The WAN Show - Apple's Exclusive Game: FROGGER - WAN Show Sept 13, 2019

Episode Date: September 16, 2019

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Oh, it's WAN Show time, alright, and we're not even that late today. We are nine minutes late. Well, sort of. Yeah, eight minutes. Eight minutes! We actually had a pretty fun day today. We did. We spent the last hour and a half gaming together in multiplayer yes on the nintendo virtual boy yeah so that's going to be a video we're going to talk about it a

little bit later because um i don't know about you but my headache is actually getting worse uh oh i don't think mine's getting but my headache is actually getting worse. I don't think mine's getting worse, but I'm still extremely aware of it. Yeah. It is not a great experience. No. Except for the parts of it that are absolutely outstanding. Yes.

Man, I don't know what to say about it other than if you're here for the news about Apple's event this week, then... We'll get right into that. Haven't you had enough? And you should, yeah. So we'll talk about some of the iPhone stuff, and also there's a new iPad, and blah, blah, blah. But really, I want to talk about the Apple Arcade service a little bit more, and what this means for gaming in general, mobile gaming in particular. What else we got today?

There's the new Switch Fit game, which is important for reasons that we'll get more into later. Yeah. And SpaceX is deploying satellite broadband across the U.S. next year, which might mean in the next five years. Or never.

Yeah, or that. Also, I ditched my OLED TV at home. Oh. What could have inspired me to do such a thing? You'll find out. Oh my. After you sit through this ancient intro. It's broken. It's good. I still own that sweater technically. I still own that shirt. Nice. I still own that shirt. Nice

We're extremely fashionable people. Yeah Which is why you should buy merch at LTT store.com. Yes, that stuff is actually everything that I own That's fashionable. Just gonna say I don't think fashionable is a strong word. This looks fashionable Yeah That's better than most of my stuff. No, I meant literally clean. Oh, this is also literally clean. Yeah, you just put on what's clean, though. That's kind of where I was going with it.

Don't worry about it. That is how my fashion sense works. Actually, aren't you basically down to stuff that fits at all at this point? Because of the washer-dryer situation? Yeah, why don't we talk... You know what? We can do one off-topic thing,

then we'll talk about the Apple thing, I promise. My dad is a plumbing instructor, and he doesn't understand. So just, I want to put that out there first, because it's really weird. Your dad also is responsible for whole room water cooling, the plumbing behind it.

That's fair. That was my spec, though. Yeah. He did tell me it was stupid. Oh, did he? Oh, yeah. Okay. It's your dad. You think he He did tell me it was stupid. Oh, did he? Oh, yeah. Okay. It's your dad.

You think he didn't tell me it was stupid? That's fair. He was very clear. Luke's dad's a badass, basically. Yeah, yeah. But I brought him over to try to figure this out, because, like, my sink in my bathroom at home, if I turn on one tap, one day it might be cold,

the next day it might be warm. If I turn on the tap one day it might be cold the next day it might be warm if i turn on the other one it's the opposite of what but like they rotate randomly and that happens to every tap in the house so luke lives in a condo just to be yeah yeah not a house yeah um if i have a shower if it's at like three to seven in the morning it is always maximum heat no matter what i do but i have found out that i can trick it a little bit by turning on random taps in the house and then sometimes it will flip to maximum cold only there's no other options later parts of the day it's okay but yeah you can put on maximum cold and it's like nope i'm fully hot anyways this becomes a problem when you know all the water sources are affected and you get to the washer dryer because you put it on the dryer's

fine yeah the dryer is no problem but you put the washing machine on cold and your clothes come out steaming it's like well that wasn't intended um so then you wash some stuff that's the right size. And it's no longer the right size. Or you wash some stuff that's red. And now other things are also kind of red. Which I've never had to deal with. Are you sure you're not just an idiot? Yeah okay the only reason why I'm gonna defend this. Look, it does raise some questions. It's fair. You don't know which tap is which. Are you forgetting from day to day? My roommate and my girlfriend have experienced the same thing. Most of my friends that I brought over being like, look, have experienced the same thing.

Are you sure your roommate and your girlfriend and all your friends are not idiots? My girlfriend's not an idiot. Because I haven't been there. Myself and my roommate are maybe, maybe sometimes. But also my dad has seen it and it's blown his brain. I'm just teasing. He had a theory that the pipes are too close to each other, so the hot pipe might heat transfer. But that doesn't make sense, because you shouldn't end up,

you shouldn't be able to be hot. It shouldn't be swappable. You should be able to have two warm taps. That was his initial theory, and by the time he left the house, he was like, I don't know. I'm done. I'm out. Peace. Something weird out. Peace.

Something weird's going on. Yeah, that was very odd. So a significant amount of my clothes don't fit anymore. So let's talk about the Apple event. Did you watch the keynote? I watched some of it. I was busy. That's more than I watched.

It was during a work shift i have legitimately gotten to the point where my ceo-ness is so inescapable that i actually assigned underlings more than one underling to watch the apple event for me and then provide me with a note that's awesome that is super legit it's like an hour and a half i don't have an hour and a half because the thing thing, too, is if you're going to watch it, you can't really just have it half on or you're going to miss the demos and stuff. Like, if I'm watching an Apple event, and I do sometimes. You can do it half on. I find it tough. Because, okay, well, hold on a second.

Because I'm not talking about efficiency from, like, a personal standpoint I'm not talking about efficiency from like a personal standpoint I'm talking about efficiency from a company-wide Standpoint if I'm watching it then I'm gonna watch it Everyone else be doing your friggin work because I'm watching the Apple event I'll let you know if anything interesting happens if I'm not watching it Then someone else needs to be watching it and making notes and filling me in if I am half watching it, then someone else needs to be watching it and making notes and filling me in. If I am half watching it, then I'm going to miss stuff. And so I can't fill in anyone and they can't fill in me because I'm clearly not like making detailed notes as I go. So I might as well

be filming a completely different video, which is exactly what I was doing. And someone else can just tell me about it. I had a call like midway through it so I couldn't really watch it properly at all and then when it wasn't the call I had it on like a side monitor but I was super focused on other things so like I got some vague stuff I was roughly trying to pay attention to the iPad things because my mom needs an iPad for work so I was like is there an iPad coming? Yes. Is it reasonably priced?

