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[Assistant] Much, much more economical. This one is not heated and doesn't have, you know, the fan and the carbon, you know, odor filter and all those kinds of wild features and everything. It's just, uh, just a simple bidet. Why does Ludwig have a bidet?


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[Assistant] As far as I can tell, it really is as simple as he thinks that people's butts should be cleaner. I actually, I can't, I,


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[Assistant] I really have, you know, checked his, I've talked to him about it. I've checked his just external communications about it. Uhm, I've tried to kind of analyze what his motivation could possibly be for creating a product like this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, so anyway, I uhm, yeah, I checked his butt hole, it's super clean.


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[Assistant] So now you can get the Swipe and the Swipe Plus on LTTstore.com. Uh, this is, I think, the second non-


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[Assistant] LMG creator merch item that we've brought onto the store. Man. JerryRig Knife. The JerryRig Everything Knife has been a smash hit for us and maybe this'll be a, uhm, a pl- Splash hit?


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[Assistant] I mean, the reality of it is that your annual budget for stuff from LTT Store is your annual budget, and the stuff that we buy from Ludwig versus the stuff that we buy from a supplier, like,


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[Assistant] I wasn't open to it until I traveled to Japan. Yea. I was always like, oh weird toilets, uh huh, toilet paper makes so much sense.


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[Assistant] This, like, this wimpy paper and the manufacturing, you are literally manufacturing garbage when you make toilet paper. Why are we doing this? And like, okay, a little bit is fine, you know, so your, you know, your butt's not all wet when you pull your underwear up or whatever, but like,


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[Assistant] It just seems spectacularly wasteful and an affordable bidet like the swipe at 50 bucks will pay for itself. It will pay for itself.


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[Assistant] So I, I, yeah, as soon as I, as soon as I tried it in Japan, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like man, the toilets they have over there, it's like, it's like. They're amazing. Yeaah, it's like landing on an alien planet and they just have figured out waste disposal in ways that humans could never have imagined. Like, I've told this story on Wancho before, but we pulled over at a rest stop on a highway. And the bathroom.


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[Assistant] Was so much nicer than anything I've seen in like, you know, a four star hotel in, you know, North America, like in a hotel lobby or like a, you know, an upclass restaurant, you know, I'm talking public washrooms obviously, right? Uh, it was just,


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[Assistant] Everything was clean, the lighting was so bright, and the toilet seat was heated, and this is like, like in a shack at the side of the road essentially. I don't even think there was a convenience store. Like, I, I couldn't believe it.


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[Assistant] But the pricing also just makes sense, because you just do it once. Yea. And then it's just, you just don't buy toilet paper.


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[Assistant] And over the span of your entire lifetime that you are alive, even a swipe plus will pay for itself. For sure.


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[Assistant] Especially the basic one is like a valve and a dial.


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[Assistant] I, I, I find it hard to believe that a little bit of water, uh, would cost more than the paper that you would use for that.


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[Assistant] Why don't we do a couple of merch messages? Oh right, merch messages. How do they work? So instead of, you know, Twitch bits or super chats or whatever else, we have merch messages. That way, whether we do or don't get to your message, hey, you get your high quality merchandise from lttstore.com in the mail, uh, sometime after the show. So,


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[Assistant] All you gotta do is add the items that you're interested in to your cart, and then in the cart you'll see a little box that'll have a place for you to fill in a merch message. That'll go to Producer Dan. Boop, there he is.


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[Assistant] Now he's gone, and he will reply to you, or flag it for me and Luke to respond to, or send it to someone else internally who can answer you, or just pop it up on there if you have like a, hey mom, shout out, and your mom watches WAN Show, which is unusual, but not unheard of, Luke's mom watches WAN Show. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Most of the reasons for us cancelling projects usually come down to...


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[Assistant] Just them being fundamentally broken, like not, not working at all. Uhm, I mean,


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of something that we cancelled recently. We, uh, we didn't cancel, but we delayed a desk fan that is made out of e-waste hard drives recently. Uhm, and the reason for it was that the idea was that we would use the motor from the hard drive.


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[Assistant] With no particular protection. So the first proof of concept, I basically told the engineer who showed it to me, or the person in the engineering department, I don't know if strictly speaking they were an engineer, that's a protected term in Canada, long story. I told the creator warehouse engineering department person who worked on it to immediately unplug it.


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[Assistant] Uh, put a label on it that it was unsafe and that no one should turn it on under any circumstances. And, uh, basically said, okay, so this is a much more complicated project. Uhm, let's see if we can figure out a way to make it se- make sense. It ended up sort of getting a pin put in it. But basically what they did was they took the motor.


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[Assistant] Set it up with a little 3D printed thing. Put a drone propeller blade on it. And I don't know if you guys are that familiar with, uhm, hard drive motors.


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[Assistant] But inside a hard drive, they spin at anywhere from 5400 RPM to 7200 RPM. I don't know if you're familiar with drone propellers, but they can be pretty scary. Uhm, and that thing sitting on the desk, I'll tell you this, it moved air.


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[Assistant] I actually asked him to find out. You can put a piece of tape on one of the blades and then you can just hold, like, a thing up to it and it'll count how many per second. Uh, I don't know if anyone ever got back to me on that, but suffice to say, it was terrifying. And, uhm, I was like, okay, well, we have a lot of work to do on, you know, controllers for this and building a safe


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[Assistant] Cause the idea was we weren't really sure what that product was at the time. Is this something that we make and it's like bespoke and it's numbered and we do a hundred of them and it's done? Is it something that we make on an ongoing basis but it's like kind of a boutique?


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[Assistant] And we just kind of send out to you the, you know, the cage and propeller and the, and the arm. Maybe we get it injection molded so it's not just like, you know, 3D printed and, uh, and we basically validate different models of hard drives and you build it yourself. Like there's, there was a lot of different ideas for how we could bring it to market. And right now I think we just won't do anything for now. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think I, I'm trying to think, in the 90s, did I, I don't think I, I don't think my family had a cable subscription, so I didn't really, uhm, I didn't really get access to any of that, but,


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[Assistant] I would imagine we'd have kind of like a fun sort of colorful sidekick sort of character. Like a producer Dan type of person.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I would imagine that we'd probably have a lot of guests on. Like that was kinda how everyone did things back then was you, you kinda had guests on to kinda show their, their wares. Uhm, everything was so expensive.


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[Assistant] Like on the production side, like it would have to be in a studio. There's no way that you could just shoot stuff at home with any kind of decent quality in the 90s.


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[Assistant] Like even back at the beginning of NCIX Tech Tips, almost every video started with, okay, what's a tutorial we can do and what products do we need to feature in order to get this point across?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and computers were hard. Very few things that you could just sort of take for granted that everyone knows about and you're just sort of evaluating performance or whatever else. Like if I, if you did a GPU review in 1996, you would have to explain what a GPU is. You wouldn't just take for granted that people know whatever.


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[Assistant] I've tried to, I've, I've had to use them when I was like working on a couple of other, a couple of things. I don't know them or anything, but uh, great videos. Sorry, I'm slowly going through YouTube ads.


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[Assistant] What am I looking- oh, Computer Chronicles. Or wait, no, that's the YouTube channel.


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[Assistant] It's possible, remember, misplaced could mean accidentally thrown in the garbage, like that server that one time. Like stuff happened. Uhm, anyway, wild.


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[Assistant] It's the kind of thing that Luke would, like, borrow. Yeah. And be like, I'm gonna check out this on my own time and then just... Kinda forget about it. Never return with. Or come back with, like, nine years later, like, those GPUs that he took for his dad.


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[Assistant] Dada's Dada Cafe! I think you've met this guy.


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[Assistant] I've never seen this. Sort of similar idea.


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[Assistant] This guy's great. He's got a ton of personality. Yeah. Um, super fun guy, super nice. I've, uh. Yeah, very nice. I think I've only met him once, but really nice dude. We brought him on WAN Show once, actually. I've been meaning to, like, collab again. Anyway, this is on Netscape Navigator.


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[Assistant] I would, I would, I could totally, I could totally see myself doing, you know, something like what Steve Dotto did.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was telling me that uhm, that was one of the big things that they innovated was uhm,


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[Assistant] Using old cameras to capture from, like to shoot a CRT screen without the scanlines that were, that were pretty typical on other shows at the time. You were saying that was something they figured out really, really early on. But yeah, good ol', good ol' Steve Dotto.


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[Assistant] It's really cool. It's such a valuable resource that no one's gonna watch and then an AI's gonna scrape it and then we'll have access to it with no compensation for the original creator.


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[Assistant] Hey, did you see that, uhm, oh shoot, is it the times? Hold on, who's, uh, who's suing Microsoft for billions? Oh my.


