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[Assistant] Uhm, the more interesting part of the rumors is that it seems to be a confirmation that we're going to see Intel's Core i3, i5, i7 thing is about to get even more confusing because we're gonna have a Core i7 that doesn't have hyperthreading.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it looks like three models, uh, 9600K, so that's a 6-core, 6-thread. We're gonna have a 9700K, that's a core i7, so that's 8 cores, 8 threads.


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[Assistant] And then we're gonna have a core i, oh no, it will be an i9. Oh my goodness, okay. And then we're gonna have a core i9 on the mainstream platform that is 8 core 16 threads. What are they doing?


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[Assistant] Why are they making this confusing? So plus means with Optane support. I've actually been meaning to do a video about that.


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[Assistant] Basically, it's a Core i7, and also you put Optane in your computer.


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[Assistant] I understand what they're doing, because you can't really differentiate on CPU performance anymore, so you might as well differentiate on the overall benefits of your platform.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because then you have Core i9 Plus on the mainstream platform and no Core i9 Plus on the other one. Speaking of Intel and their GPUs, we actually screwed something up when we did our Larabee video.


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[Assistant] Actually no, I'm not gonna move on to that yet because I wanted to talk about, uh, Core i3 vs i5 vs i7. Are we just skipping RTS?


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[Assistant] Well people keep complaining that we haven't talked about it, so naturally my initial reaction to that is to troll them by purposely avoiding it.


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[Assistant] This, this is why, Intel, you shouldn't make this branding any more confusing. 9.5. This is the second most watched video that Linus Media Group has ever made.


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[Assistant] What the heck is Core i3, i5, or i7 at 9.5 million views? Melting screen prank isn't there. I just want to know. I checked the other day, you're not there.


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[Assistant] It's close. Melting screen prank is number three, I think.


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[Assistant] Uhm, core i- and core i9 isn't generating any less confusion because that was four years ago with nine and a half million views and this is a year


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[Assistant] And remember, that Core i9 is such a one percenter product anyway, that literally all of them watched it.


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[Assistant] I bet as many people watch this video as have bought Core i9's total ever.


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[Assistant] And that's a problem. When you have to do that much education with your consumers.


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[Assistant] Sorry, what was I gonna talk about before? I don't remember. It seemed important.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, that's basically it. We just wanted to do a video kind of like, sharding on it because we think it's pretty dumb.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like we don't think Optane is dumb. I, I actually, we've done sponsored stuff for Optane. This isn't it. Optane tech is cool.


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[Assistant] Oh wow, you know what just occurred to me? With that pipe in here, we could also experiment with server configs that we can't necessarily buy.


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[Assistant] Or rent at existing data centers. Like we could build something totally custom, throw it in and see what happens.


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[Assistant] Like if we wanted to experiment with something like Octane Caching. Oh, for Float Plane.


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[Assistant] I think so too, cause I've actually got a project upcoming, six workstations, one CPU. I was streaming about that today. Yea. And uhm, I might be able to get a hookup on some Optane drives for that, and then once that's done, I could rip them out, we could throw them in a server and just see what happens.


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[Assistant] What our experimental server in the LMG office is. I don't think it matters.


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[Assistant] Alright, what else, what else we got today? Uhm, actually this is a really big topic, so why don't we do the Nvidia thing first, I guess.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this was posted by Ratman on the forum, we will finally acknowledge it. Uh, the original source is, I don't know, everywhere, everyone's talking about it. Uhm, GeForce RTX.


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[Assistant] With every generation Nvidia's hubris grows. But the thing about hubris is that it's supposed to like cause some kind of downfall and I don't foresee that as long as people keep giving them money for stuff that's completely sight unseen. Out of nowhere.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be faster, GDDR6 is faster, and I'm sure they haven't been completely sitting on ass for the last two years, so obviously it's gonna be a bit faster.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing that makes me uncomfortable. A lot of the ray tracing demos that we've seen so far are running at like 45 frames per second for one of them.


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[Assistant] When was the last time you felt like lighting was the issue for in-game realism?


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[Assistant] Cause for me, like, I, I, I have always been far more, I've always found poor facial animations, uhm, or low resolution textures.


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[Assistant] Or just lazy or sloppy set deck is what we call it in production. I don't know what they call it in gaming. But just like the clutter in a room when you walk into it. Like seeing that same clock model reused a lot.


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[Assistant] That kind of stuff is far more jarring to me than the bounces of the light rays as they move around a scene.


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[Assistant] Basically Nvidia has gone from making gaming GPUs that they adapt to workstations and professional uses to making professional GPUs and then trickling the features down to gaming somehow.


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[Assistant] So anyway, the prices that these cards have sold out at- Did I say 1080 TI? Yea, 2080. I meant 2080. Yea. So the Founder's Edition 2080 TI is 1200 US.


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[Assistant] The Founder's Edition 2080 is 800 US, and the Founder's Edition 2070 is 600. So, the best news I think coming out of all of this, given that any time, like, I've, ugh. So here's the other problem.


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[Assistant] When Nvidia launched the 1080, it was all about this voxel based illumination stuff.


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[Assistant] That was all they wanted to talk about. Are there any games that used it?


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[Assistant] Roxel Global Illumination. I'm pretty sure it was that company. VXGI, that's what they called it.


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[Assistant] So there's a Epic Games demo from 2015, Unreal Engine 4.19, Nvidia, VXGI, Flowblast. So, here's my problem.


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[Assistant] Anytime we get a fundamental shift in the way that games are rendered, the first generation card that supports it,


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[Assistant] By the time any games launch, any demanding AAA-grade games launch that use it,


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[Assistant] Is not gonna perform well enough for the way it's meant to be played experience. That's my problem. Every time we get a card that is sold based on a feature, whether that feature is Tessellation, or whether it's DirectX 12, or whether it's VXGI, you go back again and again and again and again, and there's a selling feature,


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[Assistant] And then that's when you have hardware so game developers can actually start working on the bloody thing.


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[Assistant] And then there's the next card or the one after that that actually does it well enough that you can get a great gaming experience with it. That's my concern about ray tracing with these new cards. Is that yes, they will support it, but when we actually get games that do a fantastic job, once the game developers fully understand this technology and know how to use it,


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[Assistant] But, I could be wrong, and I mean, frankly for me, if we don't see any improvement in anything other than lighting, if ray tracing is the only thing that


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[Assistant] But I don't know. I don't know if I've yet seen something that has broken that pattern.


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[Assistant] Can you think of anything? First card that supported PhysX. By the time anything really implemented PhysX properly, did it run well? No.


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[Assistant] It's kind of funny, because it's one of those situations where the more affluent you are,


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[Assistant] Almost the more, uhm, likely you are when the next one comes out that can actually run it well, the more likely you are to just be able to buy that too. So if you can afford a 2080 Ti now, then you could probably afford to just run your 1080 Ti that you probably have.


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[Assistant] Until a 38 ETI comes out that'll actually run, like by the time some games come out that can actually utilize it, you can probably just buy that. That's my point. It's almost like the more money you have, the less it makes sense to waste it.


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[Assistant] Whereas if you were someone who had to scrimp and save in order to get a 2080 Ti, well then you're probably getting a big upgrade because you're probably running something that's a lot slower. So you're probably also getting additional performance.


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[Assistant] I guess that's, that's kind of the point. Like if you're someone who upgrades every three or four years, by all means, go out and buy a 2000 series. Have fun, because you're going to be getting a great upgrade across the board.


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[Assistant] It's just until I see it, I'm gonna have a hard time believing that based on this feature, this upgrade makes a ton of sense for someone that has a modern card.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and every generation of cards, Nvidia just kind of takes even more control over the messaging. Like, they've announced the cards, they've put them on sale.


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[Assistant] And we still, the independent media knows absolutely nothing other than what we've had leaked by Nvidia's partners or what they said on a stage.


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[Assistant] Yeah, go check out, go check out Shroud, go check out Anontac, I'm sure Ryan will do some stuff, like, by all means, like, it's not just about us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Aiden Games, 1250. Thank you very much for the reminder.


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[Assistant] AddInGames1250 says, Sponsors! Don't forget your sponsors! Thanks. Thank you! Why don't we start with a relatively new sponsor, they're sort of new.


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[Assistant] They're new in the sense that they're new right now. We haven't worked with them in a while. Shade Tree sunglasses are handmade from premium wood materials. This is the hazelnut, helpfully labeled by Jono. Oh, nice.


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[Assistant] Anyway, the two new styles called Ponderosa and Hazelnut.


