The WAN Show - Better Graphics are Coming for EVERYONE - WAN Show May 15, 2020

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You know what's great about ambition? You can't see it. Some things look ambitious, but looks can be deceiving. For example, a runner could be training for a marathon, or they could be late for the bus. You never know. Ambition is on the inside. So that goal to beat your personal best? Keep chasing it. Drive your ambition mitsubishi motors welcome ladies and gentlemen to the wan show this is what it looks like when luke and i try to start half an hour early yeah we start on time it's uh yeah it's that's quite the quite the strat we got there am i right yeah absolutely yep so i mean basically basically i just didn't want to be streaming until like 7 30 today because i was i was i streamed for six hours in a row yesterday uh rebuilding my machine so it's it

started out as an innocent enough project i was gonna like i i had wanted to just do like a hey um you know you're bored you're stuck at home you know why not tear down and rebuild your computer for fun and profit right sure like that was kind of the intention and i i opened up with a story about how that was actually how i learned to build a computer was taking the machine that someone built for me and then tearing it down and putting it back together and making sure that it still ran. That was like, that was my first scratch build was one that I had just like hours before watched someone else build for me. And so I kind of wanted to talk about that. And while I was at it, I wanted to

fix some small problems that have been bothering me about my build for the last, uh, you know, four and a half years, ever since I finished it. Uh, I broke my power button when I was installing my radiator. I wanted to fix that. My radiators, it turns out weren't even mounted to anything. They were just sitting there. So like, cause the screw holes hadn't lined up correctly on the case that we had manufactured because we sent them flawed plans so that we wanted to fix that. My power supply didn't, uh uh didn't mount properly so whenever you plug in a cable it would like push the power supply in and like wrench on the screws so i wanted to fix that and then i was like oh you know maybe i'll go hard line water cooling while i'm at it so i decided to do that six hours later i was still streaming but the good news is i am actually bringing this show to you right now from that machine.

It is working fine, just fine. And I even upgraded my memory today because people were shaming me. Oh, I got I got system memory shamed yesterday because because I had the, you know, the audacity to run, you know, this plebeian Corsair Dominator memory that runs at a mere 2666 megahertz CL15. Okay. People were, people were real unhappy about that because I am running a Ryzen 3900X. And well, Linus, actually, Ryzen really benefits a lot from faster memory. I'm like, I know, but it benefits a lot from faster memory

in the same way that your car benefits from going and getting it tuned at a shop. It's like, yes, yes, it does. But for 99% of people people that difference is not something that is noticeable and or meaningful so and it will be fine it doesn't matter it doesn't matter but it's out so it's out now it's gone it is very old memory served me very well this is gen 6 so this was optimized for like the 6700k in terms of like the sub-timing optimization, stuff like that.

That XMP profile is basically worthless, but I'm running some new G.Skill RGB stuff now. It's all good. And you know what else is good? The show that we've got for you guys today. We've actually got a lot of good news today. NVIDIA's Ampere A100 has been announced. Freaking exciting. We're getting a whole new graphics card architecture

also unreal engine 5 got demoed and it looks absolutely jaw-dropping i took all the good stuff so why don't you go with the totally silly thing the totally silly thing you mean lg working on a new dual screen phone that swivels horizontally speaking of jaw dropping i think we might have similar reactions yeah yeah i love it so tsmc is potentially allegedly maybe planning to uh open a fab in the u.s by 2023 yeah but who said this i don't i don't know okay well we can we can talk we can talk more about, we can talk more about that. We can talk more about that later. In the meantime, let's roll that intro.

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Why don't we jump right into our very first topic of the day? this was post by Igor MP on the forum and In an announcement at GTC that totally didn't rip off our kitchen set did you see that no i didn't jensen jensen he ripped off our jam okay so he was in his kitchen working on computer stuff not wearing a leather jacket okay who else do you know who else do you know who hangs out in a kitchen doing computer stuff and who doesn't wear a leather jacket clearly but wait he is wearing a leather jacket is he wearing a leather jacket in that video he is not yeah no he is no he isn't jensen cooking hold on hold on cooking where where is it no no that's

not leather that's not leather that's a's not leather. That's a puffy jacket. What? That's a puffy jacket. I'm watching the same video. He's 100% wearing a leather jacket. I'm bringing the people in. I'm bringing the people in. They're going to validate this for me. 2020 keynote part one.

He's wearing a leather jacket. Window capture. No, no. I'm talking about before that, okay? I'm talking about this one where he's cooking up something in his kitchen or whatever see he's not wearing a leather jacket see this is how freaking fancy is that stove this is what i'm talking i know right what the heck nice nice kitchen hey bro look at that look at that gorgeous kitchen look at that gorgeous graphics card he's

taken out of there it's beautiful i love it my um hold on let me get rid of this yeah i know right anyway so he's so i'm just saying that i think that my case for him ripping off my likeness for profit is at least as strong as lindsey low hands against rockstar okay sure yeah i'm sold 100 i'm on board i would join this class action i don't know i don't know if you guys remember this but this was this was a whole thing back in absolutely grand theft auto which grand theft auto was that again five grand theft auto five there you go so this was a whole thing she was all like yep this is clearly this is clearly ripping off my likeness and uh she tried to sue them for i can't remember if it was just money

or whatever anyway she lost and i would and i would lose two And that's okay, because at least to make me feel better, I've got some great news about new graphics cards. So here we go. Ampere A100 is an SXM4-based add-in card destined for the data center and supercomputers. And this is probably a little disappointing to the gamers out there, especially given the arguably misleading title on today's WAN show, but we're actually referring to something else, not this. That's right. There's more and it's true. So disappointing to those folks is the fact that this is not a desktop based debut for Ampere in

the form of the RTX 3000 series. That's what we're assuming it's going to be called. But it does give us at least some hints as to what we can expect from an Ampere based GPU. So there's a few things that we can talk about with the A100 first, it can efficiently scale to 1000s of GPUs or be partitioned into seven GPU instances using multi instance GPU or I love, MIG technology. You want to use some MIG technology there, Luke? Yeah, dude. NVIDIA is claiming a six times performance improvement out of the box in BERT deep learning training over previous generation Volta GPUs and up to 20 times higher performance in Tensor float precision workloads with an additional 2x boost using mixed precision and 16-bit floating point. And you know what?

