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[Assistant] Uh, you have to change, uh, files, uh, set, concurrent control set, control file system, long paths enabled. Uh, and that changes the limit according to Matthew0 to 4096 characters, which ought to be enough for anyone.


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[Assistant] No, it's tough because even making a conscious effort to talk to people and work in the trenches at this company as we've grown, it hasn't always been easy to fully understand the daily


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[Assistant] We had someone raise a concern, so I was frustrated on a shoot recently when a prop that was integral to the intro was not sourced. Uhm, well, eh, we had it at one point, but at some point we lost it.


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[Assistant] And then when we realized we lost it, we didn't source a new one. And I landed on set and I was like,


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[Assistant] Whoa, I can't arrive on set and like the intro doesn't work because the prop I need for the intro isn't here. We don't have one. This was so preventable. And the conversation that ultimately came out of, out of that was, hey, we don't have a process.


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[Assistant] For just anyone making a petty cash decision.


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[Assistant] And then begging for forgiveness later. There just isn't a means for it. And it was a funny thing for me to think about because even before I ran my own company or whatever, that was 100% something that I just did.


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[Assistant] If something was like 50 bucks and I knew that I could defend it to the CEO, I would just spend the $50 and worry about it later.


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[Assistant] I would be very frustrated. Both of me would be very frustrated, always. Anyway, the point is, what came out of that was that, hey, we don't have a formalized, one of CEO Taron's favorite words is explicit.


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[Assistant] We don't have a formalized process that gives people explicit permission to make a decision like that. Uhm, a lot of people just do it anyway. So,


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[Assistant] In good faith, if you are doing the best thing for the company, and you can defend it, like that's honestly the guiding star that I lived by, was could I argue this and win. And if I can argue it and win, then the conversation's over, and


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[Assistant] This is not advice. And realistically, the trust level goes up. It can. However, if you, if you just do what you think is right and it turns out that either you weren't right or your boss is an idiot and doesn't understand you were right, it could be very harmful to your career prospects.


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[Assistant] And that end, my mom loves to, loves to phrase things this way, especially around like traffic lessons for the kids. Uh, she goes, it doesn't matter if you're in a crosswalk.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter if the light is red. It doesn't matter if you see the little walkie man. You check. You make sure they are actually breaking because... Sure.


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[Assistant] You can, you can be right, but you'll be dead right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and I think it's, those are words to live by in everything. You know, walking across the street, career, relationship. It doesn't matter if you're right if you get killed in the process.


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[Assistant] XGFord says, Boss's idiot is the issue. That's fair enough. Uh, DataFrickin says, Got hit in a crosswalk. Yeah, 100%. Yep, yep. Arbiter K says, I was hit by a car when I was on a crosswalk. Had the right of way. 100%, man. I, uh, I, I...


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[Assistant] Didn't take a course until I learned to ride a motorcycle and what I found out was I just kind of naturally do a lot of defensive driving things, but one of them is that I do not start moving when a light turns green.


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[Assistant] No way. Scan. I am making sure, I am making damn good insure that the cars on both side are decelerating with enough space to not enter the intersection every single time. I've been honked at. Cause I've been like, I have not determined that it is safe to proceed yet and I'm just sitting there. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, CEO Terran, CEO Terran has, uh, had a really good, uh, trick that, uh, I've used since I saw him do it. Uh, whenever he goes around a blind corner, uhm, he'll flash his beams or honk.


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[Assistant] Like if it's a bad blind corner. And I saw him do this in a parkade. Was where, where it like, was where it first came up. To give you some idea, like how blind this corner needs to be. Don't honk your horn every time you turn your car, obviously. Uh, but like, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in, uh, there's a parking lot that I often pull into that has an uncontrolled T intersection where there is not a lot of traffic. And you may have even seen me do this, but if it's nighttime, I flash my beams.


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[Assistant] As I'm going toward that intersection to make sure that it's obvious someone is coming.


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[Assistant] You know, it's something I've noticed too. As I'm getting older, shoulder checking is more work.


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[Assistant] I don't think I really thought about that. I used to be, I used to be like skinnier, and just, you know, just generally wireier, like I didn't take up as much space, uh, like I've probably, since I, since I worked at NCIX, I've probably put on about 25 pounds, which


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[Assistant] Uh, for 5'6", is like a fair bit. I'm just like generally stiffer, like I'm just always like sore from working out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I just mean like, like I was just like, you know, just like moving around in a seat. Yeah. It was easier. It does get harder. Yeah. Uhm, and like, you know.


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[Assistant] You know, my neck's different than it used to be and stuff, so, so it's, it's something that I, I realized a little while ago, and I was like, okay, I need to make a very conscious effort, cause I, I was the kind of person who would like, make sure I've got nothing in front of me, and like,


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[Assistant] Look behind me. Like, not a peripheral vision shoulder checker. I was like, anything back there, let's go.


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[Assistant] Chipotle. I mean, we saw Dan leaking in the, uh, badminton center tour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, who has more power in this company than the editors? For real though.


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[Assistant] He was like, never piss off your IT admin.


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[Assistant] It's great. Or the whole roast video that had no laughter in it. It's amazing. To be clear, it didn't need a laugh track. People were losing it. Uhm, but we didn't have the, we didn't have the audience mic'd.


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[Assistant] I mean, we do make mistakes, absolutely, but if I'm gonna own mistakes, I'd like for them to at least be our mistakes. It's got six million views. Yeah, it did okay.


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[Assistant] It's really funny. I've gone back and watched it a couple times.


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[Assistant] Intel's planned German megafab has run into a potential snag in that the currently empty field where it's supposed to be built


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[Assistant] Was actually an ancient grave complex. The site contains multiple graves, including a chariot burial where sacrificed cattle were buried alongside a human being in formation that was meant to imitate a driver and cart pulled by the animals.


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[Assistant] Archaeologists will be working to preserve the discovery, though Intel is still expected to begin construction on schedule. Can you imagine being that archeologist? Like usually I would imagine you're kind of working, you know, within budget at a pace that is reasonable, and it's gonna be like Pat Gelson, you're breathing down your neck, can we build yet?


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[Assistant] It would be kind of sick if they did like a statue of the, the chariot set up. To be clear, to be clear, I still like Intel in the long term, but I made it very, very clear, not investment advice.


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[Assistant] Not investment advice. When I said that, that it was a long term play. Long term play. Like, geopolitical, at some point something might happen to TSMC and Intel's fab business might do really good long term play. Okay? That's all.


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[Assistant] What else we got? Google deletes incognito data.


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[Assistant] I think this should decrease their fine, I don't think it should eliminate the fine. Yeah. Like they did the bad thing, it's not like you can be like, oh yeah I killed that guy, but like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like you're cheating on your spouse, you're cheating on your spouse for ten years, and she catches you and you're like, okay, well, I will stop. I will not cheat anymore, in this specific way. And then she's like, great!


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[Assistant] Even from a, even from a user safety standpoint, I kind of feel like they would have to have it go through their infra.


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[Assistant] And they could potentially be liable for what someone sent to someone else on the platform, like they'd have to have some kind of record of that. Uhm, apparently it is direct.


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[Assistant] Oh, Discord streams usually go through stun turn servers. Okay, hold on, hold on, we're getting some- No, we're getting some-


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[Assistant] Uh, conflicting information in the, uh, floatplane chat, so I'm not 100% sure. Hold on, people are saying, yeah, Google did not commit a crime. Uhm, just, okay. Technically,


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[Assistant] It might not technically be a crime, but it's certainly not nice, and it should be. That's where I'll, that's where I'll leave that. Sure. If it isn't, it should be.


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[Assistant] Go live streams are transmitted to Discord's backend and then routed to viewers. This hides the IP addresses between users on the call and allows the service to control where the data is routed. For example, the service will only relay video to a participant on the call if they are watching it.


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[Assistant] Maybe the real question should be, why does Teams cost that much? Well, it isn't Slack, like, uh... Did you see Teams as being decoupled from Office? Did we talk about that on Wensha already?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's interesting timing. Microsoft's clearly going, hmm, we pushed this really hard in a way that regulators are going to be probably super unimpressed by. Maybe if in good faith we decouple this now, they won't go back and look at it. Cause you know what? It's the only reason we use Teams was because we were effectively forced to buy it because we needed Office. I would have happily paid less and not bought Teams.


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[Assistant] Before she found out, that might earn you some brownie points.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Like I can understand the Discord branding just not really making sense for them for a corporate product. Yeah, but they could roll the same thing. Just clone it. Different logo, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, benefits for companies, right? Like if you have former staff that's not with you anymore and you need to, like, really need to have access to those records, uh, you can really need them. Like it can be...