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[Assistant] This one- Ponderosa is made from a black walnut with titanium hinges and the hazelnut is made from solid ebony wood and sized for people with smaller faces. That's your problem. This one was for me.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, so grab yourself a pair today and use offer code Linus to get 10% off through the link below. Oh, polarized lenses, that's right. I was like, wow, these are so dark I can barely see that screen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if there was any doubt that the polarization was working, let me put that to rest for you. It's very clearly working. It's very, very working.


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[Assistant] Interesting, so this monitor is polarized the other way compared to my laptop. Oh, and yours too. And mine. How very interesting. Ah, we also have a couple other sponsors today! First up is Madrinus Cockney.


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[Assistant] Madrina's coffee is coffee for fuel! Big cans of cold brew coffee with a flavor for everyone. From sweet and creamy flavors like mocha or caramel to bold and roasty flavors like cold brew black and dark roast. They are delicious, specially-grade blends of cold brew coffee that is very redundant. Thank you, Colton and...


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[Assistant] And they come in a convenient, ready to drink 16 ounce can. From now until August 31st, you can get 50% off your Madrinas coffee order with discount code LINUS, all caps. The first 50 people to use the code will also get a free bag of micro roast automatically added to their order.


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[Assistant] So go to madrinascoffee.com slash Linus, which I will put up there now, ha ha, to get 50% off. That's crazy. For those of you who drink hot coffee, by the way, they just launched three new micro roasts, two dragons, side quest, and double diamond, and they're now available on their website.


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[Assistant] Put that there. These are sweet. Oh, by the way there, uh, Slow Mo is in the chat if you have any questions about Madrinas. Yeah. Finally!


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[Assistant] I have never tried their hot sauce. Holy crap, this is a Reaper hot sauce.


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[Assistant] Would it take to make a jar of, or a bottle of hot sauce this big?


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[Assistant] Carolina Reaper Peppers. It's the second one. Habanero Peppers.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Made from the best ingredients without nitrates or preservatives with the goal of creating a snack that is full of flavor and spice, but that isn't bad for you. They've got 13 different flavors of jerky like the sriracha bacon and maple buffalo bacon. Maple buffalo bacon's my personal favorite.


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[Assistant] They also make barbecue sauce, hot sauce, and a spice rub. One of their hot sauces is made.


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[Assistant] From Carolina Reaper Peppers, one of the hottest peppers in the world. And you can use offer code LTT to save 10% on all their products.


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[Assistant] I, I'm, I'm just gonna try a little bit. Cause I, I, you want a little bit?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's all over my pants. Ooh. Hot pants.


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[Assistant] What just happened? Oh, did someone just turn off all the filming lights?


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[Assistant] Be aware of that. Okay. Alright. Uh, yeaah, I think we're good, Ed. Okay. I actually really don't want to do this. Me neither.


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[Assistant] Like, I, I actually, I love hot sauce on my, like, marinara pasta. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Like putting that in like a pasta or something, that's really nice.


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[Assistant] Well there you go, I'm actually gonna take that home.


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[Assistant] Huh, straight to the vein. Alright, alright. Uh, anyway.


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[Assistant] Like hipster-y, like modern, but with classic inspiration. Like I'm not really a car guy.


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[Assistant] Yep. Whereas this has a really iconic looking design. It's really different. Really different from anything else.


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[Assistant] So Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov, best known for making the AK-47, has unveiled a fleet of electric and hybrid cars, buggies, and motorcycles. These guys went all out. I guess them falling weapons, uh, rifle sales in the US might be prompting this. You know about that, right?


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[Assistant] No I didn't actually. Yeah. So it's interesting, for the gun companies, um, democratic leadership has actually been better for their sales.


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[Assistant] Because people run out and buy a bunch of guns. Wow. Just in case, so they'll get grandfathered in, in case a bunch of anti-gun protection, yep.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so this includes an electric vehicle that the company claims will rival Tesla.


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[Assistant] It's a concept car dubbed the CV-1 and bears a close resemblance to the Soviet era Trabant. See, I'm not actually, like, I'm not a car guy, so I'm not that... Let's have a, let's have a look at that. I don't know how to pronounce it.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, it does kind of. There's clearly a lot of differences. Wait, is this Faulty Towers?


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[Assistant] Wait, what? Hold on a second. Is this the car that... What is this from? I thought he drove a British car. No, it can't be.


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[Assistant] There's no way he's driving like a Soviet car, that can't be right. Anyway. Uhm, it just, it looks like the parking lot of the Faulty Towers Hotel in the show.


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[Assistant] Anyway, whatever. So that's the cards based on. Looks really cool. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Let's have a look here. So the CV1 is based on the... Trabant was an East German car. Okay. East German car. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, so it's based on the retro IZH.


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[Assistant] 21252, and that's known as the Combi, and it's a testbed for Kalashnikov's electric drivetrain.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the company said they developed it in house. It's got a cruising range of 350 clicks, 0 to 100 kilometers, so that's 0 to 60 for our American friends in roughly 6 seconds, and 90 kilowatt hours.


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[Assistant] The battery capacity of 90 kilowatts per hour, I think that means 90 kilowatt hours. I think that's just a typo in our notes. Would you buy a Kalashnikov car?


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[Assistant] In a lot of ways, electric vehicles are less complex than an internal combustion engine, even though they're, actually, it's funny, I was about to say they're newer tech, they're not. Uhm, electric cars actually came first, if you go back far enough.


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[Assistant] But uhm, the modern electric cars are definitely newer tech than the very refined internal combustion engines that we have today. But in a lot of ways, they're a lot simpler.


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[Assistant] So it shouldn't be that big of a surprise that we're seeing, like almost a, like a land grab, like gold rush style, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't know, what would you call it, like a renaissance? Like a, like you're seeing a lot of brands pop out of the woodwork with electric cars, electric motorcycles, just complete nobody.


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[Assistant] I mean even that bike that I want to go down and test drive, which I will be doing.


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[Assistant] I have a trip to San Fran confirmed, so I will be doing that. Did I talk about that on my show last week?


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[Assistant] Says you won't get one. Yeah, I don't actually expect Kalashnikov to necessarily make a push into the US. Yeah. But that doesn't mean that no one will ever own one. We'll see. If they make them.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is huge news this week. This was posted by Pipnina on the forum, and it is the Steam compatibility tool. So the original article here is actually Steam, the Steam community. Boop.


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[Assistant] Steam for Linux, introducing a new version of Steam Play. So it looks like they have not given up on gaming for Linux, even though SteamOS kind of...


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[Assistant] Windows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux Steam client, complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support. Wow.


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[Assistant] DirectX 11 and 12 implementations are now based on Vulkan, resulting in improved game compatibility and reduced performance impact. Fullscreen support has been improved. Fullscreen games will be seamlessly stretched to the desired display without interfering with the native monitor resolution or requiring the use of a virtual desktop. Improved game controller support!


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[Assistant] Users are also able to try playing non-whitelisted games using an override switch in the Steam client and apparently a ton of stuff is working. Going forward, users can vote on their favorite games to be considered for Steam Play using platform wishlisting and presumably they will like, work on that.


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[Assistant] Proton contains a custom version of Wine as well as additional libraries developed alongside it. It is fully open source and available right now on GitHub. This could change everything.


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[Assistant] Especially if they like, actually stick with it. Mind you, Valve has shown considerable resilience when it comes to...


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[Assistant] This was an actual topic in the doc. I had no idea. This was a topic?


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[Assistant] Who should Linus fight on pa- I thought we were just like, dicking around. No. The biggest event in internet history.


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[Assistant] Wow. Wow, Dick. You don't think I'm too nice to punch someone. Have you ever seen me look like I was close to punching someone?


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[Assistant] Oh, I was mad, but I couldn't have punched anyone. No one that was there.


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[Assistant] I could have punched something, but not someone. I was mad enough to punch something.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. Those are my friends. I would, I would never punch a friend. Like that couldn't be a thing. It's also like illegal, but it's why I don't think you'd be stupid enough to just hit random people.


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[Assistant] Alright, well on that note, my battery is dead on my laptop, so, uh, the WAN show's over. Thanks for watching, guys. See you again next week, same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] Gannafile says, I imagine Linus and Austin fighting like Mandark and Dexter in Dexter's lap, where they like kind of slap each other with their gloved hands.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go live, uhm, with my boyfriend's grandparents for a bit.


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[Assistant] I don't think they have the capacity to do that.


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[Assistant] I'll send you a photo of their like, uh, breaker. Like it's insane.


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[Assistant] The one at your house, I forget which one, but you dressed up as a grandmother, and...


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[Assistant] I ca- I ca- I don't know. CES was pretty tough. It wasn't the worst project.


