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[Assistant] Whoa. They're using the hand control to move the light source. Oh, that's cool.


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[Assistant] And mocap data, so you don't have to look into the really fancy camera apparently. Uh, the models have drawn criticism for being trained on TikTok videos of


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[Assistant] Primarily girls dancing without their creator's consent.


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[Assistant] Magic Animate was partially developed by researchers from TikTok's parent company, ByteDance. Animate Anyone was developed by researchers from Alibaba Group.


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[Assistant] Discussion question, what kind of product slash feature slash experience do you think will bring generative AI fully into the mainstream?


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[Assistant] Um, yeah, I don't know. I, I question honestly a lot of how much content is currently out there that is generated by AI that people don't realize. Somebody linked me a, um,


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[Assistant] You know how there's, uh, lo-fi beats to relax and study to, and then there's like remixes by everybody? Yep. Um, somebody linked me one that was a Lord of the Rings one that like,


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[Assistant] It just has me questioning things, you know? I'm not certain.


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[Assistant] It might be generated. I don't know. I could be wrong. I don't necessarily think the image is. The image might be. But I kinda think the music is. Because there's parts that like,


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[Assistant] That was accused to be, very nice. That was accused to be totally fake. They just use TikTok videos to show what their AI can do.


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[Assistant] I don't know which part they're talking about, so I'm not certain. But yeah, it's, uh, things are getting weird. I don't think we know how mainstream things necessarily are yet because I don't think we know what all is actually generated by AI and what isn't.


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[Assistant] You know, I- What if it's like, kids, it's like, there is another way, but like, oh, kids at school share notes using AirDrop, or something.


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[Assistant] Cause you, he would have to inflict like some amount of maybe small, but some amount of societal change to get them to use whatever system he would prefer they use.


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[Assistant] Maybe help him like set up a better solution and then just his job is now to prove that it's better.


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[Assistant] You said you were on the WAN show, you did not say you were on speaker. You said you were on the WAN show.


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[Assistant] John did actually say hi Wanshow. Did he?


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah, I got him then. Yeah, I think he did. You said you're also on Wanshow and I think he said hi Wanshow. Boom roasted. I don't think- I still think you didn't technically say-


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[Assistant] So you both left some things up to inference. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Alright, Wancho After Dark? Uh, did we talk about Windows 10 for three more years? No, but I don't think we said we would. Okay, sick. Maybe we did. I don't think we did. It wasn't the first time.


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[Assistant] This happens all the time, just in case anyone's like, oooooh, that means Windows 11 sucks. That same thing happened with 8, same thing happened with 7, same thing happened with Vista. Windows 11 fanboy right here. Same thing happened with XP. I loved XP. I loved 7.


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[Assistant] I have seen clerks. I love clerks. I love clerks as well. Fanboys was alright.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was like, big Omega fan of Clerks and then watched fanboys and was like, okay.


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[Assistant] For years! A lot of the marketing stuff of HDR was around the brightness, the peak brightness.


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[Assistant] Have you watched Pirates of Sil-Silicon Valley? I haven't yet. That's funny cause that's gonna be so boring on that TV.


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[Assistant] It's just like, all takes place in like, ugly 80s offices. A lot of it's just offices and stuff. There is some, I mean, there's, there's some, there's some scenes in there with Bill Gates, like, when he gets arrested and stuff. Uhm, yeaah. That'll be outside, but I mean...


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[Assistant] It is very funny what work stuff, like, the other one won't know about. And I'm just like, what?


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[Assistant] I, I, I scoffed at it, but I'm thinking back and like, I mean, I talk about work stuff. Yeah. In those scenarios. And like, what's wrong with doing something you're passionate about and doing it together? Most couples- I just, I didn't even really like equate it as work stuff in my head. Cause I'm just, yeah, I'm talking about the things that were interesting or important to me.


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[Assistant] Not even the color. But that's what was more important to her. Cause she thought that part was more interesting. Exactly. It's not that she doesn't see it.


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[Assistant] I, I, this was a potential that I curated. I interpreted it more as like, would you ever give a talk? Not specifically a TED talk.


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[Assistant] I was doing potentials, what was that, sorry? How's the XTX going for you? Not good actually. Yeah, it's gotten worse.


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[Assistant] And now I've started having some pretty bad crashing problems. I had a full system crash one time. I had one situation where my driver crashed rapidly, like four times in a row and then locked my entire system. So it would, all my screens would go out, standard driver crash. It would come back. I'd be good for four or five seconds and it would happen again.


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[Assistant] And then I had to just power down my system, power it back up and then I was fine. Um, it seems to be having an issue.


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[Assistant] In specific locations? This one's been interesting to me.


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[Assistant] Like if I play a level, I'll driver crash in a specific room. And then for just like, I'm interested in things reasons, start the level over again, driver crash in the same room.


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[Assistant] Do it again, driver crash in the same room. Nothing different seems to be happening?


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[Assistant] In that specific room, different than any other room. Maybe there's something I can't see or I'm not noticing. I don't know. I mean, sometimes things are loaded in the background. Yep.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's something in the next room, yeaah, yeaah, I don't know. Uhm, or maybe it's something that's happening like behind a wall, I can't see it, or I don't know, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's been less good lately, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] But yeah, it was stable, like rock solid, no crashes from when we made the last video until probably a couple weeks ago.


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[Assistant] And that's been months of zero problems whatsoever, and then very much so within the last couple of weeks I've had a decent amount of crashes. Uhm, I don't know if it'll stay, maybe a driver update will come out and I'll be all good again, I'm not sure, but.


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[Assistant] There's three incomings, I guess. No, mine says 23 curated, but if there's, if we all just see one, I'm sure there's only one left. Oh shoot.


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[Assistant] A lot of the stuff is useless, um, if you have intelligent people on your team. So that's something to consider because I have never seen a single version of like work tracking that isn't every single person permanently sitting on a webcam, which is like,


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[Assistant] Um, and someone actually monitoring it all the time, which is also, um, that is actually


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[Assistant] Good. Like, there was one for a long time that was like, their mouse has to move every once in a while! And you'd just see videos of people that would set up, like, the rotating fans, and just a stick on the rotating fan that's taped to their mouse, and it just moves it back and forth, and they're like, they're working, for sure!


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[Assistant] I don't know. A lot of the, are these people working detection things in my opinion are mostly managers that don't want to do


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[Assistant] But, I don't know. Cause they're, they're all beatable. Every single one that I've ever seen is beatable. So, at that point, if you have an intelligent team and they really want to beat it, they'll just do that. So, what's the point? I don't know. Anyways.


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[Assistant] Sleep, as it were. What else we got? The Nintendo Switch 2, or whatever it might be named, has been demoed behind closed doors. And we'll talk about what we would want from it, later on in the show.


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[Assistant] I would, I haven't asked them if they see themselves this way, but I would look at like the Skyblivion project in that light. It's a huge team of modders.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So cool. And it's, it looks a lot better than like Skyrim did at launch. It looks like heavily modded, like, beautiful, perfection Skyrim, but it's oblivion. Like it's, it's, it's incredible. It's, it's fantastic.


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[Assistant] Oh, I think it's complicated. I, uhm. Well yeaah, it's definitely complicated. Thank you for that. I very much, uh. Professor, Professor Obvious. I like, I like the approach that a group like Skyblivion takes.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I think if someone wants to do a whole bunch of work, and they want to get paid for their work, it is their right to put their work up for sale, effectively. But I, I, I just, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I haven't taken a stance! Well it could, that's, that's I think one of my biggest concerns. It could really change the community very heavily.


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[Assistant] If someone wants to work on something, they completely deserve the right to be able to sell it. But I do think that some other things come into question at that point, because if you are doing this for profit,


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[Assistant] Here's gonna be a hyper controversial take that people are not gonna like. Why shouldn't Bethesda get some of that money?


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[Assistant] Not only that, but what isn't out right now but will be coming is the creation kit.


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[Assistant] Which is a series of modding tools. If you look at something like game engines, if you make a game using a game engine that is free,


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[Assistant] They will then take money from the sales of your game. Yes. This is a very normal thing. So if people are gonna stand and say they wanna sell mods, which again,


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[Assistant] If they want to, I think they should be able to. If they're gonna use tools like the creation kit or potentially even if they're just gonna mod the game at all.


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[Assistant] Does it make sense at that point for the company that released the game to make some of the money from it? I think maybe.


