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[Assistant] Okay, merch messages. There you go. That's what we're gonna call it.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, alright, yeah, mystery shirt's a good way. I mean, if you're just naked and you're desperate, mystery shirt's a good way to go.


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[Assistant] Uh, what I would like done first is it remembering where I am scrolling through the comments. Uh, when I accidentally turn it or lock it, that would be super, super amazing if Jayden's watching.


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[Assistant] Hannah sent in a message, thanks Linus, I'm a female in tech and no one ever believed in me, but you keep me going. Well, those people sucked.


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[Assistant] That's stupid. What did he even say?


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[Assistant] What? No, she. What did she say? Female in tech and no one ever believed in me. Oh, yeah, they saw. Yeah, they s- right? I'm totally on board. Okay, yeah, see, you were like, you were like, what? Do they suck? No, yeah, they suck.


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[Assistant] Is this gonna be anti-climatic? It's not in my bag. Okay. Like I actually took it out to show it to our, uh, our logistics, uh, company that we work with for decreasing our shipping costs to the US was in the office and I took it out to show it to them and I must have not put it back in my bag.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the problem is not solved, but our manufacturing partner for it is trying to put pressure on the folks that are building the ratchets, which is the holdup right now.


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[Assistant] And hopefully it will be sooner than like late Q1 of next year, but no promises.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thanks Nate and Jeffrey. Yeah, I think the hoodie's sweet too. Hexagon, all the things indeed. I'm working my way from the bottom, so, you feel free to-


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[Assistant] They did. It was a, it was a big, big suck move by them. Pulled out at the last minute. And I wanted to get pregnant.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joel says there's a software called Argus Monitor that lets you set the chassis fan curve based on GPU temps or any other temps the computer can detect for anyone wanting to make their own Noctua GPU cooler. Yes.


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[Assistant] I believe there are other softwares you can do that in as well.


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[Assistant] But the reason I didn't, and I had some people complaining about this in the video, the reason I didn't was because I was running them at full speed and the performance still sucked. So no amount of tuning the fan rpms was gonna make it worth doing. That was why I didn't bother to go down that path. But yea, okay, Argus, cool tool. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. There's some people watching on YouTube that are really confused. Guys, don't send super chats on YouTube. These are, these are merch messages and they pop up here when you buy something on LTT store and you go through and leave a message.


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[Assistant] By the way, if you're hoping to have us read it out at this point in the show, guys, we're wrapping it up. We're wrapping it up. Uh, so don't do that. But, um, that that's what we're reading. We are not reading super chats. We, we said that we said that. I'm sorry. Uh.


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[Assistant] Amy says, tell Adam I said Merry Christmas. Getting started on my shopping early. He's a fan of yours. Hey, alright.


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[Assistant] I saw it on your screen, maybe LTX something, I don't know, we'll see, we'll see. Uh, Michael says LGA bottle brrrr volume 2. Thanks Michael. You did it twice.


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[Assistant] Oh, those are coming. Pajamas? I want to, but we're not there. We're not there yet. We have to do a completely, completely custom fabric.


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[Assistant] You're totally an OPJ's guy, look at you. Yeah. Anonymous, uh, just picked up two WAN hoodies, uh, two tech scarves, a Northern Lights desk pad, an insulated water bottle, and another desk pad. Comment, woooo!


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[Assistant] Uh, yes. Yeah, you're gonna wanna go ahead and apply for the position at, uh, linusmediagroup.com. I said you missed the follow-up email after submitting the Google form. Oh, uh, then maybe you didn't qualify?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. If you don't have a Canadian work permit, I can tell you probably wouldn't have gotten an email back.


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[Assistant] Uh, I believe Sarah did that one. Uh. It's cool. I'm actually, I'm pretty darn sure that Sarah did that one. I think she did a great job.


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[Assistant] Hey, heck yea, no problem. PC or no PC, limited edition shirt, there you go.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And bought a CPU pillow. Uh, Brandon says, finally. And bought WAN hoodies in large and medium. So is that one for, one for the SO and one for yourself, Brandon? Cool. Okay, are you almost through those?


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[Assistant] I never thought of that when we had a bunch of different landed colors. Fascinating. Cool.


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[Assistant] I'm sure Alex would be 100% on the next plane over there.


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[Assistant] That's only six. That's not, uh, every day. Unless you actually do your laundry every six days.


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[Assistant] Navy EMT, what will come first? The LTT screwdriver or Luke's crowbar hammer kickstarter?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean that last bit is still a little debatable.


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[Assistant] It's not. That is an actual wall. And those doors are my actual wall. I have a wall of doors. So I'm not planning to move my wall of doors to the office.


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[Assistant] Oh right, cause there's the encoding errors.


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[Assistant] I wanna play that new, uh, that new game by the Final Fantasy 6 dev guy, like lead dev, or whatever, lead, project lead.


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[Assistant] I forget, Fantasian or something like that? Oh. I wanna play it, but I'm gonna wait till it comes out for a platform that I don't have to subscribe to. Yeah, cause that's on the Apple mobile games thing, right? Yeah, I'm sure it'll come out for something else eventually.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think we would absolutely consider collaborating with Linux channels, but it wouldn't be on this channel. I mean, we have before, we've collaborated with Wendel from Level One Text. Who's awesome. Uh, who's amazing, he's the best.


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[Assistant] It's, it's just, it's not part of this.


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[Assistant] If I wanted help, I could, I could probably contact the lead dev for half a dozen different Linux distros within a matter of 48 hours. If I was like, Hey, I'm going to feature your distro in a video and they would hold my hand and basically do everything for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, we wanted to, well there were a number of reasons that we, that we chose them in particular. One was that they legitimately are not super into computers, so they wouldn't have to fake it, or like fake the things they didn't know. Uhm, two was that I was, I was looking to kind of,


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[Assistant] Pray on any companies that hurt a female voice and


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[Assistant] Assumed anything about them. You know, I wanted to, I wanted to catch any of that kind of behaviour.


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[Assistant] And three is that they, at least at the time, were not that recognizable. I mean, now they're both minor internet celebrities because of Secret Shopper, but they were, they were not recognizable names because a lot of the time in order to order things, you have to give your real name.


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[Assistant] And so we needed to find a way around that because as soon as an order from Linus Sebastian comes into a system integrator.


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[Assistant] You can bet your bottom dollar that that is going to get the white glove treatment just in case. You should try it. You should try to order a computer.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's like fraud, so don't, but I think so. Impersonating someone? It's gotta be.


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[Assistant] Like you're not allowed to place orders fraudulently, and giving a false name when you place an order I don't think is like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so I don't actually recommend falsifying your payment information, but...


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[Assistant] That's one of those sentences. I read an article today that, uh, the title was...


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[Assistant] I'm a millennial and I don't recognize any of the words that they added to whatever dictionary today. I feel like I recognized most of them. It was things like zero-day. Like it's just like kind of technical terms, like stuff that I know what it is. So I wasn't like, oh, I'm so out of touch. I'm a millennial.


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[Assistant] That sentence you just said is the kind of thing that...


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[Assistant] Okay, we've made it far enough into just the like, bullcrap, us reading merch messages and super chats and stuff. Uhm, that I'm gonna give you guys the heads up because most people will not make it this deep into the WAN show. You guys are clearly dedicated.


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[Assistant] We do not have a ton of WAN hoodies. So there's a couple mentions for the hoodie coming up in a couple videos that are coming next week. My expectation is that the second that mention drops, we are going to sell out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we ordered, uhm, you know, whatever. You guys are, you guys are the, you guys are the dedicated ones.


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[Assistant] We ordered four thousand and we have already sold over a thousand and so far all we've done to promote it is we tweeted once


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[Assistant] We sent out a message to previous LTT store buyers and we wore it today. That is it.


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[Assistant] And that might sound like a lot, but compared to our plan, which was like the Northern Lights desk pad. So compared to our plan where we, we were going to do a dedicated short circuit unboxing. When we did the dedicated short circuit unboxing for Northern Lights desk pad, it was, it was insane.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then remember for Deskpad, we also had like a making of video on LTT. So we weren't planning that for the hoodie, but we were going to follow it up with a bunch of mentions in LTT videos. We did two mentions, realized that the sales velocity was way too high and we were just going to be out of stock of the thing for like four months or something like that.


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[Assistant] So the next shipment, there is another shipment in production, but the problem is that it is not done yet. So it will hopefully be done in some weeks, and then after that,


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[Assistant] It needs to be shipped here, and it's heavy and bulky, so shipping it via air is not that feasible, it's not very cost effective, so it's probable that it'll end up on a sea shipment, which means that with all the ports and logistics delays around the world right now, it could easily be


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[Assistant] Grab it. Uhm, don't, don't feel like you'll never get a chance again though. This is an ongoing skew, so if you don't have $90 right now, don't spend it.


