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Keep chasing it. Drive your ambition. Mitsubishi Motors And welcome to the WAN show ladies and gentlemen we've got a fantastic show for you guys today YouTube rewind yeah it's happening yeah it's gonna get nothing but thumbs up because it's impossible to see anything else sort of and the rtx 2060 12 gig has launched and um in a massive shock to everyone it is not in stock anywhere what else we got this week the game awards awards awards to games and announces announcements hooray well okay we're gonna have to talk about that it takes two one game of the year yeah um we'll talk

about that i promise in other gaming news the trailer for ubisoft's nft cosmetic system called quartz got so many dislikes it was unlisted i don't think automatically right like they just pulled it down uh i mean it can't happen automatically but yeah but how how could it get so many dislikes and how could anybody know well we're gonna talk about that too aren't we yeah but first we're gonna so many people unironically answering my question as though i don't know the answer to it the one about how you could possibly see this like and the show is brought to you by fresh books with redux and anchor we talked about on wayne show last week i i i luke i know i know that i needed to answer that part of your question you gotta you what you need to do is look into your microphone i can hear myself so clearly though uh yeah maybe it's the headphones let's jump right into our

first topic of the day uh wait is there even is this even like in the doc? What one? The one about YouTube Rewind coming back. No, it's not. Okay, YouTube Rewind. Maybe we'll talk about that in a minute. Let's do our second topic of the day. First topic is going to be that the RTX 2060 12GB has launched. And as you guys might have noticed, we did a video about it Talking about, you know, what a new RTX 2060 might be like, how this might affect the overall supply of graphics cards for gamers,

why Nvidia might have made the seemingly somewhat controversial move of increasing it to 12 gigs of GDDR6 memory, especially when you consider that some, you know, GDDR6 shortages have occurred over the last year and a half. And basically, as far as we can tell, this whole thing was super sketchy because this was basically barely even a rumor until all of a sudden it went from barely a rumor to confirmed and launched over a span of days. As far as we're aware, no press were seeded units for review, so there was no real way to evaluate it in spite of the fact that it is a different card. It's somewhere in between the 2060 and the 2060 Super, and obviously it's got a larger frame buffer,

which we would have loved to investigate. But the official availability is supposed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of around three to three and a half weeks after the actual launch, which occurred on December the 7th, or in early 2022. So this is actually about the most paper launch launch that we've seen in a very, very long time. In fact, it's to the point now where when we did our video, we did hear back from a board partner, Asus, got back to us and we were like, hey. So obviously the burning question on everyone's mind is, how much does this thing cost?

And they were like, if I know. Hope it worked. Yeah, I hope the button worked. Early European listings suggest a price of roughly 660 to 700 us dollars although it's often not as simple as just doing a currency conversion from european pounds pound rubles whatever currency they have over there euros that's the one from euros or or pounds or whatever other currency to us dollars a lot of the time it ends up being a lot closer to a one-to-one exchange rate,

even though that's really not how things work. That's weird, yeah. Previous leaked listings from French e-tailer PC21 started at 500 US, but they've been bumped up to around 609. And Anthony jumps in to say that this is pre-VAT. So that could be pretty rough, especially when you consider the launch price of the rtx 3060 which was luke where did it go i just saw it 329 dollars 329 dollars that's

right the rtx 2060 and 2060 super both launched at 349 dollars three years ago and are apparently now going to be relaunching at somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 700 us dollars and that assumes that you can even find one in stock wouldn't that be sweet as a business the craziest part of this the craziest part of this it's basically real estate gpus are behaving like real estate to the point where like okay honestly though vancouver especially commercial real estate has gotten to the point where developers will just not sell things because it's actually more profitable to just build it and sit on it than it is to build it take a profit margin and sell it to someone to occupy, especially when you can lease it while you sit on it and your profits go stonks.

Yeah. Like, really, really, GPUs, they're free real estate, except they cost money. Putting this in even more context, the RTX 3080, okay? The 3080 had a $699 US dollar MSRP when it first launched. Now, there is one bit of extra information we have now that we didn't have before.

Apparently, the reason for it to have 12 gigs of GDDR6 is that the 16 gigabit chips are more widely available. Although, that sort of rings a little hollow when all of this stuff is basically unobtainium. Yeah, also those chips are the same ones used for the RTX 3060 and could have possibly been used for the RTX 3050. Though, as we mentioned in our video, it is quite possible that NVIDIA is utilizing chip like GPU fab capacity that would not have been possible to use for an RTX 30 series card. Oh, man. that would not have been possible to use for an rtx 30 series card oh man so if you can get one performance will be a lot worse than an rtx 3060 um but it'll have a lot more memory and early reports indicate that the cards perform quite well for crypto uh right now because they're not late and rate. And get this, conveniently, whenever Ethereum eventually moves to proof of stake, these will be ready.

