The WAN Show - PS4 slightly LESS underpowered, Amazon Drones are REAL! - Dec 4, 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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16,335 words · ~81 min read
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Hello. Okay. Welcome to the WAN Show, guys. We
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are a little late. We're No, we're right. Do they even
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I was talking in the Twitch chat. We're right. We are now a top shelf wine.
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Do they even want to hear why at this
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point? Is it Is it just Is it Is it Are they just tired of my excuses?
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I don't think we should bother anymore cuz like is it actually really any
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different? How about just a short summary? Sure. We don't touch the computer from
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week to week and yet it doesn't work when we sit back down in front of it.
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Capture cards are a giant steaming pile of garbage.
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Basically all of them as far as I can tell. And uh what was the other what was
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the other other bit this week? Uh well yeah uh we Okay. Okay. I had to give
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back the XLR audio interface that I had borrowed for the last couple of weeks to
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find out if that would work with our external compressor and and so I had to
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give that back. So I had to reconfigure that. But I knew that was coming. That part was actually fine. It was the part
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that really bothers me is the part where I literally do not touch this entire
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corner of the building for a week and I come back and it doesn't work.
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The camera does get taken down every week. Yeah, but that's not the issue,
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right? But you are unplugging things. It's not like it was just running for
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the whole week. I didn't.
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But it doesn't matter if you do. And actually, the camera did not get
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unplugged this week. It wasn't here. What do you mean it wasn't here?
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You said the camera wasn't You told me it wasn't set up. What camera? Well, no, it was it was
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sitting here. Just like it didn't have a lens on it. Oh, yeah. But a lens does not affect the
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connection between the SDI cable and the converter and the capture card.
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So, like I don't understand. I I feel like we need to just simplify things.
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Like uh I used to do a lot of Wii U streams using a media cards, which is
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like a video capture off of something. Y and never had a single problem with any
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of those streams. Yep. And yet here we are with a media
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cards and other cards. We're trying to use Blackmagic ones and we still have them in the computer which
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is probably causing problem. Yeah. No, I don't think that's causing the problem today.
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Sure. That was that was definitely part of the issue. That was definitely part of the
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issue, but nothing to do with the fact that our live gamer portable um all of a
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sudden needs a bunch of audio delayed. Anyway, so let's get right into what
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topics we have today. We got one of them. What?
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We said one of them, didn't we? Uh no, we didn't even get to one of them.
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No. All right, that's a classic.
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Go for it. Amazon drone service is there's no other
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notes other than that. So, there's probably some information about the Amazon drone service.
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More details. Also, Radeon Fury X2 is on the way.
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Something we kind of knew. Uh, Just Cause 3 runs like garbage on the
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consoles, which we probably could have guessed. Yeah.
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Even if we didn't already know. And VTEC
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basically just I mean, not because they not because
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they had any kind of a choice in the matter, but they admit that their tablet
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was recording personal data and that they were storing it. And this was a toy tablet, right? Yes.
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So, without going super deep into the topic, is it worse because it's for
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kids? Yes. It is way worse. It is many, many, many
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times worse because they are minors. I had to ask him because he's a parent.
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I already had that opinion, but his matters more. I didn't think I was that obvious.
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I think it's pretty obvious that it matters more if it's a No, you called me a parent.
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Settle
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first base.
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All right, guys. So, uh Oh, everyone's
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uh everyone's all everyone's all upset about my about my fantastic dad jokes.
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I liked it. It was good. Especially because I was saying that I had to ask
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that because you were a dad. So, the timing was good and the quality was
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good. Haters going to hate. Yo. All right. So, this is this is about the least expected
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use of Jeremy Clarkson's talents that I
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could have possibly seen coming over over there at Amazon. But um
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is it muted? Do you want it to be muted? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Muted is fine because
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basically they just have him explain that Junior here needs some cleats or
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something and then whatever. If only there were some way that Amazon could
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send it to you. I wonder how much Puma paid for this product placement.
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Uh cuz he says the name of the specific cleat literally like it felt like six
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times in the video. So this is cool. So this is a V tall V tall drone which
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means vertical takeoff and landing. Actual flight footage not simulated
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apparently. And then what it does is because you can see it's kind of got a
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weird shape to it here. It actually converts to auge it converts to a
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forward flight craft. What the crap?
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Just like that. So it has a range of I think they were figuring something to the tune of around 18 miles. It uses
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sensors to sense things, you know, flight data like speed and whatever.
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That that looks kind of simulated. And then basically it finds a suitable
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landing point delivery zone. And I think
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there's actually like a little like like print out tag you put in your yard.
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Oh, okay. That it that it goes and finds. Then they actually show it landing right on
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it. Now, I was one of those people who was
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in the camp of this is pure this is pure
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uh April Fool's joke. They are messing around with us. Um I I was of the
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mindset that they were just messing with us when they originally announced that
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they would deliver packages by drone. But it looks like they are actually
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serious about this. uh they have done a fair bit of R&D presumably uh based on
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what they're saying in the video about you know how the drones have sensors to
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go around you know hot air balloons or whatever else. So they're working on it
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and they they seem to be like for real about making this happened. Apparently
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it is designed to safely get packages to
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customers in 30 minutes or less making it actually faster for a small item. Um
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Mr. Clarkson works in a little joke about how the dog who chewed up the shoe
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is now getting a chew toy along with the new shoes.
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Um, so as long as they are small, lightweight items in under 30 minutes,
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there is no launch date. The drone in the video can fly for 15
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miles. 15 miles. Sorry, I said 18 miles, I think. My bad. 15 miles.
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Um, so that that means that not everyone's
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really going to be able to get this. And I wonder how widespread this is actually
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going to be considering the Amazon Fresh campaign. Is that still only in Seattle?
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Amazon Fresh I thought they were in New York too.
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They might be. I'm not sure. I I haven't looked this up. I was just thinking about that right now. Um Amazon seems to
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do things but then not necessarily spread them out actually all that well.
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Yeah, Amazon Fresh subsidiary company in Seattle, Washington. It revived the
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business model of ordering groceries online and bippity boppity bippity
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boppity product lines. uh selected parts of center city, Philadelphia,
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Pennsylvania, New York City on October 17th, 2014. So yeah, it's a San
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Francisco, San Diego. Still kind of taking some time to spread out. Yes, it's doing okay though.
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Yeah, we're we're obviously this is not something where it's like, yes, this is
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driving 18% of our annual revenue. Uh
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yeah, nothing like that. But um
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and and there's still problems just like there was last time where putting Prime
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Air into service will this is a quote, putting Prime Air into service will take
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some time, but we will deploy when we have the regulatory support needed to
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realize our vision. That's huge. Yeah, it's going to take a while. And I
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mean, this doesn't address a lot of the other issues as well. So the drones that
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the drone they showed off there apparently flies at about 400 ft. So for
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the um for the metric people it's about 130 m
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uh which it's it's not very high.
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No actually. So if if the whole thing that people are joking about online and you
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know if someone jokes about it the hunting the drones thing
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if if a thousand people joke about it online
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one person's going to do it. One will do it. And that's kind of all it's going to
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take is for one person to shoot like a net gun at a drone,
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have it come down, peg some kid in the head, kill them, and then
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I was just going to say the first one that falls is going to be really
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interesting. Yep. Can Amazon just peg its way out of
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this, you know, like here's $6 million. Sorry your kid's dead or whatever. Like
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I don't know. Will they will they keep the program going at that point? How important is it
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for people to get things in 30 minutes? Currently about airplanes like reg
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regulatory maintenance issues where they're they're repairing the planes out
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of the states because there's lower uh I
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don't know what the right word for it is. Uh you don't have to be as careful
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when you're doing maintenance when you do it outside of the states. So
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seriously, airplane people like airlines. Yes, looser regulations.
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That's what I was looking for. Uh there's lower amounts of regulations, looser regulations for repairing
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airplanes. So they're doing it outside of the states. Uh they're already
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sketchy about airplanes. Think about drones. Are they going to be doing maintenance checks on these things like
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every trip or every couple trips? I
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doubt it. Yeah, unless Amazon has like robots that are
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going to do that, but then I don't know.
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It's a really cool idea. People are saying that the the limit for drones is 400 feet and that's why. Yeah,
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but that's not really the point. The point is that people will be bringing them down.
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Yes. So yeah, I mean if the US changes the
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regulations and allows Amazon to fly them higher, then that's that opens up a
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whole other can of worms because someone in the chat said, "So I guess
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we're all wondering if Amazon Prime Air is gonna take off."
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Um, probably sounded horrible.
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Sorry everyone. Um, so I there was one other comment
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that I wanted to make about it. Uh, right. Yeah. One of the first one of
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the top comments on the on the video was from someone saying like, "Oh, you know,
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the the couriers must be must be really worried about this." To which I would
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reply, I really don't think so. Amazon even now is positioning this and and
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intelligently so is positioning this as a as a premium service.
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Yeah. So, this is not like you need to have a mark. Like, if you
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saw in the video, you need to have a little like drop the package here thing
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in your yard. I don't know how many people are going to actually do that.
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Well, no. I think you just you just like print it when you place your order and you chuck it there.
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Oh, yeah. I don't think it's It looked like it was down in the grass. I don't think it's permanent.
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It It looks I don't know in the video. Okay. But maybe they like did a heavy
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one so that it wouldn't like get blown away. It would probably look better.
