The WAN Show - EA Bricks Playstation 4s?? - WAN Show Mar 8, 2019

Episode Date: March 11, 2019

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We're live again! That took a while. I only went offline like 10-15 minutes ago. I showed up at the office and checked my phone and saw that you just went live and was like, What is Wancho gonna start? Am I really late? Either I'm really late or the Wancho is going to be starting at like 8 or something. No, no.

So I just, you know, I made it. What did you even do? So, okay. You didn't stream for very long. You know what? Actually, hey, Alex, are you still over there? No? Is anyone over there?

Jake? Who? Jake? Hey, Jake. Can you actually grab the network switch from the camera den? I've seen this. That's really cool. That's got to be extremely unnecessary. Is that right?

Is that right? Oh, yeah. It was just for fun? Yeah, okay. I was like, how did you possibly have that? So, okay. So we were working on one of the coolest projects that we've done in a really, really long time. It looks beautiful. It went way over time and way over budget.

And basically, it cost us, our goal this week was seven LTT videos because we're trying to queue up some extra for me to go on vacation. Okay. So our goal was seven LTT videos, because we're trying to queue up some extra for me to go on vacation. Okay. So our goal was seven LTT videos. We ended up with four, because we were very busy doing this project, and it was more complicated than we hoped and or expected. But the end result is so cool, and the reason that we did it was ultimately... Wow, my hair is spectacularly bad today. Whatever. The reason that we did it is ultimately wow my hair is spectacularly bad today whatever the reason that we did it is not because oh my god

oh my god it's not because we had to but rather i know i'm doing it on purpose okay okay i'm kind of i'm kind of i'm i'm concealing it a little bit yeah but because we wanted to get some practice creating um custom water cooling solutions because we want to ultimately water cool a red ak camera and we figured let's start on something a little bit smaller and the purpose of starting on this a network switch is a single board i thought you made it so much taller. Yeah, okay, so a network switch is a single board. So it was a matter of just working on one flat surface, so taking the measurements was quite a bit easier. It actually does have a function.

The reason that we did it this way was because we wanted to quiet it down, because it's in the camera den. And this is a 10 gig switch because for all their ingest stations and card wiping stations and all that stuff, they actually need a high speed networking. I thought this was going into the rack.

So when I saw the increased height, I was like, what? No, this got pulled from the rack when we got our new Dell 48 port switches. Oh, okay, sweet. Yes. Yeah. So, by the way, if anyone from Floatplane is going to come and fix our networking, we know that we don't have a proper router right now and all that kind of stuff for our new 10 gig connection.

I know AJ's watching. They need to know that we have two Dell 48 port managed switches, like really nice switches. And we were told that we could probably use those switches for a lot of router functionality okay um this is interesting the water is warm oh i wonder if we need a beefier fan on here oh wow tubes and that's like it's still warm this thing kicks off more heat than we probably expected you know the funny thing is we actually swapped uh this radiator out for, or we swapped a thicker one out for this one, thinking that we wouldn't really need

that much rad, but we might need more radiator. Interesting. Pretty warm. Yeah, that's toasty. That's fine, we can solve that. Toasty. Anyway. Why, okay, if I can interject for a second. Why America?

So this was the tubing scraps that we had on hand that happened to be the length that those runs were. Okay. So no, there was no, there was no like America router. This one's a little hard to see on camera, but there's a blue one right there. There's also the radiator's blue too. Yeah, yeah. You know, yeah, no, that wasn't intentional.

Okay, okay. But yeah, so anyway, if someone from Floatplane is planning to come over, just let them know. I know AJ has wanted to help you with networking stuff for a long time. And I know that, you know, sometimes like VLAN tagging and stuff doesn't necessarily cooperate properly between different vendors. So we would want, if we're going to get a new router, we would want us we would want if we're going to get a new router we would want a router that will cooperate with our dell switches because those we are we are sticking with okay they were like a total of eight grand or something like that for the two of them but like that's fine because we're talking 96 ports of 10 gig networking

six excuse me 12 ports of 40 gig networking like that's more than we could need for quite some time um so we're sticking with that anyway so the purpose of this was to quiet it down because it's in a place where people have to work and this is like a server rack style switch this is not a this is not a desktop switch it was quite loud um also, you know, to practice, you know, practice makes perfect. And also just because like it was fun. Like I don't, not that I'm aware of. I don't think anybody has ever done this before. Maybe for good reason, maybe not because the project overall was a smash success. Like it was a huge success. So we filtered the intakes. You can actually see that you can't really see through them anymore. Yeah. So I put like dust filters on all the intakes

and then we're using our fan here as an exhaust. So we're pulling fresh air in through the sides and exhausting it at the top. Cool. Yeah. So all we might have to do is tune the fan RPM a little bit. I was going to say, you might, might be interested in your pressure test. I bet it's on purpose. So the stock fans are PWM controlled and probably temperature sensing. And we're probably so far below the temperature threshold that it's barely turning the bloody thing. Okay.

Because yeah, when we first fired it up, we were seeing anywhere from a 10 to 25 degree reduction in temperature, depending on the sensor location. So, you know what? I bet that's it. Boy, it's heavy now. Here, actually, feel this. Holy crap.

There's a bit of water in it. That's a little bit heavier than you'd expect a switch to be. No, I don't. Like, oh, I don't know, maybe. No, no, I don't, sorry. There was a John, I fix a kid here, but it's gone. Yeah, it seems to have been moved. Anyway, so that project pushed us

a little bit behind schedule this week. But like, honestly, you know, those are the kinds of things that are so much fun for us to do that it's just like, if we can't do those kinds of things then why even why even bother anymore like honestly honestly like it's not like so technotainment so it's a really funny thing because people often refer to me as a sellout but yeah i started out making videos for the money yeah and then over time it's actually like i had no experience either behind most people do these days i anyway

look i'm not talking about anyone else other than myself so over, so I had no experience in front of or behind a camera, no experience video editing, nada. And my boss told me to start a YouTube channel and then paid me to run it. And over time, I've actually grown into enjoying the creative aspects of it. So I'm actually on sort of this reverse journey. And it's, I just, I always kind of get a kick out of it because like on the one hand, yes, just like I always have been, I am running a business here, of course.

But one of the things, I had a really great conversation. I'm not going to name their names just because like, I don't know sort of how how they would feel about it because it was better than it was a one-on-one conversation with someone and um you know they basically said that they get asked a lot why do you still work there like you know compared to sort of you know anything else you could do you know you could like you could work anywhere like why do you still work there exactly and they basically said well you know I trust the vision and the vision might not be as artistic as you know I might desire you

know for myself but the path that I've seen us follow is build a solid foundation for the business first which gives you the time and resources and the team and the equipment and the facilities that you need to be an artist and it's like totally the opposite way that i think most people go about like a film it's not a very common uh it's it's not a very common direction in modern times, I guess. It's really popular for people to job hop like crazy. Right. Not as popular for people to try to grow things.

I think I 100% know who you're talking about. That's actually really cool. What was I going to say? Yeah, I know. And it makes sense. There's a certain line too right like there's certain things that you don't do um there's certain offers that that line of shoots down or nick shoots down or colton shoots down most of them don't even make it to me anymore they get shot down before yeah they actually like that's why waste their time bringing it to you

i'll overhear something being talked about i'm like that's ridiculous uh and they'll be like yeah yeah we know we're just laughing about it we're like no we're not doing that they're like yeah yeah yeah it's fine yeah yeah that's cool we know yeah so like and and it's always a it's always a fine line yeah Yeah. And there's like, I think one thing that I respect a fair amount is I think how you've usually taken a stance at it. I'm just shooting in the dark here right now. Is if you would hate it as a viewer, you don't do it. I've tried not to do it. There are some things, honestly, that I've done even though I hate them as a viewer.