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[Assistant] Billions. Okay, I don't know about billions, but it definitely could be worth something. And what makes this even spicier is that, uhm, from my understanding, Microsoft has released a statement


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[Assistant] Saying, okay, so first the New York Times said that, uh, part of why they're so upset about this is that they have been in negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI to use it legit, legitimately. And Microsoft basically came out and was like, uh, okay, yeaah, we kind of thought we were still talking about this, this lawsuit is still super disappoint- this lawsuit is super disappointing. Uhm,


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[Assistant] What I suspect is that they were just so far away on the number that the New York Times is basically just going, yeah, forget it. Uhm, and so they know from negotiating with Microsoft, and this might have been part of their play,


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[Assistant] In fact that actually wouldn't surprise me that much. They know from negotiating with Microsoft that New York Times data has been given a very high level of credibility in training. And remember guys, there's a lot of different aspects of training. I'm not, you might think the New York Times is a rag or whatever. I don't feel like talking about that. That's not the point. The point is that there's a lot of elements.


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[Assistant] What a sentence is supposed to look like. Yeaah, I would probably take the New York Times over your Twitter post. I know. I know. I know.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Anyway, sorry, I don't think this is in the doc, but I just was reminded of this by something else that I was looking at here. Uhm... Is this...


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[Assistant] It maybe doesn't sink AI, but I know we've talked about, you know, the arrest-o-momentum of AI that's been going on a little bit lately, and I mean, this seems pretty, if they win this, pretty much anyone


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[Assistant] Whose data was used to train these large language models is gonna have to go back and prove they didn't use them. Or they are, man, everyone and their dog has been busted at this point multiple times.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't mean there's anything that they can do to un-pandora this box. Oh, got it. I just mean the big companies.


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[Assistant] Yeah, mostly bare-knuckle boxing, but then, uh, one video I watched in particular, I wish I could remember who did it, but, uh, got a little bit more into


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[Assistant] Uhm, do we want to talk about manufacturer DRM sabotaging Polish trains? This was like last week or a couple weeks ago or something like that, but it's terrible.


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[Assistant] But that's not a screwdriver. So not, yeah. Sounds like we need a wrench. I mean, I wanted to do a fail wrench.


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[Assistant] What would that have been? Uh, it was gonna be a wrench made of melted down fail screwdriver shafts from that supplier who shafted us.


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[Assistant] How often the security card gets played anytime a company gets caught doing something scummy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I said when they get caught doing something scummy. Yes. Yeah. It's amazing how, cause most people either don't understand security very well or especially don't care. Their eyes just glaze over the second you start talking about any kind of


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[Assistant] So if there's any way to get people bored of a conversation, it's to say, oh, it's in the name of user security, and then just start saying a bunch of stuff, and people will just kind of...


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[Assistant] And it should be obvious why that's bad. And, uh, this is a great illustration of why companies like Apple should not be allowed to do similar things. And a great example of what Apple, if left to their own devices, might have eventually come up with for iPhones if they


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[Assistant] Weren't ultimately able to stop people from repairing these things through serialization and all the other means, uh, that they put in place to prevent people from repairing their own iPhones and from third parties.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean, people do far worse than this for a paycheck. Like, come on. Like, be realistic. Think of the things you've done.


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[Assistant] No. Sorry, sorry, I thought you were saying like someone would see the idea of defrauding their own country and then resign from the job rather than go do it.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of developers would just...


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[Assistant] Develop a, a button that, like, kills a random person and deposits a million dollars into the company's bank account as long as they get a piece of it. Like, I, I dunno, man.


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[Assistant] Okay, here's another thing. Look at the, okay, look at the arguments around net neutrality.


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[Assistant] At our cost, the number of people that attacked us for it, when we basically said, yeah, it's pretty obvious that just, you know, replacement parts should be a thing at a reasonable price, it shouldn't cost


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[Assistant] As much for just some pieces of a component as it costs for the entire, some pieces of a machine as it costs for the entire machine including those pieces. That doesn't make any sense. The number of people that attacked us for it. When that's just...


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[Assistant] Math. It's not political, it's just obvious. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So no, maybe in some people's minds, it makes perfect sense that if you are the manufacturer of a train, you should be the only one who's allowed to fix it because, you know, yea, someone else might bung it up or whatever the case may be. Which is not an entirely illegitimate concern.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, you gotta make sure that they're running fine. And maybe that's the way it was sold internally. Maybe they weren't even honest internally with the developers who developed this system.


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[Assistant] We have found that uhm, the customers for these trains are not performing service at the recommended intervals. We need to make sure that the trains are, uh, are shutting down at such time as the regular interval should be done or whatever and- It wasn't coded that way. And here's the pro- I'm just, I'm just saying there's a lot of room for gray area. I'm not saying they should do this, it's obviously terrible.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying that just because a developer codes this feature doesn't mean that they


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Okay. You gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes I type really funny stuff.


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[Assistant] See, that's the thing though, that's a bad mentality and you know that. Is it? Should I share it? Well, see then, it's the constant cat and mouse game, right? Like, how do you help people have better security without also informing the other side, and how does the other side do their stuff without also informing the other side? Because if I do that, then none of us have it. But no, that is, that is,


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[Assistant] We are a sharing is caring. I am not saying you should.


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[Assistant] That's a big one for me is I like my passwords to be something that I can retain in my brain for long enough to like shit it out into a keyboard. Or character map as it were.


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[Assistant] Confirmed, Luke's password is Lennyface.


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[Assistant] And their Crop Soother Aftershave Lotion is also included in the package to reduce skin irritation, making your boys feel like they took a trip to the spa. Now you look good, but you gotta smell good too, so finish it up with their Crop Preserver Anti-Chafing Ball Deodorant. This says, hm.


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[Assistant] Squarespace is more than just a website maker, though. They also have built-in SEO tools to help get your website more traffic, which is crucial for e-commerce. They have email marketing templates, they have a logo maker, they have all kinds of great tools. Squarespace simplifies the process of making a website and helps you market your... business.


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[Assistant] Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Uhm. You can do it. Hold on. Let's see, does this still exist?


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[Assistant] Well, it's not easy to find, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] One Dennis Liao I found on LinkedIn is in California and works in investment banking. Okay, it doesn't matter. The point is, uh, Squarespace, if you need help, they've got your back with helpful guides and 24-7 support. So go to squarespace.com slash when and try Squarespace for free for 14 days. Use code when to get 10% off your first purchase.


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[Assistant] I'm sure it has something to do with, you know, peak brightness being white and that also having some kind of, uh, metadata for being extremely bright or something. Yeah, that shouldn't, that shouldn't even be it. I'm not sure. Um, it probably has to do with that we have to upload, um,


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[Assistant] You know what, it probably is actually that, because the way that the metadata works on YouTube is more like HDR10 rather than HDR10+, where it's per frame, so it's, it's across the entire piece of content. So if you have anything in the entire video that's supposed to appear bright, like a specular highlight, a candle, or something like that, then that's your 100%.


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[Assistant] We have people internally whose jobs are to understand that stuff better than me. It's the kind of thing that whenever I'm making a video about it, I'll like brush up on it and go, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That and kind of re-figure it out. But, um.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would be, that would be my guess. I think that's something you'll probably continue to see because one of the complaints that we've gotten, not just on HDR content, but SDR as well, about screen cap is that when we capture white as white and people are, you know, a night mode user or like our dark mode user or they're watching at night, it can be very jarring when we go from the host.


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[Assistant] So I, that could also just be something that we adapted for that.


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[Assistant] With the, the, the boundless human imagination that exists out there, there's no way I'm gonna come up with something that someone else already didn't, like.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, exactly. Yeaah. Yeaah, exactly, right? Like eh, the, being able to go anywhere instantly, being able to have anything instantly, ironically, I suspect it would actually take a lot of the...


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[Assistant] Uh, fun? Out of certain things? Yeah, uhm, you know, part of the fun of like... Replicators. Replicators, there you go. Part of the fun of a trip, uhm, we're apparently going to Japan. And as far as I can tell,


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[Assistant] 90% of the excitement about this for Yvonne is the preparation, not the actual like going there. Like if you could just walk into a holodeck and be there immediately, I actually think it would, I think it would reduce the satisfaction for her.


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[Assistant] I'd be happy to do a little recap for it. Like, you know, hey, this is important for next time I see, you know, whoever, right? There's, there's ways to not be awful, but it will be awful.


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[Assistant] Grggy008 says, make me Neville's rememberall from happy, from happy potter. Uh, that's a funny typo. Happy potter.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure. Adam Sandler makes whatever movie he feels like, as far as I can tell. Alright, hit me Dan.


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[Assistant] When fridges die, it's pretty bad, especially if you don't notice for a couple days.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, oh our oven had a bit of a problem the other day. We have a Bosch oven and fortunately it has error codes that work so at least I know what the problem is. But we went to, we went to bake some banana bread. We had three loaves in there.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna know that meme, but I love that meme. Cool. It's so good.


