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[Assistant] Good job bro, fist bump, exit, go on with your day, like feeling good moment after you like crush something together. That happened with me and Yvonne and I remember being like, what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then now I think we've been like, actually super cool for a long time.


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[Assistant] That was a, that was a bit of a can of worms. How did we even get to that? Oh right, you dying. Okay, yeaah. So if you, if you died, and, and Yvonne was, was head, I would stick around. And I don't think, uh, I would have...


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[Assistant] But I hate this, I'm go- I'm out, like I can't deal with it. It would be more- I think you'd shift into like, protective mode. Yes.


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[Assistant] I would want to step up to try to help her as much as possible because I would recognize that that would be a ridiculously difficult situation. Even entering the workplace with your name on it, literally just that level would be really hard. So I would want to be trying to take as much load off as possible, carrying as much weight as I can. It would be that type of situation. The scenario that we were talking about though was,


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[Assistant] An investor, which is specifically something we have never had, who is specifically someone who we have always ranted publicly and privately about how they never have the best interest of the user in mind and we try to


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[Assistant] Very often have the best interest of the user in mind. Like it's, it's very clashing with how we have built this thing and the reason why, even if I don't necessarily agree with everything, I can usually see the reasons behind everything. Now we would be shifting to a situation where I very likely


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[Assistant] Don't see the reasons behind things unless they are purely financial. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] So I, there's, I just, there's just realistically no way I survive in that realm happily.


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[Assistant] So like, I'll find another thing to do.


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[Assistant] I like working with someone who has that mentality towards things. The second you bring in purely investor types who didn't build this, who have no real stake in this or care about this at all realistically outside of, like you were saying, I will


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[Assistant] Whatever X my return on this investment on whatever date. That is the only thing they care about. It's not gonna work anymore.


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[Assistant] I hate that kind of stuff. I think that's one of the like earliest conversations we ever had about development was back when we both worked at NCX and you were ranting about the NCX development team because they made some change in the software that you had to use at work when you were doing product management stuff where to do the same thing, you had to click more things.


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[Assistant] That's just goofy. That's like one of the most likely things that you would take your hands off the steering wheel to do while driving in a regular, like average day to day scenario.


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[Assistant] Ridiculous, but just an idea. You could get like an, uh, an NFC tag thing in your car.


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[Assistant] And just like have an iPhone somewhere that is always plugged in in your car. That does map some music for you. I'd have to have a data plan for it.


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[Assistant] So you have that NFC tag thing, right? When you get in your car, you just swipe your phone to turn on your hotspot. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It would work, and it would make it so you don't have to use an iPhone all the time, if that's something that you don't want to do because you want to stick with your flippy phone thing. Folding phone thing. But, I mean, yeaah, it's not great. I'm not saying it's great.


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[Assistant] I have been thinking of, uh, you know, you know where the screen is on my car? This isn't going to be helpful for all you guys, but you know where the screen is on my car? Yep. I've been thinking about embedding a tablet in that spot.


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[Assistant] I'm saving for like, something that's significantly more difficult to buy. That's fair.


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[Assistant] I could. It'd be fine. I can, I can run it for a sec. Alright, fine. I mean, we're, we're like four hours in. If people are still watching, they're probably not gonna be, they're probably not gonna bail if you're gone for like five minutes.


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[Assistant] There you go. Oh my god, that's gold. I think I'm gonna leave that button. You should take the Grammarly bit off. Yeah. Just so they don't get upset. I'm gonna add that to Linus' repertoire of, uh. That's hilarious though.


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[Assistant] I don't know what he says either. I've actually never heard it. I see him. So for you, you guys don't know this, I guess, but there's a TV that's just to this side of the camera. So I can see like right now I'm looking in. Do you want me to use Luke cams? My own eyes. No, I don't. They still wouldn't see it. So it doesn't really matter. That's true.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so right now I'm looking at myself. And now I'm looking at the camera. So if you see me looking like this, I'm either looking at Dan or myself. I'm hiding. What's the verdict? Yvonne took my car.


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[Assistant] I think there isn't really a ton else. Fix the background wrinkle? That's there intentionally.


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[Assistant] It's happening. It comes for ya. The thing that's been most noticeable for me is just recovery time of any form.


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[Assistant] Any form. When you- when you're super young, you can like, have a nap.


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[Assistant] 15 minutes, then when you get up you're like, I'm ready to go!


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[Assistant] And that starts to fade. Or you don't nap. More tired. You're just pulling all nighter. Yeah, or that. And then it's no problem. You're just good the next day. No issue. Uh, now like if you get sick, it seems to take longer to recover. If you, if you're sore, it seems to take longer to recover. If it just, just recovery time in general is just like way worse. Robert B.


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[Assistant] I went to, so for Valentine's Day, uh, Emma and I went to the H.R. McMillan Space Center. Yea. They have, they have this thing, uh, called, I think it's called After Dark.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's not just Valentine's Day. It's like every few months or whatever, they do this thing called After Dark. And I've, I've gone a bunch of times. I've gone with my dad. I've gone with Emma. I've gone with whoever. Um, and it's basically, they'll, they'll bring in like guest lectures and stuff. And it's basically the HR McMillan Space Center, but tuned for adults.


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[Assistant] So they'll have, they have, they serve drinks, they have, uh, different.


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[Assistant] Valentine's Day, they made it based around like, what does the colour red represent in the universe? And it was actually this really interesting thing about colour spectrums and how the sun is actually blue and like all this other funky stuff. Blue, green, whatever.


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[Assistant] One of the demos and examples that they had, the guy was up on stage talking about how they interpret different colours of gases on different planets and all that kind of stuff, really interesting. I noticed that what he was using to switch the screens behind him was just OBS.


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[Assistant] And I'm sitting there nerding out over how he's using OBS and like the different ways that he's using it and stuff.


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[Assistant] People watching on Floatplane, Twitch, and technically Facebook, uh, that, that stream, the stream going to those people, has been live for over four and a half hours.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Confusion. I got wet. Sorry? I said Lane's got crossed.


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[Assistant] I think if you're responding to something on the show, if you're responding to something officially, you need to actually watch it. I think arguing that there is value to absorbing stuff from the comments is also fair, but just like, yeaah. No doubt. Where were you last week?


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[Assistant] To start watching a bunch of videos. He's never watched a lot of videos on YouTube. It's always been kind of surprising to me, but it is what it is.


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[Assistant] That's, and that's precisely why I didn't really push back that hard last week. It's like, it's just, he's just gonna do that. It's fine. You don't like, need to watch YouTube if you're gonna respond to something that's on YouTube. You should watch YouTube. But like, yea. Yea. In general. Who cares.


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[Assistant] A lot of the community approaches react content and specifically react, not reaction or reacting, just react content as a...


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[Assistant] filter for types of content, and I think Linus defies react or reaction or reacting or whatever, just the word in general, as a person of the craft.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean. Do you want to know why I brought that argument up?


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[Assistant] By the way? Did I coerce you into something? No, cause I was trying to get you to stop talking about the video that you hadn't watched.


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[Assistant] People brought up that I did nothing, and I'm like, I WAS doing stuff! I repeatedly said we hadn't watched it, and then kept trying to bring this up, uh, this type of things up at the very least. It just didn't work, he was like, no.


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[Assistant] Amazing! They now claim that they have addressed the issue with the Eufy web portal that made unencrypted camera live streams accessible without authentication and will be updating every Eufy camera to default and end encryption via WebRTC.


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[Assistant] They stress that no facial recognition data was included and that they have no access to users footage while using local storage and no access to users biometric data whatsoever. Sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Anchor has apologized for poor communication. Good. And confirmed plans to create a bug bounty program. Okay, now tell me something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that sucks. That sucks a lot. At this point, like...


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[Assistant] We're gonna ge- I'm gonna skip the last couple notes. We're gonna go right into the discussion question. What will Anchor need to do in order for the community at large to accept their apology? Can we ever trust them again? A massive, like, brutalizing leadership change? Like, I can't imagine...


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[Assistant] The, the, the thing that steered this ship so far, I would ever trust again.


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[Assistant] And I don't know if this is true, but I'm going to assume it was true. There was probably an opportunity for that to happen.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I think that's pretty straight forward. Should we jump into a more positive one? Yeaah. Cause I think this is actually pretty good. Youtube shorts.


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[Assistant] You think this is good? Cause I'm mad. Oh.


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[Assistant] Don't think I scrolled down far enough earlier when I was skimming through this to see the caveats section. Some of that is BS. We'll get there in a second though. Uhm, I just read the first three bits and I thought it was actually really cool. Anyways, shorts that use one music track will be taxed.


