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[Assistant] We had, they didn't say that they were in New Zealand and like freaked out and was like, yo dog, what's going on? And he like sent an apologetic email to Dollar Shave Club and they're just like, how did you know that? Yeah, we just rolled it out.


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[Assistant] And Nick's like, yeah, we're paying really close attention. Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, they don't just have razors, they also have butt wipes for men, they have aftershave, they have their shave butter, all kinds of good stuff, so.


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[Assistant] This is very new. Uh, Nick, you can go. Whatever you have to say isn't gonna be nice to me.


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[Assistant] You know how it is. Love you, buddy. Uhm. Look, my mountain kinda goes with the logo. So, this is a product that we have been using very extensively over the last couple of years. And XSplit has actually launched a new version of XSplit, V2.


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[Assistant] Yeah, since, since before the Wanshow was the Wanshow, we've been using Xplit, we really like the software, it's stable, it's feature, reasonably rich, there's still a couple things that I might want to ask for, but for game streamers, or for like,


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[Assistant] Pro-sumer-grade broadcasters like us, you've got a ton of options being able to stream at any resolution, having it be easy enough to configure in only a couple of minutes, and being extremely affordable makes Xsplit definitely our platform of choice, which


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[Assistant] We don't have to, we don't have to like say it's our platform of choice because we just switched to using it because they sponsored us. No, we've been using it for a long time.


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[Assistant] Like what we're doing right now, it supports all kinds of different, okay, I'm just, I'm abandoning their notes because I like my way better. It supports all kinds of different broadcasting modes so you can broadcast at different frame rates and different resolutions.


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[Assistant] You can broadcast at different bit rates according to what's gonna work out best for you and the service that you happen to be broadcasting on. It's fantastic. It has so many more options compared to free stuff like NVIDIA's Shadowplay.


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[Assistant] That for many game streamers it's sort of competing against, but in my mind it's not really a competition if you're trying to have


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[Assistant] Uhm, what else am I talking about? Oh yea, I'm supposed to talk about GameCaster. GameCaster is one I haven't used as much just because we have the full broadcaster, but it's great for gamers that are looking to get started, you can easily stream and record your greatest gaming moments, can broadcast to live streaming services such as YouTube Live, Twitch, Ustream, and more, and the best thing is that Xsplit, the free license, is


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[Assistant] You guessed it, free! So visit XSplit.com slash Linus to try it out. The paid license, the one we have, allows like more scenes and higher quality audio.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go ahead and uh, move into our next topic here. Which is awesome. What's our next topic?


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[Assistant] Uh, this was posted by Victorious Secret on the forum. And this video is amazing. I like, I love this thing. Uhm, so basically there's been an issue with, uhm, let's go ahead and screen share.


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[Assistant] So, uh, so they're deploying anti-drone drones to go find these drones and break their shit.


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[Assistant] Nope, love it. Absolutely, absolutely love the way that, uh, the way that that just got done. So uhm, I guess the real conversation here is, is not, uh, is not-


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[Assistant] I think someone must be trying to do that.


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[Assistant] I was like, I think I was young enough when BattleBots was cool that I hadn't, you know, matured yet, so to speak.


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[Assistant] Awesome. I remember my favorite, my favorite battle bot ever was this completely OP spinning one.


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[Assistant] That just like, it, it, it went up against some like elaborate contraption that was like, yes, I will do this and I will do that. And then it was just like this, like super fast spinning one. It basically like went up to it and just like broke pieces off of the other one. It's like, it would just like try to attack it and the spinning one just


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[Assistant] Uh, oh yeaah. So right, so drones and privacy and all that kind of stuff. I actually posted this on Twitter last night.


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[Assistant] Uh, here's some footage of, yes I know I'm live on Twitch. Like it should not show me that. I'm me. Just like how it shows me.


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[Assistant] So this is 1080p. Uhm, so, this, this isn't the most interesting part. I think I go up quite a bit higher. So,


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[Assistant] As drone cameras get better and better and better, the ability to spy on people and things is going to get, become more and more and more of a concern. So, I mean, you know, right now maybe it's a nuclear power plant, which is like enough of a problem, but


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[Assistant] You know, that kid takes home from school, or like, there's all kinds of- This is amazing. Creepy stuff that you can do with this. And this, I didn't even go that high, I still had the 30 meter cap on. I increased it to- I don't even know how stable-


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[Assistant] I increased it to 60 on my next flight, and uhm, I didn't upload that one unfortunately, but this is uh, this is me and my son down here.


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[Assistant] It's absolutely incredible the kind of video quality that we're getting off of these drones these days. So I, I think it's cool that the French have come up with a creative solution to eliminating, uh,


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[Assistant] Blah, blah, blah, blah. The drone that was photographed is an Interceptor MP200. So you gotta check out, uh, where is it?


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[Assistant] So the Interceptor is a much larger and faster drone with six rotors, and the net it carries is, uh, pretty B.A. Um, Luke has another link to, uh, to an effective method for taking out drones. This is the... Kamikaze. Kamikaze.


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[Assistant] I love it. I gotta imagine firing a projectile would be easier than carrying a net.


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[Assistant] No, no, but I didn't mean bullet. I meant, like, uh, like, uhm, like some kind of, like,


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[Assistant] Like, like if you could, if you, like, and I don't know if this exists, but like a goopy surf, surf, like a goopy substance. Like if you could just fire like a, like a ball of like stringy slash goopy stuff that tangles it or something. Like basically, yeah, if you could fire like a ball of yarn at a drone, that would be very likely to take it down. Yarn is gonna have troubles flying.


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[Assistant] Uhm, speaking of things that work, uh, this was posted by Victoria Secret. The article we've got here is from TechCrunch. Apple's activation lock leading to a significant decrease in iPhone theft in major cities.


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[Assistant] You know, Apple and the carriers are running around all worried about, you know, us using the phone on the wrong carrier with absolutely no regard for all these years for the wrong person using the phone on the right carrier. And so California mandated these kill switches and said they were gonna bring a bill into law, something something, it's not actually active yet.


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[Assistant] But Apple has proactively started enabling this lockdown feature by default on iPhones. And, uh, there's some really interesting numbers to go along with this. So the number of stolen iPhones dropped by 40% in San Francisco and 25% in New York.


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[Assistant] So, so far Apple, Samsung, and Google have implemented kill switches on their smartphones. Microsoft is expected to release an operating system for its Windows phones that has one this year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but some of the smartphone systems require consumers to opt in.


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[Assistant] And, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Attorney General called on all manufacturers to make the technology active as a default position as Apple has done with the iPhones. I mean, I don't think anyone's gonna force you, uhm, except as law requires in the area that you happen to live. I don't think anyone will force you to use a kill switch anytime soon, but having the, uh, having it on by default I think makes a ton of sense. That's cool! Yep, I liked it a lot. Go Apple on that one.


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[Assistant] Uh, FCC now requires American carriers to unlock consumers' handsets. Uh, also posted by Victoria's Secret. Are you posting these? Yep. Okay, cool. I wasn't sure if you were keeping up. Fine.


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[Assistant] Quite as awesome as it sounds initially, so it's not like...


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[Assistant] You can walk into your local carrier store and, you know, go get some other carrier to bail you out of your contract fees and then you can just take your device over to the other carrier. Uhm, it has to be, it has to be fully paid off and blipity blipity blop and there's all this other stuff.


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[Assistant] So once payment has been completed, consumers can do what they choose with their devices. So this is actually the result of talks between the FCC and CTIA, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, which represents major carriers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I mean, there's no guarantee that carriers aren't still gonna be butt heads and make you jump through hoops or whatever else, but ultimately, they have to do it. So, you know, other than making you talk to a retention agent, or whatever the case may be, I suspect we mostly won't have to deal with too much nonsense.


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[Assistant] Luckily. America. Alright, The Verge. Wow, that is a big ad.


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[Assistant] Yup. I am viewing at 70% right now. Oh no, I'm at 100%. They've had bigger ones.


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[Assistant] That is, that forward one that you showed me was like, spectacular.


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[Assistant] Wow, that is a big ad. It's like, how does The Verge afford their baller CES, uh, their baller CES internet connection? Like that? Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil a new kind of battery to power your home.


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[Assistant] They call him the eccentric CEO.


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[Assistant] Is he more eccentric than, well, lots of other innovative CEOs?


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[Assistant] How many of those are there? Alright, fine. Uhm, so basically, something something, Tesla didn't ship nearly as many cars as they predicted, something something, maybe they have more batteries than they know what to do with, not really sure what the background is here, but,


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[Assistant] The company is working on a consumer battery pack for the home. Production could begin in six months. And they're still deciding on a date for unveiling the new unit. This isn't exactly a new idea.