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[Assistant] Uh, wait, wait, just know that you're gonna have to wait for a while. Yep. So that second production is going to be another 4,000 units. And then we are currently talking to the factory about, uh, like a lot more because I was blown away by the demand. I mean, we only sold.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we were expecting that it was gonna be like, summer.


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[Assistant] So we, we kinda, we kinda underordered. Instead it's Winter and Q4 and we're selling hoodies. We thought we were gonna already have the second shipment and we thought we were already gonna have some sales data to put together.


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[Assistant] And you guys are, you guys are, you guys are huge. Uh, thank you very much. So yeah, don't overdo it. If you don't have the, if you don't have the funds right now, just don't. Just wait for the next one. Uh, but if you were like, waffling, you were like, oh, maybe I'll order it.


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[Assistant] Next week, or next when show, so that I can do a merch message or whatever, then I strongly would advise against that. I want you to make sure you get one now then.


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[Assistant] Anonymous, uh, long time listener, first time merger, uh, love the comedic approach to tech.


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[Assistant] I played all the days of the BF2042 beta, Luke.


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[Assistant] Sarah, Sarah does such a great job. Yeah. Uh, Sarah, Lloyd, Bridget, Matthew, the whole team there, those guys are freakin' awesome. Uh, Ken.


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[Assistant] Uh, anonymous. Thank you for the excellent work. LTT helped reignite my passion for PCs a few years ago. I've been an avid viewer since. Thank you. Hey! By the way, guys!


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, yeaah, the uhm, the making a pre-built PC great again video, right?


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[Assistant] Oh, Madison's been putting together some like very BS random videos for floatplane exclusives.


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[Assistant] Heck yea, check it out. They're exactly the kind of cringe you would expect. Ah. Ah, yes. Ah. Okay. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, so we're gonna have to call it at some point here, Luke. We can't keep doing chats forever. I'm kinda getting there, actually. Okay.


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[Assistant] Might actually not be as terrible a time as you might think, because if Alder Lake is as good as Intel says, that is going to shave some serious value off of like,


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[Assistant] Something like Ryzen 2000, which is very respectable hardware still. Absolutely, and you might see some upgraders. Yeaah. I think now might not actually be a terrible time for you.


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[Assistant] Oh, I read that one. I think I caught up to you then. Oh, did you? Nick is gonna freak out if I don't show this to you guys. We have our second edition of The Leak, the Linus Tech Tips store newsletter.


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[Assistant] So this is an update on screwdriver guys. We made a lot of tough choices about our screwdriver in the two years we've been building it. No, we don't have a release date for you yet.


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[Assistant] Yes, we are more disappointed than you are. But, uhm, there's a really cool, there's a really cool bit in here about screwdriver bits because that was something that we did a bunch of research into. Uhm, I know for a lot of industries screwdriver bits are considered more of like a consumable.


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[Assistant] Like, you just, you're putting them in power tools, you're throwing them away, like, you know, after a couple of days of use. Uhm, but for, like, someone who builds PCs and that's all they do, you actually...


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[Assistant] A feature of your bits might actually be that they last for a really long time. Uhm, and because we've got these shorty bits in the screwdriver, we wanted to make sure that if people are careful with them and don't lose them, that they wouldn't have to replace them any more often than possible. Or any more often than they absolutely have to. So, uh, Kyle actually wrote up,


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[Assistant] Uhm, really cool little, little blurb about, uhm, the research that he did into titanium bits.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, whether they make any sense, whether they're actually any better than steel, what makes them better than steel or not better than steel, and it's just a really cool, really cool little write-up.


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[Assistant] So you guys are going to want to make sure that you go subscribe to the Linus Tech Tips store newsletter.


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[Assistant] I talked to Nick about it this week and I think that the goal for the newsletter is for every time we talk to you about something there to be an educational component, whether it's


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[Assistant] Learning about supply chain, learning about material science, like this one, uh, learning about design, uhm, I think having, uh, one of the ones I suggested to him was having Sarah talk through all of the different colours of t-tukes that she did not.


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[Assistant] Select for our new lineup and sort of why, like what is it about these, why do we choose these colors? Cause it's fascinating and it's the kind of thing that if you're just browsing on a store you don't.


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[Assistant] It's quite possible that a lot of the stuff that, uhm, you know, Bridget and Matthew and Sarah and Lloyd are working on could be some of your first exposure to sort of like a higher quality garment. We see so many comments about the underwear that are like, this is the best underwear ever. And it is, it's good.


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[Assistant] But there is stuff out there that's comparable if you were willing to pay like a whole ton of money for it. Uhm, it's just that, you know, I get it.


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[Assistant] Like I, I, I was a Costco shop, or Costco sock shopper for most of my life. Like I, I totally get it. Uhm, but there's a lot to this stuff that I just never really thought about until all of a sudden I was trying to, I was trying to lead a business that creates it, right?


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[Assistant] So yea, go make sure you're subscribed and, uh, give it, give it a read through. Uhm, we're gonna, we're gonna try and make sure that the newsletter is not a waste of your time. Obviously, there'll be stuff like, hey, you should probably buy this, uh, because it's like a store newsletter, but I wanna make sure that it's content. It's yet another content stream.


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[Assistant] And I think that's pretty much it for Wancho today. Do you have anything else that you wanted to jump in with? No.


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[Assistant] There's a few more orders came in. There's a ton more, but I did already tell people, like, the cutoff, the cutoff was real.


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[Assistant] Okay, you know what, thanks Quentin, Kalador, Sean, Min, Anonymous, Luke Ninja looted me this water bottle. I don't even know what that means. You don't know what ninja loot means? No.


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[Assistant] Brandon, I may spill something on my first one. Getting another. I have the money, not worried. Thanks guys. Alright, Brandon. Thanks, Randy. I work in IT, can I get a button down shirt? We have a short sleeve party shirt coming. Uhm, I don't know if that's quite applicable. A party shirt? You haven't seen it?


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[Assistant] It's actually pretty cool, Boyd decided. It's pretty cool, it's very comfortable. Uhm, Anthony, long time viewer, just wish pick up was an option. So, I do kinda wanna do an LTT store, not com.


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[Assistant] I wanna call it that. Nick, are you watching? lttstore.com will be our retail location.


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[Assistant] It's funny! I do wanna do a physical location here in Vancouver and I would like to offer pickup if we do that, but man, commercial leases here are absolutely insane right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jagger, I talked about the Secret Labs chairs when we did, uhm, when we did Alex's, uh, Extreme Tech upgrade. Awesome.


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[Assistant] Alright. Cool. Patrick, uh, with Alder Lake not being square, when can I expect my bed-sized CPU pillow? We do have some other, uh, CPU pillows coming, including a Team Red one, so, uh, stay tuned for that. I don't think we have an Alder Lake plan yet.


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[Assistant] Thanks Andrew, thanks Robert, uhm, thanks Michael.


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[Assistant] Alright, we really do have to call this at some point. People are ordering faster than I can scroll. So, uh, Raphael, when will the new MacBooks be reviewed? So, uh, Jonathan's been working on it. He's our Mac address host. Uhm, Anthony's been working on it. He's doing the LTT angle. And I have not even really looked at them yet, other than to be like, ooooh. So, we're working on it.


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[Assistant] Thanks for tuning in guys. Hope y'all enjoyed the show. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Terrible channel. It's a bad channel. Same bad channel.


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[Assistant] Brought to you by Secret Lab, Ridge Wallet, and...


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[Assistant] The leaked CD Projekt Red code, uh, or sorry, I should say data, uh, was sort of...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we'll see, uh, how strong that is. Also, as vaguely as I can possibly go.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean for everyone. I want you to reanalyze that sentence for a moment.


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[Assistant] Okay. People that were already shopping for a 3090. Yes. This is a good bet.


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[Assistant] There have been some ADTI launches, like the, the 1080ti was actually like, I remember correctly, pretty strong for bang for the buck, but I don't think that's a normality.


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[Assistant] It's sort of been that way too. Not just during the shortage. It's often been quite difficult to get a Foundry's Edition card.


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[Assistant] If you're willing to scalp it, which is kind of a...


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[Assistant] Not, I don't have the beat button yet, but it's not a great exactly thing to do.


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[Assistant] And you hope this doesn't trickle down, because that argument is all good until like the next series of cards is scaled up above reasonable numbers because they're basing off of whatever, whatever, but that's not what we're seeing here technically, uhm, and I think there's a lot of evidence of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's interesting. There's, there are some people, people in research positions, people that need these cards genuinely for, for work. Uhm, and that kind of sucks, but again, it's, it's not really based.


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[Assistant] The pricing isn't really based off of the card that I think a lot of people are assuming it is.