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[Assistant] Let's just say $100 to make this easy. In ad revenue. And 20% of those shorts use a song. So remember,


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[Assistant] If it uses a song, it's 50% of the views, but let's say only 20% of the short's actually used a song, then the music industry gets 10 bucks, YouTube gets 49.50, and the creators split $40.50.


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[Assistant] There's some important caveats though. A lot of this is based around the ad not playing before your specific video, right? So it assumes you're in the short's feed.


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[Assistant] Okay, YouTube doesn't count views from outside, said Shortsfeed.


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[Assistant] For example, if a viewer clicks on a short from a creator's library, not counted. What? What?


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[Assistant] YouTube also doesn't share revenue from ads on navigation pages leading to shorts or the first ad that plays in the shorts feed if it comes before the first video. What? What?


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[Assistant] We asked a representative from YouTube. We did.


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[Assistant] I don't know how true or real this is, but I read a short little story thing about someone who was traveling, uh, but they were in the states on a work visa.


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[Assistant] And they got fired while they were traveling over email. So they're, they can't come back.


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[Assistant] So like their stuff, their car, everything is just like, they're, they're getting one of their friends to like sell it for them. And they just have to like, yeah, I don't know. Really brutal.


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[Assistant] Let me just need spiffing grit to figure it out for us. I don't even, this is probably because I don't watch enough shorts, but I don't even get it. Like, if I click on a short, like if I'm on the YouTube app thing and I click on a short, it doesn't immediately play an ad, right? It plays the short that I click on. No, but if you


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I, I have no idea. I, I want to kind of assume that it has something to do with like shareholder happiness because stocks in general for a while have been a little, as far as I know they're going slightly up recently. I don't know. I mean, that's the thing though. It's been a little brutal.


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[Assistant] No. Can I trust you to do this? But someone, someone in Flipplane Chat, uh, named this past winter, uh, said something that I think is actually kind of brilliant. Uhm, I'm going to start making shorts that are reactions to ads that YouTube plays before shorts.


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[Assistant] Oh, where's your defense now, YouTube? What's up? What's up now, YouTube?


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[Assistant] I wanted to talk about, and maybe we will anyways, but maybe not right now, I wanted to talk about Blizzard penalizing players who regularly play with cheaters. Yeah, I wanna talk about that. The topic is not filled out. I can just read from the


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[Assistant] Uh, the Overwatch 2 team is, uh, frustrated with the amount of cheaters. Apparently they've banned, uh, where is it? 50,000 accounts, I think? Over 50,000 accounts have been


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[Assistant] Actioned, whatever that means. Uhm, I think that might be a range from temp bans to permanent bans, whatever. Uh, since launch, Blizzard has apparently had enough, to the extent it's no longer just targeting the cheaters, but those who go along with them. Awesome.


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[Assistant] Well, it's saying who regularly play with cheaters, I suspect it's gonna have something to do with the partying system.


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[Assistant] Gain a lot of some type of resource, whether it's like loot or money or whatever, uhm, from demolishing a bunch of enemies. Well if you play with a cheater who does that...


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[Assistant] So, hammering down on people like that, also, making it so that, kind of forcing the community to do this, which is good, uhm, yeaah. If you figure out that your buddy's cheating, get him to stop. Cause you don't wanna get banned.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you shouldn't wanna play with people who cheat. I have read online sentiment of people who are like, well I'm not cheating, I don't like, loot their kills, or I don't, uh, I don't, I don't, whatever, I don't interact in whatever way, so I don't really care, and it's like, no! That's BS. You should stop playing with them.


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[Assistant] And you should like pressure your friends to not cheat in games cause it's stupid. Unless obviously it's single player games that can be fun. I gotta tell you, I don't play with cheaters.


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[Assistant] So like- So they'll just, they'll just waze around and kill the entire lobby, and then, so all the players will die, and then any AI that spawns in, they'll just kill them, and they'll just tell you where all the loot is.


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[Assistant] And they can, they can like scan the entire map, see where all the high value loot is. They can see all the loot that's on different players that they killed. So they just tell you where to go, you pick everything up. And then you're just chatted out and... And you exit with all your money, all your quest completion, all your progress, everything you needed.


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[Assistant] They can even like, they can, they can set their, they can set their targeting system, so that the cheater shoots people's legs, so they become like borderline immobilized, you can kinda hobble around, but that's it, and then the player can go around and pick them off. Like it's super brutal.


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[Assistant] There's, there's- Have you had that happen to you before? That exact scenario, I honestly don't think so. Right. But I have died from cheaters many times in Escape from Tarkov. It's a reality of playing the game to be honest. Right. It's not like, it's not constant.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, I don't think we've ever had that happen when we were playing. Not that we could tell. Not that we could tell. That's a big problem with it, is when it happens enough, it adds a reasonable level of doubt of the legitimacy of the other player. Yep. So, if something happens that's like, desync,


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[Assistant] Server desync, so they, they kind of chopped on your screen oddly or something like that, and it's just, it's just server problems, but to you it might look like they're speed hacking.


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[Assistant] No, it's just some server problem, or maybe something weird happened and you didn't realize it. Maybe the person that actually killed you was like, way off on the side. But you don't know that because they have no replay system.


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[Assistant] They have no, uh, Overwatch, or is it called Overwatch? Whatever the system that Counter-Strike has, uhm, where this is-


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[Assistant] An amazing system and way more games need this type of system. It's fantastic. Uhm, but Counter-Strike has this, this thing where you can watch gameplay.


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[Assistant] Because you know how with Counter-Strike you can like replay games? Because it logs all the information. Not as a video, but as a file. And you can replay it back. So you can watch gameplay from those players. Uhm. See if they were snapping to you or whatever else. Yeaah. And some like streamers and stuff will just do it as like a fun content tool. Sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it will, and, cause you can, yeah, you can replay your match and then, if more games had that, you would get more legitimate reports. Cause I guarantee you, there are times in Escape from Tarkov, for example, I have reported players that were legit.


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[Assistant] I don't know that. But just out of the amount of times I've reported people, I am certain it has happened. Right. Maybe it was a desync issue. Sorry brother. Maybe it was someone different. Yea, I don't know. And I hope if they were legit they didn't get banned. I'm sure they didn't because of the amount of people that aren't legit that aren't banned. Uh, uh, but I'm also sure that I have reported the people that


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[Assistant] Be able to get more legitimate reporting would be good. Uhm, and I think there should be ways, and I can think of a lot of games where there would be a way for this. I believe Overwatch has loot boxes, I haven't played it in a long time. It did last time I played it.


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[Assistant] Uh, make it so that like, oh, if you get a bunch of success, like, if you do that system, where you review gameplay, and you vote,


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[Assistant] No one's going to, like, as much as we all wanna say it, none of these developers are gonna solve this problem. You cannot solve cheating in video games.


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[Assistant] And you can even do external screen capture, like there are ways to do it that it is 100% legitimately impossible to detect. So like,


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[Assistant] Okay, sure, there are also cheats that are possible to detect, and I'm sure there's lots of game developers that could do a better job.


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[Assistant] But continuing that argument is not super useful. I think the more useful argument is adding more tools for the community to be able to self-police.


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[Assistant] Kinda question people that are acting super suspicious. Be like, bro, like, are you cheating? Cause I don't want to get banned with you if you are.


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[Assistant] So basically it's the social credit system. I can't believe you're defending this. I like it in this case.


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[Assistant] Uh, and adding systems like that, like that Counter-Strike system where you can review gameplay. Even just...


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[Assistant] Even if it's not the Overwatch or whatever it was called type of system that Counter-Strike had, even if it was just being able to view a gameplay, uh, uh, sorry, view a replay of the game that you can see from any perspective and then being able to report on your own from that view.


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[Assistant] That'd be a total, total game changer. Because there's a bunch of times in, in Tarkov specifically where I'm like, that was really suspicious, but I have no idea. And if I could just watch it back, I would make my decision then.


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[Assistant] But right now, I'm just gonna report it, because- Yeah, you're bl- you're blind.


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[Assistant] You got real close. You know I've been close. Yeah. But you also like can't stop. Yeah. I feel like he has the same type of mentality.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say he picked like, YouTube as his thing in general.


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[Assistant] I'm a little surprised there isn't just like a grey logo but it would break it up.


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[Assistant] I suspect I'm pretty similar because of a pretty similar situation. Uh, I know we went to Platium once. I went to Platium a grand total of one time in my life. Yeah, me too. One time.


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[Assistant] And it was like kind of cool, but I remember even when I was a little kid just being like, you know, if you hung out here for a while, like...


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[Assistant] I remember, like, being very young, because I don't think Playdium was around for all that long. And I remember thinking back then, like, like, the speed at which this could be, you know, dumped into an entire video game that you could take home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I used to rent games. Yeah, 100%. I would work random odd jobs and then rent games, for sure. Yeah. I am certain I spent more money renting games than I did in arcade.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna figure it out. I know. Let's move on. I hate this, I'm so mad. If you think about it in like an hour, we're still somehow doing the show and bringing it up then. Yeah, fine.