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[Assistant] The Toyota Mirai, which uses a hydrogen fuel cell, gives owners the option to remove the battery and use it to supply electrical power to their homes. It can power the average home for about a week.


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[Assistant] Uh, BMW developing new plug-in hybrid named as i5 slash i7 to compete against Intel. Excuse me, the Tesla Model S.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go ahead and fire this baby up. So, uh, looks like this is to take on the Model S. Uhm, I guess that shouldn't be too unexpected. Yup.


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[Assistant] Uh, it'll be priced to suit with target volumes in the tens of thousands and a cost spanning from just below the Tesla to more than a hundred and twenty five thousand.


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[Assistant] Fetus cow leather, whatever. Double stitched interior, whatever the hell, yea.


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[Assistant] Okay, so 45- 4.5% of all units sold in the pace-setting U.S. CARB states must be zero emission vehicles by 2018. So, yes, expect to see more electric models and for them to become more and more affordable.


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[Assistant] The E unit in front delivers 204 bhp, and the smaller battery powered motor in the back is good for 95 bhp, sources say.


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[Assistant] Now, manufacturers who fail to comply by not offering enough zero emission vehicles, uh, transitional zero emission vehicles, neighborhood electric vehicles, or e-vehicles with range extenders have no choice but to acquire clean air credits from sources like Tesla, currently the major provider of such certificates.


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[Assistant] That makes German carmakers very sad. Uhm, alright, I think that's pretty much, pretty much it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, unfortunately, their CEO Jensen says that what they're showing off will redefine the future of gaming.


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[Assistant] Redefine. Doesn't say anything about a good definition, but, uh, the picture shows a thin device. It's speculated to be another Android tablet. I doubt it.


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[Assistant] If it's gonna redefine the future of gaming, it won't be, uh, an iterative release of something they've already done. There may be a tablet, we might get a Tegra, you know, X1 tablet or something, or whatever the latest one is, can't remember. Uhm, we might get a Tegra X1 tablet, but it'll probably be something to do with cloud gaming to go along with it, that would be my guess. Uhm, Grid, I got a, I got a, oh, as long as it's not embargoed, I got


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[Assistant] Something, nothing, I learned nothing and nothing happened. Uhm, so, anyway. Can you close that? I'm sorry? Close that. Why is that even open?


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[Assistant] Konami PC game sales surpassed their Xbox One sales. They went from 2% to 10% year over year and, uhm, has surpassed Xbox One and all handhelds now going head to head with the Xbox 360. This was posted by, oh, the previous one was Abhay6547 and this one was Deathgester.


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[Assistant] And the original article here is from dsogaming.com. Skip this ad. Ha ha! No money for you. Uhm, well I'm in a hurry. I think they get a little money for that. No, I'm pretty sure they still do. I mean, there's this ad.


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[Assistant] How can optional software be included? Isn't that the definition of optional?


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[Assistant] Uhm, not sure exactly how this works, but gives users the option of having their account permanently deleted when they die, or if they wish they can appoint a friend or family member to take control of some aspects of the account. That's interesting.


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[Assistant] What else have we got here? VESA publishes embedded DisplayPort standard 1.4a, includes adaptive sync, so this will be good for devices that need embedded DisplayPort, like, say for example, small stuff.


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[Assistant] Greater data rates, 8.1 gigabit per second per lane. Theoretical limit of 32.4 gigabit per second. We've got Ultra HD support at 120Hz with 10-bit color because, you know, DisplayPort just isn't content to wreck HDMI a little bit.


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[Assistant] Rapid firing them. Vesa publisher, I already did this. Well basically, that's what that website looks like. You're welcome. Uhm, next up, what do we got? The whatsapp thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the WhatsApp thing. WhatsApp may not be as private as some people thought. Supposed to by iHammy.


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[Assistant] Very unfortunate. Super not surprising at all. You thought anything that you posted to anything Facebook owns or really anything on the internet was private? Yeah. Uhm, so it's What's Spy Public is this app that, uhm,


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[Assistant] R. I mean this is something that anyone from like the MSN messenger days


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[Assistant] It's probably already familiar with, like you could see if someone blocked you just by entering their username into a website, which by the way, Microsoft patched and became impossible. Yet another way that MSN was way ahead of its time and everything else that's come after it totally sucks balls.


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[Assistant] Um, so anyway, you can see online and offline status, profile pictures, privacy settings, and status messages from anyone, even if they have the most secure private settings enabled in their account. And so the point of this was just, hey,


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[Assistant] We should probably draw some attention to this. Um, it feels a little, what, what would this be? Grey hat? Yeah, I guess.


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[Assistant] Speaking of hats, uh, Anonymous attacks ISIS websites and social media accounts. Uh, this was posted online as Tech Tips Forum by Sauron, and our original article here is from thehackernews.com. And, I mean,


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[Assistant] The thing about when anonymous does anything is that that's not necessarily, that doesn't mean that everyone in anonymous is a united friend doing something. It means someone saying they're anonymous, because that's the whole point, isn't it?


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[Assistant] According to the video, it's coordinated by Muslims, Christians, Jews alike, and a masked individual discusses the aim of the campaign.


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[Assistant] So uhm, they're releasing lists of Twitter and Facebook accounts suspected to belong to Islamic militants.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Twitter has already suspended more than 1,500 ISIS accounts since the group released the first list in June 2014. And dozens of militant recruiting websites were knocked offline using collective DDoS attack.


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[Assistant] Broadcasting this message in hopes of, you know, finding like-minded individuals and inspiring them to do unspeakable things. Uhm, actually that's super, it's very effective. It's like, it's like plant on rock effective.


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[Assistant] Like, there's no, there's no long-term commitment to, you know, you know, 2018 when ISIS is still doing whatever it is they're doing. There's no, like, there's no long-term action plan or anything like that, but it's good that they're doing something, anything at all now. Uhm.


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[Assistant] A short, painful show. For you. I had fun. Not because it was painful for you. It was just a bonus.


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[Assistant] I do have an exciting announcement though, uhm, I am going to be doing the first garage sale in a very long time today. It is going to be, as soon as I figure out how all the tools work, the after party is going to be straight up garage sale today because


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[Assistant] There is some stuff that needs to not be here anymore and is here right now. Uhm, and I need it gone. So that is why I am doing it. Uh, so that's pretty much it. We'll see you guys next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Thank you for tuning in to the WAN Show. And uhm...


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[Assistant] Do the things, do the things, watch the things. See, it works. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Is that, okay, do they give you a custom like bae thing? I guess so. That is it, isn't it? Yea.


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[Assistant] Or at the same time though, pretty much everyone that I've seen actually reporting numbers has had like fairly blatant disclaimers, being like, it's pretty spiky.


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[Assistant] Because like even, even the amount of times that I was able to get it live, like I could be just staring at one exact wall and like I lined up framings with like, okay, there's a groove along the wall here. I'll put my screen exactly on that groove. I stand on exactly the spot. Like I had the framing perfect and I'd look at it and get 63 FPS.


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[Assistant] And I look away and come back and now I'm at 52. And I'm like.


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[Assistant] Wow bro. I'm staring at the same wall, like it should be the exact same performance and it's just not. Like why not? What is wrong with you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there you go. Um, so it started off, I showed up to work quite early today, cause I was like, I need to get this testing done before the WAN show. Trying to be all good Samaritan and get you guys a video.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Didn't get a successful boot for, what, two and a half hours? Yeaah, no, you were talking to me at like quarter to nine. The first message I sent to you was...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the first message I sent you was before 7, because I got to work pretty early. I don't think I replied to that one. Nope, nope, not till later. I was sleeping. I thought so, I just wanted to send that message before I forgot about it.


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[Assistant] Anyways, uhm, had tons of issues, like, I w- I could load in...


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[Assistant] It wouldn't go like, oh you're offline now, you can't open those stupid freakin' chests. No, you actually can't play at all. And it's not like it just closes the game. The whole thing just like grayscreens and then does that like, uuuh, Microsoft is trying to figure out what just happened to this program, we don't really know, do you want to end it? I was like, of course, it's trash.


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[Assistant] Uhm, anyways, so then eventually I'm like, I messaged Linus and I was like, should I just go offline mode or should I go online mode? Like, there's a noticeable performance increase when you go to offline mode, which is hilarious.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we're going along, it's kind of working now, I still have a few issues, but I get over most of those, and I get through it, and I'm finally like, okay, I need to finally find a benchmarking run. I had planned to have a benchmarking run way before now,


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[Assistant] Finally loaded to the game and at this point I'm like, okay, I need at least, at least a little bit of a fighting scene. I mean, you need a little bit of free running and then I'll be happy. Good. I don't need much. Like I just need something that'll work. And I'll just say in the video that it's not great because I ran out of time because it was broken.