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[Assistant] Alright. Anyway, so we were gonna make some banana bread. Yes, some of it might have come to work. Uhm...


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[Assistant] And suddenly there's smoke all throughout the house and the banana bread is not, definitely not gonna be good. Which I liked it. Uh, this is well before the timer was supposed to go out. It's not like we just didn't notice it. And the door was locked.


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[Assistant] We couldn't even get it open. Oh. So, it turned out what had happened was like a runaway temperature event.


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[Assistant] So the heat just kept going past what it was set to, past the thermal safety limit for the oven, which caused it to lock itself down,


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[Assistant] And then it basically had to, it, it, it did manage to safety shut off. So it was, I looked it up and it was one of two things. It was either your temperature sensor has gone bad.


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[Assistant] Which it wasn't because the thermal shutdown happened, or it was your relay wasn't working properly for the, like,


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[Assistant] It smelled like burning. Like, not like burnt food. Like, burning. They came out black. They're supposed to be brown.


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[Assistant] It's really hard because we can't cover everything. It changes. Nobody wants to watch it. The people, like the people who are gonna get scammed, I don't know how to...


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[Assistant] Say this respectfully, it's not like the resources aren't out there to find out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I got a, I got a spam call that was really good. Like if I was, if I was even slightly less of a competent adult human being, I, I could have easily given valuable information over the phone.


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[Assistant] Like that's, oh my goodness. The one I got, they, uhm, it came up as from my bank.


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[Assistant] So I did answer it because I'll just ignore anything that's not from anyone that I recognize these days. So it came up as my bank and they basically were like, yeah, there's been some fraudulent activity. Don't worry. We've locked down the card. We're going to get everything reversed for you, but we do need to check some things with you. And, um, then at some point.


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[Assistant] You know, everything sounded fine. I was like, I was talking to them. I was like, yeah, sure. I mean, yeah, that sounds pretty bad. No, I didn't use the card. Uhm, and then as soon as they asked, what's your


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[Assistant] Can I just verify the credit card? And I was like, well, you should be able to tell me which one. And they're like, it's the one that starts with the first four digits. And I was like, yea, but every credit card issued by


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[Assistant] Your financial institution starts with those first four digits. That doesn't tell us anything. Uh, you need to tell me like the last two. And they basically were like, no, I need the whole number. And I kind of go, okay, well, uhm. The tip I would say for this is always hang up and call them back. Okay, well hold on, we're getting to that.


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[Assistant] So I basically said, well, how am I supposed to know that you are who you say you are? And they said,


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I called you from the bank and I go, yeah, but that can be spoofed. And they're like...


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[Assistant] Uh, because a lot of people don't realize that the phone number that someone's calling from can be spoofed. So they can just tell it, hey, I want this to show up as 1-800-whatever when I call the person. It's getting freaking...


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[Assistant] Sophisticated, and there were things about the call that made me uneasy.


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[Assistant] Like the extremely long delay on the line. But it wasn't until I looked back that I went, oh, that's probably because they were calling from very far away. They're probably overseas somewhere.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they did not have an unconvincing accent. 3 seconds or something. Yep.


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[Assistant] Always call back. Call back the number on the back of the card, except nothing else.


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[Assistant] The worst case scenario is you don't get the better features.


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[Assistant] It just, it was one of those things where I was, I was on, I was having a particularly like groggy day. I hadn't slept well cause this was this week. Um, and, uh, Yvonne's in recovery mode and not sleeping well. Uh, she just, no, she, um, had three of her wisdom teeth out.


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[Assistant] They were impacted and the ones on the bottom were growing in sideways. So the bottom is already the worst and then they were under the gum and growing this way. So she had to go under. When was that? Beginning of this week. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We were- Is she doing ice pack rotations? In the same conversation, she goes, yeah, I was feeling worse today because I think I overdid it yesterday. And then she goes, but I think I should be able to push tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Ridiculous. Anyway, the point is, I hadn't slept much, cause yes, ice pack rotations and everything. I, I loaded up on, we had like four ice packs in the house, I was like, we probably need double that, so I got a bunch more ice packs, and got all the different, the, the drug cocktails, like felt like old people, like I put together like a medication schedule for her and everything. Uhm. What, what was she eating? Pfff, congee, uhm. Congee, nice.


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[Assistant] She's able to do, like, uh, she was really tired of that after a couple days, and on day three, she was able to do overcooked instant noodles, and she was like, this is heavy.


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[Assistant] So they were like little tiny pieces of soggy instant noodles. And then the egg, I put in like extra egg because I think she had zero protein since the whole thing started. So I like trickled it in and like stirred it. So it was basically just like kind of like a cloudy broth.


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[Assistant] For how cheap vitamins are, it's actually kind of amazing how unmotivated I am to just take them. I just never...


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[Assistant] I'm always like, yeah, I'm gonna like take vitamins now. And then I do it for a week, and then I just am distracted.


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[Assistant] Win789 says, meh, if her parents don't know you're doing it by now.


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[Assistant] That would be a little weird. Yeaah. Yea, no, we've been abstinent for, uh...


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[Assistant] I read an article about this a while back, apparently it's really difficult to stop them because it wouldn't be a giant 13 foot wingspan one that's just like, coming up to a prison, it would be little zippy ones going


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[Assistant] And you know, they have time out in the yard or whatever else. Uhm, there's very little incentive I don't think for the people who work there to


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[Assistant] Yeah, like it's, it's a really difficult problem. You could drop it from pretty high too.


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[Assistant] Although, oh, last October, the UK government introduced no-fly zones around all of their prisons, which of course, I mean, if you just have a regulation- That's gonna stop it! That'll keep out the ne'er-do-wells.


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[Assistant] But then would it be better to keep it low from like a radar standpoint? I don't know. No idea. I mean, I'm not involved in contraband smuggling, so I admittedly- I also don't know enough about radar. Know very little about this world.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but if you have like 330 pounds of anything, I'd imagine that's a- That's fair. I mean, considering that they can pick up a little whirly bird or whatever, like that's probably gonna have some substantialness to it.


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[Assistant] Work in an unofficial capacity, you could probably lay low.


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[Assistant] I think you'd be surprised how many people are just like that anyway.


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[Assistant] Regardless of their pasts. Another article I was reading recently was about the sort of uncomfortable truths that are being unearthed by services like 23andMe. Uhm, I just want to make my position on them clear. You shouldn't use them. They're super, super bad, not just for you, but also for anyone related to you.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, uh, but what was interesting about this was there's this family that found out that like, grandpa was a completely different person from who they thought he was. He never played with Babe Ruth.


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[Assistant] Um, he like had a completely different family that he just abandoned. And this was just, it didn't match anything they knew about him. They knew him as like a loving father and grandfather and didn't realize that he had just...


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[Assistant] So you smuggle in a swarm of tiny drones. Yeah. In people's butts. And they all work together to lift you.


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[Assistant] I need something for scale. How about a banana? That's perfect! Ah, this is useless. Forget it. I give up. Okay.


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[Assistant] Ah, what else we got? Brands use AI influencers? I mean, this is pretty funny. Oh, here, here, here. I got it. Oh, you got it. Okay.


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[Assistant] That's a mountain. Funky looking. Luke, how is that supposed to help me know how big it is?


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[Assistant] Wait. Oh, s- 3,400 meters. Wait, what is even that? Okay, I don't know. That looked- I- Sorry, I- I thought it- Okay, sorry, what is it?


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[Assistant] So I'm, I'm reading this off of a TV over there. I thought it was 3.4 meters, which would kind of make sense, but height is, is that 600? What? Sorry, what?


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[Assistant] Brands are apparently increasingly buying paid posts from AI-generated influencers such as


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[Assistant] AI Tiana Lopez, a pink haired model created by Spanish agency The Clueless. This is wild. They run an Instagram account for AI Tiana with over 250,000 followers, many of whom seem to believe she is real despite the account being labeled as AI. She also has, oh man.


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[Assistant] You know, I find the term NPC to be extremely disrespectful when used to apply to people, but I just can't really...


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[Assistant] You know what? In fairness, powered by AI doesn't necessarily mean anything. That could mean that you are sponsored by an AI company or something like that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's a thing that is definitely a thing that exists.


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[Assistant] According to The Clueless, AI Tana typically earns around 3,000 euros a month, but can earn up to 10,000 with each advert being worth over, just over a thousand euros. Her sponsorships include Big, a supplement company. Uh, she also has a FanView account where they post pictures of her in lingerie.


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[Assistant] The UK's Advertising Standards Agency says there are currently no rules requiring virtual influencers to disclose that they are AI generated and many do not do so.