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[Assistant] And I don't think, I don't think to put words in his mouth, which I could even be wrong about, uhm, I don't think he's saying you should be happy about it necessarily either. Me? It's just, it's just, yeaah. No, not at all. It's just probably not for you.


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[Assistant] That was a sweet card. I, I, like.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's, it's timing wasn't exactly the greatest, but I remember being super excited about my 2060 and I wrote that thing out for like four years.


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[Assistant] I don't remember which one it was, I'm sorry, but a new battlefield came out and it was like starting to get to the point where I was like, alright, this is a little rough. And then I finally upgraded. Uhm, I think there's this culture going around right now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where you have to run everything at, at ultra and you have to get 120 FPS. Uhm, which like those things are great. Don't get me wrong. Fantastic. Love the experience. Uhm, but when you can't do it.


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[Assistant] Like, you don't need to break your bank for it. It's okay. You'll be alright. You'll live. You're probably just playing like League of Legends anyways, just to be completely honest. Uh, like, I don't know. You almost certainly don't need this. And if you do...


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[Assistant] Yeah, sucks that you're buying during a scalping, pandemic, silicon shortage, mixture of horribleness. And that's about it.


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[Assistant] That was, that was the chungus topic. Do we, uh, do we do sponsors now or do we move on?


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[Assistant] Not personally. I'm a little surprised people forget that. That wasn't even that long ago. Like, this is recent news, the like, war between LTT and Nvidia. This... And I can tell you something right now.


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[Assistant] Linus is not about to necessarily work to fix that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, he's gonna stand by his words, and like just, but he's also not going to...


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[Assistant] Say that something that they do is like horrible when it's not.


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[Assistant] I remember that being astronomical. I don't remember right now. And to be clear, it might not sound that high before he says it. It might not even sound that high, but things constantly scale.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's ultimately it. They're not, it's, yeah. The, the, the horde as a, as a whole is not going to care or listen. Uh, they're just mad. And they're mad that the thing is expensive. Rawr. Uh, think too much. Don't want to pay. Yeah, that's fine.


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[Assistant] But it's, it's not for you, dude. Like, you don't have to build blinged out systems. Build blinged out systems on PC part pictures.


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[Assistant] It's really fun. I used to do it all the time. Spend way too much money on PC part bigger, but don't check out.


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[Assistant] And anything that relies on developers is always highly questionable because


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[Assistant] There's, it's, it's been extremely documented for many, many years, the ever changing landscape and hyper competitive competitiveness of game development.


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[Assistant] Leads to things being dropped off and scopes being reduced or massive, massive crunch times. And they don't necessarily want to add to that on. Um, so stuff like this where they're like, yeah, it's in the developer's hands often just gets dropped.


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[Assistant] And it might get better over time, but that's not something to buy a product based off of.


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[Assistant] And, and I, I think, I think the price is silly and we've laughed at luxury products on the show before and that's not something that will necessarily change. But, uh, yeah, they're really expensive. That's part of the, yeah, that's part of it.


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[Assistant] Something that hit me more, to be honest, and, and I knew this already, but I still, uh, is, is not even the, the scalped eBay prices, but the, what they're actually being sold at, at stores versus Nvidia's stated price. Like that difference is quite huge. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I lost track. You said you might feel like you need to upgrade every generation. Oh yea, you don't.


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[Assistant] This, yeah. You know my opinion on people buying stuff way above what they need. Yes, that's true. I just feel like it's getting worse. I don't know. I don't know why. Maybe it isn't. I could be entirely wrong. But like, the anger over the 3080 Ti pricing, uhm,


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[Assistant] And, and just like processors, like old processors are still doing so well. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I recently did a test. I'm potentially doing a home theater piece. This is totally off the side.


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[Assistant] Sorry, sorry, I do want to go there for a second though. Uhm, so I took apart my girlfriend's computer and we rebuilt it with some of my old hardware, right?


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[Assistant] So the stuff that was previously in Geodude is essentially my girlfriend's new computer in a new case. Uhm, I took the board that she had, which was this ITX board with a 2600K on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, guess what that does when you pair it with a good GPU? Pretty good.


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[Assistant] Totally fine, even though it's a 2600k, it runs VR games at like decently acceptable rates. Ridiculous. It's amazing.


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[Assistant] It's fantastic. Like you don't, you don't necessarily need this stuff. You can, you can relax. It's okay. Sorry. Continue.


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[Assistant] I don't know whether you're wrong or not. I want someone to dig this up because I would love to see this down the line. I would actually love to see like a video on this CPU in X amount of years because that kind of stuff is very, very interesting. And yeah, that's awesome. Very well balanced, really cool process.


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[Assistant] Is you guys doing a, uh, course for gamers? Course, sorry, a what now?


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[Assistant] I think future proof becomes less of a swear word when you're doing it with value oriented devices, if that makes sense, or products.


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[Assistant] When you're going like, I'm future-proofing by buying this individual part that's


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[Assistant] I unfortunately couldn't hear a single word he said.


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[Assistant] I know, right? When's it happening? Let's get it going.


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[Assistant] They can try though. They can try. What if you just do them both at the same time? Oh, double dip?


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[Assistant] There's more cool stuff coming for the store. Some of it's backend so you guys won't see it, but uhm, there's also, there's also fun stuff for you too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so quite a while ago we, we talked on the WAN show and so did


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[Assistant] So they can't use Android OS anymore. They have officially released their alternative smartphone operating system Harmony OS 2.0. That's really fast.


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[Assistant] Just putting that out there. That is super fast. Hopefully it's, hopefully it's good, uh, but that is super fast. The company wants to see the OS be integrated into a stack of OSs with versions extending to a car OS.


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[Assistant] SmartThingsOS, so yeaah, they're just trying to replace the, the operating system stack that you would see with other similar devices due to having, uhm,


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[Assistant] That's, this is a big part of the reason why I'm like, that was really fast. Cause if it was, like, okay, whatever. But if it's not, that's...


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[Assistant] That's pretty crazy impressive. Uh, ours, Tecnica, has trouble seeing how different Harmony OS is from Android. This continues to be the weird journey the reporter had to take to get to access the SDK and emulator, which involved, among many other things, sending him, sending his US passport photo.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that makes a little bit more sense. Okay. Okay. It's, it takes a lot to make these things. Like it takes a really significant amount of time and investment and two years to generate. That is wild. And my, my immediate reaction was, okay, there's either.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like I said in the intro, uh, the source code for Cyberpunk 2077, the source code for the red engine, the source code for Witcher 3, uh,


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[Assistant] It's gonna be like super well encrypted or anything. Uhm, I suspect so.


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[Assistant] Morphologists, uhm, the, the guy that, uhm,


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[Assistant] An insane computer. He's also like an architect that reviews the architecture of gigantic spaceships. Like it's, it's really specialized and really cool. Uhm, but it's not every gamer.


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[Assistant] I, I love Steve. I, I don't know. Steve's freakin' fantastic. Gamers Nexus is fantastic. I don't think Linus was trashing them either. I don't think that's how that went at all.


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[Assistant] There wasn't like a fight there. Uh, like that's not the conversation that's going on. Linus mentioned earlier in the show, a lot of times when someone points out like, oh, this person's a shill. It's very often, not always, but very often because the person saying that is a fanboy and that paints their vision. And I think that might be.


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[Assistant] There's a disagreement in how things went, but there isn't a fight.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't like that the thing is so expensive.


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[Assistant] But I understand why and it's not for me and it's probably not for you. And that's like its whole own conversation, right? Like I, I don't care if a Louis Vuitton bag is $50,000. I genuinely have no clue whatsoever how much they cost because I don't care. It's not for me. It doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] So maybe that doesn't really count, but like I do care of something that I generally buy and is, is, which is basically always going to be a value for dollar.


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[Assistant] Alright, oh wow. The LCT profile pick was Linus Cosplaying Jobs. Yea, that was, that was quite a while ago. That was a long time ago. That was funny though, but yea.


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[Assistant] You'll probably be fine. But yea, that would be uh, that would be horrible.


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[Assistant] Okay. I think it's like you spend it within the, I could be wrong, but I think you're supposed to like spend it within the ecosystem. Like a, like a credit kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Did I not say bye? Are you waiting for me to say bye? What happens if I don't say bye, like ever?


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[Assistant] We placed an order for black shirts in August?


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[Assistant] And I'm still waiting on like 2,000 of them to show up now. Yeah. Like, it's, it's bad.


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[Assistant] The nice thing is with these t-shirts, it's only gonna take like three months to get a restock, even though we're literally shipping them from like China, so.


