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[Assistant] Because all of our costs are in US dollars. So yeaah. Yeaah. Just doing everything in USD.


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[Assistant] Do you know what NCIX's solution was to that? Because the exchange rate fluctuates by so much sometimes is we would just adjust our pricing like daily. Like we'd come in in the morning and adjust all the pricing on the site. That's why the pricing was always oddball. That's why a motherboard would be like $97.23 because it was just converted from USD.


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[Assistant] Oh my. So if we're just gonna convert from USD anyway, we might as well just show a consistent price on the site was my philosophy. Yeah. Uh, William, I am 36 years old. Am I too old to go to LTT? LTX is I think what he means. LTX. Never been to a con before. Absolutely not. You're my age, man. Come on, William G. I'll see you there.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joshua says, video idea, editing an Alder Lake build guide on an Alder Lake PC on an Alderwood boat in Alder Lake.


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[Assistant] Good thought, good thought. That's, uh, hey, you know, that's why, that's why we have these conversations. Yep.


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[Assistant] So no, you cannot do that. Please do not do that. You will probably brick your graphics card and we all know those are pretty precious these days. Adam says, happy new year to all of you and your loved ones. Also Linus, fellow motorcyclist here, do you have plans for LTT riding gear? Seeing your quality standards, I would probably love it.


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[Assistant] Technical garments like that are sooo difficult. That's a big undertaking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like honestly, I'd say a riding jacket would be a bigger project than the backpack, and the backpack's gonna take like a year. And it's so niche.


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[Assistant] I think so, cause you can get like stuff certified and stuff.


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[Assistant] But that's a whole process, like if we wanted to certify like your, our back armor and stuff like that, I think there's a whole thing. But then there's going to be different certification bodies in different regions. I mean, there's a reason that stuff costs so much because it's really niche. It's super low volume and it's a ton of work. So I would honestly prefer to just leave that to the specialists.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cameron, in the middle of a house remodel, would you recommend standard surrounds or in-ceiling speakers for the rear speakers? Well, if they're your rears, then I would not recommend putting them into the ceiling. I would recommend putting your overheads in the ceiling.


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[Assistant] Uh, depends. So like in my living room, for example, uhm, you know how there's that peak at the front of the house, uhm, where part of it is like the server room? Which house? The current one that I actually live in. Okay, so my living room.


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[Assistant] I had to get into the wall space by going through one of the, uhm,


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[Assistant] I forget what it's called, but it's basically like the, uh,


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[Assistant] Please help me, please help me. So it's the piece of wood that's above, at the top of a wall when you frame it. So I had to go down into that to get into the wall space and then I had to like kind of fish it over or something like that. That one was a bit tricky.


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[Assistant] But if it's something that everything is completely closed up, it can be anywhere from really easy, like say it was an interior wall and they cheaped out on the house and there's no insulation in there.


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[Assistant] You might be able to fish something up the wall, poke a small hole, fish it over, patch a little hole, and, and, you know, get it. Or, if it's full of insulation and the ceiling joists are running this way,


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[Assistant] You might, it might be completely impossible. The good news is those, like, LeGrand things with the adhesive strip and the little thing, they look not that bad, but...


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[Assistant] Um, I mean, since in the new place, we had all the walls open anyway. We obviously went that route. But if I was retrofitting a house, honestly, I would just run those, I would just run those things along a baseboard and then just cable tie, cable manage them really nicely up. And I call it a day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, nice yogi bavax. Don't worry, it's coming. Don't worry, it's coming. Fred W says bring back 12am green in the new bottle design. We do want to do more colors. We've got lots of new colors coming. Stay tuned.


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[Assistant] Burn to Otis. New year, new gear. You guys gonna do a Fractal Torrent water cooling build. Case is sick AF, like the new Lian Li Evo. I hadn't planned to, but uh, it sounds, sounds kinda good, actually.


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[Assistant] Uh, Matthew, I'm a big boy that wears a 4XL normally. I have 10 plus LTT shirts and it all hugs me tight. I badly want a Swacket that fits. Is there any way you guys could sort shirts for us big boys? It's coming, okay? So we've got our custom blank shirts sitting in the dock.


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[Assistant] When we get them, when we deploy them, confirm that they're not gonna fall apart in the field. We're pretty confident, don't worry. Uh, but once we confirm for realsies, we are gonna start working on our lanky boy fits, we're gonna start working on our chonky boy fits, uh, we're gonna start working on, uh, like fitted tees for women and all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Give us a little bit more time, I ask for your, I'm once again asking for your patience here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Ralph Z, would it be possible to add a belt slash waist strap to the backpack at this point? It would be possible, but we're not going to do it, because it's not a hiking bag, it's an everyday carry bag.


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[Assistant] Ryan P. Hi Linus and Luke, I sold my Pixel 6 Pro because it charged so slow but I loved the software. Should I get a 5a or wait for the Samsung S22? I mean...


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[Assistant] It's hard for me to recommend a Pixel these days. There's people that have them and absolutely love them, but we have a handful of people at the office that just have nothing but problems with them. I have an insane amount of problems with my phone.


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[Assistant] I mean, I love my car. It's just that the problem with it is the car.


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[Assistant] Speaking of phone issues, you know who sucks now? OnePlus.


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[Assistant] Man, both my wife and son are on OnePlus devices. They absolutely hate them. Uh, my son's has been plagued by this well-documented issue where, um, data just doesn't work on TELUS. You cannot override the, uh, uh, what's it called again?


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[Assistant] Uh, APN. You can't override the APN information. Trust me, guys. Trust me. I know how easy it is supposed to be. Just trust me. The particular device he's on though, you cannot manually enter the APN information unless you get this other app that's like


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[Assistant] And then you use that to force it to allow you into the editing screen because otherwise the UI will not let you access it.


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[Assistant] And then you have to enter it in like a weird way, that's not normal, and TELUS is aware of it, OnePlus has been aware of it for months, for months, and they haven't fixed it. And so there's just people whose data is completely bricked.


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[Assistant] But it's a lot of people. And then Yvonne just has the stupidest issues with her phone. Like it takes like a solid three or four seconds for her caller ID to work. So she'll just like, who's calling? I don't know.


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[Assistant] And it's like, you look at it and you go, okay, how large is the database for this? How long does this look up take? Are you on a mechanical hard drive in there? I just don't get it.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so, yeaah, I don't, I don't know, I don't know what to recommend to ya. Uhm, I've been overall mostly happy with Samsung devices.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mahir says, I remember a video of yours from years ago where you said you could see AMD's future being bright enough that you'd buy the stock if you weren't an influencer.


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[Assistant] I did say that, and I think that worked out pretty well for anyone who bought AMD at that time.


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[Assistant] Similarly, how do you see Intel's medium to long-term future? You're a good creator, much love. So, in this case, I, my crystal ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not a professional, uhm, I do not hold positions in either AMD or Intel because uhm, I apparently break my rules for framework. Okay, with framework, I really just believe in the mission. That's for realsies. But I don't own any Intel, I don't own any AMD, no Microsoft, no Google, nothing like that.


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[Assistant] So with AMD, the vision was extremely clear. Intel had nothing. Nothing on their roadmap for years. And I knew it. And everyone knew it.


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[Assistant] Like it wasn't like insider information, just Intel had nothing, their roadmaps were out there. And AMD had...


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[Assistant] Everything on their roadmap, and no one cares about consumer, but AMD had HILAR stuff on their roadmap that was going to absolutely just annihilate what Intel had coming, which was nothing, in the enterprise space.


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[Assistant] And so it was, it was just, it was so utterly crystal clear to me that


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[Assistant] Anyone who wasn't a big nerd keeping track of what Dr. Sue was doing over there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so it was just, it was so clear to me. I was like, this is gonna double, triple, quadruple.


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[Assistant] If I, if I, if it wasn't an enormous conflict of interest for me, I would just, I would just go for it. Because...


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[Assistant] Sometimes stocks go up based on the company's actual performance. But that's where we run into trouble because sometimes stocks go up and down based on things that have absolutely nothing to do with the company's performance.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or you can have a factory flood, you know, harming production, and all of a sudden the stock goes way up because your business gets way more profitable, like what happened to the hard drive guys back in the early 2010s, I guess it would have been, back when the Thailand floods happened. So it's complicated, right?


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[Assistant] I think Intel has an outstanding future. I see the kind of investment, I see the leadership they have now. Pat Gelsinger, it's just total game changer for them.


