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[Assistant] What now? No, I mean, a lot of the old stuff. We're not, are we? Shouldn't be too much of a problem because the projects themselves are collected in an, in their own folder. Yeah, the issue


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[Assistant] For me it was the, uh, like the assets like the mogarts. Because they reference and they have, they're used in everything. The thing is I expected Edzel to be a little bit more concerned, but I think this is a bandaid that needs to be dealt with. And then it'll get better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I meant more mechanically, like, are you going to sit down now and deal with this? At work? No, that's someone else's job. Yes, exactly, that's what it is. That's what I was saying. But I'm impressed that you have good digital hygiene, that's extremely important.


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[Assistant] Alright, another merch message. Hey LLD, are there any products or tech this year that you regret not doing a video on? Or were there any products that you were happy that you didn't do a video on?


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[Assistant] Uh, did you look through any other ones in, uh, potential? Hello, Sir Luke. Hey. What recent tech product in the last five years or so would you have liked to have had as a kid? Uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah? Oh yeah. Yeah, because it's Linux. No, but I mean like, the boxes, and the stations.


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[Assistant] I might have another one here for you too. Mm. Lina seems busy. He's doing stuff.


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[Assistant] I'm just getting started with a career in e-commerce. We run on Shopify, same as LTT store. What advanced skills should I go learn?


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[Assistant] That's for music. They had to add new rules. Streaming screwdrivers. Yeah, that's very funny. No, it's not. No, no, it was really funny.


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[Assistant] Hi DLL, when you build data servers, why do you always use Seagate Arian Wolfs and NeverWD drives?


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, have any of you had experience with 900MHz mesh WiFi, not LoRa or Z-Wave? I'd love to see a video on it, as it's a really unique technology and generally doesn't get much coverage.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's see what else we got here. We're into Just Potentials now, if you guys are okay with that. Oh. Wow, I haven't been doing it this week. I carried one for you. Thank you. I don't want to give you anything too over the top, although we're in Spicy Linus now.


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[Assistant] DLL adding another screwdriver to my collection. I unfortunately couldn't make it to LTX for the build your own screwdriver booth. Do you think we'll be able to anodize the new alu screwdriver?


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[Assistant] I recently used Google Bard to search for information on power supplies. The AI generated text had sources that linked back to the LTT forums. How do you feel about content on your site being used for AI?


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[Assistant] Linus, if your kid cleverly bypassed your set parental controls and showed you, would you reward their tech skills or penalize them? Would you then fix the security flaw? Curious about your thoughts?


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[Assistant] With regards to the semi-recent collaboration with Dankpods, are there any other people you'd like to collab with in the near future?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't answer it anyways. Your friendship. Wow. Yeah, there you go. And if this is a yes,


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[Assistant] That I don't know. Yeaah, cause I was gonna say...


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[Assistant] Are there any CES booths that you're looking forward to this year?


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, there's a couple more potentials, do you wanna have a look at those? Alright. You've left them til last, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uh, two million dollar zero day bounty has been posted by a group in Russia. We'll talk about that. And man, I really didn't want to sit here searching for topics, but I'm doing it anyways, because I didn't think you were going to die. Usually you just take the main ones. I didn't think you were going to take CSGO. Yeah. Ah, that just screwed me up.


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[Assistant] Those were the two I was gonna take. So I'm gonna get back at you and pick this week in AI. Cause there's been a lot of amazing updates that Linus is gonna be so excited to hear about. It's so good. It's so interesting.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna, I'm gonna insert some stuff before I go. I like checking this. I've brought it up on, uh, stream before.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it was the one point X, source, go, and now two. I think those would be the important steps. So condition zero, we're going to


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[Assistant] A lot of us still stay back, but people did care about Source. It wasn't condition 02. People played Source for sure.


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[Assistant] So, with that in mind. I would actually argue in that realm then, that Go wasn't the biggest one. I'd say it was 1.6. Sure. 1.6 like, dominated gaming. That's what I mean.


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[Assistant] This might be because I haven't played for a very long time, but the hitboxes felt different.


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[Assistant] For some reason, I felt like I had a significantly easier time than I normally do when I'm playing Counter-Strike Picking Heads. Well, you know they've locked in tickrate, right?


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[Assistant] So it's consistent. I wonder if something like that. I'm not sure what it was, but I could like think in my head, uh, I'm just gonna, like at one point in time when I started kinda sniffing this out, I decided to only play with a deagle. Cause I was like, let's see, let's see how well this goes.


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[Assistant] And, I was just ripping heads off. Right. And I'm like, this isn't normal, like, I am okay at Counter-Strike, but I've never-


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[Assistant] Could be a little bit of that. But yea, it was, it was interesting, I felt like something was going on there, maybe it was that, I don't know what it was, I didn't look into it at all, I don't care, uh, but I noticed that right away. I personally love the smokes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know smokes are a huge part of gameplay, I know like the really good players will know very specific, like stand on this pixel, throw at that pixel, it lands on this exact spot to perfectly cover, blah blah blah. It's always been a really big part of highly competitive gameplay. Uhm, but I never cared, because I wasn't playing highly competitive games.


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[Assistant] Yeah, whatever. But now- I hope for the best. Now they're like-


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[Assistant] Then it clears it and you can take out people through the smoke. Like it's, I find the tactics of that to be more interesting than, oh, every pro has just memorized 10 billion exact perfect locations to throw things to cover areas. Um, and it also adds some counterplay to the players that didn't throw the smokes because you can also throw a nade.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of what I find to be very interesting playmaking mechanics in the new stuff that might frustrate extremely veteran players but in my opinion will make the game more fun, more active and potentially more interesting to watch.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I mean, so far, it feels good to me and it feels pretty fresh. Now, I didn't look into anything, I just wanted to play it for myself and see how I thought about it.


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[Assistant] A divisive issue. So, so what are the people saying, the people that aren't stoked on it? Subtick is garbage. So what, yeah, what's bad about it? Yeah, we wanna, we wanna know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, Conrad says Subtick feels awesome. I'm interested in, cause like, I, I, I can't say that I'm a Counter-Strike player. I, I got, uhm, Global Elite, but in Wingman and with Joe carrying me. Okay. So I don't know how. No offense, but like.


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[Assistant] It would be, it would be great when like, wait, so Wingman is a 2v2 game, so it would be great when Joe would die, and I would kill both of them, and he's generally a very respectful person, but you hear the undertone of surprise in his voice.


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[Assistant] You can hear it, you can hear it. You know what's going on. Uh, so yeaah, I got carried there for sure. Uh, but like I've, I've, what I'm saying is I've played, but we did that like years ago. Like I don't actively play.


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[Assistant] I liked it a lot. The subtick or whatever it was felt great to me. I'm sure there's people who actively play that don't like it for whatever reason, I don't know what they are, but it felt great to me. I really, really like the smokes.


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[Assistant] I'm sure that will still happen to a certain degree at high level lobbies. And honestly, I don't think it's like a new game or anything. It's still Counter-Strike. I was, the map that I was playing on was Dust 2.


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[Assistant] Just like it's been forever. There's some changes compared to like old school Dust 2, like you can't aim from T spawn all the way through CT doors anymore, uh, because there's that block there, but you can just jump over the thing and then you can see it anyways. Uhm, I don't know, I don't think it's a fundamentally different game, I just think,


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[Assistant] Of the things that they could do to make it interesting and fresh, I really like what they did with smokes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it doesn't feel like that. Tell me how you really feel, Luke. That's just dumb. Uhm. Was it go? No way. Luke hasn't played Dust 2 since that update. I have. Uhm, I was just saying like it's, I don't know if Linus has. Uhm. Oh, maybe I'm wrong about that. People are saying it was 1.6. 1.6 had riot shields?


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[Assistant] I think there's some counterplay because, uh, being able to employ the expertise of following that pattern while also needing to move and being under the stress of being shot and stuff like that is the argument for, for the skill.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, what I, what I will, what I will show, uh, is this thing that I like. The most played top 100 games by current players. Uh, so Counter-Strike is currently sitting at over 100, 7, 7, sorry, over 700,000 and peaked today. Today! Which isn't the release date. At 1.3 million.


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[Assistant] That's actually crazy. What was the actual release date? It was like Tuesday or something, wasn't it?


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[Assistant] I sent a screenshot to one of my buddies, uh, September 27th. So, where's my calendar? It's Friday, yesterday, so Wednesday.


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[Assistant] Uh, I sent a screenshot to someone, I remember who, but, uh, I was like, Guest Counter-Strike released, there's some achievement that you get for like, opening the game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I feel like that's pretty decently easy to detect, but yes. I'm sure it's been done, at least at some point.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. You freaking dummies.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, what if you had a VPN that you somehow generated NFTs through?