So something that I haven't done because I hate them as a viewer. So something that I haven't done because I hate them as a viewer is mid-roll ads in the videos. So we do our sponsor spots at the beginning. So we do our hook, then we do a 10 to 15 second spot, which the clever among you have probably noticed that you can double click in the YouTube window and it will skip that almost perfectly every time.

Just saying. Then we do the bulk of our video in the YouTube window and it will skip that almost perfectly every time. Just saying. Then we do the bulk of our video and there will be no YouTube TrueView ad baked in. We get a lot of people criticizing us for, oh, you guys made it 10 minutes and 3 seconds for the money. Except that

if we don't put a mid-roll ad in it, there isn't more money. A lot of people don't put a mid-roll ad in it it doesn't do anything there isn't more money yeah so a lot of people don't actually understand that they just they just know the like make it 10 minutes for more money thing so we're not afraid to make money and i'm not ashamed to say that this is a business and that i have mouths to feed i have literally over two dozen mouths to feed now that's that's the way it is but everything that we do is skippable are you getting close to three with the next hiring wave yeah we're going to be close including float plane yeah including float plane including the nanny including my children we are well over three dozen by that point yeah nice nice sorry buddy

you know I've been it's funny like I've been we've talked about this offline yeah but like I've been

doing a lot of soul searching lately yeah because I never wanted this no this was never my intention

you were there yeah we had conversations early on like this was not the goal I didn't want to I didn't want to turn into like an enterprise

yeah um but like we're we're getting to the point where it's kind of taking on a life of its own right now like there are projects that are underway under this roof that i have almost or literally nothing to do with that could fundamentally change the way that we do business. Because as it turns out, if you hire good people, they're going to have their own ambitions and they're going to have their own ideas and their own goals. And I'm going to be looking at it going, well, I mean, I don't know if that's exactly what I would have done,

but I can't exactly stop you because ultimately you have to grow and you have to learn as both personally and professionally. And if I get in your way, you're going to leave and you're really good. And I'd really like you to stay on my team. So I guess I need to find the best way that I can support this. And I guess we're hiring another bunch of people. And like, it's a good thing. Obviously this is a very first world problem and I'm not complaining. Linus Media Group as a business is doing phenomenally well for those of you concerned for our wellbeing. You know, um, I i actually i actually recently achieved something that's

been a goal of mine for quite some time now um and i feel like i'm kind of spilling some of your beans here and i apologize in advance because i'm not we just can't say we can't add details no no we can't add details on the previous part yet uh the previous part uh what's it off screen what you type in oh yeah yeah yeah yeah no no i know no no diesel is about any of them no okay but the goal that i achieved is back when we were working out of the langley house um We at our peak there had a team of eight or nine people or something like that. Anyway, so everyone who joined pretty close to the beginning within the first couple of years

worked out of that house. And as of like two weeks ago, I have officially achieved a goal that I set for myself when Linus Media Group purchased that property to run out of. And the goal was actually to be there forever, by the way. I thought five years in, we'd have five or six people and I'd be really happy with that. We'd all make a living wage doing what we loved and wouldn't that be cool right yeah anyway we're six years in now we're coming close to 30. anywho um so when linus media group bought that property because it needed it we couldn't keep working out of my garage that was not sustainable for me it was not sustainable

for the staff it was ridiculous ridiculous. It was stupid. We never should have done it. We didn't have the money that we had to. It was not optional. It just sucked. So I went, well, Linus Media Group bought a house. So my goal is for everyone who works for Linus Media Group to own a house or if not a detached home

to be in the real estate market. And everyone has sort of different preferences and different sort of goals. One of the people who worked out of that house has a detached home way in the middle of nowhere, and then at least a couple of them have really decent sized townhomes, but that are much closer to the city. So it's like sort of it's everyone's taken a different approach to it. But as of a couple of weeks ago, I achieved that goal. Every single person, with the exception of Nick Van Berkel, who I love dearly, but is no longer my problem, is now a homeowner.

And so I thought that was really cool. That was that was a really big personal goal for me. And so I'm feeling really good about myself. So I'm talking about it on land show. Cool. It's been scary. I do. I'm the,

I'm the last variable. And you totally could have done it earlier. Yeah. Uh, I was like, is he ever going to like, is he ever going to do this? Like I'm.

There's a, yeah. There's a few reasons. I know. I know there's a lot of reasons, but like. But yeah, no, I know. It was a long time coming for sure. I wish you had done it earlier. Cause like Langley, Langley real estate has been a thing.

I bought it at its lowest point, and a week after I bought it, the market in that area went up by 1.6%. Really? Yeah, boom. Nice. So you're already profitable. Yeah.

Nice. Okay, I'm not gonna give any details about what the status is, but yeah, the deal closed a couple weeks back, I think. Is that right? Something like that?, got the keys Wednesday. Nice. Yeah.

So I've been there for two days, I guess. Oh, you're there? Well, not really. Oh, technically. Yeah. Except I sort of am because it was an estate sale. Right. So it's 100% livable already.

So it's empty. Well, no, it's not empty. There's furnishings there. I mean, in terms of people. Oh, yeah. Awkward. Basically, I got the keys two days after it closed because there was no one there.

But that also means there was like a couch and other stuff. Cool. Beds and chairs and desks and everything really awkward yep anyways moving on tech topics yeah what was our what was our headline topic let's do that let's try and do let's do that first uh ea uh anthem yes anthem bug bricking ps4s this was posted by sobek on the forum um i've already kind of talked about this on tech linked but we've got a little bit more details uh the original article i know right um you know what okay no we're going to talk about this in a bit i'm going to derail us again we've actually got a really cool concept in the works

uh for tech linked we're thinking of filling in the tuesday and thursday slots with a more detailed, like deeper dive into one topic each day. So tell me what you think of, tell me what you think of the idea. I kind of pitched a name that I liked the name R8bits because it's like eight bits and it's also deeper than two bits, you know? So it's deeper than true or false. Yeah, no, I meant like two bits, like here's my two bits. Yeah. Like the, yeah.

And it's, you know, eight bit, cause it's like, ha ha, it's nerdy. Yeah, I got it. And then, and then, and then what I- I think most people are gonna think it's a reference to graphics. Yeah, exactly. And so it's like, it's got,

you know how much I love the double entendre, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but then what I thought was we could actually tie that into the format. So it's something that Riley and James have been workshopping. And I'm not gonna take credit for sort of the idea of us expanding the TechLinked lineup

or like any of this. And like, mostly this is me kind of trying to figure out like branding and presentation of it and like how to streamline it a little bit but I thought what if we sent a requirement for ourselves where our eight bits has to take eight different pieces, eight different opinions from a minimum of four different sources. And then we've got

our two hosts and we each are in charge of presenting one side of it with then a discussion and a wrap up at the end as sort of like a way to cover deeper topics that are more opinion driven in a fair way. Are you guys going to consider doing topics that you've done earlier that week I think we would yeah yeah yeah especially because tech linked is so timely like it's whatever happened that day at like six o'clock yeah yeah you might not have the whole story cuz the whole story might not exist yet exactly so if something turns out to be like some it has further developments in the in the days that follow,

I think it would be a great opportunity to really revisit in greater depth. I don't think it's going to do as many views as a standard TechLinked episode because the great thing about TechLinked is it's rapid fire, it's funny, TM. I think it's funny. Whatever. I think it's funny, too. You guys are welcome to your own opinions. TechLinked is great.