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[Assistant] It's not the kind of thing that I would ever be comfortable snooping on for no reason. Yeah. But if it was really needed, it could be like, all this changes everything kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Cause Google Play Music is like, I will die on that hill. But YouTube Music is a piece of garbage, and if they just brought Google Play Music back in exactly the form it was in like five years ago or whenever they discontinued it, it would be better than anything else on the market.


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[Assistant] That's a fun one. So uhm, why do you care? Why does this matter? Like, it's audio, right? So does it matter what you play it in? Just, help me out here.


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[Assistant] The app is probably gone. Uhm. Is it still here? It can be gone, but it can never be forgotten. I keep the Google Play Music app on my phone. Just to never forget. Where's the focus? I had the Vessel app on my phone for years.


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[Assistant] Do I still have Vessel on here? I don't, I think I eventually deleted Vessel. I think I did too. Uhm, P, U, V, yes I deleted Vessel.


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[Assistant] In other good Google news, Google invents the super skip. Oh. Uh, the source here is Creator Insider. YouTube is experimenting with a potential new feature


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[Assistant] He's feeling physical pain, this is great. Potential new feature called Jump Ahead.


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[Assistant] This will also be available to creators on their own videos, even if they aren't a premium subscriber, I guess, so you can see.


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[Assistant] Google of course used the term AI multiple times to describe this feature.


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[Assistant] Our discussion question is could this be valuable if implemented properly or is this just encouraging us to turn our brains to mush?


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[Assistant] The LTT Labs website. Hey, yeah. Like, we're, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna save you the trouble. If you don't like videos, then we'll, we'll have this sorted out for you in the, in the near future, okay? Yeah. Speaking of which, they've actually got another article up there.


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[Assistant] Links to where to buy, purchases may provide compensation. We had a lot of people sort of asking, are these affiliate links? Yes, yes, they're affiliate links. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Thanks man, you can learn about the hardware, you can, we've got some pictures, we've got work to do on our pictures, we know that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that thing as well. We have a dedicated video coming on the LumaField CT scanner. Man, oh, we scanned Buzz Lightyear. From the tech shop.


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[Assistant] Super cool. I have feedback from my own site.


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[Assistant] You can just, you know, see whatever charts it is you feel like looking at. What's the best card for 4K Rocket League? Well, basically anything. Okay, uh, uh, uh, uh, Cyberpunk. Hey, here we go.


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[Assistant] Freakin' awesome. Oh wait, hold on a second. What if I wanna know about ray tracing performance? I guess I could see that here. F123. Oh, we only do 14 for it. That actually kinda makes sense.


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[Assistant] Can I add to the comparison bin?


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[Assistant] And add this to the comparison bin. Oh, there's a faster way to do this. Boop! Add to the compa- Does the comparison bin work? No way.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I can see the highlights. I can see the tested settings. I can see.


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[Assistant] Da-da-da. OEM technologies. I can see what test bench they were tested on to make sure that they are comparable.


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[Assistant] Very cool. I can be linked to this product if it were to exist at some point. Oh, that's just to buy it. Okay, well.


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[Assistant] It'd be cool if that could go to our product page for it eventually, eventually when we have it.


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[Assistant] It would be nice in the long term to standardize our testing to the point where, uh, we can, with a high degree of confidence, show you both cards on the same graph, but as it is now,


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[Assistant] There's a lot of work to do before we can do that with confidence. It's a dangerous step. It's a cool step.


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[Assistant] Because I think there's, there's going to be a time in the future where people are going to want and we are going to want to fulfill the need for this. Uhm, people are going to want to compare things that weren't tested apples to apples.


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[Assistant] So if we can figure out through similar work to what we did when we were testing our 7800X 3Ds to see which ones were close enough, if we can, if we can do the work to figure out what those error bars should look like, uhm,


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[Assistant] We would like to be able to present that data with asterisks, right, because we can't.


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[Assistant] Uh, we can't test every single GPU under every single circumstance. Uhm, so it's like, yeaah, okay, these are both on the same graph, but note that this one is using a generation newer driver or even faster RAM when we had upgraded our test platform or something like that. In time. In time.


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[Assistant] Very exciting though, man, the team's worked so hard. Alright, what else we got today? Oh! Truth Social!


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[Assistant] I can't believe we've never talked about Truth Social. Have we not? We've like, mentioned it in passing. It's a big social media site. Is it? They went public. Oh. Yeah, their valuation.


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[Assistant] Valuation, uh. 8 billion? 8 billion dollars, yep. IPO a few weeks ago, March 26th under the ticker code DJT. It closed the day at almost 8 billion dollars.


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[Assistant] The site has around 5 million active monthly users, and then 7 days later, FEC filings showed that it had lost 58 million dollars in 2023,


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[Assistant] And made 4.8 million dollars in revenue. Isn't that better than what Twitter was doing? Uh, no.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so users aren't growing. Got it. Yeah. Following this revelation, the stock began to crater.


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[Assistant] Uh, sued a couple of the, uh, of his co-founders in an apparent attempt to consolidate shares in the company.


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[Assistant] Ugh, no, not Dow Jones transportation. Uhm. That came up for me too. I mean, it's a more relevant stock.


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[Assistant] Not digital world acquisition, oh man. I just want, oh, well, okay, it's a trending, it's apparently a trending ticker. So here, hold on, I just, all I have to do is click it. There we go. Alright, so, uh, how we doing here? So at launch,


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[Assistant] Is there even a month of history yet? No. Yeaah, so at launch it actually went up, which is, uh, which is something, uhm, and then I-


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[Assistant] Which, if you put a lot of, what, if you put a meaningful amount of your money into it, you'd probably be pretty disappointed about that.


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[Assistant] People smarter than you who have been playing the game longer than you are manipulating this both up and down. You do not want to be caught holding the bag. This is not a real social media platform. There is no real business model.


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[Assistant] Watch out. 4.8 million dollars in revenue. Truth Social is a smaller, less profitable company than Linus Media Group Incorporated. In fact... Hold on. Time to raise the...


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, so in, in revenue, in revenue, it is...


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[Assistant] Whatever you bet, if you bet it's going up, it's gonna go down. If you bet it's going down, it's gonna go up. It is being manipulated on both sides. Be


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[Assistant] Offers, it's not that we don't promote gambling because we never got contacted.


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[Assistant] You gave it to them. Sure. But just taking peoples money is good business.


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[Assistant] This is a really important point because I have the luxury, like I have to, I have to step back and appreciate that I have the luxury to say no.


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[Assistant] That was a big moment for me, was when we reached the point where I could walk away from any deal. And it, from any company, and it wouldn't matter.


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[Assistant] Man, we've walked away from entire relationships. Nvidia's back though. Saw that sponsored video. They're back! Upgrading our worst setup. Uh, Jessica making, not her on-screen debut, cause she's been on Wanshow before and stuff like that, but this is the first time in a mainline LTT video. I thought she did a great job. Uhm, we really, really improved her setup, so if you haven't watched it yet, you're gonna wanna check it out.


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[Assistant] We're pretty upfront with you guys anyway. So what, we just formalized this, we released quarterly earnings reports, and blah blah blah blah blah, and if you wanna give us your money, I just keep all the controlling shares, kinda like Zuck did, and I'm like, sure, by all means, and then what, like, I just, maybe I just lack creativity, but I wouldn't know what to do with it.


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[Assistant] Like, let's say our evaluation wasn't 8 billion dollars, let's say it was


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[Assistant] $8 million. Okay, more than that. Let's say it was $80 million.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like, I can have a reliable source for the part, a good price, or fast. Pick one to two. Yea. Right? Often one. Often one. And so I was like, man!


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[Assistant] If we could, we make like a, like a retro console, you know, modding, like one stop shop where we, we basically take on the inventory risk.


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[Assistant] Of, you know, ordering enough that these small manufacturers can afford to do a run of stupid game gear backlights or whatever it is. So we hold the inventory.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we use our brand, we use our trusted brand.


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[Assistant] There's a whole road map here, boys! I- I actually ran the numbers. I think we could get it started for probably less than 150 grand. Like...


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[Assistant] You're not wrong. Yeah. You're not wrong. See, that's the thing. It's like, a lot of people talk about that offer we got, like, like I have, like I have. Like that's in the bank. How many figures is that? I don't remember.


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[Assistant] Nine. Like I have nine figures in the bank. It doesn't work like that. That's theoretical, that's theoretical net worth. It's not real. And if I were to sell it today,


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[Assistant] Probably not worth that much. That was based on the kind of exponential growth that we were experiencing at that time. We've gotten, things are a little bit in more of a mature state right now. And uhm, we've also got some big bets that are...