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[Assistant] I see the kind of openness that they have around communication now. Like, they talk, they've got some swagger. It's great. I love the new Intel attitude.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I love the investments that I'm seeing. We've got a, we've got a silicon shortage, right? There's money to be made and Intel is spending hand over fist on new fab capacity that is, I mean, it's gonna drive the world, right? Uhm, you can't go wrong. You can't, you cannot make enough wafers. So then the solution is,


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[Assistant] More fabs, more fabs, more fabs, because you're basically just a money printing machine at that point, and they know how to build a fab.


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[Assistant] They've got plenty of experience. Uh, I really like the concept where Intel is going to be manufacturing four third parties. I think they have an opportunity to be everything that Intel is plus everything that TSMC is rolled into one. I see just an incredible future for Intel.


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[Assistant] But, unlike AMD, I do not see that Intel has no competition. Right? So, if you think about it like a sprint, right? Like, Intel's going! They're fucking going! But, they've got, you know,


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[Assistant] Guys, like, shoulder to shoulder with them. Also going.


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[Assistant] And that's the thing is like, because stocks don't necessarily have to do with profitability, like regardless of whatever else happens, Intel's gonna be making like shed loads of money, but that doesn't always drive a stock up, right? So, so it's, it's more-


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[Assistant] Yeah, people just want to see those big W's, right? They want the news cycle in order to drive the stock price up to get normies interested in it.


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[Assistant] You know what? I-I-I-I'm not a professional. This is not advice.


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[Assistant] I would probably be buying Intel today if I, if I


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[Assistant] You know, was gonna invest in Intel, but I would not be doing it with the same kind of confidence that I would have done for AMD at Computex 2018 or 2019 or whatever it was when I made that video.


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[Assistant] Uh, because when I made that video, I was like, very sure. I would have comfortably put my entire net worth in AMD at that point, if I had thought that that was an ethical thing to do. And I would have made a lot of money. PUNS. Yeah, I don't want to talk about that. It's one of those things, it's just like...


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, no for sure. And it's not that I didn't do it and like I regret it because I didn't have the balls. It's like I didn't do it because it was not the right thing to do. Uhm, Jeffrey J. Where's the $80,000 10K Lumen Sony projector? Yeaah, I wanted to... Yeaah, we wanted to do a video about that.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, my new theater room. Oh well no, I don't need that for my theater room. We did want to do a video about that though.


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[Assistant] Uhm, apparently, according to Rob H. from AVRant, um, JVC has really good HDR tone mapping, so I'm looking into their products as opposed to Sony's products. Where are the separate amps? I'm disappointed, love the channel, been watching for 10 years. Okay, my theater room is supposed to be high-end reasonable. That's what I'm, that's what I'm going for.


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[Assistant] Jonathan G. When are the stealth desk pads dropping? Uh, no time soon.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dominic, thanks for the great customer service. Hey, no, no freaking problem.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jonathan G., see you later. Uh, Alexander, looking to buy some hardware to run a local server at my house. Uh, probably just storage and Plex. Any recommendations or should I just get something off Craigslist? We did a video recently where Anthony showed you how you can turn your old computer into a server. It's not particularly energy efficient, so...


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[Assistant] That's a concern, but given how difficult it is to get your hands on brand new hardware that's affordable


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[Assistant] Quality, like I would take a quality older power supply over a new crappy one for sure. So I'm always, I'm always all about that second hand market.


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[Assistant] So you were chilling liquid, so you were chilling a reservoir of water cooling fluid, which was car antifreeze, because


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[Assistant] Uh, or sorry, I shouldn't say antifreeze, uh, windshield wiper fluid. So it's windshield wiper fluid because antifreeze gets kind of jelly and, uhm, what's the opposite of viscous.


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[Assistant] So low viscosity, it gets low viscosity, uh, and it's really difficult to pump, uh, cause I think it's the glycol that causes problems. So you use windshield wiper fluid, it's good down to about minus 20 degrees celsius or something like that, and then you use a normal pump


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[Assistant] As long as it's, uh, can handle the, the alcohol content in the windshield wiper fluid. So we've got like these little giant pumps that are like aquarium pumps and it would go around to just like a water block and then you'd have to insulate the lines.


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[Assistant] So basically it's a water cooling loop, but instead of the radiator, you've got the evaporator side of an air conditioner submersed in the reservoir.


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[Assistant] The new one is a phase change, like direct to CPU cooler. So instead of the evap being submerged in liquid that gets pumped around to the CPU, the evap is directly bolted onto the CPU. So that's the, that's the difference.


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[Assistant] So, yes, we do need to do that, it's just a lot of work. Alex C. In a recent video you mentioned that 3200 mega transfer per second CL16 RAM was budget at best or bargain bin at worst. Do you recommend a higher tier RAM of 3200?


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[Assistant] Budget at best, bargain bin at worst, it's pretty solid. Uhm, so yea, no, just go with that, that's fine. Save a buck. I mean, obviously, like, 30, 200 CL14 would be better.


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[Assistant] There has to be a point. There has to be a reason to talk about Docker. You're not just gonna do a video like about Docker. I think we did a tech quickie about Docker, actually. Uh, it has to be, there has to be a project that makes it make sense to talk about Docker. And we have talked about Docker.


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[Assistant] Who was the probationary writer on the weird keyboard touchpad with swappable mats? Uh, that writer's name was Jesse. Uhm, I found my underwear receipt. What are you talking about? I don't know. Okay. There's some weird curated merch messages in here, Luke.


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[Assistant] And finally, Andrew B. Hey Linus and Luke. Loving everything I've gotten so far from LTT Store. Got a mystery shirt, a display t-shirt, case t-shirt. I'm thinking about ordering a WAN hoodie and was wondering if you could show what the inside of the sleeves look like. Oh, sure.


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[Assistant] We do need more pictures, I know, we need some like close-ups. We had some people complain about the French Terry. They're like, this is so rough, I can't stand it on my skin. But some people have like kind of a sensory sensitivity to this.


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[Assistant] See for me, those people might be expecting like a fleecy interior.


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[Assistant] I have a super like hyper sensitivity to fleece that makes me feel really uncomfortable. So that's why we use this. And I understand that you don't like it, but it is not actually a rough material for most people and most people wouldn't notice it.


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[Assistant] The sleeve construction is kind of bulky. It takes a little while of breaking it in to be able to like roll it up and even then it doesn't come up all the way. It's just part of having that, uh, that sort of thumb hole thing on it.


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[Assistant] So you've got your interior pocket.


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[Assistant] It's like a super complex garment to make, actually. Uh, so there's all the seams on the inside. I'm not sure how well you can see that, but... Good old Wann hoodie.


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[Assistant] I also find it not as breathable, whereas these I manage to wear them even when it's not super cold.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, I think that's pretty much it.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much, guys, for tuning in to the WAN Show. Really appreciate you all. Happy New Year! It might even be the new year already where you're watching from, so, uh, you know, ringing it in. Uhm, you gonna stay up till midnight? Do you wanna game? I don't know if I can game tonight, but maybe.


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[Assistant] Oh, the screwdriver! Yeah, yup, I didn't, uh, okay, yeah, show us how to buy a spare face, and build redux, and redwall it. Okay, uh, okay, we're back. So, uh, this is from the new ratchet, uh, manufacturer. So this is a bad one.


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[Assistant] You can see it has a lot of play here. You can feel it actually. You can feel the horizontal play. A little bit of vertical play is normal. So like if you pop it out, that's just super normal. So this is from the ratchet manufacturer that we want to use, we think. Oh yea, that's way better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, that was not a good. Doesn't seem as good. It's got a good sound.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, screwdriver, screwdriver, it is.


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[Assistant] It's gonna take time, but this is pretty close to what should be final.


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[Assistant] Yea, Mega Pro has a great mechanism that, uh, that we love. We just didn't like their handle design.


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[Assistant] I promise. In other gaming news, the trailer for Ubisoft's NFT cosmetic system called Quartz got so many dislikes it was unlisted. I don't think automatically, right? Like they just pulled it down?


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[Assistant] You're probably not gonna get one anyways, so. Yeah! At least you know it's launching. At least you're up to date on the tech news. There you go.


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[Assistant] No problem. Yeah, we... Okay. Minor problem. In other tech news, sort of, gaming news, the Game Awards awards the games and announces announcements. Uhm, there's a bunch of stuff, there's a bunch of announcements. First, I think we skip all of that and go to the awards, yeah? Sure. Best game direction... I'm skipping Game of the Year, we'll talk about that at the end. Fine.


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[Assistant] I think it's been a while, but it has been a big deal for quite a while.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I determined it was a waste of time, because I was the one that went.