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[Assistant] And I think one of the beautiful parts of the modding community, and something that I've really enjoyed about it, and before people jump on me, I am a Nexus Mods subscriber, and I have donated to multiple modding projects, because I have thought it's decently important in the past, because I am gaining a massive amount of enjoyment from these mods. There's games that I will play with mods on them, that I would not play without it. So like, at that point in time,


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[Assistant] Rule 34. A number of times. Well, no, with, with Bethesda, actually, with, I think it was Oblivion, uh, modders found that you could take the, the underwear- This is gonna be a-


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[Assistant] You could take the underwear model, uh, you could take the underwear texture off of the character models and when you did that, there was graphical things under them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they were like, woah, what the heck, this is already in the game? And then that reached out to, I believe, ESRB, and they wanted to change the rating on the game, and like all these things happened. So this has happened to literally Bethesda.


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[Assistant] And, okay, so I'm seeing some people in chat being like, no, uh, Jayden actually brings up a really good point. I think you don't have to pay a car manufacturer if you mod your car. Uhm, I think my point here would be the tools that are being released by these companies in order to allow people to mod it. Uh, I think most, most games,


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[Assistant] A lot of games have modding happen to them that don't try to make that happen, if you know what I mean.


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[Assistant] I think it would be, yeaah, I guess what I would say is I don't think this should be like a requirement, but I think at that point that would also, that should also be seen as a reasonable approach. And another game could take an approach of going, look, we're gonna provide these modding tools and not charge for them.


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[Assistant] To try to be the more hyper mod friendly game. But I think the anger...


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[Assistant] If we're also cool with modders charging for it, I think both of those things should probably be okay.


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[Assistant] Ooh, this is gonna range an incredible amount depending on what game they play. So is this, is this how many mods you actually do typically run? Like, okay.


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[Assistant] Oh no, I think, I think you're not understanding my, my laughter. There's people that are gonna be at like 900. Yeah, I believe you. Okay.


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[Assistant] What if you're running 900 mods? Now you're playing, uh, Train Simulator.


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[Assistant] Maybe, yeaah, like this is effectively what you're talking about right now is why my first initial thing was like, yeaah, it's gonna completely change the whole landscape if it goes this way. Because you look at some of the games that are most well known, uhm,


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[Assistant] You probably should also be able to handle customer support and refunds and, uh, what if there's compatibility issues with other people's mods? Um, how do you deal with who has to deal with that problem? And the like drama and issues that that's gonna cause, um,


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[Assistant] There's lots of issues, I just, basically, my, I, I, ugh.


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[Assistant] And that is, to be clear, there are plenty of free mods that are absolutely astonishingly good and deserve to effectively equate.


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[Assistant] Conrad would know better than me, but it's a, it's a very, very significant amount more work, especially to make it scalable, like, there's, uh, yeaah. We're, cause we're not just making another version for someone, we're making a version that can be used by X amount of people, not one more person, so that in itself is like a huge issue.


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[Assistant] Oh god, yeaah. Astronomical. Uhm, it was like, honestly, not really that bad to make it just for us. Uhm, like near the end of the forum version, it was pretty good.


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[Assistant] I think it would end up being the whole 1% conversion rate. Yes, I know.


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[Assistant] Some people are gonna be doing paid mods now. Paid mods are here to stay. If I have to make a prediction, what I would say is it's just gonna split into two camps. Okay. Uhm, I think there's gonna be a paid modding camp.


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[Assistant] And I think there's going to be a free modding camp because I think there's a very significant community of people who.


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[Assistant] Uh, learn digital art or digital audio or development or whatever else through modding games. And they're still going to have a lot of fun with it. I think a lot of people still view these things as passion projects, uhm, or will be


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[Assistant] Creating a mod that they don't necessarily think they could sell. Maybe it's too minor, maybe it's one of those things that's gonna end up in the list of 900 mods, whatever. Uhm, but I do think you'll get, uhm,


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[Assistant] Some major mods that will cost money.


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[Assistant] Well no, I don't think that's it, because my principled stance isn't that someone doing work to develop something that's super cool should be not paid for. But this is not donation. That's not my stance.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I think, I think Denuvo would be a no for me.


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[Assistant] So maybe, maybe there's what I'll call an alternative route. Uhm, but, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. But you still own a Switch and you still buy the new games.


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[Assistant] The Dan Vail said, gamers are not passionate, we're stupid. It's like, okay, those aren't mutually exclusive. Yeah, they could be one or both. We can be both.


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[Assistant] People are mad about my, uh, I think the companies should be able to take some of the cut if they release mod tools thing. Oh really? Some people are mad about that. But I think, okay, so here's my


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[Assistant] Because the scenario that I was talking about was, uhm, mods made through, let's say creation kit comes out, because it's not out for Starfield yet, so this applies to none of the mods that are out currently.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, pardon? And I, I don't know. I think, I think Jayden's point about the, uhm, modding cars thing is pretty valid. But then I think the, the counterpoint is that Bethesda put work into making the creation kit specifically.


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[Assistant] So this is why I, I don't think, I think another way that I think this might be getting misconstrued is, I'm not saying that they should.


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[Assistant] What I'm more saying is that they- They're within their rights. They could and I would understand why. Right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it would often, for something like, uh, Skyfield, I think would be a...


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[Assistant] deeply unintelligent move. Starfield, but yes. Yeah, sorry.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I think it would be stupid because, uh, honestly, in the state that they released the games...


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[Assistant] For PC, it like needs mods. You'd like need UI mods, you'd need all this other stuff. Uhm, and I think the reason why Skyrim had the legs on it that it did was the modding community. So I think if they, if they,


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[Assistant] Screw up and they're like, no, we're, you, you like can't release free mods and we're taking kind of all the paid mods, something like that. I think that would be just incredibly stupid move.


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[Assistant] How many people do you think would skip changing the sliders though? Like if they put it like 80-20, 20% goes to creation kit, 80% goes to the mod creator. Depends.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I have one last bit. Another thing that I would say is that if you're, if you're mad about my, like, I think it could make sense for developers to take care of if they make the modding tools. Uh, there's this stuff that's already out there.


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[Assistant] Wow. Minecraft marketplace. It's interesting too, because I noticed this, but RareLoot, who I guess made SkyBlock, I haven't heard of these other ones, but SkyBlock, uhm, has 3 out of 4 on the What's Popular.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the splits are here. I know nothing about this at all. It might only work with one type of Minecraft, because I know there's a bunch of different types of Minecraft. I'm not a Minecraft person. I don't know. The way the pricing is done should be illegal. How it's obfuscated by coins? Yeah. Yeah, it's stupid. I hate it.


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[Assistant] And Conrad's saying, to be fair, Marketplace has some pretty great stuff. Yeaah. And, uh, there's already amazing mods for, uhm, Starfield.


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[Assistant] And there's mind-blowing, incredible, whole-game quality mods for Skyrim. And like, Skyblivions coming out, there's amazing things.


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[Assistant] Because people were mad about horse armor. People were also mad about how Roblox has been around at all. But I think, like, if this is something that the community wants to stand up against, uhm, you gotta do it loud. And now, uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] With that, with that person who made the DLSS mod making 40 grand in a month, I guarantee you.


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[Assistant] Whoa. You're gonna have other, you're gonna have people looking. There's gonna be parents whose kids have fun modding games that are now pushing them to try to make it a career instead of a passion, uh, which is straight up gonna make a bunch of things worse in a bunch of different ways.


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[Assistant] $40,000 for a graphical feature. That could be a microtransaction.


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[Assistant] From the company itself. Yeah. Yeah, that sucks. I didn't think about that till right now.


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[Assistant] I-I-the-the thing that's blowing my mind, I guess, is the settings behind a microtransaction. Because there's-there's already been content, for sure. But I don't-I don't think I've seen settings. Uuuh, okay.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Uh, other reports have corroborated that a Switch sequel is in the works and that key partners already have dev kits in hand. It's possible that a launch could come as early as the final quarter of 2024. Really? You think so? But Nintendo has made no public commitments at this point.


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[Assistant] Big, mean jerks. They don't care about gamers anymore.


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[Assistant] I, so I, I had a switch and then I modded it. So I replaced the backing with that like translucent purple, like retro Nintendo style stuff. I actually use it quite a bit back there. How dare you call the N64 retro, I hate you.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, but then my parents, like, stopped working. So I was like, I'll fix it, you can take mine while I do that. And then I brought it home and I turned it on. And it's never had a problem since. So I'm technically using my parents and they're technically using mine. But... I see. They function, so...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but in my opinion, that's a lot of what Nintendo stuff has been forever. Uhm, I don't think the actual quality of the console has like almost ever been a real selling point.


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[Assistant] Like the quality of the Wii was not really the selling point of the Wii.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. Uhm. But yeah, I think that's it. Cause like, honestly, I enjoyed-


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[Assistant] Oh, this is gonna be time for a spicy take. I enjoyed my Wii. I enjoyed the Wii U. I know, I know. More than I enjoyed the Switch. Because the Wii U is more fun to have people over and play games on. Yep, that's fair.