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[Assistant] Taking time to reach fruition. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But yea, we don't have that kind of actual like cash reserves just sitting around. It's not really how businesses work and borrowings.


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[Assistant] It's so expensive right now. To be clear, I'm not going to complain because a lot of people are worried about the borrowing that they're doing on their bloody homes and how to figure out how to pay their mortgage payments, but it's been challenging on the business side as well without just free money flowing the way that it did. Um, so yeah, we just, you know, we just got to pick our battles, but yeah, I think, I think going public would be


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[Assistant] We've, we've talked about it a lot internally, and I just don't. I think, I mean, realistically, I've told, I've told Terran.


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[Assistant] He's got the wheel. Like, nothing's off the table if he wants to, like, if he thinks that's the right path, then he's, you know, free to make a case and try and do it and make a go of it, but I don't see...


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[Assistant] Let's say something wild, like we started, uh, remember that gaming hotel I stayed in like five years ago? Yeah. So if we were to start like a gaming hotel business.


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[Assistant] And it's a complete spin-off. It's got like LTT branding on it. It's like there's gaming systems in every room. Uh, but other than that, it has no financial tie to Linus Media Group or Float Plane or...


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[Assistant] Does anything restrict you from putting it in a commercial space?


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[Assistant] Potentially some. I mean, there's certainly companies that would not give us the time of day, but...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wonder about that. That's something you'd have to ask, you'd have to ask the lawyers. But if you created it yourself, like if you drew it, I think you'd be in trouble.


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[Assistant] Nobody goes after, like, you know, the, the local Tim Hortons that, you know, draws a Christmas scene on their thing and then wipes it in January or whatever. Uh, but in terms of, like, if you are offering, uh, uh, uh, a plumber room at your gaming hotel and you've, like, custom created


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[Assistant] I mean, my experience was my experience. I uhm, I take back nothing of what we said. Uh, I think, I think Best Buy owes me a refund. Uhm, they did not fix my problem. They charged me 200 Canadian rubles.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as for, as for the layoffs, that's extremely sad because like so many corporate layoffs, this feels like one where


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[Assistant] It comes down to mismanagement, right? Like, whether you over-hired or whether you're not bringing in business well enough, it's not the fault of those...


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[Assistant] Frontline agents, right? That, that customers aren't coming in, it's...


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[Assistant] I mean, that's, that's, that's fair, but also, oh man, that's a tough one. Cause it's not like, it's not like Geek Squad is something that, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's not like they haven't had plenty of opportunities to observe a slow decline in unreliability. Totally. And adjust their staffing levels accordingly. I just, I don't know if I buy that as an excuse. Yeah, that's fair.


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[Assistant] Alright. In other news, the indie game Gold Rush seems to be over. Redhook and Metacrit, the developers for Darkest Dungeon and Slay the Spire respectively, say that funding has dried up for indie games. I think it's Megacrit. Oh, sorry. Yea, that makes way more sense.


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[Assistant] Uh, notably sources like Exclusive Deals for the Epic Game Store and Xbox Game Pass, which have both slowed significantly.


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[Assistant] They say that most other devs they've talked to have reported a similar experience of finding typical funding streams significantly cut back or cancelled.


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[Assistant] Both studios say they're lucky to be in the position to self-fund, but they'll be putting on a triple eye showcase of upcoming indie titles on April 10th to give other indie developers more visibility. That's a really cool thing to do.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we'd love to see what comes out of that. That's, uh, that's five days from now. Our discussion question is, is this the end of the indie boom or just a gully? And I, I don't think anything's gonna stop the indie boom, if anything. I think we're gonna see.


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[Assistant] Another boom from all the talented people that are getting let go from the major development houses right now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're gonna need to do something, and their experience is game development, so you put two and two together.


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[Assistant] What else do we have for topics today? Outlook's been doing some sketchy stuff. Email service Proton is accusing Microsoft's new Outlook app of being a massive net for user data collection. According to users in Europe who downloaded the app, a pop-up user agreement discloses that Microsoft shares users' information with 801 third-party partners.


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[Assistant] The app also prompts users to pick their own ads layout for where advertisements will appear in the app. Mac users will have some ads that appear as inbox messages both from Microsoft and from other parties. UK users can access a list of advertising partners in the Outlook settings menu which shows a large number of ad companies.


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[Assistant] According to German IT experts at Heiss Online, this new Outlook also takes IMAP and SMTP credentials, your username and password, from other accounts synced with the Outlook app


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[Assistant] Which would also give the company access to emails from those other accounts even if you cancel because they've already stored that information.


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[Assistant] I suspect the same stuff is not happening to Enterprise Outlook accounts? I mean, who knows?


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[Assistant] But, you know what is happening, somebody tried to corrupt Linux from the inside. Yeaah, there's been some unfortunate things going on. A single off-hours Microsoft engineer has apparently foiled a long-con attempt to embed a serious security backdoor into a widely distributed Linux utility. Developer Andres Frund?


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[Assistant] Okay, liblzma? Sorry, not sure how to pronounce that. Uhm, we're using a surprising amount of CPU.


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[Assistant] He tracked the issue to a backdoor in the upstream XZutils repository, which appears to inject malicious code during SSH authorization in order to enable unauthorized remote access. The backdoor appears to have been added in February and never managed to make its way into the production release of a major distro.


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[Assistant] It was uncovered in beta versions of Fedora Rawhide and Debian, which have been rolled back accordingly. Friund tracked the changes to a user who goes by Jiatan or Jiat75 who has been a regular contributor since October of 2021.


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[Assistant] However, there is no evidence that this person even exists outside of their presence as a Project XZ contributor, leading some security researchers to speculate that they might be a single purpose identity created by a state-sponsored attacker.


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[Assistant] GiaT75 is believed to have gradually amassed increasingly invasive permissions, in part by making genuine code contributions, but also possibly through a sockpuppet campaign to pressure the original dev to speed up development by opening those permissions to others.


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[Assistant] Absolutely insidious. Uhm, which makes you wonder how much of this did make it through at some point.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's frustrating to see this kind of thing degrade trust in open source overall. I uhm, I would say overall, you're probably still better off there.


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[Assistant] This goes against ex-Twitter's own use policy which forbids conducting or providing surveillance or gathering intelligence. So it's only okay when we do it for money.


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[Assistant] While Twitter is not directly selling this information to the government, it is knowingly leasing the information to an intermediary broker, which is immediately turning it over to the government for law enforcement and surveillance purposes.


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[Assistant] For the last decade, Twitter has also been pursuing a lawsuit demanding that they be allowed to publicly disclose more information about national security letters that the government uses to compel social media companies to turn over user data.


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[Assistant] Musk continued the suit after taking over the site and called the Supreme Court's January decision to strike the case down disappointing.


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[Assistant] Uh, discussion question here is Twitter's hypocrisy obviously predates Musk's tenure, but how has an overt free speech advocate managed to wind up with such a similar stance on cooperating with government surveillance as the people he sought to usurp?


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[Assistant] I mean, I would be interested to see if there's a similar arrangement with Meta. I'd be sim- I'd be curious to see if there's a similar arrangement with, you know, a Discord. I mean, we know this just happened with YouTube. Mmm, yeah, but that's not really the same arrangement.


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[Assistant] Which, to be clear, is not something that you can necessarily trust either. No. I mean...


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[Assistant] But you are just, it's full trust me bro. You can't prove they don't have anything unless it's actually been tested in court before. And even then, just because it's been tested once doesn't mean that something didn't change. Something can change.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean it's one of those things where if the hypocrisy wasn't already obvious when, uh, when he sued that, uh, that watchdog group, that like anti-hate speech watchdog group for saying stuff he didn't like. Really? Yeah. It's like free speech is not just speech you agree with, it's free.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a not-for-profit that reported on an increase in hate speech, and that may be true, that may be not true, he might agree, he might not agree, but what they said was, was free speech. It was free speech, and so you can't just be like, no I don't like that free speech, and try to sue them to not say it.


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[Assistant] That's not what the, you can't be a free speech absolutist if you...


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[Assistant] Man, when I click a trending topic, it's hard for me to even find out why it's trending sometimes. Okay, I felt that before the buyout. I never had that problem. Interesting. Usually the first 20 or so were relevant enough and had enough likes that I could tell, you know,


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[Assistant] Is it, are they dead? Is it pedophilia? You know, like, like what is it? Why are they trending? You know?


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[Assistant] Now I will click on something and I'm actually not sure for, and sometimes I will even go as far as just giving up and Googling name controversy to find out what the heck is going on. It's, it's pretty, I definitely use it less than I ever have.


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[Assistant] But realistically, you're objectively wrong. Because even a trash tier, crappier clone of it is worth 8 billion dollars. So you've clearly missed something here.