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[Assistant] It wasn't even that, there was actually a large amount of hardware companies that went and launched hardware there. It was really weird. And I was like, okay, if they're gonna do this again, this is gonna be big. And then we went and they didn't do it again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's just a bit of a swing and a miss, and then we never went back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, best game direction, Deathloop. Have you ever heard of it? Uhm, I think I've heard of Deathloop. I was gonna say, probably, honestly, the majority of people watching have. Yeah, I haven't played it though.


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[Assistant] Pretty cool game concept, I have not personally played it, but I can see why it could have won this category. Best action slash adventure game? Metroid Dread?


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[Assistant] There was a lot of kind of movement around that game. I, I would have, if I saw this list without the winner highlighted, I probably would have suspected it was that one. Uh, Marvel's Guardian of the Galaxy also actually looks like an actually well-made game, which you probably would not expect given the name, because most games that are made off of movies are not very great.


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[Assistant] Most anticipated game was Elden Ring, who also won the most anticipated game of last year. Uhm, last year's list of most anticipated games is almost identical to this year's list of most anticipated games.


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[Assistant] I'm really hyped for God of War Ragnarok. The previous God of War was amazing.


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[Assistant] I did hear that. I wasn't a fan of any of the God of Wars before the remake. Yeah, but have you ever owned a PlayStation? No. Okay. But that type of game I'm also not into. Right, okay, sure. Like there's games like that on Xbox. This one's more of like an adventure game, it's really cool. Okay, getting into the finale. Best multiplayer game of the year. It takes two.


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[Assistant] Oh, so it's not Game of the Year. It's also Game of the Year. Oh, really? We're doing multiplayer game first, though.


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[Assistant] That's the really surprising thing to me. It beat New World. That should be a given. New World's trash. It beat Back 4 Blood. That should be a given in my opinion. Just go play Left 4 Dead 2. Uh, it beat Monster Hunter Rise. I never played that. It beat Knockout City. I legitimately don't know what that is. But it beat Valheim. That is very stunning to me.


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[Assistant] Also, Child of Divorce, and we've actually had a lot of comments come in and saying like, as a child of divorce, this game just kind of pissed me off.


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[Assistant] Very divisive and overcooked. Which like, sure it's a game about cooking, but it's also like, still a gamer game.


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[Assistant] Look for the glowing thing. A game that I think did that, and I've talked about it a million times, but Titanfall 2, the storyline is


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[Assistant] Honestly, really short. I still need to play it. But they never, they never overuse any mechanics. It's, it's, there's a few times where I'm like, man, like I really wish I had that for longer, but then at the same time, if I had it for too long, I probably wouldn't think the mechanic was as cool.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, just within the confines of the best multiplayer game award. Do I have any problems with that?


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[Assistant] I think it would have to be evaluated on the changes that happened to that game. So if that, in my opinion, if that game was still under heavy development...


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[Assistant] And in positive ways, I think, I can't think of an update other than potentially that one character. I can't think of an update that like, isn't cool. The Anarchist? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] So the options are Back for Blood, It Takes Two, Knockout City, Monster Hunter Rise, New World Valheim. I know you're not going to be able to comment on essentially any of those except for maybe Valheim.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yea, there's not that many of those games. They exist, but there's not that many of those games.


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[Assistant] The feedback for a lot of these games was actually quite positive. Like overwhelmingly positive, I think. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd kind of argue this wasn't exactly the absolute strongest year ever. Yeah, that's fair.


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[Assistant] A lot of the strong releases of this year came out like, right now. Which is kind of hard to include in an award show that happened right now. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I wouldn't be surprised if there was some concerns about giving an award to a game that has so much backlash. Because there is a huge amount of backlash over the cosmetic system and all this kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] I, I checked out the Halo subreddit once and went, whoa, and then kind of laughed and laughed because it was soooo negative. Everyone that I had talked to about Halo was like, yeah man, it's really fun. When you go on the Halo subreddit, it's just hatred.


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[Assistant] Jaden refunded the campaign.


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[Assistant] Because he has a 1080, and he's having serious performance issues. With a 1080. With a 1080. He sure as heck won't be buying anything higher end than a 1080 these days. I mean, man. I don't, I'm not, I haven't like, dove into it or anything, but yea, he refunded it because he found it unplayable. Like even 1080s are worth like,


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[Assistant] You know what, I was about to ask you to wait. I was gonna say, yeaah, we should just wait and co-op it. I haven't played yet either. That's my current plan, is I'm waiting for co-op to open up, I'm probably gonna end up playing co-op with like, a bunch of different people. And that sounds great. But I don't, yeaah, I don't think I want to play it single player. I never really played Halo single player.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like I always, I don't know, yeah, I had it on Xbox and I always played Halo 1 and Halo 2 and Halo 3 a little bit, but mostly Halo 1 and Halo 2. Uhm, I played with my dad or my brother or my friends or whatever, I never really played Halo alone.


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[Assistant] Hey man, we, we can play when it, when Coop comes out, okay? Alright, sounds good. After it gets delayed three times, alright? We'll play, we'll play in 2023.


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[Assistant] Wow, this is very judgmental. Yeah, wow, uhm. Tech, snobbery. Hmm, ten.


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[Assistant] Yeah, all the answers sucked. I don't think you would do, like, I don't think any of those, like, correctly apply to you at all. Anyways, uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] I didn't even like them, like, I feel like you're gonna be like, no, it should've been something else, and I'll be like, yeah, you're probably right.


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[Assistant] I did ten, ten, ten, three or four.


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[Assistant] Uh, I said calmly contact customer service and the authorities and hope they can stop.


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[Assistant] I said they've been waiting for the new snapdragon ship for years.


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[Assistant] I don't know, okay, I was meme-ing a little bit. Cause I feel like NES games and VR would just kinda be terrible. You'd still do it at least once. Yeah, that's true. So my answer was not wrong, it just wasn't the most right. I said number one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, I looked at the other ones, they'll say he's not gonna use this as a doorstop. I don't think he's gonna use it to work with others in VR environments. Like, that's not a thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I feel like four would be the most wrong.


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[Assistant] Good. I feel like it's a needed thing in some sense. Yeah, for sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I had the exact same reaction to this. I almost clicked on the protective case one for the exact same reason that you did. The one that I selected was their smartwatch because it said, uh, what's the point of being alive if they don't have the data to prove it?


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[Assistant] And I was like, the only thing he would save is the data, so it wasn't about the smartwatch. Right.


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[Assistant] He wouldn't waste any amount of time doing that, so that's dumb. I don't even have one. I know he doesn't have anything stored in an expensive protective case. So I'm not- I thought about, like, maybe that's enough of a whatever, but I didn't bother. And then, like, they're f- nothing? I'm like, well, he's not gonna grab nothing either.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So I, uh, yeaah. I did take the quiz again. I put in different information. I got something else.


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[Assistant] The nitty gritty details. There's some comments in the chat that that little balcony thing, uhm, with the little hobbit door below it, should have a fire pole.


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[Assistant] Let's do it, let's do it, hit me. The trailer for Ubisoft's NFT cosmetic system, Quartz, got so many dislikes it was unlisted. Uh, the trailer went up on December 7th, and the first supposed game will be Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Uh, it was later delisted, the video that is, uh, but the link is still around. Because, I mean, it's unlisted.


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[Assistant] As long as you have the link, you can find it. They're the first major publisher to go live with an NFT system.


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[Assistant] Basically, every cosmetic is a unique digit with a serial number attached to it, which is engraved on the cosmetic item. There will be limited edition quartz cosmetics. Uh, there's metadata belonging to each cosmetic, which will have the previous owner history. Uh, you can obtain your favorite streamers used cosmetics at exorbitant prices. Nice.


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[Assistant] Just in case, uh, underpants were out of fashion. The beta for Quartz has already started in select countries, and you can check it out at, uh, I mean, if you want, at Quartz.ubisoft.com. Full rollout starts in 2022.


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[Assistant] If, if, the, the, the thing that I'm trying to think about is like... If... Steam.


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[Assistant] Did a thing where they were like, okay, we're gonna have an event, there's a bunch of challenge things you can do, and if you do them, some cool thing will happen, but you don't know what it is? I might partake.


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[Assistant] There's also creators that will just, I don't even know what it's called, favorite, or whatever, it shows the creator's circle thing in a heart, and it puts it at the top. There's creators that will just like bomb their own videos with those. They'll just heart like every single positive or neutral comment, and there's so many of them that it takes forever to scroll through it, scroll through it, scroll through it, scroll through it, you'll never really find the negative one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm seeing articles from like six hours ago. I wouldn't have heard about this.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't really work because right now it shows it without a message when it expires.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there is another thing to talk about, by the way. Oh, what is it? The, uh, the game awards. We talked about the awards, we didn't talk about the announcements. Oh.