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[Assistant] There was like, and like, not that anyone played it, because no one bought a Wii U, uhm, but that Super Mario Bros. game that came out for Wii U, that had the fifth player, and the fifth player had their own screen on the built-in screen handheld, that had its own gameplay style and stuff, that was really fun.


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[Assistant] Really fun and not doable on any console that wasn't a Wii U. Because you had to have that handheld screen on that extra screen, on that extra controller, all that kind of stuff. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know. I don't know necessarily how the console would do it itself. Uhm, but I feel like the Wii U and the Wii itself both invited development of that style and the Switch invited single player experiences.


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[Assistant] With no, like you're saying, data behind it. I just would argue that that's true.


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[Assistant] I'm even going to go on a limb and say I would prefer 60 to 90 versus, uh, 90 to 150.


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[Assistant] I just care so much more about just, once you get to 90, I'm like pretty stoked on the experience, you know?


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[Assistant] This is, this is something that I wanted. I don't know how they would do it. Uhm, but I wanted some form of accelerator when you put it in a dock.


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[Assistant] I want there to be like a reason to dock it other than it goes on a TV screen and you can see all them pixels. Interesting.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it's cool, but I don't know. I hazard to assume people would put my face on their body. I mean, I'm gonna do it. Hey. Hey. Let's go.


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[Assistant] I appreciate the muscularity that she gave me, that's pretty fantastic.


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[Assistant] That's pretty funny. It makes sense, but it's just pretty funny. I love the design. Thank you. I appreciate it. I don't- I don't fully remember the context. Someone said, yeah, nuke Mars, nuke the moon, nuke everything. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'll save it. I'll save it. I'll save it. Um, I'm gonna lose the- Okay, fine. Just do it. Let's talk about it. We're going back to the Bethesda topic. Let's go. It has been brought to my attention, uh, by James Rine and with some- with some help, Handyman and some other people in the Floatplane Chat, that there's some interesting things in the Starfield Eula.


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[Assistant] Uh, one line, uh, specifically, I'm gonna do section 3, point E.


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[Assistant] Uh, these are limitations and restrictions. Exploit the game or any of its parts, including, with limitation, the game client for any commercial purpose. Including, without limitation, renting, leasing, or licensing the game to others. Including, without limitation, A, for gathering virtual currency?


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[Assistant] Uh, items or resources for sale outside the game or for performing in-game services in exchange for payment outside of the game.


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[Assistant] In that case it says EG Power Leveling, which I think comes from, uh, their online services. There's some really weird sections of this EULA that people have pointed out to me before. So these things are all forbidden.


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[Assistant] Those things stated, which... Why is there pizza here?


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[Assistant] I-I-I-I don't know. The gathering of virtual currency?


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[Assistant] This sounds like part that they took from the Elder Scrolls Online.


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[Assistant] And I don't think actually pertains to this particular mod, in my opinion. Got it. Uhm, but there are really, really weird sections, uhm, like this one, that is talking about, it specifically names power leveling, which is a thing that happens in like MMOs, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's other sections where it talks about how you can't use mods that would negatively impact other people's gameplay. And it's like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. This is a single player game. So there's a ton of stuff in the EULA that talks about multiplayer specific things. Right. So I wonder if there's like a DLC.


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[Assistant] Or something, or an expansion coming in the future that allows you to have companions on your ship that are your buddies. Cause why else would they have these limitations in the Yula?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, okay, so they, so they pulled it for Fallout 76, sure, but either way, it came from a game that is not a single-player game.


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[Assistant] We have another update, sorry. Uh, gonna keep doing it, but I think this one's pretty big. Uh, James Rine, again, uh, sent me a link to the creation kit for Skyrim.


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[Assistant] And the, like, one of the very first sections. I'll share my, yeaah, I'll share my screen. This is the top of it. The first actual section is restrictions on use.


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[Assistant] The editor is and shall remain the copyrighted property of Bethesda Softworks and or its designees.


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[Assistant] And you shall take no action inconsistent with such title or ownership, except as set forth in section five below, you may not cause or permit the sale or any other commercial distribution or commercial exploitation


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[Assistant] Uh, yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda. Whether on a, uh, pay per play basis or otherwise of any new materials without the express prior written consent, uh, of an authorized representative of Bethesda Softworks.


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[Assistant] That's pretty clear. This DLSS thing was not made using Creation Kit. There is no Creation Kit. Right. For Starfield yet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which again, I think maybe I worded it poorly or something earlier, but people were like, woah woah woah woah woah, these things weren't made with Creation Kit. I understand that, it's not out yet. Every single, uhm, Starfield mod currently out was not made with Creation Kit, cause Creation Kit is not out. Uhm, and we don't even have a release date for Creation Kit, so like, it might not even be soon.


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[Assistant] That I actually had use for. So, and what was it? Weird piece of tech? Was that it?


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[Assistant] Sure, why not? Silverstone makes some weird stuff. Uhm, mine's gonna be boring. I bought a tenkey. So it's, you know, you have tenkeyless keyboards. Well, it's the bit that most people chop off. I bought one of those in Taiwan that has blue switches made by Leopold. Uhm, and I was like, you know, I understand the theory.


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[Assistant] You have your tenkeyless keyboard, and then you have your mousing area.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was gonna say mouse pad, but a lot of your mouse pads will go on your keyboard. So just your mousing area, and then you have your 10 key on the other side, and that actually like works out really well. Uh, but like I don't know if I'll ever actually use this, and I still use that same 10 key now, and that was like 10 years ago.


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[Assistant] I thought of one and then I laughed at something in chat and then it's completely gone from my mind. I don't remember what it was at all.


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[Assistant] Man, I can't remember what it was. I don't think I'm gonna think of it, I think we should just move on. But, yea.


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[Assistant] So I think we need to do topics. Should we do this Google one? I'm not going to lie. I don't even like fully understand what's happening here just because I don't fully know the controls on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Got it, re- like this first one is extremely dark pattern.


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[Assistant] You gotta love that sum. Some creators didn't like the thumbs down feature.


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[Assistant] So we can remove it. We have basically infinite creators. So there will always be some group of people that think something and therefore we can do anything that we want.


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[Assistant] It looks like, like, almost like AI generated face.


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[Assistant] Yep. Oh geez. What's happening? Oh geez. Oh geez. The zoom. The zoom is not happy. Wow. We're gonna end it. Do you even compute? Well, the, the touch screen is-


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[Assistant] But yea, something about the thumbnails, uh, his face looks very edited. This is great.


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[Assistant] Can anyone's teeth actually be that white? That's kind of what I'm saying. Like it almost looks like a really really good Sims model. Can't deny that it works. Something is being edited there. Literally anywhere from a hundred


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[Assistant] And like, I've, I've, I've obviously seen him. So like, I'm not saying he looks like that. I'm just like, these- Nah, he looks like a pretty, pretty normal dude. Yeah, and then these, they just, something's different. I don't know what it is.


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[Assistant] I'm not exactly a rain cover connoisseur, but all the ones that I see are just black. That's cool that it has a graphic on it.


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[Assistant] I think some people are gonna misunderstand that because you didn't specify cogs every time it was just cogs and you said cost sometimes. Oh, cost is cogs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cogs is cost. So when he's talking about cost, he just means of the components that go into the thing. But then it has to be shipped, the people that put it in the box, there's a handling fee every single time they do that. For every single individual item. Like that's a fee that is changed.


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[Assistant] Ah, gotcha. Yeah, cause like super, super OG light bulbs, like filament light bulbs, would also just last for incredible amounts of time. And then they were engineered to be worse.


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[Assistant] All the fancy, this is supposed to be a farm, but they found some loophole to make it so they can just build their giant mansion on it and not farm at all. All those that have like 10 million lights all along the roofing are in the entire perimeter of the house. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] It's not like a spaceship taking off. It's a house you can relax. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, yeaah. Because some people are going to pay and then those people are just going to have such a significant leg up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, TrentonFloatplingChat, I would pirate the drivers. Let's go!


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[Assistant] I do think that could be the thing, if that happened, which I don't actually think it's going to, but if that happened, I think that would be the thing that would finally usher in the year of the Linux desktop.


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[Assistant] I don't know how well it's gonna sell, but I don't think that's because the design isn't. I just, I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's just it's in reference to such a niche thing.


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[Assistant] There's a ton of reasons why I really like my car and if you took it away and gave me an almost identical car, even like same model and everything, I would not like it as much.


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[Assistant] A VOD of a previously ran livestream is honestly very low.