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Yet yet another concern. It ends up in your neighbor's yard. and
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they're like, "Nope, my property now." Um,
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what? Yeah. What happens when it screws up a delivery? Yeah. So, so, okay, there's a lot of
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concerns. Okay. So, A, it's expensive. B, this is going to be for lightweight
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items only, small orders only. I'm pretty sure
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they were doing cleats. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that UPS is not
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worried at this point about, you know, all the people ordering like half the I
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I'm just trying to think what percentage of the stuff we order off of Amazon
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would fit in a little drone like that. Us? Not much.
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Yeah, not not much. It's like if you order a computer case, I don't think
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there's going to be the like the jumbo drone. With that said, for the like books and stuff, if you can
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carry cleats, you might be able to carry a book or two. And Zeppelin technology is coming back.
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That's awesome. Zeppelin are coming back, my friend. So
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if they can get the Zeppelin drone going, as long as they don't make the
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like a crane lower out of it and drop your package off like crane lowers out
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and then it just like tilts up and just slides off. Yeah. I mean, okay. As long as they
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don't make the zeppelins out of hydrogen or lead, then we're in really good
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shape. Yeah. There you go.
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All right. Uh let's just see if there's anything else to really say about it.
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Probably Probably not. I don't know. We've talked about this thing like three times. Almost nothing's
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changed except there's a video now. Well, the smart the the video changes a
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lot for me because seeing seeing such an elegant design for a V tall plane um
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Oh, the drone the drone itself is super cool. Makes a big difference to me because
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when they originally did the April Fool's joke, they were using a
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quadcopter drone or or a six copter drone if I recall correctly. And that's
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like some of the stuff out of China, right? where we've seen like, you know,
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early attempts to it's all like these six copter like
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just total like disaster over long
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distances designs whereas yeah if you can go all plane all plane
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uh you know forward flying on it then it
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might actually work. Very very cool. I want to know what prevents people from
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capturing them when they land in their yard. Like
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I'm sure they have sensors, cameras, whatever.
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Yeah, I I'm I'm fairly sure that I could order something to anyone's address for
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one thing. I could put on a ski mask or whatever and like capture the drone when
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it lands, put it in a lead box and you know take it away to I don't know like
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I'm sure I'm someone's if something is valuable someone will come up with a way
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to steal it. Yeah. Period. Someone will probably get one.
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Yeah. or it'll land and drop off its thing and then
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and then not really be able to leave. Like I don't know, something's going to happen.
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I guess it's funny. You have people are worried about like automation and
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rightfully so. But uh I mean that creates a new job, right? The guy whose
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job it is to get in his car and drive to drive to the customer's house be like,
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"Hey, yeah, sorry. The drone's in the backyard. Can I just
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Here's a here's a here's a gift card. I'm going to go get that.
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Thanks for that. Um, so that was posted on the forum by
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uh, Pixel Density. Thank you for that. Uh, next article today posted by PCBond
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on the forum. YouTube Beyond seeks to compete with Netflix. Original
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article here is from rstechnica.co.uk.
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And I think YouTube's intentions of, you
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know, getting movie deals and TV show deals, um, and wanting more more
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professionally made premium content is not exactly new. But what is new is that
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there's some more details about them being perhaps a little bit more serious
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about it than last time around. So, the Wall Street Journal reported that
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YouTube is looking to bolster YouTube Red specifically with TV shows and
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movies because YouTube Premium or whatever they called it before, you
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could rent movies on YouTube before. That's not new. And you've been able to watch like UFC
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fights and Yep. But so, but but that was pay-per-view
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and rentals. Yeah. Whereas this would be a like basically a direct shot across
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the bow of Netflix by saying, "Okay, no, we want to have a monthly subscription
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that also includes TV shows and movies." And if they pull this off, I mean,
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YouTube Red effectively becomes your Spotify,
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your Netflix, and your adree YouTube.
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Like, the adast free YouTube for 10 bucks a month is
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already a compelling enough value that I'm probably going to do it. And then you get music, and you might
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get movies as well. And you might get movies and and TV shows. And TV shows
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and TV shows. I mean, ad free adree YouTube
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from a purely I need my kids to shut up for half an hour while I get a little
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bit more sleep in the morning is already enough for me to spend the $10 a month
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on it. Because let me tell you, a one-year-old is super interested in, you
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know, A is for Apple. A a apple. And
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then when some ad for like bor skin
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cream comes on, she starts she starts
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mashing at it. She starts throwing it. She starts making noise. I'm like, "No,
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I'm still sleeping. A is for Apple, please."
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And and snoozing in the morning when you get woken up every literally every three
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and a half minutes when the ad comes on. And you know, it's amazing how much the
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way that YouTube has monetized kids content has changed in the last two
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years. Because when my son was one and I
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wanted to sleep in in the morning, like kids TV 123 had almost no ads on it.
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Like one out of every 30 videos that played was going to be monetized. Now
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it's like every single one.
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Well, it's a huge percentage of YouTube at this point. Yep. Yeah. But I just I thought that
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the, you know, kids advertising kids advertising laws were a little
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complicated, which isn't to Yeah. Which
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then again, I guess, you know, TV does it too.
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Yeah, TV does it too. Yeah, but there's like rules depending on the country.
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Like in Canada, this is interesting. I have no idea about any of this.
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Yeah, in Canada a commercial can't start with, "Hey kids, do you want to buy the
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new Wild, wacky amazing adventure pack?"
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It has to be like, "Hey parents, do you
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want to buy for your kids the Wild Wacky Amazing Action Pack? Look at how amazing
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this thing is." Yeah. So, it has it's the voice that it's
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speaking. It has to address a different audience. Um, but I guess that leads us
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that actually leads us pretty well into this post by Z Mule on the forum. The
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original article here is Kit Guru and VTEC. VTEC got
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Oh jeez. Nailed son.
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So, if you you guys do you guys know VTEC? Like I only really know them from
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like clear plastic uh cordless, you know, phones.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Back when we had a landline. Yeah. A lot of people have those as
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landlines. At least at least here anyway. Like I'm pretty sure like future shop in the
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source. You walked in, you wanted a cordless phone, you walked up and
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you wanted and you wanted a relatively cheap one. 900 megahertz. Yeah.
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2.4 GHz. So remember how they wrote the V? Like
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there's tons of these. Yeah. So So basically they admit their
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toy hack affected 6.4
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million children. And this is this is great their statement about it. So I'll
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give you a bit more details after but regrettably our database was not as
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secure as it should have been.
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So in a nutshell um on the 14th of November it's learning lodge app store
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was broken into giving a hacker access to the customer database and kid connect
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services. So what's that the worst thing about this is that
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servers. Yeah. Um so this hack actually allowed
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them to get access not only to just like
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uh you know uh login and login and password but they actually were able to
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figure out the exact uh the exact
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accounts that they were tied to giving them access to way more personal
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information than just that. And they had a bunch of other stuff in their data in
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their uh in their system, including the hackers were able to access more than
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190 gigs of photos and audio logs off of
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these devices that can then be traced back to usernames and account details,
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which makes the security threat much more worrisome, especially considering
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this is a childfriendly marketed device. The Into Tab Max, our
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fastest tablet featuring Vsex VSX. Whoops. No, it doesn't have that on it.
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VTEC selected Android apps and games.
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That's really sketchy. I'm not a huge fan of it. Also, um, compromised other
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sites as well. One of them I can't even really say. Lumibo XRevs.
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I don't know. Probably said that super wrong. vmilelink.com. Sleepy Bear
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Lullaby Time, which is the greatest name for a website ever.
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Yeah, I kind of want to buy that site now. It reminds me of Channel Super Fun.
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Sleepy Bear Lullaby Time.com.
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So great. Anyways, so these are all VTEC uh owned entities.
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Yeah. So I guess uh I guess I don't know. What is
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there to really say? By the way, Zil posted this on the forum. Thanks for that. What is there to really say other
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than, you know, lock up your lock up your kids and keep them away from all
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internet? Hide your hide your what? It's hide your kids. Hide your kids.
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Lock up your kids. Lock up your daughters. That's the Oh,
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yeah. I thought you were going for internet meme. No, no, no, no.
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Hide your kids. Hide your wife. Yeah, cuz they hacking everybody out here.
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Yeah. Nothing. Nothing's safe. Eh,
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not really. I think I own VTEC stuff.
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Nothing. Nothing that collects any personal information. It's like I don't because the only thing I ever
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knew that they made were like relatively cheap phones.
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That's the only reason why I don't know. Yeah. No, I'm pretty sure they make lots of kids stuff cuz I have like this uh I
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have like this goofy um it's got like a keyboard on it and it's got like just
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kind of games like fill in the letter blank. Okay. And there's like a there's like a happy
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bear that asks you to fill in the letter, create a letter bridge.