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[Assistant] But it was like really really tough, San Francisco as well, the AMD factory tour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember getting back, I remember getting to the hotel at like 9.30 or like 10 o'clock or something like that. And you were like, set your alarm, we're up at 2 a.m. And I was like, oh, okay. And then we came back to the office.


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[Assistant] You know what, I think it took Linus about a year to think it over, and then he brought me into his office and said, you know what, I can't get over it.


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[Assistant] You know what? I said, that doesn't look like the best idea.


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[Assistant] I saw a 15 year old girl at Walmart, and uhm, she had literally the exact same hair as me. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And so she just like, I don't know, I felt really stressed out and I had a hair appointment the next day anyways and I was like, so we gotta get rid of this and she's like, let's just do it now. And I just blacked out, woke up, blonde hair.


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[Assistant] I don't work here anymore, I can't answer that. I don't know! Every... thing? It's pretty chill, I don't know. I get to like, hang out with cool people and nice cameras. It's definitely not a desk job, which is what I had last time and...


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[Assistant] So that was really cool, being able to like do different things every day and like walk around and be creative.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like a handy mover, so we had, uh, a tripod with a red and a prompter.


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[Assistant] And like a little audio module that like we had a boom plugged into and like we sandbagged the tripod onto this handy mover and we had


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[Assistant] And I just pulled it back. And we had Ed on the left side of me with uhm, just like a softbox on wheels. And he was telling me about it.


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[Assistant] And Linus had to do this while reading off a prompter and like putting a borrowed keyboard back on a pedestal. So carefully.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's when show time again. Here, we gotta get our spacing right here. There we go. Perfect! Oh man.


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[Assistant] You always push me away from the mic, so you're way louder than me. No, I'm way louder than you because I'm way louder than you. I push you away from the mic because I'm the one who's actually, you know, looking at the show and, okay, yea-


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[Assistant] Okay, here, hold on a second. You know what, here, just a second, hold on, lemme, lemme, lemme explain, lemme, lemme explain something, something here. Let's go ahead, we'll, we'll give you guys some screen capture to look at here instead of James. There you go.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, uh, oh, that, that really doesn't work very well what I'm doing right now. Okay, that's not really the point. The point is, look at the distance here. See this distance? Not enough distance. You gotta... There.


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[Assistant] No, no, you're allowed to wansplain. That's- we've been through this. So we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today. Topic number one, where is Luke? Which is, I'm sure, the only one that you actually care about at this point, cause this fricking- can you take those off?


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[Assistant] He's not using the laser. Okay, so, Ed, can you cam up for us for a second here? Can you just show them what the heck is going on?


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[Assistant] Such that James figures he needs- Wow, thank you. I'm sure glad I had a professional camera operator do that. That's much appreciated. So that, right there. Look at that, he knows how to use the focus ring and everything.


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[Assistant] Okay, and, and they have a 10 minute cooldown. No! 10 minute cooldown. By the way, yes, I have played Deus Ex, uhm, but I only played the widely regarded as kind of crap sequel. Invisible War. Invisible War.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I really don't want to miss badminton. This guy's trying to send me on a freaking... Also, you didn't center our camera. Way to go, Ed.


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[Assistant] Or did he? No, not quite. It needs to go a little bit more towards James. Thank you. Uh, he's trying to send me on a business trip during my badminton night. I get one night a week, one night a week when I get to go out and do something fun. And this guy wants to send me to- where are you trying to send me? LA?


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[Assistant] Uhm, question about exactly what the heck is going on with motherboard, or with coffee lake performance from motherboard to motherboard. And I've also heard from Asus, so we'll be talking a little bit about that. Uhm, Activision has patented


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[Assistant] Way more evil than it sounds. And it sounds pretty damn evil. So that should give you some idea. What else we got?


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[Assistant] You know what? I haven't- Okay, yeah, you know what? Why don't we roll the intro? We'll talk about it later. We'll talk about it later. Wancho. And we'll also do that first topic I promised. Where is Luke?


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[Assistant] Hey, you have one fan. HavorX95 likes you.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dara Bullets, James, just no. Uh huh.


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[Assistant] Uh, ZenWalrus says you're sick, and I think he means like disgusting, not like good.


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[Assistant] I forgot we were still on the intro. The intro screen there. I don't know how Ed managed it. How hard is this, okay? This much frame.


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[Assistant] It's like, there's like this much extra. I always tell the camera people, I'm like, can you center the arm in the frame? And they're like, yes. And then they don't do it. I think they're just messing with me. I think at this point, people are actually just screwing with me when they do things wrong. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yep, so, uh, Asus' statement was actually, I'm gonna have a quick look at my email here and make sure that this is on the record. Uhm, because, ehh.


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[Assistant] It's one of those frustrating things where sometimes we actually...


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[Assistant] We actually know more than we can say because industry contacts don't want to get themselves in trouble. Mind you, there's a pretty funny story actually about ASUS and being sort of on the record when you thought you weren't on the record. No, no, put them on. No, put them on. I'm not going to, I'm gonna put them here.


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[Assistant] But uhm, first up, yes, I actually asked, do you guys have an official statement on the whole auto-overclocking thing? So the whole discrepancy...


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[Assistant] Between, you know, one reviewer's results with Coffee Lake and another's, where people were getting up to like 300 point differences in Cinebench, seems to have come down to some motherboard manufacturers, most notably Asus, enabling a feature by default on their boards,


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[Assistant] Right out of the box, running all of the cores at the maximum turbo rather than just one or two or however many were supposed to be enabled at that particular speed.


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[Assistant] So, I asked, and this is my subject line, so I think I have absolved myself of any responsibility for this being something that can't go out to the public, for an official statement from ASUS on the whole auto-overclocking thing,


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[Assistant] Uh, but I actually, you know what, I should probably talk about Gigabyte's statement first. So they proactively sent this to me. And they're basically just like... Good luck. No, no, I can read this. They're basically just like, hey, I, uh,


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[Assistant] Like, y-you guys are the WAN show, you guys make the news, I'm just like blah blah blah like this about it. Uhm, just wanted to comment on the variance in scores, there's been some discussion over Intel Turbo Policy and enhanced multi-core performance.


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[Assistant] Now something that's really happened over the last couple of generations of Intel's turbo boost technology is that the difference between base clock and max turbo clock has increased a lot. So it used to be that if you had a multi-core enhancement feature and you just boosted everything, it was just a little bit.


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[Assistant] And we want to tune it better and better and better for lightly threaded workloads so you can get more performance out of just like a game that only utilizes one or two cores or any other single threaded application so you can


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[Assistant] But they wouldn't have rated the CPU for 4.7 GHz on all the cores at the thermal and at the power consumption targets that they have.


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[Assistant] There's potential for a stability issue because it is, in effect, overclocking.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it produces more heat, and so this is why our 8700K review had our chip consuming a lot of power compared to what we might have expected, and we probably should have investigated that further.


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[Assistant] We were using an ASUS board. So we've typically used ASUS boards for our launch coverage of any new CPU for


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[Assistant] The reality of it is that we've found it has really more to do with the pre-review support for us. Uh, the fact that we can email anytime night or day and we're getting a response within like 20 minutes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that has really made our lives a lot easier when we're trying to iron out what are often bugs with the CPU, with the RAM, with the board. Uhm, being able to get new bioses that address these or get answers when there is no bios to address it helps us out a lot and that's the main reason that we've been doing that. Uhm,


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[Assistant] So, we had, we were running the board at default, which we assumed was kind of okay. So here's, here's my response from, uh, from Asus. Well, uhm, we've been doing it that way for a few years, so they're basically saying, like, hey, this isn't really anything new. Uhm, so I really don't know what there is to say. Uhm,


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[Assistant] We, the motherboard makers in general, this is kind of the statement, we get slammed for enabling it.


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[Assistant] Then we all disable it. Then we get slammed for not doing it, cause it's kind of free performance and kind of within spec. Then we place warnings on enabling it, and that gets ignored. Sooo, I guess now we're back to not enabling it with some new BIOS updates next week.


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[Assistant] But how would people know about it? I would argue that the average user, even the average user who builds their own computer, isn't gonna touch a feature called multi-core enhancement.


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[Assistant] What the hell a CMOS reset is? You go find that stupid button or header and you, you know, 15 minutes, 30 minutes later, you got your computer back on, you kinda go, woah, I'm not gonna touch any of that stuff anymore. It would come down to marketing. But you can't market something that's just, uhm, I mean, I guess you kinda


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[Assistant] You can, but they don't want you using that anyway. Like if you're Asus or Gigabyte or MSI, they've all got auto overclocking tools that are much more sophisticated than that, built into their boards that are like turning up the speed, testing it to make sure it's okay, turning it up some more, testing it again, and they want you using that stuff. So how do those features work?