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[Assistant] You spawn in, I'm not gonna give any spoilers, but you spawn in, you run forward and follow some dude, there's a fairly quick little sequence thing, you run a little bit further, you stab some dude, you run a little bit further, there's a little quick sequence thing, you climb up some stuff, you climb up some more stuff, yadda yadda, fairly straightforward. And it captured the main things that I wanted to find, and I was like, okay, this can kind of work, but,


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[Assistant] Considering how fast I found that, I actually have a little bit of extra time. Let's see if I can push on forward and see if there's maybe a little bit more fighting scene. Because I literally just ran past this dude, poked him twice, and then kept going. That's all the fighting I got. And I knew people would have been like, uh, this is an Assassin's Creed, you have to stab more people. So I was like, okay, whatever. I'll try to find something really quick.


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[Assistant] Run forward, kill some guy that I didn't really seem was, I didn't think was super important in hindsight, like it kinda makes sense, but it went into this crazy long stream of


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[Assistant] I'm like, okay, well how do I get back to the last one? Cause that's where my benchmarking run is. You can't.


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[Assistant] You can't go back, at least at this point in the game, I don't know if maybe later on you're able to go into the thing that I'm going to not spoiler and go back, but at this point in the game, you can't go back in sequences. You also can't delete your save file and you can't restart the game.


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[Assistant] So you have your one save file and you have the furthest progress you've gotten to in that save file.


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[Assistant] What? So for the next little while, I was very surprised that you couldn't do that in-game, for one. But then immediately I'm like, okay, whatever, I'll just do the super ghetto option and go delete it from either, I'm assuming, my documents or app data.


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[Assistant] or inside the game folder. Not super likely that it's inside the game folder because you'd lose your saves if you uninstall the game, but it's possible.


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[Assistant] I start looking around and I can't find Jack. I can't find anything. I found a save games folder with folders that were just extremely long random strings of characters and inside those folders just files that were just random numbers.


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[Assistant] What? Okay, so I go and nuke, like, every single file that's been created today. Like, everything I can find, just destroy everything, whatever, like, if I have to re-download a small part of the game, at least I have the bulk of it, just...


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[Assistant] Go to like, destroy everything mode, it takes a while to find everything. Delete it all, launch the game.


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[Assistant] Actually, that kind of makes sense, because maybe you go into offline mode to like, hide from people, maybe it's their version of anonymous, but you don't want to lose your save files. Like, okay, that's actually not a horrible feature. I'm down with that. Okay, fine, I don't know how many people would want that to not work.


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[Assistant] Exactly, yeaah. But, or if it was like Steam where you could be like, I want to use the cloud save. Yeaah, sync or don't sync. Don't! Yeaah, yeaah. Options are good. Thanks Ubisoft, except no, thanks Steam. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So I'm like, okay, disable, go back through, I find those old files that I just deleted again. So I'm like, oh, they're cloud syncing.


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[Assistant] No, and I haven't. Wow! I've been working in my spare time instead of playing.


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[Assistant] No I hated 3. 3 sucked. Wow. I was not a fan of 3 at all.


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[Assistant] Wow. So all these gaming companies start art memes. I know. Thank you for being terrible gamers.


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[Assistant] I had a, uh, a guy on the forum and stuff, str underscore mape, had two shirts from, I think one from Distant Lines and one from Teespring, both show up with little holes in them. And he got both of them promptly replaced. Nice. Yeah. So that's good. All right.


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[Assistant] I feel like I had more crap to throw at Ubisoft.


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[Assistant] That's messed up. Oh jeez. And then what was it? Assassin's Creed Unity? The embargo date was 12 hours after the release?


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[Assistant] Right, so it's probably gonna bounce back at least a little bit. I hope it doesn't bounce back that much. Uhm, I don't want Ubisoft to die. Ubisoft has been a good company at some points in time. I think they just need a, like, massive b-slap to the face so that they wake the hell up and stop being idiots.


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[Assistant] How would you still notice? Really? Should I just not? Last time you got pretty...


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[Assistant] And like, with stuff like that, uh, that polygon post, like, people aren't gonna read that. And that...


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[Assistant] Not, not good, not good. I, I would lose consumer confidence basically immediately. If I had a Far Cry 4, uh, preorder, which I don't, but if I did have one,


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[Assistant] Honestly, probably would have cancelled it, once I read that polygon post. Cause I'm, I'm pretty skeptical already. There's very few things that I'll pre-order. I'll pre-order stuff like, uh, Smash Bros for Wii U. You would have normally pre-ordered Assassin's Creed. Actually, yes, I would have normally done that. I have done that for every single other Assassin's Creed launch but this one.


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[Assistant] I think it's because there's a much different mentality with like computer hardware companies and gaming companies. Computer hardware companies seem like infinitely humble and they'll take whatever you say and they're just like, yes okay, next time we do better.


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[Assistant] It's just, Ubisoft screw up, it looks, it feels like some like cartoon network, like, where they just keep falling forever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if they stop talking and start working some more, maybe they can fix some of


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[Assistant] Like Assassin's Creed is supposed to be the like, holy crap this game looks good.


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[Assistant] I don't think they need it, I'm sure they did fine, but it's just, it's just like, how did you get graphically outclassed?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that feels a lot like the, I'm trying to remember the name of it, but those HP things.


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[Assistant] Sure, why not? Probably, that's probably fine. Cool! Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's actually kind of absolutely fantastic, if I do say so myself. It's nice to see that, especially when you're getting a device that like,


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[Assistant] Talking to people that aren't you about SHIELD is like, often they don't really know what it is, or they're like, uh, is there really a lot of support for it? Like, I don't really see anyone using it.


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[Assistant] Now, I see it around a fair amount when looking at stuff like the- our forum. Yeah. And like, within the office and like these closed ecosystems. But!


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[Assistant] It's very new and it's very different. So people are a little bit skeptical about it. So I think it's actually really good for them that they're getting these, like they're pushing the update thing really, really hard and they're actually repeatedly getting these really early updates, which is awesome because that's just going to increase.


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[Assistant] Uhm, confidence that they are interesting products. And they are. They're really good. Actually, probably.


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[Assistant] Not really. And phones, the only reason I'm not super into phones, the only reason is because most of them are trash.


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[Assistant] It's true though, like there's so many, like there's so many that have glaring issues that you like know someone must have figured out. And then the droid turbo is just not coming to Canada at all. Is that right? In no form.


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[Assistant] My brother tweeted them and asked and they were like, no, the Joy Turbo or Variation Max are not coming to Canada officially from Motorola. Oh, that's a bummer. So like, awesome. What the hell? The one phone that's like, that's super cool. Nope. God. Wow.


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[Assistant] I'd be really interested. I'd want to check it out for sure. If they got the battery capacity right and they had a not trash camera, I would be definitely confident enough in the rest of the phone to be like, alright, let's do this.


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[Assistant] And those are all pretty good to play on that device as well actually. Especially Portal. Portal's really good.


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[Assistant] Or if they're gonna flip it 18 times 3 days before it's out, cause they kinda do that sometimes.


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[Assistant] And they've both been like, very oddly innovative.


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[Assistant] Drop it on like, a very point of a rock, but then catch it before it actually hits the ground.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but if it's a known issue, it generally is. So... So...


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[Assistant] Uh, customer service for like ship out and repair stuff. Uh, one of them was, uh, an Xbox 360, which was hilarious.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that was actually super easy. Right. Because they were all red ringing, so I'm sure their whole factory was just like, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out. Uhm, cause it was just a swap. And then the other one was, uh, EVGA when I was doing my mineral oil computer. And that was like,


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[Assistant] Please don't. You could. Yea, you could. It's technically possible.


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[Assistant] What are you talking about, for one? And for two, I'm sure you can just contact them. I've had to contact them about stuff before, they've responded very well and very quickly. So if you're having a problem with something, which...


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[Assistant] I'm not sure what you're doing because I've looked at actually a fair amount of the documentation for developers. It was all fine from what I've seen. Maybe there's something that isn't, I don't know, but just contact them and it should be fine.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I might not have heard that part. Is it the same thing? As what? Do you have the Google music that you have right now? Is it the same? Do you get this? Yeah. Yeah, okay, so they're together? Oh wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is, this is good.


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[Assistant] Okay, when was that article done? Which one? Was that, uh, was that done before like Note 4 came out and stuff?


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[Assistant] I, I, I very reportedly am not a huge fan of just rumor mill stuff.


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[Assistant] You very specifically hope this one comes through. That would be really exciting to see this card.


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[Assistant] It makes sense. The problem that I have with rumors is if you've been around for a long time, it would be really easy to fabricate a lot of them.


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[Assistant] Because you could be like, these things would make sense. Rumor printed. And a lot of the times, I even wonder if people are just like,


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[Assistant] I didn't say it wasn't expensive. And it's not even gonna help that much in terms of space, really. Like it's, yea. It's largely gonna be for speed.