Even like two weeks ago, I probably would have said, gee, NVIDIA, thanks for... You know what? Let's say a month ago. Let's say a month ago. I probably would have said, gee, NVIDIA, thanks for all the AI bulls**t

that you're putting into your consumer graphics cards that I honestly have no use for. Like, where's my frames per second, right? But in the last three weeks alone, I have seen, let me just try and think, I have seen three, or it's not three weeks, whatever, the last month or so, I have seen three very compelling uses for their AI on the desktop. First of all, DLSS 2.0 is way better than DLSS Gen 1. top first of all dlss 2.0 is way better than dlss gen 1 it actually doesn't suck now like you can run a game at a lower resolution and it will faco upscale itself in a way that is shockingly convincing number one right there number two i watched them use their deep learning up sampling

on the shield to make 1080p content look not quite native 4K, but boy, is it close to the point where, you know, if it was, I don't know, it's like this weird fine line because there's the people who would not never notice the difference between 1080 and 4K anyway. And then there's the people who would notice the difference between 4K and this upscaled stuff. And I would say that NVIDIA's upsampling is going to appeal to kind of 80% of the people who would notice the difference between 4k and this upscaled stuff. And I would say that NVIDIA's upsampling is going to appeal to kind of 80% of the people who could tell the difference, but aren't like that sensitive, if that kind of makes sense. Do you catch my drift? So you're,

it's not going to make any difference for the people who just couldn't tell it all anyway. But for everyone who could tell, I think you could take most of that chunk and say, yeah, they're going to, they're going to be convinced by their AI upscaling. And then the big one is, of course, RTX Voice. Now, RTX Voice absolutely diarrhea-ed all over itself for my stream yesterday, but I'm not going to blame RTX Voice for that because I think it might have actually been to do with the fact that I was running my RTX GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure that also had USB ports on it, that I also had additional capture devices running through because blah, blah, blah, long story,

I didn't have enough Thunderbolt ports and I had too many capture devices for the stream. So, you know, that was a problem. But RTX voice, the way that it blocks out background noise, absolutely freaking fantastic. And I am legitimately excited to see what kind of AI tricks NVIDIA can pull out of their butts and work into my desktop experience. What else is going on here? Additional 2x boost using mixed precision and 16-bit floating point,

blah, blah, blah. NVIDIA also claims that for other high performance compute applications new double precision tensor cores enable a reduction of a 10-hour simulation on volta to four hours on ampere and compared to volta ampere has 35 percent more cuda cores now that is going to translate directly to gamers 78 higher memory bandwidth that's going to be good for gamers double the nv link links probably less applicable for gamers sliIs dead, and is on the 7 nanometer TSMC node. So we should expect potentially higher clock speeds and a better efficiency. Let's see if there's just anything else that you guys will actually kind of care about here. The expansion of Tensor Core capabilities, blah, blah, blah, better deep learning capabilities. Oh, yeah, okay.

So Anthony threw in some commentary about how, how yes this better ai could mean more technologies like deep learning super sampling but i already i already talked about that which is cool so luke place your bet how long is it going to be before we get a desktop ampere graphics card and you're ready to upgrade to turing because everybody's offloading their turing's holiday you think you think holiday this year i you know i i was really i i don't know wow you have so much confidence because i i was kind of all over the place on this one i was thinking either like a month from now because nvidia has done that before like gone new gpu new gpu new gpu new gpu like all the way down the family kind of four to six weeks apart they've they've pulled that move um but then

i was also kind of thinking well they don't have a competitor at all right now like they could just wait till next year for all they care realistically so so you say holiday do you care to name it care to name a month i want to hear it what month november you say november okay so are they going to try to hit why would you try to hit holiday why what's your motivation you're jensen you're jensen huang You're wearing a leather jacket. Okay, go. Put yourself in character. I've got an incredibly beautiful stonework around my incredible stove behind me. It's just glowing in the sunlight.

And I'm telling my team that I think we should wait for holiday because no competition right now. And the COVID grab to buy PC parts parts i haven't looked into it but i'm assuming it's starting to slow down a bit um and now we might be settling into a lower funds across the board state for covid so people like the the purchasing of these parts might be going down i'm not sure these are these are assumptions that i'm making right now. Sure. He would know, though, just for painting the scene. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in the character.

You've got to get in character. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I would aim for this holiday, not for next year, because, I mean, you might as well. Yeah, holidays, right? You can kind of line up with the early enough purchases for people that are going to be buying relatively early for potential Christmas stuff. And I think people are a little bit looser with their wallets around

that time anyways can i give my guess for why i now that you've said holiday i 100 agree with you that that's what they're they're gonna do okay i think i think he wants to crap on the upcoming console launches because he's already talked some smack we've heard jensen talk smack about how like yeah that performance tier has existed for a while it's called an rtx 2080 lol um yeah i think there's some more smack talk we're going to talk about later on in this show but yeah honestly that's a big one too yeah i would i would definitely i'm on board with that i think he's the kind of character you know he's got it remember he's got his leather jacket okay i think he's the kind of character that would want to get on stage and say hey

cool cute console that's nice good job um you know if you want something twice as powerful team green you know suckers he would absolutely love to do that yeah yeah i'm sure you'd be into that that's some strong logic i like it i do have a quick super chat that i need to read um the real smiley says don't waste your money on a super chat it will not be acknowledged even a $50 one i did it to test to see on his last live stream first time i've ever paid money to comment lol how dumb of me you're welcome so yeah i didn't see your super chat but i did see that so now there you go there's your shout out smart guy how you feel now all right let's uh let's move on to our next topic here um unreal engine 5 demoed want to give us the run through here this is super exciting it's it's kind of long actually there's there's a bunch of

stuff going on i i suggest you you watch the video i will say uh engine videos unless you're watching them with somewhat of a trained eye uh might not mean a ton but it looks really nice so might as well check it out uh it's it's epic games released this footage and it is specifically from it is an unreal engine 5 running on a playstation 5 console that's the like important flex that's going on here and this is very cool i say this every time i'm going to say it again this is very cool for console players as well because or sorry for pc players as well because the further consoles push things will look better on PC. Even when like every time a new console comes out, they get really close or surpass the price point value

that PCs are going to be at at that time. But then over time, PCs supersede by a huge amount. And games are just going to look better in general. So this is fantastic. I'm going to read directly from notes here for a second. Visualized micro polygon geometry. We've had a lot of fun word combinations in this land show so far, which allows developers to use film quality meshes as sources.

And you can see in the demo, things do look very, very good, which with each comprising hundreds of millions of polygons. They talk about nanite scales, lots of ability to put huge amounts of polygons. They talk about nanite scales, lots of ability to put huge amounts of polygons and tons of varied objects across the screen at the same time. Developers no longer need to bake details to normal maps in order to maximize detail.

This better overall global illumination, they give some examples of that in the video as well. It allows fully dynamic multi-balance lighting that immediately reacts to scene and light changes that lighting looks incredible can i just i'm gonna let you finish but like wow it looks really good you want to demo it you can i've got it up right now okay yeah they're they're watching they're watching huzzah um the lighting is the lighting demo is really cool. It can benefit from developers trying to improve their games as well as to make the final title more reactive to player inputs,

which is great. It allows developers to iterate in real time without having to wait for light map bakes to finish, saving huge amounts of time. It probably does. This new technology is not a next-gen exclusive and will scale to work on a variety of both old and new platforms. Also cool, especially with the uh the new xbox thing that makes it so that you can buy a game and it's available on a variety of platforms so if you're sticking with your current console for a little

while and you buy these new games when you move to your next con like it should the new games should look better on your current console and when you move to the next console you'll be able to keep your games it's a nice little combination uh but the spiciness i kind of plowed through a lot of that to the spiciness this is the the fun part to discuss on the wan show um they're claiming the new ssds on the next gen consoles will allow huge complex large-scale worlds that will be streamed into the machine in incredible detail without you really noticing things popping in in the traditional way that you would. And Sweeney said,