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[Assistant] A primary attraction of virtual influencer campaigns for companies is that they're significantly cheaper per impression, up to 91% cheaper based on an Instagram analytics report on a virtual influencer post by H&M. They also give the brand a far greater deal of control and eliminate the complexity and risk of dealing with human beings that have opinions and reputations.


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, we talked about this before. I think I said a number of years ago, if I was smart, I'd be transitioning to be a Vtuber. I think this was back when we were on the set that was at the opposite end of this building. You've been saying that for quite a while. But like, man, for real though.


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[Assistant] I mean, if they're getting paid, it's working. Yep. So here's, here's the clueless AI. So here's their, I guess they have an, I don't know. I can't like click on anything.


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[Assistant] Got fined for sabotaging controllers. French regulators have fined Sony 13.5 million euros for allegedly damaging the reputation of third party controllers via a 2015 PS4 update that intentionally caused unofficial controllers to frequently disconnect.


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[Assistant] Uh, further, regulators say that Sony selectively refused to communicate the access criteria for its official licensing program to certain third-party manufacturers and used language that was imprecise because it allowed them to apply the criteria in a discretionary manner. Man, I, can, can, can Europe, like, do something not cool?


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[Assistant] This is, this is great. This is great. You should have clearly laid out guidelines. They should be fair for everyone. And third party products should work just fine as long as they follow the guidelines and, you know, properly interface with the device and you shouldn't go out of your way to break them. Like this all just seems like such obvious stuff.


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[Assistant] I'd wish it didn't take, what is this, from 2015? Yeah, I wish it didn't take 8 years to deal out sort of piddly fines. It just seems like there should be a much faster way.


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[Assistant] I guess so, I just, I wish the wheels of justice moved a little faster sometimes. Yeah. Obviously you don't want to, you know, wrongfully, you know, whatever, but.


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[Assistant] Just, you know, this train thing is probably gonna take years to resolve. When it just kinda seems like...


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[Assistant] Don't do that. You know, stop. Uhm, would be, would be good.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And then, I guess, what would they have to have, like, uh, like a fan account, you know, disclaimer on their thing? Like... But would you even? I don't, I guess not.


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[Assistant] Oh, I guess, yeah, well, okay, yeah, I see what you mean. So you wouldn't really be able to be a huge AI influencer, but you could have an army of AI micro-influencers pretty easily. Yeah, that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Twitch. Bands pretending to be naked. I don't know how they're gonna enforce this because it seems like what they were trying to do with that whole sort of


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[Assistant] The thing recently with the artistic nudity thing was they were trying to make the rules more, more clear and


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[Assistant] More open so that they wouldn't have to deal with this constant sort of argument about Twitch's rules and the interpretation and the uneven, uhm, enforcement of them and now they've gone and they've given themselves a rule that seems like it's gonna be very difficult to


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[Assistant] Enforce evenly. Twitch is updating its content guidelines to ban implied nudity following a surge in nearly naked streamers covering their various parts in black sensor bars and streamers using strategically placed objects and careful camera angles to give the impression that they are nude.


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[Assistant] According to Twitch's post about the update, while some streamers were correctly labeling their content as containing sexual themes, which would prevent them from showing up on the homepage, others were not. I actually talked to Yvonne about this, uhm, a couple times after that stream. I had meant to kinda come back with a bit of a more nuanced take on the whole thing because


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[Assistant] I think that during that WAN show, I basically was like, well, I mean, realistically, this is kinda what Twitch is anyway at this point, you might as well get used to it, it's been this way a long time, and, you know, realistically...


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[Assistant] Those miners that you're so concerned about are like six keystrokes away from seeing this stuff anyway. But then, I said on the show that this was as a non-user of the platform. I don't really use the platform. And so I went out of my way over the next couple of days,


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[Assistant] To fire up Twitch first because I was just talking to Yvonne about what we were talking about on WAN Show and I was like, oh yea, there's this whole thing on Twitch and I brought up Twitch to show her, to talk to her about it and immediately there was like, breasts in my face.


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[Assistant] Even if I am, you know, super open-minded about, you know, pornography or whatever else, and even if I was a pornography enthusiast.


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[Assistant] Maybe that's not what I'm on this site for right now. And maybe I would actually just like to watch someone play video games or something else, anything else.


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[Assistant] And so over the span of the next couple days, I was like, okay, let's play a game called, I'm going to open the Twitch app. Having never clicked on one of these streamers before in my life, although I was logged into the work account. So strictly speaking, I don't know if nobody's ever used it for that.


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[Assistant] And, and I even was like, like, look at how bad this was. And without even looking, I scrolled it in front of her and I was like, okay, how many boobs were there? And there was like five.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I don't mean that there happened to be, you know, mammaries. I mean, like, that was obviously the point, cause this was at the height of the whole, uh, you know, cutting off the frame right here, the implied nudity thing that was going on right in the wake of the artistic nudity, uh, rule change.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So cleavage is still allowed, however underboob is explicitly forbidden. So to everyone watching on Twitch... Where's the line? Like on a guy? I don't know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall Revived in Unity? So sick, I wanna play this. I wanna play the Warcraft 2 campaign! Huh? Someone redid Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3 Reforged. Oh! Yeah, I wanna play the Warcraft 2 campaign. Apparently it's only half of it now. I would be super down. Maybe if they get some more, maybe if they get some more support for it. Sorry, this is not the topic. That sounds great though.


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[Assistant] That's a really good idea for a project in that game. Here, a game spot. Uhm, Warcraft Chronicles of the Second War.


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[Assistant] Okay, how much traction does this have? Cause hopefully, it's a lot.


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[Assistant] That's really cool. So cool, I can't wait to play this. They say, look, it's a little janky, we're gonna have to patch some stuff, Warcraft 3 Reforged is a dumpster fire, but uhm, Man! Ah!


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[Assistant] So it's remade and like, you know- That looks sick. Theoretically more modern, but hey, Warcraft 3 Reforged was a dumpster fire, so you know, it looks as good as it's gonna look. But I can't wait to play this! I've never played the Warcraft 2 campaign. What?! Yeah. This is like, perfect.


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[Assistant] Warcraft 2 is where it gets playable. Warcraft 1, trying to go back and play it as a Warcraft, like, you can only select like four units at a time. It's like, it's, and the two- Would've been, I'm sure Warcraft 1 was fantastic when it first came out. The two factions are completely equivalent.


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[Assistant] Almost, I think necros and clerics have slightly different spells, but you could like, I don't know, unless you could do like 500 actions per minute or whatever, you're not microing that stuff. The interface is terrible.


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[Assistant] So, uh, the maps have, are like very limited resources, like even playing against the AI as a teenager, like I would have difficulty breaking through. The work of one AI is hilarious. Because you just, have you, you've played one, but not two? I've played one.


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[Assistant] Oh, you agree to not sue and stuff? Oh no. Coffeezilla's apparently already on this. Get him coffee! Oh. Alright.


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[Assistant] That looks like an ally. Sure does.


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[Assistant] Anything shy of, you know, Steam Deck, I think they're gonna have, uh, an uphill battle ahead of them, but I'm, I'm excited to check it out. I'm, I, I love, I love my ally. I ended up sticking with the ally. I love the screen on the Steam Deck OLED, but, um, nothing I'm playing right now.


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[Assistant] Will benefit from that screen as much as I need the extra performance. So right now it's all about performance. I'm playing a platformer that I'm just realistically not going to say because I don't feel like it.


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[Assistant] Did I say platformer? It's more of an open world fantasy game. And I just don't feel like having a conversation about it, but it definitely requires performance. And so I, uh, I'm sticking with the ally for the time being. That makes sense. Am I not a PSP?


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[Assistant] Uh, we have to make sure it works before we give it to him, so that's a whole thing.


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[Assistant] No, that's content. Oh, okay. Yeah, if it doesn't work then that's content, so that's good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fine. I'm amazed at all the terrible guesses. Why wouldn't I tell you guys if I was playing Baldur's Gate 3?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Breath of the Wild was a moment in gaming, man. And this was on a console that hadn't sold a ton of units yet. Right? Like, that's another thing to consider. The Switch? Yeah, Tears of the Kingdom released to an install base that was an order of magnitude. A lot of people bought Switches for Breath of the Wild. Like, 100%.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and yeaah, that's fair, Tears of the Kingdom is Breath of the Wild, but better, but greatness is not the same as goodness.


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[Assistant] And Breath of the Wild was great. Yeah, uhm. Yeah, Breath of the Wild, if you, yeah.


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[Assistant] Genshin Impact. I wanna play Genshin Impact, but I mean, Genshin Impact, from my understanding of it, is kind of...


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[Assistant] Titanfall 2 had a great story, really enjoyed the gameplay, but I don't think there was anything that said greatness to me, like you have to have innovation too.