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[Assistant] Hopefully I said those right. Well, fire at them, pretty sure, but yeah, anyways. Uh, this isn't the first time that Rockstar has been caught reselling pirated versions of their own games. Manhunt was first released on Steam in 2008, but for unclear reasons it was unable to run on Windows Vista, despite the fact that the original disc copy could.


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[Assistant] However, a fix could be implemented by changing a single value in its code, the same fix that would allow the cracked version of the game created by Razer 1911 to work on Vista.


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[Assistant] That was a common thing. That was very common, yep. Uh, but Rockstar also added additional


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[Assistant] Booby traps meant to make the experience of playing a cracked copy miserable.


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[Assistant] In Manhunt, these included, uh, locking nearly every door in the game, crashing whenever the player acquires a health pickup, and disabling the mouse and keyboard if a player manages to get five headshots. These booby traps were quickly subverted. That is pretty funny. Uhm, and the cracked version was released only three days after the official launch.


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[Assistant] I remember there was certain games where uhm, you could load the game.


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[Assistant] Simply renamed testapp.exe. Its hex codes also contain tags from Razer 1911. Most community patches to allow the Steam version of Manhunt to run still use this testapp executable as a base rather than try to fix Rockstar's own version.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can say what you want about people enabling piracy stuff. But. But.


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[Assistant] Very funny. I doubt anything's gonna come of this because of basically what we just said. But yeah, that's, that's brutal and they should


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[Assistant] I think we should care, so I almost don't even want to make this point, because I'm, I've always been very rah-rah physical games for this exact reason, stuff like that, but...


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[Assistant] A lot of those games are able to be ran through executables from the folder. So if you had a backup, you're fine.


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[Assistant] This era that we're in right now. Say it's, say it's 20... hm.


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[Assistant] Say it's 25 years from now. Yeah. And you want to go back and play... Baldur's Gate 3. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't even know if that's a good example. But some, some game that came out recently. Sure. Diablo 4. The likeliness you won't, oh, Diablo 4 you definitely won't be able to play. Cause it's, it's effectively like a weird form of an MMO. Like there's, there's a lot of, go back and try to play Fortnite in 25 years.


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[Assistant] It's like, I, I, probably I'd argue that's, that was the biggest game of the last like, X amount of time.


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[Assistant] Is that a rare Nvidia W? Like do we have to give it to them on that? That's a long support window for something that people were not really using. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If it's on my Wenshow email, then I'll look at it. But it's a newsletter, right? Couldn't we just go look at it on the store? I don't think it's up yet. I think it's going out this weekend or something like that.


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[Assistant] You know what's crazy? You know what is squeaky clean on this list?


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[Assistant] It's been pretty wild. This is a very small but legitimate reason why I haven't wanted to upgrade my car. And I'm not kidding. And I've mentioned this before. I actually like that my car is dumb. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know. There's just, there's certain things about smartifying a car that like bother me and always have.


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[Assistant] Cool. It's been on camera like a bunch of times. There's even, uh, if you remember that I watched this recently because someone was asking who, uh, Nick Van Berkel was. Random conversation. Uhm, but I brought up Channel Superfund and saw when we pranked, I think it was us pranking Berkel that the office got broken into or whatever.


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[Assistant] It was us pranking you for something that your car didn't work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I offered to drive you, and my car is like in that video, and that was back then. So, it's been around forever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Actors Union SAG-AFTRA has decided to hold a general vote on whether to authorize, that's pretty key here, a strike against video game companies. This doesn't necessarily mean that a strike will happen, just that if the vote is successful, they will have the authority to call a strike when negotiations, when slash if negotiations fail.


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[Assistant] The union is seeking similar terms to what they asked, uh, of TV and film companies, like an 11% wage increase and protections from AI. The last time video game voice actors held a strike was in October of 2016, which lasted 340 days.


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[Assistant] Okay. Uh, the agreement did not guarantee residuals a key point of contention. Reportedly, a stalemate has already been reached in negotiations with...


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[Assistant] It might bring more attention to it as an advantage. I don't think there's a bunch other than that though, to be honest.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, we've seen that, I'd love to say otherwise, but we just talked about horse armor earlier in the show. Yep. Like, it's, it's, this isn't just true for gamers, if I'm being completely honest, this feels true for basically everything. Uhm, wait, what, really? One sec, sorry. No, it's still up. Okay. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But like, people will have stances on things, and then the second that those stances get challenged, if it inconveniences them, is less entertaining, or costs them any amount of money, it's decently common that those stances will then be ditched.


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[Assistant] If someone's multi-talented or whatever, they might as well, but they don't necessarily- They're tying together the emotion of what you're saying with physical actions and your, your face and your, oh, that's probably it. I bet you it's a bunch of face, facial movement stuff.


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[Assistant] I'll just wait. If the latter happens, movies are going to suck even more than they do now. I know, right? I will say there was some recent good ones. I haven't seen Oppenheimer, but I've heard it's good and Barbie was great. Um, but for years now, movies have been.


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[Assistant] Would you wager that there are more gaming studios than there are, uhm,


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[Assistant] Because I feel like, like, people are talking in chat right now about how, uhm, you know how I mentioned, oh, it's for facial animations. And you're like, yeah, but they said stunts, so it's more than that. Uhm, BG3, Bothersgate 3. Yeah. Uhm, someone mentioned that, and this makes sense because they're really good. Uh, but they mentioned that the voice actors did, uhm,


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[Assistant] So I wonder if a game like BG3 where like all the lines are voice acted and they have this mocap on faces and it's like, it's a really good immersion quality beneficial part of the game.


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[Assistant] I wonder if certain studios will just opt to work with the new terms of the...


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[Assistant] Yeah, sorry. Uhm, but yeah, I wonder if some studios will decide to work with them anyways, because they're like, this is going to be a quality differentiator for us. Uhm, that's honestly going to take a very long time for AI to catch up with properly.


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[Assistant] I very much appreciate it. Not only do I find it's a big immersion bonus, but uhm, also just with, with my troubles with reading, it like- Right.


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[Assistant] It's nice. It feels a lot more relaxing to not have to read, uhm, and, uh, it also just, I can go so much faster, cause I'm not getting lost in text or whatever else. Minorly dyslexic. Uhm, yeaah. I dunno.


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[Assistant] It's a personal preference thing. I don't, I skip it sometimes if I'm not as interested in the conversation. Just spacebar, spacebar, spacebar, skip through it. But usually I don't.


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[Assistant] It was great. I really liked it. And then I never played another one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I tell people that I liked 8 and they get so offended because they're like, aww, like, 6 or 7 or whatever was so much better, blah blah blah blah blah blah. I can't believe you liked that one. I was like, it's the only one I play, I thought it was good. Like, I don't know, what do you want from me?


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[Assistant] Come on. Some days- Squall was awesome. I had the necklace. I had the necklace with the lion with the sword through the top. I had that for a while. Was it a sword gun or a gun sword? A gun sword.


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[Assistant] Gunblade. I don't care. To be more specific. Yea, that sounds stupid.


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[Assistant] I really, I don't know, I understand that like GPT-4 and some of these other things are surprisingly good at translation, but I really think there's... Oh no, Spanish would like a word with you.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think especially once you get into the nuances of language and when you get into like advanced levels of writing and people trying to get something across through indirectly referencing something and all these little subtleties that happen in natural language.


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[Assistant] Do you want some, Luke, or are you still off pizza? I'm off. Yeah, I figured.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't, like, if I know the day before or something, I can adjust things. I'm just a pinch check. I'm just a pinch check away from pizza. My pinch check is currently default failing, so that's okay. I'm doing pretty good though. I'm happy with how things are going. Oh, I'm happy with how things are going. You look good. Yeah, thank you. Dan's been coming to the gym with me.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like, it's not worth it. See, I don't, I don't get that, like, for, so, when I was growing up, for about two weeks, out of, out of most, uh,


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[Assistant] For probably about four or five years there, for two weeks out of every one of those years, I would go on a camping trip with my best friend's family, and...


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[Assistant] We would have probably more than half of the food that we had during that camping trip would be pulled from the ocean in some way. Crab traps, uhm, shrimping nets or whatever they were, uhm, standard fishing off the back of a boat, whatever. We'd eat what we caught basically.


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[Assistant] And that sort of temporarily ruined me on seafood because then any other less fresh seafood was now bad because I had experienced that, but then that faded over time and now it's fine. But I've never minded the, the ocean-y taste at all.


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[Assistant] Mussels are like, yeah, those are those, I had to Google it cause I had to see if they were different than clams and oysters, but those are, those are still super seafoody, yeah? Yeah, yeah. See, I like those.