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[Assistant] And this, I, I, no, I read some other stuff on the site, it seems great.


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[Assistant] To make you wanna go read the article and find out how you are being misled. This is something that I have been aware of for a long time. It's something that I am aware is getting worse. It's...


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[Assistant] So HouseFresh, a product review site that focuses on air purifiers, has published an incredible analysis on how a small set of large media publishers are gaming Google search by flooding the web with lazy listicles that recommend products that they have never even


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[Assistant] These articles are branded under well-known, seemingly reputable names like Buzzfeed, Forbes, Popular Science, and Rolling Stone.


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[Assistant] With large media publishers acquiring the rights to these names and then leaving only skeleton crews in place to continue publishing a little bit of good stuff to keep the reputation going while just lazily dumping garbage affiliate revenue maximizing crap down people's throats.


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[Assistant] While HouseFresh says that Google's product review updates generally improve the ranking of articles that actually provide independent information and thorough research, consumers looking to make an educated purchase are still having to wade through countless reviews from people who have never even seen the thing in person.


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[Assistant] And this is absolutely something that I've experienced but something that I didn't dig deep enough to understand just how broken it is. Like there's this one air purifier that they kind of go into in the article because they tested it and it fundamentally


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[Assistant] Doesn't work and is loud and is expensive. And they're just like, they're sitting there going...


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[Assistant] There is no way on this green earth that anybody who knows anything tested this.


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[Assistant] And recommended it, and yet it tops all of these recommendation lists, and they basically dug into it and they're like, oh, it's because it pays the most affiliate commission. And we've talked about this before. Uhm, remember I figured out why $80,000 area rugs exist?


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[Assistant] Well the higher the price, the better the listicle commission. Because it's percentage based. So you're basically being misled to buy a more expensive thing.


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[Assistant] And it's disguised as editorial content. I mean, it's one thing if it is an ad. An ad's an ad, a properly disclosed ad, like when Miss Vicky's paid me to tell you about their zero trans fat, low and saturated fat, no preservatives, kettle chips.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's what the style of chips is called, right? I don't know, it doesn't, yeah, kettle-cooked potato chips. Okay, they didn't sponsor us, but the point is, when something is clearly disclosed, it's an ad, it's clear that these talking points are coming from the manufacturer. But these listicles are not, they're not disclosed, it's not clear.


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[Assistant] That they have ever even laid hands on these products and I've seen it before. I bought windshield wipers for my Taiken from one of these listicles that ended up not being compatible. Because they never actually tried it. I made it compatible.


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[Assistant] You need to send this to anyone you know who shops online. Basically. Or looks for basically any information. Because it shows you just how easily gamed the system is. And HouseFresh doesn't even blame Google outright for this.


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[Assistant] It's clear that this is a case where Google is in good faith trying to do the right thing and surface accurate information.


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[Assistant] But there's just- The avalanche of bullsh-t is just-


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[Assistant] It's burying any nuggets of good information because, and we know this, we know this from building the lab, testing products properly is really frickin' hard. It's a ton of work. Uhm, I mean, oh man.


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[Assistant] Uh, we showed off the latest draft of Power Supply Circuit internally. And even internally, there's a lot of commentary on, for example, the, uh, the AI voiceover that we're using and the kind of, uhm, monotonous sort of scripted shots. And they're like, I don't understand the value of this. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.


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[Assistant] This is completely different from anything we've done in the past. The value is not in the entertainment for this at all. It's just that we understand that consumers are going to look for information in video form.


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[Assistant] Even though this really would be better off as an article, and an article will be available, but we understand people are going to be looking for this information in video, and if we look at what other similar power supply focused videos are doing in terms of viewership on YouTube,


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[Assistant] So, we're between a rock and a hard place. Obviously, we would love to use humans to do all of the work.


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[Assistant] And humans are doing a lot of the work. Humans developed all these processes. Humans are testing the power supplies. That's, that's, that's the meat right there. That's being done by skilled humans, right?


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[Assistant] We would love to use humans for everything and have a human host and, uh, have bespoke editing for every single episode, but if I were to tell you, okay, well your production budget is nine dollars, and I were to pay humans in such a way that we were able to survive on,


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[Assistant] I'd be a monster. And then if I say, okay, well this is net new work that nobody was doing before and actually creates additional jobs building these systems and doing all this testing, uhm, but this is the way to make it sustainable, you tell me I'm a monster because we're using an AI voiceover and it's like, okay, well now hold on a second.


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[Assistant] This is, in my opinion, a best case scenario for machine learning.


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[Assistant] It can't exist. That's the thing. It's not that it doesn't, it's that it cannot. It's not economically viable for us to do this the traditional way that we've done things.


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[Assistant] There are legitimate concerns, like, that people have brought up. Okay, well, if we're doing it on a power supply circuit, then could that infect the other channels? Uhm, that is, I mean, that is the last thing I want.


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[Assistant] No, not at all. I mean, if we can get to the point where our power supply circuit is averaging 100,000 views and we're taking on, we're taking on sponsors. Hey, have faith.


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[Assistant] And we're taking on sponsors, and we're doing like, huge affiliate revenue through it because people really value the independent testing, then...


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's, let's build a proper channel around it. But we have to start somewhere. And right now, the meat of it is the testing, and we just need a vehicle.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I uhm, I've seen people feel strongly about it both ways. It's about fifty-fifty.


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[Assistant] It's both ways, uh, as it turns out, and I think that...


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[Assistant] I can't tell because the feedback form itself was anonymous. So I can't tell who's who. It's like good and bad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so some departments feel more strongly that like, having it be Linus will make it feel less like someone whose job got taken by AI and more like Linus didn't have time that day. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, Xenol says, I'm confused, LTT isn't using real voices. So again, you know?


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[Assistant] Our budget, our production budget for some of these videos, because we don't know what the budget is until we publish it and see how much money comes in, right? Our budget for these videos based on what dedicated power supply videos are doing right now on YouTube could be as low as two to three dollars. No!


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[Assistant] Remultra says you could not do a video and promote heavily the written article. Yeah, that worked great for written media. Over the last ten years.


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[Assistant] And it's even smaller than you think. Because a lot of the websites that you think are separate are actually owned by large publishing, by large publishers.


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[Assistant] So we've already, so coming back to the plan to, uh, to have these videos AI voice-overed.


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[Assistant] Ai edited because the shots are all standardized.


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[Assistant] Because a power supply, that's why we started with power supplies. Cause they're all fundamentally the same size and shape with fundamentally the same physical features. So all the shots are going to be along sort of pre-planned movements and then it is basically cut together with a template and then validated by human editor.


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[Assistant] That's it. Uhm, and so we're already looking at, okay, can we do a shortened version of the script? And then just dump it on TikTok.


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[Assistant] Dump it on Reels, dump it on Facebook, uhm. Cause I mean, at the very least.


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[Assistant] We want to be able to get real, valid information in front of people. And I think that- It's harder than ever. There's gonna be some compromises that we're gonna make along the way, but the mission is a good one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, they shouldn't watch everything. That's the whole point of this. I saw, I saw one internal comment.


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[Assistant] I don't want humans working at the content farm. I want humans doing the creative stuff, the cool stuff. But we need to have a result when someone searches for this power supply on TikTok.


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[Assistant] And that's a power supply that blows up. Or costs twice as much as one that's better.


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[Assistant] We, we have to address that, and on a two to sixty dollar budget, we aren't gonna be doing it with handcrafted human content. It's not going to happen right now. And it's not intended to be like, uh, like popcorn viewing.


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[Assistant] It's not supposed to be entertaining. This is for the bottom of the funnel where you are aware of computers and you have an intent to learn about computers and you've decided to buy one and you are choosing a particular component


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[Assistant] That's good. Kinda like what I think it was Casey Neistat said about the Vision Pro, that this is the worst Vision Pro.


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[Assistant] So, the first video we upload will be the worst video. You know, in terms of the uncanny valley of the AI voiceover, in terms of the choreography of the shots, uhm, it's gonna, it's gonna take time.


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[Assistant] Black Smoke Rises says, it sounds kinda lame, but I see the plan.


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[Assistant] It's not even under $60. By the time Lucas tests a power supply, we are underwater.


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[Assistant] Try to look at what we're doing and see the bigger picture here.


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[Assistant] We're gonna make some mistakes. It's gonna take some time. We're gonna have to learn some things. But that's, that's part of the journey, right? Like if we, I mean, I can't help myself. You gotta dream big, you know?


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[Assistant] Do you want me to do that? I don't know, it's up to the float plane people. I'll tell you what, you can see if they care that much this week.