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[Assistant] I mean, when you talk greatness though, greatness has a connotation of scale. Did you play Titanfall 2 multiplayer? No. Yeah, but scale.


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[Assistant] Small. I'm sorry, but if you want to talk greatness,


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[Assistant] I honestly think you have to have conversations about Fortnite over Titanfall 2. I'm sorry. Like Fortnite has done, yea sure, for a different generation than you that you might not be into.


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[Assistant] But they have innovated in a way that is changing the industry.


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[Assistant] I genuinely don't know. Are you kidding me? Eminem's one recently? I didn't even know he had one. Huge. Okay. HUGE. Mr. Marshall Mathers still brings the crowds. I'm not surprised. So, you know, you gotta...


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[Assistant] You just have to kind of- Minecraft isn't the last 10 years. Yeaah. You could make that argument if it was in the last 10 years. Yeaah. But, no. Yeaah, Minecraft changed gaming in a big way.


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[Assistant] Oh! Hey! Uh, we have, uh, Mr. Chu just posted in Flips and Chats. Did you see the video of the kid who finally beat Tetris? Yes. I was riveted. I couldn't look away from it.


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[Assistant] I can't, I can't believe that that is human capability, like I can't even fathom what


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[Assistant] Yeah, so when we say beat Tetris, for those of you who are not familiar, it doesn't end, but eventually the game crashes.


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[Assistant] I mean, imagine for a second if he took that and was like, you know what, I'm gonna resurrect Guitar Hero. Let's make Guitar Hero cool again. Guarantee you he'd kill it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how, how, like, how much do you make as a mid-tier news anchor or whatever? Like, I think this kid's gonna do alright. Might outscale you before he's like 15. Yeah. Like, maybe- What were you doing at 15? Maybe hold your horses a little bit.


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[Assistant] Y'all need to look up Clone Hero right now, okay? I do know about Clone Hero, it's super cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you can decide and then someone will break past it anyway, because that's how people are. And then, what was the point of deciding it anyway? I don't know, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Apparently, like, in the same breath pretty much, she congratulated a 16 year old darts player. Cool. Cause that's...


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[Assistant] I was gonna check and see if he's streaming on Twitch, but then I realized he's 13, he's probably not allowed on that campsite.


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[Assistant] Apparently he was banned from Twitch for being too young. Fair enough. I mean, he doesn't even have fully developed breasts yet. What would he do on that site?


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[Assistant] It's one of those things where I feel like I'm in a really awkward position where I, I am a participant in, you know, the whole millennial, you know, being crapped on thing that happened. Like I, I, I did join the workforce at a time that was not great.


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[Assistant] Sorry? The worst? Yea, the worst. A little bit better than me. Pretty much. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Both of which were really terrible, terrible times. Uhm, I, I, I, I watched as property values went up faster than I could.


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[Assistant] I earned money to put a down payment on something. Fortunately, I was, I was lucky enough to find a teammate really early in my life that put us both


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[Assistant] I can't stress enough. Finding the right person to partner with for your life is the most important decision you will ever make, bar none, because it has a waterfall effect on absolutely everyone else. I was both lucky and I'll give myself a little bit of credit for being a good job interviewer, I guess. But, you know, Yvonne and I found each other and


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[Assistant] Well, it didn't feel like a good time. Totally. The value of that house had gone up double in like four or five years or something. Absolutely. Like it was... But...


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[Assistant] Looking back at it now, it's great. It's like hilariously low. Yea. Like, but psychologically at the time, watching the trend line, it was terrifying because it seemed like it could burst at any second. So, I understand and I simp- not just sympathize with, I have felt a lot of what people feel, but as someone who got out,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like over half a million dollars on just like, like the place to live, like are you kidding me? Like our, our, I forget what our mortgage payments were, but they were...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and we got lucky in a lot of ways, man. Like when we- when we bought-


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[Assistant] The units that we occupy here, not the one I'm sitting in, but the one that I would be sitting in if I was on the other side of that wall, uh, they cost us $330,000 each Canadian.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let me just see if I can rhyme our for sale, sorry, commercial. Let's see if, let's see if there's any for sale here right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can't find any right now, but they've, they've basically like quintupled or something like that. I don't know.


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[Assistant] It was becoming unaffordable as fast as, as we could make more money. Fortunately, we have run a very successful business and things have gone well and we've managed to, you know, find the space that we need, but- You can't be just like a solid-


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[Assistant] Well, that's also complicated because people here have access to socialized services that other people have to pay for. Like when you actually break down everything, it's not as black and white.


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[Assistant] It's always, it's all, it is never, if you think it's as black and white as socialized healthcare bad, or you know, this job good, or whatever benefits package, downsides and upsides to, it is,


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[Assistant] Anyway. Sorry, I have no good news. And it looks like it's gonna get worse. Yeah. It's only getting worse. Like with interest rates being like they are, I thought like housing prices would at least go down. Yup. Not happening. Like what the, what the crap? As long as I can tell, up still.


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[Assistant] So you're just gonna have these like gigantic corporate overlords that own every place to live and then you'll just basically be


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[Assistant] Alberta has stopped running ads to encourage Canadians to move there.


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[Assistant] Oh man, well, the Maritimes was good until COVID and then apparently a bunch of people like moved out of the city and started just work from home there and just like, pffft. Prices up. Drove prices up like crazy.


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[Assistant] This is gonna get me cancelled by someone, but like speaking of parent money, even being in a position where my kids couldn't afford to stay in the lower mainland because I can just facilitate that.


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[Assistant] Is that the life I want for them? All their peers are going to leave. None of their high school friendships will remain.


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[Assistant] I uhm, still don't want my kids hanging out with other rich kids.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I want my kids spending the vast majority of their time with down to earth people who don't take things for granted and stuff. We've actually been talking about doing a, uhm, doing, uh,


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[Assistant] An experiment. Not an experiment, because it's not really an experiment when you just do it. But Yvonne and I have been talking about moving out of our house for a year. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Furnishing and accessorizing a place based on two sort of median-ish incomes and living like that for a year. Because I feel like, uhm... Are you doing vehicles too? Well, it'd have to be. Yeah. Yeah. Like I feel like...


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[Assistant] You can talk about it all day, but I don't think that my kids can possibly fully understand that most people


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[Assistant] And all this stuff that they, for them is just life. For me is sweat, blood, and tears. And for them is just...


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[Assistant] For Christmas, Santa got the family, uh, a Bamboo Labs 3D printer. Which is...


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[Assistant] As much for me as it is for them, which is how they end up with a lot of the stuff they have, but most people don't have a $1200 3D printing setup.


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[Assistant] I feel like there's a lot that they could learn and I don't think, I don't think a month is enough.


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[Assistant] I paid so much for that pool that I am loathe to give up a summer with the pool, but I think if we did an entire school year.


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[Assistant] There's lifestyle changes we're gonna have to make regardless of home. Like they are not gonna be able to be in as many programs as they are.


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[Assistant] Like they just, they, they, they do, you know, martial arts and dance and, and choir and band and like, like all the stuff. Some of it's, you know, run through the school or whatever, but some of it costs money and uhm, they're, they're gonna have to make, they're gonna have to make choices. How swap given my apartment? I don't think.


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[Assistant] I don't know man, don't sacrifice your children's development. This is a different kind of development. He's trying to get them more.


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[Assistant] I don't know man, we, uhm, it's, it's, it's something we've talked about. I mean, I do think there's ways that you can, you can keep kids more grounded regardless. We have a lot of rules.


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[Assistant] They lead pretty structured lives and stuff, like they don't just get to do whatever they want. And so even though, it's a funny thing, even though we have a lot of different stuff that they're allowed to do,


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[Assistant] The really good stuff, they, they have to sort of, they have to pay for it in doing, you know, practice this or chore that or whatever else.


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[Assistant] Like, I probably played more video games than my kids do. At, uh, at my son's age. Cause he's just like, yeah, it's there, but he's not allowed. So, he's like a really good kid. It's kind of shocking. I don't get it.


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[Assistant] Elijah, seems like a funny, rich issue. This is a joke. We are spoiled, so I will buy another house to teach them how to be humble. I did think that was-


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[Assistant] Yeah, see, this is another one. JPH290 says, I know this is not exactly perfect, but you can have the kids see what poor is really like in another country. That to me actually had exactly the same problem as that other thing, is like, what, we're going to learn what it's like to be poor by being rich enough to jet set around the world and witness poor people in their natural habitat. Like, that seems so much worse.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean, I'll tell you this, Yvonne did a, uh, did like an outreach program thing when she was a kid and did, you know, like they built something while they were there in the community.