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[Assistant] I'm not a huge fan of, of mush or like slimy. But either of those textures will throw me off like hard. I'll buy grapes at TNT. The crunchy ones? Those are so good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, very good. Okay, anyways, should we start the messages of merch? Sure, yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't commonly employ this, but there's, there's two things. Um, one of them is a, a like calculation that you can kind of do that you have to add some weights to it, which is like,


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[Assistant] Uh, like what is the timeliness of this thing? Uhm, what, uh, how do I rank the importance of this, uhm, to myself? What is the like, time investment? Yeah, it's like importance, urgency, whatever. I use it for work, but you can also use it for personal stuff. Uhm, and another way to do it is I,


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[Assistant] The first time I ever heard of a pros and cons list, I like immediately hated it and I was like 8.


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[Assistant] Cause even then, I was like, this has flaws, cause a lot of people are gonna look at this, and equate these. And they don't have the same weight. And you might have like-


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[Assistant] Then you do the pros and cons, like you know how sometimes you'll see those like, political leaning ones? Oh sure, yeaah. And you put different groups on there so you can understand, cause sometimes I'm like, I don't know where this newspaper lands or whatever, and then I wanna know and you see those grids, I do one of those, uhm. Then you do another one for whoever assigned that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, but you could use that to show a visual level of importance. If you, if you're like having a hard time putting number values to things, you can effectively do that on a visual grid by having importance be low, and then something else be left to right, and then visually see how things can come out.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't suffer from this as much unless it's purchasing decisions and then I suffer from it brutally.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that was going to effectively be my answer for the second part as well. When having conversations about random tech stuff. Yeaah. Just talk to me like you would anyone else and we'll have a good conversation. Yeaah. But when suddenly like, you're effectively trying to like, watch Wanshow and you're the only commenter, it's like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is not great. Like, I'm down to have a conversation with you, that's totally cool. But I don't wanna like, present, you know? I don't, I don't know, it's, I, it's, it's fairly subtle, but it's important, in my opinion.


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[Assistant] I go to a maximum of one per show these days. And even then that's rare and I will usually leave early. I don't like them.


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[Assistant] Okay, the reason why I leave early is because I will usually try to collect some people that I want to talk to and then ask everyone if we can all leave so we can actually have a conversation. Because if I'm there for an hour or more,


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[Assistant] I will lose my voice 100% trying to yell over the stupid music and the best venues, the only ones that I've stayed at are when if there's music, it's really quiet and it's just like a hangout space.


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[Assistant] And we're all trying to not get sick. Meanwhile, I'm like leaning into people like this.


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[Assistant] Well, they're trying to talk so I can hear them. And they're doing the same thing for me. And it's like, man, this is just, it's so dumb. I hate that stuff so much.


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[Assistant] And I never had an issue talking to anyone, so that was great. So frustrating.


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[Assistant] Wow, we're getting into the worth of a person now? How many goats am I worth?


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[Assistant] I'm stealing a comment from flowplainchat and reworking it a little bit, but I'm going to say you're worth one goat. One goat.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Sorry, it was just in front of the- yeah, anyways. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, someone in flowplain chat, uh, said get dbrand to make a dead pixel screen protector. You could put on other people's phones.


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[Assistant] Just me. I think just me would be pretty hard, I think me joining the group would not be that hard.


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[Assistant] That's kinda where I've been, and Emma likes the beard.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. And honestly, I would not want to upkeep non-beard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think it was a major moment for you. It was just something that I happened to be passionate about. Like a lot of my friends were into technology. I just happened to be...


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[Assistant] I want to play cool games with my friends and sometimes if it was PC games that kind of required them to have a cool PC. So I just tried to make sure they did too. I don't know. Whatever.


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[Assistant] Example of this is when you go through certain like manufacturing shops or, or different places like that and they'll have some computer. Windows 95. Yeaah. And it's still chugging along and it's like, what would you do if this broke? And they're just like, not even want to think about it. Not make money. Yup. Uhm. It's like, wow, okay.


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[Assistant] It was- Dang. It's kinda similar though, uh, if you watch some of the early scripted videos, I bet you those kind of suck. Cause you slash we are not used to being on teleprompter yet.


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[Assistant] Do you know my whole trick? I've talked to you about this before, right? How I read prompters? I think you have, but I think I forget. It's like...


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[Assistant] It's very significantly memory. This is why I'll get like, it even happened when we were filming the GPU video. I think I said like four words in a row that were wrong, and you were like, what? And it's like, yea, cause I didn't read them. I like thought that's what was there.


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[Assistant] So I'll see like one or two words and then remember what's coming next.


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[Assistant] And then just say it, and while I'm saying it, I'm trying to refocus on the next one, and then I just like, kinda crawl through the script from memory. That's why, like, when Game Link gets me to host, I ask them to send me the script ahead of time. I read through the whole script at my desk, and then go and host it.


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[Assistant] Like that. I don't know if you remember this, but back in the house, uhm, I resisted the teleprompter change. Yeah, I know. Because I just like couldn't do it.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then the early version of this style was I just didn't, I would, I would move the script to the fixed part. Yep. Sit there and make, Brandon at the time probably, wait, read the whole thing, just in my head.


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[Assistant] And then present. Right. And then I would just do that over and over again and then eventually I just got a little bit better and a little bit better and then I started being able to do that and then move it to the next one and then read what, read


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[Assistant] But say something else, so I'd be like absorbing the information for the next section and then I kinda got from there and there and there and just slowly got a little bit better over time.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, there's a couple of people that mentioned this, and I actually did want to talk about that. Uhm, someone mentioned Comic Sans, I've heard that before, I don't find it makes any difference at all. I think they're meaning. Yeah, I don't know. Uhm, what I have seen


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[Assistant] Uh, and I, I might say this wrong, but it blew my mind, I think I even told you about it, was if I remember correctly,


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[Assistant] It's, it's multicolored text and like the root word.


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[Assistant] Is colored in one color, and then the rest of the word is colored in another color. I think that's how it goes. I don't think anyone linked it. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But the second I read it, it felt like I was on like, nitrous or something. Like just, like I was reading two or three times faster than I normally do, and I wasn't losing my spot. That's my biggest problem is I lose my spot all the time. Right. If it's really hard, I'll just, it just, I don't know. If there's a superpower that I have, It's that I can,


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[Assistant] Apparently there's tons of examples of this, there's tons of different fonts, there's tons of different attempts people have made.


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[Assistant] I'm having a hard time finding, uh, the one that really worked for me and a lot of the ones that people have linked are not it and they don't feel like they're working right now.


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[Assistant] At least for me. Uhm, so, I don't know. One of the reasons, I thought it was super interesting, but one of the reasons why I didn't try to be like, let's find ways to like force my computer to load all text like this, blah blah blah blah, all that kind of stuff, is because


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[Assistant] And this could be flawed logic, but the way I'm thinking about it is I'm gonna leave my computer at some point.


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[Assistant] And I find like my ability to read is almost like a forced skill that I have to maintain.


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[Assistant] So if I use this, uh, I don't know if people are not gonna like this or not, but if I use this, this crutch of this special font on my computer, I'm not gonna have that all the time. And I feel like when I'm away from that system, I'm probably gonna be worse off because of it.


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[Assistant] If that makes sense. I don't know if that's actually true or not, but that's one of the reasons why. It's kinda like the same reason why I was always interested in learning Dvorak. As like a type of layout. But I'm like, okay, but any time I go to anyone else's computer, it's not gonna be Dvorak.


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[Assistant] So like, I don't want to train to learn that. Like, I don't know. So it's super interesting. I find it very interesting that it works so well.


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[Assistant] I was off video for like years, and now I do it infrequently, but do it sometimes. By video I mean VODs, not Wineshow, I was obviously still doing Wineshow. Uhm, but I was off VODs for a long time, and my first few videos back were really hard.


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[Assistant] I hadn't done prompters in a really long time. And now it's, I'm kinda- Oh yea, you were great when we did the thing to yesterday. Yeah, I'm a little bit more used to it again, a bit like kind of the whole riding a bike thing where like I definitely didn't lose it entirely. Uhm, but I was rusty. Uhm, and now I feel like I'm kinda getting it back.


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[Assistant] But yea, that's why I haven't like actually used it too much, but it's super cool that it exists because, uhm, mine seems pretty...


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[Assistant] Mild, all things considered. And I, I know people that have it a lot worse. So, if it's a lot worse and you like need something, I think it's really cool that something does exist that you could use. I think that's awesome.


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[Assistant] I gotta, sorry I gotta jump back for a second. This, I've never seen this before, this is not the one I was talking about. But someone linked this in flowplain chat. I read this before I recognized that I was even like, trying.