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[Assistant] Yep, Luke's got, Luke's got bird babies to, to, to take care of. Yep. Alright, Dan, hit us.


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[Assistant] To be clear, you're still not off the hook on playing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was gonna say take notes, and if you need some time to process and collect your thoughts, you can always send it as a follow-up. Hey, during the meeting, uh, these are some thoughts that I had, uh, or these are some thoughts I had after the meeting if it makes you uncomfortable to...


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[Assistant] To, to talk about how, you know, you, you need time to process, because not everyone wants to, like, just say that, yeah, I kinda, you know, I'm a thorough thinker, but I'm a bit of a slower thinker. You know, no one wants to say that out loud, so you just, yeah, you, you can, you can take some of, uhm, some of that pressure off by not necessarily trying to address it right.


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[Assistant] You know, steer it in the right direction or allow it to veer off course and...


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[Assistant] I don't think it's a matter of whether we think the PS Portal was a success. The PS Portal was clearly a success. It just wasn't for you.


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[Assistant] If you're someone who doesn't understand why people want the PS Portal. Uh, Antulio clearly is one of the people who does think the PS Portal's a good idea. Antulio, the good news is there's lots of other options. Uh, with an app, you can pretty much replicate the experience of the PS Portal, uh, whether it's on a tablet or on a phone. But,


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[Assistant] You know, it won't have a DualSense style controller. Oh, with smaller joysticks, mind you. Uhm, so you know, that might work for you, that might not work for you.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, there's no, there's no question. PS Portal, absolutely a success. Did you see that thing where it was, it had been, uhm, it had been hacked to run, like, emulated games and then, uh, Sony got tipped off by, uhm, by someone and they were able to patch it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they disclosed to Sony how they had worked around and, uh, and gotten it to do that.


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[Assistant] Doing really good. Yea, the new one makes a lot more sense than the old one.


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[Assistant] So much. Uh, I wish we just filmed our product development meetings because there's so many good creative juices flowing in them and there's so many little details that even we forget by the time the long road is over and we actually release the product, we put up the product page and we're like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, am I gonna be able to, am I gonna be able to come up with something? Uuuh.


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[Assistant] Oh man. We obsessed over the location of the LTT branding on the cable management arches. It was actually, I think, me who ultimately made the call after we saw the prototypes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause we did prototype it with an LTT logo here.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think it was me who made the final call to say no.


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[Assistant] Uh, no visible branding because the reason that this thing exists is for people to obsess over their cables and as much as we'd love to have our brand all over your stuff because, you know, brands like that kind of thing, uh, it's not the right thing for this product.


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[Assistant] So actually, I don't think on the product page you can actually see the LTT branding at all. Oh, you know, there it is.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, that's not really a detail you wouldn't have noticed, I'm sure you noticed where the branding was on it, but that's the, that's the background for why that happened, that you probably didn't realize, like how...


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[Assistant] How long these conversations can be sometimes.


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[Assistant] If it affects the quality, which it almost certainly will, unless humans are hand curating it and hand reviewing it, in which case, is it really AI, or is it more like disclosing that you used a word processor, then no, you shouldn't care.


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[Assistant] So yes, but also no, but yes. But maybe no?


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[Assistant] Uh, we don't, we don't have a policy right now. It's a really good point. Uhm, because I think everything that we've used it for, that's public facing, has been very clearly


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[Assistant] Machine learning? Like the, uh, I showed you guys a preview of what power supply circuit's gonna look like. It's machine learning up the butt. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, oh, I mean, okay, hold on. No, we, uh, we did, we did, uhm, actually use an LLM prompt to get, get some starting points for the Smash Champs logo, I think.


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[Assistant] Or we, at some point, we, we got some, some drafts and then we did a prompt and then we got some ideas and we came to the final one. So it was very human done, but AI was used as a tool.


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[Assistant] Like, how would we even disclose that? Like, we launched a new feature on Floatplane. It's like, do we disclose that AI was used as a troubleshooting tool for some codes that, like,


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[Assistant] I'm sure we could find it. It's gonna be in my Google timeline. I have like super creepy location tracking on and the only real reason that I do is because I just like curiously going back and seeing where I've gone. Like my, my Google Maps location history is hilarious cause like,


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[Assistant] There was a few years there where I was traveling, oh boy, was I ever traveling a lot. Uh, check, check this out.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised you're not going to like the eclipse or whatever. That seems like totally up your alley. I wanted to actually.


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[Assistant] I'd go somewhere where there's lots of short people.


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[Assistant] I was over in Japan, and like, I realized that that whole experience that people talk about, where it's like, just like, being taller than everyone else, well I've never had that. You know what? I would have the being taller than everyone else experience.


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[Assistant] I mean, that would require some planning. Would that be the very first thing I would do? Probably not. I don't-


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Man, I would hate dragging your gigantic ass


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[Assistant] So I'd do something like really weird, like streak in the park or something, you know?


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[Assistant] No. Nice. I'm, I'm far too conservative and shy. Mmm. Yep. I, uh, actually it's, it's funny, like,


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[Assistant] Not on TV. Yeah. Yeah, when I'm, I'm, I'm actually pretty withdrawn when I'm not on TV. Yeah. Uhm, like be, being outgoing and, uh,


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[Assistant] Very uncomfortable and challenging, especially the first time, like I have to push myself for a lot of what I do here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, your downgraded-ass vision probably wouldn't be, uh, great for me. But even just like the color shift of it? I'm still over 2020, baby. I just got my eyes checked. Nice, yeah. Definitely not. There's a matter, it's a matter of time for me though. It's, it's, it's not like as good as it was. I think that's pretty good.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny is we've talked about this before, but it's been in the context of substance use. And...


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[Assistant] What I have said before, because I've, I've not with you at this particular, from this particular perspective, but I've had the argument made to me that it can be good for broadening your perspectives and


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[Assistant] Uh, and helping you experience things in a, in a new way and sort of what I've, what I've said is that I tend to be, uhm, quite


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[Assistant] Controlling of my experiences and I tend to, I tend to be, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah. And this would be me literally not being in control of myself at all. Honestly, I have- It's a big ask.


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[Assistant] If it was you, if it was, if it was you, and this was a consensual body switch, with ground rules,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I wouldn't be worried about getting my body back with diseases, you know, like it's not, it's not like that. Um, but I, I, I would literally not be in control of myself, which is something that I am deeply unsettled by. So it's not an obvious yes to me. It's something I'd have to, I'd have to fester on.


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[Assistant] Great. You saw what happened when we launched our series 4 pins, right? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] This is great. Trendy says sitting down to pee is a prison thing. And, uh, Demi's got my back here. It's a tired in the middle of the night and not wanting to turn on lights or clean up a mess thing.


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[Assistant] 100%. I also, uh, I also find that the other way is pretty unsanitary, because even if you don't hit the seat, the splashback is very significant.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I realized this, I realized how bad it was when I was giving my, uh, one of my kids a hard time, and I bet you can imagine which one.


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[Assistant] about like aiming badly and not cleaning up afterward and realized that actually it wasn't that, it was that it was all collecting under and like drying there and then it dries on and it's gross, it just sucks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that. I'm, I'm a like, foot with kick, kicking up the seat, touch nothing guy in public washrooms.


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[Assistant] If it's a particularly gross one, I've even been known to make a little toilet paper seat for myself. Me too. I'm, I'm lazy about it. Have you done the just power squat? Don't touch? No. Yeah. No, I haven't.


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[Assistant] That's fair. Uhm, I mean the reason we didn't was because there was so much work that was going to have to be done regardless of how many verticals we tackled. Like we would still need the website in basically it's exactly as it is form.


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[Assistant] For sure better. And I'm not saying my way is better either. Yeah. I'm just saying there were, there were pros and cons either way, and uh, there's definitely been speed bumps that we've hit that we wouldn't have with that method.


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[Assistant] But we might have hit different speed bumps. If you put all your eggs in two baskets and one of them hits a show stopper, now you've got one basket. Good job. You're launching half as many things as you set out to launch. It's tough.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe hit us up again once you guys have trialed it and let us know if our perception of it was outdated.


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[Assistant] Papadaka says, uh, I use Mattermost with my college buddies and it works great. So that's one endorsement and that's all that's worth. But, um, yeah, let, let us know. We'd be, we'd be happy to learn more about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, obviously having all of your manufacturing consolidated in one place is a big challenge, but I know Framework has had...


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[Assistant] Uhm, some feelings about having their devices manufactured in China, and they've opted to keep their manufacturing in Taiwan, at least for now. And uhm, it's risky, but hopefully, uh, hopefully nothing too disastrous like the, uhm, the Thailand floods that


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[Assistant] I'm glad you're enjoying your Framework 16, though. I'm obviously super, super proud of what the team is doing over there. Not proud because, like, I helped necessarily, but proud because, uh, they just seem like really cool people and I'm proud of their efforts. They're working hard and they're doing something they really believe in and I think that's really important.