the storage architecture in PlayStation 5 is far ahead of anything you can buy on any PC for any amount of money right now. And it's great to see that sort of innovation that's going to help drive future PCs. And then this part, I was trying to cross-reference this quote, and I haven't watched this part of the video yet, but it says they're going to see this thing ship and realize,

oh, wow, M.2 SSDs. I need to catch up with it. We have M.2 SSDs. Again, I haven't watched that part of the video, and I need to find that exact comment and i've been trying to reference more comments about this on the future uh on the internet since then but yeah the ps5 uses a pcie 4.0 ssd that reaches speeds of 5.5 gigabytes per second i'm back what'd you get sorry i was I was gone. I was gone. I was gone. I was,

uh, hold on. First of all, first of all, I just, I want to pull up the demo again for a second here because this is just so mind blowing. Okay. So you can see with the, the global illumination. So cool to be clear, global illumination is not the same thing as uh ray tracing necessarily so you can have light bounce without necessarily being photon by photon but this is so cool so they show this is the light source and then basically everything else is lit by that light source, which is that hard light from the sun bouncing. That's how it works in the real world. I remember talking to Brandon about this for a while, or a while back when we were building our set at the office that's kind of set up like a condo.

And I was like, Brandon, why can't we just have like a handful of lights set up? And then, kind of like if I was just in my house, you could just have those ones be the base lighting. And then we can just add as needed, but it's ready to go at any time. And he's like, well, the issue is that because we have no way of routing the power of the sun into our studio, unless you want to buy 2, 2000 watt lights and point them through the windows so that they actually like bounce off the floor and walls and globally illuminate the place. You're just not going to get it. And you're going to end up with all kinds of other issues that I didn't care as much about. Like, oh, you're going to, you know, the color of your floor is going to

color the light and blah, blah, blah. I was like, yeah, I mean, we're just looking for sort of like a baseline here. But anyway, that's how real lighting works. And that's why it looks so natural. And that's why it's so much work to recreate that effect with studio lighting, because you have to have this understanding of light and the way it bounces and the way that it interacts with things that, you know, I had never, I just never really thought about from a film perspective anyway, you know, a number of years ago when we were first talking about this. And so seeing it done this way, dynamically, in a demo that is actually running on what will be production hardware that you can buy for presumably console pricing in a couple of, you know, quarters here is just mind bending. With that said, you know, why do you you know why does someone like tim sweeney

like how many billions of dollars is he worth like what why does he need to why does he need to say stuff that's just like demonstrably false you know like how fast is that how fast is the storage of the ps5 5.5 gigabytes5? 5.5 gigabytes per second. 5.5 gigabytes per second. All right. So there's a little video platform. You might have heard of it. It's called Floatplane.

Yeah, there's a team working on that over there. Good people, good people. It's a little slow, but they're good people. They're nice people. So over on that platform, there's this creator. He didn't have a beard before. He's got a beard now. The community is kind of divided on whether he should keep it.

Decent enough guy, though. He uploaded a video, really clickbaity title. I can't stand that about this guy. It's very frustrating. And the video is called, This is 50 Times Faster Than Your PC. Holy shit. And he's got this SSD that, according to Tim Sweeney, doesn't exist for any amount of money. It's crazy because there he is. Hold on a second. Here, I can screen share with you guys. Look at this guy. Look at this beard. Look at this stupid

face he makes in his thumbnail. It's awful. You've got that question mark in there so so here's this guy right and he's holding it just like that that's a thing that tim sweeney said is not real um but like it's it's so funny because there it is look it's in his hand actually no no no that's a different one that's a slower one look he threw that one away and that one's also faster than the one tim sweeney said doesn't exist isn't that weird like why do they do this you know you've already you've already got enough money to buy the earth and all the heavens why do you need to sell out to sony to just say stuff that's just not true at all um also also you know that guy i happen to actually know him pretty well. He dropped off in my house this a little while ago. This is an SSD that is not only as fast as the PlayStation 5's SSD,

but is actually at 1500 megabytes. Oh, excuse me, 15,000 megabytes a second, double the speed. And yet here it is. So that guy's got one. Okay. Actually he's got two. I've got one right here. Here's another one. So that is three now. That is three PC SSDs that are faster for any amount of money. I didn't say they were cheap. Faster than thestation 5 storage system look at that what a funny what a funny thing would you look at that isn't that funny how that works they're saying 5.5 gigabytes per second read and typical eight to nine gigabytes per second compressed okay still slower just reiterating anyway to be very clear uh was there anything else that you

wanted to talk about the unreal 5 demo because i wanted to talk about the playstation 5 storage for sure some people in the chat say i know i blew through some of the earlier stuff i just wanted to get to the controversial statement yeah uh someone said global illumination has existed in the past yes it absolutely has absolutely has it's a a new globalization global illumination has existed in the past yes it absolutely has absolutely has it's a a new globalization global illumination solution yes i remember i mean global illumination has been something that the gaming industry has been trying to conquer since well basically the gaming industry existed um you know nvidia thought their voxel based global illumination was going to take off back with maxwell uh to my, that never really gained a ton of traction, although I don't actually

know how Unreal Engine 5 is doing it. So yeah, I would definitely need to get into some deeper dives into what exactly their implementation looks like. But with their voxel-based global illumination, if I recall correctly, NVIDIA was taking more complex objects and they were kind of having them bounce as though they were much simpler ones. They like these volumetric pixels. So yes, not new. Like ray tracing is new. Ray tracing is different, but global illumination is not new it's just that that particular technique for it running in real time at that level of detail with 8k textures on a playstation right that's crazy cool now i spent a fair bit of time mocking tim sweeney's statement that the storage

architecture in playstation 5 is far ahead of anything you can get in a PC for any amount of money. But that doesn't change that what he's saying is there's a kernel of truth in the misleading statement. And the kernel of truth is that compared to any PC that you would buy like off the shelf yes it is faster and compared to any mainstream pc it is much faster and will be coming in at a price that is going to uh and at a volume that is going to change the way that game developers utilize storage that's what he's trying to say even if he ended up making a really stupid statement in order to say it two thousand dollar really fancy packed uh ssds are not necessarily what most people are considering when they're building computers and technically uh we haven't been able to like

fully see in action as far as far as i know the the real capabilities because he's talking about the the architecture of the whole thing uh so like interconnects between the ram and then and the more long-term storage and everything else but you're getting a little nuanced at that point and we don't have enough data to pick at there as far as i know i'm sorry did you say two thousand dollars because uh this is more than that how much is that one uh i can't find a u.s price for it i'm not sure if it's strictly speaking available but i found a u.s listing for it that was over three thousand australian dollars i don't know exactly what the conversion is there though um anyway the point is you know what he's trying to say i think is that by having so much faster storage on hand and knowing that they can count on having fast storage available on hand.