Is it sort of okay? Actually, yes. Seems great. Yeah, new iPad actually looks great. Yeah, well, it's even more great because she was going to buy one and I was like, wait, don't because they're probably going to release one and they're probably going to price replace it. She was like, okay, waited like three days and then the announcement came.

Woo! It was awesome. So yeah, there's a new entry level iPad.ad it has thinner bezels it's 330 bucks the iphone 11 is basically a 10r but like more more better um so they changed the naming scheme which is annoying but they probably improved the naming scheme i think they really did there's a lot of people making fun of them for pro max even we did it sounds like it sounds like a protein supplement or something yes like it sounds like something you can buy in like a bottle that's like this big like it might have a handle that has like six servings in it because you're supposed to eat like so much of it um david was showing me this like

gigantic bottle of like protein cheesy poofs that he has and i'm like so i ate one i'm like yeah i got some protein or something he's like yeah it's probably not that much and i'm it was literally hey david how much was in each cheesy poof like one gram or something less than a gram so you'd have to eat like handfuls of this stuff in order to actually take in like an appreciable amount of protein. Like it sounds like something like that. But honestly, iPhone 11 as the basic now, which I guess I don't know if they did that on purpose or by accident. I'm not sure, but I like it to be honest. Because the iPhone 8 was like the basic one when the iPhone X launched.

It was like, okay, we'll just buy the last Gen 1 then. The Max branding has existed for a long time, so okay. And then we've got Pro. Pro made sense like a thousand years ago. We've got Pro. Pro made sense like a thousand years ago. They probably just should have called the iPhone 10 the iPhone 8 Pro. Yeah.

Like, then we could have just skipped all this crap. Actually, that would have worked perfectly. We could have had an iPhone 10 Pro, an iPhone 9 Pro, and an iPhone now 11 Pro. I completely agree, but I'm going to jump slightly on the other side. It's not actually the other side. I'm going to adjust my position on this side. I don't know how to call it. Position adjustment. We always hammer

on people for terrible naming schemes. We do. And I feel extremely justified every time. Yeah, because they're bad. Because they are terrible. They're terrible. And they should feel bad about it. Intel, are you watching? Yes. You should feel bad. Yes. NVIDIA, are terrible they're terrible and they should feel bad intel are you watching yes you should feel bad yes nvidia are you watching yeah you should feel super oh super bad yeah yeah this time i agree they could have done it better all this other kind of stuff but they did it and i prefer it this way yes so i want to make sure rip the band-aid off yeah do it right yeah and to apple's credit i think the iphone is one of the few things in their lineup that has a naming

scheme that i can get behind because the problem that i have with their other stuff where on the surface it makes sense you've got the macbook you've got the macbook pro this one is for people who want to browse facebook and this one is for people who want to browse Facebook, and this one is for people who want to browse Facebook but look like a baller while they do it. So you've got this clear segmentation, but the issue is that with the MacBook, they refuse to differentiate the models year by year. So with the iPhone, they have finally got it down.

The suffixes make sense. The generation of the product is clear yeah and i applaud that's not even a slow clap sorry sorry yeah that was probably horrible i'm sorry i applaud i applaud there you go very nice now i look like the monkey with me oh geez um so yeah good job um the notch is still here that i applaud less yeah yeah um finally thicker phones with bigger batteries that i have again yeah real applause weird applause i know right apple's like doing things right. No USB-C, that gets less applause. The Watch Series 5 hasn't always on display. I feel like I covered that in my coverage of this. I want to talk about the Apple Arcade subscription.

So there is no shortage of companies that are trying to get into gaming as a service. You've got Microsoft. You've got Ubisoft. You've got Microsoft. You've got Ubisoft. You've got EA. You've got every sort of free-to-play Battle Royale developer. So you've got Epic. Everyone wants you to subscribe to a season of a game

or to subscribe to a package of games that you have access to. You've got NVIDIA with their, what do they call it? I don't remember, GameStream? Is it, no, I thought GameStream was just like, Game Now, GeForce Now. GeForce Now. Do they still call it that though? Yeah, GeForce Now, I think.

Whatever, doesn't matter, who cares. So you've got Nvidia's thing. Where there, so where all the games, and there's all these different ways to tackle it, right? GeForce Now, I think. Whatever, doesn't matter. Who cares? So you've got NVIDIA's thing. Where there's, so where all the games, and there's all these different ways to tackle it, right? So you've got individual games where they want you to buy like a season's worth of cosmetics or upgrades or DLC or whatever the case may be. Yeah, like Borderlands after they said they wouldn't.

Yeah, you've got game publishers like your Ubisofts and your EAs of the world that want you to just buy a subscription to their game launcher. Yes. That gives you all the hottest titles or some of the hottest titles or some pretty hot titles. And then you could buy that other stuff too. So that you feel like you've got a compelling package of games to play and it's constantly being refreshed. This way you are paying for access to the software, but you don't necessarily own the software. Game developers want to get away from that paradigm.

Dedicated servers, patches that you can just download and install on your own. Discs that have the software loaded on it so that maybe you could still play it in 10 or 20 years. What an idiot. You're an idiot. Then you've got Microsoft, where they've got sort of a combination of both. They want you to pay for online access in general, so you can multiplayer game. And then you've got also, they want you to pay for much more premium versions so that you can have all these games that you can access.

Then you've got the services like GeForce Now, where you're paying for just access to games and also access to not have to pay for your own hardware. So that's something that Google is also targeting with Stadia. So it's like a subscription to hardware that lives in a data center and it streams to you. Apple's approach is completely different. So what they're doing is they're taking some of what's good about other approaches like um this this netflix model where you've got a constant stream of revenue that supports further gaming development so it could be uh refreshed titles or added content to the games that are already in the library so you've got this this revenue model that quite frankly makes way more sense for game developers

But unlike services like stadia or GeForce now where it's streaming from a server it runs on your local device but unlike services like Those you'd find from EA or Ubisoft it is Not like triple-a titles that are being sort of bundled into this service. It's mobile games. So what's your gut reaction to this? They're going to have 100 plus games right out of the bat. They've worked with third party developers.