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Uh yeah. No, not a sleeping bear. I love that website name. Um,
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sleepy bear by time. This is kind of a big deal. Posted by
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Commission. I don't know how to pronounce that, but uh on the forum. So,
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this is from geek.com. Sony unlocks the PlayStation 4's seventh
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processing core for developers. So, in a
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nutshell, this is something Microsoft already did a little while back um in
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order to get a little more competitive with the PlayStation 4 is the the AMD
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custom processor that they're actually both using, although different slightly
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slightly different versions of it, but the the actual CPU cores themselves,
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they're both using an 8 core APU of sorts. And uh so the Xbone was reserving
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two of its cores for things like uh connect, say, for example. Um,
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so Microsoft kind of went, "Oh, shoot. We're kind of losing the performance war." Because Microsoft went with a
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slightly slower tuned version. So they unlocked a seventh core which means that
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in games that need to leverage that extra horsepower. You can't access some
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background processes such as menus and and connect say such as sorry excuse me
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menus uh such as connect which is good which is which is which is fine because
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if the game wasn't going to leverage connect at all anyway then it can use the processing power
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that would have been locked and unused. Yes. Um, and with, you know, if you're
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making, you know, Happy Dance Party Time X or whatever game,
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Happy Bear, Sleepy Time. Yeah. Then you you frankly don't need the seven cores anyway. So that that
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seems like a pretty good compromise to me. So place uh so Sony has now I think
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we're Yeah. So this was back in January that Microsoft did it. So almost a year
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later, they have now done the same thing, allowing
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the PlayStation 4 to basically get as close to its potential maximum as it
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can, which is going to be brutal for Xbox One because they already did this and like
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we're up still losing to PlayStation. So now PlayStation will be even more ahead.
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Yeah. with I guess the um the the the
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main this the discussion point here because that news in and of itself is
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not actually terribly exciting. The consoles this generation are
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underpowered. Yeah. Whoopde freaking do. Here's what I want to know and I want to
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hear from you guys. We're going to straw pull this up in here. Nice. I'm excited. I like straw holes.
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If you think back to Microsoft's Xbox One launch event, their whole thing
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the server thing. Is that what you're talking about? No, I'm not going to talk about that.
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That's that's a whole other ball of wax. Still drives me insane. That might not that might just never see
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the light of day. I don't think so. Um, so did
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we're going to use cloud servers to render things for your thing and it's
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going to make it easier and better and faster and that'll never happen.
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All right. Uh, hold on. I'm just going to create I'm going to create the um
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It's like skiing in World of Warcraft. How many times have they said they were going to put skiing in the game? Nope.
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Have they? Yeah. It was on the is on the back of the box for Wrath of Lich King.
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Excellent. All right. Well, at any rate, there's the straw pull. Um,
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random facts that don't matter. There you go. I did not know that. So, if you think
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back to the you guys, I didn't even ask the question. I haven't clarified yet.
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Well, keep keep the tab open so you can fix it in case you change your mind. So,
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if you think back to the Xbox One launch event, Microsoft's whole spiel was that
24:54
the Xbox One is not a game console. It
24:59
is like your family living room hub. It
25:03
is your entertainment hub. It is your it you watch TV on it. You, you know, wave
25:08
at it and you're like, "Hey, Xbox. Wow. Wake up and let's play some games." Or,
25:13
"Oh, well, not just games. Maybe we're going to look at our photos
25:18
or access our Sky Drive or I guess they still called it Sky Drive
25:22
at that point. I don't know. Anyway, the point is it was supposed to be more than
25:25
just a game console, a game machine, but
25:29
not a PC. It wasn't a PC. Make it an entertainment system. Yeah. They didn't know what the hell it
25:33
was. So, did they learn their lesson? Is that
25:38
what we're figuring out here now that Microsoft and Sony have both kind of
25:43
gone, "Oh people don't really care other than like their Netflix app. They
25:50
they don't really care about doing anything on this other than playing
25:53
video games." I don't think they have. It turns out a game console is just a
25:57
console. Or are they going to come back with the Xbox 2 and the PlayStation 5?
26:03
And are they gonna be like, "If they call it the two, I'm gonna I'm gonna
26:06
like crap a brick." Okay. If they call it the Xbox,
26:11
that would be so horrible. Um, so are they going to come back with
26:14
that and go, "Yeah, we added way more power this time for way better gaming
26:19
and also we cordined off a bit of it again
26:23
for like we're going to still try and do that other stuff again." So, I want to
26:26
know I want to know from you guys. So, let's let's head over to my screen. Let's have a look at straw poll results.
26:30
We've got a whopping 58% of you, most of whom didn't even wait for me to explain
26:34
the question, saying no, they did not learn their lesson.
26:38
A 31% of you are voting for turnip the
26:41
way you should, throwing away your votes. I love the timing of our whole
26:45
vote for turnup thing and then Donald Trump running for president.
26:50
Every time I wear that shirt,
26:53
every time I wear that shirt, people are like, "Ah, it's a Donald Trump joke
26:58
because you might as well just vote for a turnip." and it kind of looks like it.
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Um, and then 11% of you go, "Yes, they're
27:08
going to treat a game console like a game console next time."
27:12
I don't think so. What do you Okay. Well, I was about to ask what you think, but I guess way to
27:16
interrupt me. Whoa. You better this whole stream. There's
27:21
been I hate that you're interrupting multiple stories of stream. I'm like,
27:25
okay. Anyways, I don't think that they have.
27:29
Uh, reasons for why I don't think that they have are largely based in the past.
27:33
I know things have changed, but still, um, this was the first time that they've
27:36
made money by selling their console. Mhm. So, I feel like
27:40
not much. I know, but still. Before they were losing, now they're making some. That's
27:43
actually a pretty significant difference when you're selling that much volume. So, you're saying we're still going to
27:47
get underpowered consoles because they got used to the idea of making money
27:51
selling the console. I get it. Before it was like accessories and
27:54
whatever and we'll make it and it'll be awesome. Now it's like experience and we
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want to make more money because it's more premium or not really.
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And $160 accessories. Yeah. Yeah, that too. Elite controller.
28:06
Yeah. Um so I don't really think so. And
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this honestly should have been in there from the start even if it was um still
28:16
aimed to not be as gamy of a game console as it is,
28:20
right? Um because why not? Yeah. Why force a developer?
28:24
Yeah. So, I don't think that actually has anything to do about them learning
28:29
that it should be just a game console. I think that has them has more to do with
28:33
that should have just been a thing. Why lock it off? That's just stupid. I will explain why. And actually, you
28:39
know what? Because they're trying to force people to use the thing. I was going to say, no, it's it's deeper
28:43
than that. Okay. I was going to say that I was going to disagree with you. I was gonna say that
28:47
I think they learned their lesson and I think they're gonna come back focused on
28:51
gaming and gamers, but I actually realized as you were
28:56
talking that I'm with you, but for a slightly different reason. Okay. because I think they are still
29:02
going to try to force the game developers to use the gimmick and
29:06
they're still going to try and create the gimmick because at the end of the day 900p versus 720p is something that
29:14
the PC audience cares about but that the console audience is frankly many of them
29:21
not that interested in. Whereas when you create a marketing video, look at how
29:26
many Wii still fun. Look at how many Wii Nintendo sold from
29:31
showing people waggling sticks around. Honestly though, that was legitimately
29:34
fun. And the Connect isn't. But that's what the marketing that's
29:38
that's the marketing engine. That's why they're going to keep forcing game
29:41
they're going to come up with a gimmick. Yeah. Yeah. And they're going to force game devs to
29:45
use the gimmick and they're going to they're going to they're going to punish
29:48
game devs who don't use the gimmick. And they're going to do it again and again and again because that's visually
29:52
interesting. Whereas 300 FPS at 4K,
29:58
well, actually 4K they might be able to sell, but but not for a long time
30:01
because 4K TVs are only now just barely approaching
30:05
affordability. Okay, first off, I am a Nintendo fanboy, so
30:09
just going to get that like fairly across the board. We know. Um
30:12
even though they're despicable in so many ways, they're pretty bad, but it's okay. It's
30:16
okay. It's fine. Zelda's coming out soon. Yoshi's adorable. I have the woolly one,
30:20
the little toy, because I bought Yoshi's Woolly World, which is just the best
30:24
game. It's so much fun. If you complete a level with 100%, you get another
30:30
Yoshi, and he comes in like you can get like a cow Yoshi or like a forest Yoshi,
30:33
and they're hilarious, and they're super cute. Anyways, moving forward. With the
30:39
Wii, when they make some crazy gimmick thing, you can just ignore it. The
30:44
developer can just ignore it. With the Gamepad thing, you don't have to use it. Unless the developer is Nintendo and
30:48
they're making Twilight Princess and then they're going to do some stupid crap. Yeah, sure. But
30:53
I had to buy a classic controller just to play that stupid game.
30:57
Yes. Yes. Carry on though. But they can. They don't force people to
31:00
use their gimmicky things. Like you can just turn the controller sideways
31:04
turning into a more retro style controller. Use none of the motion stuff. The least ergonomic retro controller
31:08
ever. Pretty rough, but still use none of the motion stuff and
31:12
put a condom on the end. You don't have to. You can take that
31:16
off. You can go rock. But that's not safe. It's That's true.
31:20
Bearback is not the kind of we use that we To be fair though, that's the only way I
31:25
use my controllers. Because you trust yourself not to throw
31:29
them at your TV. I mean, I remember.
31:33
Okay, this is Okay. Sorry. Do Do you still have your train of thought? Will
31:36
you be able to come back to it? Because I can go for it. Okay. Okay. So,
31:41
I was sitting at work. Okay. I was at my desk. Uh, so I was working at NCIX back
31:46
when the Wii came out. So I was sitting at my desk and I had gotten the Wii for
31:50
myself for Christmas for my family, but it was for me. So I had gotten the Wii
31:55
for myself for Christmas and I we my
31:58
like uh my my in-laws and my now wife then girlfriend and I had spent like the
32:03
entire holiday season bowling and like playing tennis with each other.