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[Assistant] There's a few, Telltale is back, they're making a video game adaptation of the Amazon original TV series, The Expanse. Never watched it.


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[Assistant] I've always had problems with this name, but Senua. Senua's Saga.


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[Assistant] Are you gonna play? Uh, if, I mean, I have never thought that game was cool solo, so if other people wanna play, I'm down. Right. That's pretty much it. Uhm, Wonder Woman, game coming out, being made by Monolith, which, as other people have pointed out, I think is a very good pairing.


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[Assistant] I think that makes a lot of sense. I think they'll do a really good job with it. So that's cool. Pretty excited about that. Among Us VR.


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[Assistant] Um, Paramount Plus is making a Halo TV series that apparently looks like very high budget, so that could be cool or terrible, we'll see.


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[Assistant] Which looks really cinematic. The, the trailer that they put out looks really cool.


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh man. So, part of the problem...


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[Assistant] I don't know how minor it is. I think it's more on the major side of things. Uhm, but they were on the, the, the cancel train a couple years ago. Right. And as far as I know they're, it's kinda still the same crew. Right. And now they're making a Star Wars game, which is actually kind of interesting because usually Disney is very, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but usually when they try to work with other companies, they're like, no, you have to be squeaky clean. Right. So...


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[Assistant] Alright, let's do some- Anyways, they said some- I don't know all the details behind it because I heard about this literally today, but apparently in the past they said some like homophobic stuff and stuff. If you're interested, you can look into it. Their name is Quantic Dream. That's the developers behind Star Wars Eclipse. Got it. Alright. Super chance!


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[Assistant] But... If it's in a fully working state at one point, it probably won't be that far from it in the future. So, yeah.


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[Assistant] Kenneth is saying that apparently, uh, when they remove the dislike button, they're also increasing ads on the site, which I find pretty interesting. Uh, I didn't know that part. Oh, really? Uh, and also he's saying, uh, if you guys are hiring accountants in a couple years, uh, when I'm done with my degree, we probably will be. We need accountant applicants now, actually.


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[Assistant] Canadian Socialism. Or something. Yeaah. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I was gonna kinda ask, has Silverstone done a lot lately? Yeaah. I know they really pushed to increase skew counts, I'm sure they're still doing that.


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[Assistant] Steam Link finally died. That actually sucks, those were pretty cool. Is a $200 Shield Pro really the best alternative right now for couch PC streaming? Left my old water bottle on the bus, so finally getting a replacement.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of that depends on how far away the computer is, how realistic it is to run cables through walls, things like that.


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[Assistant] I don't think I'm up on streaming to the TV technology right now. I know Shields have done it very well in the past, uhm, but if you could do it with a wire, it's pretty good.


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[Assistant] How much are 20 oz in real units? Google's really, really good at that. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be sassy, I just, I have no idea, and Google for sure knows, and they, Google actually has, I don't know if you guys know this, it has built-in calculator things for equations like that, so it will do it, for sure, and well.


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[Assistant] Good to see. Deskpad measurements are in metric. It has both, actually. Uhm, could we, well, okay, uuuh.


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[Assistant] I think the desk pad measurements might be in metric, I think you're right. The desk pad configurator, which is not out yet, has both. Uhm, can we get another Terran macro guide, but this time for Linus?


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[Assistant] Are you guys having a hard time getting shirts in general?


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[Assistant] I think they're fine. I don't think they're necessarily as cool as some of the other options, which is why I think they might not sell that well. I don't think it's a bad shirt. I just think there's a lot of other, like, potentially cooler ones.


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[Assistant] Because you want to test it out in a messy environment too. Anyways, yeaah, I'm sure you're aware.


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[Assistant] I haven't tried it, but I have heard if you get Halo through Steam, you get the cross-platform play thing, so you can play it on Xbox. But your save doesn't transfer. It only transfers if you bought it through the Windows Store.


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[Assistant] Which is just like, why? Okay. It's not even like THAT big of a deal.


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[Assistant] Cause I don't know that many people that are gonna play a single player game on both. But like, some people will.


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[Assistant] I was like, uh, when my, when my mom was working on movies and TV shows and stuff, a lot of sets kind of required


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[Assistant] The conclusion, which we probably should have gotten to a little bit faster, but we did get to, was like, it doesn't matter. She has to get one. So like, let's just get it and then try to learn it. And luckily she adapted to it really fast and everything was fine.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we remove ones that are clearly spam or are clearly inappropriate. Uhm, there's ones that have had, like, lots of...


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[Assistant] Wording in it that is like, not appropriate for a tech review. Uhm, so, that's a thing. Had nothing to do with like, the actual product, etc. Those are the only things that would be removed.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen. We've got a fantastic show for you guys today. Lots of great topics, naturally. The big news this week is Facebook has decided, with all the stuff that they've got going on right now, all the controversy, you know what the solution is?


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[Assistant] New name. New name. Move to a new city. New name. New name for Facebook. Out of the country, honest.


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[Assistant] That's right. That's right. Facebook is now meta. We're going to be talking about that naturally with all of our recent controversy. Uh, we're going to be changing our name as well. So we're going to get you guys to weigh in on that. Let us know what you want to see. Um, yeah, Linus Media Group B, Mick Linus Media Group Face is one of the front runners right now.


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[Assistant] In other news, Intel soft launched their Alder Lake CPUs. We're going to be talking about that. I might talk a little bit about my attempt at getting my hands on an engineering sample so that I could publish data about it early. My failed attempt.


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[Assistant] And the show is brought to y'all by Secret Lab, Ridge Wallet, and Pulseway.


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[Assistant] Alright, why don't we jump right into our first topic of the day. Oh, we didn't even mention what's gonna be another one of our major topics this week. Uh, we gotta talk about Linux challenge. We didn't touch on it.


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[Assistant] All last week. So obviously we're not gonna spoil everything for you guys, but Luke and I were both shooting our parts of part three.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen, uh, what Luke ended up


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[Assistant] You know what, we'll get into it later. First, we gotta talk about Facebook being in turmoil with whistleblower leaks and a new name. So they've topped headlines this week and actually, quite, quite, quite a big, man, they've been in the news a lot lately.


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[Assistant] Hagen drilled the company's business practices in front of Congress for creating a structure of incentivization on growth while harvesting resources away from important safety programs.


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[Assistant] Revelations from the documents have intensified concerns about Facebook's influence particularly on children's and teens' mental health. I mean, man, my mind is blown right now.


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[Assistant] Facebook is not good for the mental health of kids. Because my kids, that's the first thing I did. I got them Facebook. Got them on Facebook. I got them on that Facebook. Get them on Twitter. Make sure they're on that Facebook. Get them on Instagram. How else are they gonna talk to their boomer relatives? Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's what Facebook's good for, right? That's mostly what I use it for. That is 100% of what I use it for.


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[Assistant] Anyway, revelations, uh, as Haagen was testifying, Facebook's representatives.


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[Assistant] Tweeted and emailed talking points rebutting Hargan's testimony, one of their main points.


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[Assistant] Hawkin didn't work on many of the issues, including teenagers and child safety that were covered in the documents that she downloaded. Well then.


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[Assistant] Well then, the fact that you didn't work on these documents means that you couldn't possibly be qualified in any way to speak about them. You know, yea, so, fine. Cool. In other news, Facebook has decided to rebrand their corporate entity to Meta. Like as in Metaverse.


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[Assistant] Like, like a saggy, a saggy infinity, infinity logo. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I guess that's, uh.


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[Assistant] This is terrible. Zuckerberg, okay, about the change, okay, so the new name reflects the company's push to build an avatar-filled virtual world known as the Metaverse as it battles its deepening public relations crisis. Zuckerberg stated,


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[Assistant] Together we can finally put people at the center of our technology. What the hell was Facebook ever before?


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[Assistant] That's 100% fair. Okay? And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, okay, so they also announced a new VR headset dubbed Project Cambria.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean that's not really a current controversy. They've had so many hot, spicy, sexy new controversies that I think that one barely even registers anymore at this point. That's the thing about the news cycle, right? Is it just...


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[Assistant] We're going boys, we just, okay, what's new, what's new, what's the worst thing that happened today? Nevermind yesterday.


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[Assistant] Because now, people like you can never be like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, Oculus has broken every promise they ever made after the Facebook acquisition. Because now, that would be nonsense. You'd be saying, this company, what are you talking about? What company?