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[Assistant] And for a store, for uhm, cause databases will need a lot of RAM. But in servers that aren't gonna need a ton of RAM, which there's definitely some of them, if you want to cache some of your drives and you can fill those slots with these, that would be sick. Because again, the reducing complexity thing, not having those extra cables and stuff, that's super, super nice.


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[Assistant] The only thing I can imagine Musk being against is if he looks into it and realizes that it's, like, I'm completely hypothetical. Right. So, realizes isn't a fact. I'm just saying, like, if this happened. Uh, realizes that it's crap.


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[Assistant] There's all these spots now filled up. Of course, we're going to keep putting super chargers because those are going to be the super fast ones, but this will massively expand your network. I'm sure he'd be down for that.


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[Assistant] I wonder if this data took account for faked stuff.


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[Assistant] I used to, okay, when I used to work at certain shops, uh, depending on where it was situated, so like depending on the demographics of the area around me, uhm, I could get from like one a week to maybe two a month.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's like 0.5 a week people coming in, like, oh, I had, this is even worse, this is just phone calls. Someone called me from Microsoft and said that my computer was sending the messages saying that it was having problems and they need me to go on my computer and type all this stuff and then I'm like, uh.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I should be saying this on stream, but it's fairly widely known and spreading the knowledge that exists might help get it fixed. Uhm, there's certain Google search terms you can use to find, uh, open IP cameras and you can get straight up into their control panels to the point where you can move them around.


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[Assistant] Like, it's crazy. I was doing like a presentation in high school talking about like internet security stuff. This was a long time ago. And I did a live demonstration in front of the class and like moved the camera around and everything. And it's like, yup, it's really bad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so just out of nowhere, just huge amounts of nothing.


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[Assistant] Oh, there we go. Except that's still a different company.


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[Assistant] Wait, are those different? Those are different! Oh no.


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[Assistant] Especially stuff, um, like apps or if you want to build a, if you want to build a program, which is going to solve someone's real world problem, you probably need to get off your butt and go figure out what that problem is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Which is great if you like, have a different job.


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[Assistant] And you're just solving your own solutions that other people might not have. That's awesome. That's a really good way to program. And actually most programmers that I know just do that because they'll have other jobs and they'll program their own solutions to stuff. Uhm, but if you wanna like make your job doing stuff like apps for phones, you probably need to figure out stuff to go do.


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[Assistant] We're just discussing an upcoming website feature. Welcome to the WAN Show. Thank you guys very much for tuning in. My laptop screen just...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so let's kick things right off. Let's, let's, let's make things easy for ourselves. We've got a bunch of great topics for you today. First up is Google Cardboard. You can use an ordinary cardboard box and a smartphone.


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[Assistant] It should make for an easy low-cost way to make that happen. Next up, we've got Ubisoft just keeps on digging. It's almost like this week they were trying to find something popular to say. So that...


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[Assistant] Wow, 60 FPS U-Type, to U-Type. U-Type! I can watch PewDiePie yell with that much more clarity now. Tweetube. Tweetube. Alright, intro time.


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[Assistant] Alright, we have a few sponsors for you this week. Uh, earlier this week we actually did a sponsored livestream.


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[Assistant] I mean it doesn't cost a, well it can cost a dollar, but it doesn't cost a dollar for like the really good stuff, but it's still a lot cheaper than the other thing.


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[Assistant] So I think I've gotten my point across now. And yes, the intro was playing and the music was broken. I actually kind of liked talking over the music. We should have music in the background. So uhm, next week we'll get like a music track, but for this week, can you just kind of beatbox while I do the show?


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[Assistant] Alright, so this was originally posted on the forum by RT. YouTube now supports Le 60 FPS. I actually retweeted this tweet last night because I was pretty stoked on this news.


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[Assistant] But there you go, so what they say is, motion intense videos will look even better on YouTube when we launch support for 48 and 60 FPS. So bring on the Hobbit piracy, since that's the only thing that comes to mind. 48 frames per second.


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[Assistant] No, but seriously though, higher frame rates are better for many things. I know you guys are probably expecting me to say, well, now every single video on YouTube should run at 60 FPS, but that's not necessarily the case. Gameplay will definitely benefit from this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, things like running around with a camcorder, probably not so much. The main benefit, the reason that we shoot all of our channel's super fun stuff for example in 60fps is the ability to slow it down to half speed and still play at 30fps, which to the eye, with appropriate motion blur,


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[Assistant] The eye and graphics cards, they, well they don't inherently have motion blur. They don't actually, uhm, help you put the pieces together of each of these frames the way that something like a film does. So 60 FPS, exciting. One little trick. You have to turn it up to 1080p in order to enable 60 FPS.


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[Assistant] Between it logging me out of the forum all the time and just flat out not working very well and crashing a lot over the last little while, I think, uh, we've pretty much broken up. So Firefox is now my tertiary browser.


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[Assistant] What's your second? At home, I am actually using Chrome.


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[Assistant] I.E. Firefox. Why not like opera or something? Opera doesn't work with anything!


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[Assistant] And... Google doesn't support Opera? No, they say, blah blah blah blah blah. Sometimes when you log into stuff, it'll be like, uh, yeaah, this feature works on Firefox and Chrome. And then half the time it doesn't work on Firefox, and the other half of the time it doesn't work on Chrome.


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[Assistant] We're doing all of this. It seems to be mostly flash related for Firefox for me. Yeah. And I mean it's not like Adobe and Google are in cahoots, so I think it's gotta, I gotta just blame the Mozilla team for that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, even then, not everything runs on HTML5, sometimes Flash things exist, and then my browser crashes, and then, and this is, this is something that I have an issue with with both Firefox and Chrome, is it seems like about 30% of the time, the restore last browsing session feature just doesn't work. I have literally never had a problem with that.


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[Assistant] Of course I did. I always do. You know what my computer looks like. Because I need to be able to alt tab between certain sets of tabs very quickly. So for example-


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of potential for this to be griefed. I have to think though that once the initial sort of spam dies down, It'll probably start to- It'll probably settle in. I think videos like ours will probably do reasonably well by comparison. And the way that I see it-


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I mean I'm sure YouTube will be able to tell. Cause in much the same way that they can take the audio track and they can caption it, I'm sure they can take the captioning.


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[Assistant] It's, it's actually kind of refreshing to see YouTube bend to the will of the community for a change, instead of just marching off in a direction and doing whatever the heck it is that they want.


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[Assistant] And then just expecting everyone to sort of fall in line. I mean, we want, you know, higher quality content and we want this and we want that. It's like, guys, that's great, but people are not watching that. They're watching.


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[Assistant] PewDiePie! Do whatever it is. Speaking of PewDiePie, I actually was this close to retweeting one of his tweets for the first time ever. I do follow him on Twitter, and I agreed with this so hard. And I was just like, Google, what are you doing?


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[Assistant] This is great, I can show the before and after. My name is now gone, now I get to click on this, I get to click on creator studio, wait around for that to load its slow ass, and then I get to go way over here,


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[Assistant] And click on video manager in order to manage my videos, which is where I spend 99% of my time when I am logged into my YouTube channel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, YouTube seems to be trying to pay attention to the needs of creators. They're finally giving us a dedicated YouTube creator app, which will allow us to manage things. That's actually pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Although, honestly, there's not that much more that I needed to do. They could've just fixed, you know, BROKEN. Like, outright broken stuff.


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[Assistant] Like, here's a couple of examples. Uhm, when you're loading comments, it just...


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[Assistant] And then the other one that was just broken as all heck is when I would try to reply to a comment, I think it is, and then go


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[Assistant] It's mostly, mostly there are reply buttons on everything now. Like people have basically just kind of accepted it, you know. I dunno. Drop Trowel and-


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[Assistant] In the old comment system, someone could have contact lock on, and there would still be a reply button. So you'd click reply, you'd type up a nice long reply to them, you'd click it, it would go away and it would tell you this person has contact lock on. They did not receive your message.


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[Assistant] Alright, so our, you know, it's funny, cause my issue on Firefox is that the forum keeps signing me out, my issue in Chrome is it keeps signing me back in.


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[Assistant] Listen to me! Alright, so this was originally posted by TwistedDictator on the forum, and this is Ubisoft, the original article is from GameSpot. This is Ubisoft coming out and saying


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[Assistant] VP of digital publishing from Ubisoft says, I don't want us in a position where we're punishing a paying player for what a pirate can get around.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Witcher developer CD Projekt Red thinks that DRM is an ineffective way to stop piracy on the PC. Them I actually believe because they've been reasonably friendly in the past. However, Ubisoft is just like,


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[Assistant] Oh, this is great. So what's key for us is making sure we're delivering an experience to paying players that is quality. So the question becomes what do we create as services or as benefits and the quality of the game that will just have people want to pay for it.