It's $5 a month after the first month. It's, dare I say, reasonably priced. It's dare I say reasonably priced. Where's the Apple tax here? I was going to say, honestly, if... Usually, if I want a game on my phone, it's because I'm stuck somewhere. I don't have access to my Switch. I don't have access

to my laptop. I don't have access to my desktop. So I'm caught waiting for something, probably for a couple hours, and there's nothing to do. I'm caught waiting for something, probably for like a couple hours, and there's nothing to do. I'm just on my phone, and I'm tired of Twitter now, and I've done all the work I can do on my phone and whatever else.

And I look through my phone, and I go, I don't really want to play anything. I check the free-to-play section of the store. This all looks like cancer and free transactions and all this kind of stuff so being able to just pay five bucks and have a bunch of games and there's no more microtransactions that sounds like a very reasonable solution that's the beauty of it to me is that apple is taking a sub-genre of gaming that i think a lot of more traditional gamers like you and me are

quite dismissive of because i I find the experience really frustrating. Like, what do you, sorry, what? I can't play the next level until I wait eight hours or buy some, like, I don't know, you know, stupid silver. I like games where progression. Sparkly uranium tokens or whatever, like. I like games where progression is either skill or effort. Sure. I'm down with either of those. If it's like, oh, I either skill or effort. Sure.

I'm down with either of those. If it's like, oh, I just wait, or oh, I just pay money, it's like, okay, neither of those things are interesting. Both of those things really pull me out of the experience. They're non-immersive. They make me acutely aware that what I'm doing right now is quite literally wasting time. I am actually actively waiting.

Yes. I'm watching paint dry. It's not a great experience. And Apple has clearly identified this problem with the gaming platform that they have identified as their future in gaming. Apple has made no move to make macOS more of a gaming-centric platform.

So iOS is the way forward for them. And to their credit, iOS gets a ton of attention from gaming developers. It is generating a ton of revenue for game developers and Apple themselves. It is by any measure a successful business. But what it is is a pretty crappy gaming experience. So they've identified this problem and created a solution that now, even if game developers aren't leveraging individually, they now have to compete with. Yeah.

They have to compete with the idea that for $5 a month with no microtransactions, you can just have a library of mobile games to play on your iPad or your iOS. Or your iOS. On your iPad or your iPhone. And shared with five family members. Yeah, so it's basically, if you can find five family members

or five friends even and get one subscription, it's a dollar a month yeah that is like not a lot no if you have a modern iphone yeah you can probably afford that i had people saying in the chat here that they're like if it's not free i'm not interested a dollar that's the whole that's the whole problem that's the whole reason why mobile games are terrible. Yes. I hate that mentality. I actually really hate that mentality.

Like, for a while there, when a whole bunch of MMOs were coming out, like Elder Scrolls Online and all that other kind of stuff, every single time, when they hadn't announced if it was free to play or not, I was like,

please be subscription-based. Because if it's free to play, it will be trash. And it happens every time I absolutely hate that there is room for some free games League of Legends works Yep, there are other games that work as well. Yeah, but like on a whole Especially with mobile games. They're built to manipulate you they're built to be a waiting game where they hit you with dopamine So you just keep waiting, but you're not like accomplishing

anything. There's no skill. There's no effort. All this kind of stuff. It's just oh I set an alarm so that I could wake up exactly when this thing finished building or whatever and then I could press the button twice and then I went back to sleep. I was really enjoying this tiny tower

game until I reached that point in the game where it was like yeah yeah, they expect me to... What is this, like, 90s TV? Like, I have to schedule my life around content? Yeah. Excuse me? Yeah. What freaking year is it?

A little mobile game. Like, there's room for that kind of stuff, but I hate the mentality of, if it isn't free, I'm not interested. If you don't have the money, I totally get that. But there's great games out there, like TF2, like League of Legends, that you can go play that are still that other style,

but that's not the most popular version of free games. I just need to, you know, especially on a phone. So, I mean, obviously the title of this video, I'm making fun of Apple a little bit for one of their exclusive titles so the games in in this um apple arcade will be apple exclusive uh one of their exclusive titles being frogger uh it looks like a pretty cool frogger okay okay no it's kanami developed it like it Like, it's, yeah, it's Frogger, but, like, more better. But in all seriousness, I am actually really happy about this because every once in a while, you know,

whether it's pushing the industry towards caring more about color accuracy and displays or pixel density and displays. Apple leads. Or whatever else. Apple will make a move that forces the entire rest of the industry to react. And this is the kind of thing that the developer of a game that runs on an Android device might look at this and not care. But Google has to pay attention to this. But Google has to pay attention to this. And if Google reacts in some way that puts pressure on Android developers,

that will be a net positive for gamers everywhere. So I'm a fan. Yeah, speaking of net positive, they copied Link. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Shoot, I don't think our screen share to you is working right now. So I'm just going to bring up the thing. Yeah. Yeah, basically one of the games has Link as a character, and they should be embarrassed.

There's also, like, Lego Brawls looks like it could be really cool, actually. It's a multiplayer, like, fighting game. Yeah, that looks pretty sweet. Yeah. Here we go. This is the site. Oh, it was Link. I saw Link for a second there.

If you scroll down, you can find it. Yeah, if I scroll down. Hold on. We'll find the dedicated big picture of Link. Games that redefine games. Okay. There's a few different LEGO games, apparently. LEGO Art House is another one.

I do wonder if Tim Cook has ever played a game. Sonic Racing? Okay. So maybe some of it's going to be cringe. But there's a good chance that at least some of it will be good. Yeah. I'm going to try it out. Yeah.

For sure. Yeah. All right, next topic. Actually, this is really interesting because we just mentioned that one of the ways that you could get your Apple Arcade subscription for cheaper is by sharing it with friends. I mean, that's a paradigm that I'm sure you're well familiar with. He piggybacks on my Google Play Music subscription. I was actually looking at this and going, damn, it's only for five. I might not be able to be included.

Maybe they're too young. Maybe I'll get some more years in. You are such a doofus. So Luke is technically in my family, according to Google. Because he's in my family plan. I may have to, I'm at my max now. I've got my aunt, my sister, my wife, my son, and you in there. I think we're getting dangerously close to the limit.

Oh, man. And you're the first one on the chopping block oh i understand i fully get it so like when if my daughter gets a phone or something and they haven't like increased the limit or something then you might get you might actually have to pay your eight dollars a month or whatever it's horrible i probably won't do it i'll probably just manually put music on my phone again anyway apparently this same problem with people sharing subscriptions is a problem for Spotify that they have decided to stop ignoring. I mean, I'm sure they've been aware of it for a long time.