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[Assistant] You broke every promise they made after the acquisition by this other company. What company are you even talking about? That company is not a thing, and that company you're claiming acquired them is also not a thing. So, I have no idea what you're talking about.


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[Assistant] So now, now what we're gonna have to say is that the company formerly known as Oculus broke every promise that was made after the acquisition by the company formerly known as Facebook.


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[Assistant] Nice. Oh man. So discussion question, okay? This is from Colin, who put this topic in the doc for us. Thank you, Colin. The heat is turning up. On the social media megacorp, is more regulation an absolute fact at this point, or will the status quo remain?


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[Assistant] Francis Hogan says breaking up Facebook isn't the answer, fixing the algorithms is. Maybe a little column A, column B. The problem is that algorithms are inherently sort of a trade secret for these companies. You know, as a creator on YouTube, which is uh, you know, owned by Alphabet,


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[Assistant] Haha, see if we're gonna, if we're gonna, if we're all gonna pretend that these companies are a different thing, let's use all of their pretend names. Yeah. So, so we've got, we've got meta and we've got alphabet, okay? So, so if we're gonna...


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[Assistant] As, as a creator on YouTube, I kind of see this from both sides. On the one hand, I understand that the, the opacity, opacity? Wow, that's a word I don't say out loud a lot. Whatever, the, the, the opaqueness.


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[Assistant] The lack of, the lack of opacity. Uh, the opaqueness of these algorithms creates a lot of distrust.


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[Assistant] Among users, among government regulators, among competitors who are also beholden to these platforms, uh, it creates this incredible power imbalance. Uh, even partners, partners like me who are kind of going, okay, well, I sure hope


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[Assistant] The algorithm treats me well today, and I can spend a lot of my time trying to understand it, and I can increase the odds of my business being successful by understanding it, how it works, how to make it work to my advantage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and that, that creates a lot of stress and a lot of uncertainty though because I can, I can never absolutely know how it works because, and this is sort of the other side of this coin, in order to build the most effective possible algorithm in the machine learning AI age,


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[Assistant] Even the developers can't necessarily know exactly how it works. That is just the way that it is.


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[Assistant] You, the way that it works with machine learning is you basically say, okay, here's the desired outcome. Whether it's, I want the highest possible watch time. Or whether it's because I want the highest possible engagement.


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[Assistant] Exactly, and sometimes that can end up breaking things, so the developers will go in, they'll go, they'll tune it, they'll go, oh okay, we swung a little bit far this way, let's kind of tune it back this way, but the bottom line is that even the developers of these algorithms don't 100% know


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[Assistant] Exactly how they work. That's just the nature of the beast. And if we forced them to open up their algorithms and how they work,


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[Assistant] We could create a situation where a significant investment has been made into this technology that is now effectively just put out there in the open. And I could see a lot of open source advocates, for example, being very in support of that.


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[Assistant] But the point I'm trying to make is that I, I, I see it both ways. Uhm, you know, this, these are, these are, these are non-trivial, these are non-trivial tools to develop.


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[Assistant] And as a company, I think you expect some kind of return on your investment, right?


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[Assistant] So I don't, I don't have the solution. That's for certain.


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[Assistant] It sure isn't changing your name.


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[Assistant] I don't think anyone's gonna stop calling Facebook, Facebook.


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[Assistant] Maybe, you know, analysts writing seeking alpha articles or whatever, you know, where they, they're advising people, you know, a stock to invest in or whatever. They're going to want to make sure they use the correct legal name of the company or whatever. But I don't think that your, your mom or your grandma or whatever is going to stop calling the company that owns Facebook, Facebook.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna say they probably won't notice or care for the most part.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's just gonna be like, I mean, maybe I'm overthinking this, but from my point of view, you have enough muscle memory for where an app is installed on your phone or whatever else.


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[Assistant] And it's not like they're not going to do a really gradual shift in the branding. Like, they've changed their logo before. They changed the font of the F or whatever. And I'm pretty sure they've changed the logo design for things like Facebook Messenger in the past.


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[Assistant] I don't foresee that being a problem. I think, I think it's just gonna be that people will kinda go, oh, for some reason, Facebook, their logo's an M now, so whatever.


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[Assistant] No, the app itself is still going to be Facebook. Okay. But what I'm expecting over time is that they might want to have some of the parent company branding in there. Kind of like how when you open up WhatsApp, it's like WhatsApp by Facebook. So we're probably going to see WhatsApp by Meta.


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[Assistant] So at the very most we might see some kind of logo or branding redesign, but it's not going to be anything that's going to make it difficult for people to find the app on their phone.


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[Assistant] So, how much of this is, like, can I just go tinfoil hat for a little bit here? Anya? Yea, let's go. Can I go a little bit tinfoil hat? Okay. So, how much of this is this sort of mega-rich individual


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[Assistant] That absolutely has sort of zero connection to how most people are living their lives.


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[Assistant] Spending the vast majority of our time in sort of virtual reality, interacting with people virtually because, you know, virtual tourism and virtual skydiving is all that's going to be left for us by the time


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[Assistant] This, this, this sort of mega ultra-rich individual and his ilk have hoovered up all of the wealth that exists in the world and we better get used to it and, you know, this is sort of this, this move to start getting us


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[Assistant] Acclimated. So there's these like weird- Like I'm- this- yeaah. Does it not feel like-


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[Assistant] Built on the Intel 7, formerly known as 10 nanometer enhanced superfin process. No AVX512, turns out people didn't care on the mainstream platforms and it took up too much die space, but we are getting PCI Express Gen 5.


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[Assistant] That's right, Luke. Gen 5. DDR 5. 128 gigs max memory capacity. Uh, dedicated B clock support. I don't know what dedicated B clock support means, but uhm, maybe that's just a typo in my notes here. One of the biggest things is new power definitions. So I want to


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[Assistant] I want to be careful about applauding this because it's the kind of thing that should have been done ages ago.


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[Assistant] But Intel is finally disclosing multiple power limits for their CPUs.


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[Assistant] So what was TDP, uh, PL1, is now Processor Base Power. Okay, so that's the power the CPU is able to access at any given moment. And what was PL2 is now Maximum Turbo Power, or MTP, defined as the maximum power the CPU can access during boost.


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[Assistant] And in the past, for especially the last generation, Intel was releasing these CPUs with a hundred...


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[Assistant] But you see how quiet the applause is? Because this should have never been a problem in the first place.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, I mean, it's not just Intel, like, overall.


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[Assistant] Whether we're talking about, you know, Apple with their intentionally vague performance graphs or...


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[Assistant] Intel with the things Intel does. There seems to be this trend towards de-technicalifying, uh, consumer-facing information that you publish. Like it used to be not that long ago that Intel would publish a complete


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[Assistant] A complete matrix of all the different uh, core counts and all the different boost clocks that the CPU could reach.


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[Assistant] And they, they just, they just, they just published it. And so you didn't have to guess, oh, if I have like a, a, a two core, a game that, you know, utilizes predominantly two cores.


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[Assistant] What kind of performance will I see in that? What kind of clock speed will I see in that compared to if I have one that's gonna manage to hit four or one that's limited to just one? They used to just publish it and then they just stop.


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[Assistant] And I remember complaining about it at the time, and then I guess I just got sort of slow-boiled over here, because I sort of forgot about it. And now that they're sort of giving me back an inch, I want a mile! I want all the proper specs back! Tell me everything!


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[Assistant] Intel's performance testing claims that the new CPUs are at worst equal to and at best up to 30% faster than AMD's Ryzen 5000 series. However, speaking of Intel, uhm, publishing consumer-facing data that is questionable,


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[Assistant] Intel's testing used Windows 11 Pro and took place before the fixes for Windows 11 scheduler bugs that caused high level 3 cache latency on Ryzen.


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[Assistant] How it actually performs is still unknown, although what we do know is that it consistently beats 11th gen by at least that much, so it should be competitive based on what we know about how


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[Assistant] 12th Gen compares to 11th Gen and how 11th Gen compares to Ryzen, but obviously when we do our review we're going to be laser focused on 12th Gen versus Ryzen 5000 because that's what you guys want to know. Now I don't know why Anthony put this in here, but I'm going to share it with you guys. Here are some facts about Alder Lake.


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[Assistant] Alder Lake is an artificial lake in Washington State created by the construction of the Alder Dam in 1944. Alders are trees, comprising the genus Alnis in the birch family...Betulisi?


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[Assistant] Oh, there's a hardwood that is useful for furniture and other structural use.


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[Assistant] The catkins can be edible. A catkin is found mainly on male plants and is a cluster of petal-less flowers on a stem used for pollination.


