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[Assistant] Anyway, so, uh, so I don't, I don't have a ton of context for any of this other than that you're about to tell me who won the Game Awards this year. Hit me!


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, hold on a second. Floatplane Chat is not pleased.


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[Assistant] Frey says It Takes Two was an amazing game. Nightpaws says It Takes Two is a fantastic game to be fair. Alright, one moment please. It Takes Two is a beautiful game. The environments, the creativity that went into it are just outstanding. But the story. Oh man. Spoiler alert, okay?


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[Assistant] You just keep chasing the MacGuffin.


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[Assistant] Here's the problem with It Takes Two, is that if you are a non-gamer,


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[Assistant] The puzzles and the level design are probably pretty creative and or maybe even a little bit challenging.


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[Assistant] But for me, as like someone who's been playing video games since I was seven or whatever, sitting on the couch next to my wife, it's a little hard to stay engaged.


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[Assistant] Not, yeah, not, uh, to, oh, night pause? I am not at the end yet either.


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[Assistant] I have gotten extremely tired of collecting pages or collecting whatevers, cause it's all just an excuse to, and oh man, the character development pacing is so bad.


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[Assistant] Like, cause they have to be, they have to be, okay again, I said spoiler alert so I can talk about it. So you've got this couple that are, they're, they're about to get divorced and their child is sad and wants them to get together.


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[Assistant] And first of all, as a child of, uhm, divorced parents, I think that any kind of narrative that somehow puts it, puts the responsibility on the child to do anything, uh, get their parents together, uh, take responsibility for splitting them up, whatever it is, uhm, is sort of, it, it,


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[Assistant] I thought it was stupid. It was just, it was just stupid. Uhm, you know, two adults who can't stand each other should not get back together because the child is sad because a toxic environment quite frankly is probably not any better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there's, there's a lot of, there's a lot of sort of, I got baggage, okay? I got baggage. Anyway.


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[Assistant] They start out kind of being sick of each other's BS. She works all the time, and he...


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[Assistant] I don't know, I forget what his sin is, he doesn't help out enough or something, I can't remember, but the point is that the kid is super sad and so there's this supernatural intervention that takes place where the two parents are turned into these


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[Assistant] Uh, these little doll representations of the, the little kids' toys. And they have to go through this, this journey of reconciliation with each other where they learn to work together and they learn to cooperate and, and build each other's, uh, build each other's relationship or bu- build their relationship back up.


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[Assistant] And because you, because you need to see that development, like that character development, as you go through each challenge,


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[Assistant] They, they like, they learn to trust each other a little again and they rediscover his passion for gardening.


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[Assistant] Or they appreciate that she really does work really hard and that's her love language or, or whatever it is. And they make this progress and then they dump you back to this, this NPC who guides you through the process. And they like immediately.


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[Assistant] Are back to full on, can't stand each other again.


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[Assistant] And then it resets and then they like reconcile a bit again and then like immediately they're back to full on can't stand each other again. So it's this like, the game can't decide how long it was supposed to be and in my opinion, this is probably the only time in my


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[Assistant] Uh, this is probably the only time as a gamer ever where I've looked at a game and I've gone, they had too much budget.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Like you know how often it happens where you'll reach like the last third of a game, you'll be like, oh they ran out of time. They ran out of budget.


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[Assistant] Whereas, I think it takes two could have been an outstanding six to eight hour gaming experience.


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[Assistant] Jam packed. Like a portal-like experience.


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[Assistant] We've, we've sat down. I mean, I'd have to, I'd have to check. I actually don't know if Origen has a log for how many hours you've put into a game. I'm not 100% sure how I'd even check it. But we have put more than that in.


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[Assistant] I know, right? So give me some new character development. My main problem with the game is not


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[Assistant] So my issue is that while it's a beautiful game, and it ran flawlessly, I didn't have any technical bugs with it, and I thought the voice acting was pretty solid, like overall solid. It has a terrible story.


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[Assistant] It has a terrible story. It has a basically non-existent story. It falls into that trap of storytelling that goes...


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[Assistant] And then this happened. And then this happened. And then this happened. And then this happened. And then this happened. It's like, right, but what are the consequences? What's the outcome? Where's the but then? But then there was this crazy thing.


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[Assistant] No, it just is always the same thing. You always do what the guy told you to do, and you work together, and each stage is like, probably anywhere from half an hour to 90 minutes of gameplay, and you get through it, and it's like, uh, uh, uh, you need to work together some more! And you're like...


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[Assistant] Could we have worked together enough to do something and maybe the daughter does more than, you know, go around and see her sad mom sleeping on the couch or whatever and look like a creepy, creepy, uncanny valley? Wow, how does she look so weird character?


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[Assistant] Noc23 says, the game isn't aimed at Linus, the story follows a lot like a previous relationship I had.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's not that I can't relate. Yvonne and I have been together 15 years. You think we never fought about anything? You think we haven't drifted farther and drifted closer?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know what, this is pretty good. JR6955 says it's, well I'm gonna paraphrase a little bit, but it's like, uh, it's like it constantly teases you, but you never finish, you know? So I haven't finished the game. I never finished the game.


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[Assistant] Anyway. True Scott says he hasn't reached the u- BRING BACK THE SPARK IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP part yet. That's the whole part! That's the-


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[Assistant] The co-opness is good. Jake's been in the chat. He's like, yeah, I played it for half an hour with the GF.


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[Assistant] They should have had difficulty tiers. It was way too easy for pretty much anyone that games. Like, again, I could, I can enjoy it from a


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[Assistant] My wife is having fun and I'm spending time with her kind of perspective. But the thing is that even though she's certainly not a hardcore gamer, she's absolutely capable of playing hardcore games.


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[Assistant] She can play Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, like, we could sit and play an actual


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[Assistant] Like, causing rifts. Disagreements? No, yeaah. Okay, cool. Uhm, so yeaah, like she can play games that actually require skill, but because she hasn't played a lot of adventure games, she's still...


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[Assistant] Like enjoying the puzzles, whereas I walk into a room or a boss battle and I see the glaring weak point and the obvious sort of, you know, mechanism for it. I'm like, oh, okay, this, right.


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[Assistant] It takes two actually does that really well as well. Okay. So each of the new stages issues you new gameplay mechanics that you then use to solve problems. So they're not interesting enough? They're interesting.


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[Assistant] There's not a consistent character development that is taking place. The way it feels, and I could be totally wrong because I'm not an expert on the game development process, but the way it feels to me is as though they set out with 10 or 15 or however many zones they are.


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[Assistant] And they set it with 10 to 15 teams and said, create unique gameplay elements and create a whole bunch of puzzles for people to solve. And then they just put them all in an order that kind of felt good.


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[Assistant] And so that's why you're going through this develop, develop, develop, back to zero. Develop, develop, develop, back to zero. It's like playing Zelda games. It's like playing all the Zelda games back to back to back to back to back to back, where for whatever reason, from one moment to the next, Link suddenly has amnesia and lost all of-


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[Assistant] And you're starting over again. And it really just feels like that. I'm talking about it takes two.


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[Assistant] Best multiplayer game of all. So here's an interesting conversation. Uhm, you know, one of the things that I noticed about YouTuber awards, for example, is that MrBeast has won Creator of the Year twice in a row.


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[Assistant] So why can't a game win multiplayer game of the year twice in a row, especially when you consider how game development has changed?


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[Assistant] We don't get, unless you're EA, we don't get just a new edition with a new year number tacked onto the end of it of fundamentally, you know, that genre every year.


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[Assistant] So, how about this? Let's take, uhm, let's take a game like, okay, you and I have both been talking about how incredible it is that Anno 1800 is still in active development four years after release. And not just, not just like, hey, we added a new horse armor that you can buy. Like,


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[Assistant] They have since added the Anbisa region, the Arctic region, a shedload more resident classes, uhm, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, building types, uh, and not just building types, but like fundamental changes to the way that you, that you build your, your cities and develop your trade. They've like, like they've, they've really, really changed the game, uh, a lot since it was released.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that character is sort of, eh. I finally figured out how you get rid of his mines, so we can talk about that later, because we thought there was just this kind of like, unassailable NPC, but you actually can do stuff. So... So yeah, multiplayer game.


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[Assistant] People are like, that award exists, it's called best ongoing game. Right, but what I'm saying is that with the way that games get developed, like you look at, I mean, I wouldn't, I don't know if it was the first one, but WoW certainly mainstreamized it. Releasing a game once, and then...