And remember, none of this would be worth anything if Microsoft wasn't also putting very fast storage in the upcoming Xbox, even if it's not quite as fast. even if it's not quite as fast. I mean, it's all kind of a measuring contest at that point anyway, because game developers, especially considering that they're both running the same CPU and GPU, are not going to be, you know, foundationally designing their games differently

if the PlayStation and the Xbox don't both have the ability to take advantage of it. And the PC too, now that PC storage is and has been quite a lot faster than consoles, which have been stuck with hard drives for the longest time. So this reliance on having this base functionality is gonna change the way that they can handle things

like, as Luke was mentioning earlier, textures, instead of having that pop-in, being able to load, let's say, for example, many, many more different versions of An asset so that you can swap them out extremely quickly as you are moving towards them so that it's much less jarring You know That's just one very rudimentary example of how you could do something like that If you know you can count on very high speed storage

Another really cool thing that you could do if you can count on high speed storage, not to mention a faster CPU, is you could actually start to design games with much, much faster load times. Because that's something that you're going to run into these days is you can have, I could put this, I could put this in my computer and most of the games that I run would still have abominable load times. You want to know why? games that I run would still have abominable load times. You want to know why? Yes. Yes. Oh, thank you, Luke. Thank you, Luke. It's because it's primarily, no, it's primarily CPU bottlenecked. Decompressing the game assets as you're firing up a game is primarily CPU bottlenecked because it's been all about compressing that data down as much as possible to deliver it over a network for example or to squeeze it onto a console hard drive so people can install as many

games as they as they can on their you know 500 gig or one terabyte drives or whatever the case may be and there has been no compelling reason to say okay well, you know what we should do then is we should unpack more of these assets, and then we should just stream them uncompressed while the player is playing, because there was no option to do that because the hard drive wasn't fast enough. So you had these two bottlenecks that were present. You had a CPU bottleneck anytime you needed to unpack something, and then you had a storage bottleneck if you decided, okay, you know what? To heck with it. I'm going to unpack it early and I'm just going to

stream all the assets in. Well, you couldn't do it anyway because a modern two and a half inch hard drive is still limited to 150 to 200 megabytes a second. Best case scenario. So this is going to change the way that they can load assets into games. And I don't think that crediting Sony with changing the gaming industry here makes a ton of sense. And his statement that there is no SSD for any amount of money that's as fast as this is really stupid because this is just,

this is literally wired to the CPU. That's what it is. It is wired directly to the PCI Express bus on the CPU. And if you imagine for a second that Sony's CPU in the PlayStation is not just an AMD chip running PCI Express bus on the CPU. And if you imagine for a second that Sony's CPU in the PlayStation is not just an AMD chip running PCI Express, then you're a fool. Like that's all there is to it.

I'm going to be that guy. Do it. Do it. Do it now. I was probably wrong in the pre-show when I said I was loud. But he doesn't technically technically say it's faster far ahead okay um what does far ahead mean i don't know so if i

were to say if i okay look look let's just think for a second if i were to say usain bolt usain bolt is far ahead of the other competitors on the track. What does that mean? Okay. Yeah. If I were to say, you know, for example, that I don't know any people who drive cars for a living. So I'm going to go with Danica Patrick. That's the only one I'm familiar with.

Okay. If I were to say that she was far ahead of the competition, what would that mean? Far ahead in endorsements far i mean he's probably far ahead in endorsements right now yeah i think he's doing all right but yeah i don't know it's it's it's we'll we'll have to see what it actually translates into i don't suspect much uh i don't suspect anyone's going to load up a pc and go oh or a ps5 and go like oh wow how am i going to catch up with this i don't think that's gonna happen yeah me neither but but i mean hopefully it's there hopefully they make leaps and strides leaps leaps and strides in terms of

architecture and then if they do anything uh that that's like really transformative with their memory architecture hopefully it comes to pc yeah i mean it may not be possible i mean there there is an advantage to running your own operating system i mean we showed uh we showed when we fired up our new one x storage server that just because you're running the same ssds wired into the same pci express bus doesn't mean that you get the same error-free operation from one operating system to another one. So it is possible that Sony will be looking at a significant performance advantage with their implementation based on the software side of things. But I guess what I was mostly trying to say in my tongue-in-cheek way is that if they're

30 ahead that's not going to result in a 30 difference in how these games are going to run on the playstation um foundationally everything is going solid state which is going to be a huge advantage but past that we're going to be looking at a point of diminishing returns they they they talked about um how they they worked to remove any bottlenecks that current ssds have and like all this other kind of stuff and and that that's fantastic and i hope it works for them but um yeah i i'm on i'm on linus's side with the with the overall i don't know about the like oh wow how am i gonna catch up on pci there's no way i could buy anything that's this good meanwhile microsoft doesn't even consider them a competitor

anymore sick burn well what do you what do you think way way ahead of everything yeah with with minimal information xbox one x or ps5 um like who do you think is going to win the war this time? It's relatively obvious that PlayStation 1 last time. I think Sony goes in with the momentum on their side. You know, because, I mean, yeah, we can talk about the SSD in the PlayStation 5 or the graphics card in the Xbox One Series X all day.

But at the end of it all, what makes someone choose one console versus another one? Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put down three things. And I'm gonna see if you say the same three things. Okay. Hold on. You can see it. How can you see it? I covered it because I'm on the same dock as you. Oh, okay. Don't don't look at it. Don't look at it. I covered it because I'm on the same dock as you. Oh, okay. Don't look at it. Don't look at it. I covered it with my hand. Okay.

Well, don't look at it. Okay. I was like, wow, am I screen sharing right now? Because I'm looking at the OBS window. I'm not screen sharing right now. Are you magic? Are you magic? Okay.

So you probably saw the first one, but you were going to say that anyway. So go ahead. Hit me. Hit me. What are your three items that determine which console you buy? I said games slash exclusives i'm kind of bundling those as one thing yeah uh bundles slash price which i'm also bundling as kind of one thing and then friends okay so i had exclusives whatever your friend group buys so we were

overlapping on two of them and then i actually had controller as a major determinant of which console you would prefer because there's so many games that are cross platform now that i could see people choosing one or the other assuming pricing and bundles are similar based on well you know i really prefer the xbox or i really prefer the playstation controller bundles and price that's another big one so nowhere in any of that was uh who has the fastest you know ssd right yeah that it's not in there because that's not why people buy buy game consoles at the end of the day so i think that to me exclusives is going to be the thing that puts the momentum in on sony's side because if i played you know the

the the last um oh man i haven't owned a playstation since the playstation 2 okay sure i played some uncharted game or whatever and i'm i'm invested in this series now you know i'm a playstation user um i think there's a strong chance i buy the new one yeah that makes sense and and i would agree with that i someone in in chat said uh the controllers are all good now it's not really the point yeah i think controllers have been all good for quite a while yeah um i the the controller thing for me at least it's it's all about the thumbstick positioning and there's a huge difference between the two and it doesn't matter that the playstation The controller thing, for me at least, it's all about the thumbstick positioning. And there's a huge difference between the two.

