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[Assistant] The story here is a little bit long, but I'll try to keep it short. Uhm, this special deal for this shirt was the result of an error in production.


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[Assistant] Where our factory made a mistake with the, uh, with the material request. So rather than letting it all go to waste, we decided to turn it into an opportunity for our amazing customers to get a really good shirt for a really good price even if it's not exactly what it was supposed to be.


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[Assistant] Honestly, if we were launching the RGB shirt today,


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[Assistant] I would probably have no issue launching it like this.


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[Assistant] But the difference is that it is on a blue base color. And what happened was the supplier made the executive decision to change the material in order to achieve our color objectives a little bit better.


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[Assistant] But they, uh, didn't ask us and we would have said, no, don't do that. We are, we would rather have the feel be exactly the same. So it doesn't really show up much in the, in the...


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[Assistant] Uh, in these pictures, so it's like, it's kind of hard to see. In person, it is very noticeable that there's kind of a cool little sort of starry night, we call it RGB, I don't know, whatever you want to call it, there's a, there's a very cool little effect. Uhm, also, holy smokes.


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[Assistant] New RGB knit sweater. Oh right, so the, the RGB Rokin shirt is only $10. That is...


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[Assistant] If I do say so myself, an absolutely killer deal for a shirt that is almost that other five star one, but in blue and ever so slightly different.


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[Assistant] Man, we have a ton of stuff on the store right now. Okay, I promise I will get through this as fast as I can. Uh, we also have a sweater in a similar style, but obviously it's a sweater. So it's quite a bit heavier. It's meant for your sweating comfort. Here we go.


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[Assistant] There you go, you can see kind of what it looks like. Kind of get an idea of the texture. That one's $39.99, perfect for Christmas parties or just generally wearing when you want to look, you know, kind of nice and, you know, presentable. Uhm, and finally, oh wow, look at this. Hey, we made a Christmas ornament. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, what's the deal with the Christmas ornament? Is it in the bonus bin? I guess it's probably in the bonus bin.


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[Assistant] Oh, what is he doing? Who is he talking to? Room service? Oh my goodness, what is happening right now? Uhm. Okay, and I promise this is the last thing.


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[Assistant] We have our signup form for our Black Friday, Cyber Monday email list. We already have thousands and thousands of signups.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, there's still time, so if you want the best chance of taking advantage of our daily deals while they're here, make sure you register. It's lttstore.com slash pages slash bfcm. We are not gonna spam you. You are not joining our newsletter mailing list, even if...


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[Assistant] At some point, you should probably do that because we're gonna have a bunch of really good newsletters at some point once we get into like a...


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, firmer release cadence for them. Uh, you will just get these deals and it will be awesome and I think you will probably like it.


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[Assistant] Okay. There, Dan, I explained what merch messages are. Are you happy you asked now? Yes, that's my job.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's super cool. No, I've never seen that before. Fiber optic hull stress monitoring system. Hull fib. It gives a warning when stress and bending moment levels and acceleration of ship motion approach levels which require corrective action such as escaping the area, reducing the speed, or changing the heading of the vessel.


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[Assistant] Super cool. No, never heard of that before, but I love it. Uhm, Dan, wanna give me one more


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[Assistant] Uhm, until I'm in a position where I just don't need any more money anymore anyway.


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[Assistant] Which, even though I would be fine today, I'm not quite there yet because I have a badminton center and a lab to pay for, so I'm still, I'm still highly motivated, uhm, to, to, to, to crush it over here, but,


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[Assistant] Yeah, at that point, I feel like I would, the only reason I would write something is just because I felt like it, and I wouldn't want to write something because I had to sell a bunch of copies. I feel like that would, I feel like that would kind of ruin it.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, I'd only write good things about you Luke. I don't know about you Dan.


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[Assistant] That's not his brain leg, that's uh, that's, that's fiber optic cable leg. His, his, his hull is uh, on the verge of breaking.


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[Assistant] Alright. Additional topics? Yeah, what do you want to talk about next, Luke? Uh, Tesla bans reselling Cybertrucks? How about that one? It's pretty juicy.


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[Assistant] So our discussion question here is, is this a reasonable manner to curb scalping on a product where that's obviously a concern? I also, I mean, look, Luke, how many friends do you think I have in the world?


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[Assistant] Oh, you probably meant Yvonne. Aww, that hurts. Ouch.


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[Assistant] I was even going after myself, and he had, he had to twist. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yep, I think that summarizes how I felt about it and probably how a lot of people felt about it based on that this article from roadandtrack.com says that as of yesterday, it looks like, is that a six or a five? Two days ago. Wow, that is the worst font ever.


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[Assistant] Through the stream, I can't see that tiny one pixel gap here, but it's, it's a five. Uhm, since two days ago, uhm, effective two days ago,


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[Assistant] Tesla has apparently removed the anti-flipping clause, so feel free to flip your Cybertruck to your heart's content. Sounds good. I don't actually have an ordering for one, but I...


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[Assistant] Do I wish I did? No, not really, I don't think I need that hassle.


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[Assistant] At least in Canada anyway, the, the tax burden of buying a vehicle and flipping it is a big part of the reason we didn't end up doing that whole concept that I laid out where I was just gonna buy cars to review. And then the only cost to me would have been whatever I eat on the, you know, few kilometers I drive on it when we resell the thing.


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[Assistant] Hopefully to someone in the audience after the review or something like that. Like I had this whole thing kinda worked out in my head. But, the Taxman!


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[Assistant] The tax man wants a piece every time. Yep. And that was going to just kill, kill the cost of it. Would have been brutal.


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[Assistant] Alright. Oh, small update on Ariana's Zappi power supplies. Uh, many commenters were concerned that we didn't address the potential electrical hazard of that sign power supply for the bunny, uh, faux neon sign that Ariana had in her tech upgrade.


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[Assistant] And they were worried that the bunnies would get electrocuted or something like that. But rest assured, this was addressed well before we posted the video.


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[Assistant] Everything for these tech upgrades happens on the day of the shoot. We shoot them in one day, but sometimes prep happens, sometimes post clean up happens, and we do our best to make sure the bulk of it happens on the day of the shoot, so you guys get to be along for the ride, but not always every little thing.


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[Assistant] In the video, yeaah, we just put a temporary measure, I think it was just a piece of tape, but no. Yeaah, they probably 3D printed something or something. I don't know exactly what they did, but someone, someone, someone clever and responsible did something, presumably. I, I didn't ask for the details. It wasn't Elijah, don't worry.


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[Assistant] So you go ahead, you go ahead, I was gonna suggest one, but I offered, I offered to let yous pick one first.


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[Assistant] Picked up from the dealership or delivered to them.


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[Assistant] Most surveys show that consumers dislike car shopping, particularly the dealership experience.


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[Assistant] 48 states limit direct to consumer sales of vehicles because, yes my friends, that's how powerful lobbying is. Isn't that great?


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[Assistant] Tesla has popularized the idea of direct to consumer sales, but it has also faced lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions attempting to bar it from selling cars. Uh, most dealers do already sell cars through their own websites, but at least here, I don't have a lot of experience with this in America land.


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[Assistant] Here, uhm, getting it delivered is a bit of a hassle, like there's red tape to, to jump through, and it's, it's not a seamless experience like you would expect.


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[Assistant] Ordering something on Amazon to me. I mean, is this the kind of thing we have to test out, Luke? Should I buy a Hyundai in America just so that I can have it delivered to me?


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[Assistant] Really? Yeah man, I don't know man. How often do you think I buy a car? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Oh, is. No, they're not, uh. Yea, but. They're not gone.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's pretty rough. Ah, wow.


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[Assistant] Sorry to all the bag holders who bought at 360 US dollars a share. Uh, wow. Wow. They dipped to seven dollars. Recovered to 47.


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[Assistant] Really? Oh wow, nope, yeaah, there it is, four bucks.


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[Assistant] That's rough. Was the fastest growing car dealer in the United States, known for its multi-story glass tower car vending machines. Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. So they, this, this is, this is a pandemic boom thing then, looking at the timing here. Yep, that makes sense. Alright, cool.


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[Assistant] The, the used car market is, uh, is looking a little, a little rougher. There's a, there's a lot of, there's a, man, a ton of sectors that just shwomp, shot up during the, the COVID lockdowns and then just...


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[Assistant] Struggling a lot, like down double digit percent year over year over year since, uh, since the peak in like 2020, 2021.


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[Assistant] Alright, the one I wanted to talk about was the PlayStation Portal.


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[Assistant] You know what? I would love to hear what you have gathered about it based on community sentiment. And then I would like to share my own experience having used it and worked on a review for it which will be coming out probably in the next few days.