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[Assistant] Updating it and at some times actually making it better and other times


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[Assistant] Not as much. And that's fair criticism, so you'd obviously have to legitimately make your game the best game again. But I just, I don't know, I don't really see a reason why you couldn't say, you know what, this particular game


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[Assistant] Amazing. Uh, yeah, yeah, Conrad says Final Fantasy XIV literally won an award, and that's super cool. I just don't see why you have to specifically carve out an ongoing game award. I just don't see why. You wouldn't just say, okay, yeah, in this genre, this happens to still be the best, the best game.


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[Assistant] Even how much everyone loved Ratchet and Clank, I honestly, I haven't played it, again, I don't have a PlayStation, so I haven't played it, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Like overwhelmingly positive, I think. Uhm, yeaah, I don't know.


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[Assistant] But I have a really hard time accepting it as the best game.


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[Assistant] If that makes sense. It was a risk-taking game, and I could absolutely see it winning some kind of award. I think it's really cool that PC gaming is finally getting couch co-op experiences that were really built for couch co-op instead of having it tacked on as an afterthought. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I, uh, yeaah, I just, I don't know. Game of the year, I just, I have such a hard time with. Beautiful, beautiful game. I just, I don't feel compelled to finish it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fair. I mean, I think if Breath of the Wild came out this year, we'd probably be looking at a different outcome, but.


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[Assistant] As someone who has completely ignored it, it hasn't been bothering me.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I've been, I've been having fun. Like, I, part of it is that I haven't touched a Halo game since Halo 2, and I only really played Halo 1. So, you know, for me, everything's fresh. Oh wow, this is so new. Wow, this has gotten a lot better.


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[Assistant] I've heard there's performance issues on the consoles out in the open world, uh, in the open world parts as well. Makes sense. Uh, but I'm bruh...


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[Assistant] I played it single player because the PC version of Halo 1 didn't have co-op.


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[Assistant] FreshBooks has got you covered because you can actually do a lot of your accounting from there on your phone.


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[Assistant] Asking if you can showcase the quiz mentioned below on stream. All good if not.


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[Assistant] Okay, you go to the us.anchor.com home page. There is apparently a quiz. Find the right gift. Hold on a second, I'm just gonna put it, but, uh, oh! And it's gone. There it is. Find the right gift, and you just take the quiz. Okay, Luke, let's take the quiz for each other. Oh, okay. Okay. Alright. Alright. Yep.


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[Assistant] What the heck is textile? Hmm. I feel like I have none of it. Oh no, someone has hacked your friend's computer and their files, and this is hilarious, their files and data are about to be published all over social media. What do they do? Oh man, this is great, I can't wait to, I can't wait. What do they do?


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[Assistant] Oh wow, should I answer this honestly? Uh, I don't know man, it's up to you.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm just gonna answer it as honestly as I can. So it takes 30 seconds to open an app. The battery lasts only 10 minutes from a full charge. Where do they look for a new phone? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Sure, yup. OMG, your friend's house is on fire, don't worry the pets are safe. It looks like they only have time to rescue their phone and one other device. Which do they take?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna go with this one. Okay. We think your friend would like, wow, this is a really, really bad suggestion. Um, okay. Are you almost done? I'm almost done. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to have to hear your answers. This is hilarious.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I'm gonna talk through, uhm, what it suggested for Luke. We think your friend would like an Anker 622 magnetic battery. Uh, MagGo. It appears to be like an iPhone MagSafe battery that also acts as a sta-


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[Assistant] Cause like a lot of them I don't think apply. How do we go back? Uh, you can't- Oh, you just do it again? So I said your tech addiction was pretty strong. Your technology was not quite as strong. I had you at a 2 for text nobbery and a 1 for text style.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, so for, thanks. So for the, someone hacked your friend's computer, uhm, I put that you would, uh, Okay, next. Hack the hacker and steal their pics in retaliation. Okay. And what did you say?


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, yeah. I wouldn't have any illusions that they can stop it, but...


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[Assistant] I did contact the authorities, and in that case it was because they could do something.


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[Assistant] Your friend's phone is so old it takes 30 seconds to open an app and the battery lasts 10 minutes. I said who cares if it has a screen and fits in their pocket, that's enough.


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[Assistant] Does that, does that seem like the closest one? No, I probably do number one. Fight aliens in a distant galaxy? I dunno, okay, I was memeing a little bit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, they're not, they're more like blocks in distant galaxies. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I strongly prefer- for a technophile, I strongly-


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[Assistant] Like I, it's, it's, it's a really funny thing. I'll be, I'll be traveling, right? And this even goes like before my most recent trip. I'll be traveling and, uh, my wife will call me at like, you know, kind of close to bedtime. She'll be like, hey, do you want to say good night to the kids and have a video call? I'm like, no, not really.


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[Assistant] I don't like talking to people on the phone. I don't like talking to people on video chat.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure, but it's just, it's not my jam if I can avoid it. I would, I would realistically, if someone moved far away, I would just fall out of contact with them.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, I sound like, I sound like a heartless, heartless B word, but I just, I just, I'm not, I'm not going to get on a-


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[Assistant] It's just not my jam. And question four. The unfortunate thing about question four is they didn't have an answer that was MADEDA.


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[Assistant] I would run for my server a hundred percent. That is the only thing in my house that has, in fact, I wouldn't even bother with my phone. What do I need my phone for? I would run straight for the server and I would try and rip as many drives out of it as I can.


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[Assistant] So what did you put for me? For you I put you've got it stored in an expensive protective case so you can just grab that. I kind of like...


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[Assistant] It was a bit of a throwaway because it was kind of like, oh well, he's probably, you know, got his data backed up and doesn't care about anything.


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[Assistant] In conclusion, oh did you? Okay. Yes. The stream is brought to you by Anchor. Give the gift of Anchor power products. Just because it didn't get the recommendation right for us doesn't mean they don't have lots of good products. So go check it out, try the quiz, and all that good stuff. Okay, Jake is gonna- I've actually done it twice now too. Jake is gonna flip.


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[Assistant] This is gonna be pretty freaking cool. Don't worry Jake, I wasn't ignoring you. We were gonna get to it. We were gonna get to it. I know, I know you're petty like that. Maybe I'll delete the photos.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't. You wouldn't. So guys, the reno. The reno of the lab is almost done. Cause we were keeping it, keeping it pretty simple. Keeping it pretty simple here.


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[Assistant] So we've got, uh, some fresh paint on the walls. We've got some fresh access control going on. We've got, uh, fresh security cameras in there. Got that ubiquity goodness. What else we got going on here? Oh, I think this is more of the, uh, that's probably POE for the access control, I'm guessing.


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[Assistant] It's sound- oh yeah yeah yeah, we'll show that, we'll show that. We're just in the front entryway, Kalinan, we haven't gotten that far yet. Uh, the floors, I think we decided- are we changing the carpet downstairs? We're just leaving it?


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[Assistant] Just the stairwell. Yeah, the stairwell carpet is shockingly ugly. Yeah, so this room no longer looks so oppressive anymore.


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[Assistant] Which is, which is nice. Fortunately, whoever was in here before actually did a lot of power and networking stuff that we just now don't have to do. Oh, Jake says that's the, oh, that's the fiber run. Oh, that's what you're talking about. Yeah, I said that earlier.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is where the fiber terminates. Oh, this is where the demark is. Okay, so we got fiber into the building. Uh, this is where it was run to, so we would have had to have our networking equipment just sitting right in the front entryway, which would have been really stupid. So, uh, Jake and the boys, uhm, they...


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[Assistant] What, what, what, what, what is this? Did you guys just, you didn't splice it or anything, right? It's just like a coupler? I think they just coupled it, and then they ran it over somewhere else. We'll see that in a little bit.


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[Assistant] So, it kinda runs above us. In fact, I think it runs along this cable management line right here. Uh, so they painted, I believe the ceiling might have been already black in here, but they painted the walls so it looks a lot nicer in here.


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[Assistant] And then out in the, uh, in like the warehouse and what will actually be the lab. Um, we painted, so looks a lot nicer in terms of like colors. You guys won't see this part above, but what you will do is you will hear it. Uh, we use the same.