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[Assistant] I know what you mean. I just- Okay, so hold on. There was a- I'm dragging us back. I'm dragging us back. Do, do, do it. Do, do, do, do, do, do.


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[Assistant] Oh, interesting. One notable effect is, uh, of replacing CSGO rather than launching a new game is that Counter-Strike 2 has inherited all of CSGO's reviews and ratings. Oh, wait, I talked about that already. Yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] But to, to show it, it says this means there's an overall rating of 88%, despite the fact that 3450 reviews solely from launch day are 59% positive. That being said- I did read this paragraph. I know.


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[Assistant] He's going somewhere with this. That being said, I think that may have shifted since launch day, is my point. Oh yeah, okay. Because the all reviews, I'm not certain on this, but the all reviews says 88% positive, and the recent reviews says 80% positive. That is 150,000 reviews within the last 30 days, which is...


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[Assistant] That is absolutely wild. Uhm, I don't know how they figured out.


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[Assistant] I don't know how they figured out like these are the things that came in just on launch day, you know?


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[Assistant] Okay, sorry. I'm gonna bring this back for a sec. I'm gonna show my screen. Please do. I was able to open this tool, which actually has a lot of features, which I didn't realize how in-depth the review feature was on Steam. Uhm, but this right here, September 27th, that's the launch day, I'm pretty sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh wow. I didn't actually mean to highlight that. I didn't realize you could be like, I wanna see all the reviews from just these days, then it would load them down here. That's pretty cool. That is so cool. Uhm, so I'm gonna do that, actually. And if I grab just these...


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[Assistant] Showing 14,000 reviews that match filters above mixed. 69% of the 14,146 user reviews are positive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the first day, because the first day had 11,500 positive views, and then it only had 2,000 negative, but the second day it got hammered, and then the third day it's kind of equal distribution to the second day, just as many negatives as percentage-wise, because there isn't as many positives.


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[Assistant] Getting me is I'm looking at a lot of these negative reviews, uh, and none of them mean anything.


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[Assistant] Uh, negative review. This ain't it, chief. Negative review. I can't recommend this game.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a review from Today, from a person who played for four hours total, who said the last time they played was November 12th, 2019, and they say, I really can recommend this game to not be recommended.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's another negative review that just says CS2 bad, CS3 win. There's another negative review that just says horrible game. People- So, a lot of brigading.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, it was, it was like a zombie defense. And then there's like these, these in-game- I think it was a four player co-op zombie defense tower game.


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[Assistant] That's cool. I would prefer the no build. I, uh, I was actually very interested in Fortnite and had linked it to a bunch of my friends and was following its development before it became a Battle Royale. And then when it became a Battle Royale, I was like, oh, I don't care anymore.


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[Assistant] But I was interested in this, like, hey, there's a co-op, like, tower building, base building, defense game, that sounds cool. Uh, I found a review that I think is pretty good. Okay. Uhm, from King Muffin. Luke Lap, here we go.


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[Assistant] What was the point of releasing this? A large amount of features and modes that were in CSGO are just gone. War games and most of its associated maps are removed, all the local Ts and CTs are missing, even the ones they remade for Dust 2 and Nuke a while back. Danger Zone, the mode they added before they went free to play, is also just gone.


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[Assistant] The loadout system is odd and a bit pointless. Why would I ever use a PP Bizon or a sawed-off over any other SMG or shotgun? It just made these guns you would buy on a whim utterly useless since they now take a slot where an objectively better gun could have been.


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[Assistant] The M249 has now become even more redundant. Also, any previously downloaded matches are gone, so now you can no longer watch them.


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[Assistant] Isn't the game supposed to be a sequel slash update to CSGO? Why are there zero new maps or weapons? I'm sure in time they'll add back some of the missing things I complained about since the baggage is literally featured in a screenshot on the store page, but for now it's seriously lacking. And that I think hits the points better than


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[Assistant] Most of these other comments. It's like the, like when I'm looking at the game personally, I don't really play, so I'm not noticing these things that are missing. The only thing I'm noticing as a cool update is smoke.


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[Assistant] Chris K in Flippling Chat said CS2 overriding CSGO is to port over CSGO bans. They had to do this because banned accounts items, uh, get locked and unsellable and untradable for good and the items all get ported over to CS2. That's a, that's a...


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[Assistant] Stunningly great. Baldur's Gate is still beating it, both in current players right now and also peak today. And I would also point out that the current players and peak today are very similarly.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I completely agree. Uh, the camera controls were, I think,


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[Assistant] If I had to take a complete guess, I think they were just taken directly out of Divinity Original Sin 2. Well, they suck. They have the same kind of problems. I don't know how far you are in, but there's, there's this gate that you go through at some point. I'm not gonna be too specific. Sure. But like, getting- Baldur's by any chance? No, actually, I'm talking about one before.


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[Assistant] It really depends, you could go a route that gets you there pretty late, but I think we're talking about the same gate. But it's like pretty annoying to get through, so yeaah, I think the camera controls could be a bit better, but uhm, they're fine.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I wish I could zoom out and even if they're like, uh, part of the tactical nature of the game is that you can't see that far or whatever, just fog a word or something. Yeaah. But, but let me zoom out.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't used the tactical view. Okay, so that can help. I still don't like it for things like getting through the gate that we were talking about. Sure. Uhm, but it definitely can help, for sure. It gives you like a, a more combat styled, uhm, top down vertical view that has more of a, yeaah. That's still not far enough.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, there are, there are, I just looked it up, there are currently 2200 mods for Baldur's Gate 3 on Nexus.


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[Assistant] I bet you, I bet you there's a camera zoom one. I wouldn't be surprised.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jean-Luc, he wants to invert that. He knows that that's how that works. He wants to invert it.


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[Assistant] Okay, I didn't know they had addressed this. I was gonna say, I actually, eh, the tutorial thing is always...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna guess, but I have no idea, five years ago, where everyone was raging at games for having these like, way too ridiculous tutorials, uhm, I find in a lot of shooter games, having any tutorial just annoys me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fair. Obviously control or C crouches. Obviously fire is left click. Obviously I do all these various things. Counterpoint. Not obvious to everyone.


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[Assistant] One thing I would defend with that is they didn't think it would be anywhere near as successful as it was. That's fair. So they probably thought the target audience and the vast majority of people that were going to play this were...


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[Assistant] It has the same type of movement style mechanics where you have a certain amount of distance you can move per turn and stuff like that. Did you find that equally as confusing in that game?


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[Assistant] The hunger, whatever. I don't know. It doesn't look very humanoid. It's like a dragonborn, but I don't think you know what that means. Sure, maybe. Uhm. I can't remember. A will! Ahhhh. That actually totally makes sense.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, native open source plugin, providing several camera tweaks, unlocked camera pitch, zoom, and controller stick dead zone, no server executables, configurable, uh, 300,000 downloads. So, very nice. Luckily, I think a lot of the, I think a lot of the problems that you have with the game are like, uh, functions, or like, I don't know if I want to say mechanics, but like,


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[Assistant] Because I don't think your problems with the game are like the story or any of that kind of stuff. So it might be worth looking into some modding if they do bother you, uhm, that much. But I think, I've thought since it released...


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[Assistant] I think this is game of the year and the fact that it is just refusing to let go of it's like top 3 most played steam position is crazy for how long it's been out as a not like competitive online game.


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[Assistant] It's co-op, sure, but other than that, it's not online. So you'd think people would like play it and then stop.


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[Assistant] Why do you think you're gonna get into two if you never got into one?


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[Assistant] 300,000 overwhelmingly positive. The all-time reviews are 95% positive. The recent? 96.


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[Assistant] Improving. People like it even more. Yea, cause they've released some updates.


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[Assistant] Uh, and the updates I believe have been fairly well received. Uh, I know like, I think one of them introduced a new bug, but then they had a hotfix out like that. So they fixed it like right away. They've even released updates that fix things that people pointed out that they didn't like very much like narratively.


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[Assistant] They like changed potential stories and stuff to make it better. It's like, whoa, that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] I think there are, there are an insane amount of potential.


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[Assistant] Another land to explore! Another act? A whole- because the game's in three acts or whatever. If you release a fourth act, like... Holy.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I would kill. Uhm, but yea, Larian's been awesome forever. I have this, I have a record uhm, from Divinity Original Sin 2 that's signed by a whole bunch of the developers and I just...


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[Assistant] I've been an Alerian enjoyer for a while now and I'm just, I'm very happy with them with the success of Baldur's Gate and it's wild to me that it's still so incredibly successful. Alerian enthusiast. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's actually bad, we shouldn't both do a poll. Cause it'll actually put both of them up.


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[Assistant] So it's small and big versions of each, right? Yeah, sure. And we're only making, are we making both sizes of the same type? No, we are making one style in one size.


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[Assistant] People are asking for a demonstration in order, so I'm doing it. Spoil.