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's a good question. Truthfully haven't played around with it a whole lot. Naaah. So...


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[Assistant] Honestly, I don't really plan to because I don't really personally recommend either of them as the most optimal way to overclock. I still believe that doing it manually yourself is the best way to overclock, so uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Apparently we're slightly out of focus. I, I just, I don't even, I don't even know, I don't even know why we have camera people anymore. Uhm, speaking of which, I need a camera person right now!


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, I don't want to do that topic. Oh, I do though. Yeah, we'll do that topic. Alright, alright, alright, we'll talk about it. So, this was originally posted by WMGroomAK on the forum. The original article here is actually from Rolling Stone of all publications.


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[Assistant] How on a scale of one to AIDS plus cancer plus leprosy


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[Assistant] Where would you put Activision's research into using matchmaking tricks? So you guys know in-game matchmaking, like pairing one party with another. Using in-game matchmaking tricks to sell in-game items.


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[Assistant] And that's the way it should be! You should be skilled so that everyone's playing a fun round of, you know...


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[Assistant] Counter go source, or whatever it is that the kids are playing these days. Right, but now-


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[Assistant] And it also, so the, the, the article also describes part of the technique being to take inexperienced players


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[Assistant] And intentionally put them in close proximity to players who are good at a skill that they aspire to be good at and who have an item that appears to be related to that skill. So let's say that a really skilled player has like a great sniper rifle, for example.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then they're gonna, they're gonna pair this player who, and you can, you can tell so much about people from the way that they game actually. Well, I mean, you can tell a lot about how, how they want to game. Anyway, so someone's like always playing sniper classes, but sucks.


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[Assistant] You can tell. I don't even think it's skill level. Aspire to be a sniper. No, no, well there's that too. There's multiple aspects of it. Right. So they'll take like an unskilled sniper who wants to be good at sniping, they'll put them near a good sniper who has great equipment like hat of plus one sniper bot or whatever.


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[Assistant] And then, continually retool it and re-optimize to get more people buying microtransactions. If my children, ever, pay for an in-game item, I'm cutting them off. They're out of the will.


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[Assistant] You guys heard it here first. Out of the will. Can I get in there? Because digital, like, in-game items... I don't know. See, we're old school. It can be kinda cool actually.


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[Assistant] What I realized when I was talking about cutting my kids out of the will is that...


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[Assistant] I think I've actually bought digital items before.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, so they won't be cut out of the will, but, but, but, if they spend too much on them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, too much is, uhm, you know, I think, I think more than, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know what? That is a really good straw poll question. Mmmmm. Once you- Okay, so I wanna- I wanna frame this in a pretty specific manner, because there's a couple of different ways you can define too much. Like-


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[Assistant] I would take a free to play game, where the in-game items are purely cosmetic, and it's not a pay to win, and I would kinda look at it and I would go, you know what, buying a skin or two, or a character here and there,


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[Assistant] But, if we're talking AAA title, like we're talking like a $69.99, $79.99 AAA title, or, or worse yet, like a collector's edition that came in a tin, so you've like already spent $130, $150 on this thing.


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[Assistant] And you can't even put the Master Chief helmet on because it's actually mini. Right. And you run out and you blow, like, another 50 bucks, 100 bucks on it. I think that is totally different.


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[Assistant] So, I wanna create a specific scenario for you guys, because we're talking Activision Blizzard here. So, we are not talking about free to play games. Okay, you pay for the game. Uhm, so, so let's say, let's say a $50 game, just for the sake of argument. Okay. I know that's...


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[Assistant] Almost nothing is 50 bucks anymore. It's either more, cause it's AAA, or it's like


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[Assistant] 20-30 bucks, cuz it's indie. But let's say $50 game.


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[Assistant] Acceptable amount to spend on microtransactions.


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[Assistant] Let's do per year, okay? So first, for you hard cores out there, I'm putting in the zero dollar option, okay? Don't worry, I'm putting in the zero dollar option. Okay.


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[Assistant] Twitch chat is flipping out two blood gulps. They love it. Wow.


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[Assistant] We need a Linus Tech Tips Halo 1 server. Oh yea. Agreed? That'd be sweet. Okay. You guys, you guys would be down?


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[Assistant] The thing about this kind of play to win is it's like a sicker, more insidious play to win.


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[Assistant] Because instead of it being, okay, instead of it being, or did I say play to win, pay to win. Instead of me being able to pay more, to just have better crap than you, and walk in and stomp you. I have to lose to you! Hold on. It'll be, it'll be pay more, and...


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[Assistant] Get a Faco ego boost because they're just gonna pair you with crappier players.


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[Assistant] I mean, at what point do they then take it a step further and they start actually fooling you into thinking you're playing against people you're not? Like, what if they could use


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[Assistant] Like a neural network to figure out which people in game you actually know and which people you don't. So they could have you playing against the guy. You're playing against the guy who's ripping you apart with a sniper rifle from the other side of the map. Okay?


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[Assistant] Overlay that person's real avatar and real on-screen name with like this guy and you like destroy him now that you bought your new gun.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this is, uh, from Gizmodo here. Here you go.


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[Assistant] Isn't that insane? So it played 4.9 million games against itself.


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[Assistant] To acquire the expertise needed to beat the original AlphaGo. Uh, for comparison, the original AlphaGo had 30 million games for inspiration.


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[Assistant] Wow, after 40 days, it defeated a more sophisticated version of AlphaGo called AlphaGo Master, and that was the version that defeated the world's best Go players last year.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, one more topic before we go into ads. Uh, this was originally posted by Jamie Scone? J-Jamie S-Jamie Scone? Whatever. On the forum. Jamie is gone. Oh, Jamie is gone.


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[Assistant] Uh, the original article is from kitguru.net. No, I don't want your notifications. Apple reportedly cut down iPhone 8 production already! I mean, if it-


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[Assistant] If it wasn't a strong enough indication that iPhone 8 isn't doing particularly well, that there were literally no lineups, like that was a big thing with the iPhone 8 launch, uh, this seems to be, uhm,


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[Assistant] This seems to pretty much drive the point home. Apparently, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus production has been reduced by about 50% for November and December, which are typically


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[Assistant] Pretty, uh, strong sales months for mobile devices. And this is apparently the first time Apple has reduced iPhone production so early in the cycle.


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[Assistant] And the other issue is that apparently a lot of people are opting for the iPhone 7 instead of the 8, which is frankly a decision that, okay, A, makes a lot of sense to me in the first place, because the iPhone 7 and 8 are real.


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[Assistant] A lot of the time, it doesn't work out to be in your best interest to go and buy, say, the most expensive motherboard. Because a lot of the time, what can end up happening is because they sell so few units of that model,


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[Assistant] It might end up with a very short support cycle and a much smaller install base of people to call into tech support and complain if something goes wrong. They might end up with more compatibility issues down the line because of that smaller install base, installing a wide variety of hardware to, to, you know,


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[Assistant] Find out if there's any issues and report them to the manufacturer. So owning the like, the popular one.


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[Assistant] It can actually be really good, because the iPhone 7, here's another thing, if there's a huge install base, even not directly from Apple, even if we're talking from app developers, if there's a huge install base of these iPhone 7s because Apple was effectively selling them for two years at full pop, or at full speed,


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[Assistant] Then you're gonna see app developers really focus on optimizing for that phone for a longer time into the future as those iPhones start to have their screens broken or start to be replaced. It's just gonna take longer before you aren't worth investing in anymore.


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[Assistant] So, the fact that there's this momentum on the iPhone 7 becomes sort of a self, uhm, self-reinforcing positivity snowball. And the more people realize that the iPhone 7 is a great choice compared to the 8, the more it will be a great choice compared to the 8. That's where I was...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I mean I ended up, just by chance, with a couple of those types of devices. So the iPad 1 was a big steaming pile of beta. Uhm, it, it didn't end up being supported for very long. It was thick, the battery life sucked, it was super slow.


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[Assistant] iPhone 2? Did I say iPhone? You said iPad. Okay, good. iPad 2?


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[Assistant] Way better in every way. Like, fantastic. And made a ton of sense as a product for quite some time because even the ones that came after it were adding things like high resolution displays that actually ended up hurting battery life as much as they increased the resolution of the display. They ran hotter.


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[Assistant] The iPad 2 had stuff going for it for like three or four generations afterward. It wasn't until the Air, I think, that we got one that was higher resolution and better battery and ran cooler. It was like better in every possible way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so my iPad 2 ended up getting supported almost forever, and the same with the iPhone 4, and I ended up with both of them at the same time, and I was like, this is great, Apple supports their devices for like 4-5 years, this is awesome!