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[Assistant] Okay, yep, there you go. Let's see if we're heading upstairs. Yeah, there you go. So the paint upstairs makes this part look a lot nicer as well. One of the things I noticed when I was up in this room today is that the HVAC is crazy loud in this room. So if we were gonna have any hopes of doing anything acoustic related,


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[Assistant] Inside the office space, I think we might just, uhm, need to give up on that. It's super loud. Part of the problem, though, might be that they've got it running full tilt right now, because, uh, part of the curing process for that, uh, insulating and acoustic spray,


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[Assistant] You want to do it in the summer. You want to open up your bay door and you want just hot air circulating.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jake says the furnace is like right there. The HVAC probably gonna have to be boxed. Yeah, we'll figure all that stuff out though. Give us time. Here's our sick, sick networking closet. By the way, great job of the cable management, Jake. It looks gorgeous. Gorgeous. I actually don't think he did most of it. I think most of it was one of our new guys who is still on probation.


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[Assistant] So uhm, yeaah, I shouldn't give maybe, shouldn't give maybe Jake too much credit for it.


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[Assistant] So the problem with that idea, I mean, aside from it being stupid, is that, uhm, it's stupid. Okay, what else do I need?


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[Assistant] No. There's like insurance problems here. Yeah, it's really, it's really not gonna be a thing. It's not gonna be a thing. Jake says, I replaced the cables with small patch cables. By the way, Jake, I saw the green patch cables that you got for the pink rack.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if I was supposed to see those yet, but I saw the box of them and I'm extremely excited. So we're gonna have the, uh, like the mesh front door, the pink mesh front door, and then there's gonna be just like green patch cables behind it. It's gonna be freaking awesome! Nice. Yeah, I'm super excited. Uh, what else we got for topics today? Is there, is there really anything else to talk about?


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[Assistant] The Matrix gets an Unreal Engine 5 experience on consoles, so Epic surprised everyone with a showcase of UE5 called The Matrix Awakened during the Game Awards. Digital Foundry is very impressed. Which is a good sign. Yep.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, I mean, just to be clear, it's not a game, it's a tech demo, but there is a little bit of gameplay, a little bit of exploration, and, uh, it's the most Unreal Engine 5 that anyone's been able to actually try, so, uhm, it's sort of a showcase, kind of like that Rock Lumen demo thing from May of last year, but it looks,


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[Assistant] Pretty freakin' incredible. Yeah, looks pretty amazing. I don't know if I'm allowed to show it. Am I gonna get- is this stupid video gonna get claimed if I try to show the thing? Oh, it definitely might.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, go look it up yourself. Super cool though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I'm just, we're just not gonna, we're just not gonna do it.


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[Assistant] Uh, and what else we got here today? Lab renovation? Ubisoft NFT thing? Ah, do we really have to talk about it? No.


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[Assistant] And, uh, the announcement was super popular. You can see that it's got- Oh, actually, you can't see anything of the sort because our window is in front of it. Uh, one moment please. Nope, you still can't. Iiiiiiii can do this.


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[Assistant] Wow! That must be a really, really popular, popular announcement that they made. And it's so useful that we don't have a way to, we don't have a way to, you know, express our displeasure in a way that brands actually suffer for.


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[Assistant] Uhm, except we kind of still do. So...


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[Assistant] If you get the return YouTube dislike Chrome extension, boop-boop-boop-boop-boop-boop.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to turn on sync. You can actually


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[Assistant] I believe. I believe it still works until like two days from now. No, it doesn't seem to be. Oh yeah, there we go, there we go. The bar's here. 39,000 dislikes. Wooo! So, this is the big problem. This is the big problem.


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[Assistant] They will not work anymore and you will have no way of knowing. Looking at this video,


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[Assistant] How nearly universally unpopular this move is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this, I don't, you know, I don't wanna belabor the point, but I think this is such a perfect example of the kind of stuff that is gonna be so much easier to get away with, and that seems to indicate YouTube's


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[Assistant] At least, uhm, secondary motive for making this move. Because in a big surprise move, YouTube is bringing back


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[Assistant] A rewind replacement of sorts. It's not gonna be called rewind, because I think they would be crazy to call something rewind at this point. But I can tell you right now, it sounds honestly kinda cringe. Of course it does. So here's how it's gonna work.


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[Assistant] It's a live interactive stream on December the 16th. Ah nice, so there's gonna be a live chat. Four days after the dislike button goes away. Ah, good. Totally a coincidence, Luke.


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[Assistant] And using the live chat, users will participate in challenges based on trends from this year, get involved in real time experience, and answer trivia questions.


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[Assistant] When viewers compete- complete all the challenges, they'll be able to watch a musical performance from a mystery guest.


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[Assistant] And I don't know how fair that is. It just is probably going to be awful. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] They've got some good guests, apparently BTS is going to be on there, so surprise. That's who I assumed the reward was going to be. Uhm, and many popular YouTubers will appear, including Mark Rober, so that's cool.


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[Assistant] Nice. But I just do not foresee any possible way that this will be anything other than cringe. It's called Escape 2021? Uh, yeaah, something like that.


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[Assistant] So I, basically my point is, this really, this really throws YouTube's intentions into question.


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[Assistant] I know that they were working on this for quite some time, but this just really does not look like an accident. And then that Ubisoft thing is an example of public pressure, which is one of the only ways that we can affect any kind of change.


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[Assistant] In our corporate overlords. Public pressure caused Ubisoft to at least be ashamed enough of this concept for now to pull the video to unlisted.


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[Assistant] And this is the end of it. In two days, you will no longer have any ability to push back.


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[Assistant] All they'll have to do is disable comments or moderate the comments, which is more likely, and people coming along this, let's say, let's say impressionable young people who don't sort of fundamentally understand how stupid and potentially exploitative this concept is, will have no idea how horrible it is. Like, more transparency.


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[Assistant] Is always better, and you should always be outraged when transparency is being pulled away from you.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, I'm really frustrated.


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[Assistant] There's another, oh there's another issue, uh, oh no sorry. Ryan77627 says, Hey not exactly, the extension will switch to cached slash estimated versions of dislikes once the API is fully deprecated. It will not be as accurate, but it will certainly give a number.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jake, I actually was not following this. Apparently there was a zero day that originated from Minecraft servers that caused a huge poo storm. Do you have any more details on this? No, I don't actually.


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[Assistant] Got it. Ey, Cashew says, I wonder when Linus is gonna release his book.


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[Assistant] I have made basically zero progress on it. I haven't touched it since the last time we talked about it, which was I think when Wanshow was in office pre-lockdown. So that should give you some idea. I mean, realistically, I don't think my book would be worth reading until I've bowed out of the industry.


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[Assistant] And I'm ready to just go tell all on it, so.


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[Assistant] Probably not anytime soon. Uh, wow. I don't know about you, but I have not been on the ball on the incoming merch messages.


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[Assistant] So how soon will it be where we can just click show even after the thing expires and it can just show it?


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[Assistant] Cause that would be a lot better than having to like directly address bananas for the boys from Ryan M here.


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[Assistant] Alright, is there anything else to talk about other than- I'm sure Conrad could-


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[Assistant] I guess that's it. Alright, cool. Let's do some merch messages. For those of you who are leaving super chats, you guys are doing it wrong. Merch messages are the way to send paid messages to the show, because that way, at least if we don't get to your message, you still get your order.


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[Assistant] Ayyyy, there's no way for us to lose, also... And it functions. Super chats are broken, and...


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[Assistant] You know, I don't wanna, I don't wanna throw anyone under the bus cause they're really trying to help, but the work around that I was offered for it was...


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[Assistant] You know, okay, what's the saying when the cure is worse than the disease? Yeah, I don't, I don't know what it is, but yeah, yeah. I just really don't think it made a ton of sense. So, Super Chats, unless I happen to remember to click the viewer activity tab right at the beginning of the show,


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[Assistant] I did like Wolf Among Us, even though it got kind of samey and clearly they were not focused on it towards the end.


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[Assistant] I mean, you saw my tweet earlier this week, I'm sure. Did I? I dunno. Oh, it was very funny. I said I wanna fire the Star Wars sequels out of a cannon.


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[Assistant] I spelled it with two N's, but not together. C-A-N-O-N. I was about to say one N, but there's


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, one moment please. You gotta go? Sorry, what's that? Oh.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, gimme, gimme fifteen?


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[Assistant] My wife is leaving without me. I can drive you home. No, it's okay, I'll just do a break. Okay, whatever you want. It's fine. It's completely the opposite direction, doesn't make sense.


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[Assistant] Merged messages. Alright. Super messages. Justice says howdy from Ladner. What would be the best way to contact you in regards to maybe touring the neat building I work in?


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[Assistant] Uh, you're gonna wanna try the, uhm, you're gonna wanna try the, the, just the publicly listed email. It does get monitored, not by me, but it does. Peter H asks, wife swap style LTT host swap series when?