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[Assistant] What do you like? I'm just saying. So, what's currently winning is Loaf Big, which is this one.


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[Assistant] And this one might be the most aesthetically pleasing. I will potentially agree. But Bun Big, I believe is just superior.


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[Assistant] But no, like do that and like play with it for a second. Oh my god. And then...


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[Assistant] That's an interesting question, cause like, uh, my girlfriend can make it to work in the summer just fine, on just battery, but can't when it's really cold out. Knowing that before she bought the car might have been interesting. I don't know if it would have changed the decision, but it would have been interesting.


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[Assistant] New poll with the top three winners to clarify results. Yeah. Clearly nobody wants the small ones. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Should I just do that? Should I do another poll with the big one? Sure, fine.


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[Assistant] No, I think, I think you kinda hit it right at the beginning when you were like, when external chaos is created that also intern- that also creates internal chaos, like, I think they're the same often.


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[Assistant] Off topic, talking about bread again, I probably influenced the vote too much. Which is one of the reasons why I wasn't sure if we should even do it again. Because people definitely voted bun.


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[Assistant] Bun is the most comfortable and nice to like touch and play with. You heard it here, he's an ass man.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah, no, that's not quite right. Some of the logos that have to do with the meme are baguettes. Um, like I believe the floatplane and LTT logos are made out of baguettes. Alright. Well, Luke, you win.


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[Assistant] This feels like EB game scamming. Yea, yea it is basically. So if you want to be lazy as heck, you can just get hosed on the value of your item.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I keep thinking you're done. Uh, Chelby in Floatplane Chat said six months ago they sold their 3090 Ti, which was broken, for $700. Yeah, but that was six months ago.


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[Assistant] And honestly I was, I was expecting to see like 1100, 1200 bucks for a lot of the cards that we saw. Uhm, the pricing that they're offering is better than I expected.


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[Assistant] Using your own arguments, they still have to do the same amount of work to refurbish it and inspect it and all that kind of stuff. Holy crap, 2060s are not worth anything.


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[Assistant] Over a hundred bucks is like a hundred and ten. A hundred and twenty, a hundred and twenty five. A ton of people are gonna skip the needing to do anything for twenty or thirty bucks.


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[Assistant] If I could get $120 for my card, or I could just get a guaranteed $90 through Newegg, it's pretty likely I'm gonna get the guarantee. There's no way you would. You don't think so? You? No.


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[Assistant] Dangood122 says, I work for PayPal.


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[Assistant] Please don't try to avoid the fee. I see so many scams where people ask for personal payments and then screw people over. I do agree with that. I'm gonna take this moment though to say like, holy crap, working with PayPal is horrible.


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[Assistant] And if there's anyone, if there's anyone there, if you can get me in contact with someone who could actually somehow incite some change over there, I would love to have a conversation with them. PayPal is literally the worst vendor that we have to work with in regards to financial stuff.


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[Assistant] It's actually a nightmare. There's also like extremely major security problems with your dashboard in regards to how multi users.


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[Assistant] I think you should check like every time. Yes. Uh, but it's a decent option. I think if you have a, uh, like low end version, it's almost always going to be a lot more worth it. If you have some blinged out version, you should probably try to do this.


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[Assistant] Watching, or sorry, where are we going with this? No, we released our, our AMD. Oh! Video. Yeah. And I'm, I'm annoyed.


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[Assistant] Why? Cause I got, I sent you a message about this. I got linest. You got linest? I, I... I got linest.


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[Assistant] People watched the first bit of me talking.


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[Assistant] And then just left the video, as far as I can tell.


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[Assistant] I was like, I reviewed this video, I thought it was a really good video. No, I thought it was great. Yes, good video. Uhm, the amount of people that are just spamming the hell out of me. That, uh, I've got a solution to this one of the problems that you had. Even when they're trying to be helpful. Good people. Yeah. Good people. Yeah. Trying to be nice.


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[Assistant] The best people. Good people. Uh, no. No, like, it's, it's, a lot of it is like people genuinely trying to be very helpful and positive and stuff, but like, oh my god, I'm getting rocked with people talking about it. There's also people like, trying to condemn me for testing it in an unacceptable environment, and I'm like, IT'S FINE NOW!


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[Assistant] There- there are- there aren't any problems. I- I'm crashing in Starfield very rarely.


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[Assistant] And there's, there's people in chat talking about it right now. There's a bunch of Nvidia people crashing in Star, Star, Starfield, it just crashes. It's not, I don't think this is AMD's fault. I can't say that it never happened, because it did technically, so I'm trying to be like,


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[Assistant] Honest. Yeah. But I don't think it's the card's fault, it's just a game that crashes.


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[Assistant] I'm putting that away. I feel like I'm a target right now. But yeaah, it's really good now. And one bit of context, I guess, with the way that I said things and framed things, and I do have to admit this, is that was even filmed a few weeks ago at this point. Yep.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, okay, uh, NWGat in full plane chat said, makes no sense to blame AMD for game engine bugs though. I didn't.


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[Assistant] I literally, in the video, I say, I don't know. I think we got someone who didn't watch the video here. Yea, I say in the video that like, I don't know how to like, say this or frame this, but these don't feel like GPU issues. I say that in the video. Yea, it's actually in there.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeaah, so like, I, it should be a bigger props, I think, almost, like we've, we've given them their licks over, uh, the launch experience being bad. Was really bad. But I also want to give them very good props that it is currently, or props, sorry, that is currently in a very good spot. And I feel like the, the reason why I'm frustrated is I think that got brushed over.


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[Assistant] Cause people are still thinking that I have issues. I don't have issues. It's a great experience currently.


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[Assistant] Oh man. But yea, that's why I fri- yea. Anyways. I don't know. Uhm. I gotta- I gotta wait till he's drinking! I'm gonna get him one of these days!


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[Assistant] It's the easiest thing to pull out of context than make.


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[Assistant] You just gotta be careful about the, the, the attendees at the moment. Yea, oh I know, I know, right? Well that's the thing is, no, I- Because it has to be people that, that know that you are, you, you believe often the opposite of the thing that you say.


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[Assistant] That is true. I've seen that. We've also walked in, I had a conversation with someone about this recently where there's something that you and I have actually said a bunch that I had no idea was like a dog whistle for this thing that neither of us agree with or believe in. Oh, was it like this or something?


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[Assistant] Oh man, but yea, sometimes it's like, oh my god, like, okay, I don't know every single cultural reference in like, the world.


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[Assistant] I'm not trying to dog whistle this thing that I didn't even know was a thing. Like, oh man, it's sometimes it's, it's difficult to navigate.


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[Assistant] That was actually my first, it was after like one of the first paychecks I got from LMG was two new ProArts. I like having good monitors.


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[Assistant] And like, those two pro-arts, one of them was, uh, broken not due to its own fault but due to...


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[Assistant] I don't blame them, it was an emergency situation, but it got whacked pretty hard and then now won't turn on. Uhm, so one of them is now dead, but no actually. Uhm, but the other one is still working. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] It's not a great monitor by today's standards. Yeah, but it's functional. But it's solid, it's a gr- it's a great side monitor.


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[Assistant] My, uh, my girlfriend, uhm, is currently running a triple monitor setup.


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[Assistant] Uhm, she's studying for some stuff and what not, so she, she actually fully utilizes the triple monitor screen real estate. And she's using an old ViewSonic that I won in one of the, like, old Christmas parties a while ago. Uhm, and one of the other ones, I don't remember where one of her monitors is from.


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[Assistant] She's got the old Viewsonic, one that I don't remember where it's from. And then another one, which is mine that I bought when I was like 15 or something.


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[Assistant] And that thing still works. That monitor that she's using has been at every single residence that I have ever lived at.


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[Assistant] No. This is, so this is what I was talking about. You can get old like 1080p screens for like 20 bucks. That one that I'm talking about that I bought when I was like 15, bought it off of whatever, I think it was Craigslist at the time, whatever used thing at the time, for I think it was 10 dollars. Yea. Like, and it still works.


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[Assistant] And it's still deployed. It turns on every day.


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[Assistant] Like that thing's a beast, it's an old LG monitor from a while ago, uh, it still has-


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[Assistant] Yep. Yep. And it's just like, sweet. Yeah, we both run triple monitor setups. And like if I was, if I was back in school or whatever right now, looking at those prices we just saw on screen, I would have a triple monitor setup. Cause why not?


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[Assistant] Last time I looked into used SSD prices, it was literally more expensive to buy used ones. Uhm, I don't know what's up with the- I don't know what's up with the used market and storage. It's kind of my end sometimes.