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[Assistant] I have, I have, uh, something that you're gonna say is objectively wrong, and I won't be able to strongly argue against. You're wrong. Uhm, physical storage medium for games. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] I miss it. I'm not gonna lie. There was, there was a thing I was reading about where some company figured out how to put some insane amount of data storage on an optical disc. And they were like, this is going to be the future. And I was like, good.


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[Assistant] When you, when you travel a bit, stuff changes a lot more than I would have expected. Like when I, when I first started traveling for work.


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[Assistant] The only difference I really expected was like, oh, we're gonna run into language barrier stuff, but the world's so connected these days, everyone shares everything, a lot of the processes for how things are gonna work are just gonna be figured out, right? Translate what I'm about to say to Chinese. Yeah, that'll be the only thing I have to do, and that's a fun activity, I actually genuinely really enjoy that, but...


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[Assistant] There's a lot more funky stuff. Like, if I remember correctly, again in Japan, you carry around like a stamp that's unique to you, or maybe don't carry it around, but for like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the cable card was sweet. Not cool. That was a very fun era to be into PCs. Yeah, for sure. There's just so many options.


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[Assistant] I got, this is totally aggressively off topic, I don't know why I just thought about this, but I was reminded fairly recently about


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[Assistant] A funny story of a tech goof back in, back in the day. Uhm, I was a, I was a young lad, and I was going to a, a girl's house that I was interested in, and, uh, I wanted to bring along


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[Assistant] My, I don't remember which game it was, but I had a disc, a CD for a Star Wars video game.


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[Assistant] And I liked one of the music tracks for the Star Wars video game. So I said I would bring it along.


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[Assistant] Because I just assumed, well like, the music track is on the disc, so I can just put it in something that can play music and it'll just play, right? Like that makes sense. Yeaah. The file's on there. It'll just work.


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[Assistant] So we get there and I put it in her, like, dad's home theater setup. It's a video game. I see. It doesn't play. And I'm like, oh, it should definitely work. The file's on there. I know what I'm talking about. And the dad's just like, uhm.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. Yeaah, that's pretty cool. Someone said apparently some game disc could do that. That's interesting. Cause, I wonder if young me was right and his setup wasn't compatible or something. I don't know. That is the right address though. That is the right address. WillowVideo probably not. WillowVideo did have multiple locations.


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[Assistant] Oh, here's one. Microsoft launches new AI enabled Bing and Teams. I didn't see the Teams one coming actually. Microsoft launched a new chat GPT enabled version of Bing today and then


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[Assistant] Honestly, uh, Microsoft also apparently intentionally released a new paid tier for a chat GPT 3.5 enabled version of MS Teams. It includes automatic note taking and intelligent recap features as well as safeguards like automatic watermarking and labeling of sensitive content.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, Google has invested in an AI startup headed by former OpenAI researchers to the tune of $300 million.


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[Assistant] Will this increase competition in the search engine space? What will that competition look like?


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[Assistant] It'll absolutely increase competition in the search engine space, and I think that competition looks like, uh, $300 million so far. Google is...


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[Assistant] Gotta be freaking out. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But I think, uh, Microsoft is hopefully going to be wise enough to not halo infinite their, their new Bing search and release it wildly before it's ready. Uhm, and...


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[Assistant] I, I suspect that was a natural mistake. The Microsoft Teams thing is very intriguing to me. Yeah, I didn't see that part coming. Uh, I haven't checked it yet, but I'm wondering if it's on top of already having, like, a business plan for Teams? Like, I wonder if you have to pay even more?


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[Assistant] I believe it can actually do even more than what we noted here as well. Uhm, I think it can help with like, uh, setting up meetings and like, I know it can track notes and stuff, but I believe it helps with like coordination of meeting planning, like picking a time and stuff like that. I'm not certain, I just, I skimmed an article earlier today. Uhm, that's super cool, but it'll be interesting, I don't know.


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[Assistant] The teller, uh, a little foc- more focused on her than the name of the story. No, no, that's the name I gave before.


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[Assistant] I know, that's my, that's my point. You're more focused on the lady than the store itself.


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[Assistant] That sounds like they probably sold a wide range of uh, potential videos for a wide range of ages.


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[Assistant] This makes me so mad because for some reason, people just have the worst takes on this. I get so mad hearing this. It's literal garbage. I saw this tweet this week and this actual moron said, and I quote, tech companies own way too much. They need to be regulated. When I read this, I almost, I almost deleted Twitter.


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[Assistant] I wanted to reply and tell this guy, uh, actually no, they should own more.


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[Assistant] Elon Musk should probably own his own chunk of the US government at this rate. It's not like they're doing a good job without him.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's just because it's me, I suspect, uh, other people might maybe hear it better. That didn't sound like us at all, in my opinion.


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[Assistant] There was some, there was some, like, breaths and non-word-based reactions that my version had that I actually think were quite good. They sounded like exact copies. Okay. But it sounded like each of them had, like, a strong, like, midwestern American accent. Okay. That was clearly not us.


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[Assistant] Just for funsies, I'll say it wasn't, but he's like wearing a mask or something like that. Cause it definitely sounded muffled.


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[Assistant] This audio clip I would never vote for. Okay, I think fake. It's fake.


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[Assistant] Hit us, you have to do it, is, uhm, amazing.


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[Assistant] You probably had like some prop gun or something you were just messing around with.


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[Assistant] They do a little bit, I think it's like, potentially like, not very great recordings, but that one's real.


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[Assistant] And I don't like that, like, you know, if, if, if this clip, like the original source that, that got us to kinda do this, right? Yep. That Reddit thread. If, if one of those clipped, if one of those clips was put next to,


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[Assistant] Uh, like, a title that claimed that you were saying those things and didn't say that it was AI? You might trick some people.


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[Assistant] You might trick some people that are less familiar with the voice. Like yeaah, I'm assuming, I wasn't looking at chat obviously, I'm assuming floatplane chat probably answered pretty accurately.


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[Assistant] While we were going? Probably. Uhm, but that's also Flowplain subscribers, right? That's people that are watching the show live.


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[Assistant] We had a problem before Musk bought Twitter, where a ton of legitimate accounts that needed verification couldn't get it, and now we're gonna have a problem where no accounts have verification.


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[Assistant] To put on my wheel of whatever it's called hat.


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[Assistant] Go ahead, defend the indefensible. He should be able to make changes.


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[Assistant] Just year over year, just bleeding out like crazy. So he has to find some way to try to make it make money. And that's going to be really hard for Twitter. I'm pretty sure I've sat on a land show a bunch of times in the past that I don't really understand how Twitter would, uh, make a lot of money. Uh, he scared all the advertisers away.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that wasn't a good plan. So now he's gonna find a different solution and maybe those bot guys will pay for it or something. I don't know. Uhm, I think this is a bad move. I, what I, I do think that the statement


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[Assistant] Just, just like a lot of things that have happened with Twitter, I think the original


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[Assistant] Statement is, is correct to a lot of degrees. Like there probably is a lot of bots.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think this is the solution at all.


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[Assistant] The solution to a bunch of the definitely real problems that have been pushed out are questionable. And some of them have been pushed out and then pulled back and like, they've been acting very quickly. They've been quite agile in their way of doing things, which some people will say is good and some people will say is bad.


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[Assistant] I just, my stance has been the same this whole time, which is, it was a dumpster fire before. Like we can't forget how trash it was.


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[Assistant] Which I think a lot of people do. I think they look back at old Twitter with rose-tinted glasses. Yea, it was crap. It was crap. It was crap then, it's crap now. Crap in like seven different ways. Yea, it's uh, it's burning crap.


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[Assistant] It's been a minute. Yeah. Uhm, yeah, so I don't know. It's, I think the, the answer to, I think it would have been kind of neat if you could like apply to be like a bot of good faith.


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[Assistant] Because there are honestly straight up, and I actually find it really annoying if I am actually using Twitter and I see this happen, where you get like every single reply to a tweet is like, at save thread or whatever.


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[Assistant] They just like, it's just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tweets just calling bots in to like save threads or save videos or do whatever else. I haven't really seen that. Build this functionality or like...


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[Assistant] Something. So there's, there's functionality solving bots. Right. That they're very likely going to block out. Right, yeah, for sure. Yeah, Jayden's saying, why not bot verified? Yeah, exactly. So like, I feel like the old verification system, where you like apply for it, and then you get it or not,


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[Assistant] Actually makes sense for bots, but then they didn't do that, they just


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[Assistant] Might make sense to certain degrees because they're sitting on this teetering edge going like are we going to completely bankrupt ourselves? Yeah, so like would would you as a leader of a ship that is Potentially a month or two away from bankruptcy want to commit anything to something that isn't gonna make money Pretty unlikely. I don't know situations wow


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[Assistant] It feels very like Wizards of the Coastie. Yeah. Where they had that whole thing for Dungeons and Dragons and they're like, oh, I mean, it's not out yet. It's like, yeah, come on.