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[Assistant] But it doesn't always work out like that, so it's really nice when you end up with something like that, and it looks like the iPhone 7 could be another one. I personally wish it had been the 6S because it has a headphone jack, but uhm, sorry?


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[Assistant] Oh, you're just upset because you lost that playlist feature. Yeah, so Apple, right, does not behave in this way every time. You have a second gen?


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[Assistant] Second gen, yeah, Ed just lost a feature that was deprecated seemingly, and we have no, you know, insider knowledge at Apple or anything, but seemingly to make room for a new version of the feature that is only available on the new one that has LTE connectivity. So, you're just gonna buy the new one, aren't you?


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[Assistant] Let's go with no. I don't know, we'll talk about it later, we'll talk about it later. Okay, uh, right, right, we've gotta do our, uh, we've gotta do our sponsors! Uh, sponsor number one is iFixit!


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[Assistant] I'm serious, they're not there. So- aw man. Go!


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[Assistant] Sponsor number one is iFixit. iFixit is all about the culture.


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[Assistant] Of repairing your own stuff. Because why should you pay a manufacturer a bunch of money or throw something out contributing to waste in our world when you can repair something yourself for often a fraction of the cost. So iFixit has tons of great guides


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[Assistant] And, they've got tons of amazing tools, including their ProTech Tool Kit. It's now only 60 bucks, and comes with a bunch of great stuff, including their 64-bit driver kit, a wide variety of plastic- Okay, I can't even take myself seriously wearing these things.


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[Assistant] You know what, Luke isn't here to make me suffer this week. We know, we get it. So I'm actually just going to mow on my favorite savage turkey, the maple buffalo bacon. Yes. Stereotypical. Yes, it's only a, it's only a two star, two star hotness level.


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[Assistant] But quite frankly, you know, what was my drawing power anyway? Do you really think I'm more than a two?


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[Assistant] Outta what? Wait a minute, is this the maple- yeah, I think this is the one I like. Do they have more than one maple bacon?


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[Assistant] Wow, this is really nice too. No, it's mine. Well, you're a vegetarian. I still wanna smell the bag. Here, you can have some if you want.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, this is a new flavor, this is nice, so it's like... Can I at least waft? Yea, you can waft. It's really good. You can't, you probably won't be able to smell the maple mist. God damn that.


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[Assistant] So Savage Jerky is made with the best ingredients without nitrates or preservatives.


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[Assistant] The goal was to create a snack that's full of flavor and spice but that isn't bad for you and they've got 13 different flavors. Uh, I'm a huge fan of the mojo, uhm,


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[Assistant] Maple, maple bacon, that's frickin' awesome. Uh, the er- is it original is what they call it? Yeah, original. That one's really good. Uh, the salt and pepper's really- you know what, they're all really good. And, if you're not into just tasty, and you want stuff that will like, melt your mouth off,


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[Assistant] Man, they've got, dude, they've got jerkeys, uh, they've also got hot sauces made with like Carolina Reapers, these are like some of the sp-


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[Assistant] These are some of the hottest, hottest peppers in the world. Trust me, they will, they will light your mouth on fire, they will light your butt on fire.


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[Assistant] I can test, I can test. Yup, you can use offer code LTT to save 10% on your botfire over at savagejerky.com, uh, so that's offer code LTT, save 10%, and uh, oh, all orders this week, we'll get a koozie or a sticker, if you use our code. Leading us- You're one of those koozie people.


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[Assistant] Wow. Speaking of, uh, you know what? Hold on a second. We're gonna do our next sponsor spot, uh, in a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we'll move on, hold on, cause I gotta side rail us for a little bit here. You went to WWE this week!


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[Assistant] Here, I, I sent an email to myself. No. To remind myself. Really? Ask James about WWE because, here, here it is, here it is. So I sent this to myself on October 17th, three days ago. Cause uhm, I, the day after, cause I, I was like super, I was super curious.


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[Assistant] What was WWE, I mean, you're not like a WWE fan, right? No. So you think it's kind of ridiculous.


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[Assistant] It was sweet. So tell me, how sweet was it? Was it sweet in a...


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[Assistant] This was a great way to turn my brain off for two hours on a Tuesday night way, or was it great in a like, I'm gonna start finding out who these guys are and following the storyline.


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[Assistant] I don't even know if you can say it at all. Oh my goodness. It's one of those things like the whole, uhm, the whole copyright on Happy Birthday, that actually recently was, that one was overturned, but.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, okay, let's do our last sponsor spot now. Sorry for that totally unrelated aside. Sewel Direct. Check this out. This is a new sponsor, right? Connect Anything.


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[Assistant] In a nutshell, uh, they sell all sorts of audiovisual equipment. Cables, extenders, they specialize in HDMI cables, extenders, switches, splitters, speaker wire, banana plugs, uh, IR remote control extenders, and they cut out the middlemen by designing and manufacturing the products themselves, which they sell directly to you. So we've got a couple of their HDMI extenders.


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[Assistant] So, oh, these are, oh, okay, yeaah, these are cool, I've seen these before. Uh, these are HDMI over Cat 5 adapters.


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[Assistant] So basically, instead of trying to run a super long HDMI cable, which either doesn't work, or you have to get a special active cable, what you do is you plug your HDMI in, then you've got this, uhm, this active module here that needs, uh, what is it, yeaah, 5 volt power.


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[Assistant] Then, you run ethernet, and you can actually run it quite a lot longer than you would be able to. So this guy right here, uh, this is the HL10, I wanna say.


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[Assistant] Let me just double check, I don't wanna say anything incorrect. Bah, bah, bah. Oh yeaah, this guy will do a hundred and seventy-five feet with a 1080p HDMI signal over Cat5e or Cat6 with zero compression. And they've got other stuff that'll actually do, uh, wow, 390 feet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so any receiver connected to the channel that you select will receive


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[Assistant] The video signal. This one is H.264 compression, though.


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[Assistant] I actually like the smell of new electronics.


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[Assistant] The Pixel Visual Course. This was originally posted by ZRAMZ on the forum, and the original article here is from The Verge. Google's first mobile chip. That's not an SOC, that's an image processor. Dang it. What?


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[Assistant] You're telling me the Verge is wrong? Hold on a second, what are they, what are they saying? Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, purposeful version, I'll call this down, and then purpose in this case, accelerate it up.


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[Assistant] Okay, so my understanding of the definition of an SOC is that it has to have basically all the elements of a...


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[Assistant] Uh, wow. Especially among academics, SOC is Sociology. Why don't we look for a much more better, uh, definition? Wow. It's pronounced Soch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna have to double check the definition here because I wouldn't think an image processor would be an SoC. So it integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system may contain digital, analog, mixed signal, and often radio frequency functions all on a single substrate.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, if they're calling it an SOC, maybe there's more to this thing than I necessarily thought. But here we go, we've actually got a, uh, we've got a look at it here.


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[Assistant] So the coolest aspects of the pixel visual core are maybe that it's already in Google's devices. They both have it built in, but laying dormant until activation.


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[Assistant] So they're saying each of its eight processors has been tailored to handle HDR plus duties resulting in HDR plus performance that is five times faster at one tenth of the energy of current, of the current implementation.


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[Assistant] So we'll see more imaging and machine learning enhancements added to the Pixel 2. So the Pixel 2 is already getting a pretty good review. That went up on Floatplane last night.


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[Assistant] And will be added to, uh, YouTube, I think on Sunday is when we're gonna see that video go live. So, uh, right now...


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[Assistant] Floatplane has got, uh, Scrapyard Wars Parts 2 and 3. Then tomorrow it's gonna get Scrapyard Wars Part 4. When YouTube gets Part 2. And it's also got, uhm... And you're in Scrapyard Wars. Yeah? So am I. You're in Scrapyard Wars? Kinda. You're in Scrapyard Wars? What are you talking about?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so also over there we've got the MSI Vortex G25 review. We've got the Massdrop Vast 35 inch curved gaming monitor. Uh, you worked on that one. Uh, we've got our video of the... Let's have a look here. What else have we got over there?


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[Assistant] Ooh, LG Wallpaper TV Part 2. Wait, that's up on YouTube now. Oh, first ever SLI setup. Still isn't on YouTube, so with our Voodoo SLI. That's over there right now. And I think that pretty much, uh, that pretty much covers it. There's some tech quickies as well.


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[Assistant] Alright, what else we got for topics here? Oh right, uh, if you guys wanna know how to join Flowplain...


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[Assistant] You should probably go check out this link that I'm about to post in the chat. Do you wanna move on to our next topic?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I may have almost screwed up this build guide, but fortunately, James had the foresight to listen to what I was saying and carefully ignore it.