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[Assistant] Also, more gift cards for the LTT backpack and screwdriver when they launch. Peter's buying gift cards. How does that even work? I have no idea. We were talking about wife swap on the pre-show, uh, where I was joking that such a thing, haha, probably exists and it turns out not only does it exist, it ran for like seven seasons and there were


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[Assistant] Spinoffs and... There were, yea, there's similar clone shows and in different regions and stuff like that. Uhm, Max asked, when is Luke gonna host TechLink? Yea, you should totally host TechLink. You should ask Riley for a chance to host TechLink. Sure.


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[Assistant] I think that's at least reasonable to, you know, think.


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[Assistant] If all I'm doing is consuming, then all that matters is how it looks to me.


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[Assistant] Personally, I like to run my displays at, in like a color accurate mode.


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[Assistant] But I do not actually prefer a warm color temperature, which tends to be the most color accurate.


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[Assistant] But when it comes to creation, obviously it's important that it's all created to a calibrated standard.


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[Assistant] So that when everybody else has their own preferences, they're not stacking their preferences on top of your preferences, causing all kinds of problems.


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[Assistant] Andrew asks, T-powered gaming PC when? We really do need to do that. It is on the list. I'd love to build something for the spiffing Brit. Enjoy your new mousepad, Andrew.


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[Assistant] Ignition Knight. I've accidentally played Overcooked with my wife. Do you think if we play It Takes Two it can save the marriage? I mean...


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[Assistant] For an LTT themed blanket, they are thinking about it. Oh yeah. Yup, we're definitely thinking about it. Sebastian, just finished my fall semester in electrical engineering. Your videos were the only reason I pursued the field. Three more semesters to go! Hey! Keep up the good work, Sebastian! Love it!


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[Assistant] Christopher, thanks for the quality content. Just built my first PC at 20. Will be using it for my coffee roasting business. Control-Alt-Delete Coffee Roasters. Hey, very nice, enjoy!


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[Assistant] Eli, are you guys gonna talk about the log4j2rce exploit? Is that the Minecraft thing?


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[Assistant] I was, I was doing some stuff today. Definitely doing some stuff. We finally got a smoke machine. We ran into the weirdest edge case, man. We had a, a mesh version and a solid front panel version of the same case. And we loaded up the mesh version with like extra Noctua fans.


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[Assistant] And the GPU temps were actually nearly identical to the solid front panel version with just like one stock fan in it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it turns out that there's a lot more to optimized case flow, case airflow than just making sure your case is meshy. Making sure it has holes. So it's gonna be a good video. So we got a smoke machine to kind of demonstrate what was happening in this case so that we can talk through that. Nice. So that'll be fun.


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[Assistant] Tamas, I'd love if LTD would cover more augmented reality news and products. Hey, for sure bud. Unfortunately, you and...


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[Assistant] Dozens of other people, all dozens, it just, the content does not perform well.


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[Assistant] I'll say this, there's a really cool HoloLens segment in the videos that I was working on, uh, overseas. Oh, I think I'm allowed to say it was with Intel at this point.


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[Assistant] Well it's a whole thing, where there was gonna be another event, and I wasn't really supposed to talk about that I was there until after the other event was like, announced, but then Israel closed their borders.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joshua asks, do you have any plans for express shipping on LTT stores? Right now it takes almost a month for orders to ship to India. You would be horrified.


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[Assistant] It's constructed in such a way that it actually kind of tapers at the bottom of the pocket.


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[Assistant] So that helps to keep it from falling down so fast. Neat, right?


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[Assistant] How has LTT prepared the office for earthquakes and other potential natural disasters?


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[Assistant] Uh, so because we do live in an earthquake zone, we have pretty stringent, um, earthquake proofness requirements in our building code. Other than that, we haven't really done anything else other than just do what we're supposed to be doing, which is like, you know, bolt down shelves and stuff. A lot of it's just baked into the building code.


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[Assistant] Uh, wise! I'm planning to make an Unraid VR slash VM slash NAS setup. Should I go Intel or AMD? Which is gonna give me the fewest issues. I might go Thunderbolt for I.O. Might even mine while the GPU is idle.


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[Assistant] I know I need a motherboard with good IOMU. Man, that is an extremely, uhm, sketchy


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[Assistant] Configuration. The odds of having that working, like daily driver, perfect.


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[Assistant] Pretty slim. If you can find someone else who has built basically exactly the same thing and has it working perfectly and you can just clone their config, great. But that ain't, that ain't a good, that ain't, your chances, they suck.


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[Assistant] Yeah, now is the time we need accountant applicants. I mean, you know, in a couple of years, feel free to reach out. Maybe we won't have found anyone yet, but we'll see. We need, yeah.


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[Assistant] Raphael says work for a PC retailer assembling pre-builds the past week has been an actual nightmare with at least 50 Asus Prime motherboards just dying for no apparent reason which now have to be returned after we already built most of them.


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[Assistant] Oh, rough week, but you treated yourself to a neon hard drive t-shirt and an insulated water bottle. Hope you enjoy it. Nice. Phil, hey guys, love you both equally. The purchase is a gift for a friend. Mystery water bottle and Northern Lights dust pad. Love it. Nice. His name is Race, after Race Bannon.


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[Assistant] Doesn't mean that it won't eventually burn out.


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[Assistant] In fact, that characteristic, I think, I kind of, I kind of bought into the, the narrative.


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[Assistant] What I heard back when I was considering the wall from an installer is that it is extremely common for the panels to fade.


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[Assistant] So, I was looking at this very expensive, like, what was it, like a quarter million dollar TV or whatever. It's gonna be huge.


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[Assistant] Knowing that I was gonna have like, what was it, 16 cabinets or something like that, and that the odds by the time you have 16 of them installed of one of them failing in a relatively short period of time was like, very good.


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[Assistant] I just kinda was sitting there going, no, I don't think, I don't think this makes any sense. Uhm, now that's not to say that MicroLED won't get better, it very likely will.


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[Assistant] But if I was gonna be excited about anything, it would probably be what James' video, which is coming probably sometime in the next week or two, is about.


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[Assistant] And I don't know if I'm allowed to say what it is yet, I think there might be some embargoes involved, but man.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you want some hints as to what the future of TVs might be, you can go watch the, uh, the video that James also wrote. Future of TVs, I think, is what it was called.


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[Assistant] Uh, The Future of TVs Is Not What You Think was a video we released about a year ago that James wrote that should give you some idea of some of the really cool stuff that is coming down the pipe over the, over the next few years. Thank you, John G.


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[Assistant] Chosen, 477, I'm finally able to buy your merch. I was expecting free shipping inside Canada though. Yeaah, so same thing. Uhm, we basically have one big bucket that everyone who orders pays into, and then we use that to pay our shipping provider.


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[Assistant] And we actually lose about 10% on it, so we're not, we're not like gouging, we're just trying to make the merch accessible to everyone, and that's not the best for the people for whom the shipping might have been cheaper, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Hooray. Hooray Canadian Socialism. Or something. Yeaah. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Good old Silverstone TJ-11, man. Silverstone. They have had some good shiz over the years. TJ-11, man, was that back when, uh, what's their face? Maximum PC used to do their, like, dream PC builds and all that good stuff?


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[Assistant] Those were so cool. TJ11. I love that Silverstone archives all their cases on their site. Why doesn't every manufacturer do that? Why do they just remove all reference to their old products as though they never existed?


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[Assistant] There was a creator who was trying to create like a digital museum of Apple's marketing over the years. Because they will just expunge it when they're done with it. And he was like, but this is sort of really important, you know, historical,


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[Assistant] Design and stuff. Yeaah. There's a lot that goes into marketing. There's a lot that goes into it. And he was like, this is, this is historically really important. And, uh, so he had it all archived somewhere, and they were basically like, cease and desist.


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[Assistant] You may not, you may not display this. This is our copyrighted material. They're not wrong. It's just lame.


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[Assistant] Apparently the TJ-11 is still on sale? Are you serious?


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[Assistant] Believe it or not, Silverstone has a case coming that we have a video coming about that is flipping amazing. Cool. You know what? Why don't you do a couple more merch messages? I'll go grab it. I think it's right over there. Sweet. Thoughts on the Flow X13? Oh, well that's a question for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the Flow X13, I'm surprised you didn't love it. The one issue I have with it is it kind of feels like the display is either


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's like low contrast or it has readability issues from, from a distance. Uhm, that's the only issue I had with it. The battery life is just awesome for something with a dedicated GPU in it.