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[Assistant] Reviews are out for the PlayStation Portal, the portable device that allows Wi-Fi remote play connected to a PlayStation 5, and only a PlayStation 5!


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[Assistant] Many reviewers spoke highly of the Play experience, while others criticized the concept of a single-purpose portable, especially one that lacks a web browser, making it impossible to use with public Wi-Fi that has any kind of verification on it, or authentication.


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[Assistant] It also cannot connect to Bluetooth headphones, meaning that users who want wireless audio will have to pay over a hundred dollars for PlayStation Pulse earbuds or headphones when they come out in the coming months.


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[Assistant] Nevertheless, nevertheless, many have defended the Portal as a great dad device, allowing them to allow their roommates or children to have the TV without giving up on gaming time. The Portal has been quickly selling out, with some scalpers selling it for over double its MSRP.


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[Assistant] Does any of that change how you feel about it at all? I, I wanna know, I wanna know what the audience thinks of this too. Hold on, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do a poll here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, these are going for around 300 bucks. It looks so like, yeah, here's 14 bids, 15 minutes left, a little over $300 for a PlayStation Portal, Ship's Next Business Day in hand. Uhm, that is over $100 higher than the MSRP for this thing, which is $199. So.


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[Assistant] I am not thrilled about the lack of Bluetooth. I hope that Sony will backpedal on that. There should be nothing that would prevent them from making Bluetooth work in the future. I'm not aware of any modern WiFi


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[Assistant] There are, there are some other things that I'm not super happy about. I think the battery life could have been improved.


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[Assistant] However, however, however, however, the thing that I think a lot of people are overlooking here,


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[Assistant] Shoot, I missed the results of that poll, what happened to it? Doesn't it normally stay in the chat until I dismiss it? Does someone dismiss it? Okay, well, I missed it.


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[Assistant] Okay, but I didn't ask would you buy, I just said... PlayStation Portal. You know? I know, but- Yes, yes, no. Okay, anyway.


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[Assistant] That's true. The point is, I think if we consider the functionality, it's pretty compelling.


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[Assistant] Obviously, you could get a backbone for your phone. That's something we talk about. You just get like a little controller for your phone, but it's not gonna have nearly the ergonomics of the portal. It feels like a DualSense controller, which


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[Assistant] It's because it basically is. It's a DualSense controller with an 8-inch screen in the middle. That's another major factor. That screen is way bigger than what you're gonna have on almost any phone.


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[Assistant] I think that for the functionality, if you're the kind of person who would use it, it's a pretty good price, it's extremely easy to use, and if you have good wifi, we found it worked pretty reliably. The other major justification for it is that


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[Assistant] How, what, like, what would you have wanted them to do? I guess would be my, my follow up question.


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[Assistant] If they had opened it up, I think there would have been a strong business case for needing the price to be higher. Because all of a sudden, you'd have people buying this thing just to stream their PC games or their Xbox or, you know, whatever the case may- or watch movies or whatever. And they would have to actually...


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[Assistant] Make money on it to make this make any sense on their balance sheet. Instead they took a very console-like approach to it and we break it down in the video.


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[Assistant] For $200, it's a lot of hardware. You are getting a DualSense controller. You are getting a battery. You are getting a mid-tier Qualcomm SoC. You are getting an 8-inch screen. You're getting Wi-Fi, storage, RAM.


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[Assistant] You're getting presumably some kind of margin for Sony's retail partners that they have to distribute these things through.


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[Assistant] How could they have possibly gone any tighter on the margins for this?


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[Assistant] $200 is a really compelling price. It's a lot of money. $200 is a freaking lot of money for an accessory for a-


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[Assistant] But as someone who used game streaming a lot on a device that frankly didn't have much utility outside of just streaming from my PC, the Nvidia Shield Portable, the original one, the little clamshell like game controller with a screen on it one, uhm, I loved


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[Assistant] And if I recall correctly, it was actually priced.


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[Assistant] But a really smooth setup experience, like it's, it's, it's normie-proof. It's, it's actually a very friendly setup experience. And for PlayStation.


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[Assistant] Ooh, that was terrible. Please don't do that. Oh, sorry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so this one you guys, Shield Portable. 16 gigs, let's go. This thing still costs as much as the stupid portal.


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[Assistant] Oh, they're like kind of a collector's item or something now, I think. I saw someone trying to sell a dev kit for like a thousand dollars or something a while ago. Obviously, they weren't gonna get that much for it, but, uh, hey, it was worth an effort to a collector, worth a try to see if you can find a collector or something.


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[Assistant] Well, what, did I convince you of anything or do you just, you still think it's stupid or what? Come on, help me out here.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know if you remember this, but I bought a ruckus access point because I was having so much trouble with streaming to my shield.


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[Assistant] Like, y-you need a good access point. And that doesn't mean an expensive one, it means a good one.


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[Assistant] That's another big, however, however, however, the difference in, the differences between Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 are not nearly as noticeable to the average consumer as the differences between Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E unintuitively.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's messed up, man. Why, why are they gonna, why are they gonna be like that? Why can't you just have a naming scheme that makes sense? Who do you think you are? USBIF? Like, I just, I can't. Uhm, so. They're trying to compete.


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[Assistant] The main benefits of WiFi 6 over WiFi 5 are to do with large deployments with many clients connected.


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[Assistant] So, range and throughput to a single device are, are, are, are not markedly different, uhm, going from 5 to 6, but they are going from 6 to 6e. Now that would have been a game changer for this. If it supported Wi-Fi 6e,


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[Assistant] And if you had your PlayStation wired, because remember, if your PlayStation is on Wi-Fi,


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[Assistant] It's WiFi 6, right? So having 6e on the portal would just be added cost for no reason whatsoever for that use case. But if the PlayStation was wired, and you had a WiFi 6e portable device, that would result in a...


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[Assistant] That's the thing that I think a lot of people are missing on the portal, is Sony is not gouging on this thing. They are charging, as far as I can tell,


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[Assistant] Bare barest minimum that they have to to make this thing make any sense to ship at all.


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[Assistant] Because they want to sell more software. That's the play here. And I just, I feel like a lot of people are missing that and they're just looking at it going, oh, this thing's stupid. It's like, yeah, sure, it's kind of stupid, but at $200, it's allowed to be a little bit stupid. It's allowed to be more of an appliance in my mind. And I have some hope that it will get hacked. Apparently it's running Android 13. People are already that far.


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[Assistant] They figured out what exactly is going on in this thing. So, I feel like it's gotta be a matter of time before someone jailbreaks it. I, uh,


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[Assistant] That could be pretty cool, but I feel like that's probably a big part of why Sony is not putting a web browser on it.


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[Assistant] Cause that can be a significant point of ingress for, uh, attempts to kind of break into these devices, right?


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[Assistant] And yeaah, Mikeio says, uh, lacking Bluetooth headphone support is not reasonable. You know what?


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[Assistant] That's, that is ridiculous. That's fair enough. And, and I, I go after that hard in the video.


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[Assistant] Yes. And the speakers are pretty good.


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[Assistant] So it's not like you don't have other options, but not supporting bluetooth audio blows.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty upset about the battery life. It's less than half of what the Logitech G-Cloud does. And the G-Cloud is another example of a streaming-first device that, you know, I thought was stupid and then ultimately liked, even if it's for different reasons than the PlayStation Portal.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright. Is it time to uninstall Edge?


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[Assistant] In order to comply with the EU Digital Markets Act, Microsoft will soon allow Windows 10 and 11 users in the European Economic Area. Oh man, really?


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[Assistant] To uninstall all Windows apps including Camera, Photos, Edge, and even Bing!


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[Assistant] Windows will likewise respect apps default browsers and allow users to choose if they want their Microsoft account to sync data across devices. So our discussion question here is, so when are you setting your location to Hungary and deleting all of this stuff?


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[Assistant] Uh, Q1 William G is what we're aiming for for the precision. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Like, it, like, and, like, even if you had to go as far as to have another virtual interface or something like that, you wouldn't even need another physical interface. You would just have to take, uhm, like I would imagine it would operate probably similarly to the way that people will alter their, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, which file is it? Like hostname file or whatever it is when you're trying to go to pirated activation servers? You know what I'm talking about, right? What's that? What's that? What's that stupid?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't remember the last time that I tried to pirate Windows, it just doesn't really come up a lot. Now that you can, yeah, hosts file, there you go. So I would imagine that there's something along those lines that someone will figure out and will be able to just kind of go, yep, I'm finished now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or it could be a registry change or something like that. I'm, I'm, I'm pretty excited though because I just, I don't know why- You should do a video on it.


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[Assistant] I wonder if Samsung has a dominant enough position that they would go after them for this.


