripping me out like i want to hide stuff but okay i think the first thing we have to
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deal with though is your uh your sponsor logo shirt here
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that okay so you got to do one of two things yeah you got to start eating
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these to fill in
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or we could find some tape or something you look ridiculous
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i think these belong over there don't they oh yeah they're called dum dums
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yeah these go over here you guys
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these are dum-dums
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there you go you know here you go here you go smart
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guy you don't have those in america do you
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i think no don't they call these rockets down there
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or no our smarties no wait our rockets are
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your smarties and you guys don't have our smarties you have the lame like
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powdered candy smarties so okay my my grand idea okay
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see you are everything that is wrong with us staying organized you just put a
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not working marker back in the pile of working markers
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yeah it has to be um okay so where this
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can go though is another level there's one where it like comes out of
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the top of the computer and flows down and then there's like a little river but
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then how do you recycle that that's gonna be pretty uh pretty bonkers but
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one thing that i observed about these tables that we're using already is that
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they could actually be configured that way
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but how do you get it back up okay um so
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here's the thing there's no fixed budget for tech showdown it's all
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within reason so i don't really see any reason
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you know that's not within reason why we couldn't obtain something to help
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us do that now here's how we take it
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to like a crazy level though
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this is i believe what a 180 watt CPU
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okay i know you're going with it
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that would be awesome i mean what could unlock the power more
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than this i feel like that might be hard to communicate to judges
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and then we could have like an info like this is how it works
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card that's worked in the past
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yeah we could
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oh man oh okay having like four days to work on
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this in some ways is actually like like like ah too much pressure yeah yeah yeah
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okay okay and this is actually you know i haven't even
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looked at what hardware we're using yeah okay
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okay this is not attached so these are just like saw horses
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so let's open our case first and then we'll worry about how to plan
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it's a big tower basically blank canvas yeah it's a big tower okay okay so here
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here we go like i don't want them to know too much at this stage but
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we need um river
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okay so we have to yeah yeah we could probably buy a thing that
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would come with that but it would have to be continually which makes a little
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bit difficult yeah and how do we keep it from like gunking up
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probably needs to run for a little while
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if we okay so these like are designed that it
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won't matter but our extra stuff we will have to be pretty careful about sure
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but like the the river part i wouldn't actually worry about it too much but we
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just have to get it back that's the part that i'm really worried about
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because yeah you can like slant the table and stuff oh no we can't do that because that
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would make a terrible user experience i imagine that they're
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going to get really creative and do all kinds of crazy stuff and that might hurt
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them okay so cotton candy idea it would be it'd be difficult to
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get cotton candy that you could apply and it starts to like you know to keep
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it that clean fluffy yeah stick it yeah
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we've got it so the desk the desk has to we have to do some paint work with the
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desk oh my god okay the desks kind of remind me of like you
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know when they pull taffy at the fair they're always on a big workbench and stuff and sometimes they've got those
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big machines that like stretch the taffy like automatically it's like how cool
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that's to build that if we have this big table area what if we created a game
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like candy land like a candy land
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candyland or candyland game where it's like a board game where you have to move
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spaces and then we incorporate el like lions
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detectives or something or whatever on the top we could paint this white and
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then do like some sort of a like um
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like a big game board or something maybe no problem
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okay can you help me yeah
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okay priorities priorities let's get you not looking like
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a smack tool what is that
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it's well it doesn't sound dumb i mean then mission accomplished
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whoever ordered the t-shirts may have ordered the wrong one for luke
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Colton okay and i'm definitely touching your butt i'm okay with this which is
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definitely a little weird but that's
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hopefully fine i mean it's all right yeah it looks not as bad but it's
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definitely still kind of bad because like look at this look at this
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endlessly look just start eating candy then
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i tried but you didn't try
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which is why we're here
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wow let's do that
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let's do that let's do that
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so this pretty much goes on this side
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what about like regardless of what else we think what's that
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not sure yet where is this gonna sit like if this is a complete battle
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station your two big objects are gonna be your case and your monitor
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so if your case sits on this side
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you know it blocks off so much then your monitor say sits on the front like do we
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do vase amount like on the monitors the monitors on an ARM how do we keep it
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like super clean do we mount the chassis like underneath or something yeah does
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it fit inside the the sawhorse things or something like
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that yeah i mean you want to be a showpiece so you don't want to hide it
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but it's huge i mean it blocks off
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yeah do we really want to have it and then also you got the back here i mean
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you're going to be looking at from this side but on the same side i mean you can do
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this we're incorporating the cable so then you monitor your battle stations
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here it doesn't have to be just candy though right like we could
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we could incorporate like ice cream i mean ice cream is
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technically yeah candy right