I actually love TechLinked. It may be my favorite thing that we do right now, other than certain LTT things. Like the liquid-cooled switch? Actually, some of the TechWiki stuff we've done recently is pretty good, too. Everything's doing really good right now. John's been doing some really cool topics. Like, I thought the recent ones on why are headphone jacks going away,

why removable batteries are never coming back. It's such a sort of, on the surface, obvious thing, but then there's other factors at play, and he's done a good job of summarizing it. It's like the acceptance level of grievance. But in general. Watching the Tech Cookie video on why it's not happening. John is just helping everyone move on from these like hurtful moments

sorry keep going maybe it's just because like TechLinked is the hot new chick or something but because it's the newest thing we're doing but like I really really like it anyway I don't think because it's so rapid fire and it covers such a broad variety of things people can click on it even if they're not necessarily interested in the headline topic and there's probably going to be something in there for them yeah whereas this is really going to stick to whatever it is we're talking about so i don't think it's going to do the same kind of view numbers but i think it's kind of important for us to just try something different have you guys looked into how often you would have two major things per

week that you want to dive into? No, but I suspect we wouldn't find any shortage of them because I think the Tuesday, Thursday sessions or the Tuesday, Thursday uploads wouldn't necessarily have to be so timely. Like we could go back and we could look at something that has been developing for a long time like article 13 or even be over for a few months and doing a retrospective on exactly like hey what the heck happened with that here's the post-mortem or like what has happened as a result of that in the last six months or whatever yeah and like the thing is with with wancho with uh with the regular tech link format i feel like it's really hard for us

to go back and rehash things or it feels unnecessary because we're supposed to be more news oriented yeah so article 13 is a great example of that where that is still very much going on behind the scenes it is still very much a problem um and it's like hard to keep track that's coming very soon yeah um but like we can't just be talking about it every week or we become some of the other tech podcasts that i've watched fail over the years where they're just constantly harping on the same things and people tune out because it's boring but the thing is that news isn't always entertaining i'm sorry and so maybe that's what the eight bits is is it's the not entertaining and we're still gonna try and be entertaining because we're just funny people But yeah, we want it to be a little bit more serious

Yeah, I are you married to 8-bits? No, should we like workshop a name? I mean with the WAN show somehow give them to tweet you or something Um, yeah I mean with the WAN show somehow give them to tweet you or something um Yeah We could you could set up a tweet of like try to name the new tech linked segment and get everyone to respond to it Check like floatplane chat Yeah, always I always trust the floatplane peeps. They my peeps. Yeah Okay, I should really actually we have a roll the intro yet That's what full-plane sorry, sorry floodplain chat. We got this gotcha fam Nine bits Wow

Someone said, intro is never going to happen. It's time for sponsor spots now. Yeah? What now? Yeah, what's up? What's up? How about sponsor spots? You're right there.

The ones in the intro. Yeah. You just got your intro and your sponsors. Same time. What up now? Heck yeah. You know what's up. That's up.

Man, I'm obnoxious sometimes. I'm sorry, you guys. So good. I hate two-factor. But I also love two-factor because I have, like, definitely been saved by it on multiple occasions. It's great, but it's really inconvenient um all right do you want to be oh the first external person to see the place as in going there on your way home or do you want to wait until it's set up you know what one did you prefer like are you talking about your your new place yes yeah huh i don't know why I decided to drop this now. You know what? I'm totally down to come see it

Okay, then also like am I missing out on the on the big review? That's what I'm wondering the house warming Yeah, cuz it's like really not set up and there's just like stuff everywhere because I've been taking stuff home like Once a day kind of situation. Are you gonna stream from there? Yeah When when's your first stream from there uh maybe next week definitely not today okay you know what i would be down to come be on the first stream there cool because then it'll be a little bit set up and we should totally play some like ridiculously stupid games yeah yeah are you familiar with the game Liero? No. Okay. Let's play some Liero.

Heck yeah. Okay. I'm super down. We've been playing Broforce, and I've actually been missing Broforce. Broforce is awesome. Broforce is so good. We could finish Broforce.

I'm also down with that. We could totally finish Broforce. Or we could just do both or something. I think we're pretty close on Broforce. I think we are too. So, like, we could totally do that. I think we're on, like, the last section other than playing Workshop Maps. Yeah. Which which who knows if there's like oh are

there spoilers in a game like that um they have oil liberate them uh yeah they think differently than us go go go okay spoiler alert for bro force We're past the point where the alien invasion happens. Yeah. So, like, that's clearly the 75, 80% mark. Yeah. If every game ever is to be. Yeah. Like, is it Crisis 1 has aliens, right?

Or is it Crisis 2 that has aliens? I can't remember. I know Crisis 2 does for i can't remember i know crisis two does i can't remember it does does crisis one have aliens i think so later on did crisis and warhead have aliens there's an actual discussion of course of course there is on game facts i played warhead on my dell blah blah blah don't remember any mention yeah they had aliens in warhead they show they first show up in the third mission in crisis one an alien shows up right at the start you don't find out until later they actually have a whole mission involving explaining the only ship yeah

okay it was crisis one I was thinking of and it's always like you're getting pretty close to the end of the game when they're like yeah how do we raise the stakes aliens you do it Halo's like, the flood. There's just like something that gets thrown in. Different aliens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are grosser looking aliens. Right, okay.

Are we gonna ever do an actual topic? Okay, we'll do one topic before the sponsors. We gotta do the one, yeah. We do have to do our sponsors. Okay, so Anthem, Bug, Bricks, PS4. So some PlayStation 4 players of BioWare's new loot shooter Anthem are finding that they actually aren't enjoying it that much. And the ones that are enjoying it that much, well, some of them are finding that the game occasionally completely powers down their console. So when encountering a crash or game error, it'll just get booted to the main menu or out of the game completely to the

PS4 dashboard. But then someone else said, twice now, when trying to matchmake my PlayStation 4 has completely turned off. After powering down, the PS4 treats it as an improper shutdown, as if the power cord has been pulled. That's bizarre. And then on startup, it goes through a short process of checking the internal database for any issues

before turning back off again and then restarting as normal. That doesn't sound like a brick. At least two players, though, have claimed that the game bricked their console, although one was able to turn their machine back on again after starting in safe mode. So by bricking, maybe what we mean is shut down unexpectedly, which, yes, can corrupt data and can brick a device. Okay, yeah, yeah. However, on Wednesday, BioWare tweeted after thorough review,

we have not encountered an instance where Anthem has bricked a PlayStation 4 console. I would hate to be the PR person who had to write that tweet. Yeah. In other great news, we haven't actually killed anything. We're not going to address any of the other problems so it's unclear if the shutdowns are

heat related or caused by something else and bioware says they will be publishing an update next week to address the major causes of these problems wasn't bioware like the chosen one at some point yeah for a while mass effect one two and three were all monumentally fundamentally amazing games that like changed gaming forever and then everything since that's just been garbage you know i still haven't played a mass effect game they're good they're actually really really good i should uh they they feel slightly more console as you go through them mass effect one feels like like a definitely feels like a pc mouse based inventory system like that sort of thing and then mass effect 2 you start getting combined controls per button so like one button does like multiple things and it gets kind

of weird it's still a great game the first like half hour to an hour of playing it is like uh what are these controls and three is kind of the same thing but they are great games okay yeah you know what i've been really enjoying lately um our sponsors i will tell you which game i've been enjoying lately after but we should really do our you which game I've been enjoying lately after, but we should really do our sponsors. Yes. Our first sponsor is, oh, is LTX not a sponsor? Oh no, it's a topic.