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[Assistant] My brain registered all of the words in this, and then I was like, wait, I have to, I didn't go back to the first word to read it, and then I was like, hold on, I already read all of this. Like it was, it literally, confusingly fast. I've never even seen this font before. Can we get that for the prompter? No, probably not. And like, I don't even think, I think my method's fine. Well that's just a Gmail logo. Pretty much.


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[Assistant] They're too recognizable as different shapes. Uh, but yeah, so like I, I don't know. I can't explain it. A bunch of the ones that were linked today didn't work for me at all. And then this one was like, whoa, yeah, definitely worked right away. I have no idea. It's weird.


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[Assistant] Even if I like found something like that and I found a way to implement it across all the things that I read on my own devices, I probably wouldn't do it because I want to keep the learned skill up so that I can do it when that font isn't existing. All that kind of stuff I said before is still the same. Um, but yeah, I don't know. For some reason that worked for me, made it easier. Not a clue why.


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[Assistant] I do agree that it's meaningless, but I did just find a Stats Canada, Government of Canada website that says that it's 100 to 499 employees is mid-size. Okay. So we have several small companies.


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[Assistant] I think it's straight up, in my opinion, if it's a shade of blue, it's probably-


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[Assistant] I just, I think the reason why I'm like, uh, is, I mean, if it isn't a Panto now, it's not gonna be one later. Like, at a certain point, just, oh well.


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[Assistant] Wait, is my dad in chat? Is your dad in chat? What's your dad doing in chat? Someone just added liquidus, which would be my dad, but I don't see where he said it. Oh!


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[Assistant] Okay, that's as defined by Wikipedia, if I remember correctly. Government of Canada just has small, medium, and large.


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[Assistant] What's, okay, what is that, that fan controller that you and I both had? M cube T balancer.


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[Assistant] He knew like immediately. I was trying to talk to you about the old German, uh, fan controller. That's it.


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[Assistant] I, I, uh, asked for carabiners, were on my Christmas list, and my brother got me these, like, awesome, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, rock climbing quality carabiners. So I added those to the backpack. I don't know if that would count as modding. Yeah, sure, upgrading. But I really liked the carabiner that was on there. I thought it was cool that it came with one on that side bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I was like, I want more. And ones that can carry your, like, heavier stuff, cause those straps that the carabiner's on are very strong. You can hang some pretty serious things off there, so. It makes the backpack, like, extensible, which is pretty sick.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I was, I was responding to something so I missed that, but, uh, oh no, no, no, not there. Uhm, uh, but, yeaah, I don't know, that's a tough one. What I was thinking, and I'm sorry if you, you said this already, but what I was thinking, uh, cause I,


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[Assistant] IT and systems administration is just kinda like that. Uh, but you might be able to work with the organization that you're in and turn into more of like a training and advisory role. Uhm, you have some very serious experience, so you could be very effective in that way.


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[Assistant] That was very surprising, and then they like, stopped, as far as my understanding goes? Are they still, they did Mario run, or jump, or whatever it's called, uhm, did they do anything after that?


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[Assistant] The most recent one as far as I can see in a rough Google search is 2021 with Pikmin Bloom.


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[Assistant] Pokemon Sleep in 2023, but they've technically already done stuff cause of Pokemon Go. I don't know if, I know Nintendo owns a pretty significant amount of the Pokemon company, but they're not the sole owner.


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[Assistant] Mario Kart Tour, which I've never personally heard of, is a free, I'm sure there's microtransactions, mobile game, uhm, with a rating of 4.3 stars, that has 2.1 and a half million votes on Android.


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[Assistant] Which is just so reductive. Is that a word?


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[Assistant] Regardless of what pixel count your display is running at.


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[Assistant] How is that, how is that even possible that they overlooked that? I don't understand it.


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[Assistant] To the internet! I could have a studio in a barn! And as long as it was decorated kind of nicely, you guys might even like it better! Look at the way people talk about missing


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[Assistant] They're like dangerously close to switch light.


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[Assistant] What is up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show! We've got a great show for you guys this week, which is fortunate because yesterday evening I was sitting at the do- looking at the dock going


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[Assistant] What on earth are we gonna talk about? And then we had one of the wildest Fridays ever. Advertisers are pulling out of Twitter. Uhm, Sam Altman is out as the CEO of OpenAI. I mean, who could have seen either of these things coming? What else we got this week, Luke?


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[Assistant] The blue bubbles on nothing Android phones. And all Android phones, maybe, RCS something.


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[Assistant] And I didn't even take that Amazon's gonna be selling cars. Would you buy- Oh, I don't care about that. Would you download a car from Amazon?


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you today by Kudos Forum and Green Man Gaming. Why don't we jump right into our first topic of the day? Unfortunately,


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[Assistant] Pretty hard to do your job. They claim that they no longer have confidence in his ability to lead. And they now need an alt-man.


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[Assistant] That was me. I take full responsibility for that. They say his departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded


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[Assistant] Uh, it's not really clear at this time what Mr. Altman is alleged to have hidden from the board, but OpenAI CTO Mira Murady has taken over as the interim CEO. Uh, Sam did tweet, he says,


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[Assistant] I loved my time at OpenAI, it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. Most of all, I loved working with such talented people. We'll have more to say about what's next, later.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our discussion question here is, how big of a deal is this and will it affect the long and short term future of AI development? I think, I, oh, oh, he's already ready, he's ready to talk, he's opening up the chest, he's inhaling the air, he's


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[Assistant] Greg Brockman's statement is pretty savage. Hi everyone, I'm super proud of what we've all built together since starting in my apartment eight years ago. We've been through tough and great times together accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible. But based on today's news, I quit.


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[Assistant] Like, here goes the founder, here goes the right hand man.


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[Assistant] It's over. Uhm, with that said, I mean, there are some people that I've seen compare Sam Altman to Steve Jobs. I don't know that they mean that in a flattering way or a negative way. There were certainly things about Mr. Jobs that were both good and admirable and, uhm,


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[Assistant] But the good thing about this is that it gives him a chance to have a very similar arc. So I see this as an absolute


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[Assistant] You are not necessarily a member of the board of directors just because you are an investor. And you are not necessarily an investor just because you are a member of the board of directors, but


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[Assistant] Correct me if I am wrong here. Typically, it is expected that there is


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[Assistant] Some skin in the game for you to be in such a position of power such that you can vote on the actions of the company, uhm, at a level that is assuming you have a unanimous decision or even a majority decision above the level of CEO.


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[Assistant] Assuming that the company wasn't shit and actually had a chance, right? So there tends to be a lot of overlap there and it is...


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[Assistant] Just talking about this stuff on WAN Show and also running Linus Media Group, Inc. So every once in a while, I will say something that is...


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[Assistant] I'm sort of based on either a like small business perspective or a Canadian perspective because I'm not always familiar with US laws with respect to this kind of thing. But that actually kind of makes sense, but also is kind of wild. Uhm, wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I mean, to be clear, it's not like I know Mr. Altman personally. So I'm not gonna sit here and go, yeah, I think he's a genius and the nicest guy you'll ever meet and whatever, right? Like I don't actually know for a fact that


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[Assistant] They need him, necessarily. They might, they also


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[Assistant] Might not, but it looks like the, the rumor mill is going extremely, is moving extremely quickly right now. The only thing that I'll say about that is we should


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[Assistant] You know, give this a little bit of time to settle before we try to draw any firm conclusions because the reality of it is, unless your name is someone who actually works directly with any of these people, of which there are maybe dozens, like not that many, even within these companies, people might not have a


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[Assistant] See how this, see how this shakes out. It probably won't have an immediate impact on their roadmap because, you know, these kinds of things don't change on a dime. But then again, it might. Senior Leadership's out. Long live the new king.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, if Microsoft just hires them, and then just buys OpenAI outright.


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[Assistant] I could see something like that potentially, but that depends. I mean, again, this comes down to not having researched or not fully understanding the nuances of how the whole non-profit part of this works. It's possible that this board


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[Assistant] Those are rules that I do have a bit more knowledge about, but in this case,


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[Assistant] I'm in, I'm in kind of uncharted territory here because this is a super weird, uh, this is, it's like, it's a super weird corporate structure, the fact that they started out as this non-profit, and then my understanding is they created a for-profit entity that the non-profit owns and controls, which is like, okay.


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[Assistant] What? Yeah, how are you a non, how are you a non-profit? Okay. Okay, so hold on, Luke. Linus Media Group Incorporated is a non-profit. But Linus Tech Tips, the YouTube channel, totally for profit. Give me that money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, if Linus Media Group happens to make money, then I guess we chill, right?