But basically, here's the summary. This was posted by someone on the forum. saying, as part of an effort to detect fraud and abuse of their premium family program, Spotify wants to know where you live or to obtain your location data. So the premium family program is a $15 a month plan for up to six people with the condition being, and this is in the T's and C's, even if it's something they haven't enforced, the condition being that they all live at the same address. In August, the company updated its terms and conditions the condition being that they all live at the same address in August

the company updated its terms and conditions from premium family subscribers requiring that they provide location data from time to time to ensure that they are actually all in the same family that's not necessarily how family works yeah like my aunt

doesn't live at my house but she is certainly my family so is my sister none of my family live at my house, but she is certainly my family, so is my sister. None of my family live in my house. Yeah. So now, with that said, the definition of family, as someone who actually has their own family, I run into this a fair bit.

Wow. Well, no, no, I mean, you don't have kids. I know what you mean. You're not even mad about that. No, I'm not. So the definition of family, if you actually start digging into the T's and C's, varies a significant amount. Like the way that Google defines family versus the way Spotify defines family versus the way that science world defines family.

Everyone has a different threshold for how immediate family needs to be. And what the maximum number of family members you're allowed to have is. My family, with my parents, that family. Not with my kids, that family. So my parents had five kids. So we were seven. We were a fully loaded minivan when we went places. And there were a lot

of places where my mom bless her heart would um get pushy about how many people should be allowed in when you're a family because most places cap it at either four or five it's the world is designed for four two parents two kids as soon as you have five you don't fit at the table at the food court yeah right yeah right yeah and two tables for everything or you need two passes or whatever else um you know cars you don't actually fit comfortably anymore no so someone's got that middle seat in the back um so it doesn't surprise me that they would have this kind of um you know, stipulation, family with an asterisk. Now, you looked up family.

Yes. This is actually very interesting. There are two noun definitions for family. Really? And they contradict each other really heavily, specifically in this scenario. The first one is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. Number two is all the descendants of a common ancestor. They are actual opposites, and they completely counter.

So, like, Spotify is going with definition one. Yes. And I went with definition two. Right. They are both definitions of the word family. Okay, then. so i wanted to like call them out and be like that's not the definition of family and then so there was wrong and right you're thinking more like family tree yes all right so when you sign up for the family plan

spotify will ask those on the plan to provide the company a home address using google maps every person added to the plan will have to do the same or enable location services for Spotify on their devices to come Spotify said it doesn't use that home location for advertising and that it doesn't store the data for internal use so wait you could just say I live here and then you're done because it says or once verification of a family members home address is completed we do not store their location data or track their location at any time. But it also said that they want to require people to provide location data from time to time. The policy overlooks families that aren't living together.

Like, we discussed this. I mean, obviously, adult children and their adult parents, I could see companies being like you know what you're all that doesn't count you're all working ass but what if you're what if you're a boarding school kid yeah exactly but if you're someone who's away at college who legitimately is still a dependent even if you don't live at the same address uh that's that's pretty lame but not even not even college so what if you're like boarding middle school here we go So they could ask for location data to check for fraud from time to time, but didn't specify when or

how frequently those checks would happen. This also poses the problem of Spotify inadvertently tracking children and minors who aren't legally able to consent or object. You have to be 13 to use or sign up for Spotify. That's interesting. So my kids are allowed to use

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Oh. Okay, I don't have enough concentration while I'm logging in. Okay, so Virtual Boy. We've been waiting to film this video for, I think, at least two years. At least two years? No. Over a year, for sure. Over a year.

At least over a year. Yeah. This is not mine, actually. This is the one that Linus Media Group acquired from someone who's quite amazing and did a bunch of modifications to it that are, like, really clean. That's one thing I want to point out, too,

is it was done very well. That is a heavily modded Virtual Boy. We actually borrowed it from, um... I think they have a YouTube channel? I'm just gonna double check i can basically guarantee you though if you handed this to someone who didn't know it was modded they wouldn't think it was modded yeah uh retro rgb yeah freaking awesome actually i wonder if uh he did a video about it uh retro rgb yeah, streamed hyper fighting live.

So here, so Luke actually already owned a Virtual Boy and he kind of brought it to work and was like, hey, do we wanna do a video about this thing? It's like kind of a, it's kind of a curiosity at this point cause they didn't sell a ton of them. It was sort of unanimously agreed on that it was bad yeah but it was also like so many of the things nintendo does so different and so far ahead of its time that it's sort of it's sort of worth um looking back at just to see

here we are now where did we come from? And getting a better understanding of that. It's almost successful in a way that it is now 2019, and you and I are looking at this thing, fascinated, and we had a solid amount of fun, and I still have a headache. But it's a very, very interesting interesting device so what's really cool about the video we just did is oh sorry i'm eating again this one is really good yeah yep okay all right i'm done so what's really cool about this thing is that oh sorry i bit into a seed

that's really hot I'm not sure what direction he's going in so I can't step in. Yeah, that's fine. There's a bunch of really interesting stuff There's a bunch of really cool stuff So what was really cool about our video is that the Virtual Boy was launched and then discontinued I think just over a year later, so a bunch of the stuff that they promised including apparently a strap That would like keep it against your face so you didn't have to rest it on a table and like lean into it like this. And that also included multiplayer support,

just never materialized. But thanks to Homebrew Retro Gamers, you guys are amazing. The game that actually shipped with the console, Mario's Tennis, not to be confused with Mario Tennis, which was an N64 game if I recall correctly. That was the first one, right? Yeah.

Well, yeah. Mario's Tennis. I forget how I started this sentence, whatever. Mario's Tennis was actually modded by the community. Actually a particular member, I think, did the vast majority of the work on it. And what they did was they actually took latent code that existed on the cartridge and activated it. Then flashed that to, you can get these, what's the Virtual Boy flash cartridge called? Flash Boy.

Okay. So there's this Flash Boy 2 thing that you can use to program homebrew games. Flash Boy Plus. Flash Boy Plus. Or modified games. Put it in, and boom, multiplayer works. So in the video, Luke and I get to have what is not just a decades-old gaming experience,

but a decades-old gaming experience that actually didn't exist at the time. We get to play multiplayer Mario's Tennis, and it's pretty freaking awesome. Yeah. I had a lot of fun. I did too. It was legitimately very fun. I legitimately had a lot of fun.