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Have a free one now because we're working with them. I actually do I still pay for it? I don't think so. I did too I did use tunnelnelBear. Me too. And I actually have a really hilarious TunnelBear story. Did I ever tell you about how I saved Intel at PAX? Yes, you did, actually. With TunnelBear. So for some reason, Battle.net blacklisted all of Intel's IPs

for some reason to log into Battle.net. I love that you call it battle.net but carry on because that's what it used to be called back in like the warcraft 2 starcraft days it's battle.net now okay anyways battle.net battle.net um the they couldn't log it none of the streamers or competitors there could log into their battle.net accounts battle.net accounts whatever to play Overwatch. So what I did was I teamed up with some Intel employees and I got everyone to run around

and install TunnelBear on all the computers. And then they would just turn TunnelBear on, log in, turn TunnelBear off, play the game. It was great. And it worked, the whole event. They would just turn TunnelBear on and off to log in every time. It was awesome.

The thing about TunnelBear was ease of use. Yeah, exactly. I could sell that all day based on the ease of use because my mom could do it. And it's not just, remember, ease of use is more than just how many buttons you have to press. It's like how friendly the buttons look. Honestly, it does matter. I recommended TunnelBear to certain people, and I recommended PIA to certain people and i recommended pia to certain people yeah and i used tunnel bear in situations where i just needed something really quick

and just for like a couple minutes and it wasn't even necessarily my computer or whatever just get it going free account blah blah blah but oh now hold on a second flow play and chat is mad they're like they literally changed it back to battle.net because no one said whatever they renamed it to so i don't know what you're talking about what i don't know if that sounds right john says everyone i know calls it battle.net for sure battle.net now redirects to just blizzard.. Yeah, so I don't know you guys. I think you guys are all just a little bit on the OG side here. Pretty cool.

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I'm not against it. I just don't find it very interesting. So the original source is from the Steam community, actually. It's an announcement. So Steam will not be distributing a game called Rape Day, following mounting outrage, calling on Valve to ban it. So this came about because of a Change.org petition. Apparently it's a visual novel where you control the choices of a sociopath during a zombie apocalypse.

According to the developer's website, you can virtually harass. Verbally harass. Yeah, verbally harass. I mean, it would all be virtual. That's a good call. You can verbally harass, kill people, and rape women. Only women. Now, I wonder if you can rape men.

It says specifically women, and it's a quote. Okay. So, I guess no dudes. So as you progress through the story, you can do these things. Yeah, and it's a visual novel, which... Okay. That's a completely different conversation, but, like, is that even a game? Who knows?

But whatever. I guess you have choices, but choose your own adventure books. Are those a game? So after a game called Active Shooter debuted on Steam last year, the company posted an explanation of their decision to allow any games to be put on the platform as long as they were legal. Yeah. They described a new system of tags and filters to either hide

or put speed bumps between users and content they consider too gory, too violent, too sexual, or generally too mature. However, they decided not to distribute Rape Day, saying the move comes after significant fact finding and discussion. We think Rape Day poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won't be on Steam. We respect developers' desires to express themselves and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen Content Matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that.

So. In an email Wednesday night, the developer of the game acknowledged Steam might not be the best platform for the game. I think I might agree with Steam that my game is not the right fit for a distribution site that is marketed at the general masses and children. My next move is to sell the game on my own site. Maybe that would have been a better move for me from the start.

So I guess he gets it. Or she. So. or she so um i don't know if what i'm about to say is unpopular i don't personally think rape is any worse than murder um in that okay i mean we could argue you know levels of inexcusable i suppose but they're both well over the threshold of things that you actually can't do. Right. So they're both into extreme forbidden. Yes. And so I guess I am sort of wondering what the difference is between a game where you can joyfully kill people

versus a game where you can joyfully... I mean, maybe it's the fact that you can kill people so fast. Like if there was a torture game, torture simulator, are we having a similar conversation? Oh, wow, someone's going to make it now. There's also lots of games that include torture. I mean, it's not necessarily the main focus of the game, but technically in this one,

it seems like you could go along without ever actually raping anyone you could verbally harass everyone maybe? Is that an option? Could you be just a minor jerk in this game? I haven't and I don't intend to play the game I'm not going to find out because I don't care

I don't know. I hear what you're saying. I'm going to come from the angle of, hit me. It's Steam. They can do whatever they want. It's a private company. Private platform, yes.

Private platform. If they decide they don't want to do it, then they're deciding they don't want to do it. I think a lot of people seem to forget that in a lot of different situations where they are putting, where they are saying like, hey, platform, you cannot do this because of...

Because of my whatever amendment rights or whatever. No. It's a private company. Now, if you want to talk to them and you're like, you shouldn't do this because me and all my people are going to leave your platform because we want to be able to say or do whatever, that's a different stance.

But saying you can't do this because of whatever right that's not how that works um unless what they are doing is illegal but yes but they are allowed to not allow certain things on their platform absolutely so i'm completely okay with steam doing this um if steam decided to take uh ftl one of my favorite games ever off the platform I'd be like wow that's really annoying maybe I'll go give my money somewhere else but I'm not going to be like that's a humble bundle or something exactly yeah I'll find a different way to do it the epics game store so I completely defend their ability to not have it on the platform um i also would never have this show up because of the tagging system so i don't really care because i would never see it um so it doesn't necessarily matter to me

because i'm not going to enable the tag that shows that so yeah okay i guess that's all i really have to say on the subject i'm not i can check if the floatplane peeps have anything to contribute here. I mean, the thing is that I guess the distinction Steam is making here is not between the severity of the crime being committed by the character in the game, but rather the cultural climate and the potential results of them being seen as endorsing. For whatever reason, killing for fun and, you know, brutally in video games is just culturally fine. Yeah. Even, like, really, really, really brutal stuff is culturally fine,

but that's because we're more okay with physical violence, I guess. I guess so. Yeah. Or at least depictions of physical violence. All right. Well, that's a thing that happened. Neat. Yeah.

In other news, oh, shoot, no, there was something else I was going to talk about. Oh, man. Now I totally forget This sucks before the sponsor spots. Yeah, I don't remember what we were talking about Dang it. Oh Oh That's the thing but LTX guys. Yeah guys if you want tickets for LTX, move fast. So this is the blog post from today.

Two weeks ago, we opened sales for an event that is happening in July. So it's like not for a while. Since then, we completely sold out of the 250 guided office tours. We completely sold out of the 250 guided office tours. We completely sold out of the VIP tickets. Actually, that was in about the first minute. We're fine, Peter.

We sold all 500 BYOC seats. I still need, considering Peter's reminding me right now in chat, Peter Floatplane. Floatplane people need computer seat area. Don't worry, we got you. Okay, cool. Yeah. I just keep reminding every once in a while.