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[Assistant] And for her, that was extremely impactful. But then Yvonne, like me, also grew up in a house that had to budget every month. So was it that or was she just already grounded and that, you know,


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[Assistant] I'd make sure someone's living in ours. And no, I wouldn't be buying it.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I love this. I like hamburgers. You hate hot dogs then? No, I didn't. If I didn't say something, then I didn't say it. Can we, can we agree on that? Maybe. Uhm. Sorry, what was I, what was I saying before?


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[Assistant] Right, yeaah. Something that I've read about a fair bit is how the, like the number of generations


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[Assistant] Of those families because you can squander a small fortune very easily, but with a big enough fortune, you can squander really hard and it just is a perpetual motion machine. Yeah. I only learned recently about why people, um, hate billionaire philanthropy so much.


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[Assistant] Not the, like, the image-cleansing aspects of it, but the fact that I think it's in the US, they only have to put, I think, 5% of the money into what they actually say they're doing. So if their returns on the money they put in are greater than 5%, they actually make money overall, and it's tax-free.


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[Assistant] So you just get, yeaah, it's a whole, it's a whole thing. I just, I just learned about this recently. I don't actually know much about, uh, tax havens and loopholes and all that kind of stuff. I pay my taxes. Uhm. Oh boy.


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[Assistant] But, uh, anyway, the whole thing about wealth not lasting multiple generations is because the attitude and mindset that makes you start a business and take risks and build it is not passed down.


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[Assistant] By living in opulence as a child, and so the kids might have witnessed a little bit of it, but the grandkids are completely detached from any of the hustle that ultimately led to that success and they just blow it or something, so.


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[Assistant] Why do you hate housing, Linus? I know, right? Yeah, Balmer is about to make a billion a year in dividends. He could squander a billion a year and still be richer. Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] Sure, and there's- But I think that's very abnormal. There's communities and cultures that also have very different attitudes about money than others.


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[Assistant] Tough man. I uh, anyway, the point is just...


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[Assistant] I want my kids to be good people. I want them to be real people. I want them to stay that way. Like it's uhm, I think that there's a lot of time.


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[Assistant] This is, this is a super first world problem, and I 100% understand that, but I will do anything to keep my kids from being douchebags.


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[Assistant] Me too. No offense. Yeah. Uhm. But me too.


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[Assistant] There are exceptions, uhm. Absolutely. Like I know Yvonne talked about one of the people she worked with at one of the pharmacies she worked at, I'm not gonna identify anyone, but they grew up like, jet set lifestyle, and didn't want any money from mom and dad, not because they had a bad relationship, everything was great, but didn't want anything, wanted to hustle, like,


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[Assistant] Like, 100% grindset, and just super down to earth, and I'm like, yeah, but like, you can't point at an exception like that, and go, okay, well then everything will be fine, right? Like, even if the odds were 33%, then two out of our three kids are gonna be assholes. So, like, we gotta, we gotta figure this out, man.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. At all. That's not good. It means basically... Like I remember- We can get jobs?


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[Assistant] I mean, yea, of course. And then, what happens, so, okay. But they haven't needed one. Totally. Like, what would a kid get a job for?


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[Assistant] Well, what did, what did you spend your money on? I mean, I bought just like dumb stuff. I bought candy. I like saved and I would buy really early on big ticket things. Um, like I, I would buy, I bought a GPU upgrade for our family computer. The biggest purchase. I don't think I've ever talked about this. The biggest purchase I think I made with like allowance money, like as a kid.


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[Assistant] Was I paid for the cable internet drop from the street.


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[Assistant] My parents agreed they would pay the monthly bill, if I paid the installation.


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[Assistant] And that was, it was hundreds of dollars. It was, I didn't have money, but I had all my $5 a week allowances and birthday money and all that stuff. And I was like, I want always on internet. Let's go. Um, but like my kids have always on internet.


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[Assistant] Like I have all the cool toys cause I just like- Most of the games they want- I make videos about setting up toys and I like- I'm assuming they have. Cool toys. This is all the stuff that I wanted when I was a kid, right? Yeah. So then they just like already have it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, Elijah, my, my son does value money to a degree. Not like I did when I was his age though. Like I wanted it. You know? Whereas I think to him it's kinda like, eh.


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[Assistant] I think either of us had as much access to advertising at the time though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I didn't see a lot of ads because we didn't have cable, so... Yeah, fair, yeah, me too. I was kind of the same way, like...


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[Assistant] Man, this has definitely created some debate in the chat. I don't remember the last time I saw chat this active. People are everywhere from like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, they love being in videos, but I think they specifically like being in videos with me, like I think they like doing what I do. They're kids, right? They, uhm, I-I'm just grateful they still think I'm cool.


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[Assistant] As cool as I can be. Uh, they actually were in shooting a video with me today, that uhm, I think is gonna be just a blast. We build Luke a computer, but with a twist.


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[Assistant] Let's not say too much. Let's let the people experience it. It's a really, really fun video.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's gonna be great. That's all I'll say. So, uhm.


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[Assistant] As for just making videos on their own, no, I don't think they have a ton of interest in it, and I...


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[Assistant] I want them to, I want them, the more I think about it, the more I want them to find their own path. Uhm, I'm not, as they get older,


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[Assistant] I'm also not gonna shy away from showing them as much as I have in the past, like if they wanna participate, I think that's pretty cool, we'll pay them for their work.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's something that I've talked about a lot in the past is, um, content creators who seem to think that their children are their property and they can just exploit their labor and just take all the money. It doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. But I also think that, um,


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[Assistant] But I'm also not gonna go completely the other way and just go, yeah, my, you know, my kids should never be on camera. They, uhm,


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[Assistant] I doubt it's gonna have a significant impact on their later life if they build a computer or two. Like, we have a very different kind of channel than some of the channels that do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do feature their children a lot, you know, experiencing milestones or doing embarrassing things or whatever else. Like my kids, like they're building a computer. Like what? Who cares? Like it just, um,


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[Assistant] I doubt there'll be a ton of negative impact on, on their later life from being in a video with dad on his YouTube channel at some point when they were a kid. It just seems kind of far-fetched. Um, and they're, yeah, they're, uh, they're.


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[Assistant] I think it's, it's on people to kind of find the balance that works for them. It also depends how much they...


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[Assistant] That even mature devices can still have a lot of differences from one unit to the next and one of the things that can cause a plastic part


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[Assistant] And I was just, I was just wondering, and now I'm gonna wonder aloud exactly how many Steam decks Valve has sold because I can tell you right now, it's probably enough that Valve has had to remake the plastic molds for the Steam deck


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[Assistant] Possibly multiple times, which is a tens of thousands of dollars process if they want to do it onshore, uh, with a, with a high degree of quality, uhm, to make like a really long lasting mold.


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[Assistant] That was it. And as the molds wear out, you can run into tolerance issues exactly like this. So I do wonder, maybe if, you know, they had a worn out mold and it didn't get replaced in a timely manner or, you know, whatever else. I wonder what the differences are between the first team deck and the last team deck. Theoretically, you know, they are the same.


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[Assistant] As it gets plastic flowed through it more and more and more times, they do change a little bit. I don't know a ton about the exact.


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[Assistant] With the screwdriver because we had to make a decision, actually it might not have been the screwdriver, it might have been something else, but at some point we were making a decision between, uhm, different molding materials and whether we wanted to go with the more expensive one that would last much longer or the cheaper one that would last a shorter period of time and it comes down to how many you think you're gonna sell because


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[Assistant] That cheaper material is great as long as you're only gonna sell 10 or 20,000 of them, but if you're gonna do hundreds of thousands, then you wanna really invest in a super high quality mold, which costs a lot more because it's made out of harder materials that are not gonna wear out as quickly. That was it. I just thought that was cool and wanted to talk about that.


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[Assistant] I feel like it is too, but I have no idea. There's just, we just don't know. Just the number of them I see.


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[Assistant] Around. Like I- That is your-


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[Assistant] Especially because it's yet another or factor. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I didn't really have a ton of issues using it. I didn't set up anything special, I just used it. Uhm, it's possible that my particular carrier


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[Assistant] Uh, uses bands that the Fairphone just supports or that my area has good coverage of the particular bands that the Fairphone does support. Your mileage may vary, but it was, that was not my issue with it.


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[Assistant] By the way, I managed to get, I started carrying my iPhone in my other pocket while I was, I, I've switched off the Fairphone now, I'm back to the Note. Uhm, I wanted to use the OnePlus Open, but apparently Belle took it.


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[Assistant] I'm really excited to go to Hisense. Apparently they made something that just shits on the TV I just bought.


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[Assistant] You're like blind, so is that a flashbang? 40,000 local dimming zones.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And like- Yours is special now. We, it was, it was worth it for the content to deal with importing it before it was available in North America. Like I, I'm really glad we did it. Do it for the gram.


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[Assistant] Resistant to doing anything cool with their phones lately.