Yeah. But, like, also... I have a headache. I also have a headache. I think we did play it a little bit too long, because we turned the game off and back on so we didn't get the warning that you should stop playing. 15 minutes should not be too long for a game.

The experience has some issues. I also think if we turned the game on and looked away for a while and then went into it, it might have been better. Because when it's first started, I'm not going to get necessarily into why, because you should watch the video.

But when it's first starting, it's a little bit more jarring. I think we can tell them why. It's because there's these mirrors vibrating back and forth. You can hear them. And it takes a little while for the image to kind of get right,

so it's kind of jarring. It's kind of like when your VR headset loses tracking for a little bit yeah and you're like looking over here and it's like up there and it's like like oh okay i was fine now i'm sick thank you for that and it's all black and red images which is just kind of intense it's pretty bad like yeah with that said i was impressed by the stereo 3d effect i mean i was eventually too honestly i'd prefer i prefer it to the 3ds yeah i think it works better the 3ds gave me nausea like i never enjoyed the almost immediately what could they possibly have been thinking like i never i never

had a 3ds so i had a i had a ds played a ton of mario kart on that thing until i broke my trigger fingers because that's what happens when you play a ton of mario kart on a ds um and then i just like never like fixed it or any i never got a new one anyway so i had a ds and then i didn't do the 3ds thing because i just like i had a or something. I forget what the exact timing is, but it just, I was busy. And then the first time, I actually, aside from, I think I walked past, like, a display unit in, like, Future Shop or something. And I was like, oh, okay, that's kind of weird. And, like, I looked at it, but that was it. The first time I really, like, tried to play a game with it was a couple weeks ago.

Brandon lent me his 3DS to play Fire Emblem Awakening. There's a new one out that's apparently really good. I was like, believe it or not, casually talking, I've never played a Fire Emblem game. He's like, what? It's like his whole thing. Brandon's super into Fire Emblem. I turned it on.

How could you possibly think that a stereo effect that relies on the eyes being in a fixed position is a good idea on a handheld device I mean it kind of helps that you have to like shove your face into the virtual boy yeah because it positions you correctly so it's awkward when you have to like play a game like this but it does position you correctly. I'm going to eat really quietly. This is really good. Go over here. But yeah, it was really fun, actually.

I genuinely think a big part of the fun is playing some weird derpy game on a weird derpy device. Weird derpy controllers. With weird derpy controllers. Multiplayer. Yeah, they have D-pads on each side. There's a D-pad here and here. I realize you can't see that that well, but there's D-pads on both sides, which is odd.

And then the start and select are the exact same format as the A and B. And you can't see the controller because you're in the thing. And then there's triggers on the back, but they're not labeled. Oh, they are just left and right. And they didn't do anything in any of the games we played did they they did in the uh hyper fighter hyper fighter okay yeah yeah so are you actually going to fix your virtual boy yeah are you yeah probably is it going to be like the shelves is it going to take 18 months it might i've got other i've been doing one major project for my house thing apartment whatever, whatever, every weekend.

Well, now you're doing a koi pond. Is that right? Yeah. Why koi pond? So my girlfriend went a little plant crazy out of nowhere, and we now own 40 plants. What? Most of them are really small. I have a hard time imagining you owning

a single plant. I don't, right? They're like hers. And I have technically owned exactly one singular plant since around 2013 and is still alive. I thought I lost it when I moved,

but it's in my parents' garage and I haven't bothered to pick it up yet, but I guarantee you it is still alive. In your parents'. With all the light in your parents garage. I have forgotten that thing Behind stuff. Nick knows. I've forgotten that thing behind stuff for like a year at a time and it's still alive No, Nick agrees with me. It's an- remember the aloe vera plant? Oh, it's an aloe vera plant that bar- It is still a plant! That barely counts! It still counts! Anyways, I'm not in charge of these. It's literally a cactus. It's a plant. It's a plant. It's green.

Yeah, it's in Kingdom- It's in soil? Kingdom whatever. Kingdom Planta or whatever the- Yeah, yeah. As long as it's not an aloe vera mixed with an alcohol plant. Yeah, oh. I'll give you flashbacks. Oh, that, yeah. That was, yeah Yeah, oh

Yeah, that was yeah, that was a terrible time, but yes, and we have a bajillion plants now and then She wanted to do something with the deck And you can get fake ones right that you don't have to water apparently she's like against that now now. And she's like on some, I don't know. She's super into it. Whatever. She doesn't watch WAN Show. You can speak freely here.

No, I am. Okay, for her, she's into something, and I think that's cool. Okay. And it makes the house look better. And like plants and water and stuff smells good. Yeah, it smells nice. So the house looks and smells good.

So, sweet. Was she sending you a message? I genuinely don't think so. But maybe. Are you finding out what that beeping is? Sounds like a UPS. It's probably annoying to the WAN show peeps. That's Nick, by the way.

Which means he's probably here so that I will tell you guys about LTTstore.com. Nick, by the way. Which means he's probably here so that I will tell you guys about LTTstore.com. Yeah, yeah. Basically, it's good stuff. LTT Stealth Hoodie is back in stock. We have all sizes in stock. I have personally confirmed that the phone

pocket fits the Galaxy Note 10+. Oh. It's a little tight. It fits. But that's not bad because it's that phone pocket's designed to, like, hold your phone in place. Yeah, it's a little tight. It fits. But that's not bad because that phone pocket is designed to like hold your phone in place. It's a little tight,

but dang it, it fits. We've also got the very popular RAM T-shirt. This one has been a smash hit thanks to David's excellent modeling, of course. This is my favorite. Yeah, I saw that.

It's like, wow. Okay, hard drive shirt is now one of our top sellers. Remember, if your friends aren't nerdy, they'll think you have a cool record player shirt. Or DJ shirt if you're not 80 years old. Yeah, DJ shirt. Processor, also a good one. I love the processor one.

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No, I'm not that sorry. I saw that. There's a really disturbing picture on our Twitter right now. There is. The water bottle's awesome. There's a new picture. I saw that one, too. Okay.

The Dennis one. No. What? There's another picture? There's a picture of you in your underwear. What? There's another picture? There's a new picture of you in your underwear. What? Okay, I'm not going to subject you guys to this if it's really awful, but I do have to go on our Twitter right now and find out what my team is tweeting.