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[Assistant] Okay, let me do a little explaining, boys. I know some of you guys already know this, okay, and you're like a tech genius. So this is uhm, I don't know why this computer doesn't have it, but normally you're gonna have two colors. Right. These are your channels. Ah, sometimes. Something called dual channel, I think. Or something like that. Okay.


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[Assistant] Okay, why would you have the tubes down? Aren't they gonna work against gravity, dude?


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[Assistant] And then you install the thing on the bracket, and then you bracket it in.


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[Assistant] It's not the same size, dude. No, no, it's fine. You got the other holes. It's okay. It doesn't fit, dude. It does. It's fine. Well, we're gonna be using those then. Then we have to use those then. People are gonna tell them to flip it around, right?


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[Assistant] A tiny bit and I loosened it and I pushed the whole motherboard to the side and then re-bolted it. It would have given me a bigger play zone to get the screws.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna re-box most of this stuff. I can't chat with you in your case. There you go Corsair.


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[Assistant] How hard can it be if Linus can do it? It's your fault Linus, you made it look easy. True.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, okay. Can we talk about their creative branding? Can that be a topic? Because the internet flamed them over PS5. Okay, we can talk about it. Yes.


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[Assistant] Even for like, rather extreme typists, I believe it was rather over-engineered in the state it was already at. My keyboard that's having issues. Hold on.


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[Assistant] Just based on the name alone. They're all keyboardists. They play guitar sounds by pressing keyboard buttons. I love it. The extreme typists.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the, the camera doesn't like the dots all being close to each other.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was gonna say if you touch that to the wall, might be a bit of an issue.


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[Assistant] Let's just immediately start Googling. Wow, yeah. Yeah, okay.


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[Assistant] Alright. Oh yeah, no I've actually, I've seen these. What are we talking about? I didn't know it was technically still XLR. But I've seen these, you've probably seen these too. They're on a lot more like old retro-y kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. Yeah, okay, so like what I was gonna say, actually amazon.ca has the, uh, the ends for XLR power cables, so you could like make your own cable if you needed to.


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[Assistant] I think if, if I can get my opinion in here, I think what is ultimately king is content. And if you are going on a good rant, I think it is my job to try to either keep you going or understand when it is genuinely too far and then try to derail you.


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[Assistant] Okay, I was wondering if you were having the same stance as me. Uh, running there, is it Z? XE? I'm calling it XE so far. XE, but it's a lowercase E, which dissuades me from...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna bring this back up when we talk about the Sony naming thing that everyone's so bummed about. Anyways, uh, their Z, I'm not gonna call it Xenon because that's gonna get more confusing, uh, discrete graphics architecture. Rather than being hush hush about it, they just announced it, showed it to everybody, they put it in the laptop, they, I believe they showed it in the PCIe configuration, uh, but in that configuration, it's just kind of like a dock for the laptop version, which is like, we've seen that before. Also at the same time, hella disappointing though.


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[Assistant] I was planning that like switcheroo computer where I was gonna do AMD CPU Intel graphics card. So I thought it would be gonna be fun. Now I'm like, uuuh. Maybe not.


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[Assistant] So great. He manually counted the frames in a video and determined that Destiny 2 was running at roughly 46 FPS on low 1080p. So performance similar to a GTX 960M or an RX 560 laptop edition.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is pretty, uh, notably not exciting. Maybe, maybe there's more than one graphics card coming?


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[Assistant] Okay, to be fair, in this scenario it's probably more intense than that. Uhm, because like, no game ever has been made for this type of GPU.


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[Assistant] I love how it's, just a quick aside, I love how people pretend like it's been decades since I worked on computers.


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[Assistant] Notably, like way better. Because it's their first time entering the market with a discrete GPU.


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[Assistant] Entering the market. I know they've worked on it before, but entering the market.


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[Assistant] Okay. First time in roughly twenty-


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[Assistant] Something that you just made me think of is when you listed the like Windows and Linux and Mac is something that's gonna be really cool is once that PC is out, if it's a real thing, whatever, is that gaming PCs will have the whole family back together.


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[Assistant] Gaming PCs will mean all three of them. That is true. That's actually pretty cool. Go Proton. I like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Like, immediately. I think so? Yeah. So, uh, yeah. So it's difficult. Okay, sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, can you breathe through it and feel it on the other side? Sure.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you got, you might have gotten it through the lace area there, so if I had to assume you might have gotten a little bit of water inside just because, uh, the thing, but I don't know how the thing around the laces works.


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[Assistant] Well, no, cuz, no, cuz we had a follow up conversation to this not way too long ago, and I thought you said you were gonna do it for like 2019, and then get another one.


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[Assistant] Okay, before we get into this, I really want to talk about the naming thing. PS5, what do you think?


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[Assistant] My one fi- the thing that drives me nuts is everyone looks at Xbox and goes, oh well you can't count linearly. And everyone looks at everything else and goes like, why can't you just make it a simple name? And then PlayStation's like, we got you. This is the fifth one that we have made. And everyone's like,


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[Assistant] Yes. I was not a huge fan. Basically looks like Spider-Man font, a hundred percent.


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[Assistant] Oh, they also say Spider-Man. Is it literally the same font? Is it? They say Spider-Man on PlayStation 3 goes Spider-Man.


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[Assistant] But, the thing with PS4 is that the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox looked so freaking similar.


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[Assistant] Like, they're both, is that trapezoid? Is that the right name for the shape? I could be getting that wrong. But they're both kinda like- Parallelogram? Parallelogram McPrism? I don't, yea, it's been a long time since I've- Parallelogram I think is right. Yea. Cause both the-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think you're right. Anyways, they both had that same general design. I was kind of amazed that they were so similar.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like this is the PlayStation, and this is the Xbox. This is a burger. This is a Big Mac. Like, I don't know. They were so freaking similar. But it looked sharp. They looked good.


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[Assistant] The thing that I saw was that people were mostly angry about the, not angry, disappointed, I don't know, about the boringness of five in general. But it may have been, uh, mis-aimed aggression. Right. And it might have been that the logo itself was boring because they did literally nothing new with it.


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[Assistant] Here's the devkitty one, mostly silver with black accents, blah blah blah. Uhm, and then here's the one we're talking about now. It's a tiny picture. Uuuh, zoom.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that looks way better. I think it looks great in mostly all black with the blue lighting.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, that was one of our main consoles. Our main consoles that we had were definitely N64, no, SNES, N64, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Those were like the base for us.


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[Assistant] Would you, would you trust your life in the hands of Sony?


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[Assistant] So- Yeah, okay. But they kept releasing them for a while after they stopped caring about them. And this is a car. So, hold on a second. So- Okay.


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[Assistant] Something I will, I will give out, I saw a comment about this and I thought it was great and I stand by it 100%. Sony used to be nuts.


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[Assistant] They would just make everything, and they would send things out there, and they'd put tons of marketing and production behind it, and if it flopped, they were just like, boop, and they'd just go try something else. And that's how they got into a whole bunch of weird markets.


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[Assistant] Then they got really sheepish for a very long time, and then they made a car. So like, maybe Sony's back, and that's cool.


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[Assistant] Do I want it? No, not personally. But I hope it does well.


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[Assistant] Okay, there's someone in the floatplane chat with the name on floatplane. Like, they made an account with this name and then paid money to Linus Tech Tips with this name. Like, this is their handle for sure. It is i7-6969X. And that is hilarious. I just, I just love that.


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[Assistant] And a decent amount of the stuff that I would be worried about like working are stuff that is for sure going to be solved by outside companies like the brakes.


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[Assistant] You have to find a frame and stuff, but uhm, you can literally also buy kits.


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[Assistant] Honestly, yea, that makes sense, especially if you're outsourcing the motors at all.


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[Assistant] If they release their car, you review your car, flip it and get this one. What do you think? Fine.


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[Assistant] That's a relative assumption. I feel like you could take it back based on that. I don't want you to, but that is a very understandable stance if they were anti-right to repair then what's really the major difference?


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[Assistant] Yeah. So like, I feel like that's a reasonable out.


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[Assistant] A lot of what Sony is the cameras. That's true. And the, a lot of the knowledge about Sony then goes to the console.


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[Assistant] Which like, you might want, solder updates for your console faster, but they, it doesn't mean they don't release a lot of them. Yep. And they kinda won the whole last console generation. Yeah, landslide victory. That was, yeah, they, they took that one home. No doubt. I mean, switch. We're, we're talking Xbox versus PlayStation here.


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[Assistant] Probably still a decent amount cause families and stuff. And me.


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[Assistant] You don't have a PlayStation 4? No, I stole the works one for like a long time.


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[Assistant] We shouldn't be listening to you. I'll get into why not in a moment. Fine. I had a deal with AJ that I would play Horizon Zero Dawn in 2020. I stopped playing it when it first came out. I was really excited for it to come out. He really liked it a lot. I was like, no, I'm not going to play it. And as a joke, I was like, yeah, in 2020 I'll play it. This was like... 2017? It's 2020 now! And I've basically just been like, I can't, I don't have one, sorry.