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[Assistant] Not even that. So my, my question, Mr. Teacher, is what about a lot of places in the world where they don't have Wi-Fi and they run off cellular signals at home?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is totally a thing. There's places around the world that have extremely good cellular infrastructure. And cheap. Cheap data. To the point where like, why would you even get home internet?


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[Assistant] You have basically unlimited data, and it's really cheap. Oh, balls. Alright. Well, anyway. So like, how the heck is that supposed to work?


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[Assistant] Apparently, apparently they, uh, they're gonna use location ID for mobile. Okay. Or location services for mobile, sorry.


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[Assistant] People are sharing links right to us right now. Netflix has retracted password sharing restrictions. Well yeah, but we're not saying they didn't.


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[Assistant] They've been threatening cracking down on password sharing for a super long time just because this leaked early doesn't mean they're not doing it.


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[Assistant] As long as- Well, they promoted it too, like, I know people have memed on this a lot, I'm not the first person to point this out, but there's a tweet from forever ago, from Netflix, uhm, that says, love is sharing a password.


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[Assistant] With this type of activity. That muddies the waters a lot. Oh yeah, it sure does. A lot.


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[Assistant] Like, it's weird. I don't know. Like, I can totally understand the idea of like, wow, there's a lot of people freeloading off this service. Uhm, at least we make it so that only a certain amount of screens can be active at a time. That limits the amount of freeloading on the service, yadda yadda yadda.


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[Assistant] It might even be a promotion vehicle. I've wondered about that in the past. Like if you're leeching off of someone's Netflix, uh, but they keep kicking you off whenever they want to watch it, you might be like, well okay, I should just get my own account.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. But now, you're just gonna pirate.


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[Assistant] Not, not the thing. I think it comes with a free trial. Yeah, that thing. Are you gonna pay for it? I don't think so. It might be good for some people.


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[Assistant] I will be there with like a sheet just over my midsection, just sweating buckets. She's in the same room with me, three blankets on, shivering.


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[Assistant] And like, I'm not exaggerating, this has actually happened.


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[Assistant] So, we needed something, uhm, and it was like way too much money, but I was, I've been having an extremely hard time sleeping for a long time because of that, because I literally just sweat constantly. And to be able to sleep properly, your temperature is supposed to drop a little bit, and that just was never happening for me and all this kind of stuff. So, yeaah, I, I,


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[Assistant] I got one, uhm, and I put it on the minimum possible temperature.


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[Assistant] And, it doesn't solve the problem completely, cause I'm still a really warm boy, but it helps, noticeably.


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[Assistant] It like, it actually helps quite noticeably, so. Worth it, I guess, even though it was a lot and I am a cheat person.


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[Assistant] And my, my, my girlfriend was a trooper, man. Like she tried. She would, she would go to sleep wearing like sweats and have two blankets and like all this other kind of stuff because she was trying to make it so that I wasn't suffering. But I was still suffering. And I felt bad because she's doing that. And just, just, blech. So.


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[Assistant] There's nothing I can do about that. For people that think I'm exaggerating, I was losing four pounds of sweat at night. That's wild. That sounds impossible.


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[Assistant] I-I'm sure there might be some issues with my measurement. The way that I would do it, uhm, is I would weigh myself immediately before bed, and then before going to the washroom, I would weigh myself immediately in the morning. I'm sure there's some issues there, some other things going on, uhm,


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[Assistant] But it was, I was dropping four pounds every night, consistently, every time.


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[Assistant] So I was like, something has to change. Something. I'm like, begging for more fans of the AC to be on or something, but then I also know that my girlfriend is like, suffering because she's freezing. And I'm like, that's also not okay. So like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, see, like, I don't know. There's, there's things going on that I don't understand. Just, that's why I explained the method, so my incorrectness could be figured out. I mean, I don't even know what a pound is.


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[Assistant] Okay, what do I do? Uh, just do it before sharing your screen, and then show the site. Thanks, smart guy. You got it. Why you gotta be like that? I believe in you. You asked what you asked.


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[Assistant] No, I'm ready. Dennis requests that you talk about the video premiering tomorrow where he replaces Linus's assistant. Source, Dennis. So... It's already on Flowplain!


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[Assistant] Nonsense. I, I, I won't say it because I want people to watch the video, but for the AMD challenge that we're currently doing, my GPU is installed in a way that I have never even thought about installing a GPU before. Good work. And it came to me after like a lot of contemplation, but it works technically.


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[Assistant] These driver update performance boosts for intel have been...


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[Assistant] I didn't expect AI was gonna come for creative this quickly. Yeaah. And I don't think most people did. Cause the advice for a long time in the past was like, oh you want like an AI resistant job? Try to get into creative. Yeaah. But then this year's all been like AI music, AI art, AI writing.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's, yeaah, that's a little more advanced than most.


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[Assistant] It exists. It exists and it works and it's now. That one I did not expect to exist. I think the like self-checkout stuff though is not surprising to me.


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[Assistant] The Chris Perillo Wann Show for me in particular.


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[Assistant] Just could not get anyone from Oculus to respond to us at all.


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[Assistant] If you remember that. I do. That was super, super frustrating. And then I got to like physically get in his face at the show, and he was like, oh hey!


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[Assistant] I've seen your, like, reviews of our hardware, and I was like, that's cool, why won't anyone respond to me? And he was very surprised by that, and he ended up getting, like, forcing someone to respond to me, which was nice, but like, that was actually a pretty cool interview, and luckily it got us an Oculus contact, uhm, but temporarily.


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[Assistant] Some of the, like, OVH engineers and shadow virtualization techs that I was able to talk to and was like super not able to include what they were talking about in the video was pretty sick. Uhm, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, what sports have I done? Uh, that's genuinely a tough question because I sometimes forget some of them. Uhm, I've done a lot of stuff though. Uhm, what was the end of the, what were my takeaways from playing sports? Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] Holy, that's an extensive potential question. Uh, one of the biggest ones for me is that I found a lot of value from playing sports, uh, in how it


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[Assistant] How you learn how to deal with people and work as a, a team and, and be a unit. Uhm, and, and how you learn. I don't think people that don't play sports necessarily actually get this lesson. Uh, how you learn that it like kinda sucks to suck.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and not just because you lose, but because you might drag your team down.


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[Assistant] And why that putting in effort outside of like...


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[Assistant] Rod, Luke hit the crap out of me playing bubble soccer. Sorry, I do remember that actually. Uhm, sometimes I just, I, yeaah, there's certain things, my brother and I are the same way, there's certain things that'll just make us see red suddenly. We both played a lot of football. If you cross your feet, things are going down.


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[Assistant] Cause people don't have very good balance and they cross your feet, so it's the perfect time to hit them. Anyways, uhm.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I don't know, it teaches you a lot about being on a team, uhm, how to be a valuable member of being on a team. Uhm, and that I think is the most valuable type of knowledge that I pulled from playing sports, I think. Is that like?


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[Assistant] Being bad doesn't just suck for you. Uhm, and you need to try to improve if you can. Uhm, and if you can't, try to find a different way to utilize yourself on said team or whatever it is.


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[Assistant] What was the team again? Was it a volleyball team, I think they said? What team were they coaching? The question? I don't remember. I don't have it on my screen.


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[Assistant] But the very short period of time that I was looking for dates using online apps, uhm,


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[Assistant] I would like go to chapters, which I don't think exist anymore. Indigo. A bookstore. Sure, there we go. Uhm, and just like, peruse interesting sections and just try to like, see if I could spark up a interesting conversation. Uh, one time I was on a bus.


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[Assistant] And this lady sat next to me. So I texted my friend about how I was.


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[Assistant] Like, wondering if I should ask them out, but did it in a way that they could see my phone.


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[Assistant] So I was like, okay, I don't want to go to clubs or bars because I don't drink and those places are not as great.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, a lot of my stuff was just winging it because the only advice I'd get from anyone was go to bars, go to clubs, or use online dating. I was like, well I don't drink so the first two are out and online dating seems super weird so the third one's kind of out.


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[Assistant] There was that time a few hours ago when you leaked the Facebook streaming key.


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[Assistant] It's, it's wrong. That one didn't work, so. Oh, cool. But we updated it anyways. That's what I was doing on my phone when you guys were talking. I was wondering about that. Good job.


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[Assistant] The intro! Let's go! Voice crack and everything. I'm ready for dating.