And it doesn't matter that the PlayStation controller is good for me. It's the positioning of the thumbsticks throws off the usability of the controller by a massive amount for me personally because I'm so used to those offset thumbstick positions. It's actually a pretty big deal for me. It's not a fanboyism thing, but it is a muscle memory thing

that makes a big difference as as a gamer like you know if you're used to a keyboard and mouse or if you're used to uh inverted look for example if someone changes your control scheme and you are anything but you know a very entry-level gamer it's going to muck you up and so if you're used to the symmetrical thumbsticks you there is there is a chance that that could be a determining factor for you to just say okay well all other things being equal i'm just i'm just gonna playstation 5 i i got my xbox controller to work on uh the playstation 4 when i was using the playstation 4 because of course you did me so nuts yeah good and but like the the average user isn't going to do that it was actually a pretty

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matt martin told this is on twitter told fans to chill when it comes to canon because the way he sees it you can just kind of like have your own head canon you know you can you can include whatever you want or don't want to because it's all fake anyway which pretty much your face is so perfect right now i love it which pretty much amounts to like you guys are a bunch of nerds why do you even care so much about this? Talk about completely having no concept, no understanding whatsoever of your customer and your fan base, and then opening your mouth and demonstrating it for the entire world to see. He basically said, yeah, at this point, we understand that none of it makes any f***ing sense and we've given up and so should you because who cares anyway it's all fake of course it's fake it's

a story that doesn't mean that there isn't a value to trying to tell a cohesive one who cares dave filoni right now just lonely cares just lonies what's holding all this together just brutal just absolutely brutal and it's like i i you know what i get it as someone if i were to come in onto that team right um actually no i was about to say if i someone, if I were to come onto that team, right? Actually, no. I was about to say, if I were to join that team, I might just kind of go, yeah, you know what? Forget it. I give up.

None of this makes any sense. So we're just going to have to just treat Star Wars like, you know, what it has become. Just kind of making it up as we go and plot holes and inconsistencies be damned because the ship completely sailed you know it sailed a long time ago i don't think i could do it though who wouldn't give up okay fine um i just i just don't think i could do it like if i if i if okay so so you know total total miracle you know someone a decision maker at disney is is watching this right now and they're like hey this guy seems to have his act together let's put linus in charge okay they bring me in tomorrow

i would probably scrap like oh man i would man, I would do some controversial stuff, man. So, A, I would scrap the entire sequel trilogy because I actually came up with, well, yes and no, there's like there's salvageable stuff in there. But I came up with this idea, like right out of the gate, right out of the gate, the sequel trilogy makes no sense whatsoever. idea like right out of the gate right out of the gate the sequel trilogy makes no sense whatsoever because the notoriously racist empire has finn as a soldier which is like why so there was plenty of room for because i know a lot of people are really upset about the sequels because it felt like disney was trying to hit a diversity quota i actually don't mind that at all there is nothing wrong with that this is obviously a gigantic galaxy full of, you know, everything from, you know, baby Yodas to humans to Sarlaccs to whatever.

Like it, that diversity is actually like core to Star Wars to me. Like if Luke and Obi-Wan wandered into that cantina, okay, and it was full of like, you know, a bunch of white dudes like them, we're not going to be like, oh, wow, what a cool, what a cool galaxy they've created that's totally different from somewhere that I could have walked down the street and gone. Like, that would have been stupid. Diversity is foundational. But I think they should have just had Rey and Finn swap. I think that, and another thing too is because the ex-Stormtrooper had no character development or story arc whatsoever, they should have had-

Has no issue killing all the Stormtroopers. What's that? And has no issue killing all his- Yeah, exactly. I think that Rey, Rey the Trooper, okay, should have actually had like a really dark history and we should see her do something awful before something happens like some kind of some kind of catalyst needs to take place here she's perfect she would be perfect for it you actually don't have to alter either of those

characters at all you just need to put them in each other's roles. You need to let that romance blossom the way that it was obviously supposed to. You need to let them both be force sensitive the way that they were obviously supposed to. The other really cool thing that this does for Rey, oh yeah, I totally forgot about this when I was talking to someone else about it, is that it adds some legitimacy whatsoever to the whole conflicted part of her story. legitimacy whatsoever to the whole conflicted part of her story because that whole thing where she's like shooting force lightning one moment and then force healing the next moment is just it just doesn't make any sense it's just stupid and you could be like oh well yeah well it's just all fake it's like yeah it's all fake but if I just wrote a completely incoherent garbage screenplay where nothing meshed with anything else, that would also be fake and it would also be bad.

So if she actually did something really, really awful at the beginning of that movie, you know, she is Kylo Ren's or she's a Knight of Ren, okay? Like give her some kind of significance. she's a knight of ren okay like give her some kind of significance now we're talking we've got kind of uh you know bumbling finn getting kind of swept up into into all of this you know maybe maybe he falls for her in spite of the fact that she's got this like evil side maybe they work through that together they both get actual character arcs as it is so much nothing already they've got nothing and and you could you could have done all of that without even upsetting the people that are like uh uh main characters are are fulfilling diversity quotas blah blah blah because those actors in those roles would have been

fantastic and those stories would have been ones that i would have wanted to hear as it was we had a stormtrooper who was just like you know honestly kind of a and never actually did anything um who then goes on to not really actually do anything and it's just like a sequence of events and i don't even i don't even blame anyone this character is so wasted completely completely wasted there's so many ways even the like force sensitive thing near the end which they tease so many times throughout that movie and then when you get out of it you're like wait that that was it and you know what the issue too is though is that because i i guess because of this attitude that it's just all fake anyway so who cares um they take so many liberties with the way that the universe works, right?

I got really upset when R2-D2 sprouted jetpacks in the prequel trilogy for the same reasons. If R2-D2 doesn't have jetpacks to launch himself out of the swamp on Dagobah in Empire Strikes Back, then he doesn't have jetpacks to fly around and comically amuse the kids, you know, and bop the droids or whatever in I think it's Phantom Menace. But so many people complained about how Rey was like this super OP force user, right? That was a common complaint. We can all agree on that. And there was a lot of speculation that like oh well it's because you know they're trying to pander to um you know people who think you know women should have more leading roles or whatever else it's it's all diversity quotas all diversity quota no it's just bad storytelling and they did it all over the place you know look at the first scene where

we meet poe dameron it's ridiculous do you remember it yeah i'm thinking about it right now yeah it's that ground battle where he basically rips in and is clearly like if we were to go into the actual like files okay the animation files the cgi we go in he's ripping around at literally 4x the speed of anything else in the air, flying with reflexes that... That's not when we first meet Poe Dameron, right? Is it? I believe that's our first introduction to him, isn't it? I thought we come in pretty early

with Finn coming off the ship and they're fighting on the ground. And like Poe shoots at... Okay, sorry. Okay, whatever. I think you're right. I think you're right i think you're right so sorry the the one no not the one where we meet him then the one where he rips in with his x-wing when they're fighting on the ground and just he meets like the crew he meets the rest of no look the heroes yeah no look headshots absolutely everything flying around at triple

to quadruple the speed of anything else in the air and you're looking at it going yeah you're looking at it going well that's just that's just stupid you know the best pilots in the galaxy you know a short 20 years ago or whatever could not do that right um almost certainly better training etc etc and he's not force sensitive well theoretically i mean han is so who knows yeah yeah so so you know what i i think i think his attitude is basically why star wars is dead to me and it should be dead to you because if they don't care at all about continuity and they're just going to go in and keep trying to fix one thing while breaking three others, it is only going to get worse. Yeah. Um, I, I, I don't know. I, I haven't, I actually haven't watched the new, um, Star Wars Clone Wars series that came out. Um, but the feedback that i've been seeing i've been trying

to stay away from spoilers because i want to watch it all properly um but the feedback that i've been seeing uh is is really positive and the mandalorian was was awesome and it was mediocre you were just desperate okay it's awesome compared to the three most recent movies it's smallville in space that's fine compared to the three most recent movies i watched the whole thing so like i clearly made it through it like but it's it's it's smallville in space it's monster of the week it's buffy okay okay i'm not saying it's the greatest thing ever but it's bewitched three most recent movies okay it's bewitched three most recent movies, what do you think? It's Bewitched. Three most recent movies versus what do you think? That's that show, right, Vaughn?