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like what's our like four things we're doing right
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so like are we putting a gumball machine in this
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like that's a major you know cut grind
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that seems too easy though it's i hear ya you know
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okay like how does a gumball machine
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and a reservoir work together like
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what if one displaces gumballs and one dispenses
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aurora fluid like it's a two loop system but it's not
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one's candy and one's coolant
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so should we stay away from stay away from doing crazy paint because
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there's no paint booth here there's no yeah the only thing i'm thinking you got
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this white canvas on these sawhorses i think that is something that we do
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so so we could paint we could paint this whole tabletop white
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as a starting point too i like the i mean i like the maple but
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if it doesn't work in the theme then no
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so these are standard regular keycaps so
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we might even be able to buy a keycap set for this but get them in time
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if we can get them at like maybe ncax or something or yeah or just amazon prime
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so it's just the caps of the keys that we can replace
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the black ones with some color
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synergy 2 is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than synergy one
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features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other
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computer without reconfiguring ssl encryption to protect your keystrokes
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from attackers dynamic networking so it
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detects the best route based on your setup and being able to always run in
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the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget and it
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even works across vpn's and tricky home networks if you get the pro version you
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can get access to other cool features too like clipboard sharing dragging and
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dropping files copy pasting lock screen synchronization and lots more okay so
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bob and rod are starting to get a few good ideas but just because they don't
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have a solid plan yet doesn't mean they've been sitting on their hands
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they've already assembled their monitor and are well on their way to painting
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their case and now time for a little cable management this thing can route
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you know all the way over drill holes route route
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everything down through so it's like perfectly clean
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i'm really hungry uh wait this is their plan
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yeah distracting dude this is their whole plan they know i like candy so
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they put all this candy here to keep me from working on the computer
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that's the whole plan no you guys are mean
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why you don't think i can sit here with all this candy
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and what if we put a res like on the corners and then straight
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anything between anything water cooling is probably coming from the supply
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here oh okay so we we have to go see what they have oh wait
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yeah which we could go we could go look at that
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yeah um
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okay we still need we need a good solid feeling though i know
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okay so the mouse i'm taking off the question mark there
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uh we can decide on colors later uh we may go together or you know what we may
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have to stay split up on all of this just send pictures yeah we'll just go
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we'll pick something really fun we definitely need to spend some time doing
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what they're already almost done doing which is taking this baby apart and
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figuring out but we need the overarching theme first
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i'm gonna be stress eating for the next four days
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i don't think our mods gonna be on par because neither of us has the
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fabrication or the painting experience that those guys do like they do this all
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day what i was mostly counting on going into
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today was luke having some kind of a kick-ass idea like mad max or whatever i
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mean he's behind me so this is a little awkward to say but like his idea was
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okay it wasn't like game breaker
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you know
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i'm having doubts about the foil i think we should go back to the original plan
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it's gonna rip yeah yeah
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i hope at this point i hope that we at least turn in a computer
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i mean it we'll have something yeah we'll have something
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oh my god what time is it it's two yeah
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should we build it no because we have to take this all
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apart to like we have to paint this they're obviously painting we can't not paint it
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maybe this is the gold foil and chocolate thing so gold all on the
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outside and then try to chocolate as much as you can on the inside
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so that it's a candy bar computer interesting
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okay and then we go with other candy for all
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the rest so we get those multi-colored keycaps and we go with other candy for
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the rest and we go with chocolate bar for the computer
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and then do we still do the brown desk or no
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i don't think it's i think we could because there would be
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enough contrast of the outside of this being gold
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how gold can we go though without ruining like airflow and how good of a
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job can we do of that this is a super modular case this whole
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look at where they're at because like i'm worried about stuff like this i'm pretty sure that
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yeah but how are we going to put it back in tidally because whatever kind of foil
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we're using is not going to be that strong
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we could do that we can do foil for some parts but i think a lot of it's gonna be
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like this is definitely gonna be paint this would be easy okay
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okay okay okay
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so we go golden wrapper outside
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and then inside all brown
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we could do uh cream and brown so we could do cream accents
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with a brown base
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we can mask off these fans and we can go like brown frame cream spinning
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so we are we are we are brown and brown and creamy i don't think this is an
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incredible idea but i think it's a doable idea and then we might be able to spend more
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time doing crazy things with the rest of the build it took us until two o'clock to even
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sort of have an idea it wasn't finalized by any stretch frankly
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our whole value add on this one is the
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idea because our execution isn't gonna be
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better so yeah i'm really worried right now
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will Linus and luke continue sucking next week don't wait to find out you can
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watch part 2 right now on Floatplane follow the link in the description below