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[Assistant] Our discussion question is, will AMD's vCache be enough? Or will AMD need to pull off some kind of different magic trick to stay ahead?


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[Assistant] I don't know, AMD has made some pretty bold claims about the kinds of performance increases that we can expect from Vcash, but really to me, the main discussion point for all of this is...


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[Assistant] Are we back to Intel and AMD leapfrogging each other on a yearly or every other yearly basis? And is Intel finally going to be making the same kinds of investments that AMD has been making over the last few years to really drive performance forward?


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[Assistant] Rather than just being content to sit back on their laurels. Are you excited? Yeah.


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[Assistant] How would you respond to the people who inevitably are going to tweet at you upset about how much faster the new generation of CPUs is and how worthless their last generation CPU is when they turn around and try and sell it on the second hand market? They're lame. I don't care.


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[Assistant] There's a whole generation of PC enthusiasts that thought that when you buy a 3770K... You get to keep it for 10 years?


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[Assistant] With so much of our gaming performance limited by the GPU. Especially as 4K displays have become, I mean, 1440p got affordable first. Nowadays, like, 1440p is like, you can find that on Craigslist for next to nothing. You want a 1440p display.


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[Assistant] It's a great resolution. Personal favorite resolution. Okay, if I had to have a personal favorite resolution, okay. But 4K displays even are quite affordable now, and given how much of our performance bottleneck is actually, has actually been shifted to the GPU because we're trying to push so many pixels, do we need faster CPUs for gaming right now? Might as well take them. You gotta take them, dude.


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[Assistant] Okay, I mean, yeah, obviously it's better than a kick in the teeth, but that's not what I-


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[Assistant] I mean, we all know that the performance of modern generation computers is not really the, uhm, the issue. It's all about how fast the modern generation of consoles is.


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[Assistant] But we will, we will, we will try. We will try. Uhm, really the motivation behind this is to be clear, not to make more money. In fact, our margins on LTT store purchases are actually lower percentage-wise than our margins on Superchats. The idea is just that


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[Assistant] If you are going to spend money in hopes that I might read your message on stream, you might as well at least get something for your trouble if I don't read it.


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[Assistant] So this is just a way smarter way for you guys to contribute to the show, because instead of just giving Google money for no reason,


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[Assistant] You can give, you know, our t-shirt printer and our warehouse guys over in Richmond there. You can, you can give them something to do. Give them, give them some money to make. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Keep the machine, keep the machine rolling here, rather than keeping the machine rolling at Google, where I think they're rolling pretty good.


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[Assistant] So, uh, Pierce Bielenberg says it's a bad idea. No, it's actually a genius idea, and it wouldn't surprise me if we have other creators reaching out to floatplane being like,


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[Assistant] I need this. This is the best thing ever. Very, very shortly.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mika Misaki says if you had CAD prices for your local peeps, I would buy merch. We do. We do. The Canadian price is...


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[Assistant] The price on the website times the exchange rate to CAD. That's the Canadian price.


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[Assistant] Well, look, the issue is that our costs are in US dollars. So if our prices were in Canadian dollars, we would just be coming in every morning and moving them around based on how the exchange rate floats because we need to keep our margins consistent.


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[Assistant] So that's why the pricing is all in US dollars. Alright, let's jump into our next topic, which I think has to be Linux challenge. Okay, nice, yea. How is your week? Uhm... My kids are mad at me.


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[Assistant] Wait, why? Because I bought them, I actually bought four copies of Minecraft dungeons. About two weeks before we started the Linux challenge.


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[Assistant] I bought, I bought four copies of Minecraft Dungeons and I have refused to play Minecraft Dungeons with them for now the last three weeks.


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[Assistant] Because, and this is really funny, the Minecraft launcher exists on Linux. There's actually a first party version of the Minecraft launcher that is Linux native, freakin' ready to rock. Okay, you wanna play some Minecraft? Play some freakin' Minecraft! Play some Minecraft on that Linux boys! Okay?


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[Assistant] You wanna play Minecraft Dungeons? Oh, oh, oh, yeah. Can't help you with that one. You better head to Lutris. You better head over to Lutris and you better find some...


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[Assistant] Super out of date guides that do not work at all, and then when you're done with those super out of date guides that don't work at all, you better find some really great comments that are all like, hey, yeah, Minecraft Dungeons is on Steam now.


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[Assistant] So, you can just play it through Steam with Proton. Isn't that fantastic? No, it's not fantastic. I already paid for it. I paid for it in the Microsoft freaking stupid launcher.


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[Assistant] If that makes, if that makes any sense. So that's been, that's been a source of frustration in my household over the last few weeks. Uhm, I mean my kids were delighted when I did get Minecraft working and I, and I, and I did get Discord working and they were able to, I mean my daughter was playing


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[Assistant] On Linux. And had no idea. She's officially a card carrying Linux gamer now at...


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[Assistant] You know, however many years old she is. And I think that's, that's really cool. So when I, when I talk about my frustrations, I also want to highlight how amazing and how cool it is that this is a thing at all because even five years ago, Linux gaming was like,


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[Assistant] If you wanna basically compile the game yourself.


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[Assistant] I was blown away by how easy it was to get Anno1800 going.


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[Assistant] You know what I want to be careful of though. Okay?


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[Assistant] I just said something that I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna tweak a little bit. I was blown away by how easy it is.


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[Assistant] Now that I have three weeks of daily driving this thing under my belt.


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[Assistant] Because it is still everything that is going to be said, okay? So the part one is already out on floatplane, part two is going to be coming out probably next week on floatplane, uhm, part three is gonna be probably a week after that, and all of the things that I've already recorded in those previous parts where I say, look, this is not easy, it's all still true.


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[Assistant] But, it's also true that once you orient yourself, and once you have some idea of like, what are the buttons you can push? What are the levers you can pull? The troubleshooting process is worse than Windows. But, manageable. If you're, if you're pretty techy.


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[Assistant] Definitely worse than troubleshooting on Windows. But a big part of that is just documentation.


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[Assistant] I think one of the biggest challenges for me in part three was how hard it was to find


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[Assistant] Okay, you're asking for them to want to help you. And finally, you're asking for them to have had all of those other stars align recently.


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[Assistant] Can I just say that my experience with Linux desktop has not jived with a lot of what people have told me and with my own experience with Linux on server.


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[Assistant] The, the whole, you don't have to restart it, it's crazy stable,


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[Assistant] Whatever it is that you're talking about, that has not been my experience. In no particular order. I have experienced uhm, the system refusing to reset correctly. I have experienced the display refusing to go to sleep.


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[Assistant] I have experienced uhm, actually it's wakes from sleep every time for me, so I've been pretty good on that so far, and what was one of the other really, oh, not being able to force close apps.


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[Assistant] I just, I am just having, and this was a really weird one. Unfortunately, it was one of those things that is impossible for me to have documented because what happened was I rebooted the system and I went to sign in.


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[Assistant] And it said, your credentials are wrong. And this was quite early on. And I was like, there's no way my credentials are wrong. Uh, this is a password that I have typed in a lot of times because it's, it's, uh, it's just a phrase that I've typed a lot of times. There's just, there's no way, but I'll try again. Didn't get it. Try again. Didn't get it. I was like,


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[Assistant] Did I do that thing again where I typo my password twice when I'm creating it in the same way? I've done it before. It's terrible, terrible. I had to reformat a Windows Server install that I set up.


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[Assistant] Got everything exactly the way I wanted, and then rebooted, and was promptly not able to get back into it. Anyway, I was like, did I do that again? So, I was like, I hunt and packed it.


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[Assistant] I was like, okay, I must've done that again. So I rebooted it just to see, typed in my password, logged in.


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[Assistant] I've never, I've never seen, and I swear to you, so I couldn't record this because A, it involved reboots, and B, I'm not gonna record myself.


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[Assistant] Using a password that I like use for my computer. That's been a bit of a weird one. That's just really stupid. I'm not going to do that. And so I can't prove it to you. But I swear to you. On my mother's grave. It happened.


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[Assistant] She's not dead and she probably won't have a grave. She's more into cremation, but that's not the point. The point is, I swear to you it happened. And to be clear,


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[Assistant] It's not like Windows doesn't have it's own bad behavior. I had a, I had a problem with my NVIDIA drivers. Haha, they got that in common. I had a problem with my NVIDIA drivers for a long time where my display wouldn't go to sleep.