32:07
And it was great. So, I read I start reading
32:11
the articles about people breaking their TVs, flinging weotes into them,
32:16
and I'm at I'm at my my in-laws house and I'm talking to my now girl then
32:21
girlfriend, now wife, I don't now have a girlfriend. Um, and I'm like, what kind
32:27
of flipping idiot? Oh, no. Throws a Weimo at the TV.
32:34
So, she kind of goes ashen, right?
32:38
And like she's just just like she kind of changes the subject and I'm like
32:42
meanwhile I want to talk about this forever. I'm like you got to be freaking
32:45
kidding me. Like if you're that sweaty
32:48
take a take a break, okay?
32:51
Stop flinging your arms around. Just take a breather, okay? The Wii even
32:55
interrupts you every like 20 minutes or whatever. Go outside.
32:58
It's like, yeah, hey, you know, everyone just stop playing Wii Sports for 10
33:01
minutes. Okay. So later on I'm talking to her and she's like, "So yeah, my dad
33:07
like threw the Wii remote today." He was in the room when I'm talking about this.
33:11
She's like, "Yeah, my dad threw the Wii remote at the TV today. He almost broke it."
33:15
And I was just like, "What? That is so brutal." I I thought you were
33:19
talking about the like gel sleeve that No, they didn't exist yet.
33:22
Oh, this was in the early days. I'm like OG wee.
33:26
Yeah. No, no, I know. I actually I got That was what I was talking about. Yeah,
33:29
that was what I was talking about when I talked about the Wii condom. But I got one I was super lucky. You
33:33
remember how the stock was super bad? Yeah. You couldn't find them anywhere. I camped out twice.
33:37
I didn't camp out at all. I walked into my local Best Buy and like some employee
33:42
that didn't know that they were backstocked or whatever just put one on the shelf and I was like, "Uh, okay."
33:47
Picked it up and bought it. The person at the till was like, "What?" I was
33:51
like, "Yep, cool." Just walked out and got one. I think it was probably someone
33:55
else's order. So after I realized that, I felt kind of bad, but I was like, it's
33:59
on the shelf, so I didn't felt kind of bad all the way to the
34:02
bank. Oh, well, the it was kind of expensive
34:05
at the time. Well, yeah. What was it like $400? I don't remember, but I remember like I
34:10
had saved up for for it for a bit and I think my mom like helped contribute because she wanted the the fitness
34:15
deputy pack. I ended up with four of them before Christmas.
34:18
Yeah. Well, my wife my wife and I camped twice. Okay. And so my boss, the owner
34:23
of NCIX, needed one. So that got a hefty markup.
34:28
Yeah. Um my other boss, uh who was actually he
34:32
actually visited our studio the other day. He's like, uh he I would consider
34:35
him a friend, not just like a former boss. Um
34:39
so my other boss got one. He got a less hefty, but definitely, you know, there
34:44
well they're going for this much on eBay, so you know,
34:47
relatively close to that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I actually made so much selling a
34:52
couple of them that mine were effectively like a couple hundred bucks
34:55
for two. There you go. Yeah.
34:58
And I bought some Weimotes. So, uh, so yeah, that that worked out pretty well
35:02
for me. With that said, I don't have the kind of time to do stuff like that. Although, I have exciting news. When are
35:08
you seeing Star Wars? Uh, I'm waiting. I want to go with
35:11
Brandon because he's good to talk to movies about afterwards and stuff. So, I
35:15
don't actually have a ticket yet because he doesn't have a ticket yet. So, I This
35:18
is a major This is a big shout out. This is a huge massive like
35:22
Wait, do you have opening day tickets? Well, not quite. Okay.
35:26
But this is a massive shout out to Anthony over at NCX who thanks to I'm
35:32
not going to say how he got them, but it's something to do with like a
35:36
purchase that he made recently and like an owners club website that probably no
35:41
one will ever visit ever. There's a special non-public screening at 9:00 am
35:47
on the Saturday. Wow. 9:00 am the day after it launches.
35:52
So, he has two tickets and he was kind
35:55
of shopping them around like and Jack was like, "Yeah, I'm going with, you
35:59
know, someone else and blah blah blah and like and he and and I was like and
36:04
then he was like, "Oh, well, I don't know, Lionus. Do you want to come? Do you have tickets yet?" I'm like,
36:07
actually, no, because I have children and so going to see like a late night
36:11
screening is not always the easiest thing for me and stuff like that. So, I was I was planning I was literally
36:16
planning to spend three weeks with my eyes closed and my fingers in my ears
36:21
until I was going to be able to see it. Nope, I am seeing it 9:00 a.m. So, so Anthony
36:26
and I have a master plan to show up at like 7:30. It's first come, first
36:30
served. So, we have a master plan to show up at like 7:30 in the morning uh
36:34
at the theater and it's going to be freaking awesome and I'm going to see it on time pretty much for the first
36:38
first come first serve and you're showing up at 7:30 for 9:00 a.m.
36:42
But remember, this is not a public screening probably. No one knows about it. There
36:46
wasn't even an email newsletter. Nothing. If you happen to sign into like the owner's portal.
36:50
Wow. That's unlikely. Yeah. So, I'm expecting to be sitting
36:55
like dead theater center. Wow.
36:58
For Star Wars the day after launch. I'm super super excited.
37:01
I'm assuming Brandon is going to be waiting a little while because I think
37:05
he wants really good seats, too. Yeah. So, I'm probably going to be waiting a
37:10
while. All I can say is it better not disappoint because the last movie that I
37:14
like freaked out and saw right away was The Hobbit Part One. Have you heard about the Darth Jar Jar
37:18
Binks? I have. I love it. It's actually pretty good.
37:22
I actually love it. If you haven't seen the conspiracy theory that
37:25
it's pretty solid that Jar Jar is actually the Sith master
37:30
orchestrating everything behind the scenes, uh, check it out. It was a great
37:34
post on Reddit. It's really good. It's really good. There's like it's it
37:37
goes all kind of like, well, hold on. Yeah. Yeah.
37:41
What if Jar Jar was all like like drunken kung fu master kind of thing
37:45
like when he's like jumping around going a missile clumsy boom knocking out drone
37:50
droids and killing them all over the place.
37:53
What if it's all an act? And then he's like inexplicably in the second movie,
37:58
he's like a member of the Senate. Yeah. Or something like what?
38:02
Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. It actually like he must have been using mind control.
38:06
I still don't That's a huge part of it. That's a huge part of it. Yeah. And they have clips where he's
38:10
like doing the handwavy thing all the time. Super interesting.
38:14
I don't know. It's It's ridiculous and it's Yeah. But it's fun and it makes you not
38:20
hate so much those series of movies. If you go back and I I haven't done it
38:25
yet, but if you rewatch with that in mind, I plan to re I'm going to reread the
38:29
whole spiel because it's like a couple pages long. Yeah. I'm going to reread the whole spiel. I'm
38:32
going to watch Phantom Menace again thinking Jar Jar is a mastermind
38:37
and trying to mind control and pretend that he's crappy when he's not.
38:40
Yeah. And he got he got kicked out of the underground city. We know this. He caused all kinds of problems. Stupid
38:45
viewer. We assumed that, you know, he
38:49
knocked over the, you know, prince's daffodil plant or whatever, but, you
38:53
know, daffodils would be pretty valuable underwater. Oh,
38:56
yeah. Wow. It' probably be a rare rare commodity. Yeah. Probably imported imported
39:01
daffodils. So, so you know, was George Lucas
39:05
planning, and this is the this is the theory. Was George Lucas planning a a
39:08
Luke I am your father moment for the end of Attack of the Clones?
39:13
No, it was me the whole time. that never happened because he bailed. Um, and
39:17
obviously not, but yeah, it's fun. Anyways,
39:21
it's it's really fun. Yeah. Speaking of things that are fun,
39:25
oh, Scott, our good buddy over at
39:30
AMD and not Tech Report.
39:34
Didn't see that one coming. Did not see that one coming. Is no
39:37
longer is no longer going. I wonder if we'll get cards on time now.
39:41
Maybe this is a good thing. No, he's not in that role.
39:45
Oh, yeah. Sorry. Um, so, so I I actually
39:49
I've spoken on the phone with Scott since the announcement and I don't know
39:54
how much of what was said was public knowledge versus what wasn't.
39:58
So, I will give a summary of what's in in his blog post and and not much more,
40:04
but I'm gonna I'm going to be connecting with him uh at CES and I'll probably
40:08
talk in some more depth. But, um, just for those of you who don't know, I
40:11
respect Scott a lot. He's super smart. He's been doing this whole tech
40:16
journalism thing. He's he's just such a respectable guy. He's been doing this
40:19
for over 15 years. And um you know what
40:23
we actually like we have uh we have a partnership with Tech Report on a couple
40:27
things like we've worked together on a couple things in the past. Y
40:30
um and this just he kind of like I I
40:35
sent him a tweet that was like, you know, we we can't bleep things on Wan
40:38
show, so I'm not going to use the exact words that I did, but it was just
40:42
basically like what the and you can kind of fill in the blanks for yourself. And
40:46
yeah, like seriously. Um and he kind of
40:50
sends back the message. He's like, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, dude. I
40:54
super meant to tell you, but this just like happened really fast." And you
40:59
know, AMD hosted an event um some months ago.