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[Assistant] But either way, like, good guy EU, I feel like every other week we're talking about something cool that the EU is doing to finally crack down on these tech monopolies and keep them from abusing their position. Like, where, what, when did the US government lose their fangs and claws?


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[Assistant] Hey, we don't really have this in the topics, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Let's just, let's just say this, uhm, we did allude to it in the pre-show, so, uhm, Twitter, or, excuse, sorry, X, uh,


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[Assistant] Actually have a hard time going at that. Uh, has lost some major sponsors after CEO or, no, he's not CEO anymore, but whatever, owner. Uh, Elon Musk expressed, uhm,


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[Assistant] Here's something though. Listed among the major sponsors that are pulling out, uhm, is IBM.


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[Assistant] Like infrastructure as a service, or like hardware, or like software.


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[Assistant] Fascinating. IBM's one of those companies that like, we did a tech wiki about it I think even. I think it was like, what does IBM actually do?


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[Assistant] I just, you know, I hear about them in the news all the time. I know their CEO's name and he's like super famous or rich or whatever, but like Oracle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, have, uh, have basically said, yeah, no, this is, uh, this is not cool. Uh, Media Matters posted a screenshot of an Apple ad for a Mac computer and an IBM ad next to a post that included an image of Adolf Hitler and his followers. Uhm, yikes.


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[Assistant] So, advertisers, not super cool with what's going on on ex-formerly Twitter right now, and it looks like whoever...


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[Assistant] Musk, make this acquisition is probably going to be losing a lot of money sometime in the near future.


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[Assistant] For my part, I just am not seeing the same kind of engagement on Twitter that we used to.


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[Assistant] We've had some, we've had some posts this week that we're, we're cross-posting in YouTube community posts, on Instagram, on Twitter, and on those other platforms, they're getting tens of thousands, in some cases, nearly 50,000 interactions from the communities there. And on Twitter, it's just been this...


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[Assistant] Should have had the technical difficulties, Linus. Yeaah, I know, hold on here.


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[Assistant] Like anyone with any kind, I don't mean celebrity, celebrity, I just mean anyone with any kind of public presence.


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[Assistant] Was on Twitter and so, you know, you could be, you could be like, Oh man, you know, it'd be crazy if we did a collab with someone, you know, some, I don't know, some WWE star who's into gaming or whatever, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, at the very least, you could, you could at them and then if you also had some momentum, your community would see that and they'd like ping them. Like you could, it was like, uh, the ability to nudge just about anyone. I don't know if-


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[Assistant] I don't know if we're ever gonna get that again.


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[Assistant] Uh, hold on. Buh. Now I've said something. Uh, uh, uh, uh, we should do sponsors!


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[Assistant] Hold on, I'm finding out. Uh, out of those three, the Retro is launching first. Uh, I think it's gonna be, oh, I think it's gonna be very soon.


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[Assistant] Uh, should be very, very, very soon. I don't know exactly what day, but no, there is a chance that you will be able to order one and have it under the tree, but I probably wouldn't guarantee it. I think that's where we're at on that, but.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's what he said? Did you say that on stream? Oh, okay. Retro for Christmas, maybe some Noctua for Christmas, Precision, definitely not in time for Christmas. But you know what will be here in time for Christmas?


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[Assistant] This message from our sponsor. Thanks Luke, that's really helpful. Uh, kudos! Being a popular Santa is tough. Everyone is joyous, except for your wallet.


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[Assistant] Uh, start earning up to 25% back this holiday at the link below and use code WAN when you sign up.


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[Assistant] Oh, I get it, a phone call or a ring. Oh, Dennis. Yes, uhm.


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[Assistant] Thorum just launched their slick handcrafted watches, so you can stay on time for all the parties this holiday. And like their rings, the watches are made with materials like 4 billion year old meteorite and Hawaiian koa wood.


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[Assistant] Plus they are automatic watches with no batteries required ever. With over 10 years of experience and over 5,000 happy customers, Thorum surely has a nice ring to it. Oh man, Dennis, you're killing me here. Go check out Thorum at the link in the description below and get 20% off today with code WAN.


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[Assistant] Finally, the show is brought to you by Greenland Gaming! Here in Canada, we set our clocks back recently, so it's been nothing but dark and cold everywhere you go. Which means more time to stay in and play video games!


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[Assistant] And thanks to our sponsor Green Man Gaming and their Black Friday Sale. This is their biggest sale of the year. You can save up to 83% on titles like Gotham Knights, Red Dead Redemption 2, and thousands of other titles.


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[Assistant] GMG wants to hook you guys up with XP Gold Memberships for free!


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[Assistant] I think they might actually be sponsoring our Black Friday stream this year. And guess what's great about that, Luke?


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[Assistant] Instead of trying to build a computer or, you know, shop for tech stuff, which is like never a good deal.


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[Assistant] Um, we came up with what I think is a pretty fun angle today. Ploof and I are going to be co-hosting and, uh, his chair is going to, he's going to be subbing out for people who are going to submit things that they wanted to buy on Black Friday. And then if they beat me at a game, I will help them pay for it.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna play your, uh, your audio's not coming through. So we're gonna play games that we get from Green Man Gaming, cause it's sponsored by Green Man Gaming, and then we're gonna help people out with their, like, Black Friday or, like, Christmas shopping lists, or, or maybe we won't help them out if they lose! Ha ha ha ha! I think it's gonna be a really fun stream. Who picks the game? I think Ploof is picking the games.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna see. James wants to play Mortal Kombat 1 against me apparently. So, I don't know. We could end up playing some pretty random games here, I think. Alright, it's time for a few merch.


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[Assistant] Every time I look into these records, I'm like, oh yea, there's a reason that that's the record. Like, I remember thinking, oh yea, is there a record for like,


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[Assistant] The most times just like bouncing a ball up and down to yourself off the ground. And like I'll look it up in the records like four million times and they didn't sleep and they were like held up by ropes just to like keep alive while they did this. And I'm sitting here going, oh yeah, man, no, I got no interest in that. Uhm, no.


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[Assistant] Uh, it means that the team is working on it and the last thing that I would want to do as a good manager is breathe down their neck. It'll be done when it's done and when it's done it'll be great. So, that's actually a really nice response. Thank you for that. Yep.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Super Nintendo one, not the N64 one. Oh, apparently there was one for 3DS. Okay, that I actually didn't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Pilotwings actually doesn't really, it's not really sequel fodder. What are they gonna do, add more flight instructors? Like, second Tony? Like, I don't, yeah, I don't really know. Okay, let's, let me think, let me think, let me think, maybe something, maybe something else.


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[Assistant] Elijah says, Portal 3. Okay, controversial take.


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[Assistant] Portal 2, a good sequel. Not even close to as good as Portal 1.


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[Assistant] That's a good sequel though. That's a good game. I think it's a different game. No it's not, it's the same game, that's the problem.


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[Assistant] I had exactly the same problem with Portal 2 that I had with Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. It was like, the sense of, the sense of, I was never, you were never going to be able to recapture that sense of, of


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[Assistant] Joy and wonder and discovery that the first game had because it was inherently, because it's inherently impossible. It takes place in the exact same environment, effectively.


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[Assistant] Same game. I think they're different games.


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[Assistant] That's fair, but maybe you had friends. So...


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[Assistant] And, and I, I wanted to play with Yvonne, but she gets motion sick playing Portal. When she goes through the Portals, especially the, the like, momentum based ones, like, and puzzles, she, she can't, she will actually throw up if she tries to play Portal.


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[Assistant] I guess, two or three more topics? Uh, well hold on, we haven't actually figured out a game that needs a sequel yet.


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[Assistant] So this is Poi Poi. It's like, uh, it's like a weird, isometric, sort of top-down, like, arena brawler thing. Uhm. Absolutely not.


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[Assistant] Oh, Poi Poi's sick. Here, here, here, here. Okay, here we go, here we go. So, this is what a typical... Why am I not able to...


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[Assistant] Okay, there we go. This is what a typical map might look like. So here's your characters, and you could like pick up.


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[Assistant] Rocks and logs and bombs and huck them at each other. Uh, there's a game for Android called Bomb Squad that's actually kind of cool and kind of like this. But I don't know, Poi Poi just had this like jank vibe that I always really liked. Okay, aw man, dang it, it doesn't need a sequel though. Okay, crap. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Fine. Final Fantasy Tactics needs an actual sequel. There.


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[Assistant] And then if we add two hours of Anno, we're not gonna leave the office till Monday morning. We might as well just stay here.


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[Assistant] Oh man. Uh, okay, yeaah, I've got people saying Supreme Commander. There's definitely some spiritual, spiritual successors in the works. Yep, yep. And I think the Forged Alliance Forever community has actually done a great job of keeping Supreme Commander relevant. Uh, you know, it's kind of like how you don't really need a sequel to...