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[Assistant] The performance is great, uhm, I used it on my, on my trip to Tel Aviv, and I thought it was awesome. Gaming with it on the go? Yeaah. I, no, I still love it. I've got, I've got two... Oh no, the Silverstone machine has been moved. They cleaned the set. Okay, I'm gonna have to look for it elsewhere. Alright. Bearby.


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[Assistant] No, I don't, I don't, I'll be honest with you, I don't really use macros. Uhm, I don't, I don't video edit, so that's, that's the thing. The reason why I tilted my head, I was like, why?


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[Assistant] I have a confession. Back in my younger days I had macros for some of my most commonly used passwords.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm talking back, like, OGG 15 days. Because, I mean, password managers, like, we have them now, weren't a thing. Did you have one set up for your Windows password? Uh, no. I think the Logitech driver didn't load, like, pre-login or whatever back then.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Alex says, yeah kind of, and it does a lot of other stuff well as well. Uhm, I said, try to run a cable if you can.


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[Assistant] Oh. Oh, have you gone through these but not archived them? Uh, all of them except for that one. Oh no. And this one. I pressed that. What LTT shirt does Luke have on? I want it.


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[Assistant] That's elemental, baby! That was our biggest product flop ever! But then we turned it into a success by selling it for cheap, and get this.


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[Assistant] We can get black ones. Yeah, so we can get enough black ones that we can do another elemental. So, uh, basically the way elemental seems to kind of work now is we take the two top selling designs from the last failure or like the least worst ones. We continue those. We do two more.


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[Assistant] And then rinse and repeat. So that's what we're doing again. We're taking the two best of the worst from last time. And then Lloyd has done up two more, two more new colors. So there are now a total of eight elemental designs over three generations once the new ones launch. And they too can be yours for


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[Assistant] I don't know, you could buy them for full price, but- Or just wait. If you hold out, we just might discount them. Sorry, I had something stuck in my eye there.


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[Assistant] And you see, we are gonna be getting more WAN hoodies as soon as we can. As soon as we can. I don't wanna promise anything because worldwide logistics is so screwed up right now that if I promise something, I'm basically setting myself up to be a big liar.


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[Assistant] Thanks Tomek. This purchase is sponsored by my birthday- Oh, okay. Hey Linus and Luke, picking up a new lanyard for my badge as I just started a new IT job a month ago. I've been watching since 2012 and knew nothing about tech beforehand. Now I'm starting a career. Heck yea, Brian.


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[Assistant] David W. Hi from the UK. Been watching since the house just turned 18 a few weeks back. Are there plans for a wifi mesh comparison video? I would love to do it, but we don't really have a suitable test platform for it right now. What we need is a relatively RF clean environment.


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[Assistant] So that we can isolate our variables, and it's just not something that we have available to us at the moment. Kind of need both.


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[Assistant] Christopher says, love the new party show. Oh, okay, yep, nope, nevermind, we'll show that one.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, really appreciate your work, keep it up. Hey, heck yeah. Now I really wish a lot of these we had just pushed to the thing. That's okay. Here's something for the Linux challenge. Man, I had to get the new Minecraft launcher for my kids.


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[Assistant] And it was a mess. Like the one in the Xbox store or whatever. Just total mess. The old Java edition launcher was just perfect for both Minecraft and Dungeons. It was fine.


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[Assistant] AlexF, slowly replacing all my underwear with LTT. Heck yeaah. Nice. Thanks, thumbs up. Does this banner support emoji? Well, we didn't push yours to the banner, so I guess we don't know still.


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[Assistant] Okay, Dagon says, been watching since 2017, love the content of merch, keep it up. Hey, thanks Dagon. Verla!


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[Assistant] Hey, you're welcome. Glad your boyfriend will enjoy it. Hey, we got a couple of these ones and we got two more. After Anthony's latest MacBook Pro M1 Max review, for creative purposes, would you still prefer MacBook, seeing that it falls short of the 3060 Mobile in all tests except video editing?


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[Assistant] Really, the answer is, what software are you running? Because if the software that you're running needs a Mac,


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[Assistant] Then buy a Mac. And if it doesn't, then don't buy a Mac.


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[Assistant] Alexis, I wanna buy your water bottle, but it's metal, and that usually makes my water taste metallic. Does that happen with your bottles? So.


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[Assistant] They end up with a bit of like manufacturing stank taste for I'd say probably somewhere between the first 5 and 15 washes. Like I'm pretty sensitive to it, so I'll take a new bottle, and I'll just sit, and I will wash it. Like 5 or 10 times. But after that, no. I do not detect any metallic taste, and if you go on the site,


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[Assistant] Uh, we do not censor our reviews. I hate it when companies do this.


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[Assistant] Every review aside from ones that are spam.


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[Assistant] Every review stays on the site, so if you go through the 471 reviews, I actually remember reading one that mentioned metallic tastes like yesterday or today or something like that. You can see we actually get so many reviews on the site that all of these are from today, these five. If we go onto the next page, all of these are from today.


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[Assistant] Oh, you know what? I think, uh, I think the review I saw was on the mystery bottle.


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[Assistant] Do do do, mystery bottle. This one doesn't have as many reviews either because, well, it's got a lot. Jake is holding the case hostage. Does he have it? He has it. Oh, yeah, I couldn't find it. Where is it? I think he hid it from you. Oh. Speaking of which, Jake is coming over for, uh, for gaming tonight. Do you want to come too?


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[Assistant] Okay, here it is. From Evan Jensen. Perfect. Doesn't have metallic aftertaste. Boom. You heard it from Evan first. My biggest gripe with reusable water bottles is that most give the water a metallic taste. These do not have that problem.


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[Assistant] Here you go. Confirmed. And we've apparently got some gaming to do now, so we will see you all later. Thanks, Hi B. With this shirt. I will always wear it with Linus and Luke in my heat-sinking heart. Uhm, thank you. Weird comment. Uh, love it.


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[Assistant] We'll see you again next week, same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] 97 inch OLED. That's pretty big. That's pretty big. That's pretty big. I think I wanna go projector though. I think we've got light control in the room now, I think we're going 130 inch projector.


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[Assistant] And, um, Rob from, um, AVRant was like, you gotta go JVC, but then there's also an Epson that we want to check out as well. So that's, I think what the contenders are at the moment.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen? Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got a fantastic show lined up for you all today. Our big topics this week are Razor.


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[Assistant] Has egg on their face due to the unqualified product they asked you to put on your face. In other big news, Nvidia dropped a new 12 gig version of the RTX 3080, and everyone definitely cared about that.


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[Assistant] Great, I'm really excited about that. I was just hoping that there would be more things I could mine crypto on. Let's roll that intro!


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[Assistant] Luke has transcended. Show's brought to you today by Zoho CRM, Squarespace, and Secret Lab.


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[Assistant] Alright, why don't we jump right into our first topic, which is, of course, what the heck is going on with the stream today? Luke is missing from the nipples down, ladies and gentlemen. Look, I'm holding him up. I'm holding him up here. Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Doing that safe stuff, now there were a couple people asking, well why the heck didn't Linus just broadcast from home like you guys did? And the answer is A, because this is amazing.


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[Assistant] And B, because my computer is hardcore broken, alright? You're gonna wanna subscribe to my YouTube channel. That's youtube.com slash Linus Tech Tips.


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[Assistant] Okay, if you guys weren't familiar, it's my YouTube channel. Get subscribed over there, cause I'm gonna have a YouTube short coming up over the weekend, showing you guys the noise that my water cooling pump is making right now. I can do the noise for you, Luke. Do you want me to do the noise for you? Yes, please. Okay, it sounds like this.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm not crapping on the Lang D5. Not by a long shot, because that pump is probably nearly 15 years old. So...


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[Assistant] It's done its time. It's done its- It's done its duty, sir. It is time to retire it. So I've actually grabbed another one. I just ripped it out of-


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[Assistant] Some like pump reservoir combo thing that we had lying around at the office that has clearly never been used and I'm gonna replace it and hopefully I'll have my computer up and running but my machine is not running so there was no way that we were gonna be able to do this from home. Now.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about the other big story of the week. Razer's masks, allegedly not as safe as advertised. The Zephyr and Zephyr Pro were originally marketed as N95 rated.


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[Assistant] So N95 means that 95% of airborne particles should be filtered if you are wearing such a mask.


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[Assistant] Uh, but here's the thing. They actually have to be tested and certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.


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[Assistant] Naomi Wu, aka SexyCyborg, did a teardown and checked the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to find out that the Zephyrs were not, in fact, N95 rated.