Bewitched? Is that that show where they're all like teen witches or something and there's like a monster and they have to defeat it? I haven't seen any of these shows, so I don't really know. Charmed. Sorry, it's Charmed. I haven't seen that either. Not Bewitched. It's Charmed.

It's Smallville. That's what it is. I don't watch shows very often. Just compared to the three most recent movies integer overlord by the way just says hey there's like 150 like expanded or well previously expanded universe books that managed to keep the story straight here's an idea why don't you just use that i know right that's what everyone wanted them to do there is there is a bunch of garbage in there but there's also a lot of awesomeness i've had a really good time going through the eu okay i'm sorry i i was i really was being very

rude i wasn't listening to your question hit me one more time one more time okay compare the mandalorian instead of instead of on its own yeah compare the mandalorian against the most recent three movies it's much worse than firefly okay yeah i mean yeah it is it is maybe a third as good as firefly instead of comparing it on its own compared to kate's most recent three movies because there's some interesting aspects there too they had to i mean if you think about, he has to craft this show while these movies are coming out. Yeah. And he had to like, they had to work things into the show to explain stuff that was going to happen in the upcoming movie.

Right. And there's like, there is things that happen in the show that only happen in that show because the upcoming movie was coming yeah and they were like oh no we we need to do something um like when uh when uh baby yoda force heals yeah that's there because of the new movie i read this whole thing about it they were trying to like soft introduce it to the community so that people didn't freak out so much with the movie it didn't really save them at all but no it didn't because it was still stupid because there were still so many issues you know like why why didn't obi-wan just like force heal qui-gon why didn't everybody just

force heal everyone ever why didn't qui-gon just force heal qui-gon yeah i mean because i mean there's all i mean there's so many problems like we could we could go and we could find problems everywhere. But just some of them I don't find as offensive, you know, like lightsabers, for example. The the opiness of a lightsaber has been a little bit inconsistent. OK, so on the one hand, you've got Luke and Vader battling in Bespin, right? In Cloud City. And Luke hits Vader in the shoulder and it doesn't like cut off his arm. All right.

Yeah. Then another example of, you know, lightsabers not being, you know, super-de-duper OP would be when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are cutting their way out of the room where they're being held right at the beginning of Phantom Menace.

Slow. Right? Okay. So these are instances where, or not of cutting their way out of the room, cutting their way into the other room. Whatever the point is, they put it through and it's like, it takes a long time to cut it. It's more like a plasma cutter at that point. But then, sorry, then there are just, there are instances where lightsabers seem to slice through anything instantly right so there are inconsistencies but i can i can accept i don't know if that's completely fair yeah i don't know if the lightsaber yeah because you don't know what

that stuff is made of and if you look at uh like material science on earth there are materials that will will damage or cut or or scrape or whatever certain other materials instantly that look very similar to ones that they will do next to nothing to um and i think another example of the the opness yeah calculation uh obi-wan's lightsaber completely failing against vader yes there's there's very few times that we see something like that again it's mentioned in the eu a bit yep um there's there's a really interesting book with mace window where where he has to like recharge his lightsaber um i don't remember what one it is but it's a it's a bit of a it's an interesting book it's kind of like a thriller anyways so the biggest

problem is basically just that they they don't have any consistency and it's so far gone that i don't think anyone cares anymore and so they're saying dave polony cares if we don't care then no one should care so yeah i'm out the saltier than crate subreddit cares i'm done i think a lot of other people care dave filoni cares people still carolinas you know what i care you know what our audience cares about tech that's so here it is lg we should move back on to tech lg is working on a new dual screen phone that apparently swivels horizontally this is this is a gem all right this is a gem i'm gonna go ahead and screen share you guys on this because i absolutely love this thing here we go boom right like that yeah you like that okay so it swivels it swivels 90 degrees so you can have the best

of both worlds while you also have the worst of both worlds while you also have the worst the worst worlds you can you can i've been informed it's you can eat your cake and have it too not you can have your cake and eat it too so you get to eat your cake and have it too and your cake is made of boogers and your mouth is your mouth is cut up with razor blades before you eat it and there's lemon juice okay that's the kind of cake you're having and that's this phone so the back of it swivels out so you can use it in in portrait mode with a keyboard which is the best way to use an on-screen keyboard landscape is literally just slower you just have to move your thumbs farther um you know it's not like it's making more room for more fingers or anything so this is this is good and then you could like watch a movie or have like you know a side-by-side multitasking experience or whatever the case may be if you're into that sort of thing and they are

not going to sell a lot of these and um it's called the wing okay it's called the wing because they're just winging it at this point hey got him it's so weird i want to hear from you guys carnival over on it's hideous i'll take six this is this is like i don't even this doesn't matter at all yeah the the image that they used for the background of the currently horizontal screen is horrible. Yeah, I don't even know what that is. I don't even know what that is. It has like weird aliasing going all over it. I don't know.

There's like weird blurry parts for no reason. They just weren't trying at all. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, pretty similar to probably the idea of this phone in general. It's really surprising to me that the one dual screen concept that works. OK, I shouldn't say one because I haven't actually tried Microsoft's thing, Microsoft's concept yet. But the one dual screen Android concept that I really liked having the screen on the front and the back and then just one camera instead of having a selfie camera.

So that back screen is basically just to like use to preview your selfies. Never really took off with any manufacturers that matter. Like it was all little ones that went for that. Whereas like if I had the option to use my Samsung rear-facing shooter for my selfies instead of having a punch, a hole punched in my main display, that would be so

much better if all the rnd that has gone into hole punch displays and front facing cameras could have just been spent on making rear-facing cameras better and putting a crappy small screen on the back of the phone that would have just been better in every possible way video chatting video chatting is an application where it is not as good go get your tablet or or make the screen not that small and crappy if they release this which it sounds like they're actually going to wow just just i mean just in in the verbiage that is being used i don't see any statement that says we are definitely releasing this phone they're just in the verbiage that is being used. I don't see any statement that says we are definitely releasing this phone. Just in the verbiage that is being used, it sounds like they're going to.

If they release this, will you mainline it for a certain period of time? No. Yeah, I will. Sure. I'll do it for the lulz. I'll do it. I'll do it. I love that painful retraction.