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[Assistant] Uh, their dis- face, uh, face images captured or discarded once the representation is calculated for comparison.


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[Assistant] They, oh, this is cool. So, IR and depth images were collected in studies conducted with participants informed consent. So we had, we had talked about, you know, how exactly did they train the bloody thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're Apple. They could conceivably pay every single person on Earth like 60 bucks.


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[Assistant] Like, they could pay a billion people, like 60 bucks, to take a picture of them.


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[Assistant] So there you go. They are taking security for it pretty darn seriously. Next topic posted by NumLock21 on the forum. This.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, someone at Asus, actually we know specifically who, Andrew Wu, the ROG motherboard product manager, someone at Asus, Andrew Wu, is in a fair


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is some, this is some foot in mouth being run over by the wheel of the bus. With the foot in the mouth, so the head gets run over too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, so in an interview with BitTech,


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[Assistant] BitTech basically, well, we'll give you kind of the rundown. They basically go, can you explain in technical detail why?


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[Assistant] Coffee Lake won't work with Z270 motherboards.


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[Assistant] MPM, the PM goes, oh, it's, it's Intel's decision. BitTech says, so it's not a physical limitation? Intel said it was to do with the power delivery. PM goes, not really. It.


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[Assistant] Power delivery makes a little bit of difference, but not much.


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[Assistant] So, BitTech goes, so, what are they referring to? The, the 20 or so unused pins from before? He goes, yes.


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[Assistant] So if you wanted, and Intel let you, you could make Z270 compatible. PM goes, yes. But you would also require an upgrade, uh, from the management engine, a BIOS update, Intel somehow has locked the compatibility. Woaaaaah. Okay, uhm.


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[Assistant] This is, so this is one of those situations where I run into trouble.


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[Assistant] They're, they're not, they don't conflict with any of this information.


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[Assistant] Because what he said was that, here, maybe, maybe I can help the audience infer.


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[Assistant] Based on what he said, because all the information is really in there if you read between the lines. So, Intel said it was to do with the power delivery, and he says,


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[Assistant] If they didn't feel like they had to change something for some reason.


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[Assistant] Because if we're going to attack this problem from the tinfoil hat mindset of these money-grubbing companies don't want to spend any money and they want to take ours, surely we can all agree that Intel would have done absolutely nothing


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[Assistant] Also according to this interview, ASUS could make it compatible if Intel wasn't locking it out for some reason, maybe related to why they did something.


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[Assistant] It's all in the interview. I haven't said anything that I wasn't supposed to pass along.


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[Assistant] Even Asus can't do it because Intel would have to update ME.


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[Assistant] So, to me, it really has nothing to do with that, because, you know, when, uh, when Kabylite came out,


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[Assistant] You know, for a long time, once Intel launches a new CPU, for a long time, sometimes like right through the entire time it's available, you can buy the last generation chipset.


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[Assistant] Which actually usually has the same features cause they don't change much if they don't have to. Uhm, you can, you can buy those old ones for a little bit cheaper. So if you wanted a Z170 board with a 7700K, you would get


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[Assistant] Overclocking unlocked for your K-series chip. You'd get just as many SATA ports, you'd get this, you'd get that. And overall performance would, in most cases,


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[Assistant] Be very similar. Sometimes car alarms go off? Oh no, someone set off the actual alarm. Is that in 101 or is that here?


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[Assistant] Do I necessarily think then that this makes Intel some kind of a white knight? No?


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[Assistant] Z370, the highest priced one in their stack. Right. So you don't even have the option to buy, you know, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, an 8400 for example, and pair it with a cheapo board, cause it, cause it doesn't, it's not unlocked for overclocking anyway. So,


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[Assistant] So are they clearly trying to extract more value from the customer?


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[Assistant] So they're clearly trying to, you know, you know, do corporate things, you know, rise, you know, average cart price or whatever those metrics that e-tailers look for.


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[Assistant] Drive attach, you know, that kind of stuff. They're clearly doing that, but I'm also not necessarily one of the people holding a torch going, you should be able to plug a coffee lake into a Z270, because there does appear to be an actual physical change that they made that


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[Assistant] They felt what's necessary for the most stable and optimal operation.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I think one of the big reasons that we only got Z370 is Intel was fully aware that coffee lake supply was going to be extraordinarily limited, and they figured, well,


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[Assistant] If people, like if we can't keep them on shelves anyway, then we might as well sell them to the people that we're gonna go out there and spend the most on the best chipset and the top of the line. Well that's not what he's saying.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, that's, that's, that's his whole thing and I'm, I'm making my, I'm drawing my own conclusions here about what exactly Intel was doing with their strategy. So I'll, I'll leave it to you guys to sort of come up with your own, uh,


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[Assistant] Your own answers here, but I do want to show you your own answers to something we discussed earlier. Let's go ahead and pull up our microtransactions poll from earlier in the show. $50 game, how much is it acceptable to spend per year on microtransactions? So first, Alex, how much per year is it acceptable to spend?


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[Assistant] 38% of our voters think it's okay to spend up to $10 on a $50 game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, 31% of you are saying zero dollars, period. 22% of you, 50 bucks. And 10% of you must be like some kind of mega ballers. Because you think it's okay to spend between 50 to over a hundred dollars on microtransactions in your game. Are you for real?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that much is, that much is, I mean, I, I, I didn't even spend that much on my car. Like, look at my car, it's not even worth a hundred dollars. Seriously, I took it out, I tried to trade it in for a minivan. New straw pool.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's, okay, that's a bit of, there's an issue with that though. You're taking all those phones? What's that one on the bottom?


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[Assistant] Oh, the pixel. Oh, okay, so hey guys, this is another cool teaser. So uhm, those of you who aren't subscribed over on Float Plane won't actually know this yet, but Brandon here is gonna be working on a first for our channel, a smartphone camera roundup that- why are you- why-


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[Assistant] Why are you doing this? This is, this is how I'm going to be on the show now. You're behind the mic. Yeah, that's good. Stay there. Stay there because those are, those are so ridiculous. So anyway, uhm, I've never really done in-depth phone camera testing because frankly,


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[Assistant] I'm not qualified, thank you Brandon. Uhm, so, so, with the Pixel 2 and the iPhone 8,


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[Assistant] And to a lesser extent the S8, but definitely the Note 8, the camera was like,


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[Assistant] You wanna talk about it? Maybe we should just bring you on for like a wandshow segment or something, I dunno.


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[Assistant] And you never know, like, okay, did we cover enough stuff? And then if you do cover enough stuff, the new question is, did we cover too many things and waste time?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was gonna ask like, did Phillips make a set? Because their stuff seems to be pretty good.


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[Assistant] Is that like ginormous like dual ATX? Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] I know like, I know with cases like this, it's not about selling a whole bunch of them, but I wonder how many they...


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[Assistant] Really think they're going to sell and I don't mean really in like a derogatory way like I wonder like when they're like, okay, let's make this case.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like what is the number that they decided? I don't think they care. Probably not, but like I wonder, yeah.


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[Assistant] And I was thinking that or higher, so that works.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you've got, you're looking at 396 for the single monitor setup. Ooh, that much. Okay. And 660 for the 12-inch monitor.


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[Assistant] There's some, there's some that you can get at quite a bit cheaper, but not anywhere close to that feature set.


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[Assistant] You're drunk. Way to go. You're drunk. They're both blades. You should include it in the same video. I shouldn't have to watch two different videos with blades.


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[Assistant] I mean, sure, it's gonna handle smaller, more different tasks, like hosting Hey Siri always on. So you would just be able to say Hey Siri to your computer. Yep. Which would be cool, I guess, if you're into that. There's so many mics in our houses now, it's kind of ridiculous, but you know, whatever. Not in mine, but. You're already being monitored by, wow.


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[Assistant] So I'm wearing a watch now, basically. And that's cool, because like, I don't know, if it is charged, sweet, you get some notifications on your wrist. If it's not charged, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it probably should. Especially cause, and it should be more standard for, uhm, phone companies to just like, I don't know, charge you five bucks for the sim but not charge you anything on top of that monthly. Right? The monthly fee shouldn't go up, uh, you should pay for the hardware cause they have to ship it or whatever.


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[Assistant] It would be really sick if I could have a sim in my laptop, my phone, my switch, like everything, and it all just pulls from my one pool of available data.


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[Assistant] I've heard that it's way more common in the states, and it's starting to definitely be a thing in Canada, but it's still not like a default thing.


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[Assistant] What's the excuse? Laptop cameras are actually like, disgustingly bad. And laptop mics!


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[Assistant] It's fairly self-explanatory. Uh, there's firmware level bugs that allow logged in administrators or some other people. You can access it over the network, which is extremely scary.