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[Assistant] So Razer said the filters used in the mask were tested for 95% particulate filtration efficiency, but the mask itself is not, and this is a problem for a number of reasons.


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[Assistant] Why is that a problem? Okay? If you have, if I had an N95 filter on my head,


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is interesting. We just got a merch message from Garrett I, or L, doesn't matter. Uh, I asked for this pillow on Twitter in June. Oh wait, uh, so thanks. Okay, oh, bought the expensive edition pillow, we'll talk more about that later. Also, Razer is being a meanie about the mask. They are apparently refusing refunds according to this user.


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[Assistant] And only doing returns after I really threw a fit. Apparently four reps said no.


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[Assistant] So, that is all allegedly at this time because I have no way of verifying that, but if true, that is not...


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[Assistant] Not cool right now. If you pull the rug out from under your users, in terms of the features or functionality of a product, if it's misleadingly labeled, you need to step up, do the right thing, and accept the returns for it, right? Like if you don't like that,


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[Assistant] Then you shouldn't advertise it incorrectly. Uhm, I don't know, this is not the-


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[Assistant] This is not the first time that Razer has misled anybody, you know? Uhm, they're not exactly known for being 100% forthright about


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[Assistant] Where, I'm not gonna name any names, but uhm, a, a high ranking Razor executive, who I used to communicate with fairly regularly,


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[Assistant] Uh, misled me about the origin of the razor switches in their original mechanical keyboards that had razor switches. I was told


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[Assistant] Maybe not to my face, since technically it was a phone call, but I was told flat out in no uncertain terms that Razer had engineered their own switches.


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[Assistant] And it's one of those things where, you know, as a, as an enthusiast and as a,


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[Assistant] Uhm, as a skeptic, as a lifelong skeptic, maybe I wasn't a cynic yet, but definitely a skeptic at that point. Now I'm a cynic.


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[Assistant] I, I, I smelled BS and, you know, there were a lot of signs that Razer had not in fact invented their own keyboard switch. Like, say for example, the fact that they had completely recycled wholesale the diagram from Cherry's website.


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[Assistant] Showing how the plunger mechanism worked in the switch. I mean, you remember that Luke? Do you remember that? It was ridiculous.


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[Assistant] And no matter how many times I prodded and pressed, this individual insisted, INSISTED that they had researched and developed their own switches.


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[Assistant] I don't believe you. And so what I did is in the video that we ultimately made about that keyboard


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[Assistant] I basically just, I actually don't remember exactly what I said because I was torn. I was either gonna say...


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[Assistant] Their Kiowa switches, which ultimately is what they ended up being. Uh, or I was just going to say their Razer switches.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're a Cherry clone, they're being manufactured by someone else obviously other than Cherry, because Cherry would not even consider putting Razer branding on their switches.


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[Assistant] I don't remember exactly what I said, but I basically just, I decided not to go after them about it because you never know, right? Sometimes miscommunications happen and an executive might think something and they're just, it's possible they're completely ignorant of the situation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you don't want to, you don't want the actions of one individual to necessarily turn into an attack against an entire company when the odds are I could have talked to just about anyone else and they might have been more knowledgeable about the situation. The point is that misunderstandings can happen, and I had decided at that time to give the benefit of the doubt.


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[Assistant] You know, seeing this situation now, I'm kinda looking at it going, you know, once is a, once is potentially a fluke. Uhm.


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[Assistant] DevSnack says, Razer's website still says this, Razer switches stand at the forefront of keyboard technology and innovation. Since creating our own mechanical gaming switches in 2014, we have continued to refine and design a variety of switches to suit every gamer and his needs.


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[Assistant] Okay, we got a couple problems with this. Number one, uhm, okay, you didn't create your own mechanical gaming switches in 2014. They branded them! You made a spec tweak to an existing- That's a huge contribution. To an existing switch. And number two, his needs? Razer. That is not very 2022-ish.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's one of, it's one of those things I, um, I, I, I'm honestly not gonna call to, to cancel Razer over, over a misplaced pronoun that they probably put on their website many years ago. But, um, you know, I, I do think they could improve their product messaging to make it more transparent and this,


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[Assistant] N95 Razor Mask situation is a perfect example of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're already through them all. Okay, so Razor's removing the N95 references. Uhm, I mean the discussion question on this one from Ploof is what should the repercussions be in a situation like this where the damage is already done? I mean, it's been marketed with that N95 moniker for nearly a year, so


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[Assistant] There are conceivably people out there who wore this mask thinking that it was going to protect them from a dangerous disease.


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[Assistant] Potentially were not protected from a dangerous disease.


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[Assistant] But it probably did a lot more than just having nothing on their face. I mean, they've demonstrated time and time again that not just breathing into each other's faces is beneficial even if it's not properly filtered. So, how do you measure, how do you measure the damage that's been done here?


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[Assistant] Well the biggest self-own here is just that there are certification bodies that absolutely exist for these products and they just didn't.


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[Assistant] Uhm, go through the proper channels, yeaah, they just didn't bother. So at the very least it's negligent. Uhm, I don't know that it's malicious, if anything, I think I've gotten more of a careless, uh, ah, it won't matter kind of vibe from Razor's errors over the years as opposed to a


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, we fully understand the, the problems with what we're doing and we're going to do it anyway kind of vibe.


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[Assistant] You know, a careless driver that plows into a pedestrian, uh, is, is it, are they really, has the damage any less than a malicious driver that plows into a pedestrian? I don't know. That's a, that's a debate I'll leave for the philosophers.


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[Assistant] Were you thinking, you know what I need, a GA-102 GPU that costs more? Yes. Yep. Is that what you're after?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but these cards almost never run at base clock unless you're like suffocating.


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[Assistant] Well what's really funny is I was gonna contradict you there and I realized that you're not the one who's crazy. I'm the one who's crazy.


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[Assistant] You were going through the cards that Nvidia released recently, going, oh well there's the 3090 Ti, and there's the RTX 3050 for $250, and you were outraged. And I was about to jump in and say, that's a great deal. But, I mean,


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[Assistant] What did the, like, let's go back, let's go back a couple of generations. Like, what did a GTX 950 cost? Yeah. I'm gonna look this up, cause I don't remember.


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[Assistant] I'm crazy! Nvidia has managed to take that tier of product and increase the MSRP, which by the way is not necessarily representative of the price you will actually pay,


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[Assistant] By, hold on a second. Oh, bloody hell. I don't know how to use a calculator. So 249 over 159. They've managed to increase the price by 50 to 60 percent.


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[Assistant] And by the time you factor in, you know, your super clocks and KO, you know, all your different variants of the card.


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[Assistant] You could easily be paying nearly double for the same tier of card that just


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[Assistant] You know, seven short years ago was available for, you know, 150 bucks. You know, something that you could, that as a kid in high school, you could conceivably work a side hustle and save up for in some reasonable amount of time and, you know, get your game on. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Now, obviously, it's gonna be a lot faster than that card, you know, technology's come a long way in the last seven years, so I'm not saying, hey, you should go buy a GTX 950 or anything like that. I'm just saying that we've clearly been conditioned to accept that, you know, I mean, $250, holy, holy. $250 for us.


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[Assistant] I don't remember how much the 8800 GT cost when it launched. I think around 300 bucks. No, I think it was less, Luke. I think that...


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[Assistant] I think that Nvidia, after they launched it and realized, holy crap, we just completely irrelevanted our entire rest of our product line. I think they increased it. Yep. The 512 meg version, the higher end version was $250.


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[Assistant] So, going back 10 years prior, $250 bought you, from Nvidia, a flagship killer card,


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[Assistant] And nowadays, $250 buys you literally the lowest tier GeForce card in their entire


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[Assistant] That's crazy! Okay, snap725 says, all caps, inflation. And that's a fair point. Let's head into a US inflation calculator.


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[Assistant] So let's have a look here, right? The thing is though, inflation's a funny thing, because inflation for housing, for example, is a really different number from inflation for food, from inflation for tech.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you were to look at something like TVs, or actually even personal computers as a whole, I was looking at a, yea, I was looking at a, like a flyer from London Drugs from like 1995, right? This is back in like the Pentium era, right?


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[Assistant] And to buy a fully equipped desktop setup was like four or five grand.


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[Assistant] And that was just what a computer cost, because having a personal computer was absolutely not a given.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so according to the inflation calculator, that 8800 GT, your flagship killer,


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[Assistant] What kind of modern GPU can you buy for $336? And the other thing to consider is that in some areas of tech, we've actually got more of an opposite inflation thing going on. I mean, how much did a 42-inch TV cost 20 years ago?