So the 500 BYOC seats are the ones that are for sale? Yeah. And I'm assuming there's like other ones. I'm just... Any influencers that show up are going to have a seat in case they want to play. That's actually pretty sweet. So if Jay shows up and he's like, yeah, guys, I'm not doing meet and greet right now. I can imagine him saying it exactly like that. like, guys, I'm not doing meet and greet right now. I can imagine him saying it exactly like that. Guys, I'm not doing meet and greet right now.

I got to go play some games. Heck yeah. You don't have a BYOC ticket? I'm sorry. I got to go play video games now. We're still relevant. I could totally picture him just saying that. Yeah.

And we've sold around 1,800 two-day event passes. That is over half of the tickets that are available for the convention. And we've, like, barely been selling them. And it's a while until the convention. So you should probably pre-buy your ticket. Also, we haven't yet confirmed any of the other influencers that are coming. That isn't to say that we don't know they're coming. I mean, we haven't come out and said, if you wanna meet so and so, be there.

And we have reason to believe there will be tech influencers there other than just me. If you don't give two hoots about Linus Sebastian from Linus Tech Tips, I don't know why you're watching this right now um but that's fine that's cool you know we're good um but if you do care about other people there is a chance we're even bringing in some like sub 1 million subscriber creators just like come on come on down come here. It's a big party.

Let's have fun. Um, so yeah. Uh, many of you expressed frustration that you weren't able to pick up a BYOC pass in time. We are actually trying to arrange more seating, but to do so, we have to revamp our layout and make sure we still meet our safety requirements.

So the fire marshal has some say in terms of how we lay out the venue, but we'll let you know through social media. So make sure you're following LTX Expo on Twitter. And if you're waiting to purchase a ticket, which we would not recommend, over half of the available tickets are already spoken for. Please note that prices will increase by about 20% with each wave of ticket releases.

So the dates for the next waves are April 20th and July 1st. So don't screw around, just get your tickets ordered. So they're at dh.je.ltx19. We're gonna have that linked below. Someone asked, will you come to DreamHack? Well, which one? What are you talking about? Exactly, because DreamHack's gonna be here.

Yeah. Well, okay, now to be clear, this is not a DreamHack. Yeah, it's not DreamHack's going to be here. Yeah. Well, okay. Now, to be clear, this is not a DreamHack. It's not VOG. Yeah, it's not DreamHack. Yeah. It's a BYOC LAN powered by DreamHack. We're collaborating with DreamHack. Yeah.

Now, it's possible that if this goes really, really well, DreamHack would be like, this was great. We're going to bring a full-fat DreamHack event to Vancouver. Well, they immediately sold all the BYOC tickets. So might be in your best interest. And it's also possible because DreamHack and Linus Media Group each have no way of knowing how much the other affected the sales of these tickets.

But what we do know is that together we're fire yeah so there's a chance that we could turn that fire into a fire festival of sorts oh no sorry i knew something was coming because i could tell by your facial expression but i didn't figure it out and it's possible that even if they brought a full dream hack event to to Vancouver, the Vancouver Convention Center has lots more space. There's a good chance that we could just have a full fat LTX, a full fat DreamHack, and we could just continue to collaborate. Heck yeah. We've been having a lot of fun working with those guys so far,

and we're really excited about it. Super cool. All right. So did Floatplane Chat. Floatplane Chat. Groan. What can possibly go wrong? It's going to be fire, yo.

Oh, man. Wow, I guess that's like it. Oh, this was the topic. The game you've been enjoying lately. Right. Floatplane Chat figured it out. Thank you very much. Thank you, Floatplane Chat.

I've been playing CrossCode. CrossCode, right. Yeah. So you know how I've been telling you that one of the things that I'd love to do as just like a totally stupid, maybe I would never get there, but, you know, I have more money than I know what to do with. I'm going to put it all in a dumpster, light it on fire, and hope that something good comes out of it. Well, it would be devving a game. Yeah.

This is basically like what I would have wanted to make. It's a really retro- styled 2D RPG. They have a Steam demo? Apparently. Maybe I should try it out. And apparently they still have a web demo. Anyway, it's difficult. It's got a really creative story.

I'm not that far into the actual main storyline just because I've been spending so much time grinding for XP and doing side missions and stuff like that. When a game's really good, that can be awesome. So, like, whatever. I don't know how deep the story goes, but it's a really good

concept so far. I'm really enjoying it. It's legitimately difficult. Although I think part of the problem might be that I'm playing with a controller and I just assumed because it's a top-down RPG that like controller was the way to go but then Even with my trackpad for a second there. I was like, oh these keyboard mouse controls actually seem pretty mature and there's like a lot of Weird bindings on the controller. We're like if you press this one it does this but if

you press this one and this one it does another thing and if you press this one while pointing in a direction like at exactly the right moment it does another thing and I'm like maybe this was a keyboard mouse game so I'm gonna try soon but now I know all the controls with the controller and I'm getting good with it so I'm like ah forget it but yeah it's like legitimately quite difficult I'm really really really, really enjoying it. It doesn't, you can, you can turn it into a modern game because you can change everything from the enemy's attack rate to the amount of damage they do to the amount of damage you do.

Yeah. You told me about that, but you're too, you, you're not going to turn anything down. It's never going to happen. No, no beating game. Like I almost lectured my son. Because he was playing Super Mario 3D World. Is that the one for the Wii U? Does that sound right?

Yeah, I think so. The one with the cat suit? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I think so. He was playing Super Mario 3D World, or has been playing Super Mario 3D World over the last little while. Super Mario 3D World, or has been playing Super Mario 3D World over the last little while. And he, I walked in once, and he was in like a white catsuit, just like walking through all the enemies.

And he was like, yeah, you have to like die a lot of times, and then at the beginning of the level, there's like the white catsuit, and this is like the best way to beat all the levels. And I was like, I'm going to let you finish, but that is actually not the best way to beat the game because that is not beating the game. That is staring at the game. I mean, you still have to, like, not fall off platforms and stuff, but it's not exactly hard in that game. It's a really easy game. I mean, you still have to not fall off platforms and stuff, but it's not exactly hard in that game.

It's a really easy game. So I was very disappointed in him, and we're going to need to work together. Fortunately, he's already better at Smash than me, so there's that. He's actually pretty decent at Smash. He hasn't even played that much. I had never played the Smash on Wii before. Yeah, Brawl. I had never played the Smash on Wii before.

Yeah, Brawl. I had never played that one. And just with a nunchuck, a nunchuck turned to the side, it's a little wonky. It's actually oddly... Wait, nunchuck turned... You mean classic controller? I thought that was super weird,

so I switched to just the nunchuck. You mean the Wii remote? Yeah. You can't play with just the nunchuck. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. The nunchuck's the extra part, yeah. So I was playing with a Wii remote turned to the side and that was that was the whole thing was very weird but i it was a bit of a struggle fest to try to beat him and i was like that's weird because i'm actually i'm not great at smash but i'm like pretty decent yeah i don't

know so maybe he just needs to play against other people because he's definitely a hyper-competitive kid. Yeah. Like, definitely. Anything new in terms of, like, floatplane? I mean, Peter's in the chat. So the Transcode upload system, mainly the Transcode system, that's been under work since basically Peter joined the company,

other than him fixing the live chat under work since basically Peter joined the company, other than him fixing the live chat that everyone's talking on right now. Just in case you like the live chat. Yeah, good work, Peter. Yeah, that upload transcript system is in pre-prod right now and is performing quite admirably.