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[Assistant] I finally solved it, it ended up being like a bunch of Googling, I had to go in the command line, I had to go search for what process prevented the machine from going to sleep last, blah blah blah blah blah, it was the whole thing. Anyway, managed to figure that out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and even in part one of the Linux challenge, I showed this bizarre thing that my computer was doing, where it was like the up arrow was locked on. So I would press the start menu and it wouldn't even let me restart it, it would just go da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.


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[Assistant] But, before you sanctimoniously declare that Linux is so, so, so much better, uhm, maybe just kind of, kind of do a little reflection and maybe see if you're just more used to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're both bad. They both have flaws. They both definitely have flaws. There's things that could be absolutely way better. Something that didn't make it into the video that I shot today, and this would have been the most appropriate spot for it, maybe I'll put it in part five that's more of like a summary, is the way that fonts, fonts and text size,


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[Assistant] All over the place, in my desktop environment. Oh, not mine. Yeah, it's just, it's, it's, I'm not the kind of person who's all like, oh, the lines on these, this new iconography, blah, blah, blah, like I don't really care about that kind of stuff, but having fonts just like markedly different from one window to the next is pretty distracting for me. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's pretty annoying.


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[Assistant] I, though, have not had the same issues that you've had with smoothness. The actual, the actual KDE desktop environment, like interacting with things, has been great, save for Dolphin. Can I just say if you're a Dolphin developer?


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[Assistant] You are not gonna like part three. Dolphin is a piece of garbage, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I switched over to, I forget what it's called. I think it's the Ubuntu default one. It's called two different things. It's called files, but then it's also called something else. It has like, uh, it has like another, another name. File Manager Linux. I'll double check. I'll figure out what the name is.


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[Assistant] Nautilus, Nautilus. Yeah, Nautilus has been, has been at least better from a functionality standpoint, but there's all kinds of like little weird stupid things that are not cohesive, even when it's working really well. So for example, I opened up a zipped file.


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[Assistant] Or a zipped folder rather, excuse me. I think a zip would be a file that contains... The point is, I opened up a zip, alright, and that opened up in whatever my default...


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[Assistant] Well, no, not in KDE on Manjaro at least, maybe other distributions handle this better, but no, instead you actually need to like, a caveman click extract and find the target and extract it to there that way.


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[Assistant] That's something that comes up a lot. We've done a couple of streams, uh, Luke and I together have done a couple of streams just troubleshooting things. We did one last night actually when we were trying to get this, uh, we were trying to test this feature and also try and get, uh, OBS


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[Assistant] Yeah, we were at it for quite a while. So, the point is, uhm, we've done a couple of these streams, sort of going through some of the challenges that we've faced live, and there's a lot of comments that come up a lot, and one of the really popular ones is, just use the command line.


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[Assistant] And I can get things done in a command line. You know, I'll create a Windows storage space stupid array thing in PowerShell or, you know, I'll, I get, as long as I have kind of some instructions to follow, I'm not, I'm not familiar with a lot of the syntax for Linux, but,


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[Assistant] You gotta remember, I've been using computers since the Windows 3.1 days, like if I, if I have to go in and cd dot dot whatever, I know, I know the syntax for Windows, so I can find my way around a Windows command line, but I don't know the syntax for Linux, so a lot of the time I'll end up


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[Assistant] Fudging my way through to a far greater extent. That's not like I'm completely incapable of using it. It's not like I don't understand the power of it. It can be outstanding. But what the people saying that have to understand is that you are completely off base. The average user


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[Assistant] Like, the average user is not, as soon as they see that, they're gonna be like, what is this? I thought this was a computer! I thought this was finished!


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[Assistant] Like I just, ah, I get it. It's great for lots of things, but some of the things that it's great for, it doesn't need to be great for. One of my issues with Dolphin is that it doesn't allow you to, um, copy files into a folder that requires administrative privileges. And not just, you have to open, uh, open Dolphin as administrator.


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[Assistant] Or you have to go into that folder's permissions and, and edit them. It does not allow it. And one of the responses on the, I believe it was on the Manjaro forum, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to say the wrong thing. So I'm just not going to say where it was. It was on some forum, but one of the responses from the community was, well, you shouldn't want to do that. And I was like, but I do.


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[Assistant] Because I need to copy, actually it came up a couple of times already in the first just few weeks of daily driving Linux. Once when I wanted to install a specific version of Java so that I could get the game client for Forged Alliance forever working. And once when I wanted to copy that OBS plugin into the OBS plugins folder. So it's come up, I do want to do that, now I need a way to do that. And the answer was, well, you shouldn't want to do that.


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[Assistant] That's sweet, I actually really like that. One of the worst gatekeeping things that we ran into during one of our community streams was someone critiquing us for trying to get Forged Alliance working. Like, well who even plays that game anyway? We do.


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[Assistant] We do. That's the point. Why would they choose that random game?


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[Assistant] Because we play it. We don't choose games based on what runs on the platform. That is the definition of ass backwards. You choose games based on games you want to play.


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[Assistant] And then, you go with the platform that supports those games. That is how, if you need evidence, because you don't believe me, that that is how the world works, look no further than Nintendo.


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[Assistant] It's kind of interesting, but it also has like, at this point, what, a six, seven year old, like mediocre arm based processor in it. Like it's.


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[Assistant] So my, my bottom line on this, my take, and you can hate me for it, is that the Linux community needs to stop relying on the command line as a crutch. For... Creating user experiences that are actually usable.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of noob friendly distros that I think could learn a lot from. And, and this is honestly, and this was something I was also gonna sort of discuss in part five maybe, but we'll see, maybe I'll leave it out. Maybe I'll just talk to you guys about it now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of the other, one of the other sort of problems that I see is that this kind of UX research that a company like Microsoft or a company like Apple spends significant amounts of time and significant amounts of money on.


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[Assistant] Whatever the end result they end up with might be. Uh, they, they at least apparently do the research.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of the things they spend so much time on is having people who are not familiar with the product come in and use it and provide feedback. They watch them. They watch them use it.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, that's one of the things that Windows is always sending telemetry data about is how people are interacting with the software. Do they actually use this button? Can they not find it? Things like that, right? And that's something that


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[Assistant] Linux, I don't see outside of a mega corporation like Valve coming in and doing this. That's something that I don't see a way for Linux as a community to fix. Because one of the things about the Linux community is it's the Linux community. Not...


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[Assistant] The broader internet or computer using or just existing on this planet community. And unless you have money, like actual resources to throw at it, how are you gonna coordinate those kinds of


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[Assistant] Of, of, of, like, focus groups, right? Like if I'm, if I'm supposed to be, what's the one that claims to be the most windows-like? It's not mint, is it?


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[Assistant] How often, even if they've done it, how often can Zorin really afford to round up a bunch of Windows users off Craigslist or whatever, put them in a room in front of a Zorin OS desktop environment,


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[Assistant] And watch them. Watch them try to interact with it. It's not, it's not reasonable for a project that is largely contributed to by people who are donating their time.


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[Assistant] I feel like you get a way better experience with Linux if you start using it without a GUI, then everything makes way more sense. We started out from the start, we're like, hey, we're gamers. You can't game without a GUI. Okay, text adventure games.


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[Assistant] And what I think you probably didn't anticipate was how much of your gaming social life revolves around trying the latest open beta or playing


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[Assistant] People being like, yeah, that game's trash. And you're being like, yeah, I know, I totally saw this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's really frustrating. Uh, hey Blinkin says, seriously guys, move on. This has been, this has been-


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[Assistant] Okay, Microsoft Store is better than Panac, but...


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[Assistant] Well, okay, I shouldn't say better. I shouldn't say better because one of the cool things about Pamac is that it can search other stores or repositories.


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[Assistant] Uhm, including ones that are only sort of compatible with my distro. So that's a double edged sword, right? On the one hand, it means that I can end up with applications that only sort of work. But on the other hand, it means that the Manjaro developers don't have to go hand validate every single package.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I was able to get, like for example, that OBS plugin.


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[Assistant] The package that I used was, I forget if it was Snap or if it was a Flatpak, it was not, it was not from the Manjaro official repository, so it was something that I actually had to use Pamek and override, uhm, or was it from AUR? I don't remember, it doesn't matter. The point is, from something else, it did work, I am now happily functional, which is all that I really ask.


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[Assistant] I mean, honestly, that's the biggest problem forever. Because, like, looking at, okay, Lutris, right? So, Anno1800. Okay, so Luke and I both ended up managing to install this game.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, here's the thing. You've got, uhm, three different ways to like, install it here. Okay? You've got all these like comments.


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[Assistant] Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But here's the thing, okay? Only 356 users have added this game to their library. Through Lutris. Through Lutris. And I think it's fair to say that the majority of Linux gamers are using Lutris.