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[Assistant] I don't know man, like it's, uh, it almost seems like they're stuck in a rut where they recognize that what people love about the iPhone is that


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[Assistant] In six years, seven years, having not paid attention to tech at all, people can go to the store, say, my iPhone is slow, can I have a new one? And it works exactly the same way that their old one did.


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[Assistant] Like that's great from, from a, like that's great from a customer consistency, customer experience standpoint, but it's not exciting. It's just boring. Ugh. So boring.


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[Assistant] If it's from the manufacturer site, that's fine, by the way. A lot of smaller sites will not take their own, do their own product photography. They'll just borrow from the manufacturer. But, um, one of the other things you can do is, I don't know, reseller ratings used to be a thing.


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[Assistant] I buy, I buy a lot of stuff first party these days. Like when I bought the bamboo printer, I just went to bamboo's website. Like I just, I don't. More places offer that now. So it's more possible now.


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[Assistant] No, it wasn't an Amazon only store. It was just, there was just something I wanted to buy and I was on the manufacturer website and I was just like, I just want one of these, why don't you just sell it to me? Uhm, like what's your problem? But it makes sense, like setting up e-commerce is not easy, right? A lot of overhead.


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[Assistant] My, um, my sister-in-law has a smart fridge. Which I only found out when we visited over the holiday.


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[Assistant] And she actually uses it, like to play music in her kitchen. And I was just kind of, yeah, it has a screen on the front and you can like load up YouTube music videos. Her kids love like watching music videos in the kitchen. I just, sorry, I just, it was one of-


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, I've gotten completely distracted because apparently Alex Jones made a video game. Yeah. When was this?


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, this is, this is from like two days ago.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. Well good luck with that everybody.


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[Assistant] I wonder if they have Asmon's permission to be in their trailer. Well, they must have sent him the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess. Interesting. That seems like an unlikely collaboration.


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[Assistant] I, it is, I don't know, the, the people who have tried it say it's amazing. I haven't tried it yet. If it's as amazing as they say, maybe it's super amazing. Otherwise I would say we're probably a bit off. We just had kind of a big leap.


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[Assistant] And I would say maybe it's the next leap or the one after that where you can like really comfortably replace the high DPI monitor that's right on your desk.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I need to elaborate on that. Let me get this straight. We're concerned about the students taking shortcuts by using AI, but we're actually going to enshrine


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[Assistant] The teacher's right to take shortcuts by using AI in the, in the process.


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[Assistant] Good. Super cool. Uhm, in other, like kind of,


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[Assistant] Cool sounding news for a change. Uhm, this I also didn't know, but this is a, uh, uh, merch message from Tony C. Uh, thoughts on Rockstar buying modding platform CFX and NCsoft giving official bless- oh.


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[Assistant] Wait, oh no, this is the NCsoft thing. Uh, okay, hold on. Rockstar buying CFX. Okay, no, I don't have thoughts on that. No, I hadn't heard about either of these things. Sorry, I've been buried under a rock this week apparently, but the NCsoft one is super cool. Sorry, I misread this.


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[Assistant] If it's one thing, if a game dies out because the developer can't maintain it anymore or whatever else and, uh, no one cares, fine. Then just let it die, I guess. But if the community wants it to keep going, if they're, sure, small, but dedicated enough, they should be allowed to.


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[Assistant] Man, anything, anything they like, uhm. We play faff with little man now. Yeah, yeah, uhm.


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[Assistant] The, uh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat'em up was pretty fun to play with them. That was cool. I was one of Linus' kids that day. Ultimate Chicken Horse. They really like that, just the trolling and...


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[Assistant] Fun party game. Uh, one of my favorites is Take Link's House Party. It's a VR game, super niche, but it's a lot of fun and the kids just love the silliness of it. You can't play it all the time. No, no, it's like- Fantastic


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[Assistant] Hey, thanks guys for tuning in. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] Manages to obtain an encrypted copy of your data from our servers. That's not, that's not, that's such a, that's such an outlier scenario. That's not scenario one, that's scenario seven. A criminal guesses your account. We're not talking about


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[Assistant] Sure, to, you know, to dry off or whatever. But like, wha- Sorry, I'm taking this like whole wad of-


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, it's time for us to pick another topic. Luke, you wanna pick one?


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[Assistant] All right, here we go. Uh, so vote for Magicka. It's like a great like single player.


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[Assistant] Together game to play. Uh, so not a real question here, necessarily. Dan might like it.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the Wen Show! Had a great CES this year, saw a lot of cool stuff. I'm back! I flew back. I was supposed to be back at midnight instead I was back at...


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[Assistant] Ah crap, there was a topic that I wanted to do. Oh yes, OpenAI rejects the New York Times lawsuit that we talked about last week, says that copyrighted material is necessary to LLMs, therefore we had to use it. Yeah, that's gonna be our headline topic today, we'll have a little bit of discussion


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[Assistant] Oh, it's bizarre, like, eBay, eBay people, like, harassed people, like, mailed them animals and stuff, because, yeah, no, it's a whole thing. Well, yeah, well, they settled, like, it's a thing. Woah. Yeah, we'll talk about that. They settled.


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[Assistant] Which is OpenAI's defense against the New York Times lawsuit. They publicly called the copyright claim against them meritless and disappointing. Yes. According to OpenAI,


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[Assistant] Clearly has no actual defense whatsoever, or, or, this is Sam Altman playing 5D chess, coming up with the worst possible argument that he can up front, so that the New York Times lawyers will go, alright, well,


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[Assistant] And, uh, we're just gonna cruise into the courtroom, say, uh, yo, your honor, they're the bad guys, and everything will be fine, and we're gonna win this thing. Like, maybe they have some kind of, some kind of ace up their butt crack that is incredible. It's like the ace of...


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[Assistant] Uh, in the meantime, hey guys, it's really good to be back. We're gonna be talking about a lot of AI stuff that we saw down at CES. We actually only did a handful of LTTs. We did some of those sponsored ones before the show. Uhm, we've got a couple of ones that I'm really, really happy with. The one from the Intel booth today. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. It's...


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[Assistant] And they pretty much got the business unit head in the room with me a couple days later, and I kind of made my case, I kind of went, look,


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[Assistant] I have this idea in my head for a piece that I want to do on connectivity. Uh, because, frankly, what am I supposed to do? Talk about Meteor Lake?


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[Assistant] Wi-Fi 7 came out of, it feels like, absolutely nowhere. My first real, like,


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[Assistant] Thunderbolt Share is really critical, but I need you guys to answer some deeper questions, because the first time I was in there, even when I wasn't going to be making a video about it yet,


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[Assistant] I was like, okay, but like how? What's the data path? And they're like, we can't tell you any of that.


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[Assistant] That I'm super proud of is we did a video on kind of the, the evolving situation around, uh, connectors on the back motherboards. So ASUS BTF, uh, MSI project,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then there's now an ecosystem that's developing for these products. Corsair has two cases that natively support these rear connector motherboards, and we kind of fleshed it out into a full LTT by tearing down the demo PC in Corsair's booth.


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[Assistant] And then rebuilding it as the video. Kinda talking about...


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[Assistant] There's one key thing I missed, and I feel stupid for not mentioning it in the video now, but, uhm, how-


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[Assistant] There will be some challenges moving this to 100% adoption, no matter how good it is, no matter how many industry partners support it, and that's that it adds a bunch of clearance on the back of the motherboard, especially with stiff connectors like front USB 3, uh, especially front USB 3 type C, uhm,


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[Assistant] A.I. booths. And I'm talking A.I. duct taped to a bicycle, A.I. duct taped to a computer mouse, uh, like what's A.I. integrated into a monitor?


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[Assistant] So, we'll talk about that in a bit. In the meantime, I've stalled long enough. Luke, what did chat GPT suggest for


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[Assistant] Okay, so there's some more plausible defenses in there. Other than, sorry your honor, we had to do it, otherwise how would we have achieved our goal? Yeah, what do you even mean? Yeah, I mean, some of them are basically that with extra steps, but... I think they more or less all are.


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[Assistant] But it is what it is. Alright, well, uh, yeah, good luck. Good luck with that, you guys. What do you wanna do next?


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[Assistant] 3.7 million views. Uh, this launched as a, uh, it was as a Kickstarter, is that right? Or as some kind of, some kind of crowdfunded device.


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[Assistant] 24 hours and the second batch sold out a day later. And I would forgive you for asking, I'm sorry, what is it exactly?


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[Assistant] Not especially functional. Uhm, so that's the one that has the little projector so that you can, uh, see a sort of virtual screen on your palm. I mean, we don't know.


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[Assistant] And then of course there's the Rabbit. So the R1 runs Rabbit OS and doesn't have apps. Instead, it's large action model, so kind of like large language model, in this case it's a model of actions, uses computer applications like a human does.