We need to be a little bit more aggressive about thrashing it and trying to kill it. But so far, it's doing quite well. And it's funny because you fix all these problems and you come up with new systems. And then you're like, oh, yeah, that problem that we've totally known about that didn't really matter is now super important because all the other ones have been solved. But uploads to floatplane have been kind of slow for a long time and like from certain areas globally they're really not great like maybe don't work well that didn't matter as much when the transcode has barely worked but now the transcodes are doing great we need to try to

figure out uh the upload thing as well so now that's being worked on and peter already has some some great ideas, and we've already been looking into stuff, which is cool. Mainly Peter and AJ. I said we, but I haven't done a lot of that part. So thanks, guys. People... Oh, yeah, speaking of Floatplane, actually, I wanted to...

Also, the app is almost ready for open source. It's almost ready. Did we even say on Wenshow we were open sourcing the app yet? I don't know. ready for open source. It's almost ready. Did we even say on Wenshow we were open sourcing the app yet? I don't know. There you go. We're going to be open sourcing the app. It's coming along. Jaden's working on that and it's getting very close to being ready for open source developers to jump in and have fun with it. Sick. All right.

I'm trying to think of what else there's some, the like FAQ support, the search, search, channel wide search is coming in hot. That shouldn't be too long from now. I'm trying to think of what else. Yeah. We're actually getting shockingly close to- Also there's a ton of like general front end updates

and improvements that are happening. We're getting shockingly close to being able to's a ton of like general front end updates and improvements that are happening. We're getting shockingly close to being able to bring other people on, aren't we? Speaking of other people that are already on, so TechDeals is doing a giveaway right now. I just posted it in the float plane and YouTube chats. He's giving away four RTX 2060s. So he's got six videos up in early access on float plane. Wants people to go subscribe over there, of course.

But yeah, I just posted his tweet giving all the details in both the Floatplane and the YouTube chat. So I said I'd give him a shout out there for that. Oh, he's giving them away just to Floatplane subs. Oh, is he really? Giving away four RTX 2060 GPUs early access for Floatplane subs. I don't know what he means. I don't know either.

So maybe not. Whatever. Full details in his tweet. You guys can figure it out with him. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There we go. Okay.

Okay. All that's left then is some super chats. Would you guys, a theoretical enigma says, would you guys ever consider taking LMG public? I'd love to invest in the company. It has a bright future in my opinion. It has a bright future, in my opinion. It has a really bright future, in my opinion, too. And that's exactly why I will not be taking any outside investment.

A big part of why I believe we've, and this is, I hope, not just my ego, you know, getting, carrying me away. No, I don't think it is. But a big part of why we've been successful is that I have had the luxury of being able to stay 100% true to my, and by my, I mean me and Yvonne, because she is a critical part of everything that happens here. Um, staying true to my vision, um, that we were so close to having, not because I wanted one one but being forced to have an outside stakeholder and there have been so many times over the last six years that I

have been so grateful that we don't because there might have been some kind of crazy decision like okay at the time we made it, the decision to move into this gigantic studio space was nuts. It was gonna put us in debt for a very long time. It was totally unnecessary because we were still capable of utilizing the space that we had. But if I hadn't made that decision when I did,

we wouldn't have gotten to the point where we could be sustainable in this space because we never would have been able to hire those people and the company never would have grown. And that's something that I don't wanna have a stupid shareholders meeting and explain my rationale. We're doing it this way because it's Linus Media Group and because I believe I know what's best for it.

And I mean, there's other things too like you know we've you know what I don't want to I actually don't want to give too much detail the way we run this thing though is I like to run it as close to a family business as we can and it's gotten more difficult over the years. This is actually

something again I think I was talking about. Well because your family's huge dude. Earlier in the show, about having kind of been doing a lot of soul searching lately, and it's gotten harder because we have so many people here now that it's, like, it's harder for me to just get to know. I have never met Riley's brother. Barrett? I have never met him. And he's done a fair bit of contract work for us, actually.

I will see him walk past every once in a while i'm like oh yeah it's that dude that i don't know and have never met that works in the same building what i know it's weird man like there's and like jayden had never met riley and then riley sat next to jay, and they met for the first time ever. And working in the same building for a while. Like months. Yeah. And so because I'm in control, and by I, I mean me and Yvonne, whether it's because we want to expand,

or whether it's because maybe at some point we might make the decision that we don't want to get any bigger. to expand or whether it's because maybe at some point we might make the decision that we don't want to get any bigger. But whatever it is, we can do that and we can do that as a team with the kind of transparency that I feel like I've given my staff over the years. That way we can make these decisions together and there's no pressure to outside investors to give them a return on their investment because that's not what this business anyway is about for me um there's even there's even smaller stuff like buying the two reds yeah i don't want to explain that to anyone no and there was no business

case for it i mean honestly the biggest reason that we did that was because it was like an optics thing We were a tech channel using outdated tech for our production and I was like well, I Guess we need to I guess we need to like like if we're gonna be on the cutting edge I was like, okay Well, I guess we'll try and get a bunch of content out of it like we'll do videos about workstations that can handle 8k and we'll try and get a bunch of content out of it. Like we'll do videos about workstations that can handle 8K and we'll like,

we'll experiment with the footage and we'll do videos about sort of the workflow changes that we have to make and we'll try and get some content out of it. But ultimately it was about making sure that if we're supposed to be cutting edge content creators

that we're using cutting edge tools in order to do it. And then the other reason that was sort of a close runner up, I guess, was that, um, Brandon is probably my most expensive employee,

not because he necessarily has the highest salary or takes up the most space in the building, but because in order to keep his creative juices flowing, it requires a constant outpouring of resources into new gear so that we can continue to try to push boundaries. Not necessarily on every video. We upload plenty of like vlogs that are just shot, shoulder held, that could have just as easily been shot on a Panasonic GH4.

But there's one coming, a review of the Corsair, the new Corsair One on Saturday, that's just, it's just gorgeous. And so there's stuff that we've done that's different. There's weird bits to it too, like one of it is, I didn't understand a lot of stuff before I became a boss of people. One of them was, one of your expenditures as a company is like doing things that your employee wants to do, if that makes sense. And like increasing someone's job satisfaction was part of the expenditure of buying something. Yeah, you wanted that thing.

And yeah, I made things better. But you also bought it because you're like, okay, well like this person i want them to stay around so i'm gonna kind of throw him a bone here and there's also other parts of it where like i still love that the intro to my amethyst pc build is freaking beautiful because whenever i want to show someone i'm like look at this incredibly well filmed incredibly beautiful intro that's all you need to see there you go and like it so it adds things in other ways as well

and those types of concepts are really not necessarily even difficult to explain but difficult to show the value to an investor who probably doesn't care exactly so you just don't and like part of it is because like we're just enthusiasts we don't need 10 gig networking on every port in the office but earlier on the stream i was saying

that we blew like seven grand on switches so that we can have that so if we were to plug literally anything into any port in our office it it's going to be 10 gig, baby. Why? Why not? I mean, even the new internet. I was like, oh, oh, dedicated wavelength is available now? How much is that? I could probably squeeze that. We'll figure out what to do with it. Yeah, let's get it scheduled. You know, like, I don't know. Because the thing is, like, we're not, like, we're not really a traditional kind of company. I don't think what we're doing has ever been done before. And I don't mean that there aren't other companies,

like, I don't know, Mythical, what are they called? Mythical Entertainment. Yeah, like Mythical Entertainment or the ones with the trick shots. Dude Perfect. Like those are probably perfect examples of other teams that are doing something quite similar. But I mean, collectively, the teams that are doing this has never been done before.