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[Assistant] If you want to play anything other than Steam games and you don't want to box with like wine tricks or something like that, which I still can't quite figure out. I haven't, in fairness, I haven't


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[Assistant] Painstakingly read through all the documentation or anything like that, but I, I'm still, it is not intuitive at all. I'll say that much. Uhm, so we're talking, there's, there's hundreds of us. Literally.


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[Assistant] There's hundreds of us. And even popular games, like I was blown away. What was that one that was like kind of a major e-sport that had almost no users? Rainbow Six. Siege.


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[Assistant] But then supposedly, the Lutris way was the more correct way, right? Like when we were streaming this last night. At least for Anno. For Anno. Yeaah. I got it working!


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[Assistant] The, so I used Lutris to install Ubisoft Connect.


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[Assistant] Rather than using Lutris to install Anno, and then however the launcher integration works for that. And so I think I had the more multiplayer compatible version, but I think Luke had the more performant version.


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[Assistant] Mine, mine was definitely slower compared to running it on Windows, like 100%, 100%. I had to turn things way down and I got it, I got it stable, uh, but it was, it was, uh, it was sucking back those resources. We should probably talk about sponsors at some point. Can I do that before you do that?


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[Assistant] You know? A gaming chair. And then there's...


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[Assistant] Chairs, that are like, cool looking. And gaming looking. And I would say Secret Lab falls comfortably in the latter category.


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[Assistant] What else we got to do? Okay, right, you were gonna talk about that comment. I just, I just typed a reply to him. You typed a reply? Oh, okay, alright. Alright, let's move on then. Yeah. N64 on Switch.


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[Assistant] Why is it disappointing? No, I challenge your assertion that it's disappointing. It's Nintendo, what were you expecting?


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[Assistant] Crap, I just refreshed this page and they're all gone. You have them, right? Oh, I've got them. Thank goodness. Why did you do that? I didn't mean to, I was just trying to scroll and it refreshed. Ohhh. So, yea. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] I mean, the issue isn't the games that it comes with. The bigger issue is that the performance is apparently...


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[Assistant] Well, it's how you got away with having such crappy draw distance, right?


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. Yeah, and you can see on the Wii Virtual Console, it's fine. It's only on the Switch version that it looks, it looks older. Like it looks- Yeah, it looks really bad. Markedly worse than on the original and on the Wii Virtual Console.


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[Assistant] Like, Wii Virtual Console is gonna be the definitive edition of that one, for sure.


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[Assistant] I mean at least if we never get anything, if we never get anything else.


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[Assistant] Especially when the community has done so much more to preserve Nintendo's history than Nintendo is willing to do for themselves.


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[Assistant] Can we just get on with it and make it so that we can just buy a license for the game and then...


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[Assistant] Guilt free, play it on whatever we want. Sweet. I mean honestly, if there was any way to port my save game over, I would much rather, like if I was gonna do another playthrough of Breath of the Wild or play the expansion, like, cause I was kinda thinking about it cause Breath of the Wild 2 is coming.


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[Assistant] I would much rather play through it on my computer at 60 frames per second. Like, obviously, because the Switch is...


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[Assistant] Yeah, Mr. Marker says Nintendo should just sell ROMs on a website to use on PC, but that would never happen. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, never say never. I mean, it's, it's no secret that Microsoft has wanted to get Nintendo games on the Xbox. Uhm, I mean, they've... A long time.


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[Assistant] And I would have said that's impossible, but I also would have said that it's impossible for Microsoft to get Sony to bring their platform exclusives, and yet...


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[Assistant] Here we are, right? So the impossible is now possible, pigs, pigs are up, black is down. Like I, I, I don't, I don't know. I just don't know what world is anymore.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in other news, YouTube is demonetizing low effort made-for-kids channels, apparently.


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[Assistant] So, if your children's content is deemed low quality, encourages negative behaviour or attitudes, or is heavily commercial,


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[Assistant] You will be demonetized. Uh, this sort of content was already on the way from- way to being removed from YouTube Kids, but now it's actually happening on regular YouTube, so anyone not adhering to guidelines could be booted from the partnership program.


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[Assistant] Other protections for kids are on the way, that include defaulting videos for users age 13 to 17 to private, enabling take a break and bedtime reminders, and, uh, no longer leveraging interests data from targeting kids and adults, or for targeting kids and adults with ads.


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[Assistant] So discussion question here is how much of the internet should be regulated and how much is the parent's responsibility to keep the kids safe? Ugh.


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[Assistant] I don't think most parents are qualified to keep their kids safe, and I run into this a lot, and that's not, I'm not saying they're stupid people or they're bad people, I just run into a lot of parents that don't even know what Discord is, let alone how to monitor their kids' conversations on it.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, I guess better late than never. Ooh, uh, teamseas.org. We've apparently dropped from number fifth to number eighth. I actually don't know how to, how to check that. If you open it and then scroll down a little bit.


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[Assistant] So I, so I'm gonna find out who's the most trash. Uh, so where are we at?


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[Assistant] There we go, right there. Oh, of course. You know what's the funniest part of this number?


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[Assistant] Uhm, nice. I did not specify that. And you know who handles the money here, right? Yep.


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[Assistant] So, somehow, Yvonne managed to, managed to work a 69 joke into our, uh, into our stupid donation for Team Z's. So if you guys didn't see it today, we just did a little video calling out Team Z's, go check it out.


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[Assistant] Uh, basically it's all about removing trash from the ocean, so every dollar, uhm,


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[Assistant] MrBeast's partners have agreed to remove a pound of trash from the ocean. The goal is to remove 30 million pounds by the first of January next year. So guys, go, go check it out. As far as I know, this is the largest YouTuber collab, uhm, ever.


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[Assistant] Sooo, yeah, yeah, get, uh, get, get, get, get on, get on that. Knock me off the front page here. I'm into it. Do it. Yeah, why not?


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[Assistant] Ah, what else we got that we need to talk about this week? Uhm...


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[Assistant] So basically, the register recommended exemptions.


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[Assistant] On that latter point, however, they restricted the repair of video game consoles to optical drives only. Lame! This is in response to a petition by iFixit and Public Knowledge complaining about how drives and motherboards are married to each other, making repair significantly more difficult.


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[Assistant] Right, but you guys are missing the point. As soon as you create a carve out for one thing,


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[Assistant] The manufacturers of these products that have demonstrated time and time and time and time again that they're willing to actually spend money to waste yours. To build in these preventative measures to make sure that you can't repair your devices. Uh, they've shown they're willing to do it, so they're just gonna work around it again.


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[Assistant] Like, not, not personally, I just, I'm pretty sure I've, uh, I'm pretty sure I've seen this stuff before. It's good stuff. Yeah. Yeah, really good stuff. Definitely. Love it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, you know what else is really good stuff? It is finally time for us to, uh, go through some of these... What are we calling them? What are we... We didn't really...


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[Assistant] What, yeaah, what are we calling these LTT store chats or whatever? We had some ideas. Okay, uhm, let's go with LTT store chat for now. Okay. And I think you're gonna have to do most of them because I accidentally closed the browser page and they're gone. Okay.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be, there's gonna be kind of a lot, but hopefully some of them will at least prompt some discussion here. I would try to anonymize it a little bit, just in case they submitted theirs anonymously, so I would just go with like first name.


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[Assistant] Uh, no time soon. Designing a PC case is extremely time consuming and challenging, and ultimately it's gonna be built by the same, one of the same handful of manufacturers that actually has the equipment and expertise to build PC cases anyway, so.


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[Assistant] Unless we had a really brilliant idea that we felt was a total game changer I don't see why we would get involved.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, I mean, you could try tweeting at Nick Cal- Calinan. Uhm, cause he's the one who brought it over here, so I'm assuming he knows something about where it came from. Uh, at Nick Calinan, Nick Heavy on Twitter.


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[Assistant] LGA bottle? LGA, yea. LGA bottle. Oh, oh, oh, that's right, because the V2 of the water bottle, uhm, doesn't have a pin grid array socket on it.


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[Assistant] It's, it's upgraded. We've never actually, I've never really talked about that in the videos or anything like that, but it's like, oh, that, that's a V2 bottle, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you can show it's, yeah, it's got an LGA socket now.


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[Assistant] And it's also got, uh, like memory, uh, memory slots on both sides of the CPU software. It's quad channel and it supports SLI and this old one's like AGP.


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[Assistant] That was not actually something we did intentionally, just, uh, our designer for these is not particularly tech savvy and doesn't really desire to be. So the motherboard graphic that was created originally was just based on a super old motherboard for no real reason. And then this time around,