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[Assistant] I don't know, what's an example of a game that has kind of stayed, uh, stayed relevant to its core audience even if it's kind of niche? Okay, Eve Online. Do you need an Eve too? Or has Eve evolved enough that it can just still be Eve? And it can just be Eve forever?


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[Assistant] Teemo Bob says, Super Mario RPG, and I actually wouldn't disagree with that, the, the recent remake, which, by the way, looks incredible. I'm actually not buying it, just because I, by chance, I, I replayed Super Mario RPG, like, two months before the announcement came out.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't know. I was just like, man, you know what was awesome? Super Mario RPG. I'm gonna play it. Because, uhm, Emily saw one at, uhm, at Willow Video, actually, Luke.


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[Assistant] And I was like, hey, I know you love this game, uhm, do you want one? It's a good price. And I was like, yeah, sure. And then it was just sitting on my shelf staring at me and I was like,


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[Assistant] Well, I'm obviously not, I'm not gonna put it in a Super Nintendo to play it because that's just completely backwards at this point. I'm gonna play it on something else with an emulator because I have places to be. Uhm, and...


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[Assistant] So I, you know, I wasn't gonna play the actual cartridge, but I'm sitting here going, what, I'm gonna pay like $150 for this game or whatever it was? I'm not gonna just, I'm not gonna play the stupid thing? No, dammit, I'm gonna play it. So, uh, so, so, so I played it. So I...


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[Assistant] Seeing how faithful the remake is.


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[Assistant] It is both, uh, really exciting to me.


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[Assistant] It was a masterpiece, is a masterpiece. And if they had gone and like just arbitrarily changed it, I think they could have lost what made it so special. But then I'm also disappointed because


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[Assistant] I don't need to play it right now, and everyone's all hyped about Super Mario RPG, and I kinda just wish it was Super Mario RPG too, because I want some new content to enjoy. So, I uhm, I do think with how much hype there is around this game, uh, that it feels likely that they


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[Assistant] You know, that might be what that developer is already working on or something. I don't know. I don't actually know who did the adaptation for them or if they're even a Nintendo internal team. Uhm, I think someone knows and posted at some point, but I don't know. Uhm, so I'd love to see that happen.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure, I know the Paper Mario series is like kind of a spiritual successor to it, but yeah, new Super Mario RPG, man. That'd be super cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, Lucky Drive. Yes. Uhm, there's a really good multiplayer hockey game. It's called Slapshot Rebound. It's free to play. It's really fun. You don't have to buy any of the cosmetics. You can have a really excellent experience without paying for anything. Uh, lots of fun. Very funky controls. Uh, I wish you luck.


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[Assistant] Oh, more topics. Yeah, sure, we can do that. Uhm, Google sues for DMCA abuse.


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[Assistant] The notices were typically filed under the names of large organizations like Amazon, the Los Angeles Lakers, and Twitter, as well as famous celebrities like Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, and LeVar Burton. Attacks against big ad buyers led to the loss of millions of dollars in revenue for both the target companies and for Google.


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[Assistant] Now, I can't say that I'm happy that this is what it took for Google to finally stand up to fraudulent DMCA claims, but I will say that I'm really happy it's happening because


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[Assistant] If this becomes legal precedent, uhm, then I think that, I hope that organizations, particularly ones with money, will think twice before using DMCA claims just to get their way and rip down content that makes them unhappy.


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[Assistant] This week, they sent an OTA update that put an estimated 3% of their vehicle's infotainment systems out of commission, some requiring physical repairs.


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[Assistant] The company accidentally sent out an incorrect update build with the wrong security certificates, which stalled before it completed installing, rendering the system and the main instrument displays unusable. Rivian blamed the error on a fat finger.


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[Assistant] Now our discussion question says, how does a company this size end up sending out an update this disastrous accidentally? And I will say, as the chief vision officer of a company that has made some pretty, um, egregious blunders in the last calendar year,


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[Assistant] You'd be surprised. Communication's not easy.


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[Assistant] And the bigger you get, the bigger the chances that you'll have, if anything. I would say the odds of a bigger company doing this is better than the odds of a small company that's like a tightly knit team that all work together with each other every day.


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[Assistant] VNG Supernova says, I work for a very large travel company as a software dev. I've pushed breaking changes to production multiple times. The worst wasn't noticed until 12 hours later. Uh, thanks for your application. Uh, unfortunately we've decided to go in a different direction Supernova.


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[Assistant] Oh right, it's very, very early in the day.


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[Assistant] This is actually a video concept that I've had on the spreadsheet for probably about three or four years.


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[Assistant] And I forget what the title I have for it is. I'm not just being rude and sitting on my phone right now. I'm trying to find the, uh, the topic ideas spreadsheet, but, uh, it is.


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[Assistant] It is not at the top. Oh, here it is. Video idea tracker LTT. You know, I, I don't, it doesn't matter. The point is I'm, uh, I have, uh, I can explain how the video would work. So I wanted to build the suboptimal PC.


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[Assistant] Basically, kinda like what you described. At the same price, the worst option, right? Compared to the optimal PC, which is at the same price, the best option for every component. But in order to do this, as accurately as possible,


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[Assistant] I need the lab. And it's these kinds of video concepts that were the main driver for building out the lab because I wanted to be able to say with confidence, Hey guys, I know that


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[Assistant] In the grand scheme of things, 2% hair and 3% here on this RAM kit or this GPU or, uh, you know, the, the, the, the KS version of the CPU or, you know, whatever else the case may be, doesn't really ultimately matter. But cumulatively,


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[Assistant] With all of the breadth of testing that we can do, we think we can guide you to 8% better. You know, whatever, right? Uhm, and I'm really excited to be able to do that, but it's going to take...


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're, we're, we're still, we're still learning a lot. Uhm, there's, there's, there's growing pains, right? It's a, it's a big team and it's growing. Uhm, and we're gaining experience and uhm,


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[Assistant] We're smoothing out our communication and our workflows, but these things are not things that happen overnight, as I think we've all, uh, observed, and we're gonna get there, but we need a little bit more time.


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[Assistant] Well thankfully, we aren't a gigantic ISP, so it's not our problem. I think...


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[Assistant] Well no, that's simple because we store the vast majority of our assets on our local network, right? So if you need to edit a video,


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[Assistant] You're gonna have everything that you need on the local network, which you don't need internet to access. And then what you would probably do is you would create placeholders for assets that you'll just go get later and put markers on your timeline. That's how the video editors would work.


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[Assistant] The writers would just have to make, put placeholders in their scripts for things that they're gonna have to validate later or figure out later. No, this is, this is absolutely something that we could work around and have worked around. Uh, we've even uploaded, we've even edited and uploaded that day's video.


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[Assistant] The big one is getting the labs website launched, uhm, getting, getting content out, taking advantage of all this testing that we're gonna be doing, uhm,


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[Assistant] I, I wanna see LTT move towards, you know, more projects, uhm, and, and less just, you know, reviews of products. Uhm, but, at the same time,


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[Assistant] So, so do those better, but also do a little bit more back to basics product reviews. So right now we do a lot of kind of in between.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I want to have kind of a clearer split where, where a big portion of the content is these like projects, extreme, uhm, and ultimate tech upgrades and stuff like that. And then the other side is some of the more just like back to basics reviews of products that, uhm, that people want to hear about. And I think that one of the struggles we've had is that,


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[Assistant] There's just not as much exciting innovation in the verticals that we have traditionally participated in. Like, we used to be able to rely on a GPU launch for millions of views, and now with, you know, AMD and Nvidia competing with each other to see who can release the biggest turd.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's gotten very challenging, right? And I think you see this not just with us, but with other PC technology-centric channels that are either kind of...


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[Assistant] Steadily getting about the same views they always did or even declining as the, the PC gaming, uh, hardware industry gets more stagnant and more boring, right? So uhm, you know, we've got to figure out a way to, to continue to


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[Assistant] The development is happening and learn to get into that because you can't just rely on power supplies to stay interesting forever. I mean, I think a perfect example of a category that has really had its ups and downs over the last ten years is displays.


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[Assistant] Right? When we first got into this, it was all about G-Sync, uh, so variable refresh rate and, um, and high refresh rate. And then it was really boring for a bit.


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[Assistant] And then, ultra wide. It was like, oh, we've got, man, we've got these new form factors that totally change immersiveness. And then, and then they were, oh man, then like the next release, they were curved all of a sudden. It was like, whoa, curved monitors. And then, ah, no.