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[Assistant] He did say- He did say- He did say- He did say- He can still borrow our PS4 anytime he wants. I said, uh, once the lounge is back up, I might play it from the lounge.


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[Assistant] Because I don't want to take it home. But I might play it from the lounge. And the lounge is coming.


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[Assistant] He said I could play Detroit Become Human, so I might do that instead actually.


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[Assistant] But, and that's on PC. But that's on the Epic Store, so...


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[Assistant] Me neither. Yeah. Yeah. That's not actually just cause I'm cheap.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so basically it's a little portable console that looks like a Switch, it looks like it's maybe a little thicker, looks like it's maybe a little wider. The controllers, in my opinion, ergonomics don't look entirely there, but they might even end up being a little bit better.


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[Assistant] They become annoying to use if I'm trying to play something very seriously. And if I'm trying to do like a game where you have to hold the joystick in a direction for a long time, they become a little frustrating. I have little caps on mine and even then it's like still not great. But they look really small on this one too.


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[Assistant] Like if you look at this dude's hands, or maybe, I don't know, but if you look at this person's hands, like that controller compared to a Switch controller, unless this person has tiny hands, is HUGE.


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[Assistant] I dunno. And like, do these controllers clip in? Looks like it, yep. Do they slide in?


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[Assistant] Wow, look at my, uh, just jumped because of ad loading. Thanks, Business Insider. But, uh, look how- Oh my god!


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then companies did, uh, and now they're here to stay for sure, and they're actually doing quite well.


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[Assistant] They shouldn't have had to do this. They should have just had better production. So we saw their like entire production and it was like a relatively small room.


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[Assistant] It really needs this. It has an LED display. Backlit LED display, just in case you didn't think it was backlit. Uh, that shows the time and outdoor weather. So it disguises itself as a clock. Cool.


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[Assistant] That's pretty funny. I mean it's fine, uh, it's just a box though.


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[Assistant] Alright. Like maybe it has like stuff that makes it so you don't smell it from outside of the box. It does really look like a clock. Okay. Oh here, hold on. Oh my goodness. Alright. Oh wow, way to ruin everything, Luke. Well I think they have a thing that's like, are you sure you wanna be here?


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[Assistant] Yeah, are you 21 years old? So can I even show this? Uhm, no. Yeah.


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[Assistant] A really old desktop clock. Like a really old one.


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[Assistant] Great, great work. Are we in the wrong line of business, like? Maybe. Maybe we should make boxes. Yeah, should we just make like, a cute one? We always do all the hardest stuff.


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[Assistant] I don't know who to be more disappointed in. The, the like awards company thing for giving a box with a clock on it, the innovation award at CES or the entire rest of the consumer electronics industry for not making something better than a box with a clock on it. Like I don't know which one. I don't know. Who knows? But there you go.


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[Assistant] I would just watch on flowplain cause the better quality, but I mean, you can, you can do whatever you want. If it's satisfying, do it up.


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[Assistant] It still kinda works, I guess. Uhm, someone deleted their message.


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[Assistant] Some guy in Twitch chat asked, where can I buy Luke's shirt? LTDstore.com. Go, go, go. Uh, Ilya says, so- Right here. I guess he knew that. That was a joke.


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[Assistant] I do. I do. It was a Pokemon. It was the typing of a Pokemon. I don't remember which one.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But then- Probably how that kind of ended up going. And then we have that, and we can work for-


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[Assistant] One of the, a fun rule could be that the first trade can't be a computer part.


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[Assistant] Uh, you didn't ask for this story, but...


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[Assistant] Back when my brother and I were kids and skateboards became really popular for our generation, because they phase in and out constantly, uh, we had this old, terrible scooter.


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[Assistant] And it had like a bolt on handle thing and it had a flip up at the back, but the front was flat and it was just horrible. I don't even remember where we got it from, but we decided, hey, it's a skateboard if you unscrew the handle, right? So we did that.


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[Assistant] Not really. Uh, we tried for so long. I mean like genuinely a very long time. I don't think, and either of us ever were able to land a kickflip. What we did do though, was some pretty sick, you know, when you're standing there you just stomp on the tail and you watch it flip for a while. That was entertaining. Cause that's pretty much as far as we got. There you go.


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[Assistant] Like the targeting is, the combat is really rough. The conversation stuff is fine, but the combat is very, very rough.


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[Assistant] D&D's a little mainstream if you're in the tabletop space though. Just saying.


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[Assistant] There are other games you could spread out. You don't just have to play D&D forever. You play other tabletop RPGs.


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[Assistant] So did you know, okay, in a video a while ago, you look at the camera and you say BRB tornado.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you told me that. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know, cause like, that was immediately screenshot and just put everywhere. Cause people just loved it.


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[Assistant] The second, the second someone sent it to me, cause I didn't know about it, I watched it, and the way you looked at the camera, I was like, he's talking to me. It's like, this is pointed.


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[Assistant] I would like to watch you play it. That would be my vote. I would watch streams of you playing.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I think you should stream it.


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[Assistant] In my opinion, the best way to go back and play Morrowind, especially if you haven't played it before, if you haven't played it before, you might not have to lean on this, but if you haven't played it before, is to cheat.


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[Assistant] There's a few different skills and things that you can artificially crank up that make the game just kinda not stupid.


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[Assistant] Like a, an old, and this comes from D&D, but an old gaming thing is just that you like miss all the time, and it's not fun gameplay, and Morrowind is extremely in that realm, so you walk up to like this giant dumb crab that can't do anything, and you have a sword, and you stab it in the face, and the game's like, MISS!


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[Assistant] And you stab it like a million times, and you have to get your longsword skill up or whatever, then there's individual skills for like, every very granular type of weapon, which is cool, uhm, but also makes the gameplay really annoying, you just can't hit anything?


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[Assistant] There's really clunky things in the game. To like, get past those, uh, tedious game mechanics, cheating and just individually cranking some skills will probably make your experience better.


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[Assistant] Votes are pouring in, but I think we've already kinda got our percentage breakdown.


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[Assistant] I did a, I did a min max of Oblivion and it gets ridiculous, but uhm, yeaah. You can like, jump whole buildings and stuff, it gets nuts, but, uh, that's why I think you should stream it.


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[Assistant] Cause if you're gonna replay a game, like I had a lot of fun. I did this, uh, when I used to do those charity streams where I'd play one game per hour.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think showing people that stuff and showing people like why I liked Morrowind was one of the big reasons of why I enjoyed that segment.


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[Assistant] He has done $100 super chats multiple times. He's done these for, this is like the third, there's more than one.


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[Assistant] I think he's gotta be close to like a thousand dollars he's donated through this.


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[Assistant] Probably not all. Welcome to the WAN Show. Yup. There's probably no infants watching and probably not too many people who get the seniors discount at Country Kitchen Buffet. With that said,


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[Assistant] Speaking of great, we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today. China is putting restrictions on video games for minors. And adults. So if you make your living pulling coal out of the ground,


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[Assistant] China feels like you don't need that particular form of escapism unless I've read the headline incorrectly. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm kidding, minor people. Well, okay, minors are people. Young people, young people. Okay, what else we got?


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[Assistant] It is quite a thing. Uh, Microsoft also reports that, you know what? James, I'm onto you!


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[Assistant] This is so stupid, it's like grayed out on YouTube.


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[Assistant] You just put the thing in and then you're just live, I don't understand. We're using the new YouTube dashboard for the first time, uh, for the first time actually, or at least we're trying to, it just shows like a spinny...


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[Assistant] Uhm, anyway, so we're, we're using it because YouTube's had this weird bug where Wanshow has


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[Assistant] Displayed a, uh, a stream date of a week earlier than it actually was for the longest time. And I think it's been affecting viewership because I think people are not reading the entire title to see the date. They're just saying that it's like a week old land show and they're not clicking on it.


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[Assistant] Uh, which makes perfect sense, I would do the same thing. I agree. So, I told YouTube support who...


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[Assistant] Has apparently not been able to replicate my issue, even though I sent them a link of a comment. Someone's like, why does this say it was streamed a week ago? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's kind of a new one. Uh, China introduces restrictions on video games for minors. Now, hold on a second.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second. Okay. Before we get too far into this. Alright. And before we actually go through all the details of it. Okay. Side discussion.


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[Assistant] The consumption of video games by minors be regulated in the same way that alcohol, cigarettes, uhm,


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[Assistant] Should access to gaming be restricted? And, and you know what? I mean, this is kind of an interesting one because movies...