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[Assistant] Riddle me that. What's a 42 inch TV cost today? A fraction.


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[Assistant] So, if anything, it should be possible for technology to buck that trend. I mean, even Intel, who's not exactly known for giving consumers a deal just out of the goodness of their hearts, you go back to something like, you know, the Pentium 4, back when I first got into enthusiast computing, uhm,


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[Assistant] And Intel, all these years later, it's still like 500 bucks for an entry level like, like Core i7. I mean an entry level enthusiast chip, you know what I mean? So, I think it's possible to buck this trend.


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[Assistant] But I mean, hey, why do that when you, when you don't have to, right? Like, if I'm Nvidia the corporation, I'm doing a great job right now, finding ways to condition my users, uh, and really the entire market.


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[Assistant] To think that this is what gaming should cost.


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[Assistant] JR6955 says, hey, despite the rising costs over the last years,


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[Assistant] Xboxes and PlayStations still cost the same. Now, that's a little misleading.


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[Assistant] Because Nvidia, unlike Microsoft and Sony, doesn't get to continue to make money on you.


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[Assistant] After you own the product, at least not to the same degree. I mean, I don't know what they're doing with everyone logging into GeForce Experience necessarily. There might be ways for them to monetize that data. I legitimately have no idea. I'm not accusing them of anything, I just don't know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but compared to what Microsoft and Sony are able to get in terms of residuals through, uh, game sales or, and with Microsoft so focused on Game Pass, monthly subscriptions,


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[Assistant] It just doesn't even begin to touch it. There's a reason that Sony and Microsoft are just trying to shift.


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[Assistant] Boxes, rather than worrying about making money on them. But, that was always true.


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[Assistant] Right? Especially for Sony, who hasn't shaken up the business model to nearly the same degree that Microsoft has. So, yeaah. What is up with that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's something I'd really like the lab to spend some time on, cause there are a lot of budget phones out there. Like on the one hand, yes, phones have gotten crazy expensive. It costs like 1300, 1400 US dollars for a flagship now. That wasn't a thing not that long ago.


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[Assistant] You could get a flagship iPhone for $700-800 not that many years ago.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but on the flip side of that, phones have also gotten cheaper than ever. You can get a full-on smartphone with, you know, like a big touchscreen and everything for like a hundred bucks. A hundred and, a hundred and low dollars off contract.


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[Assistant] I mean, that would have been insane too, six, seven years ago.


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[Assistant] So, there's this, there's been this split, and one of the things that I would like the lab to do is figure out, like, which of those value phones are actually not awful, so that we can have solid recommendations to give people. I mean, one of the big challenges with phones, too, is that unless the carriers are aggressively monetizing your data, like Nvidia, they


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[Assistant] Are in a position where the modern business world is expecting companies to have recurring revenue from their customers. I mean, look what's happened to Adobe stock ever since they launched Creative Cloud, right? Compared to when they used to sell you a discreet


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[Assistant] Perpetual license for each new version of the software.


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[Assistant] Uhm, shareholders love recurring revenue, and that's why Nvidia is trying to build out stuff like their cloud gaming service, because that way they can continue to sell you the same GPU over and over and over and over and over again. Sure, it's at a lower price, but over and over and over and over again. So if you want to sell things that the customer ultimately actually owns,


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[Assistant] Like, like a phone from a carrier that from, or from a brand that doesn't benefit on the back end like Apple does through the App Store or Google does through the Play Store, then you do kind of have to keep driving up prices because


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[Assistant] You look at the profitability of Android phones and how much consolidation there's been in that market, it's clearly that they're not making that much money.


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[Assistant] Right? Like that's the really scary thing is how many dead bodies litter the path that we have ultimately found ourselves on. Yes, the prices have gone like this, but in spite of that, so many competitors have just


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[Assistant] Died off along the way, most recently, and uh, uh, speaking of like prominent ones, LG. Just abandoned it. They're like, forget it, we can't do this.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, but you would think if there's enough margin in the product they could buy some market share. Get aggressive on pricing.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's no doubt in my mind that Apple absolutely creates a perception of value in every market segment they move into. I mean, you look, you look at the way that people looked at headphones, right?


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[Assistant] Like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, outside of the audiophile community, the idea of spending $300, $400, $500 on headphones. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] It's insane. It's crazy. People just used whatever earbuds came with their Walkman. Like that was the norm. You, you like, or, or with their iPod, right? Like they just used whatever. Like it was iconic. People were just walking around with their white 1499 Apple earphones. That, that was it. Apple comes in.


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[Assistant] They go, hey, over the ear headphones, well actually Beats changed the game really before, before Apple did, but Apple has taken it up another level. Apple comes in, they say, hey look,


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[Assistant] Earbuds are now worth $150 or $250 in the case of the AirPods Pros. Over the ear wireless earphones, they are now worth, what is it, $549 or something for the, uh, for the AirPods Max. I can't remember the pricing in US dollars because I'm


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[Assistant] Worth spending a ton of money for, they normalize that, and then everyone else ultimately reaps the benefit other than, other than consumers. Their competitors reap the benefit.


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[Assistant] Which I've, I've always found to just be a, a fascinating, uh, a fascinating pattern because there's no reason that someone other than Apple couldn't do this. I mean, remember back, uh, again, this is probably back about 10 years ago when so many laptops had gross TN panel screens, right?


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[Assistant] Just awful. IPS displays freaking existed, but it wasn't until...


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[Assistant] They were TN, and they were low resolution. It was normal to find a 1366x768 15 inch laptop display. And it looked atrocious. And all it took was for Apple to come in and say, Retina!


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[Assistant] Create a value to high resolution displays that you can't make out, you know, every single pixel this big.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden everyone else goes, oh okay, I guess it's, I guess it's time, I guess it's, I guess people will like this. Well, no, you should have known people would like it before Apple told them to like it and you should have gone and been the trailblazer. But I say that, and then you look at a company like, ah, oh shoot, who were those guys that made the first true wireless


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[Assistant] Breggie, oh, that's a Wikipedia article for some Norse, Skeldic god of poetry or something.


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[Assistant] Bregi, the platform that, what, something, what, what is happening here? Bregi OS?


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[Assistant] I have no idea what they have pivoted to, but where there would normally be a buy button, there is now a let's talk button, whatever that means. Solutions ecosystem? What even is this? Concept, customization, manufacturing? What even, I don't even


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[Assistant] Okay, so they're like a consulting firm for, oh, you know what, they probably license IP for, uh, wireless, wireless audio then.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm sure they, I'm sure they won some patents as part of creating the dash.


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[Assistant] I don't know what to do with it. Like no, I'm not going to send you an email. Like how, how ass backwards is that? I'm going to send you an email to find out what the heck it is that you do. But anyway, yeah, so being the first mover, hey, not necessarily a huge advantage in the rapidly moving space of consumer electronics.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, why don't we go ahead and jump into our next topic? Why don't I manage those incoming messages and you jump into a topic for us, Luke? I feel like I've talked a lot here.


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[Assistant] So, it's not cheap, but then I never promised it would be. In fact, it's so expensive that you guys will now understand why I ultimately, originally canned this product.


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[Assistant] The original intention, okay, for the CPU pillow was to fill it with 100% alpaca wool. And I saw the price and I went, no, no one will buy this. No one would be crazy enough for this. So we did a blend. We did an alpaca wool and regular stuffing blend for the regular green CPU pillows.


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[Assistant] And then we sold so many of those that I was like, yeah, and there was this time that, uh, you know, we thought about doing, you know, an alpaca one, haha, wouldn't it be funny if we did an extreme edition one? And then you guys were like, yes, do it.


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[Assistant] So, we finally did it. It's black, grey, and gold. Which, by the way, Intel is what Extreme Editions should have always been. They should have always had a black substrate because that would have been so much cooler. They are otherwise the same as the other pillows.


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[Assistant] But they are 100% alpaca wool for that amazing squishy feeling.


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[Assistant] Guys, to be clear, these are not bed pillows. These are not like, head pillows. They're not really even intended for you to sleep on them. These are decorative pillows, but these are gonna be the bougiest


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[Assistant] Decorative pillows on the market. I promise you that much. Just like the originals, they have a little hidden pocket where you can, I don't know, keep your things you like to hide.


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[Assistant] Whatever. There's no seal on the pocket, so the dogs would definitely be able to sniff whatever's in there, but there's a pocket, and it's on lttstore.com, and it's not cheap. We actually named it the Expensive Edition Pillow, which was inspired by


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[Assistant] The, uhm, the original nickname for Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs. So they call them XE now.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling very apprehensive right now, Luke. I would like this story to continue in an expedient manner.