Can I just power that down? No, the best thing to do is plug it into the wall. Well, it's plugged in, but it's on CASA, I think. Okay, you just press the button on the CASA module. Okay. Okay, so you guys, I don't want you to take this out of context, okay? Is that even a real, like, are you actually even holding that laptop? Oh, yeah.

Okay, it's not, like, Photoshopped in? Yeah, so I told Alex we need to do a picture. Like, one of the things we're trying to do is we're trying to have a little, a few more like, we're trying to have more fun moments in the videos. Sorry, I won't make you keep looking at that. We're trying to have more fun moments in the videos, like things that are kind of jiffable. You know? And so

there's a line in the video about the new Alienware M15 where we talk about how it's sexy. And I was like, yeah, it's like a jiffable moment we should just do like a sexy dance with the m15 and i had intended i had intended to wear the underwear that was my intent the tie and the hat is his doing okay um so if you guys don't want to experience that i can't say that i recommend our Alienware M15 video.

But, hey, you can never say that I wasn't honest with you before. Yeah, yeah. So I ditched my OLED. Yeah, why? Okay, I'll explain why. Because I don't, yeah. One of the main reasons that I have been such an advocate of OLED is that I can't stand the black glow, the gray glow when the screen is supposed to be black. It drives me nuts.

I find it very immersion-breaking. Now, obviously, I can live with it. I haven't gone so 2019 soft that I am simply too triggered by a black screen on an LCD that I have to leave the room. It's not like that. But if I don't have to have that, I will certainly choose something that doesn't have it. Okay. Perfect blacks. Amazing.

Yeah. So one of the things that bugs me most. So you're not like ditching your current OLED for a new OLED? No. Okay. I have ditched OLED in my living room for the first time in years now. Okay. Okay.

So one of the things that drives me most crazy is the black bars in letterboxed content when they're gray. So that instead of just seeing the content and nothing else, you've got the content with a gray buffer with a black wall behind it. Because presumably you are not a monster and you have turned out the lights in your living room in order to properly enjoy a film um so it drives me absolutely crazy so i took home asus's pg65u bfgd big format gaming display which is like a year and a half late now i i don't know i've been like waiting for this thing it feels like forever they seem to be pretty late with displays a lot yeah just just putting that out there it seems to be the ones they're partnered with nvidia on that's fair because other than that that's accurate they kind of launch things when they say they're going to that's accurate um anyway so i took it home and i have to say they have done a great job of the full array

local dimming i can find scenarios where it is noticeable okay i can create scenario like that i can create a scenario where it's noticeable move a mouse cursor around on anything dark and you can see the halo following around the cursor but i have to give them credit one of the things that i didn't do properly when we evaluated the hp omen x imperium or whatever it was called uh was view it from a more realistic angle i was always looking at it flat like a monitor or even like standing above it because it was just like sitting on a desk in the office. Okay. And they actually tuned it to be viewed from slightly below

because that's where most people position their TVs. Whether they're someone who puts it on their console and then sits on a couch. Or up on a wall. Or whether they put it up on a wall. Yeah. Or if they're one of those complete monsters who puts it like above their fireplace. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong and you're wrong.

I might be mounting mine to my standing desk above my monitors so I can lower my standing desk as much as possible so when you sit on the couch you can watch it more better because I don't have space. You know, you might be a legitimate use case for an 8k tv you could just create virtual monitors on your 8k tv and then when you want to watch tv you just watch tv yeah so microsoft actually okay i'm completely changing topics here um power toys microsoft just brought back power toys which i am personally very excited about um and two of the ones that they have just announced

are dang it where can i where is this here whatever here's an article from the verge um so one of them actually they're they're both really cool. Fancy Zones. This is sick. So it's like arrow snapping on, like, steroids. So here's a whole bunch of different options for dividing up your desktop. And then if you go further in, you can actually customize it. No, no, where's the custom one? No. I mean, this is already very cool,

but there's a customization option later that they show where you can, yeah, there you go, where you can create, like, whatever the heck zones you want. Pretty freaking sick, if you ask me. I think they're showing it right there. I think he was just setting up the zones. No, no, they never actually do a very good demo of it. It's more of an instructional video.

Okay. And then what was the other really cool one? They're both cool. Blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah. You can hold down the Windows key and discover keyboard shortcuts. So it'll just, like, show keyboard shortcuts on the screen and tell you what you can do with them. That is freaking awesome.

That's really cool. Yay, Power Toys. Yeah. Anyway, so... Just, like like make my own monitor because i have found an 8k tv like a 65 inch 8k tv the pixel density is high enough that i can i can sit right in front of it and like as long as you're not expecting a retina experience no as long as you're expecting something similar to like a 1440p 27 inch or something like that actually all i want at that distance anyway like reasonable yeah you could create so you could just man if you got an oled then you could just black out the

parts you don't use so you could be like okay i want to be in triple monitor mode that's okay you know what i want another monitor up here that seems like the kind of thing that someone out there is probably working on like a weird like like github friggin tiny program that like does this it's like i designed this for all the people who um use 8k tvs as their monitors i figure there's at least dozens of us you You know what would be super cool? Is if you opened a specific application, if it knew the zone that it wanted it in, and it like enabled that

and put it there right away. So that like, okay, if I open like this one desktop link that I have for like the status page for floatplane. It's gonna open it, but it's gonna put it up there in the corner.

Because I don't need to stare at this thing. Well, if it was an OLED, you wouldn't even need virtual desktops because anything that doesn't have content on it would just be black. Yeah, but I'm saying like it would know to put it up there away from everything else. Windows does a reasonably good job of that, doesn't it?

Just putting stuff back where you left it? It's okay. This would be, because it would be like another Chrome window or whatever. Well, fancy zones can take care of that. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. It would be very nice if I could do that properly. That would be sick.

Okay, on the subject of OLED, though. Yeah. So the advantage of the BFGD is obviously the high refresh rate. You can do HDR content up to 1080p and I don't think you can do HDR at 144 because you're I don't know, you might be able to but you're dealing with Chroma Sub, whatever.