41:03
No, no, some some months ago the phone call happened. But then what happened
41:08
really suddenly was the deal got inked and AMD had an event that they did
41:12
earlier this week where they announced actually a bunch of really cool stuff. We'll talk about that a bit more later,
41:16
some Zen architecture stuff. Um and they were like, well, you're going
41:21
to be at this event with an AMD badge on, so that's tomorrow. So, I guess up
41:26
goes a blog post at 10:43 p.m. on December the 2nd.
41:31
Oh my goodness. Okay, that's pretty aggressive. So, that's what happened. And um so,
41:36
pretty much he's going to be working at AMD to help implement the frame
41:41
timebased testing methods for game performance that he's been championing
41:46
at tech report. And um he'll have an
41:49
opportunity to and I'm kind of summarizing his words in the thing because I don't want to say anything that he didn't say in his post to move
41:53
across organizational lines and help ensure that the Radon Technologies Group
41:57
creates the best possible experience for gamers. So he'll have access to
42:00
engineering to marketing to pretty much
42:03
whatever with the intention of making
42:06
the gaming experience in the Radon Technologies group, which I kind of
42:11
looked at that announcement of Radeon Technologies Group and kind of went, "Oh, okay." Okay, so they're kind of
42:15
going, "Okay, uh, we're going back to AMD and ATI now." And I kind of figured
42:19
it would just kind of all be under the same management. It wouldn't really be different. Apparently, no, they're, you
42:25
know, refocused, renewed vision and focus with under Raja Kadori's
42:30
leadership and this is going to be a real thing. And they've managed they've
42:34
managed to get Scott to drink the Kool-Aid. So, I am inclined to take a
42:38
sip of the Kool-Aid myself. Radio technology. So, is it RTG now
42:41
instead of ATI? I don't know.
42:44
The new RTG 3 or 490. They should have just called it ATI. It
42:49
would have been super cool. That would have been so sick. I actually would have loved that.
42:53
Like like if it like if they called it like the like oh like AMD, you know, uh
43:00
how do we work like a visual or graphics or like
43:06
ATIX1000? Yeah. Or like something something like
43:10
that. Anyway, so yeah, that was that was that kind of
43:14
that kind of that kind of shook me up earlier this week because between
43:18
between Scott and Anan Baling and uh
43:22
that's that's a couple that's a couple like pretty big that's a couple pretty
43:25
big names and one of the only really couple of the the hardcore written guys
43:30
that I'm that close to who's no longer in the space. Speaking of which, I
43:34
haven't talked to Shrout in a long time. I was just going to say Ryan. Um I asked Scott what's going to happen
43:39
to Tech Report. Obviously, he'll be stepping down as editor-inchief, but I I
43:43
don't know if you guys know this, Scott also owns the Tech Report. So, um it
43:50
doesn't take a genius to figure out that he can't work for AMD and also run an
43:55
editorial website and own an editorial website at the same time. So, uh
43:59
something's going to have to happen there. Um I I asked him about it. I
44:02
can't say anything that he said, but like
44:06
yeah, something will have to happen. Yeah. I mean, basically there's only a
44:09
few options. He sells it, he dissolves
44:12
it, he uh shuts it down.
44:16
Wait, I guess the two of those are the same. From the knowledge that we have from the post, I don't think he's going to shut
44:20
it down or dissolve it because it says tech report will continue under Jeff
44:24
Kapman Campman, managing editor for the last year and a half. So, and they're
44:29
looking for writers to fill his role on CPU and graphics cards.
44:32
Yeah. So, there you go. What a thing.
44:36
Hopefully, this will help them avoid things like the driver problem. AMD
44:41
drivers locking fan speeds at 20% and killing some CPUs. It's been patched.
44:45
GPUs. GPUs. Sorry. It's been patched. Um I
44:49
don't usually like talking about these rumory kind of things until they're like
44:52
done so we know if they're actually a thing or not. Yeah. or or like confirmed that it's an
44:57
actual issue because I mean two people on a forum can like
45:03
have their GTX 980 die after a
45:07
and I'm not really going to want to test it. I really want mine to die.
45:10
Yeah. So like I don't know. We're just going
45:14
to wait till it's official and then we'll talk about it. So yeah, we I had some people messaging us messaging me
45:19
asking about why we haven't been talking about the driver thing. It's because like
45:22
anyway, it was a thing. It is fixed now. So, it is safe to update your drivers.
45:26
But basically, the fan speed was locking way too low. The
45:29
GP 20% or some people apparently having it go up to 100%. So, things were weird.
45:36
I don't know. Yeah. So, it's it's fixed now. New So, we all know who to yell at. Next
45:42
time this happens, you now have a public figure. Yeah. Go for it.
45:45
I don't know how how forward facing he's gonna be.
45:49
Yeah, but I'm sure his Twitter and stuff is still gonna survive. I don't know. Maybe not. I mean,
45:54
is he going to delete his Twitter? Okay, so here's a couple things. Like,
45:58
you look at uh you look at Roy Taylor. Yeah.
46:01
From AMD, whose Twitter disappeared off the face of the earth overnight and
46:05
seems to be back. I think he's back on Twitter, but under
46:09
a different handle. Oh, yeah. It's Roy
46:13
Techwood. Whoa. And I I had sort of I had sort of like I
46:22
my initial reaction when I saw this a fair amount of tweets.
46:25
Yeah. No, no, this is this is new, but he's only got like 4,000 followers. He
46:28
had like like over 100,000 followers before. Yeah.
46:32
So site is still AMD.com. Like I I I
46:36
I don't really understand I don't really understand what happened here.
46:40
Um I don't know. Anyway, so it seems like
46:43
someone at AMD learned their lesson about just letting employees talk on
46:48
Twitter. Um or or maybe didn't because he's back. Like I don't I don't I don't
46:52
know I don't know the backstory of what happened there. And you know there's
46:57
just because someone is good at being public facing doesn't mean that they'll be public facing. I mean you look at
47:02
I don't think you can ban someone from having a Twitter account though. If you
47:07
you can tell them not to post uh
47:10
like Okay. Have you heard have you heard anything from Anan since he left anch?
47:14
No, but that's I don't think he's at Apple though. I don't think Yeah, but I don't think
47:19
Apple is even able to tell you to not have a personal Twitter account. Of
47:23
course, they could fire you for they could fire you for saying things about
47:27
Apple. Okay, that's that's possible. They I don't think they can fire you for
47:31
just using Twitter. Um but at the same
47:35
time, like what I'm saying here is Scott might not reply to people, but if you're
47:39
like, "Oh my god, what the hell?" You could message him and then he could maybe forward that internally. You might
47:43
never hear about it, but he still would probably be able to be contacted.
47:47
Maybe. Maybe. It's possible. Unless he deletes his Twitter, which
47:50
unless he deletes his Twitter. Very also possible. Um, speaking of deleting Twitter,
47:56
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this year. Oh, apparently the video feed is frozen.
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Oh. Oh, great. Wow, that's a great freeze frame.
48:22
We should just do the still image. Wow. It's fine. Don't worry. But don't don't
48:26
even bother fix it. Just It's cool.
48:29
I wonder if they can see that. Oh, yeah.
48:33
Add. See, this is the kind of this is the kind of crap that we go through. Oh
48:37
wow. If you just add a whole bunch of them, if you were able to change the
48:42
still frame, you could rap rapidly add them and then we could have like a
48:46
moving picture like one maybe less than one FPS. Okay. So, let's find out if this is
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going to blue screen. You're a blue screen. I'm about to be potentially.
48:56
Uh, okay. Did you ever play Magicka?
49:02
We'll be right back after these messages. No, wait. It was the messages
49:06
that got interrupted. We'll be right back after we I don't
49:09
know. We're doing something. Hold on. We might have an idea.
49:12
I'm going to keep talking to you guys. How's your day going? Before the show
49:15
started, I did two quizzes. Um, one of them was, "What is your favorite type of
49:19
apple?" And the other one was waffles or pancakes. Uh, I'm going to actually make
49:24
a straw poll right now and I'm going to post that in the Twitch feed. I want you
49:28
guys to answer both questions. Both questions are going to be on one straw
49:32
poll. I know this is pretty like next level, but we're going to do this right
49:35
now. So, give me one second. Straw pole.me, right?
49:39
That's interesting. Yeah. Whoa. Nope. Not straw.me.
49:43
Okay. Um
49:47
Wait, what it is? Let's try the old I'm confused. Plug it back in.
49:52
Apples and breakfast foods.
49:57
Uh, wow. How do I ask what people's favorite type of apple is on Straw Pole?
50:02
Would I have to list all of them? I think so. I think you have to do a Twitter blitz
50:06
if you wanted to. Uh, okay. We can do both at the same time.
50:10
So, I'm going to straw poll uh waffles or pancakes. And I'm going to Twitter
50:13
blitz favorite apple. Okay. Twitter blitz favorite apple. I I
50:18
don't think we're going to get this back up and running. This is uh this is this
50:22
is a thing that happened that is that is not making me super happy right now.
50:27
Video input. No signal. Wait,
50:30
I did the camera turn off.
50:34
No one plugged in the power adapter for the camera. Holy hell.
50:39
I mean, uh, Diablo, uh, what, uh,
50:42
really, you guys? Today, camera setup was a problem.
50:49
Camera setup was a huge problem. Like all over the place. Just saying. That
50:54
was brutal.
50:57
in the middle of my show. Yes. I'm in the middle of your show.
51:02
I don't know what that means. Is that work now? You're going to work now.
51:08
And we're back. I hope. Are we back?