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[Assistant] And I'm just kinda sitting here going, blah blah blah, so okay, the more services there are, the reality is, the more services there are in a game, well pirates don't get that stuff, so when it's a good game and there's good services around it, you're incentivized to not pirate the game to get the full experience. This is all true.


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[Assistant] It's just that Ubisoft, it's not like they actually said, well here's an upcoming game, that we're gonna go, you know, uh, Steam DRM only, or we're gonna go-


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[Assistant] Oh my god. I mean, it's not like I agree with the pirates. I mean, this is, this is, this is interesting. Uhm.


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[Assistant] There was a claim, uh, that Bethesda's recently released Wolfenstein the New Order was pirated over a hundred thousand times in the first week, and obviously you can't say, oh well then they lost, whatever, sixty times a hundred, so whatever, sixty mill- six million dollars in revenue.


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[Assistant] Whatever that works out to. Uhm, they lost six million dollars worth of revenue because of pirates. You can't really do the math that way, but... You can't do the math that way at all. We have to agree that it is a problem, and I don't agree with the typical...


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[Assistant] You know, quite frankly, stupid argument that, you know, uh, piracy doesn't hurt cause it's, you know, basically like, uh, if they deserved my money, you know, after I, if I played it, okay, here, this guy, this guy basically made me pretty mad. Uh, Russian takeout, okay?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so this guy's like, well people buy good or great games. The problem is, when you have a game with a 5 hour single player and lousy multiplayer, how do you justify 60 bucks for it? Piracy helps the individual to test the game. I downloaded 10 to 20 games this year and purchased the 3 to 4 that let me play for at least a few weeks.


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[Assistant] And I'm kinda sitting here going, well, no. Because if you wanna have the experience, you should pay for it.


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[Assistant] If the experience wasn't good enough to have, then you don't have to buy it. And not every game costs 60 dollars. Wait like three weeks and it'll probably be 30.


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[Assistant] Dogs. Oh, that's gross. You know my old pony when I was a kid. Oh no. He would basically, like, if we imagine that this is the pony, the crap would come out this end, he would turn himself 180 degrees. No. Yep.


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[Assistant] I mean, I guess theoretically you could. It's...


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[Assistant] The funny thing- The funny thing about the 99% effectiveness is that I'm not 100% sure how you calculate that. Is it 99% of the time you have sex


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[Assistant] You won't cause a pregnancy, or is it 99% of the times that you would have caused a pregnancy, it doesn't? Cause it's hard to- cause I mean, if it's 99% of the time,


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[Assistant] There won't be a pregnancy, it's not even helping as much as we think. Because about 60% of the time to 70% of the time,


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[Assistant] Fertility is not an issue anyway and nothing would have happened. So, hmm. That is actually kind of interesting.


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[Assistant] Good timing. I wonder if piracy rates would go down if they just stopped talking about it. They just shut up. There's an interesting thought.


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[Assistant] Oh, there was other, there was another Ubisoft thing. They were saying, you know, why it's challenging to have the PC version come out at the same time as the console version and something blah blah blah. Is your higher-ups in your company?


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[Assistant] Anyway, here we go, uh, Android TV. So it looks like Google, uh, Google I.O. They actually had a bunch of stuff they were talking about. They showed off the upcoming Android L, whatever it's gonna be, Lickrish, Lollipop, Ludicrous. Ludicrous. Keeping with our rap theme.


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[Assistant] Just never stop. All the terrible jokes. No, I don't want to talk about that. Anyway, uhm. It weighs a lot. JK, it's light. So they showed off a bunch of really cool stuff. They showed off some really pointless stuff. They're moving to a more circular sort of design language now, which to me is kind of like, oh that's great, I'll put that on my circular phone.


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[Assistant] And when, and when your friend doesn't catch it, it'll say...


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[Assistant] Yeah, all these smart features. The Samsung Shrooken. No! Wrong! The speaker should not be the size of the back. I've been working on my LG G3 review, as well as my Surface 3 Pro review, and they both have rear-mounted speakers, which is still wrong in this day and age. What if it's a discus thing? It's still wrong!


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[Assistant] Honestly though, this- Actually that might be applicable. This whole Android TV thing, I'm kinda sitting here going like, how many times are you guys gonna relaunch the same thing?


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[Assistant] You're adding voice control, which I guess is interesting if you didn't already have a Chromecast and an Android phone and this functionality seems like it could have just as easily happened that way. The one place where I see this really being valuable is...


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[Assistant] In terms of more power hungry types of applications. So Nvidia actually on their own blog is talking about this as well.


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[Assistant] They are saying they want the K1, so that's their upcoming chip. Of course they do. They want the K1 to be the first validated chip for Android TV, which could be interesting because we'd be looking at both a powerful local gaming experience as well as a streaming experience with, you know, Netflix and all that other stuff. And...


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[Assistant] Uhm, having the ability to stream from the cloud or view things and play back things and game locally seems like I guess it'll be somewhat valuable. I just...


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[Assistant] You see it as that different from so many other things that are out there. I mean, you look at something like Ouya.


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[Assistant] I mean, is this really different from Ouya? With the skin on it?


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[Assistant] Yes, okay, the skin is important. I'm just saying, did we need a dedicated...


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, but what you don't have a way to do right now is get a low latency HDMI connection from your Shield 2 TV.


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[Assistant] So if that could be integrated, you could have a wireless controller or you could use your shield as a wireless controller. Like, the way I see Nvidia going with this to make it really successful is have there be an experience just for having an Nvidia chip in the device.


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[Assistant] So they enable GameStream as long as there's an Nvidia chip in your device. Then, if you have a shield, then you enable


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[Assistant] That's true. Uhm, so there's a couple more things for Android TV. It's, uh, so blah blah blah, clean interface, allows multiplayer gaming with people on Android tablets. When was the last time you played a multiplayer game over Android with someone?


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[Assistant] It's the same issue that PC gamers have. Nobody makes good co-op games for Android.


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[Assistant] Then, A, you won't see me on Wanshow because I'll be too busy playing Halo Campaign Co-op. And B, I will believe that something's changing.


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[Assistant] And we finished it and I played it with my wife and that was great and she was like, oh, that was fun. We haven't played games together in a long time. And I was like, yeah, that was fun. That was great. Uhm, and she was like, yeah, what other games can we play? I'm like, none.


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[Assistant] Actually, the only game that we found to, uh, to play together recently is this one. It's actually a fantastic game, and everyone should play it. It's, uh, it's free for the basic version, and if it ever manages to launch, then I'd love to show it to you guys, but in the meantime, do you want to bring up the, uh,


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[Assistant] Just made him so much terrible. And oh man, that's another thing that's been driving me crazy about how to address it with the, uh, with the LG G3. So the G3...


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[Assistant] It has one of the most terrifying end user license agreements that I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] And just with the recent thing that came out about their smart TVs and how if you don't agree to it they just downgrade you to a dumb TV, it made me really uncomfortable to have like five checkboxes to tick off including all this stuff about personal information sharing just to use my phone.


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[Assistant] Not a big fan, not a big fan. Unfortunately, this game isn't launching, but it's called, it's called Pocket Tanks and it's badass. So you can, they actually have, um, either hot seat multiplayer, or you can actually do, uh, LAN multiplayer.


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[Assistant] So my wife and I'll sit in bed with our laptops and like, fire little rockets at each other with our tanks and stuff.


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[Assistant] That's not that new, we've been playing it since we met. We met nine years ago, so. Okay. There you go. Not new. Not new at all. Gotcha.


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[Assistant] This is not working for me. So, I'm gonna find another way to share with you guys. Here we go. We'll just do it this way. No, no, it didn't work. I tried it already. It's all good. Try it now? Sure, okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that didn't work. Okay, so there we go. Uhm, moving on. That's right. Uh, the microconsole. Alright, so this was the original articles on Engadget. I'm just gonna, sorry guys, I gotta do this kinda manually here. This is gonna be kinda good. So, add, uh, screen region. Blipity boopity boop boop. And there we go. Blipity boopity boop boop.


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[Assistant] Hey, that is beatboxing according to you. Alright, Razer's Micro Console, a gaming micro console with Android TV available this fall. It should be noted that this is just a render, and this is not the finalized hardware, although they haven't exactly gone out on a limb in terms of showing us something that's difficult to manufacture.


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[Assistant] I think that's how they're going to handle the hardcore gaming though, and I'm really excited about that. I think it makes as much sense as SteamOS, uhm, just in-home streaming, whether it's through Valve's solution or Nvidia's solution is definitely the future in my mind, and uhm.


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[Assistant] That's true, right. So, okay, but, okay, Office 365 though. I'm using Office 365 now. Honestly, for the price, it's a great value. Subscription-based, I'm kinda sold on that.