Oh, wait, no, it's not the proof of stake change that requires more VRAM, is it? I forget. I'm a little rusty on the details. Whatever, there's supposed to be an Ethereum change at some point that made it require way more VRAM. And this will be ready for it. Which kind of makes you wonder if NVIDIA just launched this to meet mining demand or if this has anything to do with meeting demand for gamers.

I seriously doubt the latter. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You're probably not going to get one anyways. Yeah. At least you know it's launching. At least you're up to date on the on the tech news there you go yeah we can't uh we can't no problem yeah we okay minor problem in other tech news sort of gaming news the game awards awards

awards to games and announces announcements um there's there's a bunch of stuff there's a bunch of announcements first i think we'd skip all of that and go to the awards yeah sure best game direction i'm skipping game of the year we'll talk about that at the end fine okay i i did not watch the game awards it's so funny i um i didn't i i'm far enough removed from it now that i think it's probably fine to talk about this but you know how i was in an ad at the game? I think it was either last year or the year before. I can't remember. I have a vague memory of this. I was in a Samsung TV ad spot during the Game Awards.

Okay. And it was super cool to be part of that. It was really cool the way we were able to throw it together in our studio and shoot effectively an ad that aired during the Game Awards, which is like... My initial response was... awards sorry is that like a big deal or i have literally never in my life watched the game awards because i like my understanding is it's only been going on for like 10 years or so

something like that how i think it's been a been a while um but but it has been a big deal for quite a while yeah but see that's the thing is i basically took 10 years off gaming right while i founded a company and had kids and didn't play any video games so established in 2014 yeah so it's only been around for seven years. So I was just like, yeah, Game Awards. Yeah, I mean, that sounds super cool. It sounds good. That's awesome. But yeah, I'm so sorry, everyone.

I have literally never watched the Game Awards. Yeah, Jay Horace says, it's almost bigger than E3 at this point. Okay, I know that E3 is irrelevant now, but I didn't have time for E3 either. I think we attended e3 as a company once and i didn't go yeah so i determined it was a waste of time because i was the one that went yeah that was that was pretty funny you were because i think you were the one that pitched it to me yeah well the if we went the year before yeah it would have been awesome because there were like a console launch or there were like

two console launches the year before you went or something it wasn't even that there was actually a large amount of hardware companies that went and launched hardware there it was really weird and i was like okay if they're gonna do this again then we should go big and then we went and they didn't do it again because they probably went and decided it was a waste of time yeah right so that it just a bit of a swing and a miss and then we never went back anyway so uh so i don't i don't have a ton of context for any of this other than that you're about to tell me who won the game awards this year yeah best game direction death loop have you ever heard of it um i think i've heard of death i was gonna say probably honestly the majority of people watching have yeah i haven't played it though pretty cool game concept i have not personally played it um but i can see why it could have

won this category best action slash adventure game metroid dread okay i have also not played it yeah but the things that it's against i could definitely see it winning that cool what did it go up against uh that i think probably i don't, but I think probably its strongest competition would have been Resident Evil Village. Okay. There was a lot of kind of movement around that game. If I saw this list without the winner highlighted, I probably would have suspected it was that one. Marvel's Guardian of the Galaxy also actually looks like an actually well-made game, which you probably would not expect given the name. Because most games that are made off of movies are not very great yeah um most anticipated game was elden ring who also won

the most anticipated game of last year um last year's list of most anticipated games is almost identical to this year's list of most anticipated games cool um i mean hey the truth is the same winner games take a long time to develop okay it does they do it's it's very time consuming it's a lot of work yeah i'm really hyped for god of war ragnarok the previous god of war was amazing i did hear that i wasn't a fan of any of the god of wars before the remake yeah but have you ever owned a playstation no but that type of game i'm also not into right okay there's games like that on xbox this one's more of like an adventure game it's really cool okay getting into the the finale best multiplayer game of the year it takes two oh so it's not game of the year it's also game of the year. Oh, really? We're doing multiplayer game first, though.

So, this happens to be the one big release this year that I did play. Not true. What? Valheim. Oh, I played Valheim. Yeah. Valheim came out this year? I think so. And it takes to beat Valheim?