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[Assistant] We're not gonna take it. We're just gonna leave it in LTT Inc. It's just there. We didn't make that.


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[Assistant] They, they, they made it, and we're just gonna, we're gonna leave it there. We're not gonna... But I'll never touch it, I promise. Like, I don't know, it just seems like a super weird structure.


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[Assistant] Alright, anyway. There's a lot for us to talk about this week, so we could sit and speculate about what this means forever, but I don't think we're gonna be able to. Why don't we move on to Luke's chosen topic?


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[Assistant] This is the big one for me because if we're gonna talk about


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[Assistant] I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. If you guys buy Fortnite skins, that's fine, I get it. Oh, I see. My point is, like, this is, I think, the real conversation here, is if you're going to treat


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[Assistant] Your digital merchandise, like it has some kind of value the same way that physical merchandise would, then I think it's not an entirely unfair expectation as the buyer of aforementioned merchandise that it should


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[Assistant] It doesn't retain its value necessarily, retain its...


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[Assistant] Other intrinsic qualities over some period of time. And I think we saw this play out, we saw this expectation play out that a skin would continue to operate the same way that it did in the past when Valve launched CS2.


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[Assistant] They didn't have to make the skins carry over from CSGO to CS2, but I think they correctly assessed that the community outcry would be immense if all of a sudden people weren't going to be able to enjoy the skins that they've spent.


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[Assistant] Ten dollars, a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars on from a day to day basis. And for some people that enjoyment means playing with them. For other people that enjoyment just means


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[Assistant] Looking at their collection, right? Like we can't, I'm not here to, I'm not here to judge the value of collecting skins.


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[Assistant] Right now, I think I've said enough on that in the past, but what I will judge is


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[Assistant] Let's say you paid for an expensive VR chat avatar to be created for you, and all of a sudden VR chat came to you and said, okay yea, you can't, you can't wear that skin in, you know, certain age group chat rooms.


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[Assistant] Look, there are two obvious counterpoints to this. One is if you're an adult hanging out in, like, a miner's, you know, chat room or whatever, then, quite frankly, it should have nothing to do with the avatar you're wearing. You probably just shouldn't be there. Okay, number one.


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[Assistant] So I'm talking about kids who own this, uh, this skin, right? Okay? Okay. We, we chill, we good. Number two is, in my example, that was a third party skin.


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[Assistant] But this is a first party skin. So this is as though VRChat themselves had a service where you can buy an avatar and then all of a sudden you can't wear it to your favorite chat room or island or whatever the case may be. Cause my understanding is these islands can in many cases


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[Assistant] Okay, so here's an island you can go to, crafting, survival, grow and sell crops, rated everyone mild fantasy violence.


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[Assistant] Probably a lot of development effort when it would have been simpler to just put a disclaimer that says, okay, kids, don't, don't use this. And then the kids just would just like they always did. And then everyone could have just kind of gotten, gone about their day. But maybe I'm, maybe I'm missing something here.


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[Assistant] One of our children on staff, uh, Ariel from the lab says, I'm 90% sure that skins are banned in the main game, uh, which is where most of the players are. So 12 plus islands are rare. Wait, what? Skins are banned in the main game?


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[Assistant] Well, not all. Okay, Ariel, what are you talking about? I'm gonna need a little bit more clarification.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna have to wait for RL to clarify what the heck he's talking about. He knows a lot about engineering stuff though. He's really good at that.


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[Assistant] Ariel just says yes. Yes. What an answer. Brother, you're, I'm trying to help you out here. I'm trying to help you out.


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[Assistant] So, okay, okay, I think his point, I think I get it, I think I get it, I think his point is that uhm, these, these like custom game modes, very few of them are going to be 12+, because most people would just be playing the main game.


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[Assistant] Cool. Alright, that makes sense. Well, at any rate...


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[Assistant] Fortnite news, let's move on, cause ultimately who really cares. Let's talk instead about whatever Dan says we're supposed to do.


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[Assistant] Alright, this was reported by The Verge and 9to5Mac and basically everyone and their dog, but Nothing, the phone company, to be clear, not Nothing, the absence of anything, has announced Nothing Chats, an app that will make a text from an Android phone show up as an iMessage on iPhone,


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[Assistant] The app, exclusive to the Nothing Phone, is a collaboration with Sunbird, which provides iMessage to Android bridging services in beta.


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[Assistant] When Marques Brownlee asked if this operates similar to other bridging systems that route Android messages through a Mac server farm, nothing confirmed that their solution is the same as that. Yes.


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[Assistant] So what this means is that users have to give access to their iCloud credentials to nothing or sunbird. I guess probably sunbird directly. However, nothing says that sunbird stores them as a token in an encrypted database and deletes them after two weeks of inactivity.


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[Assistant] Realistically, if implemented the way that they say it is, Luke, probably fine.


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[Assistant] But, the challenge here is, you know, the old saying as it goes, trust but verify. Luke, is there any way that anyone could verify this? No.


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[Assistant] Only two days later, though, Apple announced that all of this may be completely unnecessary. They are finally doing it. Okay. Can we speculate for a little bit here? What do you think it was that made Apple cave? No, I wanted to have more fun with it, Luke. You did. Ah, you ruined it. I was going to talk about.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, I was going to talk about some of the ways that certain other parties have tried to put pressure on Apple to adopt rich communication


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[Assistant] I think the S is for service, but RCS message or rich communication messaging standard, whatever it is, RCS. Uhm, for example, I remember one year at CES, I think it was, there were


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[Assistant] I suspect, although I don't know for sure, that the uh, the mobile carriers in the major markets have


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[Assistant] Probably, maybe not put pressure on Apple, but asked respectfully for them to adopt RCS because these legacy SMS


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[Assistant] Messaging, or I shouldn't say messaging service, cause SMS is short for short messaging service. Uh, but this, this legacy SMS stuff sucks. Uh, encryption is not supported, group chats suck. Uh, just about everything about SMS kind of sucks. And MMS isn't much better. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But it's been very obvious to anyone with two brain cells to run to get- to rub together. To rub to-


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[Assistant] It's been obvious to anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together that Apple's main motivation for keeping eye message and all of those extra nice things about


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[Assistant] Messaging from an iPhone to an iPhone exclusive to the iPhone has been all about keeping you locked into the ecosystem, which I don't think we have to rehash


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[Assistant] How perplexed all of that makes me. I've never understood it. The color of a bubble has never mattered to me. Uhm, the idea of being reliant on my default SMS app for something like a group message or sending more complex emojis or sharing media is just


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[Assistant] Again, it's utterly bewildering to me, like I, I have over half a dozen messaging apps on my phone, and that's, that doesn't bother me. Uhm, I, I don't know. Some people seem to really, really struggle with it, but it doesn't bother me at all. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But for some reason, this has been a major consideration for people to not only stay on the iPhone, but buy iPhones, like in some cases for, uh, other members of their families.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so anyway, the last major party putting pressure on them, yes, was the European Union. Thank you, Luke, for spoiling the punchline.


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[Assistant] In other news, that's actually kind of a bigger deal to me. Actually hold on, first let's talk about the benefits of RCS.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it can work over mobile data or wifi, which is super cool. It would allow for cross-platform use of iMessage style features, and calling these iMessage features is ridiculous, so I'm just gonna call them...


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[Assistant] Kumbaya, you know, everything is completely interoperable moment that some people might be hoping that it is, but at the very least you're not gonna be stuck using 1998 technology when you're texting to your friend on an iPhone.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. Okay, so the reason it would be is because it's not coming straight apple to apple across only their own infrastructure.


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[Assistant] As soon as it goes out to someone else's infrastructure, my understanding is it wouldn't be blue, probably. Uhm, like for example, when you're messaging from one iPhone to another, and this came up a lot more,


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[Assistant] Years ago, like back when I had my iPhone 4, occasionally I would be messaging to another iPhone user, and the bubble would be green, and that would be because it was sent as an SMS.


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[Assistant] So if I didn't have data reception, but I did have cellular reception, you could still send a message, uh, but it would, it would show up as a, as a green bubble. So I don't know if they like patched that or if it's just...


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[Assistant] Uhm, anyway, the bigger news in my mind is that Apple, and as part of this same push from the EU,


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[Assistant] Financial filings from Apple as well as code found in iOS 17.2 beta.


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[Assistant] I think it's time to talk about my AI pin.


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[Assistant] I'm like a Twitch stream right now. I'm in a hot tub. Do you need me to change the title on Twitch? I'm in a hot tub chatting. No, no, you don't need to change the title on Twitch Dan. Thank you very much. That's very helpful.