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[Assistant] I think our next shirt order for the Blank Tees should have tall sizes.


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[Assistant] Oh, have you seen this? It's crazy. It's spooky, man. The robot's gonna take over.


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[Assistant] Which, I have to confess, having not been briefed on this by anyone at Nvidia or done any research into it whatsoever, I have no idea how that would work. Knowing that


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[Assistant] In order for your monitor to know what refresh rate to run at, it talks to your GPU, and the fact that your GPU is streaming over that there internet, uhm, pretty freaking cool. Now,


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[Assistant] It sort of seems like it might have something to do with Nvidia's own drivers because right now variable refresh rate is limited to people who are running a relatively modern Nvidia GPU.


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[Assistant] Lit on fire the second that you realize that on a Mac


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[Assistant] You have support for variable refresh rate on Apple GPUs or


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. And what's, what's really wild about it right now is AMD has a pretty competitive lineup. If you're not looking at ray tracing, if you're not looking at uhm, you know. Which most people aren't. AI powered frame generation where they do still have a significant advantage. People do care about that. They do.


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[Assistant] But if you ca- but if you mostly care about rasterized gaming performance, traditional gaming performance, AMD actually has a pretty competitive lineup between their older 6000 series and their newer 7000 series cards.


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[Assistant] And it kinda makes sense, uhm, anywho, uh, it is now $10 a month and that gets you a premium rig with RTX on, up to 1080p resolution, up to 60fps, and up to a 6 hour session length, though you can start a new session at any time. Weird. Well, I get it, I mean- Just in case you're idling?


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[Assistant] Let's say you were a popular, you know, streamer slash YouTuber and were gaming when you're


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[Assistant] Of course, of course, none of this is what I'm upset about. All of that is pretty cool. There are some limitations around the variable refresh rate support. Uh, I don't believe it works with multi-monitors, for example. But...


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[Assistant] Overall, I think that is super cool. The thing that I'm kinda butthurt about is their priority day passes.


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[Assistant] Now, in fairness to Nvidia, okay, in fairness to Nvidia, I am not super supportive of the, you know, the free month.


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[Assistant] However, I don't think that this is the solution.


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[Assistant] Sorry, it's well enough established practice at this point that I'm looking at it going as long as it's very easy to cancel. And super transparent. That's our bar.


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[Assistant] So when we're working with sponsors, for example, sometimes community members will flag for us.


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[Assistant] Is effectively useless for the trial period. Like, you know, you look at some services, like, ah, here, I'll pick on a long time sponsor. I'll pick on Squarespace.


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[Assistant] So if Squarespace had a paid trial, uhm, you know, I'd be a little annoyed by that. Let me, let me just see. Yeah, get your, get your trial start, no credit card required. So because there's this kind of useless during the trial period, they're doing the right thing and the trial is free.


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[Assistant] So, for our part, if we're giving, if we're taking payment information, my expectation is that the service is very unfettered usable. Yeah. During that time. Yeah. So, I don't know that we would offer a one month trial, maybe we'd offer a shorter trial, but what I can say is- I was thinking like a week or less. We probably wouldn't be doing this.


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[Assistant] For a one day pass, for the regular, the regular tier, or the priority tier, priority day pass, you are gonna pay four dollars.


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[Assistant] What exactly is Nvidia trying to achieve here with a $4 date? Okay, so Ultimate is gonna cost you $8 compared to $20 a month. Why would anyone in their right mind


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[Assistant] I would be far more okay with that.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I think it should just be, I would be happier with a free month trial. It shouldn't be a dollar, it's too cheap. Or just have me subscribe for the full month and prorate me a partial refund if I'm not happy with it or something.


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[Assistant] Like I just, I just, if the idea, I just don't really understand what Nvidia's trying to achieve here. If the idea was to create a very low barrier of entry so that I can try it before I buy it, then it should actually be cheap. The barrier's way too high.


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[Assistant] But if processing that two dollar payment locks someone into a subscription, if it turns them into a subscribing customer, mission freaking accomplished. And, and I can understand Nvidia not wanting to just give away


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[Assistant] GeForce Now, because it, as we know, is extremely expensive for them to run, both in terms of processing, like, like actual power, and in terms of bandwidth. This is, this is a very premium service, even on Nvidia's side, their costs are high. So I get that they want to cover the costs and they don't want to do free trials, but this is such a weird non-solution.


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[Assistant] That I just, I'm having a hard time imagining the sort of the penny-pinching that was going on in the board meeting where they were making this decision. Like, are they actually worried that on a one-day pass, someone is gonna do, you know, four six-hour sessions in a row to like,


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[Assistant] To really get the maximum out of it. And so they have to charge $4 versus a buck or two. Like, come on you guys.


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[Assistant] If the idea is just to get the credit card, which realistically from a, from a marketing standpoint is


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[Assistant] 90% of the battle is getting someone to create an account and enter their credit card. There's a free tier. That's worth the few dollars. Yeah, it's uh, it's ad-supported.


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[Assistant] I just don't, I just don't really follow. Yeah, we've got people saying like the four bucks should get you a week. Yeah, if ten dollars is a month,


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[Assistant] I could totally see $4 being a week. And then, and then it's, and then at least we're kinda talking about people kinda paying approximately the same amount per time used, and we're talking about a period of time when you could actually potentially, you know, when you have a vacation, binge a game. Like it's actually useful. Where, $4 for, I don't know, I just,


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[Assistant] I have nothing else to say, other than that I just don't really get it. I think it should be a lower price.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it should be, it should be a lower price. The day pass idea, I actually love. I think that's really cool. If we could do a float plane day pass, I'd be, I'd be super into that. We haven't built the mechanisms for trials and for...


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[Assistant] Yeah, something like that could work. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There's definitely some stuff that, uh, that we need to explore in terms of driving people to Float Plane. We're gonna be trying something new today. Uhm, we're gonna be doing- Are we? Hopefully. Are we not? Doing what? Uh, Float Plane exclusive after party. Oh!


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[Assistant] Alright, why don't we jump into our next thing that we're supposed to do. Dan, help me. Topic number two. Luke, you wanna pick it?


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[Assistant] That was lightning fast. There is no way this wasn't all kind of going on behind the scenes at that point.


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[Assistant] Our discussion question is, what will the results of this decision be and should emulator users and developers be concerned? I mean...


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[Assistant] We're not legal experts when it comes to emulation, or realistically anything. Yep, yep, I was going there, I was going there. So take all of this as not legal advice.


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[Assistant] But it's been pretty clear for a long time that emulation is very, very murky, legally. It's heavily dependent on the region that you're in, on the region that you are defending yourself against.


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[Assistant] Long standing decision that was overturned by the US Supreme Court, somewhat recently, just because something


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[Assistant] If it has legal precedent for it doesn't necessarily mean that that can never be overturned if there is sufficient pressure on the legal system, uh, or if there is a new argument that can be presented in order to get it changed.


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[Assistant] I do think that there are probably regions where it is unlikely that an emulation developer would be, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, Drastic is doing is probably a pretty smart defensive play. Open sourcing it and sort of trying to


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[Assistant] Make the target broader and less easy to go after if it's just a community of open source developers compared to an organization that is


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[Assistant] Clearly, making a significant amount of money, I mean, if you have 2.4 million dollars to pay as a settlement, what I would assume is that that's somewhere near


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[Assistant] The thing that sort of baffles me right now is that Nintendo thinks that that will be successful.


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[Assistant] I think so. I think we might see that in some places. I mean, you're, I think you're, you're probably not considering what's going on in places like China, where you can buy


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[Assistant] Easily, readily available systems that are completely jammed packed full of emulators and pirated ROMs. So more in like, somewhat legal havens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and that's the kind of thing where that, I mean, we've seen time and time again, uhm,


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[Assistant] Not what it used to be and not run by the folks that used to run it, but what I can say about it is, it's still there.


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[Assistant] I mean, the number of times that the Pirate Bay and the power of the entities who have tried to take down the Pirate Bay, uh, the number of times they've shut it down only for it to crop back up again is mind boggling. Um, especially when you consider the limited financial resources of


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[Assistant] But, uh, still, still, it's, it's a, it's finite resources and you're going up against entities that have effectively infinite resources like the Motion Picture Association of America or the, uh, I would say RAA, recording industry,


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[Assistant] Artist association or something like that. I can't remember what RAAA stands for. But these like gigantic American, uhm, media organizations. Recording Industry Association of America. Thank you. Uhm. But yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm worried because I'm at the point, I'm at a point in my life now where I really do pay for the games I play. I don't legitimately do not remember the last time I pirated a game.