51:13
Hello. Hello. Oh. Oh, wow. That's derpy
51:17
looking. Yeah. Without even losing it. Okay. So, let's
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finish your uh let's finish your Twitter blitz here. All right. And then we'll
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get back to our sponsors. There we go. All right. Waffles and
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Golden Delicious because they are waffle. Excuse me. Delicious.
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Granny Smith. Granny Smith is like the most boring name for the most like sour intense
51:39
apple that there is. I love Granny Smith apples. Granny Smith was covered in caramel.
51:43
Those were And those were also the best candy apples that I've ever had.
51:47
Yeah. Yeah. My wife made candy apples this Halloween.
51:50
It was like like by a lot too. To die for. Yeah. to that and you'd
51:54
think there's nothing to it. Like what?
51:58
It's caramel, which is basically sugar.
52:01
Yeah. And you dip a freaking apple in it. How complic. But the thing is, she did caramel and
52:05
then she did chocolate and then she did Smarties.
52:09
Just decorative candies or something. Lots of different candies. Like it was it was a lot. Your mouth was
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just like whoa, dude. Like the whole time. Favorite Apple iPad Pro with full NDME
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SSD and running Windows or Granny's. That's actually pretty legit.
52:22
Gotcha. that I would actually I would be into that. I'd be super down with that.
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Is for Apple. Thank you, Kids TV123. Granny Smith all the way. Granny Smith
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and Waffles. Probably Fuji Galler Brabburn. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm I'm into
52:34
the Fuji apples. I'm into the Fuji apples. All right. So,
52:37
let's get back to
52:42
Squarespace. It only works on my side.
52:46
Squarespace. There's four linuses to only one Luke.
52:49
No, my chest is here. Look at this. Oh, yeah. That's true. We get all the
52:53
Luke boobage. Um, okay. So, I'm going to
52:56
fix that. I don't really know what I was thinking when I did that. I was a little confused. I thought you
53:00
were just trying to make a joke. I was I was just around. Yeah.
53:03
Um, okay. So, Squarespace is actually going to be our sponsor at CES this
53:07
year. Oh my god. How many times I didn't How many times we get to say build a
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beautiful Are they on every video? Yeah.
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Yes. I can I can feel the dankness of the
53:21
memes already on PC master race.
53:24
Last year was mine is dropping things. This year it's going to be build it
53:28
beautiful. I'm going to be way too happy to say that every time.
53:32
Okay. So, what is Squarespace if you don't already know from watching the W
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show faithfully every week like you probably do. Yeah.
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Yeah. Maybe not. Um is that it is for building a beautiful website. It's
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54:21
Tunnel bear. I actually saw a really
54:24
funny parody. It was like me doing a presidential speech. Someone grabbed
54:30
like a like a a still frame of our background.
54:33
You found those funny? And then like animated. I found I found
54:36
the one funny because uh I the the part
54:39
about my my plan for Canada. Oh, like all the sponsorships that like
54:43
everyone will have wipes and everything. So Canada will be Canada
54:46
will be corporate sponsored instead of charging it citizens taxes.
54:50
Yeah. Which you know what is actually really
54:54
if we took all the money that gets paid to the government in like lobbying and
54:59
actually just spent it on something useful.
55:02
That'd be pretty sick. Hold on a minute. We might be on to
55:05
something here anyway. The problem is then the people that are
55:08
receiving the lobbying money wouldn't get paid so that would never happen,
55:12
right? Because it's all about them being super rich. I know. I know. But like
55:17
you're basically like if people weren't dick holes about making excessive
55:20
amounts of money, imagine how good the world would be. Yes. Okay. So, tunnel bear. Speaking of
55:25
speaking of not being that word he said that some people consider a swear horde,
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although personally Yeah. I don't Yeah. Some some people censor dick.
55:34
Swear words are so confusing. I actually never know what like what and there's
55:38
lists out there but then there's like competing lists and some of them are
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drastically different. I know. I know. I know. Anyway, Tunnel
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All right. So, um, now that Nick has Oh,
56:55
he has informed me that he is not that likely to suffer from heart disease. So,
57:00
if he's to get some kind of disease from us messing up our sponsor integrations
57:05
all the time, it will probably be cancer. Oh, yeah.
57:09
Okay. So, uh I I've been corrected. So,
57:13
I don't know. I don't know what's worse. I Well, they're both terrible.
57:17
Yeah. Yeah. They're both like absolutely Are they both just like at the full
57:21
volume level? Like it's just they're both you can't really get any more than
57:24
that. I don't know because there's like Oh, speaking of heart disease, I found out
57:28
Rocket has a heart murmur. What? Yeah. So, he might have to be on like
57:31
blood thinners for the rest of his life. That's interesting. Whoa. Yeah. So, like pet insurance, kids,
57:37
that's a thing. No, I don't have it. Oh, so that's going to be expensive.
57:42
Cuz I'm pretty sure you can't buy pet insurance for in case he develops a
57:45
heart murmur when he already has one. That said, my vets's a family friend.
57:49
Maybe they could discover it has not developed yet.
57:58
I recommend using an honest vet.
58:03
It's probably a good idea. Yeah. Um, so this was posted on the forum by
58:07
evil Emir Tiger Direct to Oops, wrong
58:11
scene. Tiger Direct to lay off 241
58:14
workers in January. They were recently
58:17
sold to PC Mall for $14 million. You know
58:21
what's crazy about this is like my memories of Tiger Direct are
58:26
like back in the days at NCIX, you know,
58:30
eight to eight to three years ago when
58:33
they were like a legit competitor in the PC space and it was like the big three
58:39
was your Newegg, your Tiger and like I'm
58:43
just trying to think who else was like a big I don't even think Amazon was
58:46
I was going to say I don't not not quite yet but they definitely are now
58:49
but like Tiger Tiger came. No, it would have been uh Zip Zoom.
58:53
Zip Zoom Fly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They've gone gone forever. So, so it was like back when
58:58
like, you know, Yeah. Tiger Direct and
59:01
uh and and and and uh Comp USA, who who
59:05
was actually acquired by Tiger Direct. Like, that's what a big deal they were. They were just like running around
59:08
buying up Comp USA stores. So, they've
59:12
closed a bunch of stores a while ago and they they have gotten rid of um they
59:16
have they've sold to uh PC Mall, which I have actually discovered only recently
59:21
that the reason that they probably liquidated all those assets is actually
59:25
to do with um taxation purposes because
59:29
if you if you sell a company and you
59:33
more than less than 10% or something to
59:36
do with being like active active assets
59:39
or something like that. Like if it's like just sitting there, if you have
59:43
like a bunch of money sitting there or a bunch of buildings sitting there, then you get taxed a lot more on that or
59:47
something. That's okay. That's Yeah.
59:51
Things I would never know. Yeah.
59:54
Uh All right. Why don't we blow through some of these sort of boring things?
59:58
Tweak Town article. NVIDIA rumored to be preparing a GeForce GTX 960Ti. It'll be
60:03
faster than a 960 but slower than a 970.
60:08
and you can take that to the bank. Uh Sam Streker posted that on the forum. Uh
60:12
the Radeon Fury X2 Gemini could be paper
60:16
launching later this month according to WCCF tech. Availability in Q1 2016.
60:20
Could face potential delays. I think that says everything we need to know.
60:24
Right in the headline, what will Gemini be? It will be two Fury GPUs on a single
60:29
card. NVIDIA seems to have kind of just bailed on the whole dual GPU thing.
60:34
Good. Oh god.
60:39
So done with it. Don't want it.
60:43
Oh, there's a new gate. There's a new gate.
60:46
There's a new gate. It's bend gate again. Oh,
60:50
but this time, check this out. It's CPU bend gate.
60:55
So, Intel I've heard about this. Ah, Intel's looking into reports, but says
60:59
there could be several variables at play.
61:03
But apparently using the rated mounting pressure aftermarket CPU coolers, which
61:09
by the way, if you bought a Skylake K series processor is all you're going to
61:12
be using since there is no stock cooler that comes in the box. Well, you could
61:16
buy a box cooler from someone else who
61:19
isn't using it. And speaking of which, we need to get some box coolers. We have
61:24
like two 1151 box coolers left in the
61:27
entire building. I don't know what happened to that. What happened to the one I painted black? Remember the pyramid?
61:31
Yeah, we had like we had a literal pyramid of them. What happened to I made a pyramid cuz I was like I have
61:35
too many of these in my office. So, I built a pyramid on someone else's desk as a joke and then like didn't want them
61:39
back. Yeah, they're like all gone. And now there's one that I can't figure out what
61:43
it's for cuz it's not 775. It's not 13. It's like smaller than 1155 but bigger
61:49
than 775. I don't know what the crap it is. It's an Intel box cooler. So, like
61:54
I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, um so yeah. Uh
61:59
where's the black one? I don't know. I liked that one. Actually used it quite
62:03
a few times. And we even because it looked really nice in B-roll. Yeah, exactly. Well, you know what?
62:07
There's probably one in this box. But isn't that
62:11
Yep. That's the black one. Oh,
62:14
okay. Well, there it is. We found that one. It's in the street machine. Um maybe that's what's causing
62:19
all the problems. Take it out. Take out the painted the painted CPU
62:23
cooler. It's getting paint flakes on everything. Um, so right. So, Haswell
62:29
CPUs apparently had a thicker substrate that caused them to not bend. And that's
62:34
that's the allegation, but Intel has obviously neither confirmed nor denied
62:38
that this is the case up until this point.