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[Assistant] Just a barren landscape. Wasteland. For years. And then OLED hit the scene, and it was like, game changing, and wow, now refresh rates are going to 240, 480 Hz, it's crazy.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, I, I think that this generation, the 2023 refreshed TVs, are probably the least excited that I've seen people about a TV release in the last three or four years.


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[Assistant] So it's just been, it's been kind of all over the place in the, in the TV industry. So if we were at their mercy, then our viewership and our success as a company would go up and down like that. But we can't do that. We've got to be, we've got to be looking for, you know, what people are interested in, whether they're buying it or not. Honestly, it's kind of irrelevant to me. I'm not here to sell you anything, other than from lttstore.com. Uhm, I'm-


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[Assistant] No, it's not even a good fidget toy. Uhm, it's, it's, uh, it's terrible. Uh, the, the fingerprint sensor works maybe 20% of the time. Uh, half the time I go to wake it, I go to just like press the button, it just doesn't wake, I have to press it like three times, like it's just, it's a piece of shit, man, I don't know what to tell you.


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[Assistant] No offense, James, they're not even in a similar weight class. James is like my size. Uhm, sorry, James. Uh, as for, as for the earrings, I don't know, they're just, they're, they're...


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[Assistant] Like, like these exact hoops and the one stud that I have, I've had for almost the entire time I've known Yvonne, so like 15 years or something like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at this point, they kinda just feel like part of my body. I don't really think about them. They definitely took a lot more criticism in the early days of the channel. Like, ooh, what are you, gay, cause you have earrings? Like, A.


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[Assistant] And B, oh my god, who cares? Like, jeez, right? But I, for those of you, for the Zoomers out there, right, it was a different, it was a different era. Uhm, that, that, that was what passed for, I don't know, humor, I guess? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, and to be clear, it's not that I'm offended by being called gay. I don't care. I don't think that's a problem. I'm not. I just happen to not be. I just think it's really stupid to look at a piercing and, anyway, it doesn't matter. The point is, they're there, uhm,


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[Assistant] They don't care, get used to it. Sorry, what am I saying? Um, one of them is actually stuck. One of them is fused. Uh, so this stud does not come off anymore. I did actually try to remove it once because, um, I forget what it's made of. I think it's gold. And, uh, my daughter's, um,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I forget what it's called, pin, I forget what it's called, but the, the, the shaft part. I need one that had a longer one so that it wouldn't stick against one side and get all, get all goopy. And I tried to take mine out and I actually could not with pliers on both sides.


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[Assistant] Like I couldn't, it seems to be fused in some way. So maybe it's not made of gold, in which case it's maybe good that I never put it in her ear, but uhm, I ended up having to find something else. So that one doesn't come out, so that's, that's part of it at least. I'd have to cut it off.


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[Assistant] That's not where I would have gone with this. It's what you do with your computer. Well maybe not your computer, my computer.


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[Assistant] I actually had an AMD driver crash recently. I updated my Radeon drivers and I haven't had another one, but uh, man, having some second thoughts about my AMD challenge conclusion. Anyway.


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[Assistant] I have no idea how my kids' generation is gonna live in Vancouver with the housing affordability issues that we have here. I have no idea what the job market is gonna look like when these kids start looking for work. And we're at the point now where


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[Assistant] My eldest is what? Somewhere between 5 and 10 years from joining the workforce. Like 5 and 15.


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[Assistant] Like it's, this is not some far distant future thing that I'm considering, but the problem is that it's enough in the future that we could see significant progression in AI to the point where


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[Assistant] Most of the really negative feedback on this clip, which seems to be far and away the best viewed video on this channel, that is wild. Four million dollars on- four million dollars, no, no. Four million views on a, like, piece of the land show is


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[Assistant] Pretty unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, that's like way, way far and away the best performer. Most of them are just people misunderstanding the situation, which is pretty typical, right? Like, anger.


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[Assistant] To me, uhm, and I don't mean, you know, righteous fury. I mean just like, like, like, like, like just anger, uhm, often comes from a place of, of ignorance or, or an inability to fully understand the situation because, uhm, almost, it's


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[Assistant] Unless it's precipitated by someone else's utterly irrational behaviour, right, there's almost never no reason for something, and if you take the time to understand it, it can, it can change the way you feel about it, is at least sort of my philosophy on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and a lot of, uhm, a lot of people's anger at this clip about me talking, describing being angry, uhm,


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[Assistant] comes from a place of not understanding what happened.


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[Assistant] They snuck into my house and damaged my floor as part of making a video.


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[Assistant] Um, so, so I, I, yeah, I mean, yeah, there's some controversy about the video, but most of it is just people who don't pay attention.


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[Assistant] Being people who don't pay attention and just getting angry. I guess I should clarify the anger thing a little bit again as well because there are lots of reasons to be legitimately angry about, you know, the state of the world even.


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[Assistant] But if you're just angry all the time, I think a lot of that can come from not taking the time to, to listen and fully understand the situation. Uhm, and I think we see a lot of those personality types under a video like that clip where, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's obvious that like, okay, a typical, a typical retention curve for a video has about half of the people gone by the end of it. Which means that probably about a quarter of them are gone by, you know, the first minute or two.


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[Assistant] So that should give you some idea. That won't prevent people from commenting, but that should give you some idea how much of the actual video has been watched by, you know, a huge portion of the, the YouTube community, right? So,


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[Assistant] This ended up kind of rambly. The point is, uh, I'm over it. I'm not bothered by it. But yeah, people are angry because they don't take the time to properly understand, but that's, that's their problem. That's, that's not my problem anymore. And I've talked about this before on the show, but when I see that kind of stuff, like the, uh,


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[Assistant] Colossally stupid takes, uh, or, or takes that are obviously based on not paying attention to the content at all. I'm shadow panning them. I just, I don't have room in my brain for...


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[Assistant] Nonsense. Uhm, and, and that's not to say that, you know, if someone says something critical, they're gonna get shadowbanned. That's not the case at all. It's if someone says something that is just so phenomenally stupid that it makes me lose my few functioning brain cells. Uhm, I'm, I'm just, I'm not gonna expose myself to it again. It just doesn't make any sense.


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[Assistant] So if you were to post something like, uh, you know, maybe you shouldn't be angry at them, you know, if you're exploiting them instead of hiring a professional to move your furniture.


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[Assistant] Your shadow band. Like that's not what happened at all. And if you had taken the time to pay attention at all, you'd know that. So you just, you lost, you lost being heard privileges. Sorry. And no one's gonna miss you because that's really stupid. I'm doing everybody a favor.


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[Assistant] It was much worse under the bed than like what's peeking out in front of it.


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[Assistant] No, that's not the issue. That's not like an antitrust problem. Uhm. No.


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[Assistant] I wanted to do a little, uh, I wanted to do a lighter that was a butt that had a flame come out of it and you could light candles with it. And then if you pressed a different button, it would puff air out the butt and put out the candle.


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[Assistant] What? I don't really do the collector's edition thing, to be honest with you. I know Luke does a little bit, like you just, oh, you're not wearing that watch anymore. I guess you're over it.


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[Assistant] I could see James being a bit cult leader-y. He might be my rival.


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[Assistant] I think Luke, don't take this the wrong way, but I think that...


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[Assistant] You wouldn't want to be in charge. You would prefer to be the enforcer of...


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[Assistant] Of the, of the person in power. I think, I think you're more of a defender.


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[Assistant] Than a, than a, like just by, by nature. And like, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.


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[Assistant] But I think, I think you would be right hand, Luke, regardless of who the leader is, you would be putting yourself in a position where- Hold on, hold on.


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[Assistant] If you felt that their leadership was a path to better order and a, and a better overall situation for everyone, then you would do basically anything to put yourself between them in danger. That's your role.


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[Assistant] Dan I imagine is more like Cypher from The Matrix.


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[Assistant] Okay. Continue. Uh, you know, he's, you know, super, super technical, skilled, uh, sells you out at a moment's notice.


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[Assistant] I uh, yeaah, I feel like we could talk about this for an hour, but uhm, who would hold on to civilized values? I feel like Yvonne would be a huge pusher for civilized values.


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[Assistant] But I think at a point, she would accept that we have to do what it takes to get things done. So who would really hold on, hold on?


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[Assistant] Oh, it's Wild West, man. It's, it is and is going to be absolutely nuts for the next, like, at least five years. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I think the upheaval that we saw today with Sam Altman getting ousted from OpenAI is just the beginning of, not even, not the beginning, but I think is just


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[Assistant] A small fraction of the kind of infighting and chaos that we're gonna see in this space. It's a land grab right now, right? There's no rules at the end of the day. Uhm, and I think yeaah, it's gonna be a wild time, man. Super, super wild, because people can't even agree on the basics of whether we should build AI or not. Right now.