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[Assistant] Also not sorting right, someone said. I don't know, whatever. Uhm, what was I gonna say? Someone said something. Oh no.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's like if you're, if you're, if you're like into gaming and you want a good gaming monitor or whatever, so you spend a bunch of your budget there, I still think you can get to a two or even three monitor setup. Uhm, you don't have to do it immediately and just keep looking out for deals and grab some. Yeah, your monitors don't have to match. Grab some, yeah. None of my monitors, I have three different monitors.


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[Assistant] My girlfriend, three different monitors. It's cool when they match. When I had those two ProArts, I had two matching monitors and it was awesome. But it hasn't made a lot of sense since then to get matching monitors. So, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was just talking about how they last for a long time and all this kind of stuff. Oh yeah, we only did one word.


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[Assistant] The, uh, developers for Flowplain are contractors.


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[Assistant] We have people come in to do work around the offices all the time, install the AC, stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I gave a tour recently to Sam, and I was walking through just going like, woah. It's Terran's problem.


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[Assistant] There'd be a lot of us makers of merch. Yeah, Tyna is talking about it, but it's, it's actually wild in there. They like, it's logically laid out. Yeah, but like.


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[Assistant] I don't think they can hire all that many more people. Where are you gonna put them? There's a couple spots, maybe, you can maybe make it work.


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[Assistant] Was this, was the, were the buns ethically designed Linus? Did those, did those designers have adequate grass time? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Real, real nice. Yeah, I think, I think the, the like apartment area was just not really used and then they worked out of the downstairs, right?


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[Assistant] While you're doing that, uh, this, this merch message came from someone who said they were a rare Apple podcast listener. Is that rare? That made me think of, uh, Google is killing another thing. Yeah, you did a really good segue, but we actually still have to do one more merch message. No, I know, but I don't think this is a topic, is it? It is. Oh, nevermind.


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[Assistant] You're essentially always gonna have it. Uhm, so you kinda have to triage to a certain degree. You can't just only ever do that. Uh, yeaah, Jaden, we don't like to talk about that subject. Yeaah, that's honestly pretty fair. Uhm, yeaah, you can't ignore it forever.


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[Assistant] During Linus Lead development we dug ourselves really really deep, so it took a really really long time to dig ourselves back out. And even now we're not completely out.


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[Assistant] But we're in a way healthier spot than we were in before, and now we're at a spot where we can kind of spend, we can spend a little bit of time working on features, and then, okay, tech dead is an always growing thing.


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[Assistant] And we just spent some time working on features when we already had a lot of tech debt. So like going into the next quarter, Jayden and I have already been talking about it. A lot of Jayden's work is going to be working on paying down tech debt, but he's going to do it in kind of a cool way where like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, for example, there's a certain page that needs to be, uh, tech debt removed, but he's also going to deploy a new design at the same time and like do a couple other things so it still feels like the website is getting


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[Assistant] Uh, is becoming more fresh and being worked on, even though we're paying down tech debt at the same time. So you, you kind of try to, yeah, I don't know how to really answer this, but.


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[Assistant] You can't completely ignore it, but you also can't spend 100% of your time working on it. Yeah, so you kinda have to like, okay, we need to give people a feature or else they're gonna be pissed off, so let's do that really quick. That has bought us some time. That has bought us some users or satisfied time.


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[Assistant] Let's use this users are satisfied time to pay down some tech debt and then try to slot in another new thing that they'll be happy about, uh, before they get too disgruntled. And then you just kinda try to keep doing that.


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[Assistant] The team, like, crushed it on that. I've been crappin' on them, so now to throw, throw them a bone at the very end of it. Yeaah! I will say, it's kind of my fault. Yeaah! I'm the leader of the team, I should've, I should've staved off, I should've staved off the line of sled development more, but I was just like, I don't know. Hold on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty much. So yeah, tell your- if you're in that spot, just tell your boss no more often than if you get fired, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Cause like, if you, if you do, if you just listen, and just try to get your team to do that, you're gonna screw them over, cause you're gonna end up digging your team into tech debt, and then ultimately, like, yeaah, you were trying to listen to your boss, but you were doing the wrong thing. So, I, I had to, at some point I had to take the reins a bit, uhm, and I don't know, it's been getting better.


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[Assistant] Specie is superficially plausible, but actually wrong.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm surprised we haven't seen this more often with these crazy ultrawides. That's a good point, actually.


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[Assistant] Cause like, this is pretty much the only one I know of. I don't really follow Ultrawide as much, so there might be more. But, like, literally the whole time, I've been like, you know, the physics of this, there's a lot of-


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[Assistant] It's just, anytime you have something that's like really wide, I can't fit both my arms into this frame, but anything that's really wide. Well just the leverage. Assume this hand is way further out, and then it's only held in the single point, the forces on the furthest outsides is gonna be... Really high. Yeah, so like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Oh, you know what's frustrating? Just a second. Oh, I... Expensive freaking monitor just to have it, like, pop in front of your eyes. That kinda sucks.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I really like the Secret Shoppers, I've liked all of them, but I don't know if I'm more excited about Secret Shopper or that we have another musical piece from the company.


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[Assistant] Geez. I'm excited. It should be good. Next topic? Eh? This is a head


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[Assistant] This is his, this is what, this is what he says before he says that he's getting one. Just in case anyone is wondering why I reacted that way. Can you chill? Am I wrong? Can you chill? Am I wrong?


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[Assistant] 200 pounds. Oh yea, it's almost exactly 15,000 Canadian. It's 80,000, uh, Chinese Won.


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[Assistant] Still, still at that range, that's, that's a lot. I don't think projector is dead if that's the case.


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[Assistant] What are you looking at? I'm trying to figure out what's happening here. Yeah, no, it's 100 kilograms. Yes, that is correct.


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[Assistant] I don't know, that's not even the- Cause if it's like as thin as modern TVs, which it kinda looks like it, mmm, I don't know if it's quite as thin as some of them, but it looks quite thin. Overall. I'm looking at this piece.


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[Assistant] This could be interesting. Cause like, if it weighs that much, and it's, and it's...


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[Assistant] What is the 20,000 plus? What is it 20,000 plus of? Dollars.


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[Assistant] I think just the audio is 240 watts. I think people are confused because it says it has a total output power.


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[Assistant] Of, so, right here. It has a total power output of 240 watts, including 240 watt subwoofers. But if you read the, the pre-sentences, the audio department is represented by this sound system. It's just, it's just talking about the audio, it's not talking


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[Assistant] That's Luke's brainchild. Yeah, I saw it. Did you see it? Do you like it? I walked past it, I was like, I immediately know what this is. And yeah, it's great. Yeah, cool. I appreciate the...


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[Assistant] 144Hz, insanely huge monitor, it's gonna flashbangs you.


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[Assistant] I didn't actually read the bit about, uh, it's for the Russians or whatever. Part of me had like this weird, somewhat dubious theory that somebody had a zero day.


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[Assistant] And wanted a lot of money for it. So they were like, let's put out a bounty to try to get more money from some bounty program that like Apple actually has.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't know that you could jump to saying that that's potentially not the case anymore, uh, because...


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think, I think Bradyboy26 Info Planchette is onto what I'm saying, or going to be saying, uhm, which is that type of data collection that might just not be available to these people. Mhm. So they still need their own access to whatever it might be grabbing.


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[Assistant] Unlike Twitter's contribution monetization scheme, the new Reddit contributor program will not require Redditors to be subscribed to a paid membership. However, they will have to be a US resident over the age of 18 with an account in good standing.


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[Assistant] The program will also involve a phase out of the current reddit gold feature, which will be replaced with, uh, by one where users buy gold and then hold the upvote button for additional time in order to give that post a golden upvote. Wow, that's horrible.


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[Assistant] Moving on, uh, the, uh, reddit phased out reddit coins earlier this month and when asked why they didn't transfer the coins to be used in the new system, a spokesperson responded that the existence of both paid and free coins made it complicated to do so. So they decided to start over completely. Does that mean that everyone with paid stuff just lost it?


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[Assistant] In other news, Reddit will also no longer be allowing users to opt out of having their red activity used for personalizing ads, except in select countries, which are not yet specified. And they do this stuff knowing that no one will ever leave. Uh, because if they were going to leave, they had a big reason to recently, uh, and didn't. I added that bit that wasn't in the doc. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like the whole of everyone did to be completely honest. And it kind of deserved it, but it doesn't anymore. Cause holy crap. That's actually amazing.


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[Assistant] So once you're sitting there talking and stuff. Some people are saying it was, or Handyman is saying it was connected to a PC running a 4090. Sure. But that doesn't...


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[Assistant] So there's a interview, uh, between Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Friedman.


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[Assistant] I've got it up on my computer right now, but, uh, to not do a reaction video, you should probably go watch it yourself. Uhm, but, I'm not listening to it, I'm just kinda skipping through it right now, looking at different video segments, and it's pretty crazy.