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[Assistant] No, no, I didn't. I didn't Pirate Call of Duty 2 because by then I was working at NCIX and, uhm, I got codes that, uhm. Even if you did, that was 2005. Yeah, no, hold on a second. Was it COD 2?


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[Assistant] Yeah, anyway, the point is, it's been a very, very long time. Long time.


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[Assistant] So, as someone who has played Nintendo games on an emulator, and owns every game that I played, I mean, look, I'm not gonna pretend that I went through the rigmarole of ripping my games.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And ripping my bios, not gonna pretend that. You have a, uh, I've got the cart! Got the cart, yeah. Got the cart! But I don't wanna play on the Switch!


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[Assistant] I don't know what source it was from, I have no idea the credibility, but I saw a rumor that kind of lines up with other rumors about the upcoming Switch replacement, that it's based on, I wanna say, Turing. It's already gonna be old, yeah. Uhm, where, where they were basically saying, yeah, the hardware's pretty much been done for like two years, which,


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[Assistant] Kind of makes sense from a, from a development standpoint, like if Nintendo's like, look, we don't want to rush this, we want to have dev kits that are basically finished hardware so that the games at launch have years to be developed and are awesome or whatever, like, okay, I get it, I get it, I get it. Uhm, but like,


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[Assistant] Like Nvidia, I remember Nvidia coming to the office at NCIX and pitching, do you remember Nvidia's Superphones? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember that. Superphones, Nvidia. Let's see if I can, let's see if I can find any materials. Oh my god, from superphones to supercomputers. What is this? What year is this from?


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[Assistant] Uh, ba ba ba, Nvidia fact sheet, uh, 1910 million Tegras shipped. What am I even, what am I even looking at here? This is like, obviously ancient collateral.


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[Assistant] 2011, let's go! Okay, so Nvidia had this Super Phones initiative around their Tegra chips and the idea was that they were gonna power


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[Assistant] You know, the computer, the PC, uhm, or sorry, they were going to power the data center, uh, your pocket, and everything in between. And, uhm, Tiger, Tiger kinda sucked.


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[Assistant] Like, on the GPU side of things, it was good, it was solid, uh, but the CPU was not competitive at the time and Nvidia wasn't able to iterate on it fast enough and get enough design wins to put the R&D back into it to get the cycle going. It just never, it never snowballed. And...


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[Assistant] A few years later, out came the Nintendo Switch with this like, kinda crappy, when it was launched, which was years prior, mobile chip in it, and it was like, uuuhhh, please. Anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this sucks. This sucks because, uh, my issue is not paying for games. My issue is wanting the games that I play to be the best possible experience and Nintendo having no interest in that whatsoever.


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[Assistant] I mean, even just the fact that your save games are locked to the Switch with no way to export them and the only way to back them up being a monthly subscription, I've said it once, I'll say it again, fuck off Nintendo with that bullshit. I'm not into it.


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[Assistant] They do though. They really do. And, you know, looking at Sony's move, I'm worried about the console future.


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[Assistant] Microsoft has already telegraphed that they are just


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[Assistant] Oh. Xbox Gold or something? A-any-any-anyway, uh, it's all about, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's all, it's all about, uh, Xbox Game Streaming. Is that what it's called now? It's called something. It's all about, it's all about this, their streaming service, and it's all about, uh, Game Pass, at this point. The website says Cloud Gaming. Sure.


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[Assistant] Xbox cloud gaming. Uh, so it's all about streaming, it's all about game pass, it's all about leveraging their data center expertise to become like a game, gaming company.


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[Assistant] Seeing how heavily they've promoted the Xbox, I mean in terms of price, like there were, there were holiday deals last year that were very, very aggressive on the Series X and the Series S.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and seeing how they've just kind of evidently thrown in the towel on sort of making money on the hardware and they've invested everything into buying up developers, it seems pretty clear to me that Microsoft's interest in the hardware side of things is fading. Which...


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[Assistant] I think put some weight behind what Microsoft said in their defense of Sony's accusations that they were buying up these IPs to make them Xbox exclusive. I think I'm at the point now where I kind of believe them.


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[Assistant] That those games will come to PlayStation because they're looking at the cost of developing these mega AAA or, uh,


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[Assistant] So I think I kinda buy it now, but here's the thing. Sony seems to be way faster, way more suddenly, I guess, than I anticipated, coming around to the same thing.


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[Assistant] What even, uh, I was talking last week I think about the console tier list video that we have coming, where we were looking at the PS5 going, you know, what are the exclusives that


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[Assistant] You know, cement this console as, uh, as, as you know,


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[Assistant] Iconic, you know, a console for the ages, cause that was one of our definitions. It's like, what were the games that defined, or the experiences that defined this console? And if all of its best games are gonna make their way to PC or, heaven forbid, you know, Xbox or Nintendo Switch 2 or whatever the case may be,


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[Assistant] It's kinda hard to defend the PlayStation 5 as a piece of hardware that need- that needed to exist at any point.


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[Assistant] And so looking at both Microsoft and Sony headed the Sega route, hopefully not with the same level of disastrousness, uhm, but heading the Sega route of being more of a, more of a software company than an actual hardware company,


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[Assistant] Is it possible, or even probable, that Nintendo is the last one standing?


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[Assistant] Because it almost feels like some of the most interesting games are the ones where they


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[Assistant] Like, it's, it's like you've got this positive feedback loop where you, you make money selling consoles, and you dump that into games, then you make money selling the games, and then you dump that back into the console, and it's like, it's a, it's a,


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[Assistant] It's a self-reinforcing, it's an ecosystem business model slash, like there's, through the, through the hardware, the game, and the subscription services, it throws a lot of money into a pot that at some point, if they want that, if they want that machine to keep turning, has to go into developing great games.


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[Assistant] It feels like if they just become software companies, well, they're gonna have all the same challenges that the entire rest of the games industry does where they just need to count on absolutely crushing it with software sales every single time.


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[Assistant] You know? Speaking of which, uh, did you get a chance to try out Storm Gate from Frost Giant Studios yet?


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[Assistant] Yeah, these are some ex-Blizzard devs, uh, who are making what's supposed to be, what they're trying to turn into kind of a spiritual successor to Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2, which are IPs that just, uh, Starcraft in particular just feels like it's rotting.


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[Assistant] Like, just do anything with that. No, no, here's another Diablo gotcha game. I think pretty much everything Blizzard has is rotting right now, if I'm being completely honest. I mean, Diablo seems to be printing money. Is it? I think so. The mobile game? Yeah, exactly. The desktop game? Oh, well sure, yeah, but I mean, mobile, I mean,


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[Assistant] No, but the fact that King is like in the name of the company was mind-blowing to me and then, and then too, the revenue share that King has of the entire, of the entire company was just...


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[Assistant] Okay. Alright, Diablo Immortal has stabilized at anywhere from about, uh, five to seven million dollars a month. That's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] So, so Diablo Immortal is generating on a recurring basis somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 to 70 million dollars a year.


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[Assistant] Like, well into its life cycle here, this is from Statista. Take these numbers with a grain of salt that they need to be taken with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I don't know exactly where these ones came from, but I, these, this seems somewhat believable that it did, you know, tens of millions of dollars per month in the first couple of months. So this game is, is so far beyond its ROI point, uhm, and is now into gravy territory.


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[Assistant] Games as a service don't have quite the traditional, okay, we hit the ROI point. Now everything is just gravy, uh, that we, that you used to because the development is ongoing, but there's no way that the development is costing them five to six million dollars a month. A lot of that is absolutely, absolutely gravy. Um, I was talking, I forget who I was talking to about this, but, um, it is pretty funny to me.


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[Assistant] How clearly Nvidia seems to see the future, and how much of their development seems to be going into making your old games fun to play again.


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[Assistant] If you, if you look, I don't know, at the big picture, why does RTX Remix exist? It's not like there's any shortage of new games to play, so why would anybody need to go back and play Morrowind? But like, Innate?


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[Assistant] What I'm saying is that they are recognizing that the old model of here comes a blockbuster game that everyone is going to play, every gamer is going to need, or they're just gonna get left behind by their gaming crew, is dead. So they can't count on that to sell GPUs anymore.


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[Assistant] Uuuuh. Let's have a look at the Helldivers 2 system requirements, shall we?


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[Assistant] But my point though was that NVIDIA can't count on these AAA games. Pushing NVIDIA sales. That everyone's gonna buy to make it so that you have to buy an RTX, you know, 6969 GT Ti.