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[Assistant] The way that they are accessible to minors is actually somewhat restricted. So now that the movie theater has sort of moved to the home, there's less that, you know, a government, for example, or a regulating body can do to control what minors are seeing. Like, you still go-


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[Assistant] Uhm, so then, where's the, where's the line? Should, okay, not where's the line. We'll talk about the, we'll talk about the finer points later. Should miners access to video games be restricted? And let's start with in any way. In any way.


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[Assistant] But parents, uhm, no offense to the parents out there, a lot of you are idiots.


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[Assistant] And quite frankly, if there was a test for whether you should be allowed to be a parent, you wouldn't pass it. Unfortunately, the only test to become a parent is whether you can convince a member of the opposite sex to, you know, and then you happen to be biologically capable, which quite frankly, so is a chipmunk.


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[Assistant] You've got parents making decisions like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Your daughter needs to go to the same school, like, le-regularly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and maybe you're doing an amazing job of homeschooling, but-


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[Assistant] A controversial decision, uhm, about how their kid should be raised is actually, you know, doing all the due diligence here.


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[Assistant] But that's sort of a separate argument from what you were saying before about restricting. So, okay, so, well, is that your bottom line? You should restrict the access to purchase the video game in the first place, but there should be no regulations with respect to how much time people are allowed to spend playing it. Miners, mind you. These are people who...


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[Assistant] People who are parents are just people. So think of all the people you've ever met. Okay, well there you go.


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[Assistant] So what if a government were to step in and provide guidelines? Like,


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[Assistant] Hey, we have found, we have found that more than 60 minutes of, uh, screen time a day will negatively affect your child's development in ways X, Y or Z.


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[Assistant] Uh, here are the sort of the studies we've conducted to form a basis for what we're presenting as fact. Sweet. So you think that's okay? Yeah. Uhm, but what if everyone just ignores it, and as a government, now,


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[Assistant] This is up for debate because there are people who believe that the government should basically do nothing. Uhm, small government. And, there's sort of, it's really funny because I've had conversations with people, there's people who are pro-small government who have thought it through very clearly.


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[Assistant] Does a government need to step in if they see a generation of people that basically are not learning basic skills and are busy playing Fortnite?


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[Assistant] I think you mean, uh, omniscient? All knowing, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think- Omni, whatever. Omnipotent means all-powerful. Yeah. So all-powerful could be very bad.


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[Assistant] Well I think you're, you're, you're hanging out at the bottom of the slippery slope I'm talking about. Yes. Okay.


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[Assistant] Okay, so then, slippery slope time, right?


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[Assistant] That it would be detrimental to a child's safety. To their health. To spend too much time playing video games.


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[Assistant] And not a lot of like in between. Like you're saying, they're not the kind of person that, you know, finishes hanging out with their friends playing soccer and then just like, kind of like, veges for a while.


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[Assistant] Sure. Okay. Wanna talk about candy now?


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[Assistant] Because honestly, a big part of the problem is kids buying them for themselves. You know, buying them at the corner store on lunch break, or from the vending machines at the school, or whatever else the case may be. And like, guys, I know there's gonna be people that are mad about it, uh, who are watching the WAN show right now, I don't even care.


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[Assistant] That stuff is actually poison for your body. Uhm, actually, don't drink it.


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[Assistant] And if you can't control yourself, then- I think one of the, like, most positive- That's- wait, that's your- that's your deal. As an adult, that's cool. But as a kid-


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[Assistant] It is detrimental to your development to just drink, like, literally. I forget what it is in most sodas. It's insane. It's about a quarter of the can. I was gonna say, I think it's


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[Assistant] Everybody moved from, uh, let's use marijuana as an example. It's something that was legalized here recently. Oh, video demonetized. I know, right? Go on. So, let's say instead of buying a joint and smoking it until it's all gone. Sure.


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[Assistant] I was just buying a plant that would reproduce infinitely very easily. Okay?


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[Assistant] We're different than what they are now. There wasn't a daily DLC. There wasn't a seasons pass every quarter. So it was, it was more of a buy once. And there was kind of a limit to how much time you could really spend playing Super Mario World.


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[Assistant] So WoW did have the advantage, actually you could buy cards, you could buy cards for WoW. Subscription cards, right? But those come later.


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[Assistant] So this- And EverQuest was out before that. So this issue has been around for a long time, but something that just kind of goes forever, I don't think it's quite enough to just say, okay, well we clearly need to restrict this.


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[Assistant] They choose to. Cause, well, parental controls implies that there's an unlimited button.


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[Assistant] Like, through Family Link, which is what I use to manage my son's phone, I can say he can have unlimited screen time. I don't.


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[Assistant] This kind of regulation is putting more restriction, more burden on us. All for the sake of, what, reducing our revenue. How are we supposed to justify spending development cycles on this?


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[Assistant] But, do you agree that a child who obviously lacks the self control, who is spending, you know, 6 to 8, 10 hours a day playing some game, I mean Fortnite's just a great example because, like every kid that I have encountered seems to play Fortnite, I don't really get it.


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[Assistant] I never thought I would, uh, say this, but I agree with the Chinese government wholeheartedly here. So, the one thing that I have trouble with here is that, uhm, minors are just sort of broadly defined as under 18, which I guess is sort of technically something the whole world pretty much agrees on, but- Yeah. But usually on like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't say that, like, uhm, an 18 year old is somehow...


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[Assistant] Yes, absolutely. Now, another thing, now it's something to keep in mind is that China isn't treating everyone exactly the same. No. Uh, online microtransactions, for example, are capped.


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[Assistant] They're capped at $28 monthly if you're under 8 years old, $57 monthly if you're under 16, and then if you are older than that, there doesn't appear to be an online microtransactions cap, I guess presumably because you're making your own money maybe, or like...


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[Assistant] How can I fathom the logic of, uh, the Chinese government? Roughly how old? I was 16.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so let's have a look though at some of the other measures which not all of them appear to be segmented depending on how old the minor is.


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[Assistant] So when you tie your, when you tie your, you know, sort of like government supervised, you know, banking information into your like personal, you know, private corporate entity, like WeChat account.


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[Assistant] But that's where it's supposed to be up to the judgment of the parents to make a call here. Uhm, now this is the big one.


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[Assistant] Maybe that happens, okay? Now, everything so far has at least sort of seemed somewhat maybe sort of reasonable, because these are kids that are supposed to be going to school, so you shouldn't be gaming while you're supposed to be sleeping.


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[Assistant] Uhm, especially if the argument being made for it is that this is to ensure, you know, health and proper development of children. Yeah. Uhm, registering online game accounts with a real name and number.


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[Assistant] You know what, there's lots of arguments to be made both ways, but there are compelling arguments to be made for that people should probably be held accountable for the thing, the way that they behave online. Uhm, this next one though, I think-


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[Assistant] Miners are restricted to 90 minutes of game time everyday except national holidays.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uhm, so miners are restricted to 90 days, wait, okay, so on national holidays,


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, you're allowed a maximum of three hours on national holidays. And then, this is where things get super-de-duper crazy.


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[Assistant] For adult gamers, they are banning playing games that depict, depict sexual explicitness, goriness, violence, and violence.


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[Assistant] Yeah, unlike games that I would look at and go like, like really? Like gambling. Define, define gambling. Like if I go to the, uh,


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[Assistant] So, so we can wrap this up. Uhm, it's not clear how offline single-player games factor into the new guidelines.


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[Assistant] So that's interesting. I mean, as far as I can tell, on the subject of sexual explicitness, like, a lot of the sexually explicit games that I'm aware of are in VR. Where there's a-


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[Assistant] Okay, I don't know, I've only gotten as far as like, the pictures on the Steam store page.


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[Assistant] I was like, is this what I think it is? And it was exactly what I thought it was.


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[Assistant] Cause Steam even still tracks your, well I didn't say that.


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[Assistant] What is, what is slippery frequency? You know, speaking of steam, okay, you know what, let's wrap this up and then I'm gonna rant about steam for a little bit.


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[Assistant] And that's more than just like the art of the game, that's even just the fundamental design of the gameplay of the game that is going to be affected by something like this. Simply stunning.


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[Assistant] Uh, stop carrying around pointless items in your pocket like receipts, old hotel room keys, and all the other crap that you know you don't need. Ridge Wallet helps you carry less. They use two metal plates that are bound by a strong elastic to keep your cards tightly together but still accessible. You just poke them right here and you can whip them out.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh! Apparently, I'm supposed to show you guys the website. Actually, can you pull that up? Yes. The Virtuoso website? On it. Sweet!


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[Assistant] And it features 50 feet of range on wireless. It's got a detachable microphone, and it's Discord certified for crystal clear communication. Check it out today in carbon, white, or gunmetal at the links down below. Finally, the show is brought to you by Savage Jerky.