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[Assistant] Mark looks somewhat recreated, but jump to 742.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Cause honestly, the biggest issue with remote work, I think, is the loss of body language in meetings and situations. It's an emojis, but not complete sh-


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[Assistant] What were you guys saying? I'd love to hear it. I don't think it was earlier today. Uhm, but yeah, it's just confusing. I don't get it. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand how it's a status symbol. I just...


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[Assistant] But maybe you just got higher quality ones. Fewer quantity, higher quality.


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[Assistant] But like, what a stupid thing to be like, I can't date this person, they have an android, like that's actually just dumb.


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[Assistant] Okay, I mean- And like, let's flip it around. If you're an Android person and you're like, I can't date that person, they have an iPhone, that's dumb. Well, how would you communicate with them if they don't have iMessage?


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[Assistant] I, I, I know people in my actual real life that use Yahoo for their email.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna not engage with them. I'm gonna tell them that that's weird and they should probably stop. I mean, that's not as bad as having your ISP email account. That is worse. That is objectively worse. Ah, hmm. Would I filter based on that? Maybe.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm wondering now, I'm not 100% certain, but I think maybe- Telus.net. I feel like if it was that, if I didn't just swipe no, if I was swiping, I feel like one of the first topics of conversation would be that, and I would like need us to hit a resolution.


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[Assistant] Hotmail's fine, cause it's just Outlook now. It just means you've had your email for a long time. Okay. Protonmail.


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[Assistant] Depends, so is this, are we specifically talking about dating? Yea, we're specifically talking about dating. Don't look at chat, I want your honest, I want- No, I think proton male is low. It's low. Okay, where? It feels like you're trying to hide something. Okay, give me a number, give me a number. It's definitely above ISP. Yea, okay, give me, come on, give me a number. I don't know, how do I, how do I, sorry, what is the scale, how do I know?


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[Assistant] Their name.com. I think that's cool, but it depends on the reason and why, and I would legitimately look at it. I would go to the domain. But there's nothing on the domain. They just bought it because they wanted their email to be- I think that's cool.


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[Assistant] I think, I think this one's fairly variable though. Uh, because like- Gimme a range.


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[Assistant] I think it's anywhere from- Remember, this is dating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's anywhere from like plus, so, okay, so it's, it's a 20 point scale, negative 10, positive 10. Yeah. I think that's anywhere from like, depends what it's used for, plus 2 to like plus 8. Plus 8.


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[Assistant] I know people that do this too, so I'm gonna get called out. I think it depends because


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[Assistant] Some of them you lose access to when you leave it, and some of them you gain, you, you have access to it forever. The ones I'm aware of are lifetime access. Like I know SFU does for sure. I know some that are not lifetime access. Really? Oh okay, I didn't know that. So I think it somewhat depends, uhm,


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no. No, I just changed my mind on it. Not because of your reaction. I'm gonna say plus two. It's still low. I'm still pretty neutral. So it's better than gmail.com. I think so. I think so. The .edu. I think so.


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[Assistant] Because I was thinking like, you're just kind of giving all your data to this school. And then I was like, yeah, but you are with Gmail and everyone else as well. So like, which one's better? And probably this one by a little bit, but I don't really care. So yeah, let's say plus two.


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[Assistant] Yes, which would be bad, but I feel like if it was someone where like you you suddenly have to use this email. Sprotshawcollege.ca or something. I don't know. That one might even weird because it's like


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[Assistant] I think this one's like quite the range too, I think. Uhm, but yea, if it seems like it was out of like utility, if you were like, I had to use this for school anyways, and I was just using it, and I just like, whatever, if that's the vibe I get out of it, then cool, whatever, sounds good. Okay, at iCloud.com.


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[Assistant] I don't know enough, uh, but I don't think I care. Zero. I think I consider that same as like Gmail. Really? Okay.


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[Assistant] I think it again, it just strongly depends and I think this one probably out of all of them could be quite the range. Uh, because if it's like humorous in a, in a good way, I think it could rank pretty highly. But if it's just like stupid, like I used to have an email at, uh, what was it?


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[Assistant] Like not sharing my dot info or something. And if they gave me that email as their contact, I'd be like, okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm. Do you, were there any that you notably disagree about? People are saying you need to rank AOL. Yea, that's low.


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[Assistant] Oh, this thing is, something's going on with this server or whatever. We get texted by it. So I get texted all the time with automated messages that I usually don't actually really need to see. And then a few people started texting me again and I'm like, why are we doing this? Stop.


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[Assistant] So I used to use something called Pigeon. You know what pigeon is? You know what pigeon is?


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[Assistant] Uuuh, no. No I don't. It's a bird, so. It's not a plane. That's why I like it. No, uhm.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. I haven't used it in forever, but back in the like, MS Engine, Messenger, uh, whatever all the other ones were.


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[Assistant] Healthcare, specifically targeting healthcare. So they probably have like, yeah, HIPAA compliant. They probably have data silo stuff.


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[Assistant] What, what happened? Intentionally? So this image on the right hand side here, only the like, top small percentage of it loaded it right away and then it slowly chugged in. What is this trill, trill-ly?


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[Assistant] Oh really? Yeah, I legitimately don't want to use anything else and this sucks. Alright, you heard it here first folks. It came on my phone?


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[Assistant] A podcast app does not need to be elaborate. Let me download the thing. I guess there wasn't enough money in it. Sorry. Yea, cause I don't think there was any.


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[Assistant] I know what we need to do, and we're doing it. It's okay. We're gonna be fine. Anyways, AI stuff, uhm.


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[Assistant] Open released a, bleh, OpenAI released an update for ChatGPT that allows it to, in quote, see, hear and speak.


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[Assistant] Users can now hold entirely spoken conversations with the bot, use images in prompts, and have it generate images using the also recently released DAL-E3, which closes the gap between it and Mid Journey.


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[Assistant] If you want to open up the article on your screen and share screen, I'll just keep plowing through the talking. Uh, the one that I want you to try to find is the bike repair demo.


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[Assistant] What? At MetaConnect- Oh, the name of the event is MetaConnect. Got it. At MetaConnect on Wednesday, Meta announced its MetaAI digital assistant with multimodal capabilities thanks to Meta's new lightweight image generator, Emu.


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[Assistant] Uh, which also produce some fairly impressive sample images. WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram users will be able to invoke MetaAI inside of chats to help plan things or push their friends out of their comfort zones. Oh boy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Meta AI is also only the default assistant. Meta announced a lineup of AI characters with diverse special- uh, specialties bearing the likeness of celebrity personalities like Snoop Dogg as the Dungeon Master.


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[Assistant] He does text-based RPG stuff, and MrBeast as the funny man?


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[Assistant] You don't sound that excited about this. I just, The Funny Man is like the worst name. I like feel bad for Mr. Beast. He's just referred to as The Funny Man?


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[Assistant] It's kinda funny. Yeah, but like, I don't know. Like I feel like if you call the comedian The Funny Man, it wouldn't be a positive thing. Cause they'd be like, I'd rather people know what my name is. Not like a vague, not super positive version of what their job is. I don't know, anyways.


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[Assistant] Zuck explained at Connect that these characters are a proof of concept for Meta's new AI studio, a service that will allow creators and brands to build AIs to represent themselves. That'll make a lot of money in certain circles. Uh, Meta AI will be integrated into the newly announced second gen Ray-Ban Meta


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[Assistant] So the glasses that you wear that look pretty normal from the images that I saw, but I didn't get to see like back here where they tend to stuff a lot of the batteries and stuff. But you can just be looking at something and be like, what is this? And it will tell you. That's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] So it gives them instructions and it says, if you have tools, uh, let me see them and stuff like that. So they take a picture of this part and they're like, is this what you're talking about? More or less? Is this the lever? And they're like, nope.


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[Assistant] Not a lever, it's a bolt. Wow. You'll need an Allen wrench. And then they attach, uh, a picture of the manual for their Allen wrench kit and a picture of their Allen wrench set. And it tells them which one out of the set that they would ever do that though. Yeah, but it's functionality. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they would include the manual. The manual might be a bit of a cheat, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty interesting. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Uhm, I don't know if we have a link in here, but the, uhm,


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[Assistant] The second gen Ray-Band Meta Smart Glasses. Oh my goodness, I hope that's not the official name. Uhm, those, those look pretty wild as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, Jaden posts in filipino chat. New mass data collection scheme just dropped. Yeaah, absolutely. Uhm, it's gonna be rough. Uh, ethical images. Getty images has now announced their own AI art generator built by Nvidia and reportedly trained entirely on Getty's own library of licensed images.


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[Assistant] Getty has previously sued AI art generators for using its copyrighted images in their training data. Getty also says that the images generated in this manner will not be added to its existing library. What are they for then?


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[Assistant] So they're not generating these for their own use and sale. You can use it. Okay, understood. I love this one most. This is my favorite. I actually did want to talk about this.