62:41
Yeah. Um, Scythe has offered a solution
62:45
offering new screws for their coolers to reduce the mounting pressure. I didn't
62:49
even know Scythe was still in business. Neither did I. Okay. Do you remember their crazy one that
62:54
like went across your entire computer? Yes, I do. I forget what it was called
62:58
though. Like a Mugan.
63:01
Sure. Uh Scythe giant CPU.
63:06
This will probably work. I know that Cooler Master had a redonk
63:09
one that um that's not the one. Oh yeah, there it is.
63:12
Yeah, there you go. So, this picture is from Silent PC review. Uh, just making sure
63:17
I'm giving credit where credit is due. So, yep. It's probably not all that silent.
63:22
No, it probably is. Oh, you just turn them all super slow. Yeah, if you run the fans at like 400
63:26
RPM or something stupid like that, then here it is installed in the case.
63:32
I love that thing. It's like, yeah, if you want to just, you know, heat up
63:35
your graphics card more, no, look, it's going to blow air on top of
63:39
it. Okay. Yeah, but like the surface area of
63:43
this thing is so huge that the actual heating up of the air that's being done.
63:48
This is actually something that I that I've been meaning we should find a way to tackle this in a video because a lot
63:53
of people have this misconception that
63:56
like when when you got to okay when your
63:59
CPU is 70° your heat sink is going to be less than
64:05
that. Let's say your heat sink is 40 degrees or something like that. And
64:09
people have this misconception that when 25 degree air runs through those fins,
64:13
it's 40 degrees on the other side and and you're and you're now you're heating
64:18
up the components on the other side. This is not how it works
64:22
at all. A little bit. A little. Not much.
64:26
Slightly warmer air flow that came through a heat sink is still better than
64:31
than no air. Nothing. Yeah. And so I've seen people go, "Oh,
64:35
but goodness, Lionus, you you mounted that CP that all-in-one liquid cooler
64:39
backwards drawing air into the system. You're now you're just you're heating
64:43
your graphics card." No, the air that comes through that
64:47
cooler is still cooler than my graphics card.
64:51
I was mostly joking. No, I know, but No, but people aren't.
64:55
No, I know you know. No, but but people don't know this. People are like, "Oh,
64:59
you've got two radiators in series." Well, we were going to do that other the
65:02
the I don't know. I want I don't want to say too much the cable. No. Yeah. No. Uh that's that's
65:06
different. I think we should tackle this separate. No, I know. But it's it's a it's another
65:10
one of those like people think it's the worst thing in the world. Yeah, that's true. It's not really that big. It's not
65:13
really that big of a deal. Um John had another interesting idea which I don't know if there's enough
65:17
interest in. Um but with the thing that I was recently checking out, that's all
65:21
I'm going to say. Um I actually don't know what he's talking
65:24
about either. So you guys are on the same page as me. Motherboard orientation cooling
65:28
efficiency. That's a like those Silverstone ones where it's like up and the IO goes out like how
65:34
well does it cool different things compared to it being rotated? Used to be a bigger deal back in the
65:38
earlier days of heat pipes um they were only really effective in a certain
65:42
direction. So inverted motherboards would have
65:46
issues where if you mounted the heat the if you mounted the cooler wrong the um
65:51
the the the liquid wouldn't condense properly down to the hottest down to the
65:55
CPU part of the heat sink and then it wouldn't actually cycle properly. But
65:58
it's it's not really a concern anymore. Um I wanted to jump back to the things
66:02
don't you know a cooling medium doesn't get instantly hot after it touches
66:07
something in the loop that's warm. Uh people who freak out if you've got your
66:11
CPU and then your GPU in series in a water cooling loop. The difference
66:16
between the temperature of the water at the hottest point in a loop and the
66:19
coldest point in the loop is un except in very extreme situations with very low
66:24
air flow or excuse me very low water flow probably in the neighborhood of
66:28
about 0.1 to 0.2 degrees. Seriously,
66:32
it's a thing. Unless you're running like quarter inch tubing on a pump that you
66:37
like found in your, you know, grandma where you got all your stuff for
66:41
scrapard. Yeah. Unless you found it in a back alley somewhere. Um, so so no, the
66:47
system reaches pretty much equilibrium. This is a fluid. This is flowing
66:51
extremely quickly. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of the channels are
66:54
like really narrow. Yeah. It goes really far.
66:57
And water does water does more than just
67:01
uh cool by convection when it's running around in a loop like that. Like water
67:04
can conduct heat within itself as well.
67:08
Like it it's it spreads really quickly. It's It's kind of amazing. Um, all
67:12
right. So, what else we got? AC mechanical engineer can confirm in
67:16
chat. Boom. Thank you. Thank you.
67:22
You know, it's really funny because the fact that he's backing me up on this
67:26
means that I'm going, "Thank you." But 98% of the time when someone's like,
67:30
"I'm actually a mechanical engineer." and the blah. It's it's probably it's
67:34
probably nonsense on the internet because everyone like as soon as we
67:38
start doing whole room water cooling, our entire audience is plumbers.
67:41
So many so many plumbers apparently watch us.
67:44
And my favorite part was okay, there was definitely some information in there
67:48
that was like, "Okay, we probably should have done that." There's some great information. There was also a ton of people claiming
67:53
to be experts that had no idea what they were saying.
67:57
And yes, we know we screwed up whole group. Oh yeah,
68:00
it was a disaster. Oh yeah, but not for the reasons that most people
68:04
think it was a disaster. Like there was a lot of stuff that we did that was fine
68:09
and a lot of stuff we did that was super not okay. Um, speaking of super not okay
68:14
or maybe fine. Gez, I don't know. I am Dark Yoshi posted this on the forum. The
68:18
original post here is from f.org. Your printer
68:23
could be spying on you. Well, which it sounds more ominous than it probably is
68:27
because the way that they're using this technology, at least we think, I mean, at least we
68:32
would have no reason to think they would be using it in any other way, is to
68:35
track um counterfeiting. So, now that
68:39
affordable, high quality printers are so
68:42
affordable and high quality. I want to jump in here real quick. Ant
68:45
Venom, he's in the chat right now. Remember how he did the basement water cooling thing? Still running perfectly
68:50
cuz he did it right by not using a a steel reservoir. I thought stainless
68:54
would be fine. I was wrong twice.
68:57
I thought anti-corrosive agents would make it okay. I was wrong twice.
69:03
Um, okay. So, so basically uh right here
69:07
you've got a list of the printers that do or do not display tracking dots. But
69:11
the the summary of this is basically
69:14
um and this goes back like way to when like Xerox invented the laser printer.
69:20
What they do is they actually use scattered pale yellow dots all over the
69:26
document that they printed to give the serial number of the machine as well as
69:30
I think there's some other information as well. The number Yeah. So Zerox rep
69:35
says they put the number of each machine coded into the yellow dots. The dots
69:38
cover less than a thousandth of a page and they can't be seen by the naked eye
69:43
because it's usually yellow on white. So, what you have to do is you have to
69:47
print a page and use a blue LED flashlight and a magnifier to see if
69:51
they're there. And there's pretty much I mean, where there's a will, there's a
69:54
way, but there's pretty much no way to block this from happening because the
69:58
yellow dots are actually something like
70:01
20,000th of a second blah blah blah before before the actual printing
70:06
happens. They're like injected. So, what if you don't feel yellow?
70:13
I don't know. Great question.
70:16
Huh? I don't know. Or like fill it with something else.
70:22
Yeah, I don't know.
70:25
So, uh there you go. Anyway, so
70:32
something something interesting. How does that actually help them, I guess,
70:36
for counterfeiting stuff? Yes. So, if you get a bunch of
70:39
counterfeit bills and you're kind of wondering, okay, where'd the come from? Where did these come from? You can
70:43
inspect it. Try to see if the yellow dots are there. Figure out what printer it was from. But like having the serial
70:46
number of the printer, is that really going to help you? Yeah, that'll tell you what distributor it went through. It'll tell you what
70:50
retailer it was sold through. Okay. So, you could narrow it down to an area, I guess.
70:54
Yep. So, now you can So, you know, it can tell you when it was sold, so you
70:58
can see a purchase pattern. If it was Amazon, you could probably have the person's address.
71:01
Yep. Yep. So, there No, no, it's like a big deal. Or even even a lot of other
71:06
stores. Like, there's lots of stores that collect customer profiles. I mean, I would hope that a counterfeitter would
71:09
be smart enough not to fill out the customer satisfaction survey or whatever. that they weren't.
71:13
Yeah. Okay. I would hope that they weren't, but I would, you know,
71:16
I I know what you were saying. Yeah. I was going to say to restore my
71:20
faith in humanity, except the fact that the counterfeits are running out there making fake money doesn't restore any of
71:24
my faith in humanity. So, not really my point. You don't want it to happen, but you would hope that someone wouldn't be that
71:28
stupid. Someone made a case for you. So, this was supposed to buy Numlock 21.
71:32
What? You were talking about this just the other week. Oh, yeah. But they didn't know about
71:36
that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, someone actually made a DIY Mac Pro
71:39
case. I was talking to Lionus about maybe doing a video where I went and
71:43
tried to buy like a a bin or garbage can or whatever that looked kind of like it
71:47
and trying to make like a the curved top thing and all this kind of stuff to make
71:50
it look like a Mac Pro and building a computer into it and then literally what
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the next WAN Show. Yeah. It's like, hey, they made a case.