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[Assistant] No, I'm just kidding. Through his program at school, he was able to get copies of Microsoft copies.


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[Assistant] Anyway, Razer's thing is unnamed so far, uhm, interface will be managed by Android TV, expected this fall, uhm, this is kind of funny, xorbot from the forum had a really great comment for the haters, saying that Uya and Mojo were commercial failures, this will be too.


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[Assistant] And then he responded to that saying, how many consoles were unsuccessful or moderately successful until the NES came along and made the formula work? I thought that was a really good point. I don't necessarily agree that Razer's console is gonna be the big winner here. And I think it's probably gonna be some integration.


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[Assistant] Within TVs that is gonna finally gain traction.


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[Assistant] The problem with, okay, the problem here though is the difference between car manufacturers and TV makers. Because car manufacturers have been through the worst of it. They're like, okay, we suck.


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[Assistant] Freaking ridiculously stupid way of doing things that has nothing to do with anything else. And this, this comes back to, and it's not a TV, it's the G3 again, but this comes back to my G3 review.


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[Assistant] One time that some proprietary, stupid, only within one grand standard worked on a consumer product. One time. I bet you can't.


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[Assistant] It works with professional-grade stuff. Sony gets away with it with professional-grade stuff because professionals have the budget to go and invest in an entire ecosystem, whereas consumers buy things piecemeal.


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[Assistant] So you go and you buy a hamburger, you buy some fries, and you buy something else, and you expect all those things to go together reasonably well. But let's say you go and you buy a house. Actually, let's not, let's not talk about, let's not talk about house. Let's come up with something, uh, uhm, hm.


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[Assistant] Something's up with a lot of pieces that kinda work together. Okay, let's say you furnish a house. There's a great example. Do you go and buy all the same brand furniture?


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[Assistant] Just because there's a chance that it will operate together correctly?


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[Assistant] Or do you buy what suits your taste and what's appropriate to each of the different things that you're trying to achieve? That's how people buy things. Consumers.


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[Assistant] I know, my favorite is the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the original one that didn't get support for all share.


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[Assistant] The cellular, uh, wireless version had it, and there was like a firmware hack that the Samsung rep was telling me I could do, and I'm just like, really? Why don't you guys just enable this crap? You're locking your own customers out of your own stupid proprietary thing that doesn't even work that well anyway.


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[Assistant] Uhm, leave this page. Here we go. So this is fun. We actually had a really great livestream with Intel earlier this week. I'm gonna post it in the Twitch chat here.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna go ahead, I'm gonna throw up the lower, the lower third that we used for it. So, it was hashtag Devils Canyon, and Intel's new CPUs, uh, just launched, and we actually had one of their product marketing engineers, uh, his name's Darren Lynch, on the show to talk about behind the scenes.


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[Assistant] Which is something, so guys, go ahead, bookmark that, go watch it later. It's only about an hour long, and it's really, really informative because there's a ton of stuff about what goes on.


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[Assistant] To bring a CPU to market that you don't even think about. I mean, we were talking about all kinds of crazy options, like having a liquid cooler in the box, having a gold-plated IHS. I mean, these are things they've considered.


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[Assistant] It's- he kinda laughed when I brought it up, cause he was like, yeah, it's funny you mentioned that, because uhm, I can tell you exactly how much that box cost. We ran out and looked at how much it would cost to source it. In fact, we've done it several times, both before and after the competitor did it.


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[Assistant] Just, and just every time, we just kinda looked at it and we went, you know, like, we've looked at packaging for extreme editions, that's like, a column.


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[Assistant] And uh, cause I, and it was funny because I didn't actually realize at the time that I had someone who had as much influence on McCall.


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[Assistant] And it was really interesting to get his, and it was really-


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was really honest, which was really refreshing and really cool. So guys, I'm gonna link that one more time, and you should definitely check it out because it was super educational, and uh, there you go, alright? So let's move on to our next sponsor today, and that is Dollar Shave Club! If I could find... There it is!


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[Assistant] On Twitter about why Dollar Shave Club would sponsor this guy when they could sponsor someone with


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[Assistant] Oh, right, I wanted to share my screen with you guys. Wasn't that on the network? Uhm, no, but it could be, yes. Okay, I will do that. So I will share this on the network, and then I will- Dude, you guys should have seen him.


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[Assistant] I was, I was like, yea, I'ma do this. So people are like- He was Linus Chrisley.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Linus can't even grow a beard. Why does Dollar Shave Club, you know, sponsor this guy? And the answer is because if they didn't, then it's possible that you would have to deal with this. Oh, he's hideous.


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[Assistant] But no, I'm getting, okay, no one wants a live demonstration. Peppermint scented butt wipes for men.


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[Assistant] They just plain do a better job. Think about it this way. Baby wipes. Are they pre-moistened or are they dry? They're pre-moistened? They're pre-moistened.


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[Assistant] Alright, and our last one is Squarespace. So this one is actually fun. We're going to do our winner announcement from last week.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna search for hashtag Linus Squarespace, where I asked anyone who has used our offer code,


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[Assistant] So that's offer code Linus. Over the last little while, I asked for everyone to submit your own Squarespace sites, and we were going to pick a winner at random. So we're gonna do that in a moment, but first guys, Squarespace is the easy, fast, affordable way to make a beautiful website.


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[Assistant] It really, truly is. We use it for LinusMediaGroup.com. Luke's building his own website with it. It's just plain better and easier to use than a lot of other options out there. They have 24-7 tech support.


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[Assistant] A little site for your small business, a store, a blog, a portfolio, it'll look great on the desktop, on mobile, on a laptop, everything in between, maybe not on a watch, although I should let the Squarespace guys know. I wanna see like, like uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] In the near future. If they can offer that, then they'll be the first to have the world's most pointless feature.


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[Assistant] What's that? I can't see. Seriously though, Squarespace has features that matter, like enabling you to just, uh, use their logo designer to create a cool logo for yourself. It's actually really fast to use. We did it live once and it took us like a couple minutes to make a cool logo and like preview it on a business card.


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[Assistant] They will actually give you the first year of your domain purchase. So that gets thrown in there just like that. So check this out. This is goprotips.squarespace.com. You can actually tell if you've seen enough Squarespace sites that it was put together in very, very little time, but it looks good.


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[Assistant] Every Squarespace site pretty much has that, okay, everything kind of works, and you got this slider, and these drop downs look kind of nice, you go ahead and check out some video editing tips.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we were discussing that on Highlander, how cool it would be if we could, uhm, do, oh, am I even, oh crap, I'm not screen sharing with these guys, I'm like, lol, okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh wow. Oh, there we go. They're starting to tell.


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[Assistant] There we go. Don't worry, we'll get this. Squarespace, if you're watching, please donate me.


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[Assistant] Please don't, eh, mate. Okay, so we're gonna go back. So anyway, there you go. Now I'm showing you guys what the site actually looks like. And so GoPro tips, if you're watching, please contact me, send me a PM on the forum, and I will go ahead and I will get you hooked up with your Squarespace website free.


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[Assistant] So you can go ahead and you can go through here, you can see how the little drop downs work, you can go check out some video editing tips. Yeah, we were talking during Highlander about how we could get a GoPro running for an entire year at a time, or not an entire year, for an entire day at a time.


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[Assistant] And we figured, you could probably do it with their proprietary interface. If you could have a video feed to an external recorder, and then you could have an external battery, and then both ends of the, of the connection would have to be waterproof and like damage proof. You could have a custom case.


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[Assistant] One more time, guys. Squarespace.com slash Linus for 10% off. Use offer code LINUS and go check out that stream. I'm gonna go ahead and link you guys to that again here in the video description. It definitely is- or in the video description in the Twitch chat. It definitely is worth the time. And then finally, our last sponsor today.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Dollar Shave Club. Right, so head over to DollarShaveClub.com and sign up now so that you don't look like a scary, scary person. Should I make them look at it one more time? Sure. Oh my gosh. Look at him.


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[Assistant] I know, I don't think my eyes have ever looked that sunken before in my life.


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[Assistant] I hardly recognized my own face. Me too. Like it was, it was pretty horrible. And uh, thank goodness I have, I have shaved now. You know what's funny is, uh, that reminds me of something that I thought of at the beginning of the show to improve the show. So I made you guys look at that, but check this out. I came up with this brilliant idea. Check this out.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That would be pretty cool. I guess that would help a lot. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and get rid of that. I'm sorry, you guys.


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[Assistant] DLF? I dunno, whatever. Uhm, so Forbes.com is the article that we're using to reference here, and PS now, prices have been leaked. Someone told me to push you out of the way so it was double me. Oh, for crying out loud.


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[Assistant] It just keeps screwing up the, uh, the screen region capture. I think what I have to do is just do this. And then we could all look at Forbes' ad together.