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[Assistant] I had nothing to do with that. I wasn't there. That was not my fault. I dropped nothing.


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[Assistant] Thanks to Zoho CRM for sponsoring this video. They're a 360 degree solution for managing your business' sales, marketing, and customer service. With their intuitive UI and simple navigation, you can implement their service quickly and efficiently with minimal disruption to your current processes. They offer AI predictions to help you understand your customer's needs so you can see trends and purchase patterns with a variety of indicators.


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[Assistant] They've got over 15 years of experience in the industry and over a quarter million clients. So it's a great solution to support you and your customer relationship management needs. You can get 50% off an annual subscription when you use code ZCRM50 at the link in the video description. The show is also brought to you by Squarespace. Do you need a beautiful website without the hassle? Luke, do you need a beautiful website without the hassle?


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[Assistant] No, I prefer Hassle. You like Hassle. Perfect. Well then, Squarespace is not for you. Squarespace's all-in-one platform makes it far too easy to get up and running quickly. You wouldn't like it. They have award-winning templates that you can use as a starting point for a wide range of projects. Well, that is someone else could use them for a wide range of projects. You wouldn't like them.


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[Assistant] If you ever need help, Squarespace has webinars, a full series of help guides, or you can contact their 24-7 customer support via live chat and email. You'd hate that.


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[Assistant] And if you already have a third party domain, you don't have to give it up, you can just transfer it over to Squarespace.


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[Assistant] That is actually very funny. Uhm, okay, their Titan Evo 2022 series chair offers four-way lumbar support, comes with a magnetic memory foam head pillow, and is offered in different upholstries like hybrid leatherette, soft weave fabric, and Nappa leather.


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[Assistant] They've got up to a 5 year extended warranty and 49 day return policy, so you're covered if anything goes wrong. And you can head to the link in the description to check out Secret Lab today.


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[Assistant] Alright, what else do we want to talk about today, Mr. Luke? About how Google calls for the White House to support ensuring open source projects are secure. What does the White House have to do with open source software?


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[Assistant] Sometimes huge consortiums of enormous companies.


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[Assistant] I really should. I don't think I've ever donated to OBS, for example. I definitely should. I mean, the amount of- That's a pretty good point. The amount of money being made in the streaming space, right? Like, did you see that Streamlabs raised, like, a hundred million dollars? I'm looking at this going, what?


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[Assistant] Any sense. I don't, I don't get it. Uhm, but, I mean, apparently there's enough money floating around in that space. Like, to be clear, yes, I stream, but like...


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[Assistant] Come on, we, we do one live podcast episode a week, like this is not a streaming operation. Uhm, so I, I was, I was blown away to see a number like that for a streaming services provider. I, I just don't, I just didn't understand it.


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[Assistant] So, I guess it probably makes sense that OBS should like, maybe make some money. So maybe I should just do that.


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[Assistant] Wait, maybe it's not Streamlabs that raised 100 million dollars. Who was it then? I was, I was emailing some stream... Hold on.


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[Assistant] Stream Elements. Stream Elements raised 100 million. Sorry. Correction. Stream Elements raised 100 million. Stream Labs are the jack butts that prompted me to donate to OBS because they ripped off their software and branding because they were butt heads. There you go. Thanks guys.


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[Assistant] Uh, SKHS Video Production asks, why was that one message red? Uh, how are they color-coded, Luke? The merch messages?


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[Assistant] What's some other open source stuff that you use all the time that you feel like you should probably donate to?


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[Assistant] Man. I use Paint.net every week to make the land show thumbnail.


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[Assistant] You know who I did donate to though? Uh, Christopher Vandermoten or whatever, uh, who makes the, um, the, uh, the drop shadow plugin that I used for Paint.net. I was like,


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[Assistant] I can't believe Paint.net doesn't have drop shadows by default. Thank you for making this plug in. I think I donated like 50 bucks or something like that. I was like, this saves my life because I don't want to learn how to use Photoshop just to put a stupid drop shadow on something. This is like 8 years ago or whenever we started actually doing Photoshop.


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[Assistant] There's, uh, another really cool open source YouTube related project. We've got a video coming about it soon. Theo Joe of all people created a, uhm, I don't know if I'd call it a script or a program. It's something. And what it does is it interacts with the YouTube API to


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[Assistant] All of the comments on your channel or on your most recent videos, uhm, and put them through like a spam scrub and then remove them from the channel and it can do it in like a minute.


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[Assistant] And then eventually they talk about, like, the guru that helped them through a tough time in their life or something and it's like, okay, this is who we're advertising.


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[Assistant] Life coach or, you know, crypto guru or something like that. I was like, oh my goodness, I just, I'm dying here.


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[Assistant] We should do a couple. Let's not focus on the ones that are about merch. Let's focus on the ones that are more like video, video topics. Uh, Spencer asks, try and game on IBM slash any POS system. I actually did a video a little while ago where I gamed on a 25 year old laptop.


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[Assistant] Lots of fun, but the thing is that without the nostalgia factor of playing games that I actually used to play on a computer like that, there's not really a whole lot that I can contribute with something like that. So it's a little tough.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Anonymous asks, would you ever consider adding more content to your build videos about the jank and the things that didn't work? Sometimes we do behind the scenes on floatplane, like we'll do cutting room floor, uh, clips, and they'll show, you know, stuff that's...


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[Assistant] Too hot for TV in some cases, like stuff we couldn't really upload to YouTube because we just don't need the general public seeing it or, uh, you know, little deeper explanations into how we solve the particular problem. There's not always a ton of that, but there is a little bit. We try to plan our projects more now so that that doesn't happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, Brian C. asks, Hey, it's been a couple of years since the thinking of retiring video. How do you feel now? Lately you've been looking like you're having a lot of fun with the lab and videos. Uhm, I mean, really it was, it was an attitude adjustment at that time. And, you know, that's ultimately the conclusion that I came to in the 10 million subscriber stream was,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I have the best job in the world and I, I have to, I have to want to keep doing it because I want to. I can't just focus on how I'm stuck doing it because I've got dozens of people that are relying on me to keep doing this and


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know what, honestly, sometimes it's still a grind. It's no secret that content creators burn out left and right. And I can tell you guys, there's a good reason for it. For the smaller ones, I feel like a lot of it is just feeling like they have the whole world on their shoulders.


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[Assistant] Every video they upload is this expression of themselves that


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[Assistant] Even if 99% of the feedback is positive, that 1% just gets right under your skin because it's such a personal attack when you create something and someone goes out of their way to tell you how terrible it was.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I think there's a lot of that, and then on the other side of the spectrum, the ones that have scaled up like us and built teams, where no, the whole thing doesn't rest on their shoulders in terms of the content.


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[Assistant] Well, there's a different kind of pressure because for me, the big one is trying to figure out how to make sure that every person under this roof and many not under this roof, I mean, I'm not going to name names, obviously, because this is people's personal life situations, but I know that there are families of people who work here


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[Assistant] Where there's one income supporting that family, and it comes from Linus Media Group Incorporated, right? That check has to arrive. It's gotta arrive in full and on time, and...


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[Assistant] That's something that puts a lot of pressure on me sometimes to, to take a deal that I don't feel like doing or to, uh, tackle a project that is going to require me to lose sleep over. Uh, but it's...


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[Assistant] And, and it's exhausting. To be clear, I'm not complaining. Like I said in that video, I have the best damn job in the world and you guys are, you guys are what make it possible.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't mean that it's not a job, right? That doesn't mean that I'm not tired sometimes. So yeah, I'm tired. I'm still tired. I'm more tired, probably.


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[Assistant] But I am trying to channel that tiredness into innovation. And that's where I think I have a lot of fun with LTT store creating.


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[Assistant] Like, finding problems. This, this shirt that I'm wearing right now is so freaking awesome because we had a problem with getting supply of good quality hoodies in, you know, colors that we wanted, with a good fit, uh, good materials, uhm,


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[Assistant] Solving that problem has been such a journey and now finally seeing the fruit of it, this is not available for sale yet guys, sorry, it'll be up at some point, but it is so exciting and it's a, it's just, uhm, it's a different creative muscle to get to flex, right? Sitting down with the merch team and talking through, you know,


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[Assistant] Injection molded plastics issues or making judgment calls on like metal finishes or, you know, talking through design elements like this, uhm, this blank hoodie that I'm wearing.