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[Assistant] Cora itself claimed that the information was taken from ChatGPT. However, Cora actually sourced this information, uh, from an outdated GPT-3 API.


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[Assistant] I've been talking about this for a while, right? Like it's, yeah, it's going to be rough. Um, AI intelligence, the CIA is preparing to launch an AI tool intended for all US intelligence agencies. According to the CIA, the AI would be able to sort through the huge amount of information collected by US intelligence with links back to the original source of the information.


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[Assistant] Alright. There was a demo that I showed Dan, uh, of someone on Twitter who took a screenshot from some SaaS websites dashboard. Like Software as a Service? Yeah. Okay. Uhm, and fed that into ChatGBT and asked it for the code.


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[Assistant] And it spat out a bunch of code and they shoved it into an IDE and just ran it and it worked and it gave them a.


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[Assistant] The thing that, like the dashboard for a SaaS, like you know, your selections on the left hand side, some charts and dashboards and things that you'd expect, all that kind of stuff. The part that isn't as cool, and you could tell,


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[Assistant] Mr. Twitter user. Uhm, that they wanted a lot of views and a lot of clicks on this, because they didn't exactly try to use it.


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[Assistant] Right. Because no part of it's actually gonna be functional. Yeah. Uh, there's a bunch of buttons, there's a lot of charts, those charts aren't gonna be fed by any actual data. Yeah. All of it's just gonna be hard-coded. The back end is the hard part. Not necessarily, well, okay.


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[Assistant] There's complicated things in front of two and what I'm saying is that none of those were done. Sure. None of, none of, no actual, it's, it's just like, there's a static chart that we made.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, no, it's, it's, it's definitely, yeah, it's a, but my point was they didn't even try to like interact with it in any way, shape or form at all.


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[Assistant] It feels like they're trying to obfuscate it. Cause I couldn't tell when I was trying to look earlier.


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[Assistant] So it has a capture button. If you're capturing things, does it indicate to people that aren't you? Yeah, I think it has a light.


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[Assistant] I was trying to see if I needed to ban them, but I was like, it's handyman, so I feel like it's not gonna be a banable thing, but it looks like a banable thing.


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[Assistant] That's a work laptop. If I didn't know who this person was, if I didn't recognize this person from chat, I would have just banned them. Right. But I recognize this person in chat. I've interacted directly with this person quite a few times. So I was like, okay, well I'm gonna check first. And then it was glorious. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Okay, where are we? Where are we? Why is there a Wanshow After Dark Square on Wanshow Bingo? That's, that's, that's cheating. That's not.


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[Assistant] I think there's a difference between clean and like, non-existent.


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[Assistant] Not to, not to diminish what they did. That was actually one of the most like incredible things I've seen in a long time. Okay.


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[Assistant] I don't know if this is the parents or the kids but I've kind of noticed like...


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[Assistant] Not extensively, I know some fairly anecdotal evidence that people have had a hard time with that. I know someone who, uh, put Android Auto into the same model of Acura that I have and had so many problems with it that they ended up ripping it out.


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[Assistant] So based off of very weak anecdotal evidence that I have from other people I haven't bothered, uhm, that is the only thing, yeaah, someone in Philippine chat, they all suck. It's like, uuuh, yeaah, I don't know. Uhm, that is the only thing I'm interested in though.


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[Assistant] How do I make this work? Take out some duties, input more new ones, like you didn't, no workload was lost. I would even question, I think at certain points over the last little bit, it's been higher than it was before.


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[Assistant] That was fun, there was a- wasn't it literally Tuesday? There was a meeting? Where he was like, I need this thing, and you're like, when am I supposed to do it? He's like, well, I need it by this day, and you're like, okay.


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[Assistant] There was a while there when it was pretty common that Linus and I would play games after work and now that like doesn't happen. Cause every time I reach out to him he's like, I'm working.


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[Assistant] I can usually tell how busy Linus's life is by how much he wants to play games.


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[Assistant] I'll see you jump online and start playing something as I'm going to bed. And I'm a night owl. Cause I've, cause I've been working until then.


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[Assistant] I have a thing about Starfield that is an Omega spoiler, so I can't say what it is, but I will say that I think it is one of the worst narrative decisions that I've seen in a video game potentially in my entire life.


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[Assistant] But I don't know. Yeah, okay. It's like actually just stunningly stupid.


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[Assistant] That one's pretty rough. I will, I will throw somewhat of a counter in here that I, so I agree with your statement, but I also kind of equally dislike


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[Assistant] When the writing, I feel like they get to a point and they're like, uh, I have to be edgy and gritty with this. So I'm just going to like kill somebody off for like absolutely no reason out of nowhere. And whatever, I don't know. This is, this is something that I had a huge problem with in Starcraft 2.


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[Assistant] I just remembered when they're, when, what's his name, I don't remember any of the names cause I don't even want to, but he's like driving out to go like smash into them in like the field of sand that turns red when you walk on it or whatever and then the chick like smashes into his thing to be like, no, but then they're going to die anyways and it's just like,


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[Assistant] What's happening? Anyways, sorry. Uhm, no, in StarCraft II, there's this character named Tychus.


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[Assistant] I think he's in both. Oh, okay. There's a bunch of characters that are in both. Sure. Uhm, most of the main characters I think are in both. And he's, he's like stuck in his blue armor. Yeah, take his finley. He can't get out.


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[Assistant] I just, I know the name, so... Sure. I might have told you this story before, because it annoys me so much. That's fair. Uhm, uh, but he just gets killed off, and it's like, there's this whole narrative thing, like the whole game, where it's like the... carrogant, this game's old. I was gonna say, are they just trying to...


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[Assistant] And whatever his name is, the other main character- Jim Raynor? Yeah. Raynor is like, with Kerrigan. So Raynor wants to save Kerrigan, Tychus wants to kill Kerrigan. Tychus goes to kill Kerrigan, and then Raynor's like, nope! And just headshots him, even though they were bros the entire time.


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[Assistant] And I was like, no real effort was put into like, can we get him out of the suit?


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[Assistant] There was no like, can we fake Kerrigan's death? It was just like, nope, I guess Tychus is just gonna die now. And it was like, okay.


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[Assistant] In this game that has resurrection but let's ignore that part.


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[Assistant] One that was worse to me was I was playing Diablo 3, and they kill off Deckard Cain, but it's just like, so random, and doesn't serve like, anything. You're just kinda like, you walk into some house, if I remember, it's been a long time, but you walk into some house, and it's just like, he's dead, and there's no like,


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[Assistant] Oh my effing G, Deckard Cain is dead and we're playing Diablo. It's just like time to move on. Guess he's dead. Everybody else dies. It's fine. I'm just like, man, like, use this moment, make it more impactful. Like if, if, if Tychus and Rainer.


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[Assistant] Really, really, really tried for a long time and like wrestled with this thing and like there was no...


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[Assistant] There was no other option than they have like this duel. Like, sure, okay. But, no. Bang.


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's just so, like, there's no payoff. It feels like they just deleted this character because they were like, uh, uh, we should probably have that because this is like a story for adults, so somebody's gotta die. It's like, eh.


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[Assistant] Sure, but it should like, be written well?


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[Assistant] Okay, hold up, that's actual realism, Tarkov style. His example, however, is in a game where it's not like that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You're playing Halo and you just finished the campaign after taking 87,000 bullets and then somebody one-shots you in a cutscene, it's like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I want to interject really quick. Uh, Papa Trotsky. I admit I put Halo out there as like an example for the damage thing. I wasn't actually trying to go after Halo.


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[Assistant] I was just trying to talk about like the time to kill in Halo games, but Pawpatrotsky pointed out, Halo Reach I think ended the right way. Uh, the ending is a super long battle that ends with a cutscene of the character slowly getting beat up before getting overwhelmed and killed.


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[Assistant] And honestly, yeah, it's sad and it's brutal, but it's like well-framed and yes, it's something that happens in a cut scene.


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[Assistant] But you like are absolutely overwhelmed and you feel it before it happens. And when the cutscene happens, it's like, yup, this was gonna happen. Like it was, so it's like, yeah, it's, it's rough, but it like,


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[Assistant] It's properly rough. It makes you feel and understand the rough. It's not just this like out of nowhere, poorly written, dumb,


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[Assistant] And people reference the ending of that game like all the time as something that's really, really well written.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Jane, Halo Reach, everyone dies and everything is hopeless, 9 out of 10 game. Yeaah, exactly, like it can, you can be super rough with something, but it's really well written, so you care about it and you're invested and all that kind of stuff, and cool, good, yeaah, I don't mind when games kill off.