I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. Basically like a slider, except worse in every way. It's got a Snapdragon 700 series processor with 5G support. So low end chip, triple camera setup with 64 megapixel primary sensor, but it's LG. So it's going to be like, eh. And the price is expected to be just over 800 US dollars. In fairness, I guess there's a lot of validation that goes into building a bad phone.

But hey, they did it. So, you know, they got to get paid, yo. Yeah. I have a actually... A line off the shelves. You know what? In line with my conversation earlier about how Super Chats are actually a great value, they're not. I usually don't look at them because this is the WAN show and we don't do a ton of Q&A. In line with my conversation earlier about how super chats are actually a great value, they're not.

I usually don't look at them because this is the WAN show and we don't do a ton of Q&A. So I'm not actually defending that. But in line with that, I actually do have a super chat that I went out of my way to answer over the course of this week because I didn't have a good answer from someone last week. And it's kind of an interesting discussion. So someone asked, does demonetized content get paid by YouTube premium subscribers? Do you remember talking about this? So if you've got a yellow icon and someone with YouTube premium watches where there is no advertiser relationship for YouTube to worry about, do they still get

your YouTube premium revenue? And I got an answer back from creator help and they said it depends on what type of demonetization it is if it's a copyright claim claim claim you will not be able to earn any of the revenue including premium that will go to the copyright holder if it's a yellow icon so that is to say that like um you've talked about the controversial coronavirus at a time when that was considered, I forget what it fell under, but it was, you weren't eligible for monetization because it was like, oh man, I don't remember.

It doesn't matter. The point is, yeah, it was bad news there. That's about it. So if it's something like that, you should be eligible to earn premium and it will note so on the icon if you's about it. So if it's something like that, you should be eligible to earn premium and it will note so on the icon if you hover over it. So here's a screenshot that I can share with you guys. Which is cool.

It's nice that their answer to that question was like, look at the thing. Yeah, check this out. It's nice that that wasn't hidden. This video is running limited or no ads due to content identified as not suitable but it remains fully playable and is eligible to earn subscription revenue from youtube premium youtube premium really is one of the best ways if you're not willing to go over on floatplane and support

creators it really is one of the best ways to dramatically increase the amount of um contribution that you're making to your favorite creators. And I'm not saying just me. I'm saying if you get a YouTube premium subscription, it completely changes the game. I was talking to our YouTube contact about here. Let me just find this. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It had a few back and forth. So I'm trying to find the right one. But I was talking about how the heck it is that some of our long format content does so much better than our shorter videos when it comes to AdSense. And he basically said, well, I think you're not digging deep enough into the analytics.

Because I thought that even though we don't run mid-rolls on our long format content, I thought that for some reason, the fact that it had higher retention or something was causing it to pay out at a higher rate. But it's not actually like that. I need to find this. Where is it? Issue with view analytics no um okay luke do you want to stall for time for a little bit for me today while i while i try and find this thing uh tsmc theoretically allegedly potentially planning on opening a fab in the u.s by 2023 it would be a 12 billion dollar construction in arizona they're planning to produce five nanometer chips starting in 2023 expected capacity is to be 20,000

silicon wafers per month uh this would have to be heavily subsidized uh It is unclear exactly how much, but according to TSMC Chairman Mark Liu, it is more expensive to operate in the US, unsurprising, than Taiwan or China, I presume. So the company will require major subsidies. This is apparently in the works, potentially because there are fears that Intel will build its future chip plants in China or Taiwan. Experts believe that it is crucial for the US to invest more in fabs like Taiwan and China and Israel actually as well have done. And with ramping tensions with China, that kind of makes sense. Apparently it's already confirmed wow um that's quick okay okay so this is pretty sweet so here's one quick thing sorry i just want to finish um in cut dr ian cuttress said uh by this time five nanometer won't be the leading edge but it will take some of the volume pressure off of

taiwan's fabs at 20 000 wafers uh wafer starts per month it's nowhere near the gigafabs that do a hundred thousand that's assuming they break ground at all i have my doubts well apparently it's been confirmed it is three years out we will see if they actually do break ground but yeah the lower production amounts etc etc yeah okay so this interesting as it sounds this is this is pretty interesting uh there's two videos here uh back to the how much of a difference youtube premium makes i've got two videos here one of them is building an epic portable gaming rig at home that's a video that performed quite well for us about around 2 million views and then there's another video um oh wait no it's about 1 million 1 million and then there's another video. Oh, wait. No, it's about 1 million.

1 million. And then there's another video, Ultimate IKEA Gaming Desk, that did about 2 million. And I sent these over to our rep because I was confused. I said, here's the thing. Ultimate IKEA Gaming Desk did, let's use X, okay? Did 3X revenue, okay? At 2 million views. And building a portable gaming rig at home did 2.5x revenue

at 1 million views so at half the views it was five-sixths of the revenue crazy right so i had been attributing this to just uh you know long format even though we don't run mid-rolls but what it actually turned out to be was that... Hold on, let me make sure I've got the color coding right here. Ah, yes, okay. So the Ultimate IKEA Gaming Desk, the 2 million view video, did about double the AdSense. So the partner ad revenue of the other one was right in line

because we don't run mid-rolls. And then building an epic portable gaming rig at home, even though it had half as many views, actually did about, looks like about 20% more than the one with twice as many views. Crazy, right? So those views are actually worth like like, many, many times. Like, it's even more extreme than I knew.

They're worth many, many more times, especially for longer format content where it's weighted by watch time. So I thought that was very interesting, and I thought I would share that with you guys because someone asked last week, and I said that I would get them an answer. Cool. More topics or super chats uh let's get through some super chats

speaking of uh super chance all right we got at least a few in here that we definitely got to do tyler yates says it's 1 a.m and i up. So I figured what the hey, why not finally watch this live? Heck yeah. Good work, Tyler Yates. Thanks, Oliver Brody. Nathan Warnick says learned a new way to eat corn. Oh, Lordy. Oh, man, my son managed to make it on r slash live stream fails yesterday. Because he was eating a piece of corn by putting the entire end of the corn in his mouth and picking off with his front teeth one kernel at a time and then taking it all the way out and eating it. And I was like

please stop. That's just like a kids will be kids kind of moment. Yeah. I know. But it's just unfortunate. kids will be kids kind of moment yeah i know but it's just unfortunate you should have seen me eat a pickle when i was like you know eight years old like it is what it is but yeah now it's live um yeah exactly that's that's gonna be kind of the unfortunate thing about his generation i think yeah now there's a clip of it on live stream fails and like there's there's also so much content that i actually have in some ways a harder time finding an old meme these days depending how viral it went you know yeah yeah

that's fair robert mail it's not gonna make it go any faster dude um tommy gun heard you need a new ratchet screwdriver uh i can't say anything but i don't oh that's all i have to say about that uh what else we got here dom r last week uh luke said the more we bug you about stuff the more it will happen i want land show shirts it's not how it works big facts it's not how it works luke lied to you hashtags like this uh like like yeah like uh lost boyo says sorry to hear about ltt man uh take my money in other forms i think you mean ltx and thank you wow i was a 50 super chat you crazy uh lucas says well loving the work from home videos my kids have the same toy kitchen and also wreck the faucet in the same way yeah they're so cheap it's like it's hard to find like good quality kids toys you know uh terry says folding at home