And so the thing is that I think a lot of traditional business people probably wouldn't understand that we have to do things just because they're fun because if we don't have fun you guys aren't gonna have fun and then nobody's having fun and what's the point it bleeds through the camera way more than you'd realize it's pretty crazy Wow that was a really long answer to that question I'm very sorry Andre Luke that was one of those questions.

Junio asks, have you ever eaten poutine? Just curious. Yes, I love poutine, but only good poutine. Yes. And a shocking amount of poutine sucks. Yes. It's very basic, okay? The cheese is supposed to be melted. So if the gravy isn't hot, it's not good.

Is that complicated, Colton? You're talking about poutine? Yeah, poutine. Poutine. But then there's also like- Like it's ridiculous. Poutine can be really bad though, because some people that are slow eaters,

you wait too long to eat that stuff, you're done. Okay, I'm a slow eater, but you can make the fries properly for that. They just have to be a little bit crispier. Yeah. They're gonna get soggy, you leave a lot- Oh, they will, for sure. But you should make crisp fries properly for that. They just have to be a little bit crispier. Yeah. They're gonna get soggy, you leave a lot. Oh, they will for sure, but you should make crispier fries with it.

Yeah, besides you can always like fork and knife it. You can fork and knife it when it gets like, you know, a little soggier. But the point is, if you start out with cheese that is not sufficiently melted because you got lukewarm frigging gravy on it. Yeah, that's the worst. That's stupid.

And like 80% of the poutine I've ever had has not been sufficiently melted. You had one job. You had one job. What's... Melt the cheese. Yeah. Because how do you make cheese and gravy

and french fries gross? It's like, that's hard. All you have to... It has to be hot. Food is supposed to be hot, unless it's ice cream, in which case food is supposed to be hot unless it's ice cream in which case it's supposed to be cold look the thing is it sounds stupid coming out of my mouth because it's so obvious but people can't do it so i have to explain it to them ladies and gentlemen dealing

with the real problem it's not like i want to explain this to people. I have better things to do. Oh, my goodness. Like, explain other things, like tech stuff. Gamer Off Topic says, how's the hiring process going? Hope it's not super stressful. I actually haven't been involved in most of it. Like, that's one of the behind-the-scenes things

that Yvonne does. She's been training Ed and Nick and Colton and I think there's I think even Tyler's been involved in some of the hiring lately. So there's been a lot of it. I'm actually some some applications and some positions are getting to me now. So the warehouse assistant position I have three resumes on my desk to call and then the writers are gonna take me a long time. We're hiring a couple of writers. That's a very, yeah. That's a tough one.

I make the wrong call with a writer and like, the content sucks. It like, there's nothing more foundational to our business than like the content idea and the writing. And it's gonna take a while to get a writer up to speed and all that kind of stuff. So it's gonna be hard to tell for quite a while. You can see in his eyes.

Yeah, brutal. Hey, Colton. Oh, he's gone. Oh, he's gone. Jono. Yeah? Are we allowed to talk about the Madrinas thing? Like how much detail can we give about that? I don't think that much, no.

Not much? Not much. Okay. A lot of stuff's kind of... Yeah, we do so much, like, secret stuff now. Yeah. Uh, KingCCG says, I work in tech for a high-value mortgage company.

I'm allowed to go to one event a year. Do you do business packages for your media conference? No, it's not really a media conference I don't think you're gonna justify getting this one comped man Um, what would a business package be? I have no idea I'm sure they have them because like there's lots of conferences that not just are more business oriented But are like super expensive to attend apparently IBM think tickets are like hundreds or thousands of dollars or something like that. Yeah I'm just like do do do do this is cool IBM Think tickets are like hundreds or thousands of dollars or something like that. Yeah.

I'm just like, this is cool. We have a video coming from IBM Think pretty soon. Peter's speaking at a conference about some of the work he's done on Floatplane. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I don't know how big, I didn't look too far into it. He was like, can I do this?

I didn't even click on it. I was like, yeah, that's sweet. Awesome. I just think that's really cool. Dork. I think it's cool that someone's gonna go talk about the stuff they've worked on at Floatplane at a conference. And it's about, I believe it's Docker, 40 peeps or so.

That's still cool, Peter. It is amazing how high profile Floatplane is. Yeah. Like, people have heard of it. Yeah. One of the friends of the main guy behind Vessel showed up at a wedding that I was at recently and was like, hey, how's Floatplane going? I was like, good.

That's funny. Thank you for asking. Jason says, just switched over to Floatplane. Will Floatplane have chat on mobile in the app? I mean, I guess it depends. It's going to be an open source app. If someone makes it. Cool Shows says, Luke, what are you doing to crash Firefox?

Also, try survive.io. I don't know what they're talking about what are you doing for crash firefox i'm sure that's wall it says can we please get more camera reviews by brandon the new pocket camera yes so our first one of the new pocket camera which isn't that small by the way it's hard to pocket anyway um our first one was broken so it's taken us a long time to get a fixed one because they have no supply because they're Blackmagic. So yeah, we'll get back to you on that. Someone in chat, sorry, someone in Flowplane chat said, does Flowplane plan to be a tech-oriented platform or do you guys plan on having multiple different types of creators?

We actually have a different type creator that isn't tech person who's extremely interested in joining and will hopefully be on the flat platform in not way too long that I am like extremely excited about and you probably even remember within like weeks of making the platform I was like it would be really cool if we had this guy yeah but I can't say who but we don't want to count any chickens before there exactly yeah yeah yeah but we're bullish yeah it's actually kind of crazy there's been so many times over the last two and a half years it's almost been

there's been so many times has almost died yeah like or almost looked like it's not gonna work and then every time it kind of doesn't matter because we go and talk to creators and they're interested. Yeah. They're just like, it's like, what do you like about us? Well, you're not Google and you're not Amazon. You're not any of those guys. Oh, okay.

That's a pretty low hanging fruit, I guess. Yeah. But like, that's how important trust is in business. And that's something that I actually didn't necessarily fully understand about this product before we started creating it was that even though that was in a lot of the write-ups was like hey you can trust us um i didn't necessarily think that people would trust us but what's kind of cool is that our reputation among the creator community actually seems to be pretty good. Pretty strong. Even though we don't really talk to anybody. Like you were saying you were at...

TwitchCon? TwitchCon. TwitchCon is a wild experience. Like it would be, honestly for you, you'd probably get recognized by a lot more of the fans as well. But at TwitchCon, there is actually much less of a crossover than you would expect of the fans.

I think there's a lot of people that are either Twitch people or YouTube people in terms of viewership. Yeah. So when I walk around TwitchCon, there's some fans that'll come up to me, but way, way less than somewhere like PAX or a more tech-oriented convention. But what will happen is there will be like a group of fans around a creator and the creator will like pause things for a second and push through the group of fans to come say hi to me because he's seen our content or she's seen our content because they need to build a computer for streaming or whatever else apparently I helped and munition build her first computer sweet all right so I didn't meet her until obviously years later when we were like

on a panel together yeah and she like didn't even tell me. She just like said it. And I was like, oh. I don't think that video ever got released, which is really frustrating. It was only like little snippets that were part of like a keynote or something. So unfortunately, it was actually a really great conversation. It was me, Savitas, and Munition. Oh, shoot. what was his name?