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[Assistant] How can you expect consensus and everybody marching in the same direction when we don't even know if we should march?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're still, we're still working on it. We've had some challenges with the supplier. I might as well just give you guys the update.


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[Assistant] Have completed part of the production process across the entire like 160,000 unit order or whatever it is.


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[Assistant] And they want more payment, but what we had agreed to was that they would take parts of it fully to completion and then we would give them more and then they would fully complete and fully complete and we would pay in installments that way. And so we are pretty upset about the current situation because they are demanding more money.


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[Assistant] And they haven't actually delivered anything yet, which was the deal. Uhm, so...


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[Assistant] I just found this out recently that that's where it's kind of stalled at right now and we are doing our absolute best to get it moving forward as quickly as we can.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh, I don't see why not. I mean, well, I guess it depends what kind of, uh, like, insane Black Friday we have. I've seen some of the deals that those guys are planning, but, uh, buh, buh, buh, uh, hm, yes, probably. Almost certainly.


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[Assistant] Like how, yeah, like today's going pretty nuts with all the stuff that we launched during the show. Uh, the RG Brokit, wow.


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[Assistant] Okay, can you guys like add some other stuff to your order with the ARG broken t-shirt? We're not making money on that, you guys. Jeez. It's outselling anything else on the store by like...


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[Assistant] Nick came in right before the show and was like, yeah, we can't do that. You, we couldn't do, we could do by this.


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[Assistant] Get a deal on another this, but we can't do buy this, get X price on this. Or buy anything, get price on this.


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[Assistant] But maybe the community will just throw me a bone here, and uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, order more than just lost leader shirts.


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[Assistant] Okay, maybe it was a miscommunication then. Again, back to what I was saying earlier about how the bigger an organization gets.


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[Assistant] Maybe I miscommunicated exactly the promo I wanted to run, it's possible the Creator Warehouse team miscommunicated to the development team, it's possible the development team miscommunicated to Luke just now, or like, probably not. But my point is that these breakdowns can happen anywhere in the chain, and I'm sure we'll get it sorted out, maybe in time for Black Friday.


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[Assistant] I missed that era of gaming because I had small children, but uh, Luke, feel free to talk about it.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I wouldn't be able to remember exactly which ones took the least amount of time, but what I will tell you is that you would be surprised, I think.


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[Assistant] Like sometimes we will put a ton of work into something and get a really poor response to it. And then in other cases we'll basically just throw something together and you guys absolutely love it. Uhm, I'm scrolling through right now. Trying to find examples of this. It's really, uhm, uhm. What was the question again? Ones we threw together?


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[Assistant] Okay, like here's one that was super high effort. The sponsor secret shopping that was not ultimately very well received for some legit reasons and for some that I think were just sort of, uhm, less legit.


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[Assistant] Uh, these are always super quick. Uh, oh, actually this one was less so because we had to actually get no, uh, people with notoriety to send us their setups in many cases. So there was a fair bit of digging and prep that went into this particular one. But when we just asked the community to tweet us stuff, that's relatively easy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, man, we put a fair bit of prep, even into our low effort stuff these days, like this we shot in a couple of hours, the trying pirate game consoles from AliExpress, but like, ploof, put a bunch of work into, you know, finding good ones, getting them ordered, getting them set up so that, you know, it was all ready for a smooth production. Uhm.


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[Assistant] This is relatively easy when we just buy something really cheap and crappy because no one's expecting it to be good anyway. So, you know, hey, if it is, then surprise, but we'll figure that out pretty quickly. And then if it's not good, then we just dunk on it for 23 minutes or whatever, right? So that's, that's pretty easy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, nothing is that easy anymore. Event coverage is pretty fast turnaround, but that's out of necessity, not because we want.


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[Assistant] Man, this was a frickin' ton of work. Build your own mechanical keyboard the right way, and it's now starting to get some legs, but it started out really slow.


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[Assistant] Updates. Just like, hey, I'm just telling you guys a thing. Those are pretty low effort, but they're high effort in terms of that you have to think about and find, you know, something to tell you all about.


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[Assistant] This one, ah, I was so disappointed that this one didn't perform better. These are hilarious. Bad sports team tech. You know, this would be such a great stream format, just going through and doing like a watch together, uhm, but like making you guys all click on it at the same time. I've actually thought about this a lot of times, like could I game the algorithm a little bit if I had


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[Assistant] Three thousand people watching alongside me. I'm like, okay, let's all click it right now. Okay, we're watching and I'm gonna do director's commentary in your one ear while you listen to the video in the other ear. And, uh, so like these old videos would get this boost and would they get like an algorithmic boost?


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[Assistant] I want to try it at some point. I had not talked about it publicly because I was like, ooh, my devious plan, but I don't know, maybe somebody's done that before anyway. Like a, like a watch together thing.


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[Assistant] The screen and Steam Deck screen and with the ally, it's all about the performance. But yes, I am seriously, uh, my next game that I play is going to be Octopath Traveler and I am seriously considering


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[Assistant] Ditching the ally and going with the steamed echo lead. The screen is just so good and the battery life is very enticing.


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[Assistant] I have nothing to contribute to that, so I guess we might have to move on.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know that Top Gear stuff is too short. Uh, I would definitely be down to do, you know, bigger, grander projects, but I gotta be honest with you guys, it's not really the way we're built. You know, that's how someone like a Mark Rober runs things. It's like every, every video is, is like,


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[Assistant] Going for the grand slam, right? Uhm, whereas we're more of like, hey, let's figure out how to consistently hit line drive singles. Uhm, and if we can occasionally knock it out of the park, then that's great. Uhm, but we're more about


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[Assistant] More videos, more frequently, uhm, giving you your, you know, your daily dose of tech, and less about, you know, spending a month.


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[Assistant] Polishing one killer concept video and then trying to get 25, 35, 50 million views on it. It's just, it's a different approach.


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[Assistant] One of my favorites was the time I rigged up a squirt gun. I like taped it to the wall and then I set up a trip wire so that when my sister opened up the door, it would pull on the trigger and blast her. It's pretty funny.


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[Assistant] Hey, I also just love sneaking up on Yvonne. It's just really funny.


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[Assistant] Uh, one of my favorites, I mean, I played through Chained Echoes recently, I played through Sea of Stars recently, uh, Chained Echoes was definitely my favorite of the two, even if the story got a little bit off the rails.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna, I don't wanna spoil anything, so plug your ears for the next 10 seconds if you were planning to play Chained Echoes. It's a pretty mild spoiler, but basically just like...


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[Assistant] Every other, every other cutscene, there's like, but then they were betrayed!


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[Assistant] Not, not quite exactly that, but it's just that kind of... PLOT TWIST!


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[Assistant] Okay, it's safe to come back. Uhm, so I found that kind of frustrating, but I think my favorite one in terms of the best balance of gameplay story, uh,


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[Assistant] Design, uhm, character development. I loved CrossCode. Radical Fish is working on something new. I will pre-order it, even though I always say don't pre-order. I just, I just love that game so much that I will just give them more money. I don't really care. Uhm, and it's, it's such a good game. It's, it's just so worth it.


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[Assistant] Well, that's a whole thing, though, with certification. In fact, there was a big thing recently where, uh, there was, like, fraudulent certifications on a bunch of airline parts, and they're in the process of tracking down where the heck all these things ended up. That, that's happening, like, right now. I think when it comes to airplane parts, uhm,


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[Assistant] Things get a little bit more complicated. No, I don't actually want Joe Technician repairing the Jesus Nut on a helicopter. Uhm, I want certifications, uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's actually what it's called, that's just what Neighbor Steve used to call it.


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[Assistant] Because if there's anything wrong with it, you better pray to Jesus, was what he, how he explained it to me. I'm gonna see if that's just a Steve thing.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's a slang term for the main rotor retaining nut or mast nut that holds the main rotor to the mast of some helicopters.


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[Assistant] Looked, this is again something that I'm really excited for the lab to be able to help us do is like dig through these deep product stacks aside from the, you know, the ones that get seeded to press and find these diamonds in the rough. This thing looks really interesting. It's got two P cores and then it's, I forget, I looked at it a second ago, but it's either six or eight E cores.


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[Assistant] So, for certain types of games, it might actually be kind of killer, like kind of a great value, if you don't need more than two performance cores, uhm, you know, single player games, older AAA, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't know man, I, uh, it's, it seems super cool, but it also definitely is going to have many applications today where it underperforms, and I think that's probably why you don't see many configurations like that. Back to your question.


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[Assistant] There's huge differences in hardware now. Not just hardware, the software. They are, they are as different as I think two devices could be while existing in the exact same category. If you kinda get what I mean.