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[Assistant] Like, what? So hold on a second. Do I need two whole a** hands to touch this thing and also project onto my hand? Are you kidding me?


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[Assistant] No, I know you don't. You can just talk to it, and it can just... You know, what's the best finish for paint?


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[Assistant] Eggshell, you idiot. Like, I-I-I don't know, is that... Really? How much is a vintage f-


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[Assistant] Oh man. This is cringe, dude. I haven't even looked at their marketing for this thing.


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[Assistant] I love that this baby is not immediately grabbing this and ripping it off her shirt. Because anyone who's ever had a baby knows that that's the first thing it would do.


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[Assistant] So, my Uber Eats order arrives, and then...


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[Assistant] Instead of getting the notification on my phone or on my smartwatch, I project it to my hand.


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[Assistant] So, uh, you know, it used to be that we had smartwatches, right? Like your Apple Watch or your Pixel Watch or whatever else. And then we had dumbwatches, which were ones that didn't have connectivity and they just had a traditional movement. But I think what we're gonna have to do is change these classifications, right?


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[Assistant] And look guys, look, look, look, look, look, look. I've seen a lot of mischaracterizations about my relationship with money over the last couple of months. Uhm, there's been a lot of misunderstanding. I have no problem spending money.


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[Assistant] Look at the lab. I don't like wasting money.


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[Assistant] Or make- make Vance use it for a month. Uh, no, I would never- that's cruel and unusual punishment. What did Vance do wrong? Well, can't you have both of them?


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[Assistant] I will use it. Look, hey, hey, look, look, look, look, here's all my notes on the LG wing it out the window.


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[Assistant] See, I got good notes. I got notes on the wing. Those are all point form. Got a few little videos I took of it just like...


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[Assistant] Glitching the crap out in terms of the, I have this one that I recorded just like on my, cause I have to carry two phones in case I actually need to get anything done and the wing just isn't working. But I've got this great one where I took a video of the wing in my hand where I can pull down the notification shade, but absolutely everything else fails to register anything.


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[Assistant] It's freaking awesome. You should totally buy a phone from a company that exited the phone market years ago. Wrong recommend. Let's go.


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[Assistant] Hold on, let's first, first things first, you know, I don't wanna, I don't wanna speculate here. Let's see what Steam Deck non-Oleds are going for here, okay?


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[Assistant] Here's a 512 for 400 bucks. I'm gonna ignore shipping because that's because they're shipping to Canada. I will assume you're probably American given that about 40% of our audiences. What's that now?


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[Assistant] Steam Deck 1TB SSD, is that just the SSD? Oh no, this is an auction. Okay, this is an auction. I'm gonna change it to, uh, buy it now only. Hello, buddy? Oh, okay, did I open that in a new tab?


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[Assistant] Ahhhh, oh wow, the limited edition? This guy wants 1200 bucks? Whaaaaat? Alright, okay, I'm gonna change it to buy it now only. Buy it now. Here we go. Let's shop.


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[Assistant] Okay, 64 gig upgraded to 512, I would take that over the 512, for sure.


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[Assistant] At that price, boy is that ever appealing. Cause see, here's the thing, right guys, is the new steam deck.


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[Assistant] Is not, uhm, is not shipping at every price point.


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[Assistant] So if we go to, if we go to Valve site here.


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[Assistant] If you're buying something for $300, aw man, how do I get to the U.S. pricing? Dang it. Valve makes this really difficult. Oh?


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[Assistant] No, yeaah. Just language. I don't get to pick a different region. So I forget what the stupid US pricing is because I can't access it. Gahhh!


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[Assistant] U.S.D. Oh, hey, yeah, here it is. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Okay, so, the Steam OLED is available at 512 gigs for $549. So, the entry level one, right, the $400 one is still the old LCD version. So, we're talking about a difference of


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[Assistant] You know, if it's 300 bucks for a used last-gen Steam Deck, there's not gonna be any used OLEDs, and if there are, they're probably going to be selling at an elevated price as opposed to a discounted price. So we could be talking nearly double the amount for the upgraded screen,


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[Assistant] The, uh, upgraded haptics, I mean the upgraded basically everything, the better power, better battery life, ugh man.


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[Assistant] Battery, battery life, that is a big deal. If you're planning to play, you know, mostly within range of an outlet, I would say, yeaah, there's a strong argument to be made for the older one. Actually, in any case, there's a strong argument to be made for the older one, but if you are going to be often away from the wall, where you are not going to be able to easily plug in, and battery life matters a lot to you,


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[Assistant] I think it's worth the extra even ignoring the awesome new screen and it, oh man, it's so good. It's absolutely incredible.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, I wonder what the lead times are like. Do they even provide an estimate? Oh yeah, no, hold on a second. Look at this. Estimated delivery.


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[Assistant] Three to five business days, boys. I'm, I guess they were ready this time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, super cool. It's limited enough that they weren't even willing to send out any samples of them even if we returned it. They were like, no, we, we, we really don't have a lot of these. So yeah, people are, people are wanting like a few hundred bucks uplift for these things.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think people are gonna go for it. Especially knowing that Valve's probably not gonna do a, like a Steam Deck 2. Like a big hardware refresh, but probably another year or two at least.


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[Assistant] Oh, limited edition is still one to two weeks shipping. I didn't see it!


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[Assistant] Let's have a look here. Steam Deck Limited Edition. Let's see if, uh, if it's available. Limited edit. No way. Estimated delivery one to two weeks. You can still get them. Okay, well wow. What makes people think they're gonna be able to scalp this thing? Is it still available in the US? Maybe this is just a Canadian thing. Oh, it's on its own page.


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[Assistant] Oh no, buymyactualfuckinggarbage.com goes to lttstore.com now apparently. Hell yeaah. Let's go.


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[Assistant] It's because people want it outside of the US and Canada. That's why.


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[Assistant] And Valve hasn't made it available in many parts of the world yet, so that's what these eBay sellers are counting on. Okay, that makes sense. I wonder how many you'll let me buy then. Kidding, kidding, kidding.


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[Assistant] Everybody relax, Luke. I'm pretty sure I can feel your butthole clench from here.


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[Assistant] That's wild. Alright. Man, now I'm tempted. Should I get one? Wait, did you try to buy one?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, okay, I thought you were, I thought you were finally ready. Finally ready for a Steam Deck, cause I thought we had talked about it and you said you still weren't gonna go for it. It would be, it would have been pretty nice on the plane, man.


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[Assistant] Played Final Fantasy 6 on your laptop? Read a book? I just slept. You're getting old, dude. Look how old and boring you are. Look at these arms. Pinner.


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[Assistant] Merch messages! They're the way to interact with the show! Don't use Twitch bits, don't use a uhm, whatever the thing is called on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Super chat, yeaah, thanks Dan. You want a merch message because you get to interact with the show, you can have your message show up here. It might be replied to by producer Dan. Look at that, look at that helpful reply. Maybe. Wow, great job producer Dan.


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[Assistant] It might be forwarded to someone internally who can help you out, or it might be curated.


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[Assistant] So that Luke and I can talk about it on the show, just like the one that you guys just heard. How to send a merch message you might ask? Well, you go to lttstore.com, throw something in your cart, and right there you're gonna see a little box, you just fill out your merch message in there, and then place your order, and we will get to it in due course. Or we won't. And then hey,


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[Assistant] Sorry about that, but at least you got some high quality merchandise in the mail. Speaking of high quality merchandise for the store, we do have a few updates that you guys might want to consider if you were thinking of sending a merch message this week, starting of course, with our sexy fruit underwear!


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[Assistant] Ahhhh! Uhm, we also, to complete the collection, launched our... Oh, this is still strawberry. What's he holding?


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[Assistant] Okay, sure, it's a weight, it's not a hanging, dangling...


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[Assistant] Which is not about making you feel inadequate, it's just a colour. And... Peach!


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[Assistant] This is great, this is a great shot of Jamie. That's funny, we both went for the coffee cup with the peach. Uhm, hey! Look at that! I found, uh, I found that Fortnite character's cake! Ayyy, there it is!


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, they, they look and feel exactly as good as our underwear does, which, guys, I, I don't write the reviews. They're really, really well reviewed.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, get this, it gets even better. They are available in his and her styles. So you can get the scoop bralette and the boy shorts. Uh, oh wait, where are the boy shorts? Oh yea, here they are. So these are available in


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[Assistant] Oh, I think it's just strawberry for the women's. So you can get a his and hers matching set of the, uh, the strawberry underwear.


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[Assistant] Pretty cool, so we've got the bikini bottoms and triangle top and then we've also got the, uh, scoop top and then the boy shorts bottoms.


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[Assistant] Uh, we launched our new RGB Rorokin t-shirt.