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[Assistant] In a meaningful, I would enjoy this game more, playing it this way, kind of way. And it's just, I don't know, I don't remember how we made it onto this topic of conversation. But it's clear that they've identified that the industry that they grew up in,


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[Assistant] Sort of. Oh, I like things about it. Yeah. It's the game I play if I'm just like, I'm gonna play a game for an hour. I've given them zero dollars for it though, so I'm definitely part of the problem.


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[Assistant] Yeah, see, people are, know what games is chores, smoke is cool. See, this is, this, guys, this is- The smoke is pretty cool! Yeah, this is, this is what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] No, I'm doing this. I'm actually, I'm doing this. Okay, here we go. Dictionary.com. What is your phone doing? What's that? It's charging. Oh.


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[Assistant] Why does it have a red light? Uh, because it has a cool, uh, it has a cool multicolored light that you can have it do different lights for different things.


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[Assistant] Well, that's cool. The Note 9 is, it's the phone that has the, all the things. Uhm, hold on, actually let me double check. I think it has that. I've never actually tried to configure it. Uhm, RGB, uh, notification, light. I think it has one. Light colors mean... Yeah, yeah, it definitely has that.


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[Assistant] Yep, it has that. Okay, so the definition of a game. Uh, noun. Wait, what? Portal 2 is releasing


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[Assistant] An amusement, an amusement or pastime. So, what does CS2...


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[Assistant] It all went away, and then it comes back. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think they developed a game with CS2, because the game already existed. It's basically like, it's basically like if you electronify- New buy menu, yup.


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[Assistant] Anyway, what I was gonna say was basically you create like a, like a chess with, you know, microtransactions essentially, so you can buy like skins, skins for your chess. FPS chess.


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on, here we go, here we go, what is this? What am I, what am I, what am I looking at? Just wait for it, just wait for it.


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[Assistant] The hat. Okay, okay, so remember when we did a poll on Wanshow and we asked the people, hold on let me just, uh, it's not, it's not obvious, uh, outwardly which one is which. Can you tell from the bands? Uh, you know what? Nope. No, these might, wait, did they seriously, oh, they only,


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[Assistant] These are the same hat. Uh, one is large, one is medium. Okay, the point is, ages ago, we asked you guys, hey,


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[Assistant] Do you just want, like, a more comfortable, uh, you know, us-designed, there's no Smarty, so it's, it's like super comfy, it has a nice size adjuster. Oh, no Smarty. Yeah, no, no, no Smarty. It has a, has a quite a nice size adjuster, and it's, you know, just the right depth, it's quality, quality hat.


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[Assistant] Do you just want like a quality, you know, basic hat? We're bringing back, you know, the basic hat. Or do you want an expensive hat that's like waterproof and made out of this super expensive material? And you guys basically voted 50-50. So we were like, alright, thanks for nothing.


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[Assistant] Da-da-da-da-da-da! The LTT hat! And the LTT hat.


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[Assistant] Pro. Now I saw some really cool video.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we've got two versions of the hat. We've got the regular hat, and we've got the LTT hat pro, made exclusively for professional grass touchers. It's water resistant for everyday use. Okay, what's the fabric? There it is.


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[Assistant] Ventile cotton, with incredible water repellency, repellency, excuse me, by design. Got a whole bunch of information here. Really nice comfort, no matter how you wear it, forward, backward.


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[Assistant] It matters to me, okay? It matters to me. That works surprisingly well. I just, I didn't want the, uh... Wait, I can...


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[Assistant] Medium and large, sorry. Medium and large, uhm.


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[Assistant] But the main feature is just, that is comfortable. Anyway, it's there, it's on the store, and you can pick it up this week, and while you're at it, you can leave a merch message. The way to interact with the show is not through super chats, or uhm, whatever they're called, whatever the thing's on Twitch. Twitch bits? Twitch bits or anything like that.


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[Assistant] It's merch messages, because instead of just throwing money at your screen, you should throw money at your screen and get...


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[Assistant] We'll forward them internally to get you guys an answer, reply to you, or even curate them for me and Luke to address. And these days, often Dan as well.


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[Assistant] All you gotta do is put something in your cart, and there'll be a little box anytime we're live that will allow you to leave a merch message. So we're gonna show you guys kinda how that works. And, oh right! There's another promo for the store. Uh, I didn't see it on the homepage, but...


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[Assistant] We are... yes. We have a promo running on the Retro Screwdriver.


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[Assistant] All you gotta do is add the retro edition. Okay, so retro colorway to your order, and you will get free shipping for your entire order! Oooh, nice. Yea, Nick, uh, was like, hey, we should do a promo. It's... March. Which is...


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[Assistant] A pretty traditionally slow time for retail. And uh, I was like...


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[Assistant] Like everything else we do this hat took an embarrassing amount of time. Have you noticed how long we've had no hats on the store?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. So we're both wearing the regular cotton one, and then the ventile one is like double the price or whatever because that material is like f-


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[Assistant] Wildly expensive. Yeah, it's 20 bucks and it's 40 bucks and it's just a really...


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[Assistant] Okay, I don't use the word waterproof. From my understanding, this is a waterproof material, but it's a word I just like to avoid because water will literally cut a path through a mountain.


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[Assistant] So nothing is waterproof, but the wa- the wa- what's the point of having a water-resistant one with a hole in it? So I was really confused. Firefighters don't like fireproof.


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[Assistant] Come at me, bro. Yeah, so that's why, that's why we had that whole thing with Vessi, where, uh, we changed our talking points to, Vessi, Vessi says they're waterproof instead of us saying they're waterproof, cause I won't say anything is waterproof. In fairness to Vessi, they're good. Good shoes, I like them. But, nothing is waterproof.


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[Assistant] So I've made the mistake of washing an apple before peeling it and what happens is the paper layer, uh, delaminates from the adhesive layer and then getting that adhesive layer off completely without pulling out the isopropyl alcohol and like cleaning your apple.


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[Assistant] Really? Uh, whereas the plastic ones come off even if you get them wet first, but from my understanding are more environmentally impactful. So hopefully that answers the question. But, um, the one that really drives me crazy is,


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, the ocean spray craisins. The dried cranberries. The pack that they have at Costco.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'm about to reveal that I'm a complete idiot, but as far as I can tell, there's been an error in the packaging, such that if you use the like, pull thing, the resealable mechanism for it doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Is it, is it the Craisins? I don't, I don't know. There's, there's one very like large brand, like large recognizable brand thing that they carry at Costco where if you use the pull tab


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[Assistant] It, uh, you, the, the reseal thing doesn't work, and you have to get out a knife, and you have to like, cut it yourself in your own spot, instead of where the little indent is, and I, I think it's the Craisins, but-


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[Assistant] People are saying yes. They had the line cut underneath the resealable zipper. Yeah, thanks. Okay, yeah. That has been like that for, I kid you not, like five fucking years.


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[Assistant] Mind-blowing to me. It is absolutely mind-blowing to me. I mean, I've talked about this on the show where I think that the president of every car company should have to drive only cars that they make. They should, they should rotate through them. They should have to drive every single car they make.


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[Assistant] And I mean not just that, like if they come across something that is annoying and in so many cases costs nothing to fix. Literally, actually nothing. You know, to move a button where you can reach it more easily or to...


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[Assistant] Just grinds my gears so hard. Uhm, you know, you talk, man, anything is like this, you know, like, if you are, if you, if you run, you know, public transit for the city of Vancouver.


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[Assistant] If you don't ride it, at least once a month.


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[Assistant] How could you possibly, how could you possibly even hope to make decisions that impact the people who do write it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I use it. I mean, I had a meeting with Dennis earlier this week where we were talking about his creative sponsor spots. And he asked me about the ones that we did for Wicked Cushions at CES. And I was like, brother.


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[Assistant] So much content. Man, we've got some good stuff coming. Hey, speaking of Nvidia, who we roasted in the first topic of the show, guess who's back? Back again.


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[Assistant] Nvidia sponsored a video. I know, right? What? It's been, hold on. I think the last, I think the last time they worked with us in a non-editorial capacity, and even that seemed begrudging for quite a while, was the launch of the RTX 3090.


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[Assistant] Some people have, some people have moved on, or are in positions of lesser importance. Uhm, and,


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[Assistant] Contributed. Anyway, the point is, there's, there's, there's a new sheriff in town when it comes to media engagement. And we actually first, I first sat down with them in June of last year. And they were basically like, no, no, we're different now, we're different now. And I was like, sure.


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[Assistant] And they were like, no, but like, you know, we really want to, we really want to work with the media. We want to work with you guys. We want to.


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[Assistant] But I basically tore a strip out of him. I was like, look, this is everything that Nvidia has done wrong. Ever.