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[Assistant] Without being bad for you, it's so hard to talk, cause like, I'm like, wow. They've got 13 different flavors of jerky, such as their sriracha bacon, and my favorite, maple buffalo bacon. I love this stuff, it's so good.


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[Assistant] They also make barbeque sauce, hot sauce, and a spice rub. Check it out. At. Dang it. There we go.


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[Assistant] Their hot sauces are amazing. The jerky's great, but like honestly, I think the better bang for the buck is in the hot sauce, cause you can put it on anything. Very good. Jerky, you have to eat as jerky. Unless.


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[Assistant] You can put it on whatever you want.


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[Assistant] I wanna have another piece, but I think Nick is standing here so that I'll tell you guys about our promo on LTTstore.com. We are back in stock on Constellations! Oh nice. Also, check this out. So the circuit board shirt, we are blowing them away.


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[Assistant] Uh, the circuit board shirt is going away and we've got a promo to say goodbye to it if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the bloody store. There it is. Uh, what's the promo again?


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[Assistant] Uh, I think Yvonne was supposed to delegate that to David. Okay. To find a day and coordinate it. We should do- Cause it's like pretty expensive, but in the grand scheme of things for like a corporate event, it's like pretty reasonable.


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[Assistant] So our buds over at Serve the Home noticed the numbers looked a little weird, particularly the Gromacs GeoMean test in the Life and Material Science section.


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[Assistant] Okay, if we're gonna talk about the letter of the law, the test is still valid. Yes. Because they did technically use the same version on each machine. It's just not fair. But this is lawful evil. Or relevant. Yes. Lawful evil. Yep. Not, like, lawful good. Nice. Yeah. Solid. Yeah, it's not nice. It's not like, you know what? Good job, bro, thanks. Yeah.


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[Assistant] As outlined by Serve the Home, they pulled similar stunts on several other tests, including using, uh, ICC compiler. Is that the stupid Intel compiler?


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[Assistant] Okay, so yep, using ICC compiler, using lower thread counts with AMD, using old Linux kernels.


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[Assistant] Comparing their 400 watt part to AMD's 225 watt part, while AMD by the way does also offer a 280 watt part, and they also just didn't bother to mention the price of their solution, which is


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[Assistant] Intel responded updating their blog post with numbers from Gromacs2019.4 with no material difference to earlier data posted on the 2019.3 version. They also said that threads per core equals 1 was a typo and they meant 2.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, maybe the answer is for Intel to stop publishing benchmarks of their own products.


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[Assistant] It's been pretty much impossible to use off-the-shelf software in order to evaluate their performance because nowadays especially through a combination of DRAM caching and operating some of the flash in SLC mode and some of it in like, freaking TLC.


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[Assistant] And your performance just tanks. Uhm.


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[Assistant] The advantage of consumers everywhere, and the only reason to keep all of your benchmarking tools private and in-house would be if you don't want anyone else looking at them. And so I remember telling, uh, Intel at some point, I was like, look, creating an IO trace is


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[Assistant] A little bit above our level right now. This is a tool that, uhm,


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[Assistant] Once you know how to do it is as simple as doing a bunch of things and then seeing how quickly the drive can run its way through it.


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[Assistant] And they were like, oh yea, that seems like a cool idea. And this was just a lower level person I was talking to. I didn't really expect it to go anywhere. And it didn't. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And so this is, this is a great example of how


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[Assistant] You know, you'd never, it would never happen. But what we really need is for Intel, AMD, you know, throw IBM and Armin there while we're at it. Sure. To get together and say, okay, look,


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[Assistant] In the meantime though, I guess, you know, just re-serve the home.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is probably our last topic for the day, cause I don't, I think my brain might explode if I try and go, if I try and keep talking after this. Uhm, the original source is The Guardian, and James Dean will apparently be resurrected for a new Vietnam war drama.


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[Assistant] Like, could I still be hosting tech videos in a hundred years?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that could be the script, like maybe you, maybe the underlying message of the movie, you know, like just to, to use an example. What if uhm, you know, Rosie O'Donnell, they used her likeness for some, you know, ultra far left leaning, you know, show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, that's another thing too. You can't just pretend that the day someone died, you know, like, that, that's, that's, that's it, given the context of, you know, when he died, like, he died 64 years ago. So given how much has changed in the world in 64 years, we can't say that James Dean might not be a completely different person today if he was still alive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the filmmakers will, this is a horrible quote. We searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role, which has some extreme complex character arcs, and after months of research we decided on James Dean. No! No! Find an actor! There's like, this is such a they took our jobs moment.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now we're talking about licensing people, which is madness in the first place, but like, let me give you a whole other, like, level of madness. When does a person enter public domain?


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[Assistant] So the filmmakers will use pre-existing film and photographs to create a full-body CGI of Dean with another actor providing his voice. They can't even, like, this is...


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[Assistant] They have received backlash online. Oh yea. One director said, He was both saddened and confused by the negative comments.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, Chris Evans, uh, Captain America piped up. I'm sure he'd be thrilled. This is awful. Cap, I'm getting mixed messages here.


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[Assistant] I mean, even posthumously releasing works of an artist.


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[Assistant] Didn't Tupac, speaking of Tupac, didn't Tupac release an album Pused Humously? Pused? Pused Humously. After he died.


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[Assistant] Disney was waiting for some sort of statute of limitations to expire after Robin Williams' death, and that they had enough material from his recording sessions for Genie for Aladdin.


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[Assistant] So, I was reading an article, um, on Toy Story 4, uh, from the, ugh, I feel really bad because I, I forget her name, um, voice, uh,


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. Annie Potts. So, who's the voice actress for Bo Peep in Toy Story. And apparently, with all the changes to the script and the fact that they don't read in the same room as each other and how long they've been working on it, she had never actually seen a finished script.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't until the movie was screened to her that she realized that she was like, the leading character.


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[Assistant] Have you read a Bernstein Bears book by Mike Bernstein, the son of Stan and Jen?


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[Assistant] Microsoft, it reports 40% increased productivity after decreasing working days. This is specifically Microsoft Japan. They tested a four day work week. Now what I did notice is that it doesn't say anything about how...


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[Assistant] Uhm, how long the days are of those four days? So if they're like four 12 day work days, then yeaah, I could see needing a break. Uhm, they saw...


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[Assistant] But, okay, they also did other things at the same time, including capping meetings at 30 minutes and increasing remote conferences. Uhm...


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[Assistant] They reduced their electricity cost, and they printed somehow 60% fewer pages in the period. I don't really- That's pretty weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we also don't know, like, how, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't know what the work, the total work week actually looked like. According to a 2016 government study, almost a quarter of Japanese companies required employees to work more than 80 hours of overtime a month. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, there you go, that's a thing. Who knows? Let's do a super chat thing. Uh, Kang says, did you just get started?


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[Assistant] Back when you posted that. Who knows? Cupcake person. LTX 2021 happening? Why don't we worry about 2020 first? Yes, 2020 is happening.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Tyler says Fence and Sensei X. Thanks Tyler!


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[Assistant] Uhm, thanks Cam! Oh, any possibility of keeping Wancho episodes as a Plex web show? Oi, I don't know, maybe. Uhm, yea, it's a low priority.


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[Assistant] Karaz says, would you consider a video comparing ultrabooks and eGPU noise and performance? Uhm, no, not really. I mean, the noise of an ultrabook is the noise of an ultrabook and then the noise of the eGPU is the noise of the eGPU and you literally put them together. Uhm.


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[Assistant] TechX says, I actually just don't even bother. I just use them because I don't really care what my battery life is. It is alive until the noise cancellation starts to kind of like, derp out, and then it's not, and I put it in the case.


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[Assistant] But honestly, I mostly wear them, not even listening to music, cause the noise cancellation is so good, uh, and they're just really comfy, so.


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[Assistant] I would be forever grateful if you could hook me up with a coupon code. I stayed up until 2am to send this. I have no idea how to- I don't even have a tool to message you, dude. I'm so sorry.


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[Assistant] Uh, Paul, any opinion on the Halloween video feedback? Yeah, I think I'm just too old. Uh, Seth says okay, boomer.


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[Assistant] Bunch of people are sending gamers nigh- Enclave Strong sent a Gamers Nexus message. K, boy, what are you guys doing?


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[Assistant] Alejandro says, what happened to the release of TechLink stress balls? Yeah, where are my stress balls?


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[Assistant] Thanks. That kid was upset cause I gave him candy. Cause I thought he was too young to appreciate hardware. He comes back later and cries. Cause he wanted a cell phone. What? Anyway, fine.