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[Assistant] And then, well, remember, this is, this is PlayStation games. So...


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Uhm, and then it's up to about 30 dollars for a 90 day period. And again, with an older game, you're looking at a situation where for 30 bucks, you could probably just own it forever and get a disc. Yep.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think the biggest problem here is not the idea. I think the idea of, of renting games digitally is still fine. The, the Forbes article, right, the, or the Forbes author criticizes this concept in general and says something like a subscription-based service would be much better, but I suspect Sony's


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[Assistant] Sony's hands are pretty much tied on that one. I don't think they'd be able to do it.


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[Assistant] Well they, yeah, because right now, they're leaving pricing up to the publisher. And I think they'd have to. And I think they would have to do that. I mean, it's much like Steam. Valve doesn't set the pricing for a third-party title.


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[Assistant] So Valve can't just come in and say, okay, we're gonna have a Steam subscription. You pay 60 bucks a month and you can play any game on Steam because-


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[Assistant] How do you, how do you divvy up the funds according to what got watched? Uhm, or maybe you do, or maybe you don't, I don't know. It seems like, it seems like we're asking for a lot, and at least this is a step in the right direction in terms of digital distribution.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's just, it's not quite there yet, it's gotta be cheaper, older games in particular probably shouldn't be very expensive. Uhm, one, one issue I have with


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[Assistant] sort of paper use in general is that it's going to lead developers even more down that path where multiplayer is the only thing that matters because they're going to be optimizing for playtime.


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[Assistant] Have you played much Bravely Default yet, speaking of games that don't end when they should end? No, I haven't. Okay. Not much, I played a little bit. You're driving me crazy, because I don't want to spoil the game for you, because there are parts of it that are good, but... I haven't had any time. Yeah, I know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. Before the plane. We did do that thing.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the OP for the first Android, and that is to say robot, not Android, the mobile operating system.


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[Assistant] Well, whatever man, I don't care. Uhm, so screen share with Linus for go ahead and maximize that. So, Japan unveils the world's first Android newscaster. So he hands her a piece of paper. Uhm, apparently the robot has perfect language skills and a sense of humor. Man, that's creepy. Uhm, this guy is slightly less creepy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, probably. But anyway, she's, uh, she's reading some news about an earthquake. Um, obviously a lot of this is programmed right now and they're not able to just kind of come up with things on their own, but the objective is to keep improving this and, uh, yeah, I guess, uh, the future is going to be an interesting one.


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[Assistant] The flip side of that is that on both our flight to Denver and our flight back, the automated terminal


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[Assistant] And we had to go talk to a person, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] Flipside. Okay, so I'm gonna get you to cover this one because uhm, you're the VR geek. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Windy Day is kind of a little interactive thing where you kind of look around with your screen and it's kind of like a little movie but, but VRE sort of interactively. You control the camera essentially.


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[Assistant] Alright, in other news, Intel has apparently asked AMD for access to Mantle for an experiment.


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[Assistant] So, uh, there's nothing that sounds super committal. The original article here is from Tweaktown from Intel on this.


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[Assistant] I mean basically, yeaah, for an experiment, uhm, they have reaffirmed their position with DirectX, saying they are still committed to this open standard that uhm, they think is going to continue to drive the industry forward and address the previous issues with


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[Assistant] Um, API overhead and all the stuff that Mantle was looking to try to help developers with.


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[Assistant] But that isn't to say that Intel is completely dismissing it, which I think is really interesting because as much as there's the whole AMD versus Nvidia fanboy war, something that a lot of people forget is that Intel actually has more market share for graphics than the two of the others combined.


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[Assistant] And this has been true for years and years and years and years. It's actually something that, uh, Darren, our, our expert from Intel brought up.


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[Assistant] And so if Intel were to stay committed to DirectX, that could pretty much dictate the direction the industry goes. And if Intel were to get on board with Mantle along with the 47 game developers that are signed up,


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[Assistant] For the API, then that could dictate the direction that the industry goes. It's amazing how much power Intel has and very...


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[Assistant] But uhm, apparently AMD responded by asking Intel for a month or two until it's out of closed beta.


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[Assistant] Our hope was to build consensus on potential approaches to reduce overhead with additional data. We have publicly asked them to share the spec with us several times as part of examination of potential ways to improve APIs and increase efficiencies. So that doesn't really sound a whole lot like they're planning to use Mantle or push towards Mantle. They just wanna mess with it. It sounds more like they just wanna dink around with it in the lab. Which is, I don't know, that's cool. I get it.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Moto 360 watch face competition is over. This is actually the one I liked best, even though I didn't end up voting. Uh, yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean, as much as I don't prefer to read an analog face if I don't have to, this looks really good. Yeah, it does.


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[Assistant] The one thing that does bother me is a lot of the space is taken up with telling me the time, whereas I would like for a lot of the space to be taken up with reading my text message. I have pretty good eyes. It can. And I like small fonts. Yes, I know you can change it out to whatever you want, but I wish that instead of just having an icon for Gmail, there was more room.


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[Assistant] Yup, and I don't, I don't hate this either. I actually quite like it.


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[Assistant] This is funny because it kinda ties into one of our sponsors.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where dollars, oh, alright, I keep forgetting that we're not doing a normal thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, this ties into one of our sponsors pretty well because Dollar Shave Club's whole thing is, you know, uh, razors with vibrating handles and all these features that actually don't do anything. We don't do any of that stuff. Uhm, well, this is Oral-B's new toothbrush that pairs to your phone via Bluetooth.


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[Assistant] Freaking genius. So this was posted by Nissanth and basically it gives you a bunch of information including things like how you can brush for better results and it can share your, uh, your brushing habits with your healthcare professional. Something that I'm sure that my dentist would be like, what? If I told them about it.


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[Assistant] Things that you would think, it would just have, like, sanity checks. Built-in sanity checks need to be a thing.


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[Assistant] Because without them, you can end up with some really funny software stuff. Uhm, ee-vee-blog? However he pronounces that. This is, yeah.


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[Assistant] This is actually pretty interesting. Uh, posted a great video about how solar roadways are basically, uhm, grade ABS.


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[Assistant] Uhm, did the math and pretty much at the end of the video the conclusion is they would consume more power than they produce. They have proven absolutely nothing with respect to what they can handle in terms of weight.


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[Assistant] And what they can handle in terms of traction, uhm, they are extremely expensive. You can watch the video here on the forum if you want. The original poster here was...


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[Assistant] Jurichun or something along those lines. Jurichun.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean it's a great idea in theory, they raised over 2 million dollars through crowdfunding, but it is pretty unlikely that this will see the light of day in this generation. It's something that we talked about originally on the show and we kinda went, okay, yeaah.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, yeaah, so what we need then is just some kind of outlandish idea.


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[Assistant] That sounds like really great to eco freaks, and then we need like a really great campaign video, and then-


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[Assistant] Well, that wasn't their campaign video. That's the funny thing about it. No, but that's what drove more. Yes, it drove a lot of it. So then we need like that, we need to find that guy to make our, our viral, our viral video. Should be like solar trees. They grow.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh, it's funny cause we were in Colorado.


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[Assistant] Alright, also posted by TwistedDictator on the forum, Witcher 3 to feature boob physics.


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[Assistant] Which is one of those things where it's like, if Witcher 3 was the first game to include boob physics, then this I guess would be news. Hopefully they perform good boob physics. But apparently Next Power Up thought it was news, so whatever.


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[Assistant] You know, the thing is, if these strategies didn't work, game developers wouldn't do it. So for all the people who get all upset about this kind of thing, just, if you didn't buy into it, if you didn't make a bunch of noise about it, it would go away.


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[Assistant] Okay, the thing about, the thing about, the thing about breasts though is that game developers design their game around making sure that the breast physics are on display the whole time. So they design the female characters' outfits to put the breasts on display.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Highlander videos will be coming. You're gonna see videos from Austin. You're gonna see videos from us. Oh, okay, this is kind of a big deal. Microsoft is offering. This was originally posted by GoodBytes on the forum.


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[Assistant] Microsoft is offering up to $650 off of Surface Pro 3 if you exchange a MacBook Air at a Microsoft store. It does have to be working, but quite frankly,


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[Assistant] I would take the MacBook Air over the surface at this point. Which isn't to say I would buy a MacBook.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not for a MacBook, I'm gonna keep using my XPS 12. Whoops. Because, to me...


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[Assistant] This... Okay, so here. Whoops. That's basically how it works, but. Okay, so you get a little bit of more thinness, and it is lighter, and it is smaller. Like, it's significantly lighter than the XPS 12. Is it enough that it matters, though?


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[Assistant] It's en- it's enough. It's- it's something. Okay, so, you get- you get more thinness. So there's that. I mean, I'm not making the point here about the thinness. It really is thinner.