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[Assistant] It's like, they are to me what a, uh, you know, a sports car and a pickup truck are. Like, they're just...


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[Assistant] Sure, they both roll on four wheels, but they are nothing alike. Uhm, you know, the Steam Deck, it's Linux.


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[Assistant] It's a console, it's a very console appliance-like experience. Instant sleep, instant wake, uhm, all that kind of stuff, right? It's got the trackpad so you can play mouse games if you really want to on it. It has, now, the far better screen, but...


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[Assistant] It comes with limitations, like the fact that it can only run


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[Assistant] Windows, it's freakin' Windows, right? Uhm, it's more powerful, but it doesn't have as good of a screen, but also the screen is higher resolution, actually, and...


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[Assistant] And now that they're priced so similarly, I saw some Black Friday deals that are going up already on the ally. I'm looking at it going like, man, you just gotta, you gotta research.


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[Assistant] You gotta read, you gotta look, you gotta figure out what's important to you and, and, and go for it, cause Steam Deck has better battery life, but the, but the ally is more compact. Like, I like carrying the ally better than the Steam Deck. It's really bulky, right? It's really tough.


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[Assistant] I think that's something that we could do a better job of on short circuit. It's not the kind of thing that we would do on LTT, but uhm, we, I talked to, I talked to Bell today, he's the channel manager for that, and we were just kind of chatting about, like, what can we do to improve our product mix over there and try and, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't know that you'll see a bunch of doc reviews all of a sudden, but it's definitely something that's gonna be on our radar.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know what? I, that was a long time ago. Was that pre-reboot? Cause I loved the reboot. And I liked watching Next Generation with my dad when I was a kid, but I found it pretty boring compared to lightsabers and blasters. There's a lot of politics in Star Trek that is not that interesting to a kid. But as an adult, I actually...


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[Assistant] Well, part of it is that Star Wars has gotten a lot worse. Uhm, as an, as an adult, I, I have no problem with Star Trek whatsoever. I just didn't get into it as a kid, so I think you're just not seeing the, uhm, nostalgia glasses.


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[Assistant] Nick messaged me, he's like, yup, that was on me. I was so focused on trying to do it automatically when you add to cart, that I forgot we could do it via discount code. End of Friday brain.


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[Assistant] That was really good. I don't know what you're talking about that happens after the time mechanism thing that's better. I actually thought that that was the highlight of the game.


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[Assistant] I think I lost the plot there a little bit then, because I was still just going through the level, thinking I, I, first I thought the pistol was gonna run out of ammo at some point, or like, uh, like I just, like I was still, I was still,


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[Assistant] They put you in this, like, survival mindset. You, you have, you have a, you have one pistol. You can either use it on him or you can use it on you. Like, I, I, maybe I just got the wrong vibe from it.


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[Assistant] Not bread? I wouldn't describe that as a smash hit. I mean, we moved some bread.


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[Assistant] 100%. That wouldn't have been a surprise though, Dan, that's not the question. Would have been a surprise to Nick. That would have been an obvious, obvious smash hit.


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[Assistant] I'm loading up four years of data, so give the, uh, give the poor Shopify servers a second here.


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[Assistant] Okay, Shopify. Yeah, the, I would say the biggest


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[Assistant] Now there's a couple, uh, the short circuit, uh, long sleeve that I tried to cancel and then we ended up selling, uh,


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[Assistant] The long sleeve, uh, like, like, uh, long sleeve t-shirt, whatever, whatever that is. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I would say the biggest surprise for me was the towel.


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[Assistant] We move thousands and thousands of towels.


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[Assistant] We don't promote them. We never talk about them. I'd say out of all the products on the site, they are one of the least unique.


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[Assistant] Uh, compared to other things of that nature.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, the thing we did differently with the towel is the same thing that we did with our desk pads, where it's the same price no matter what size, so obviously people really like the huge towels. So I guess they're like, they're a pretty good value in everything, but you know, so is Value Village, right? Like you could, you can get a towel cheaper if you really want. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But people buy the crap out of the towel, and I just, uh, I don't quite understand it. I keep, I keep bringing this up internally, like, hey guys,


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[Assistant] Where's our next, when's our next towel? You know, just that, like, thing that lowkey everybody needs, but, uh, we don't really have to do anything to sell it. We just source a decent towel, techify it a little, and like,


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[Assistant] Okay, that's just a small towel, Dan. You gotta think a little bit outside the box here, man. Help me out. Okay, that's enough, okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh, I, I wasn't even aware that they were gone, uhm, I could, I can definitely, uh, Dan, do you actually mind, uhm, forwarding this one to the design team, maybe to Sarah?


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[Assistant] And then, yeah, maybe we'll bring those back, because I hadn't int- a lot of the pin drops are meant to be limited edition. I didn't think the keyboard ones in the various colorways were necessarily meant to be as limited.


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[Assistant] Oh, I think those were actually included with that particular cooler. Don't quote me on that. Uhm, but tell you what, if you tweet at me with the screenshot of that, I will try to remember to look at it sometime this weekend. Not at Linus Tech, at Linus D. Sebastian.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, Apple beat us to the punch. If, you know, anyone's gonna have an even more overpriced premium microfiber cloth, it's gonna be Apple, so we've kind of figured, now they stole our thunder. No, that's not actually, that's not actually why I, yeah, yeah, we should probably do it at some point.


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[Assistant] But he said, he said the words, comb it with a brick. I immediately challenged him to explain what he meant, and I don't remember his response being very coherent.


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[Assistant] Comet with a brick. I still to this day have no idea what the fuck you were talking about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we worked with them on a sponsored thing once, but as long as they keep behaving like this, that's not gonna happen again. And their excuse is they are cutting off access because they have something better in the works and it's like, no.


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[Assistant] You launch the better thing and you let people work with the kind of kludgy thing for now if they want to. Put warnings in front of it, I don't care. But don't just cut it off, it's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Honestly, we, we do, it's, it's less of, uhm, it's less of like, a decision we make, that we're not gonna do anything like that before, or we're gonna move in this direction.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, we, uh, we often try to make those kinds of decisions. Like, I remember seeing the success of Scrapyard Wars way back in the day, especially driving subscriptions to Flowplain and thinking, oh, we need to do way more serialized content. But, it's not that simple. You can't decide.


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[Assistant] What you, what end product you need and then just hope you have a creative spark that gets you there. That's how you end up with...


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[Assistant] Crapy vibe to it, so there are more funds.


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[Assistant] And we basically just go through what went well this week, what went poorly. I usually don't get to attend them because they take place during WAN Show at the end of the week. Uhm, but I, uh, because Luke was off-site and because I wasn't actually shooting anything in the lead-up to WAN Show, I got to sit in on part of one today.


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[Assistant] And it's really cool, just kinda talking about things that went well, things that didn't go as well, and uhm, you know, working together to...


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[Assistant] You know, keep making better content. I mean, we definitely, uh, it's, it's no secret that we have taken a bit of a hit to viewership ever since the shutdown. I'm not gonna deny that. But what I'm really proud of is the way that the team is pulling together to make the very best content that we can and how swift.


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[Assistant] That recovery has been, uhm, you know, if you look at, oh, obviously you guys don't have access to the same dashboard that I do, so your view's not gonna be quite as granular, but once this month is over, uhm, you're gonna see there's gonna be this line, and then it's gonna go like this, and then it's gonna go boom, boom, boom, like we are...


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[Assistant] Uh, we're, we're back, baby. I mean, the team is, um, it's incredible. I say it all the time, but world-class and, um.


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[Assistant] It's not the kind of thing that I could do by myself, so it was, it was really cool watching that creative process today, and uhm.


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[Assistant] Even though I've seen a lot of the results of it, you're just sort of seeing how the sausage was made even internally here. Uhm, really neat.


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[Assistant] That's hilarious, I forgot about that. I, uh, I wanted to do a shirt made entirely of microfiber. It's a really weird garment, I actually really like it.


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[Assistant] Oh, no, no, but it's, it's, it only has one more textured side and then it has like, uh, like a less textured side. So I think, I think the idea is to wear it microfiber side out. I don't remember.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say you guys have somewhere to be, but let's face it. You hang out with us every Friday, which we love, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Do you have Ralphs? Yeah, where's your Payless shoes?


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[Assistant] I mean, they had a- I'm not in that world. Some people are mad at them, yeah.


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[Assistant] People are mad at them. He still has credentials though. Don't shout out. Listen.


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[Assistant] So the only influencer product I've ever bought in my life is Linus' screwdriver and this genuinely is such an awesome screwdriver. What's so good about it?


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[Assistant] Just really well made. It's a ratchet screwdriver, so.