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Now, to be clear, you can't put dual Fire Pro cards in it or anything like
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that. It holds an SFX power supply and ITX motherboard and I think like one 120
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mil fan or something like that. But uh yeah, Deb, hey, there you go.
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Cool. I think we should try and get one for review if we can. That'd be fun.
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I'd love to just like check it out here. Maybe I'll make that your problem.
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Oh, great. Get for review
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because it's like only available in like Japan or something. So, if we send a
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message and they ignore it, then we won't uh we won't we won't go to we
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won't go. So, don't expect it. Yeah, don't don't expect it. But I am
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trying to get that flip phone. Actually, Dbrand is trying to get that flip phone
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for me cuz they have all the contacts to like get all the phones.
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So, um, even though it's not a device, are they going to Are they going to put
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like a more expensive skin than the actual phone on it? No, they they actually they aren't
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planning to support it. They're just like being bros. Makes sense. Yep. They're they're they're kind of
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bros, so we're into their their broness. Um, let's see. Oh, yeah. Just Cause 3
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suffers from terrible frame rates on the consoles. This is posted over at the
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gamesc cabin.com and basically yeah the headline here is
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bloody awful which I guess pretty much says all you really need to know about
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it. It was a matter of Oh dang it.
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Did we just take them down? I don't think so because I Yeah, there you go. Um, so yeah, basically they're
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saying, yeah, you know, it's like especially bad when there's an
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explosion. Yes.
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Yep. Lots of effects on screen. That is how frame rate dips work. Oh crap, I
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just moved the thing around before I charged it. Anyways, okay. Um, but the
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the worst part they're actually saying, too, is that load screens?
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Yeah. Anywhere from 30 seconds to what was the what was?
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Yeah. Two and a half minutes. Two and a half minutes. Yeah, on the PlayStation 4.
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That's like Morwind Xbox One level. Yeah, that is a bummer.
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Apparently though, the game's lots of fun. So, yeah, I've heard really good things. We
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probably should have done a performance review. Probably. I didn't even know it came out.
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Yeah, I I've been so head down working on stuff. I didn't Yeah.
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Someone was like, "Yeah, it's tons of fun. Are you guys making video?" I was like, "Oh crap, if it's already out,
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it's probably a little late now." Yeah. Oops.
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bad. All right. What else we got here?
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Is uh about like 10 minutes left. No, I was going to kind of wrap it up
74:29
actually. All right. Um Yeah. No, that's kind of boring
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actually. Yeah, I don't really care. Uh there was No, there was something else I wanted to do. Where is it?
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I'm doing an afterparty. Are you? Yeah. All right.
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Can I come? Sure. I mean,
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oh, oh, nope. Can't talk about that.
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Uh, Konami Konami banned Hideio Khajima from
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accepting the Metal Gear Award. Yeah, this was like not cool.
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It's like they It's like they desperately want to be the least popular
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company on the entire internet. Just what?
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Like, or you could not. That would be super awesome. Um,
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not allowed to attend tonight's Game Awards. Yep. So, I don't really have anything to
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say about that other than that it's Konami being Konami. And oh, this is
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interesting. More Just Cause 3 news. This is off the off GeForce.com.
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Just Cause 3 apparently straight up not
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compatible with multi-GPU solutions.
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In other words, a game update would be required for multi-GPU support. This is
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straight from Andrew Burns from NVIDIA. Um, which is sort of a sort of a bummer.
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So, it's like they couldn't get it right on the consoles. Remember that card that like I I laughed
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when he was like, "Yeah, NVIDIA stopped doing this a while ago when they put two
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GPUs on the same card and charged you twice as much for it.
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There's reasons." Yeah, but you're running SLI now for VR.
76:04
Yeah. Okay. I really hope no VR dev is
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stupid enough to not properly support They're going to be able to
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I think VRS SLI is like rendering the the different eye views
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per card. Yes. But but wouldn't that interface with the
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headset more than the game? I don't know because I really would have
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thought I'm not sure. I don't know how they I would have thought if it was that
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simple, we would have seen perfect scaling with 3D vision with SLI. Like
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I'd have thought if it was as simple as like, yeah, I'll just render each eye with one GPU and boom, perfect scaling.
76:35
I don't think it's simple, but I'm assuming that it has more to do with the
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interface between the graphics cards and the headset than
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Oh, I believe it's not simple. I just think NVIDIA is pretty smart and they've
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been kind of they they were beating that 3D vision drum pretty hard for a long
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time. Yeah. And if it was like if it was as simple
76:53
as GPU one renders the right eye, GPU 2 renders the left eye.
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I'd have thought they would have just figured that out back then. But I I
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don't know. I don't know. I am not a driver. my my VR or my SLI is off.
77:06
I just don't run it because there's so many problems and I just don't mo
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basically every single game that I play even like even pretty intense games
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don't need more than one 1980. Yeah, I haven't run it since uh GTX 260.
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Yeah, that was the last time I was in a daily driver and like we stopped benchmarking
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SLI probably what two and a half years ago just because it was like you know what
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there's tons of problems. It's hard enough to get a video review
77:34
video card review out without forcing ourselves to suffer.
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Yeah. And like just like have games not work and not run properly and stuff. So I
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mean it's one of those things. Nothing against NVIDIA, nothing against AMD.
77:48
I just I run a single graphics card because frankly there's single GPU
77:52
solutions that are so powerful now. Someone's like, "Yo, can I have your unused 980?" Then it's not gonna be
77:57
unused. VRS SLI from NVIDIA. It's like I'm
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stoked for that. I really hope it works well. A thing
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and I'm going to be playing the crap out of VR games if Valkyrie is like any
78:09
Okay, I almost don't even care that much about any games outside of what CCP is
78:13
making. I don't I haven't talked about this a ton on the show, but their disc
78:17
throwing Tron game is so much fun.
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Like you would love it. No joke. You You stand You stand It's Have you seen the
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Tron where they stand on the platforms and throw discs at each other and block with shields? It's exactly that.
78:31
And it's like pretty good tracking because they use connects for body
78:34
tracking and stuff, right? And like the disc can bounce behind you and you can hear them. So you have to like spin
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around and block it and then throw and like it's really active. Tons of fun.
78:42
and I played against Colton just wrecked him. It would be fun to have a more
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athletic opponent. Um, sorry, Colton. He
78:49
admittedly doesn't think he's very good at sports. I don't know. Sorry, buddy.
78:53
Um, but it it was like 29 to four or something. So, like I don't know what to
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say, but so much fun. And then Valkyrie is super fun and Gunjack is super fun.
79:03
And then like there there was some demo of another game there where you just
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like slowly walk up a mountain. Okay.
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And look at birds. And I'm like,
79:13
that's really cool. And I'm sure some people will super enjoy that. I
79:17
definitely there is a market for that for sure. It's just not me,
79:21
right? I don't care. All right. Well, I think that's pretty
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much it for the show for today. So, I'm the last thing I'll do is I will drop
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this link in here. If you haven't already, go watch this video. It is
79:34
finally out on YouTube. It was actually I thought it was supposed to be a week
79:38
earlier. We actually totally screwed up our production schedule.
79:42
Thought it was we screwed up our production schedule on
79:45
um on the super fun jousting video where
79:48
we thought that for Awesome Stuff Week
79:52
for YouTube, we thought we had to have it done a week earlier than we did. So
79:57
we thought Awesome Stuff Week was a week earlier than it was. So we released it
80:01
on Vessel timed to come out a week later on YouTube for Awesome Stuff Week, but
80:05
that was actually the following week. So, we had to do a simultaneous vessel
80:08
release of Odius lists and then delay
80:12
the uh Sweway Jousting video by another week. Um, oh yeah, I was going to talk
80:18
more about Zen and some of the stuff that they talked about. Right. So, AM4 motherboards rumored to launch as early
80:23
as March 2016 and they're going to be, you know, DDR4 like fully modernized and
80:28
it have both CPUs and APUs uh on the
80:31
platform. So, if you guys haven't checked it out already, I just linked it
80:35
in the chat, but this video is absolutely sick. I mean, this should
80:39
give you some idea of what uh what's in store for you.
80:46
Okay. Well, that one that one's kind of lame because it's me versus Terran, but
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uh Okay. Yeah, there we go. There's a good
80:54
moment. This is like way too much fun and way
80:59
too dangerous. I would not recommend anybody do this. I'd love to do it
81:03
again. Yeah, me too.
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So, uh, yeah, you guys are going to want to you guys are going to want to check
81:15
that out. I'll post the link one more time. If you're not subscribe to channel
81:18
Super Fun, holy crap. Get subscribed, you guys, and share it. We can't figure
81:23
out why more people aren't watching these bloody videos. I really don't understand.
81:26
I don't get it. All right. So, thanks
81:29
guys. We'll see you again next week. Same bat time. Same bat channel.
81:34
Bye. There's a channel that has like
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25,000 subscribers that did a medieval
81:40
weapons fighting on Spreadways video. I found it on YouTube somehow. Um, and
81:45
they don't even put full armor on. They were They have like the worst swords
81:48
ever. They did a stand room and like
81:52
And it has like 250 and our like super sick crazy probably
81:58
wearing full armor and slamming to each other.
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Oh,
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are we doing an after party? I was kind of just going to go home.
82:09
Okay, I'm going to go home and do my after party. Okay, good night, guys. Bye.