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[Assistant] There is a significant weight difference. Uhm, but the problem for me is that Windows 8 is not a good tablet experience. It's actually nothing to do with the hardware. The hardware's, the hardware's very beautiful. Uhm. Pick it up more? And then... Shit, junk physics.


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[Assistant] Not that I'm calling the surface junk. Uhm, the, the problem is just, there's not enough USB ports. Two USB ports is minimum.


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[Assistant] To call it, like, a reasonably functional PC, we get one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it does have Mini DisplayPort out, which is nice compared to other tablets.


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[Assistant] There's no SD card reader to my knowledge, although they might have hidden one under there. No they didn't. So there's no SD card reader or anything like that. It is very beautiful. The kickstand is a lot better than the first gen, which is the last time I tried one. It comes all the way out here. So that gives you a lot of different options. Like you can sit on a plane.


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[Assistant] And you can, uh, like lean it up against the seat in front of you. The magnetic lock for the keyboard.


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[Assistant] is pretty robust, which is cool, so you can kinda like lean it up against something in bed, or you can put it down here, and you can rest it on your knee, and you can legitimately use it, and all that stuff is great.


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[Assistant] And then if I'm never gonna use it without the keyboard, then why wouldn't I just want my keyboard occasionally attached? Once in a while, I do use Windows 8 as a tablet. Sorry?


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[Assistant] Yeah, permanently attached, like this. Once in a while, I do use Windows 8 as a tablet. When that happens, this may be bulkier, but it's good enough because I'm not gonna do it very often. And that's gonna be basically the conclusion of my Surface review.


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[Assistant] Apparently Wendell has an SD card reader. Maybe I didn't find it. I'm not done my review yet. Like, I'm not actually filming this until next week, so I haven't... Basically the way that I usually do my reviews is... Did you see it? Apparently it's under the hinge. It's under the hinge?


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[Assistant] Oh, maybe that's the micro SD slot right there. There you go. Why would you put micro SD on it? Really?


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[Assistant] Not helpful when I'm offloading footage on a video set or something like that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, anyway, where was I going with this? Right, so the way I typically do a review is I figure out as much as I can on my own, without really looking at any other media coverage of it, then I go back and I look at sort of the launch.


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[Assistant] I'm still not particularly pleased with it and I'm still not gonna switch from a convertible like this because it just doesn't make any sense to me. I use it as a tablet so rarely that I might as well have something that, here, this is the ultimate example of why


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna use this, because I can use it in my lap.


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[Assistant] But why have this, which if I go to, you know, oh, pick it up and it falls apart,


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[Assistant] Why have that when I can just have this? Which is weighted correctly to not fall off the back of me. I can pick it up however I want, I can turn it around, I can use it like this. It's just a lot more flexible, it's a lot more practical, and it's cheaper.


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[Assistant] So, at the same price, I would take the XPS 12. At a lower price, I would definitely take the XPS 12.


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[Assistant] Well people are bringing up the pen for the surface, as someone who doesn't use a pen. Uhm, I'm not a big fan. Uhm, people who are talking about note taking with a pen, yeaah, I get that. Uhm, however... Show them the thing. Which thing?


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[Assistant] Oh, the fact that the only way to take a screenshot is with the pen? Oh no, I meant like, like- Oh, right. So, my issue with the pen is that it doesn't stash in the device, and the geniuses at Microsoft, I'm sure they're very smart, legitimately, but this is how you're supposed to attach the pen to the surface. There's a little magnet where the, uh,


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[Assistant] Where the, the charging port is, that you're supposed to attach the pen to, it just comes off.


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[Assistant] And then, and then, if you get a type cover, the innovative solution there is you stick a sticker on it. Don't write a word. Oh, okay. You stick a sticker to it, and then you put the pen through the loop on the sticker. And I'm just like, really? You guys engineered a fraction of a cent solution to a problem that actually matters. That's what you did just there.


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[Assistant] I get that it's thin and that's great, but I'm sorry. I just, I'm not keeping it. I was gonna keep it if it was, if it was fantastic. The keyboard though is not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. I actually quite like the type cover keyboard. It's surprisingly good. So there's that.


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[Assistant] Alright, I think we're done here. Guys, thank you for watching the WAN Show. If you're tuning in late, the Archive will be up on the YouTube sometime in the next little while, or up on Twitch immediately. For those of you, we had someone complaining on the forum about how the Archive goes up really late, and it's just like...


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[Assistant] It's up right away on Twitch, and they're just like, I don't wanna watch on Twitch. I'm like, okay. It's kinda like when people message me on Facebook.


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[Assistant] Um, hey, uh, I noticed on your Facebook, it says not to message you on Facebook and to message you on Twitter, but, um, I don't have Twitter, so I'm messaging you here. I'm just like, Twitter's free, man.


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[Assistant] There's a reason that I only accept messages on Twitter. And here, I will screen share with you guys. I will show you why I only accept messages on Twitter.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go on Facebook right now and I'm share with you guys. You're not screen sharing right now, right? Nope. Okay, cool. Not yet.


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[Assistant] So here's my screen. Here is why I will never reply to Facebook messages.


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[Assistant] Because, when I click on them, and I write a reply, hello, sorry, I don't reply to Facebook messages. Press enter to send. Actually, it's a lot faster now. Okay, well, they're doing better. It used to be really, really slow to load messages.


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[Assistant] No, that's pretty fast. Okay, it used to be really slow. Now I don't have an excuse, but still, RDM. RTM.


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[Assistant] Yes, and the thing about Twitter too, as I get a lot of people tweeting me saying, hey I want to ask you a question that's longer than 140 characters, uhm, how do I do that? And the answer is, you don't, because I get too many messages. Uhm, the best thing to do, if you have a tech question, is to post on the Linus Tech Tips forum.


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[Assistant] It's like, really good. It is. That's a good place to go and ask questions because if you don't get the right answer the first time, uhm, someone else will post the right answer at some point.


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[Assistant] We should probably end the show at some point here, but I could rant about tweets forever.


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[Assistant] I think we should have a junk physics shirt. Oh my god. What would be the logo? I think you know what the logo would be. But then we couldn't sell.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I'm not an appropriate boss when it comes to touching and words that I say


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[Assistant] What would happen if we made every single, can, can moderators time out other moderators? I don't think so. Okay, so I was gonna say if we made every single person a moderator.


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[Assistant] And Nissan is developing a paint that will resist both water and oil. More on that later.


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[Assistant] I still need nutrition to some point, and he's talking about a rapper, so. Nutrition? Yeah, you said we're both powered by it, but we're not, we're more powered by like, stuff that we eat and drink. Not necessarily the left.


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[Assistant] I want some premeditation. So I'm gonna pre- I will do this. I will plan out some sort of thing focused around Jay-Z for next week.


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[Assistant] For clarification, hydrophobic is water, water repellent, and uh, oiliphobic is oil repellent. Yes.


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[Assistant] There's really cool stuff where if you get a really nice camera and you like coat someone's finger in it and then put it in the water you can see like the layer around your finger where the water's not touching.


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[Assistant] Huh. It's really interesting. I'll try and find a video for you later. Uhm, but some of my favorite ones is literally when someone just coats a shirt in it, wears the shirt and then the other dude like sprays mustard or ketchup on them.


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[Assistant] And then instead of going bleh, it hits him and then just falls off. It's really, it like hurts the brain for the first few seconds.


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[Assistant] Cause like, what if something happens, what if some patent comes out, and then they're like, oh, there's no way this is gonna work. Because they didn't, like you said at the beginning, they didn't invent this, this has existed. That's why there's videos, like what we were just talking about, of people doing it. Uhm, I can't remember the name, but there's a brand that sells it just in spray cans, and you can spray it on pretty much everything.


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[Assistant] So yeah, if you wanna do this to whatever, you do have to kinda worry, like you don't wanna eat this stuff. I'm not even gonna bother read the label, but something that's gonna repel liquids should probably not be ingested. Right, well I mean the whole thing with Scotch


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[Assistant] But then on the polar opposite of that, in France, every single washroom you go into is going to be super pristine. And here, every single public washroom you go into is great.


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[Assistant] Yes. That is true. But that phone was particularly bad at dealing with it.


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[Assistant] So despite this being reportedly one of the worst games that anyone who's ever played it has ever played, uhm, people want to find it so badly because it's been kind of hidden away and it's really really really really hard to get your hands on.


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[Assistant] So, what happened was they dumped it in some landfill in New Mexico and then never looked back and never


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[Assistant] Dumped it, forgot about it, it's in a landfill, don't worry about it. Ever since then, the internet has kind of gone insane. It's had its ups and downs with this story, but it's kind of gone insane. The video game nerd, also known as the Cinemassacre Group,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then that being said, they might be able to remount chips. Right. And make it work that way, like maybe that cartridge doesn't work, but that feels like-