Chroma Sub sampling sucks because the argument that gets made by NVIDIA and their display partners is that like, well, it's only really a factor when you're on the desktop because it makes text look bad I'm like lots of games have text guys so

Yeah, so 144 doesn't make a ton of sense to me on it, but you can do 98 Hertz with 10-bit color or You can do 8-bit color at 120 Hertz and get the full HDR experience on both of those. I don't know. It's got high refresh rate. It uses DisplayPort. It's got super low input lag. It's basically having a gaming monitor in my living room. So I was playing some Super Meat Boy, and I was like, oh, yeah.

Like, it just feels great. And when I was watching HDR content, because it's bright enough, it hits 1,000 nits peak brightness, even in the dark, I could definitely find halos. But not with normal content on the screen. So, like, I wouldn't... Like, I probably wouldn't... I'd probably want to turn it off.

I'd probably want to turn off the full array local dimming if I was playing something like Anno, like a mouse-based game. But while watching movies... But in Anno, basically the whole screen's going to be lit the whole time. Yeah, kind of. The ocean's pretty dark. Is it? I found it kind of distracting. Okay. Yeah. I was going to say, the whole time. Yeah, kind of. The ocean's pretty dark. Is it?

I found it kind of distracting. Okay. Yeah. I was going to say, like, if you played, like, a horror game, or, like, say you were playing, like, Halo, and you were going through one of the flood missions when it gets really dark sometimes, your, like, aimer and stuff is probably going to be pretty annoying.

Mm-hmm. Because it's going to glow just around. It's going to almost feel like you have a flashlight on. So, basically, it finally got to the point where I'm willing to make that trade-off. Right. In exchange for higher refresh rate. Now, with that said, OLED could be back in my living room sooner rather than later. Wait.

Oh, I don't know if I can say this. For now, I'll be running the BFGD. Oh, here's the thing I can say. So Dell actually showed off an Alienware 55-inch gaming OLED back at CES. So if that or something like that were to come along soon, that could be a compelling option as well, especially now that FreeSync displays can run G-Sync. Yeah.

So if you want to actually, you know, drive a 4K display, you're not stuck with, you know, screen tearing or ponying up for a G-Sync display. I will be very curious to see what their pricing looks like on that. Yeah. Super chats? Yeah, why don't we do some super chats?

Let's have a look here, ladies and gentlemen. Isaac said, mouse pad news? The one in the video looked cool. No news yet. We're doing a mouse pad. Oh, cool. It's going to be awesome. Is it a desk pad?

Oh, yeah. Nice. Is there something else that exists? I'm just making sure. Because if there is, that's stupid. Hey, Power Play is awesome. Power Play? Power Play pads? Oh there is, that's stupid. Hey, PowerPlay is awesome. PowerPlay? PowerPlay.

Oh, yeah, that's pretty awesome. Yeah. Joshua says, can you create a way that floatplane subscribers can watch via their Plex server? I don't think there's official integration, but I think didn't someone in the community like set something up? There's unofficial integration. Yeah. We might do something official at some point.

We just have so many like hyper high priority tasks right now and we have for a while, but yeah, we might do it eventually I do want to give them an update like you guys have got kind of a crunch coming up for the 30th I recall correctly. We do I wasn't gonna announce it publicly, but we do Might as well Yeah, we're trying to Get 4k support although that has to be Enabled by the creators and plans have to be set up for that and like there's once it's done on our side It's not it's gonna probably be a while before creators actually start using it

But 4k support yearly subscriptions. I know you guys have been asking for them for freaking ever they are finally coming Some back-end improvements that we need just for our own reasons and some other fun stuff as well. The app continually gets better. If you've had frustrations with the app in the past, I recommend you use it again.

The Chromecast support has gotten way better. You can now pull videos down and keep navigating the rest of the app. There's a bunch of other cool features. The biggest update that the app has ever gotten launched this week. So go check that out. It is a lot slicker. There was a quick little problem with it. I don't remember what it was with the auto rotation and that's already been patched. So yeah. Are we ever going to have an iOS app? We will eventually have an iOS app. We still actively developing it in parallel Yes, okay. Yeah, so when it comes out, it should be basically pretty close to feature parity

So the issues that Apple had one of them was that if you went to go register for an account You couldn't register register for the account in the app and they were like no no, no, we don't like that And the other one was they were running it. That seems not trivial to fix. It's not as hard as you think. Okay. So that's coming. But we didn't think it was important to be in this update.

So whatever. And then the other one was that it wasn't, like, working properly for them, but it's because they ran it in dev mode, and we, like, didn't expect them to do that. Oh. So, or debug mode um so i don't know it's by the time we fix that stuff on our end it's going to be as far as i can tell even

though they say an average maximum of one day every single time we've done anything with them it's taken at least two weeks so it will probably be quite a while. Thanks to everyone who last week gave me leads on how to get in touch with Apple's PR. None of them panned out. To be clear, don't send me any more. I have definitely reached the right people. They know. They know. They have just decided that it is not worthwhile to engage with us.

And they knew last week and they knew before last week. Yes. It's just such a bizarre thing to me because their whole stick is controlling the narrative You can't control a narrative that you don't ever even deliver. Yeah, I don't know. It's just it's bizarre They're taking away their opportunity to get their voice in there Yeah, boy, thanks, thanks home automation X Unusual user says, index set active. What?

Thanks, Doggo. Can I eat now? I think they'll let me eat while I do super chats. Maybe that can be the new rule. Rob says, watching from the Netherlands at 2 in the morning. What happened with not showing the kids on the channel anymore? It's not that I'm formally not showing the kids on the channel anymore um it's not that i'm formally not showing the kids on the channel i'm just not going out of my way to show them much or i'm i'm

going out of my way to not show them much i mean my son in particular really really wants to make videos with dad um i still have misgivings about it i I may come around on that. I'm really not sure where I stand at this point Thanks, avian. Thanks unusual user free desktop. Okay. I don't even know what you're talking about Vlad any tips on a mobile for a 1066 gig and an 8700 K. I Don't know what everyone has like the features you need they don't affect performance much anymore. Just, you know, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI. Does it look cool? Yuri Eiji. I don't know how to pronounce that.

So I finally subscribed to LTT on floatplane. I have much feedback on UX. Is it better to unsubscribe or ignore LTT videos on YouTube? What is better for the YouTube algorithm and LTT prosperity? Wow, I don't really think... I don't really think any individual's behavior is going to have a large enough impact to affect us algorithmically.