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[Assistant] Daniel asks if we've got the GTX razor blade stealth yet. Yes, haven't gotten around to working on it yet though. Sebastian is sending more Google opinion rewards money. Boomer. Thanks, Sebastian.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you guys should get Janice to guest host an episode of TechLinked. Not a bad suggestion, Peter. Cool. We've never had Taren do one. We realized that today. So he's, uh, he's signed up in the queue. Uhm, Tristan says,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that he can have more time to recover.


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[Assistant] Thanks, Johnny Nimble. Uh, Vincent says, at what point did you become a communist, Linus? What? I don't know. Let's see. Let's see the red back there.


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[Assistant] That's all I'll say for now. Just wait a little bit. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Matthew says, can you do your shirts in 100% cotton? Probably not. We like the blend, uhm, so we're gonna stick with the blend for now. Cotton would be cheaper, but like...


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[Assistant] Hey, have you seen the design for the, uh, the, uh, floatplane shirt to commemorate launching, uhm, Did you? Like, floatplane and stuff?


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[Assistant] Hold on, I don't have- On Teams? Yeah, it's on Teams. Uh, I don't, I don't have Teams logged in here, so I can't, I can't show it to you right now, but it's pretty sexy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, is that the, is that the copy we agreed on?


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[Assistant] Joshua has a great discussion topic for us. LTT. Great channel or greatest channel? Discuss. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Todd sent us a joke. What do you call broccoli that isn't green?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the answer, but that's like, really stupid. Good try, Todd.


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[Assistant] I mean, breaking the law in China is like not necessarily a good plan. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, Hoshi says, love the channel, brought me back to the PC, is it possible to run a Plex NAS server and a SteamCache from the same machine with Unraid? Uh, yeaah, you should be able to do that. Uh, I've never set up SteamCaching on Unraid, although we did set up a SteamCache VM, like just using Unraid as a VM host, and then we had that running a SteamCache off of


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[Assistant] Passed through storage devices. So yes, you would definitely be able to do it. It's just a matter of how.


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[Assistant] Uh, Green Lungs. Thanks Green Lungs. Uh, Gordon Child says, this conversation is stupid. Please mo- Okay, I'll move on. Sounds good.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cole, can you please make LTT case badges, fangrills, et cetera? Uh, probably not anytime soon. VC Jester, more game reverse nexus stuff. Uh, Hib Fisher, they shouldn't be limiting the user's playing ability, they need to use their strengths to make sure developers don't use predatory tactics.


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[Assistant] Uh, Luke says, I'm still waiting to buy your book. Luke O'Brien. Uh, I haven't even started writing it. So I guarantee you, uh, it'll be a bit. It'll be in seasons, passes. Uh, Venom Squad says, when's the Minecraft server going online? We are planning to launch in just under a month.


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[Assistant] People would buy the crap, they'd probably buy the crap out of yours, Yvon's. Oh, I'd buy Yvon's. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jim says, would you recommend Synergy or Mouse Without Borders? I've never tried Mouse Without Borders, but there was another one we used recently that was pretty good, that wasn't either of those two.


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[Assistant] Yeah, on the super ultra wide monitor, we had a Mac and a PC. Maybe check out that one as well.


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[Assistant] One Thrust Man says, long time listener on Apple podcasts. People listen to this on Apple podcasts?


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[Assistant] Uh, what else we got? Robert Malen, more Gamers Nexus stuff.


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[Assistant] This ad break brought to you by the Gamers Nexus Mod Mat. It says deep fried lettuce. Alright. Thanks guys. And that's enough for today. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel! Bye!


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[Assistant] Oh right, the intro thing. Where is it? There it is. Oh crap!


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[Assistant] And welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen. We're a little bit late, but, uhm, at least we got the video done, right?


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[Assistant] We are doing a thermoelectric cooled computer, but instead of doing it kind of the, uhm, like the, the janky way, well to be clear it's still janky, but,


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[Assistant] It's probably the jankiest thing we've ever made. But what it isn't is the stupid way of doing it. True, yea. So it's, it's, it's janky, but it's like the right way, but


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[Assistant] Some serious nerd drama that's going on with, uh, Global Foundries, uh, issuing a lawsuit against TSMC. So these two chip fabs are going toe to toe.


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[Assistant] And finally, AMD apparently agreed to pay out $35 per chip over their FX series marketing lawsuit. That...


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[Assistant] Is actually a pretty intro- actually all three of these have a ton of meat. So let's go ahead and get Doug into them after we remember for a change to roll that intro.


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[Assistant] So it has been a pretty busy week. The first thing I saw on the chat there was people were like, where's Anthony? And you know what?


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[Assistant] That's pretty rude. I haven't been on WAN Show in a couple weeks, and if we just had Alex and Anthony doing it, then I'd feel pretty left out.


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[Assistant] No, they meant, they meant instead of you. But, uh, but actually Anthony is really busy. So Alex and Anthony have both been working on really, really cool projects this week. So Alex has been doing the Peltier one that we just talked about. So it's like a 545 watt Peltier.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you even realize, cause you don't do our CPU reviews or really any of our legitimate actual, you know, cooler reviews. You're more like, okay, build the most overkill thing with, you know,


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[Assistant] 300 to 1000 watts of cooling capacity and then whatever we hook up to it, it'll be cool enough, don't worry about it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, the way that Intel and AMD report the TDP, so the thermal design power, I think it's thermal design power, whatever it is. Uhm, thermal design parameter, can't remember. The point is, the amount of heat that their chip is going to output, the way that they calculate TDP is completely different.


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[Assistant] So, right now, we have Ryzen 3rd gen and Intel's, uhm, I guess they call it 9th gen?


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[Assistant] It all depends on how you calculate generations, because we've been on Skylake for a while now, according to my watch. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Anyway, with their current products on both sides, the way that AMD handles it is they basically, do you know all this or am I just talking to them?


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[Assistant] No, not really. Okay, cool. So the way that AMD handles it is whatever the maximum amount of heat that that chip could output, uhm, assuming that it is going, it's running full tilt.


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[Assistant] That's considered to be the TDP, under like a reasonable load. So, if I were to, if I were to take my, my, you know, Ryzen 3700 whatever processor, and I were to throw, uh, you know, an egg on top of it,


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[Assistant] I can assume that if that thing is rated at 105 watts, that I'm getting 105 watts of heat and it's gonna take however long to cook my egg.


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[Assistant] Pretty much. Because it will turbo as high as it possibly can within its power and its thermal restraints. Or constraints, excuse me.


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[Assistant] Alright, so on the Intel side of things, now Intel has an 8-core desktop processor, just like AMD does, uh, the 9900K, and it's rated at a mere 95 watts. So given that 95 watt rating, that thing should be easy to cool, right? Yeaah, sure.


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[Assistant] So, here's the thing. Intel allows that chip to spike up to its max turbo


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[Assistant] And then what it expects it to do, what's within the Intel specification, is for it to ratchet back down. So as the, as the power consumption, and therefore the heat that it is outputting goes up, and as its temperature climbs, it's gonna ratchet that down until we meet this point, that I think it's called P2, that is,


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[Assistant] That will satisfactorily cool it at base clock speeds without causing thermal throttling, which is different from not boosting. Now that's something you have a lot of experience with. You want to explain for the people out there, what is the difference between thermal throttling and boosting? Because you see this in laptops all the time, right?


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[Assistant] Right, so the point to clarify there is that neither of those products necessarily thermal throttled.


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[Assistant] They just boosted more or less. And that MSI product is a great example of a customer of Intel's, so in this case it's MSI, but Asus actually had a big scandal around this a while back.


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[Assistant] But a customer of Intel's basically designed the, the firmware of their motherboard to operate the chip in a way that Intel doesn't necessarily intend for it to.


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[Assistant] Because some of them were using motherboards that used what's called, Asus calls it multi-core enhancement, which basically takes that elevated clock and then just holds it there indefinitely, and others were behaving the way that Intel calls for them to behave, which is to boost up to it and then fall down. So anyway.


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[Assistant] Back to our discussion of TDPs. The project that Anthony is working on involves taking, I believe it's a Ryzen...


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[Assistant] And the 9900K is rated at 95 watts, so on paper, you as the, let's say the uneducated layperson consumer walking into a store, you look at these two products. One's got eight cores, the other one's got eight cores.


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[Assistant] One of them is clocked at some clock speed and then also at turbos to whatever, because that's written on the box. The other one is at some clock speed and at turbos or whatever. Uh, one of them, uuuh, you know what?


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[Assistant] I don't want that extra 10 watts on my power bill all the time. One of them runs, consumes less power and outputs less heat. My room gets really warm in the summer. I think I'm gonna go with that one that's uh, 10 watts cooler. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But since it's not an apples to apples comparison and the chips are behaving completely differently, we think that the way that that's being presented doesn't make a ton of sense. So, do you know much about what Anthony's working on?