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[Assistant] This man is selling screwdrivers. He's selling screwdrivers. And then in the bottom...


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, uh, sure, why not. Uh, the CEO of a alleged rugpull game is suing Goatmoth, a creator that we've mentioned a couple times on Wanshow in the past for his exposes of cheating in Tarkov.


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[Assistant] So that'll be a little spicy. We'll talk about that in a moment. And the next one, I can't decide between the end of GiphyCat and the fact that apparently emojis can quite literally be legally binding. You picked those over EDM.


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[Assistant] Right into Threads or right into Google. Oooh. I think you can actually just choose this time. Yeaah. Cause the title is kinda both.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which one do you wanna do? Uuuh. You said you had a lot to say about threads. I d- I just have some claims to make. Okay, you know what? Some- some gotchas.


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[Assistant] Technically, yes. It was a very long time ago, but yes.


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[Assistant] And to defend that assumption, there are players that have done that for advertisements that are not Google ads. Right. They have the 5 second skip, it's in the same spot, the box looks almost identical. And I guarantee you it's not a TrueView ad. So like that was a decent assumption.


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[Assistant] Which you might not actually necessarily care about, but if this goes through legal action, and it's true that 70- up to 75% of these were screwed,


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[Assistant] That might impact YouTube, or uh, Google in an actually very significant way. Uhm, which-


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[Assistant] Really? Sorry. Because if you put these ads on these random websites where they're like out of the corner and then you're selling like the effectiveness of these ads versus YouTube ads, I feel like they would be more effective when they're on YouTube.


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[Assistant] So I feel like they're taking more volume, but the effectiveness is probably going down, probably comes out in the wash as a positive for them, but YouTube might actually do better if you're able to buy an ad that was specifically only on YouTube. Interesting.


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[Assistant] By the way, small update, seems to at least somewhat be working. There's currently 6.4 thousand on YouTube watching Wayne.


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[Assistant] I wonder how much of this is, like, text-based websites abusing how the, like, player works and stuff like that to try to, like, trick it into giving them more ads. Cause that is, we've seen that strategy for years.


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[Assistant] Like, they're like, oh, we, we blocked 143,000 websites, like maybe you should do more.


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[Assistant] Like that website sounds like a lot in a vacuum, or sorry, that amount of website sounds like a lot in a vacuum, but it might not actually be that much.


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[Assistant] Just the big one at the bottom? Yep. All rumor, Kingpin still with EVGA, still focused on other product lines, and Taiwan office still open, here to support our customers.


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[Assistant] He might have also interpreted as like, what is your next project within this team? Cause if I remember correctly, he like, looks at the other guy and says, nothing. I don't remember. I don't have it right in front of me, I don't know.


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[Assistant] So the only things they have in stock on their website are B-stock. There is B-stock. But it's only B-stock.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no motherboards. Outside of B-stock, no motherboards and no power supplies in stock at all? Is a little fishy.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Threads has been launched. Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads has reportedly accumulated over 30 million users within its first 24 hours. The app is not entirely polished and lacks support for both emojis and hashtags. Quick update to that number, it's apparently over 78 million now. Cool.


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[Assistant] There is no dedicated chronological following feed, though one is planned. I'm sure hashtags and emojis will be as well. The app requires an Instagram account to join and offers new users the option to follow everyone they already follow on Instagram.


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[Assistant] There is currently no method of deleting the threads account without also deleting the attached Instagram account, though they can be independently deactivated. Whatever that means.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't fully know. I think it means your data's not gone, but like...


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[Assistant] You can't log into it anymore? I don't know. This may violate a consent decree placed by Meta by the FCC because it misleads the user about the degree to which they can control their own data.


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[Assistant] I just wanna say, I've been pointing out for a long time I don't think it would be that hard to make a Twitter competitor. And people keep on telling me that I'm nuts. They've only been working on this since like January.


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[Assistant] I think I uploaded a picture to Instagram like three years ago and I was on a hike and it was just a picture of the burrito that I was eating while I was on the hike.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's uhm, I-I think when I-I jumped on it, cause why not? I was interested. I wanted to mostly just reserve my username. I haven't thre-threaded anything?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's terrible. I've never actually said that out loud before. That sounds horrible. Sounds like hair removal.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, I haven't threaded anything yet, but, uh, the, the follow everyone you follow on Instagram thing was...


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[Assistant] Smart. Because it immediately makes your, your threads experience feel vibrant. Because a bunch of these people that you probably follow on Instagram are already on there. So instead of like, oh I'm gonna follow the like, few people that I don't care about that Twitter makes me follow when I sign up. Uhm, it's like, oh these are people that I already know.


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[Assistant] And hey look, they're already on threads. There's actually stuff happening here. One of the big problems that I think a lot of the...


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[Assistant] Other like Twitter clones that have popped up have, is that it just feels dead when you show up. I also noticed at least when I started using it, I don't know if this has changed or not yet, because it sounds like a decent amount has already literally changed, but they were hiding certain metrics.


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[Assistant] Which probably made sense in the first, like, few hours. Now that they have 70 million users, maybe they need to start making that stuff more, more public. But you couldn't see, like, how many people liked something.


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[Assistant] But you could see the people responding to it and stuff, which if people are responding to things, which they're likely to do on a new platform, because they're actively trying to use the new platform, it's gonna make it feel a little bit more active than it might actually be.


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[Assistant] And I think that was a good way to get people into like, yeah, no, this is real, this is real, things are happening, this is okay, this is good. Uh, yeaah. Apparently MrBeast has more followers on there than Zuckerberg.


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[Assistant] MrBeast is doing a Tesla giveaway on threads. Are you sure? That's not a bot.


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[Assistant] I don't know, what does official mean? Apparently we didn't have an official account on Instagram.


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[Assistant] You mean like a verified account? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. Oh, okay. So I, they're working on it, I guess. Okay. We should have official accounts, except for when you have to pay for them, and then we shouldn't have official accounts.


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[Assistant] Someone pointed out that when you go to sharing, you can tweet threads.


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[Assistant] Oh really? Which looks really weird, cause now there's like a tweet button in threads, which is like


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[Assistant] That pulls my mind. That's happening right now. Okay. People are asking, what is Threads? Threads is Instagram, or Metas, or Facebooks, whatever, response to Twitter, effectively. It is their version of Twitter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they've been working on it since January and now it's released. That's how you know something was really, really hard.


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[Assistant] Which I, I feel like my gut is telling me was a, was a choice for the initial launch so that it wasn't the focus. Right, okay.


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[Assistant] I feel like how much web browsing I do in a browser on a desktop is probably the like boomerist thing about me.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I just, I, I just, I want the website to be the best version. But, for a lot of the like, hip, young, you know, apps and experiences and products and whatever, there like, isn't even a website, or like, you were just talking about it's just a link to the app store, or it's an afterthought, like Instagram's currently is, or something like that, it's just like, oh man, like,


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[Assistant] Ugh. Oh well. Websites work better. I mean, sure, when they do, they don't for everyone. Yep.


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[Assistant] I think threads will beat blue sky. I feel like right now I would be making a complete up in the air guess based on nothing to say whether it would be twitter or threads.


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[Assistant] Really? Yea. You think Twitter has a chance? I do.


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[Assistant] I- I do- I would absolutely not at all be surprised if Threads just completely took their lunch either. Like I'm not- I'm not- I'm not really in any camp here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but threads is currently like, very lacking in features and stuff.


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[Assistant] I mean, they wouldn't have. Again, I'm going to say it again, it's not, it is not very complicated.


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[Assistant] If they ca- if they can build Instagram, they can build threads.


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[Assistant] This is, this is part of like non-competes and intellectual property though, so if they did use like, Twitter proprietary stuff. Sure, but clearly threads is not running Twitter code.


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[Assistant] And wouldn't need to. Uhm, yeaah, so like, I dunno, it's clearly a lash out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the only thing that doesn't bother me quite as much about it is that I am rather certain they were all losing their jobs anyways. I mean, that's fair enough. We talked in the early days before Elon bought Twitter about how insane Twitter was as a business, just burning literally billions of dollars a year. Forever.


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[Assistant] Like, it made no sense at all. So like, it was not gonna be sustainable. And the, the, the, the Reaper's coming for a lot of these types of companies that just make no money and have no plan to ever make any money and just lose tons of money. That was a thing for a really long time.


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[Assistant] But you're seeing, uh, you're seeing that kind of end, so I, yeah, I don't know. Makes me feel less bad.


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[Assistant] It still sucks that they're out of work, but I just, I don't think it's actually really that much different.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright then we're on the same page. But we've had dig and reddit forever, we've had twitter forever, like this, the knowledge around that type of tech.