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[Assistant] I have an external number pad that goes on the right side of my mouse pad. So I have a tenkeyless keyboard. That's not even weird anymore. Is that not weird anymore?


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[Assistant] You should, uhm, but you don't have more than one screen. Okay, I guess so. Yeah, I only have one monitor.


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[Assistant] With your computer setup, I think that's genuinely odd. I think I would be very surprised if there was like many other people that have that level of a computer setup with one screen.


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[Assistant] Four monitors, Luke. I think whatever habits we would have wouldn't feel weird to us. I think someone else would have to observe them. I don't know. Cause I don't feel like I do. Yeaah, I don't feel that weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, yeah, I'm not on a date, probably. Yeah.


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[Assistant] For me pretty much nothing except for space exploration. Almost all technological advancement has gone in the exact direction I had hoped it would not.


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[Assistant] Kinda boring in a lot of ways. It's all about like removing human element.


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[Assistant] It's only gonna be glasses once it's essentially indistinguishable from normal glasses. We're so far away from that. And really good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're not. Cheetopuffs suck. You want the like, dense ones, not the puffy ones.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yea, Kalanand was dropping something off, I don't remember what it was.


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[Assistant] Do you need me to do that? I don't remember. Okay, well, let's pick a question that I can answer and while I answer the question I'll do the poll. Uhm, okay, this one's probably


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[Assistant] I took vacation time, uh, because I had my wisdom teeth taken out, and I am still recovering.


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[Assistant] Not from the wisdom teeth being taken out, from the vacation time, uh, because the amount of backlog that I have of tasks that just piled up.


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[Assistant] Uh, a horrifyingly demolished email inbox, uh, lots of other different various things that I'm supposed to catch up on. Like it's the work.


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[Assistant] Doesn't just like go away for me, cause my, the stuff that I do is not redundant. There's no one else that does it. Uhm, so that kinda sucks. Uhm.


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[Assistant] For Linus, it's probably very frantically, uhm, hosting lots of videos, so they, they build a bit of a backlog before he takes off. Uhm, but, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Oh, someone made the poll instead of me, thank you. It was me. Oh, good job. Puff? Not Puff, obviously, cause I'm not a heathen.


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[Assistant] I appreciate that you dislike puffy Cheetos.


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[Assistant] I shouldn't have upset you. Uhm. Knot puffs won by a lot and that's good.


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[Assistant] It's kind of horrible actually. I was saying while you were gone that I'm still recovering from my vacation. I'm done recovering from my teeth sockets, but I'm still recovering from the vacation because there's just, there's so much to claw back on.


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[Assistant] Like, it's just, oh my goodness, and then new things are coming in, so it's like,


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[Assistant] You don't want to leave the new stuff, but then you have to-


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[Assistant] Claw back on the old stuff, so like, oh my goodness, it's hard. And then you just end up working a bunch of overtime, and then it's like, why did we do this at all in the first place? I don't know, whatever. Uhm, moving on.


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[Assistant] So that's good. It's not like they don't exist and they exist in very hardcore technical spheres as well. There's just not many.


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[Assistant] I know, Shannon Morse has been, uh, if, if you ever watched like Threatwire, Hack 5 back in the day or anything like that, she's, she's been around forever. Uhm. With her awesome content.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, I think teaching is a step forward, if anything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, only time I've ever had to use my e-brake as anything other than a parking brake was, yeaah, driving an NCX back in the day.


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[Assistant] I guess- I always try to add in like, I know this isn't on you, but, I'm pissed.


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[Assistant] Uh, some actually, yeaah. My, I, I don't, I think actually not originally inspired by you guys, cause I don't think she had seen them yet. Right. Uh, but my girlfriend is like recently obsessed with Lego and has gotten a lot of the similar things. That's awesome. Like the little plants and flowers and stuff.


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[Assistant] It's like a lawless Minecraft server as far as my understanding goes? Is that right? Oh, well yeah, as long as everyone understands. Yeah, then it doesn't matter, it's not even cheating, it's just engaging in a variety of ways. Yeah, that's fine. That's like, it's the exact same caveat that I threw in where I was like,


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[Assistant] We're talking about multiplayer games. You know, this is sure it's a multiplayer game, but it's accepted. So like, who cares? Yeah, it's only when it's deceptive that it's a problem.


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[Assistant] More people should have it. The, the, the question is technically phrased, then expected, not then you expect it, which I know still applies, don't worry about it. Uhm, but I'm gonna take this as other people. I think the screwdriver and the backpack both outperformed what external people expected.


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[Assistant] I got a lot of, because of our wave system, you could actually tell like exactly how many we had sold. Uhm, I got a lot of messages of people being like, woah. It's like, yea, we're a screwdriver company now. Boy. Dino, right? Hilarious.


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[Assistant] It would be bringing back old features that they've got rid of. There's more than just SD card in my opinion, but there's a few different things, yep.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I like the style that we're aiming for. I like the mostly subtle, uhm, yeaah. This one's not that subtle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's like engineering diagram, I don't know, it's very, it's very, uh, unoffensive. Yeah.


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[Assistant] They get pulled back into incoming ferrets. I think it should be archived. No, no, no, no, no, no. I remember, I remember. Conrad explained this. Because if you just archive, it doesn't show it. So it needs to pop back out so you can decide what to do with it. Either reply to it, show it, archive it, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure, absolutely. Uhm, I got a couple curated ones here, lemme just keep scrollin'. Uhm, okay, this is from Bo. Arcade moments? Yeah, you ever been to an arcade?


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[Assistant] I go in here from Tristan, long time viewer and wanted to say thanks for all the content over the years. Is there any obsolete piece of technology that you still use or wish you had been continuing, or wish you had, or wish had been continued as a product, and if so, why? I mean,


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[Assistant] Okay, this one's from Alexander. Hey there, last week you all talked about how nice bidets were in Asia. I think we Western audiences get a bit spoiled thinking we have all the latest in tech here. What does the non-Western world have a leg up on the US slash EU vis-a-vis tech?


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[Assistant] I have the cheat sheet of what is real and not.


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[Assistant] Apparently yes, yea, if you just pull one up, uhm, I don't know if they have sound or not, I've never heard these or seen them, but if you pull one up, I'll unmute your laptop and then we can throw that out.


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[Assistant] We have sound. I can't hear anything. One moment. Unmute the thing. Can I click it again? Yea, try.


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[Assistant] We're supposed to be able to hear that. Nothing for me. Oh, it's here. Oh, there we go.


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[Assistant] Uh, yep, let's make sure this is unmuted. We can look at your face, we don't have to see the laptop. Uhm, I think this should work, hopefully it's not going to be too loud. That one was pretty quiet.


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[Assistant] Alright. Okay, so wait, who is supposed to guess? I have absolutely no idea.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, I don't know, do I give them to you one by one? Yeah, yeah, we'll go one by one. So that was real. That was not fake. Oh, so it just- That's what you sound like to everybody around you all the time.


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[Assistant] I have absolutely no idea, I just have a piece of paper. There's a reveal here.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, alright. Yeah, you caught the mask.


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[Assistant] Final answer, yes, it is fake. It is a quote from Linus, however.


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[Assistant] Red screen? That was seven. No, that was daddy. Apparently daddy is a quote from Linus. What? But it was fake. It's fake.


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[Assistant] Or, or like, shooting with a camera? Yeah, I don't remember that. Or that, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] You probably want to go through some of the potentials. Okay, this one's from Yoshi. I think I've heard of...


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[Assistant] Okay, got one here from Quinton. Linus, I've been interested in your videos regarding your personal monitor at home. Do you prefer the 42 inch or the 48 inch OLED monitors? I'm interested in buying an Asus ROG Swift 47 inch. Uh, not sure where to go with the 42 or the 48. Did you just call it ROG?


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[Assistant] Yeah, whatever I can do to offend as many people as possible. The ACES trademark Republic of Gamers copyright. Okay, alright, alright.


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[Assistant] Okay, next one here's from Austin. What is your most memorable interview, either as the interviewer or the interviewee?


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[Assistant] Okay, I've got one here from Nicole. Hey Linus and Luke. Linus, uh, you had mentioned before that back in the day you used to buy the latest GPU and then flip it before the next card would come out. Was there ever a card that you ever regretted selling and or buying?


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[Assistant] This one's from Patrick. Linus, a few WAN shows ago, you mentioned you would rather learn a musical instrument as opposed to a programming language. Which musical instrument would you learn and why?


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[Assistant] Uh, this one's from Jetman. Go straight for violin. Hardest. Hard mode. Hard mode. Hard mode. Insane. I just like how it sounds.


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[Assistant] Let's go. A wand show is a pretty good suggestion. Let's get this one from Mary. Hi, I just used my single shoelace in a costume. It turned out great winning an award. Thanks for your consistent great quality.