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[Assistant] Or movies or books or whatever, I don't mind when they kill off characters. I just think it should be worth it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I find in a bunch of games in particular, it's often like, not. I feel like it's done just to be edgy, especially, I find Blizzard as an extremely bad example.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then I think it just became like a, we're just gonna do this by default. Yeah, like Arthas, or Kerrigan, or... Which were both fantastic examples of it going well, actually. I think, like, does anyone, uh... Like, even Arthas killing his dad.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, yeaah, there wasn't a ton of, blah, blah, blah, but that was a mechanic to show him losing it and like transitioning over. Like, it was good. It was written well. It's a very memorable moment.


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[Assistant] His dad doesn't like, have some crazy last stand or anything. But it's a very important point in the story. It's not just like, Deckard Cain is dead in a room and you walk away. Like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I mean, I cared when Deckard Cain was dead, but I cared because I was mad because they did it so poorly instead.


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[Assistant] But first of all, the, the position of the chair matters. Cause if you're jumping over the back of the chair, I think it's going to be harder. And he jumped over the front of it.


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[Assistant] And also it's, it's, uh, I think it's shorter than I expected.


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[Assistant] Have you seen the video? I have the video on my screen.


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[Assistant] Honestly, at this point, you, like, basically can't. Uhm, you're just going to be piggybacking off of somebody else. And at that point, a decent amount of your price is going to be dictated by the market.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know. Sorry if that's a really disappointing answer.


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[Assistant] Do you want me to be a creator on floatplane? I don't know, I don't care. I don't. I only take quality.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't, but that's actually a thing. Like I'm applying the same type of logic we would for other creators. Technically I do have a channel on Flowplain, but it's like a development


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[Assistant] Like, it just, I just, I don't think it makes a lot of sense. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't take that offensively. I don't want people... I just realized we're talking about it right now. Uhm, I'm not very interested in promoting it much.


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[Assistant] I don't really care about it, I don't even follow a schedule. They are bad quality streams.


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[Assistant] I do not try to make them entertaining. I'm literally just sitting there doing what I would do anyways. Uhm, I don't even suggest that you watch.


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[Assistant] Hi, DLL. Other than it has to get done, do you have advice on how to keep your workflow or focus on tasks that you don't find as much passion in? Also, Luke, change of mind? Change my mind, Tarkov is a roguelike.


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[Assistant] Uh, prototype, because I was using them for a while. No, no, we've issued them. It's still like the 3D printed one.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yeah. Um, and I've expressed my complaints about that. Yeah. New ones are even better. I had one, I had one of the first bearing prototypes with the ceramics. They're still amazing. Still amazing.


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[Assistant] Am I supposed to be doing this as well? I don't know if I have this in me. Well, I'll try. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Received a USB to USB-C cable in the mall, in the mail, uh, that she didn't order. Cut it up and threw it away, but I'm wondering how a scam like this would be cost effective.


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[Assistant] Hey, LLD, I've just finished my first week at my first job at 19, and I love it! Though, I struggle to keep my personal life from affecting my work, and do not want it to affect this one. Any advice?


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD. Scrapyard Wars is what brought me to your channel. Love to hear it's returning. Can you share any details about it? I love to see the content about older and budget good enough hardware.


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[Assistant] Okay. Hey DLL, are you worried about labs pulling an Icarus? Anything you're doing to ensure it doesn't?


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[Assistant] Do you think that the Intel plants in Ohio will eventually make their prices more user friendly? Also, how crazy is it that them and Google have decided to start focusing on expansion in Ohio?


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[Assistant] Linus, in Riley's tech upgrade, you started talking about a closet PC you once had, but got sidetracked by Rocket League hype. Can you finish that anecdote?


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[Assistant] I recently went shopping for a mouse and hated the experience because I want the best one.


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[Assistant] How would the experience be for comparing peripherals on the lab's website?


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[Assistant] How your fitness journey was going. How's it been since then and what are your fitness goals for 2024? Still re-comping.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, Dan. Linus, what do you think of the rumor Intel is going to kill off hyperthreading?


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[Assistant] Hi guys, will the stubby with black shaft get back into stock, or is the notification option more like a poll? Thanks for an update.


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[Assistant] Hey, Wan.dll, pronounced D-lil? D-lil? I can't see that. Uh, could you explain how YouTube Premium works with monetization on YouTube?


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[Assistant] Are you still using Theo Joe's comment moderation tool? If so, is it working?


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[Assistant] Good evening, Duke, Lan and Dynas from Texas. Can we get an update on backpack returns? I've been waiting to return mine for over a month now. Also, how is shipping being handled?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, one moment. Okay, there we go. I'll just leave that one there for the second. Uhm, hi, LLD, how do you feel about Cloudflare? I don't like that they control so much of the internet, but I still use them because their products and prices are good. Almost free for what I need, actually.


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[Assistant] Hey, LL minus D, picking up another WAN hoodie. My eight year old son loves the way my WAN hoodie looks and wants to match.


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[Assistant] When have you found your kids wanting something just because you had one first?


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure. This is weird. Years ago you talked about becoming a real company that would survive without you and Yvonne. Inheritance tax was the problem. You hope to have a good plan someday. Do you now? Appreciate you guys.


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[Assistant] I, uh, DLL, is there a product that still exists today named after an outdated or expected, but once innovative feature? Take Windows, for example, symbolizing simultaneous open software Windows.


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[Assistant] What do you think about Cooler Master killing the original spec NR200 and completely killing the NR200 air cooler compatibility?


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[Assistant] A.dll, any updated thoughts regarding the process of the ex-escapist team over at Second Wind and their transparency publishing detailed monthly revenue reports?


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[Assistant] Linus, how's the relationship of long term money per view compared to, uh, compared between an LTT video, one that could be relevant at any time, and a tech or game linked video where it really matters to watch right now?


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[Assistant] What else we got, Luke? Twitch leaves South Korea. Just entirely, they're gone. All the Twitch streamers have to cancel their contracts. Yeah, what's up with that?


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[Assistant] I was just gonna say that made me face like air so hard that I literally hit the mic with my face. That was awesome. What else we got? I didn't think you were going there. Uhm, also honestly I had one that I was gonna shout out but I don't even want to because I don't find it as interesting as a lot of other people do which seems like a role reversal but it's not. 23andMe just doesn't feel like getting sued.


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[Assistant] I would wager that the average computer person at this point in time is someone who's building and or upgrading their PC every three to five years. That's my assumption.


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[Assistant] Not less than that. Maybe more often, more than that.


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[Assistant] Ah man. You feel like this is just like a bad reaction to the whole Morse law is dead thing?


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[Assistant] That's what, that's what Microsoft blamed there being no Windows 9 on, right? Didn't they? I don't remember. Like the internal version ran over Windows, uh, 8.9 or something? Yeah, so they ran into the nines already, and they were like, uh oh.


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[Assistant] Which sounds like that must have been avoidable, but if I remember correctly that was their explanation.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I think it was like a whole major versioning thing, whatever. I don't remember all the news about it. It was a while ago, but like, yea, that was a yikes. Yea, maybe we do need to do the


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[Assistant] It's pretty annoying when you work in, like, customer service, customer support, IT style situations when you're working with people that don't know what MacBook they have.


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[Assistant] It's a bunch. Are you, are you gonna read, are you done the whole thing? Are you done reading? I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna read the rest verbatim.


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[Assistant] So it's a long standing skew. This isn't like your only chance towards it.


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[Assistant] I find a lot of screwdriver extensions end up being wobbly, or they don't fit very well, or they actually expand.


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[Assistant] So they end up being wide. That looks like, when you first showed me that at the beginning of the show, I thought we just had a long stubby. Like I couldn't even tell it was extended.


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[Assistant] I think it's due to how the knurling works on the stubby. It really looks, it might also be that my eyes just suck, but it like, you can see the line, but because the knurling, it looks like it's supposed to be there, and it just looks like it's a really long shaft stubby. Do you see what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's amazing.


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[Assistant] What a very clear, you know, understandable instruction from a boss.


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[Assistant] I feel like you would want the build out to be more permanent and also better. I feel like you would want the audio stuff in and working. I mean it's ideal. I think you'd be upset. That's all I'm saying.


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[Assistant] It was a blur. It was definitely night time on the last day. Was that Sunday? Yea. It was definitely night time. Yea.


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[Assistant] Some details, like if there was some tournament or some like...


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[Assistant] Yeah man. Having like the winners or something on there would be kind of cool. Yeah. Like oh this is the, this is the robot unicorn attack tournament winners of, of 2024. And it would just be like.


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[Assistant] I think ads play even if you turn ads off. Activate your schedule.


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[Assistant] It's still in development. Probably gonna be a while. Sorry guys. Sorry. He's tuned into his phone. NAS news? NAS.


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[Assistant] Was he fully aware that he was like, you said you're on Wanshow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to ideally someone else running the same thing that is like probably in your family or a close friend or something like that.