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[Assistant] So you can like screw with other programs and you can take things from other programs.


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[Assistant] I think so. And what could be really bad about that is you could change something.


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[Assistant] So while the program is running, you could change something that's in memory.


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[Assistant] Crashing it in a really special way or like altering something. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have obviously never screwed with something like this before, but it's, it's pretty brutal. Uhm, here we go.


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[Assistant] There, direct quote. The flaws could allow an attacker to impersonate the ME, SPS or TXE mechanisms. That's referring to management engine, service platform services or trusted execution engine, which is a great name right now. Uh, thereby invalidating local security features.


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[Assistant] Like what you were just talking about. Load and execute arbitrary code outside of the visibility of the user AND the operating system. This is where some of the special caveats come from. So it's like, your antivirus?


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[Assistant] Get owned. So you can crash affected systems extremely easily this way.


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[Assistant] Apollo Lake Intel Atom E3900 series processors, Apollo Lake Intel Pentiums, Celeron N, and Celeron J series processors. And Ryzen 7. No I'm just kidding, it's all Intel.


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[Assistant] The problem that I have with this is it's quite easy to social engineer your way onto someone's wifi. Right.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like, it's, it's been proved so many times that in so many different situations, you can get onto someone's wifi pretty easily. Whether you overhear someone asking for a password or if you just, oh man, I really need to do whatever. Oftentimes people will let you on the wifi.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then getting up to administrator access, usually not the hardest thing once you're already on the network. Anyways, exploited by network administrators or people masquerading as admins, like I just said, to remotely infect machines with spyware and invisible rootkits!


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[Assistant] Yeah, people are asking for the link, I'll drop the link.


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[Assistant] Processes can edit memory for other processes. Yeah, I know that's already a thing, but this is undetectable by the operating system.


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[Assistant] That's how I just thought about him. That would be cool. Cause this to me seems really bad mainly because you're going below OS level. So you can do essentially whatever the hell you want. That's the scary thing.


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[Assistant] You can screw with other programs, you can make it look like other programs are doing the thing that you're doing. Uhm, that's the stuff that's freaking me out, but I really wonder what someone like Wendell thinks.


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[Assistant] They do, I will, I will definitely give them that. They have quite the durability going.


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[Assistant] Alright. That's the best way to get things from Linus. Just take something else that he has that he wants more.


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[Assistant] We can't, yeaah, basically. We can't do this because we're in Canada and it's not an issue up here because, you know. Uhm, but if you're in the states, you should be contacting local representatives. There's, uh, what's the website? Fight for the Net or something? Fight? Sorry, this wasn't a prepped topic.


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[Assistant] Battle for the net. Battle for the net dot com. You can go on there.


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[Assistant] So this website is a good resource for a ton of different stuff. If you're looking for more information on it, Reddit is...


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[Assistant] And only certain people are allowed to put down copper because you're using government land to put the copper down.


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[Assistant] You clearly haven't a clue what AgiPie's intentions are. No, we know what's going on. We're on your side. Stop it.


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[Assistant] Basically, well, like, okay, one of my big things is, a lot of people bring up the idea of like, internet festivities and like, when you go to battleforthenet.com, there's like a fake-o loading icon at the top and stuff.


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[Assistant] That's not the only problem. Uhm, in countries where this isn't a thing, where they don't have net neutrality set up, there's, there's been some screenshots going around of like, I don't remember which country it was, but


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[Assistant] The second you try to open a browser, it redirects you to a page and it's essentially a micro transaction store for being able to access websites and you get like a certain amount of data or a certain amount of time on a certain website and you have to buy it with like coins that you have for that website.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's beautifully garbage. And the issue that comes up with this is like, I had to scroll down the list for a while to find Facebook Messenger.


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[Assistant] And including games and all these other kind of things that you don't realize that some of the things that you use might fall down below other stuff. And someone says tunnel bear. Yeah, that's great. Except that VPN traffic works because the ISP lets everything through.


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[Assistant] They just have to let it through. If it's now in a whitelist system, they'll just block all of that, so get owned.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I don't know. Whatever it is, I don't care. I don't know with the American specific version if they'll be able to block websites, but like there was an issue up here, and I don't know what actually happened with it, but tell us, a local ISV.


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[Assistant] Telus decided to block the website of a union.


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[Assistant] I know it's legal in a lot of places, but hold off on the reefer for a moment.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know where that came from unless you're super stoned. Uhm, there's-


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[Assistant] There's issues with small business. Right now, we are in like Amazon's North America. Uhm, I know Facebook is huge. I know Apple is huge. I know all these other companies are huge. We are in Amazon's North America. And Amazon is gobbling up small business.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of small business that still exists on the web, whether that's brick and mortar that do a lot of work through the web or advertise through the web or have a website where people can see all their stuff, whatever. All of that is going to get less traffic if it's slow and crappy or if you have to pay to access it than other things. This will extremely damage small business.


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[Assistant] There's, there's, I don't, I don't like the obscene pitchforking. I like, I don't understand at all how anyone thought that we were defending.


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[Assistant] Like, what are you doing? Fight with reason, guys. Come on.


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[Assistant] I'm happy that you happen to be fighting for the same side that I'm on, but like come on, use your brain a little bit.


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[Assistant] Wow! Also, one thing that I want to say on that topic, if that Portugal screenshot thing is fake, don't share it. Fake news stuff is not gonna help your argument.


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[Assistant] It hurts your argument, you're gonna get caught and you're gonna look like an idiot. Uhm, anyways, moving forward.


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[Assistant] The bendable display, we've seen at like weird conferences, you've seen people doing it for a while, the bendable battery drives, that's very interesting for me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. That phone was absolutely about that. That was what it was all about. I don't think anyone actually cared about any other part of it. No.


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[Assistant] And that's kind of, that's actually quite exciting, cause I was talking to someone about this, I think it was literally last night, about how phones have gotten to the point where like, they're all pretty much the same. There isn't really a lot going on, like the craziest thing that happened was Apple released like, a really weird phone.


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[Assistant] And like, they like, turned the camera thing, which was a fashion thing related to Razer, like you were talking about earlier. Uh, or the, the, what was it called?


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[Assistant] That really thin phone. The Motorola Razr? Motorola Razr. Yeah, okay, I was just making sure I didn't pull that name out of my butt. Uhm, but like, it's, it's, it's mostly a fashion phone with like weird face recognition stuff.


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[Assistant] And that's not that surprising. And Samsung going in a similar location is, is actually with the same name, which is hilarious. Uhm, is, is probably good. Because in terms of internals, there's not a lot going on. They all have the same freaking processor. They're all running the same freaking stuff. It's become boring. The battle for the inside of the phone.


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[Assistant] So, so doing something interesting with the body of the phone is cool. That's awesome. That's like exactly what they should have moved into next.


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[Assistant] Okay. So like- I don't know if I trust that, but sure.


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[Assistant] Basically what I was saying is, if you want any form of privacy, just don't use electronic devices.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or that are connected to anything, I should say. If they're not connected to anything, you're good.


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[Assistant] And it drives me kinda nuts because I really liked that as well. I liked not having to deal with that, but I would have rather paid more natively and not had to tip. Me too.


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[Assistant] Because now I'm in this weird situation where I, I know that they're not getting, we don't have Uber here, so I literally only ran into this once since the tip update came out.


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[Assistant] So it's not cheaper anymore at all. No. And you still have to tip. And you have to tip.


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[Assistant] And like, you legitimately feel like a jerk if you don't tip, because they're not getting paid enough. Which is just like a thing. Uber drivers are not paid very well. So, what? Can you just charge me more? So I don't have to do that?


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[Assistant] I want to make the right amount of money, and I want to pay you more for things, and I want to not tip. It's the same thing with loot boxes. Like, this is a not great opinion, I wish games costed more.


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[Assistant] Pretty similarly priced for a long time. And that was twenty... Wow. And there's arguments for the other side, like you don't even sell freaking physical games anymore, so it should probably cost less. Yeah, but there's a lot of risk involved with making a game. Yep, it's also more expensive to make a game in these days. It's also way more expensive. Way more.


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[Assistant] Now with certain games, in my opinion, it makes sense. Sure, League of Legends is free, you can buy skins, that's great. Sounds good. Have fun.


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[Assistant] League of Legends and games like that, that are free games that sell some skins, I don't really care about that. With something like Destiny 2.


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[Assistant] I have to pay for every freaking little damn DLC thing that they want to release for every single little boss that they want to keep going.


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[Assistant] And, there's the Bright Engram store, where you buy randomized loot boxes that give you


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[Assistant] In, in most games that had something like that. You would, you would go on a quest in WoW, you would get the new cool item, you could wear it around town, it sounds good.