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[Assistant] Why don't you cosplay as each other? You're both well known enough.


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[Assistant] They're the only other company that compete vertically with OS, custom arm chips, et cetera,


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[Assistant] Okay, this one here's from Joshua. As a swimmer, I hear there are lots of fish in the sea, but all I see are many sea anemones as partnered individuals. Any dating advice for us computer nerds that don't live in mom's basement?


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[Assistant] What? What was that today? That was broken anyway. You're emailed to Nick Light about new product ideas. Oh. Uh, you had emailed me the streaming key. There it is. It's right at the top there. Oh, it's not the whole, oh, it's the whole thing. Well, it's also wrong. It's wrong. That one didn't work.


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[Assistant] Apparently there was that time that you leaked the fixed shaft screwdrivers?


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[Assistant] What's really remarkable is you didn't get any better.


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[Assistant] Two trackball lines? That one's for me, uh, it's common in the studio world, cause you can do chords and have like 700 different shortcuts and just do this.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, this one's an anonymous. Hi, I recently got an internship at NASA with the team that drives the Perseverance Mars Rover. Oh my gosh, it's so exciting. That made me think what some technology that makes you hopeful about our future like space exploration does for me.


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[Assistant] We buy a reasonable quantity of snacks. Do you? Okay. And, I guess you guys trust that we're not gonna spend a thousand dollars a week. I mean, do you? Actually, probably. Okay, well I don't know. It's the first time hearing of it. It's snacks for a hundred people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a, there's a shelf, uhm, I think we buy different ones occasionally. I kind of rotate through them. I believe Ariane is in charge of that now. Some of them are healthy, some of them are not.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I think he's gonna eat all of his snacks. He is within his right to. Should we get a poll going for Puffs vs Crunchy? Sure.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, so each department gets their own snacks. Editors, writers.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So we should make sure they get more. Make a note. I mean, yeah, they're, they're, that's not my department. That shouldn't be his job, yeah. Yeah, they, they have an ongoing order. We're almost out of Red Bull as well.


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[Assistant] Okay, I will, I will scream at probably Ariana, I think that's her job now. Uh, no, that can't be her job. That shouldn't be her job. I don't remember.


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[Assistant] What if you mix them together in a big bowl?


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[Assistant] Linus, Luke was answering what the last day before a vacation looks like.


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[Assistant] Next question. We're just into potentials now. Do you want me to start reading off some of them? Sure, hit me. Okay, uhm, Linus is a Fold user. Do you have any expectations for the Z Fold 4? It's already out. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, Delinus is a fan of older Final Fantasy games, I think, and Sakagushi?


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm, it's gone, uh, I'm happy to always hear you mention FF6. Have you started playing Fantasian? Fantasian. Fantasian. Dan! If so, what are your thoughts, and have you ever gotten a chance to play FF9?


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[Assistant] Hi, Luke and Linus. As a woman in computer science, it's kind of depressing to see so few women involved slash included in the popular tech sphere. Is there a reason there haven't been many women knowledgeable in tech features and videos?


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[Assistant] Don't normally catch your life. Linus is a martial artist. I'm curious, why have you taken a step back from training yourself and focusing on helping teach? I've always found the best teachers are the ones that are training and improving.


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[Assistant] No, they don't. Uhm, telling you you're wrong. Uh, this is from Haley. Hey Linus, take my physical riding test for a motorcycle in a month. How nervous were you to take your test? Would you have any tips for someone who has a little over 70 hours under my belt?


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[Assistant] Are there any interfaces you use that make you frustrated? Just brought a stream deck and have you considered doing a long-term review or a revisit? But, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] This one's from Colin. Linus rewatched the original Jesco video and while I can relate to the frustrations of customer support policies, I found the way you treated a support rep with no control over the policy cringe worthy. Was there any debate over including that?


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[Assistant] On a bit of a lighter note, this is from Justin. Do you plan to add any more Lego decor around your house? I thought the flowers were an awesome idea and might look really good with an Imperial Star Destroyer. Uh, Luke, do you have any Lego decor?


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[Assistant] Going here from Nathan. What is a device or item that you almost always buy cheaply or isn't worth buying expensive? This is a company purchase. He's bought a couple of screwdrivers. We design, install custom solar slash battery slash inverter system with a focus on specialty vehicles. Brought my driver in and now buying some for our shop.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, this one's from Eli. Hi Luke and Linus, here from America thinking our capitalistic healthcare system sucks too. I'm wondering what your thoughts on our, uh, wonder what your thoughts on video game cheating where it's widely accepted, like 2B2T in Minecraft.


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[Assistant] Yeah. If I start cheating, playing a game with my friends, you know.


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[Assistant] It's fine. Or if it's allowed. Uh, this one here's from Nicholas. Hey, Luke and Linus, any product launches that performed way better than expected and any that were the exact opposite? Thank you very much. Love the show.


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[Assistant] You guys are asking really hard questions tonight. Either that or my brain is just dumb. Yeah, there's also a lot of them. All of the questions tonight were so good, which is why I had to do so many.


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[Assistant] Uh, this one's from Eric. Recent smartphone releases have been iterative slash boring. Are there any new features on the horizon that could get you excited for new phones?


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[Assistant] Go for it. They are? Rejected? What? These are the potential ones that were rejected.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is user error. Sorry Conrad. Nice. Nice!


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[Assistant] I'm saying 899 U.S. Okay, Adam, Adam, Adam, come, come, come, come over here.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. It's not coming back, guys. Steam is dead.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's not, oh, it doesn't, it doesn't detect that.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, I mean, yeaah, they don't want apps, right Luke? But, but why shouldn't they allow apps if it dilutes their brand? Is it because they're worse than what Twitter's making?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you certainly get a bunch more points for- Wow, rude. Well, I didn't feel like you were Twitter. You didn't make me feel like you were Twitter. Do you know what I mean, Luke?


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[Assistant] His phones. Like if, uh, Creator Warehouse made a phone, why you would lock them down with, uh, uh, serial number and ID in the screen.


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[Assistant] I think you would probably have to make a good case for it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, even, even locking down the batteries. You're not allowed to open your phone because you're going to destroy the battery and cause a fire. You're going to blow down, blow up your house. You know, liability issues, that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, eventual argument I think you could, you could find for these topics. Uhm, and that's, yea.


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[Assistant] Sure, I've got one here from James. Question for Luke and Linus. Either one of you ever played RuneScape back in the day? Seems like a lot of people have forgotten about it. I never tried it.


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[Assistant] Okay, this one's from Nathan. Thoughts on account locked phones becoming largely e-waste. Fell into the trap of unknowingly buying a locked phone on eBay and Apple would not take the phone or assist in any way. They can be used for parts, but it would be nice if they were reusable.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're basically, yeaah, they're basically internet factory hardware locked and you can't get past them very easily at all.


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[Assistant] Yeah, me too. And you know what? Me too. That's one thing that I do agree with. But, let me into the bootloader when I own the phone. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, sure. Uhm, on the same sort of vein of our, uh, high quality products, what is your process of selecting a supplier for a new or existing lttstore.com merch? Oh yea, sure.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's get into it. I've got one here. Oh, I know that we've already done. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, this one's from Austin. Hey, I just wanted to bring- Wow, Austin, Texas? The whole state.


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[Assistant] Uh, hey, I just wanted to bring up that I'm currently working at a fiber-to-home ISP that is bringing 10 gig to residential in California at a reasonable price. Some of my co-workers claim that it's not necessary. Uh, what are your thoughts? It's not necessary. Yeah. Get what I want it.


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[Assistant] Okay, this one is from anonymous in the future. Would you create an add-on like honey but warns us when we check out trying to buy an item that you have tested with labs to not live up to their claimed expectations? That's a pretty cool idea.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, recently just started my first full-time job in networking for a very large group. Kind of been chucked in the deep end. Any advice for dealing with the incredible information overload that comes with starting a new job in an unfamiliar field? Read the docs, man. Yea, go for it. Go for it. Go hard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you're gonna break em, you don't get the good ones. We had a box of these. You just, you got musicians, you just throw em at em, and they wear em, and if you destroy them, then you just give em another ones. Yeah, so someone- They're also close back, so they're nice and isolating.


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[Assistant] Okay, and now I have a bit of an interesting one here. Uhm, can you explain the need behind improving Wancho? One big draw for me was Wancho was the lack of gimmicky slapstick nonsense like the spinning wheel. I'd love to understand your thoughts driving it.


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[Assistant] I thought this was pretty, pretty mean, but also probably quite an interesting discussion. I spoke with a few of the other team members yesterday, and uhm, it's kinda, kinda nice.


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[Assistant] It's not slapstick though, and it creates very interesting discussions.


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[Assistant] Okay, excellent. This is from Denver. Uh. Really?