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[Assistant] I'm going to do a little shout out here, which is going to shoot myself in the foot real bad.


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[Assistant] Uh, because I just realized through my phone buzzing a bunch of times,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, uh, there's a new job posting on LinusMediaGroup.com slash jobs. And if you want to be a part of that infra team that he just mentioned to make sure all the things are backed up and all the things are working and everything's doing okay, uh, you can apply for the junior IT service technician.


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[Assistant] Nice. There are also, uh, the positions that were there last week as, and those postings were there, like a logistics coordinator, social media coordinator for organic content and memes, a social media coordinator for short form video, and a junior video editor. So apply away and explode my phone until I figure out how to filter that. Cool.


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[Assistant] It's a joke and it's also real. There are people that actually do it and there are people that joke about it.


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[Assistant] I think it goes far beyond utility sometimes.


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[Assistant] Or honestly, a massive amount of other industries. This is actually extremely common. If I remember correctly, uh, I've been told this, I have not researched this, I have no idea if this is true. I've been told that the hotels on the strip in Las Vegas are often not profitable, but the supporting companies are.


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[Assistant] And the supporting companies are owned by the same people. And it's done that way for like, tax reasons and stuff. So like, the companies that supply the soap for the rooms, the companies that, I don't know, sell the lamps to the rooms, whatever.


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[Assistant] I don't know. All I'm saying is that this is wildly common and is like how entire industries work.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, 100%. Totally. So if this feels like a one shot, like, wow, this is so corrupt thing, uhm, that's just cause you see it.


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[Assistant] Like it's like, you have to like live it for it to make any sense. I think a lot of the like casuals are the ones. Well yea, they're the feeders.


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[Assistant] I don't know dude. Why did she buy something? She bought a gpu ornament. Of course she did. Seriously?


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[Assistant] Honestly. Needs to get better at min-maxing the store.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. Uhm, I just was referencing, like, I was technically working with you at that time, but it was back at NCX. I had tried to explain my job and it was confusing and all that kind of stuff, but we didn't date for very long. Uhm, and then... Yikes. Yeah, we separated for, I think it was like two-ish years.


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[Assistant] And then we got back together, and we went on one date, and it went well. And we went on a second date, and then at dinner, I very untactfully was like, So like, what is this? What are we doing?


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[Assistant] I know what you mean. Oh my god. Wow.


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[Assistant] They're like actually huge. So after I asked this question and then I don't remember exactly how it went, but it was like effectively, yes, it would have been like super awkward to like get around this, like slide along the thing like four or five times, get around the table and then like whatever. So we just high fived.


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[Assistant] I was very happy to see, I bought some Japanese Switch games when I was in Japan, because they play in English, and I was happy to see that they worked offline. At least one of them did. I didn't test all of them.


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[Assistant] Well like it also didn't like require a download when you put it in. Like sometimes they're not even real. And yeah, I was happy it was real. Sick.


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[Assistant] I had a very similar conversation to this recently about a totally different topic, but like, yeaah. The like, does this matter affect anything that's going to happen moving forward? No?


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[Assistant] That's a whole- oh, I didn't even think about that. That's- that's a whole thing. Even the mining shaft guy didn't go through. It wasn't an actual hole. No, I- I- It was hard. It was hard to cut the hole in the back. Oh no, I mean, uh, it was referred to as a hole originally, the like, the spot.


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[Assistant] I left you some good stuff. We might as well get through the AI thing eventually. You wanna talk about GTA 6? Yeah, sure, let's do it. I don't know what there is to say. Where's the topic? No, no, it's boring. Let's do the AI one. Okay, cool. Go watch the trailer. It looks cool. You'll be able to play it on consoles only.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, sick. So I guess, while the console people are waiting till 2025, we'll get it 20...27? Six, maybe? Six, maybe? Yeaah, yeaah, I'd say a year's probably.


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[Assistant] I'm never into the online stuff, but I really like the single player. Yeah, apparently the online stuff is super good. Yep. It's just not really my thing so much, but people love it. You don't like role-playing?


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[Assistant] You wanna talk about this week in AI, right? Yeah, let's go through it. Google Gemini! Google has launched its new LLM model Gemini in Nano, Pro, and Ultra flavors. They claim the latter beats GPT-4 on 31 out of 32 common AI benchmarks. That's a pretty, uh, bold claim. If I remember, the one they didn't beat them on was, like, generally useful.


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[Assistant] Gemini is also natively multimodal, having been trained directly on text, images, and video, so it won't need plugins to interact with those formats. However, Gemini's very impressive multimodal demo, showing it responding in real time to spoken prompts, has turned out to be staged.


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[Assistant] A Google spokesperson told Bloomberg that the model was prompted with still images and text.


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[Assistant] Gemini Pro is now powering Google's barred chatbot. Ultra will replace it sometime next year.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, okay, so the, the uhm, the thing that it lost on was common sense multiple choice questions.


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[Assistant] I still can barely dial a phone number. Yeah, the Gemini demo, like, as I was watching it, I was like, this is not...


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[Assistant] But I was like, eh, it's not real time. Obviously. This is produced, this is staged. Uhm, e-e-even if it is real time, these would be questions that it was like heavily pre-trained on specifically. Like for some reason Gemini's really good at detecting ducks or something. Like it's...


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[Assistant] They would have played into it, of course. Why wouldn't they, to be completely honest?


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[Assistant] But I mean, the news yesterday, a lot of people were massively overreacting in a positive way to Gemini.


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[Assistant] Probably not enough, yeaah, it'll probably just all go to the lawyers as usual.


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[Assistant] I'm interested because as Handyman is saying, they are actually quite far behind on production because the thing that they were trying to show off isn't even available yet and won't be for a significant period of time.


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[Assistant] It's an interesting concept. Uh, scar glamour in flowplain chat said, uh, I was on a web call with Google over AI in my industry. It was literally two hours of please God know that Bard still exists.


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[Assistant] This is off topic, but I'm gonna vent about it anyways. I had a call with a company, I'm not gonna give any more details than that, and I'm not gonna give enough for you to guess, cause I don't think we'd get there. Uh, but I had a call with a company this week. Bethesda.


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[Assistant] No, uh, I had a call with a company this week where we had to renew a contract. Boston Pizza. And their email was like, we need to set up a call because we need to renew our contract. Neopets. Okay, sounds good.


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[Assistant] Uh, we sit on the call, near the end of the call.


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[Assistant] Like, it really feels like we're wrapping up. We're going through the standard rigmarole. Here's your new customer success manager. Here's your new this person. Here's your new this person. Here's your new- cause you get new ones every time, cause people are moving through the company. And they're like, I'll be with ya.


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[Assistant] Moving forward, and I'm like, sure, cause I'll see a new one on the next call. Sounds good. Uhm, but whatever. Uhm, but near the end of the call, I'm like, hey, we're finally gonna get to the contract portion. And the main person running the call is like, alright, now we'll book the next call so we can do the contract. And I'm like, what?


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[Assistant] Like what's, what's happening? This call was to renew the contract.


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[Assistant] It's so annoying. Just, like, I don't care. Just email me my list of currently updated contacts.


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[Assistant] I've heard now in our age bracket, the fun one is to just say that you're sober. Or you're, uh... Recovering. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You're saying I'm not here, I'm saying I'm doing work. Just, you know.


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[Assistant] Oh man. In return, McDonald's will give Google access to customer data from its apps. Of course they will. Oh, okay. McDonald's has been experimenting with automated voice orders since 2019. They spurred TikTok memes back in February due to order bots replacing Diet Coke with nine iced teas.


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[Assistant] Christmas party's friggin' awesome. Uh, but yea, that's, that's McDonald's Ask Pickles. We're moving on. We're going to grock now. Uh, the beta has rolled out to all X Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S.


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[Assistant] I think that's cringe. I think that's cringe. I think that's cringe. Okay, Boomer. Alright.


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[Assistant] I don't know, is that cringe? I think that's cringe. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's cringe. I think that's cringe. Alright, moving on. Meta-AI. Meta started, uh, publicly testing-


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[Assistant] Yeah, you have to be called based by an external party. It's like a nickname, you can't give it to yourself. You can't decide you're cool.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, okay, uh, Meta started publicly testing more than 20 new features of its Meta AI assistant, including a free image generator called Imagine with Meta AI, and a language translation tool that maintains the speaker's vocal style called Seamless Expressive.


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[Assistant] They also showed off their updated, uh, relightable Gaussian codec avatars. Very cool. Uh, for VR slash AR. It's even better than before and it's wild.


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[Assistant] I think this is AR person through the glasses and then that's AR person on a monitor. So I'm going to do it again. AR person through the glasses.


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[Assistant] And then I just honestly don't even know what we're looking at anymore. Wow, that's a recreation, isn't it? That's nuts. That's crazy. Okay.