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[Assistant] What this actually hurts is it literally makes it so that there isn't as much to do in the game.


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[Assistant] So there you go. Loot boxes are essentially tipping. I don't like tipping. I don't like loot boxes. I would rather pay more and buy the whole damn thing and be able to experience the whole game.


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[Assistant] I wanna push harder, I wanna get all my friends on, I wanna fight and push that boss. In freaking, uh, what is it called? The Raid, whatever, in Destiny 2?


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[Assistant] I did it once, twice, one were already done. What? We cleared it like the first time I tried it? That's ridiculous. What happened to that? There's no like effort that has to go into games anymore. Not all games I know, but a lot of them, Cuphead, great game. But then there's no, ah, I don't really care about doing it again.


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[Assistant] There's no, like, special ship that I can get from there. There's no special sparrow that I can get from there. Can I pitch something? Sure. Okay.


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[Assistant] Is DLC being planned for, cause this is something that seems to trigger people, is DLC being planned for before the release?


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[Assistant] But I don't think that is ultimately that terrible. What I would prefer they did was have a steady schedule of releases. So I actually like the concept of what Destiny's release idea is, which is DLCs over time. I bought Destiny 2.


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[Assistant] More please, sir. I will buy your next DLC raid, and I will fight Osiris. That sounds good. That sounds like a good transaction. Thank you very much. I knew that was coming.


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[Assistant] I'm happy to pay for it. I'm happy with my initial purchase. I'm sure I will be happy with the Osiris DLC. I am pissed off about the Bright Engrams. That's a separate thing entirely. And I wish that I had more to do in the game because I wish the Bright Engrams weren't there.


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[Assistant] I would have been happier to pay more for the DLC that's coming up, and I would have been happier to pay more for the initial game if the bright anagrams were not in the game, all the content and items that are in the bright anagrams were in the game, and there was mechanical processes to get those things. So I'm totally okay with DLC.


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[Assistant] I loved the idea, one of my favourite things ever was the Battle Chess for Warcraft 3, where you get the game and the expansion, and if you went at the beginning and you bought the base game, then Frozen Throne comes out and you're like, oh my god, it's so good!


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[Assistant] Well, okay, that's pretty poo, but a lot of studios have fixed that. You can have the newer- the multiplayer is on its own layer and the single player is on its own layer. Uhm, I do agree with that.


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[Assistant] There really isn't that many cosmetic options. When you make Destiny 2,


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[Assistant] You would have made that game with a lot of cosmetic quests and weird things. Maybe an option for this thing that's kind of tedious and annoying and most people aren't gonna do it. But then this one dude is gonna go, know what? This is gonna be my thing. I'm gonna have the watermelon colored armor that requires you to...


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[Assistant] That, that's being able to show up when you're in your buddy's fire team and he goes, oh wow, cool, you got that thing. You got the hand of Ragnaros. You killed Rag so many times that you got the hand of Ragnaros. That's amazing. That's super cool. It does no damage, but it looks cool. Well, well, the, the, the, the,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Like, like, the idea of transmogs, I was talking about this the other day, the idea of transmogs drives me crazy too. Transmog is the idea of being able to take an item and make it look like another item.


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[Assistant] That, in my opinion, dilutes the idea of the original item. Yeah. And makes it easier for people to digest the idea of just paying money to look cool.


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[Assistant] Instead of playing the game to look cool. I think Transmog is like the gateway drug of just paying money for something to look cool because you can just make things look like whatever you want and the game becomes less about actually working and getting the cool things.


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[Assistant] There's situations in games like Destiny 2 and lots of other games where you can look at something like the raid or look at something like another piece of content and go, there should be more here.


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[Assistant] There should be another objective, there should be a side thing, there should be whatever so that I can get this other item that should be in this game and probably is just hidden behind a paid box. And it sucks when that objective, that goal, that mission, that quest, that whatever is no longer in the game because someone probably thought about it. It might have even been there on a certain build of the game. And then someone else went,


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[Assistant] That's a cosmetic item. We can probably get away with putting that in a loot box. That makes me sad.


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[Assistant] So you have to make them bet. That's, that's what we figured out. Because apparently Musk said it would have cost Tesla 50 million dollars or more if the company failed to meet the deadline. So I guess he was like, alright, sure, let's do it.


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[Assistant] Like I, I used to play, uhm, what was it called? Ingress.


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[Assistant] I used to play Ingress A LOT back when like, not that many people played Ingress. I even played Ingress when the game hadn't released in South Korea.


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[Assistant] That's sad. Edzel and I had control of like most of Soul. It was, it was pretty freaking cool. Uhm, but I remember even playing that game, I was like, wow, this is really, you know, I'm really just clicking the button and...


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[Assistant] Tapping it a bunch and nothing else really happens. It's, it's all super randomized. There's really not a lot of substance to this game. Really cool concept though, so I'm gonna keep trying. Hopefully they update it and hopefully it's cool. And then Pokemon Go came out and it was like, wow, they really just skinned the previous game. There's really not a lot going on.


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[Assistant] But they have, does Alaska reach out into another one? Ooh, I'm not sure. It might. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Which is, I know people from Alaska that are great people. I know people from Alaska that are gonna heal me when Classic WoW comes out, so I have to be nice to them. Lordy.


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[Assistant] I do. Nope. Alaska should be part of Canada. I agree! We screwed that up pretty bad.


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[Assistant] I believe that is pretty much the definition of wrecked, son. I got it.


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[Assistant] So we were just really careful with it. Like, ample amounts.


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[Assistant] You both like it? Well no, I don't like this case, that's why it's weird. It's weird that you like it.


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[Assistant] The boringness to cool name ratio is high though. Bluetooth is a pretty good name.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is probably one that you normally wouldn't even read, but it's possible that in the near future, you might be able to charge your electric car in five minutes.


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[Assistant] To the document, before I get to it, his picks of things that pop up out to him during the week. They pop out, he puts them to make sure they're in the show. The top one this week, the fact that the, that the video card guy left AMD.


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[Assistant] He just went, he's taking one quarter off. He's taking a long Christmas break. He's back in January.


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[Assistant] Yes. The answer to that question is yes.


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[Assistant] Alright, so he worked really hard during VEGO. Needless to say, the guy was probably burning the midnight oil for months. Literally, a couple years.


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[Assistant] So, he sent an internal email to the staff. Yep. Thanking everyone for their hard work. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Highlighting how kick-ass the launch has been for Epic and, well, not Epic, but Threadripper and Ryzen and all of it. And Vega, since that's his, his baby.


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[Assistant] He's taking some time off. I don't think that's hard to understand. So he asked Sue


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[Assistant] When he should take the, when he should take time off, and she suggested this last quarter. I think he originally wanted to go off like in January. But there's more product launches then, so they chose, chose now. So I think your theory about how her influence or presence is gonna muddy the water


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[Assistant] Like that prank call when you get one erotic hotline to talk to the other erotic hotline? And then it takes them like 10 minutes to figure out, like, no, you called me. You never- No, I've never heard of that. Oh.


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[Assistant] That sounds great though. For someone who likes to watch, I assume you like to listen. You should look it up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, do you, are you familiar with this senator in particular? You recognize that name? Uh, Al Franken, yes. He's the coolest senator I think. He's the guy that rakes people over the coals. Questions them. Hard questions. And he's got some more.


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[Assistant] And the thing that's messed about that is, that's two devices running off the same SIM card.


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[Assistant] What is? That never happens. Like you can make calls from the phone and then you've got your


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[Assistant] People can't see it, but like, so, let's say I'm like this. Jesus.


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[Assistant] Yep, but the other side of that coin is having it on all the time for no reason, stupid.


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[Assistant] That's so reasonable for them to do that though. Because the biggest criticism with the watch is that it doesn't do anything. So they want to put more things in it for it to do.


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[Assistant] What's the secret with analog watches? I don't know what this means. It's two lines down. Two lines down o'clock, I get to go home.


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[Assistant] You could learn as a toddler to read that way earlier than an analog watch. There's no secret to it. If you know what the number looks like, then you know how to say it. Just say it all out.


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[Assistant] Are you mansplaining me? I used to be a little kid. I know how it goes. Dad's flaining. Okay. I'm just joking. Go ahead, please.


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[Assistant] I assume it goes all the way and the manager is called the mayor now.


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[Assistant] This is clearly an exceptional example that's outdoor, it's literally a plaza.


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[Assistant] Are they actually expecting people to talk to each other in there? Cause you don't, you go in there and you look at the apple stuff that you want to look at and you still don't talk to other humans who are just shopping in there.