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[Assistant] The whole city. There's another one. It's the best city in, in Denver.


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[Assistant] If, if you're gonna watch that one video, uhm, you-


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[Assistant] My home internet is 40 gig, uh, and other than transceivers, fiber is fiber, be it 1 gig, 10 gig, even 100 gig.


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[Assistant] Okay, here's one from James. Hi Linus, I would like to go to LTX, but my wife is giving birth to our firstborn. My wife!


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[Assistant] I forgot he was gonna do that. To our firstborn in late March. Do you have any tips for traveling with a newborn and should I take my four month son to LTX? No. No. You would have to drive 14 hours to get to LTX.


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[Assistant] Four hours. We're at, okay, alright. Three hours, 52 minutes. Uh, this show's brought to you by Thorium, Audible, and Vesty. I'm sorry. Thanks. In the bathroom. Four hours, 52 minutes. Thorium, not Thorium. Thorium. I'm sorry, Thorium. I'll say your name again, Thorium. Uh, 52 minutes, 15 seconds. Beautiful ring, genuinely.


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[Assistant] Wanna give us one more merch message before we, uh, move on? Sure thing. Yeah, I'm gonna try some ASMR. I think we're getting some slap back here. This is from Alex Linus.


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[Assistant] Have your opinions on electric motorcycles changed? A few years ago on the WAN show, you were lukewarm on them. Uh, I got a zero recently as a cheap way into the EV space and have loved it. Curious on your thoughts.


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[Assistant] Let's see, okay, this is from Eric. Hey Linus, I know you play badminton a lot, but have you ever tried pickleball? Big thanks to all the LTT crew.


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[Assistant] Uh, hey Linus, uh, is the Cumberty interested in whale investors? If so, who do I reach out to?


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[Assistant] Uh, for my friends, but this time she has had so many issues.


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[Assistant] That at this point, I feel like I've made a mistake. Uh, has something ever happened to you? Like that? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Of course. Yes.


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[Assistant] I've got a couple here that are more like, uh, the potential ones. Why don't we try one of these? Oh, sure. Uhm, hey, love the WAN show and had to purchase a second gift card to figure out how merch messages work. Anyway Linus, have you given the new Anchor A10 sleep earbuds a try yet?


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[Assistant] Okay, let's go for another one. Uh, before writing your own automated benchmarking tool at the labs, did you check out Phoenix Benchmark Suite, openbenchmarking.org, and if so, why did you decide against using and expanding those? Uh, for Onyx, but uhm,


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[Assistant] How do you convince a skeptical boss or manager who does not want to break existing processes to invest in the cost and time required? That sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Seriously, uh, we're gonna have lots of content coming on this card. See you later.


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[Assistant] Not technically anything, there's no gray area there.


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[Assistant] Linus, you're, uh, you're clipping a little bit on your side. Could you move away or speak quieter? I don't think we can do that.


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[Assistant] I wonder if we can do a close up with a produ- producer cam. Let's see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sounds like a good video for your new gaming channel.


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[Assistant] Shall we move on before this becomes an issue? We don't want to be trending on Twitter again. This one's from Ian.


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[Assistant] Uh, good evening guys, love the channel and all you do. My wife and I are expecting our first. Can't wait to play Space Kids in DOSBox with a little one in my lap just like my dad did with me. What gaming memories do you have and want to share or recreate with your own kids? You know what?


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[Assistant] How's daily driving the new AirPod Pros?


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[Assistant] I mean, you could take that same approach to t-shirts and things like that.


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[Assistant] I've been violently impressed with all your merchandise, yeaah. There's me being a Corpo shill, but no, it's surprising how good quality it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's very strange. It makes me feel bad for having bought things before and then just being bad.


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[Assistant] And if it doesn't. They're just gonna bot that. You're not gonna win.


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[Assistant] I want, I want one that smells like exploded capacitors. You know, that burnt electronics smell. Yeah, magic smoke. Magic smoke smell. Yeah, exactly. Yup. Yeah, I would definitely wear that. Uhm, anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean make that, make it as a joke. Uh, Linus, have you ever felt limited by not having a college degree related to tech? Oh, no, I'm being interrupted.


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[Assistant] Are you talking about IoT? Internet of Things deodorant?


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[Assistant] We should have a brainstorming session like the end of every WAN show.


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[Assistant] Next up, I think this is our last merch message. This one's from Daniel. Linus, have you ever felt limited by not having a college degree related to tech? What would be your advice for a recent grad with a liberal arts or social science degree who find themselves more interested in tech?


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[Assistant] I hope this isn't what I think it is.


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[Assistant] Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to the WAN Show. I learned something this week. Maybe not this week, but recently. That short bit at the beginning where I'm looking at the camera, that's called a millennial pause. Why?


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[Assistant] The wiggle that killed Tarkov, the video we talked about last week, and kind of leaked, has blown up and in the process shattered the Tarkov community. I would say that it has broken it in half, but actually it's in about a million pieces. So we're gonna talk about that. What else we got this week?


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[Assistant] Alright, let's do the Tarkov topic. Last week, yes. Last week, Luke, accidentally on purpose, leaked the upcoming video from Goat. You did it!


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[Assistant] From Creator Goat, Big Tarkov creator, uh, who cheated in the game in order to expose cheating.


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[Assistant] The summary is that GOAT basically went, I feel like a lot of people are cheating, but because there's no playback, there's no kill cam, nothing like that, no match replay, I have no way of proving this. So,


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[Assistant] The way to do it could be to cheat myself and see if I can identify other cheaters that way.


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[Assistant] When he got immersed into the cheater community, he found that there was an old way of identifying friendlies, uh, that's not really in use in the game anymore by regular players, but is still in use by cheaters, where one goes like that,


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[Assistant] Now, the way that it's, the thing that made it so obvious that it was always cheaters using this


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[Assistant] Wiggle was that people would be doing it from clear across the map with trees and buildings and mountains in between them. And would be looking like right at each other because some of the cheats would actually tell you if someone had their crosshair on you, is that right?


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[Assistant] The problem with all of this is that the game is so realism focused and cheating changes the dynamic so much that


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[Assistant] Essentially, this video has- Goat has single-handedly destroyed the community for this game. I mean, I haven't been paying close attention to it. I've seen a little bit of the fallout, but can you kinda catch me up here on what's been going on?


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[Assistant] Now here's something, here's something I did see. My understanding is that there's some kind of tier of participation within the Tarkov community where people get perks directly from battle state games.


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[Assistant] That are, and, I mean, you'll have to correct me if my understanding is not right here because I'm not super into Tarka. I've only played it a handful of times with like him and Joe. Uhm, but,


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[Assistant] My understanding is that on a fairly regular basis, they get like a lot of ammo and equipment, like, like they get these, these packs or these drops that are quite valuable and that


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[Assistant] While they aren't a bribe, could potentially put them in a position where they want to retain their, their community liaison, uhm,


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[Assistant] Which is like, fine, actually. Actually quite cool. But it needs to be transparent as well.


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[Assistant] By the way, what we know is that Battlestate Games is in communication with some members of the community and that it's not always clear who is or isn't getting


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[Assistant] Right. But there's an incentive, certainly, for some members of the community to, uhm, downplay the impact of this cheating and keep the gravy train rolling.


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[Assistant] Well sure, I mean it's kind of like the way that Apple engages with the press, right? They don't explicitly say, look,


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[Assistant] Well, it's less that you get cut off, and more that you will never get the call in the first place. Apple's engagement, in many cases, has nothing to do with how many views you're likely to get. I mean, we'll get more views on an iPhone video than 90% of the people they cede an iPhone to. It's nothing to do with that.


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[Assistant] We're not stylish enough. I, in particular, am not cool enough to be the kind of press outlet that Apple would want to engage with, even if I was super positive about the products, because I have been at times. But I'm also a loose cannon. They know that they can't rely on me to be nice about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I just might. Uhm, so, so I could see it being very much that way, where there's an unspoken, here's what's okay to talk about, here's what's okay to emphasize, and these are all no-nos.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and even if it's, even if ultimately we survive and we kind of go, okay, we're going all in on channel super fun.


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[Assistant] That's still a lot of work, that's still a lot of stress, that's still something that would be terrifying compared to, oh, I'll just, uh, you know, let's do a laser disc retrospective. Okay, yeah, let's go, tech, tech, tech, tech, tech. We should do a laser disc retrospective, anyway.


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[Assistant] Here's one thing I will say to that, though, is if that degree of rampant cheating is making it so you don't want to play Tarkov, I got some bad news for you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because just about any game, probably not any better. I think that in Tarkov, cheating tilts


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[Assistant] So that's true, but I, okay, let me, let me kind of pitch this question to you.


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[Assistant] What does this revelation mean for the future of gaming in general? Okay? Multiplayer?