numbers are down we're trailing default and daily production come on come on team let's get folding again actually the motherboard failed in our monster folding rig so we got a new one in but it's going to take a while with all that water cooling in it to get it swapped out so there's that uh mendelity is linus luke's little brother no we don't even look that similar like look at us you have a beard now you have blue eyes yeah exactly like you're blonde uh jensen's uh hr penguin says jensen should reveal the 3080 ti by pulling it out of the microwave it is consumer level after all i like it i'm into it i don't know if he i mean his he might have a microwave if they if they've made a microwave out of like volcanic glass and stonework

i know right sure if they have i don't know if it would match his kitchen otherwise uh sergeant amos thank you very much a dozen i recently watched the video where you resoldered ryzen cpu pins and noticed that when they're removed it looks like an lga chip at that point would it fit into an intel motherboard heck no heck no they would no. They would not be Intel compatible just by removing the pins. The Real Smiley says, Baha, haha, you busted me being a butt, Linus. I retract my statement on Super Chats. Bye Super Chats. Thank you, Real Smiley. I'm not actually endorsing the statement you're making there because generally speaking they're not a great value and we often forget to get to them but uh hey at least you got your money's worth i guess

oof baldo says toffic lindan or lee chong wei took off gada of course all right so the problem with that question is that it only has one obvious answer lindan um but i'm still i'm still i'm still lee chong way for life okay that's that's how i feel about it and there's nothing you can say to make me change my mind yes it's badminton i'm going to recognize some of those names i'm going back to badminton next week i want a sport that we can play that you aren't so astronomically far ahead of me football but that's the opposite problem well no what we have to do is we have to pick up a new sport that's the trick yeah so we just have to try something new can't be swimming because you suck at that. No offense.

Yep. Can't be badminton. You're terrible. That's fine. You could get better. I think, I think you actually do have some potential for badminton. I'm definitely known to try for badminton,

but it's going to be a painful beginning. It would be, it would be like a 10 year, 10 year battle, you know? Yeah. You'd have to get continuously better over the next 10 years. And I'd probably have to get a little worse.

And I'd have to, yeah, I'd have to, that's, see, that's kind of the issue is I'd have to get continuously better over the next 10 years, and I'd probably have to get a little worse. And I'd have to, yeah, I'd have to, that's, see, that's kind of the issue is I'd have to get better at a rate that's much higher than the rate that you are actively getting better as well. Right, because, yeah, I'm going to keep training. So, yeah, there's that. Okay, we need sport recommendations, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah. Come on, hit us up. Sammy McFone says, I hate podcasts. Why am I here? Because this isn't a podcast. This is far crappier than a podcast. That's why you like it. Kwong Lu says, stay healthy, everyone.

Rob White says, think we will see John again in TechLinked, or will he be staying in the US? We bring John up typically twice a year at least. We like to bring him up for workation or whatever our corporate get-together is for the year. We always bring him up for the company Christmas party.

That's something that's very important to me, having everybody there. It's sort of an inside joke at Linus Media Group. The Christmas party is optional, but you better be there. joke at lenis media group the christmas party is optional but you better be there speaking of which um floatplane usually not usually i guess there hasn't been a ton of these uh last year and we were going to do this moving forward yeah we have the floatplane team meetup around ltx because well probably a lot of people on the team

are going to be interested in that. So that's not going to work anymore. And it's very possible that around that time, if we try to do something at that time, it would still be very ill-advised to travel. So potentially the team meetup for float plane this year is just off. Does anyone have any ideas of what we should do?

So far, I have ideas ideas but they're not that great so um we do have some suggestions for sports uh bowling okay i don't think i'm white enough to bowl yeah like seriously like to seriously bowl um pickleball i would destroy luke at pickleball it's basically badminton done uh frizz golf i suck at it me too okay frizz golf we have we have a contender curling luke would just absolutely wreck me at curling like that would no it would not be pretty paintball i actually okay okay i was yeah i actually meant to ask you like a week ago yeah if you would be interested i was thinking airsoft because it's easier to clean up and if we're doing it very often yeah it would make more sense but yeah it's a good cardio sport you know what i

actually last season i um i i forget why i did it i wanted to use my paintball gun for something, like just target practice in the backyard or something. I found out it was broken. So I got it all sorted out. I fixed up my marker. I oiled everything up. I actually got a new tank because I found a good deal on one. I fixed up my mask.

I got a backup mask. I am ready to go to play some paintball. So. Yeah. A field sport like that sounds really fun to me. I'm super down for some paintball. Cool. Olenek says,

start the training montage softball. Softball. I would actually love to play softball. I just don't think I can commit the time to join the team yeah a pickup game style sport would probably be a better idea yeah jc sand says game gear oh yeah i was going to talk about that uh i dug uh an old game gear out it's not actually mine from when i was a kid but it's like obviously the same game like same game console and my kids absolutely love it even though we have a switch vr games galore and we you like we've got so much

gaming gear in the house and yet something about just the simplicity of like two buttons and a little thing that you just hold in your hand they they they were like obsessed with it yesterday it only came up because there's this i think it's called is it called the retro gen uh crap no it's not retro gen hold on i shot it this week so it's going to be in my in my trello here uh but i shot a video Evercade. It's about the, so Evercade is this handheld console that's got officially licensed old games from like interplay Atari, like that kind of thing. And, uh, my son shot the unboxing with me for short circuit and I promised him that he could play with it after. And then I went and sent it back to the office, um, without remembering to let him

play with it. And he was like, oh, well, what the heck, dad? And I was like, oh, well, you know what? I've got, it's basically the same thing. And I had this Game Gear just sitting in the attic that I hadn't like touched since I acquired it as a prop a while back. And as far as he was concerned, it was the same thing. And then my daughters were like, wow, that's so cool.

And they were all, they were all playing with it. I just thought it was really neat. Cause that was, I was his age. I was one year older than my son when I got a game gear for christmas and i even had the same games that i played he was trying the the lion king game for game gear actually very good and i think that's pretty much it for the wancho yeah um tom's hold on a second i got a super chat tom cigar says i folded 25 million for ltt thanks for

schooling me what the f is this you have been placed in time out by the owner of this video or moderator i don't know why you're in time out but it was a moderator not me so apparently you got past it by paying to chat that's really not the intended way for the system to work. Oh my goodness. Novovu says, see that Facebook acquired Jiffy? I actually did not see that. And apparently Facebook settled the post-traumatic stress disorder thing to its content moderators.

I did not actually see that either. All right, well, there you go. Thanks for watching guys. We'll see you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel bye uh one second please just gotta check something first real quick here um just seeing if there's anyone we know over on Twitch who's streaming right now. Oh, I can end the YouTube stream and stream and stream Bye guys

What Mac Steel says game gear sucked you suck Let me know yeah, I'm rolling that intro not quite i'm still alive yeah i know what you mean oh no no i'm talking to ivan oh okay