The best thing is obviously to just watch them. Watch the videos twice. Yeah, it's impossible for me to say whether it's better to unsubscribe and then ignore it or stay subscribed and then ignore it I think it treats you exactly the same way regardless so should be fine when will you do another house inspection maybe you mean tour you tease or you to see or whatever that is we are gonna do some more stuff at my house. So I'm going to do a video on the BFGD upgrade. I have to upgrade my HTPC now that I have a 4K 120 hertz gaming display in there.

I'm just going to need a little bit more horsepower. I was running a 980 Ti. So yeah, that'll happen soon. We'll do a video about that. Not sure what that is. I don't know what usual user is talking about. They keep sending super chats. Hades says, do you think GeForce Now will ever get out of beta?

Yeah, probably. They seem committed enough to it at this point. Sam says, can LMG sponsor my high school robotics team? Probably not. It never hurts to send an email, um minus tech tips at gmail.com actually does get monitored please don't waste their time guys uh cory just want to spend more money to support ltd also the merch store is the best ltd store.com thanks to cory heck yeah uh ilia says previously cheap iphones always had something in their name showing that status

now the hobo iphone is just iphone 11 which is kind of weird. Yes, but it also makes sense. It's iPhone vanilla. It's the normal one. The hobo one. It's a good name. Cause like SE could be special edition, you know, R like GT versus a GTR. R sounds cooler. Type R. There you go. So no, the iPhone should just be like le iPhone. Yep. Excuse me. Should just be iPhone. Apple never says the. Have you noticed that?

It's not the iPhone. It's not the Facebook. Yep. Everybody got rid of the a while ago. Lord who? Hi Sage, I'm on TV. All right. Morgan says, I swear I saw Linus holding a Zenfone 6.

Is there a review coming? No. I ended up not doing a review of it because my first unit had some issues with the camera mechanism. So Asus sent me another one. And then by that time, it was kind of old news. And so I didn't end up reviewing it. Honestly, I wasn't a huge fan. The camera's not great.

I think there are... The camera's not great. Yeah, the camera's not great. I think their flip around the cameras not great. Yeah, the cameras not great. I think they're there flip around mechanism is not amazing Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan It's it's a good value if you're just looking for a high-performance phone at like a reasonable price But there's a lot of options for that Samuel says John was awesome. One of the unsung heroes of LMG give this to him

That's not really how super chats work, but I'll tell him he's awesome. I'll send that message now. TechX, are either of you two interested in visiting the Star Wars land that opened at Disney, or has Disney killed Star Wars for you? Wow, go! I've wanted to go really badly.

But I think I kind of want to go with someone and coordinating schedules with adults to fly somewhere is like nearly impossible so I don't know if I'll end up ever actually going Disney has not ruined Star Wars for me you just have to adopt a new mentality called headcanon where you just kind of decide what's

real and if you headcanon out all of the recent movies, everything's just better. I'm also legitimately pretty excited about The Mandalorian. And I'm legitimately pretty excited about the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show. Because it has Ewan McGregor in it. That's cheating. What do you mean? You can't just ignore the content all right i think i can i've been doing it quite actively and it's been pretty good okay are you

watching the third from the latest trilogy are you gonna go see it probably and then you're gonna ignore it yep so i need to know why I don't care. Because I think I care enough about it, if that makes sense. No, it doesn't. Or I'll wait to watch it on a plane or something. I won't necessarily go see it in theater. I'm going to watch it at some point. But it doesn't matter to you that it just has no soul?

What do you mean? It does matter to me that it has no soul. That's why I don't like it. But it's not dead to you because you choose to ignore the soul that's part of it. No, but people want to talk to me about it all the time because I talk about Star Wars stuff way too much. So I need to understand the context of why I don't like it. I can explain all the other recent movies, so I might as well be able to explain that one as well.

all the other recent movies. So I might as well be able to explain that one as well. I do have a lot of hope for The Mandalorian and the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show. Yeah, but isn't that exactly the definition of like a blind fanboy? Based on all evidence that points to the contrary, you keep having hope and you keep being let down. I have no hope for the movie. I only have hope to the contrary. You keep having hope, and you keep being let down. I have no hope for the movie.

I only have hope for the shows. Really? And the Star Wars animated series is probably my favorite digital production Star Wars ever made. Okay. So, mostly the later episodes and the episodes focused on the clones. But, regardless. Alright, it's dead to me. That's totally fine.

I was always... I don't blame you at all, by the way. More of, like, the main movies and expanded universe guy. And then I, like, started a business and had kids and didn't really keep up for a long time. So, I was really hoping that the new movies were going to were gonna be like really imaginative and suck me right back in Yeah, and it's so much opportunity there. They sucked. Yeah, but not me right back in they just sucked Yeah, yeah, so I was never really into expanding universe. I tried to like them by the way So you'll be able to find Wancho clips of me talking about the merits of them

But the cold hard truth is I have not been, I have not experienced any temptation whatsoever to go back and rewatch them. It doesn't feel, and this is kind of funny because it's true, but it doesn't feel like it was made by someone who likes Star Wars. It feels like it was made by someone who has a really popular series that they know people are going to watch and they're trying to do something with it instead of just liking star wars you know what i mean yeah and it like that vibe comes across really heavily i was never really that into expanded universe not because i didn't like it because i had no exposure to it i didn't have any of the books right uh i didn't have uh kotor i didn't even know quarter kotor was a thing i never played kotor i have played it a little bit on stream i tried to get into it but it was like

a very last gen gaming experience yeah like i tried to play kotor after i had already played dragon age origins i tried to start playing kotor like a year and a half ago which was a little painful uh but yeah I had never got into EU and then I watched the first of the new movies and I was like okay there's only a few parts that I viciously hated but some of it was okay but they just like recreated an old movie and then everything else since then was just way worse so i was i've started getting more like i like the idea i want to be more into star wars i started diving into eu and i'm like

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Who knows? We might. So thanks for watching, guys. See you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Quidditch. Oh, boy. Have you, like, watched the YouTube videos of people playing Quidditch? Oh boy. Have you like watched the YouTube videos of people playing Quidditch? Oh yeah.

Or at least they still do it. That's some dedication. Yeah. Yeah, because like Harry Potter hasn't been cool for quite a while now.