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[Assistant] So the product demo showcases common use cases, like ordering food, but in theory you can manually train it to do any task


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[Assistant] By explaining what you're doing as you record your computer screen. That's actually pretty interesting. So theoretically, if you show it how to, uhm, buy Tide Pods because you're a hungry millennial.


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[Assistant] Then it would be able to open a web browser, navigate to, you know, Amazon or whatever website is good to get.


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[Assistant] Which, uhm, raises some concerns for me. I mean, giving a device sort of...


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[Assistant] But with AI, if you kinda think about it, which raises a question like, oh, why not just make this an app?


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[Assistant] Founder Jesse Liu explains that A. Because you get more clout this way. It's true. And B. It's not wrong.


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[Assistant] Tamagotchi Pokedex to do something, and it does it.


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[Assistant] Totally could have been an app, uhm, but maybe it shouldn't be an app, says Riley, and you can't deny the cool design.


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[Assistant] On that note, another example of that that was from our AI Roundup video that I walked into thinking was stupid and walked out of very close to wanting one was this AI voice recorder. So what it does is it just


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[Assistant] Transcribes voice to text, and then at the end it, or, then it transfers, sorry, first it records audio.


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[Assistant] Then it transfers the audio to your phone, it transcribes it, voice to text style, then it creates, uh, like a, like an index of the main topics, whether it was a meeting or a phone call or a job interview or whatever it was, and stores it. Which is like, okay, don't you have Otter?


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[Assistant] Or some other, some other, you know, uh, large language model assisted, uh, voice recognition and transcription software for your phone. Don't you, isn't there an app for that?


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[Assistant] I kinda went, okay, why does this need to exist? And they said, well, a number of reasons. First of all, the iPhone does not support call recording.


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[Assistant] I don't know because f*** you, I guess, you know, Apple things or something. I don't know, but it's not. And one of the modes that it operates in is specifically designed to tune the microphones for recording calls. So having it sitting on the back of your phone, it, it goes on with Megsafe. Having it sitting on the back of your phone means you can be on a call. You just hold a button until it buzzes. You are now recording the call.


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[Assistant] So, in many places, so to those of you freaking out about this, in many places, it is legal with single party consent, so just your own consent, to record a call, uh, including here. And there have been...


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[Assistant] I gotta say, numerous times in my life, when having a recording of a phone conversation would have been extremely helpful. Either because the other party didn't remember, because the other party misre- misrepresented it, or because I didn't remember what took place on the call and what everyone had agreed to. It would have been great to be able to go back in time and go, okay, what did actually-


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[Assistant] You hold it for longer, it buzzes twice, and the call recording ends. Uh, it'll do, I think it was 30 hours, is raided.


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[Assistant] Who knows, but it's rated for 30 hours of continuous recording and it's like this thin. It's like, it's, it's crazy thin. It just kind of sits on the back of your phone and you can put it in like a little wallet sleeve.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so now I have the ability to not drain my phone's battery with an additional app. I don't have to fumble with an app on my phone. I can record calls on a phone that doesn't out of the box support call recording. And if my phone is dead outright, I can still record stuff.


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[Assistant] So I, I, so yeah, I, I walked in going, well this is silly, this could just be an app, and I walked out going, yeah, the app is like the, that's like the crappy version of this. You know? And those guys, that's where, that's where I got my wires crossed, those guys just raised like millions of dollars on Kickstarter. So that, yep, that's...


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[Assistant] I think most people are still gonna use the consolidated device, but, I mean, do you know how many people I saw walking around the show with point-and-click cameras? Really? Yeah!


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[Assistant] And I don't even necessarily mean obvious media, you know, who are holding a little mirrorless or something, you know, and a shotgun mic with a dead cat on it or whatever. I'm talking people just, you know, taking


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[Assistant] I definitely have some concerns about privacy with devices like this. The, uh, the recorder is powered by ChatGPT. Ah, cool. So... Yep. Hopefully, if you're using one of these, you don't work at a three-letter agency, but, uh...


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[Assistant] Exactly. It's actually a huge deal. Money. Yeah. Cause you would totally do that.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think a big one that we should talk about is the bike with chat GPT. Did you see that headline as well?


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[Assistant] With two hundred kilometer range. Wow. Yeah. So this thing, you could like...


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[Assistant] Commute from the burbs on it. Like, incredible range. Okay, and it's not just a bike with chat GPT bolted to it. It's a bike with an API.


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[Assistant] That can interface with other products that have APIs. And it's not some like vaporware nonsense thing. This is their second generation and the product fundamentally already exists and is already being used in useful ways.


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[Assistant] That looks a lot like the display. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah. Okay. But no, the models were different. That's why I got confused. Cause the models are not, cored. They're, they're something else. Okay. Yeah, so they're new products. Uh, but yeah, yeah, that's the company though. And,


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[Assistant] So, so basically, the demo is, okay, uhm, so I'm chatgbt, I'm looking for somewhere to eat, uh, plot a course to here.


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[Assistant] Is kind of what ties it together, because realistically biking is not exactly a, uh, a hands-free use case.


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[Assistant] That's it, yeaah. As far as I can tell, you can also just like ask it questions and interact with it if you want to. Right. Like you can cycle through different- So you could use like, standard-


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[Assistant] Yep, and I mean, people are raising all kinds of great questions. Okay, right Linus, but what happens when they brick this thing? Then you have an e-bike with 200 kilometer range.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeaah, uhm, or, or hopefully they open it up or, or, you know, something. Uh, and like Linus, would you really want, you know, some network to have your freaking heart rate and, and where you are and every- and all the food you ate and- No?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, nope, I'm not sure where you're going with that. I thought you were asking about the monitor, so we uploaded the short circuit of the product that I was talking about that gave me a bigger gaming advantage than anything I've probably touched in the last 10 or 15 years. It's the 360Hz OLED gaming monitor. Now look.


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[Assistant] What game are you playing? Halo Infinite. You got it at 360 FPS? Uhm, not quite 360, but really high. Okay. And you don't, it's not necessarily about that.


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[Assistant] Because first I recorded the- So you weren't just like on one day. I recorded the video that was sponsored by Samsung Display on the panel tech. We uploaded that to LTT, uh, during the show, actually did really well, and it was like, it was your perfect sponsored video, because Samsung basically went, uhm, we have money to market this,


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[Assistant] We think it's really, really great. So here's our bag of marketing money. We'd like you to thank these Nobel Prize winners for the amazing research and development that they've done to make this technology possible. Please discuss, you know, some of the advancements that we made in our


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[Assistant] Pico freakin', uhm, ink jetting process for, you know, increasing the pixel density. And, uhm, otherwise, see you later.


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[Assistant] And included some shoutouts that were cool anyway, and I got an opportunity to check these things out before I would have gotten a chance to, which I love anyway. So it was, it was, it was an ultimate kind of win-win-win, and...


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[Assistant] Part of that shoot was over two different sessions. So first, while we were doing the shoot, and then after the shoot, I actually got like, on a little bit as well, with no audio. I was sitting there putting together like five kill streaks.


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[Assistant] Then, things got really interesting, because I was just on the LTT Benchmark account that time, which is not...


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[Assistant] It'll match make me with different people than the LTTbenchmark account. So, during the short circuit, I was signed into my account because we had some issues with our Microsoft credentials for LTTbenchmark, or actually it was for uhm,


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[Assistant] Whose was it? I think it was Ploof's, it was Ploof's account, cause he was the one who was working on the other monitor the previous day or something like that. So, I was last signed into my own account, and same thing, both on camera and off camera. Dude.


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[Assistant] I just, I couldn't be stopped. And the thing is, you're probably watching that going, man, I've seen, you know, I've seen compilations that are like so much better than this, right? But that's, that's the thing. I'm not that good. You guys have seen me play video games many times over many years. And it's not about, it's not about just


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[Assistant] The hurts. Because you can make a very strong argument for there being a certain number of hurts past which


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[Assistant] Changed the game for me. Because every single frame is a crystal clear image. Now, what's interesting...


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[Assistant] What's also interesting is that Nvidia is working on their own approach to solving this that does not involve OLED and that they claim, it's hard for me to tell because I didn't have them side by side, but, but it's really good, but they claim gives even better


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[Assistant] Low persistence, like, even better motion clarity than this 360Hz OLED. And that's, uhm, shoot, I forget what they're calling it, but that's in the Short Circuit video where we do the world's first unboxing of the 4080 Super.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we, we get through kind of the, the super lineup, and then we move over to their new G-Sync demo, and,


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[Assistant] What Nvidia's figured out how to do is combine variable refresh rate with backlight strobing or essentially what on an OLED would have to be like black frame insertion. So with backlight strobing to essentially like