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[Assistant] Is it fair for me to say that it's less fun?


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[Assistant] That it was years ago. It feels like it. I don't know if that's because of the type of- Are you getting old? Yeah. Is gaming changing? Sure. Or is it that rampant cheating is not


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[Assistant] Because you can just, you can just pay for it. You can basically hire a service that will get you up and running.


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[Assistant] Probably the only notable, okay, I'm trying to think, notable single-player experiences that have come out for PC in the last little while. Okay, we've got your Stray, we've got It, which must not be named, we've got- Other It, which must not be named, there's two of them. Sure, yeah, the other one, uhm,


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[Assistant] Singleplayer has, outside of major blockbuster releases or your odd kind of low budget or indie breakout, has just been ravaged by unprofitability because


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[Assistant] And, and it's not like, it's one of those things where we can, we can point at it and say, well, it's because of the proliferation of mobile gaming, for example, or like, gacha, or like pay to win, pay to win strategies from game developers. But a big part of that, I think a lot of game developers are more passionate about creating


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[Assistant] Better, more enriching gaming experiences, and I think it's pretty obvious that with single player games where there is absolutely no online verification and no incentive to, uh, to, to, to pay for it, if you can just


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[Assistant] Yes, oh yeaah, that was last year though, come on. It's been a bit. And I don't mean, okay, I don't mean last year like it was, uh, uh, uh, 64 days ago or whatever. I mean that was a long time ago now. I think it was beginning of last year, wasn't it?


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[Assistant] But with Tarkov, the consequences of dying are so much higher, that if anything, I would think a replay system would push more people to quit the game. Which is probably why they haven't done it. In Team Fortress 2, if you-


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you see someone who's cheating and obviously their mouse cursor whipped over to you and they freaking headshot you as you barely come around a corner, obviously you're mad, but it's like,


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[Assistant] Rather than invest, I think it actually, obviously you want to invest a little bit in actual, you know, background process, you know, anti-cheat or whatever else, but because so much of the value of an account is tied up in the items that that account holds,


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[Assistant] Banning players as being extremely effective to reduce cheating if you have the tools like replays that will allow the community to root these people out.


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[Assistant] I think it would help. Losing hundreds of dollars, and if they can figure out a system where they serialize essentially, uh, you know, guns and other equipment so that they can see the path that it's following, and basically just go like, yeah, look,


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[Assistant] We're gonna get, we're gonna get merciless here. Social credit system. Uh, if you are, if you are trading with cheaters regularly, you will be banned.


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[Assistant] Just don't take any equipment from them. So that's- but then that needs to be communicated and like- And that's gonna be tough, and it's adding- I mean, if there's any community that could probably work around and do the research to figure out this kind of arcane bullsh- Probably fair enough, yeah. But like, it's just-


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[Assistant] I mean, Tarkov is the gaming equivalent of having like, the most tedious job ever, as far as I can tell.


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[Assistant] It doesn't just grab the bullet and put it in my hand and leave the med pack so that I can rearrange. It just won't put it down. And I'm sitting here going


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[Assistant] Had that quality of life mechanic, where if you dropped a large item onto a space that only has one item occupying it, it'll just put the other one in your hand. Diablo 1. 1996.


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[Assistant] Yeah, PyroPinky, uh, points out that Battlestate Games needs cheaters to help fund development. Dr. Lupo apparently has a great clip on why it's happening and will keep happening. I mean, it's, uh, it's a very similar, if I had to guess, I haven't actually watched it yet.


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[Assistant] I haven't even read the comments under it. If I had to guess, I'd say it's very similar to the way that Valve, uhm, you know, is, really doesn't like, you know, cash sales of skins and everything else, but...


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[Assistant] Functionally does nothing to actually stop people from gambling on them and spending money on them. Because without cash, it's like anything.


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[Assistant] Without a cash value, it doesn't have a value. There is no actual intrinsic value to any digital item. It has to have a cash value. So as soon as you completely shut down people's ability to trade these items through some kind of marketplace, you destroy the value. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Now I don't know if Dr. Lupo makes some other different points about it, but that's...


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[Assistant] That's a very sort of basic overview of why it is in a game developer's best interest for people to exchange real world money for skins and in-game items.


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[Assistant] So it really is just about you getting more exposure for yourself in this video. No one, as far as I can tell, no one.


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[Assistant] So the argument then is that they want to ban cheaters to continue to get more account purchases, but they don't want to ban them too well because they want them to be able to make more money than they're spending on accounts with Battlestake.


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[Assistant] Way too much more. Yeah, I don't think it's a matter of 4D chess like, like min-maxing their investment into anti-cheat. I think it's more about


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[Assistant] Minimizing their investment into anti-cheat. Yeah, so the threshold is not set by whether these guys can stay profitable. That's a happy accident.


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[Assistant] The threshold is set by just account sales and


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[Assistant] A real player attrition, uhm, where people are not playing the game anymore, which, which would hurt the value of the real money trading. Yeah, so it- Right? So it's, it's a different, it's a different, like, formula, but we end up with the same result. I guess is what I'm trying to say. Maybe. Which is that they are not investing enough into anti-cheat.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, definitely worth checking out. Here's his channel. And, uh, you can, you can really see the, the impact of this, the virality of this video.


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[Assistant] 34,000 views, 1.4550,000 from four days ago. Oh hey look, it's us.


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[Assistant] Hey! Nice. Anywho, why don't we move on to our next topic today, which is the millennial pause. I am getting very tired of articles that just kinda talk about


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[Assistant] The differences between boomers and millennials or Gen Z is working differently in the workplace and here's the things that are special about Gen Z. I'm sitting here going like


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[Assistant] It just kind of hurts my brain, because- Because you're a millennial. I think we all-


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[Assistant] I think we all learned, you know, very, very young, that generalizing, just putting people into buckets like this, uh, is not constructive. I think that you can definitely have conversations about


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[Assistant] You know, what the impact was of, uh, of a particular generation and of the, the lifestyle that they led in general. I mean, I think you can, you can look at the, the wealth, the, the, the,


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[Assistant] The, the, the, the numerous, uh, or just the sheer scale of the Baby Boomer generation and the amount of wealth that it captured and continues to hold. The power that it captured and continues to hold. And you can kind of go, like, yeaah, they were extremely influential.


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[Assistant] But to kind of go, you know, okay boomer, you know, essentially, uhm, and to, and to be dismissive of boomers, like I've met boomers that are anywhere from completely technically illiterate to


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[Assistant] Being the people who literally invented the computer technology that you and I all enjoy today. The internet, yea. Right, like that, that, that basically all boomers, right, just by when all of this development was happening and how, how old that generation was. And in the same way, you know, I'll run into Zoomers that are anywhere from computer whiz kids to kind of me going


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[Assistant] Why are we having this conversation? Uhm, anyway, one of, one of the dumb, I guess I made the mistake of clicking on too many of these because I, I am interested particularly in sort of, uh, office and, and workplace.


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[Assistant] Uhm, accommodation and, yeaah, yeaah, exactly, like, you know, man, management techniques and that sort of thing. And a lot of them are really focused right now on, yeaah, see, Conrad said in chat, I'm a Zoomer, I have to, I have to deal with him. So I gotta click on these articles. On, on Gen Z entering the workplace and all the ways that,


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[Assistant] Gen Z is different and whether it's your, your quiet quitting or your, you know, whatever else, right? Like whatever workplace trends are happening. And really as far as I can tell, trends are less about what's actually happening broadly and more about what's happening loudly on Twitter or on TikTok. But that's a whole separate conversation.


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[Assistant] Anyway, I guess I've clicked on too many of these articles, uh, and I got one that


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[Assistant] I came across that just felt like the stupidest thing ever and I'm about to out myself as a dumb out of touch millennial, but I learned recently, uh, what the millennial pause is called, uh, is.


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[Assistant] Are you familiar with the millennial pause? So other than you saying it before the show, no, I've never heard of this. Okay. The millennial pause is a short pause before you start speaking when you're recording a video. So if you were, say, recording a selfie for TikTok, you would go... Okay, hold on, let me just open up my camera here.


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[Assistant] Well, I gotta turn on my selfie camera. Sorry, I'm a dumb millennial, so my default camera position is the rear camera. Like some kind of chump. Okay, so I would basically go like this.


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[Assistant] He has every opportunity to promote himself. I mean, he's on this podcast every week. It's one of the biggest tech podcasts in the world. So, I just don't know why he can't be honest with me about the reason that he's talking about this goat creator and this Tarkov thing. It's just, what, he wants more followers for his YouTube channel? I pretty much promise that channel's never gonna take off no matter how hard he works on it. So, if he needs more money, why doesn't he just ask for it? It's pathetic. And end. Okay.