Now I feel really, really bad. That already sounds like a wicked panel. Anyway, yeah, it was really fun. And the moderator for it was, like, really good. I forget her name, too, unfortunately. I'm so rude sometimes. I'm just so bad with names. I'm bad with names, too, but that sounds like an awesome panel.

Anyway, yeah, it was great. And just, like, the vast majority of it will never see the light of day, which sucks. But. The one interesting one, you've known I was a fan of Day 9 for Everzies. I met him at a Twitch con like a year or two ago. Have I even told you this story? I don't think so.

I was hanging out, met him, and he didn't know who I was. I was just with a friend of mine who knows him very well. Right. And he was like, do you want to go hang out with Day 9? After I was talking about how much I liked Day 9, I was like, what? And then he brought me to go hang out with him. And we're just like sitting around at some hotel lobby thing for a while. It's after the show.

Day 9 was on stage like all day with Conan O'Brien. He's like tired and just kind of relaxing relaxing and everyone's just kind of hanging out. But I start talking to him and I'm like, I don't want to fangirl for too long, but I appreciate everything you've done and you helped me find my voice and I started being a creator and all this kind of stuff. And he's like, oh, that's cool. What's your channel? And I was like, oh, I've been working on Linus Tech Tips.

And he's like, you're from Linus Tech Tips? I was like, what? He's like,'re from blindest tech tips i was like what uh he's like you guys are huge i was like uh uh cool that's pretty sweet that was when i did more like stuff with the channel but like yeah yeah hey you're still on land show it's true yeah but yeah that was like that was kind of a wild moment. Oh. Speaking of Still on Wandshow, I'm probably going to get in trouble for talking about this.

Uh-oh. But we do have a little video series that you might have heard of before that we weren't really sure about doing another season of because it seemed like maybe it had kind of run its course um it doesn't get it's not about the views yeah the community sentiment wasn't great really yeah for the earlier part of the season okay yeah yeah yeah anyway anyway a little series that you might have heard of called Scrapyard Wars. And we are still working on a sponsor for season eight or nine or whatever it's going to be at this point.

But I think I have, like, Luke and I have a doc of, like, ideas for Scrapyard Wars. And I kind of threw it all out. Well, part of the problem was we kind of ran out of ran out of mostly the ideas on the dock that were local we've kind of used. Yes. And traveling for Scrapyard Wars is obscenely expensive. Or we've come up with other problems that interfere with them like the fact that everyone like recognizes us locally which is a pain in the butt. Yeah. But I came up with a new concept while I was just sitting thinking about something totally unrelated that I think is gonna make

for the best season yet. So instead of being 1v1 or 2v2, it's actually going to be 3v3. Okay, so the stakes are already higher. Instead of just building a tower, you are now responsible for a tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, audio solution, desk, and chair. An entire gaming setup.

So there's six players and each individual is responsible for an entire setup. Then, where the teamwork element comes in, at the beginning of the season, we're going to go head-to-head in our LAN center that we're working on. So with everybody on an even playing field. Good computers.

We're going to go head-to-head and figure out what the fairest teams would be. Then we're going to split along those lines, and instead of having a benchmark off at the end of the season, we are going to game for the trophy. Now here's the catch. There's always a catch. Each player is only going to get,

and I haven't 100% decided on it, but I think it's probably going to get and i haven't a hundred percent decided on it but i think it's probably going to be in the neighborhood of about 500 canadian dollars for everything and like okay you had a really good one with sound you want sound you gotta buy it you want a good keyboard or mouse you gotta buy it that could be almost that whole budget for some people legitimately right so you will have your team will have to make decisions like are we going to have headphones or just like does one person have to listen for everyone and shout out instructions for everyone else do we do we do we go for better mice or do we go for better mice? Or do we go for sound? Do we spend more on the hardware

so we have a good frame rate, but are we literally running on ball mice? Do we pool resources and try to have one player carry and everyone else is meat shield? And try to have one player carry. One really wicked setup. And everyone else is meat shield.

I think it's going to be hilarious. So I'm really excited. So it's going to come down to which team can perform best on the battlefield. So we don't run into another situation where a 0.1 FPS difference ultimately results in the trophy being handed out to the wrong person. Wow! Shots freaking fired. Oh man. So I'm really excited. The one rule in terms of teams,

and I don't know who's gonna be involved yet as talents, but the one rule in terms of teams is that Luke and I will definitely not be on the same team because each team is going to need an experienced scrapyard warzer um is probably going to cost us an absolute fortune to do because not only is the shooting going to be more complicated like previously we've had the rule that the team has to stay together um so that their shooter can capture everything yeah we're not going gonna be able to do that. You have to build three setups.

So we're gonna need somewhere between four and six shooters. So that's gonna be expensive. I have some ideas for that. Okay, I will- That might actually save you a ton of money. We will brainstorm those. Also, the edit is going to be much more complicated because you're gonna have all these storylines oh yeah

and all these video sources like this is going to cost a fortune for us to do but i got and so i had kind of given up because in order for us to keep raising the stakes i mean that's why tv shows get canceled because all of a sudden you've got all these additional actors for all the new characters you've introduced over the years you've got all these additional actors for all the new characters you've introduced over the years. You've got all these new sets and locations that it just becomes unsustainable and everyone wants a raise every season. Like it's like, okay, well. Everything has to get crazier every time.

That's right. The big bad has to be bigger and badder. If you jump the shark, you know? And then you're like, okay, forget it, we're done, right? So we don't wanna jump the shark. But this was an idea that I went, no, this is good enough that it's different and it's going to be fun and it's going to be exciting. And the showdown at the end, like I want it to be best two out of three and the best two out of three of those.

So three games with each game being a best two out of three training and it could be like we couldn't live stream it unfortunately because then we'd give it away two months before the season actually starts airing but anyway okay whatever we'll you could live stream like everything except for the finals and we could capture the entire thing actually and we could just have that as like a float plane exclusive if you guys want to watch the entire tournament yeah because otherwise it's only going to be able to be highlights yeah um but but anyway that that final showdown because there could be like back and forth like maybe in fps the people who spent more on their mouse and their tower have an advantage but maybe in a moba game where it's

not quite as as sensitive maybe there's an advantage to the people with, you know, a bigger monitor. I don't know. There's also going to have to be a little bit of like... Maybe FPS isn't quite so important. You know, like... Yeah. Hard to say.

There's going to be a little bit of like trust in sportsmanship as well. But I think... Of course. I think everyone will be cool. Like, we're going to have to balance the teams a little bit based on like how good people are at different games.

Yes. And like, I don't think anyone here is going to throw. No. You've got to be honorable. And I'm saying that now because I know there's going to be comments about that if it ever comes up. But I genuinely don't think anyone that would partake in this competition would throw or do anything ridiculous like that.

No sandbagging. Yeah. We have been live for almost an hour and a half. We should probably go home. Okay. It's like 6.40 6.35 so sorry bye guys sorry bye's guy next week same bad time

same bad channel see ya bye Peter Is there an eth in my LTV shipping in Europe? Bye, Peter. Sponsor. Other sponsor. Other sponsor. Sponsor gone.

Stream over. Peter's telling everyone to spam and floatplane chat. Go, go, go. Why? He wants to see if it's going to crash. Okay.