That's the release surprisingly to me. It beat New World. That should be a given. world's trash it beat back for blood that should be a given in my opinion just go play left for dead too uh it beat monster hunter rise i never played that it knockout city i legitimately don't know what that is but it beat valheim that is very stunning to me. Okay. Okay. Hold on a second. Floatplane chat is not pleased. Frey says It Takes Two was an amazing game. Nightpaw says It Takes Two

is a fantastic game to be fair. Alright. One moment please. It Takes Two is a beautiful game. The environments, the creativity that went into it are just outstanding. But the story, oh man.

Spoiler alert, okay? You just keep chasing the MacGuffin constantly. It's just, ah, ah, ah, you have not come far enough yet. I don't know what his accent is. I forget. But have you played it?

No, not yet. We're going to, but not yet. Really? Okay. So here's the problem. I like own it and I've been waiting, but anyways, yeah. Here's the problem with It Takes Two is that if you are a non-gamer,

the puzzles and the level design are probably pretty creative and or maybe even a little bit challenging. But for me, as like someone who's been playing video games since I was seven or whatever, sitting on the couch next to my wife, it's a little hard to stay engaged. Not, yeah, not. Oh, night pause. I am not at the end yet either. I have gotten extremely tired of collecting pages or collecting whatever. Because it's all just an excuse to and oh man the character development

pacing is so bad like because they have to be they have to be okay again i said spoiler alert so i can talk about it so you've got this couple that are they're they're about to get divorced and their child is sad and wants them to get together and first of all as a child of divorced parents I think that any kind of narrative that somehow puts it puts the responsibility on the child to do anything get their parents together take responsibility for splitting them up whatever it is um it's sort of it i thought it was stupid it was just it was just stupid um you know two adults who can't stand each other should not get back together because the child is sad because a toxic environment quite frankly is probably not any better yeah um so there's there's a lot So there's a lot of sort of, I got baggage, okay?

I got baggage. Anyway, they start out kind of being sick of each other's BS. She works all the time and he, I don't know, I forget what his sin is. He doesn't help out enough or something. I can't remember. But the point is that the kid is super sad. And

so there's this supernatural intervention that takes place where the two parents are turned into these little doll representations of the little kid's toys. And they have to go through this journey of reconciliation with each other where they learn to work together and they learn to cooperate and and build each other's um build each other's relationship or build their relationship back up and because you because you need to see that development like that character development as you go through each challenge they they like they learn to trust each other a little again and they they rediscover his passion for gardening please tell me there's a meter does the trust meter go up they know or they appreciate that she really does work really hard and that's her love language or whatever it is and they make this progress and then they dump you back to this this npc who

guides you through the process and they like immediately are back to full-on can't stand each other again and then it resets and then they like reconcile a bit again and then like immediately they're back to full-on can't stand each other again so it's this like the game can't decide how long it was supposed to be. And in my opinion, this is probably the only time in my... This is probably the only time as a gamer ever where I've looked at a game and I've gone, they had too much budget. You know what I mean?

Like, you know how often it happens where you'll reach like the last third of a game, you'll be like, oh, they ran out of time. They ran out of budget. Yes, that's definitely happened a lot. Whereas I think it takes two could have been an outstanding six to eight hour gaming experience. Right. Jam packed.

Like a portal like experience. Ubisoft has that issue right now with like all their games. But we've sat down i mean i i'd have to i'd have to check i actually don't know if origin has a log for how many hours you've put into a game i'm not 100 sure how i'd even check it but we have put more than that in and we're not done yet and um oh yeah right so jr 6955 says, it seems like a couples therapy game. So that's the other issue is it's so repetitive because the lessons are always the same lesson.

Work together. Yeah, I got it. It's in the title of the game. I know, right? So give me some new character development my main problem with the game is not have a sequel where they they decide to break up it takes only one or they could have a polyamorous sequel it takes many It takes three or more. Oh, man. So my issue is that while it's a beautiful game and it ran flawlessly, I didn't have any technical bugs with it,

and I thought the voice acting was pretty solid, like overall solid. It has a terrible story. It has a terrible story. It has a basically non-existent story it falls into that trap of storytelling that goes and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened it's like right but what are the consequences what are what are the what's the outcome where's the but then? But then there was this crazy thing. No, it just is always the same thing.

You always do what the guy told you to do, and you work together, and each stage is probably anywhere from half an hour to 90 minutes of gameplay, and you get through it, and it's like, ah, ah, ah, you need to work together some more! And you're like, could we have worked together enough to,

to do something? And maybe the daughter does more than, you know, go around and see her sad mom sleeping on the couch or whatever, and look like a creepy, creepy, uncanny Valley. Wow.

How does she look so weird character? Knock 23 says the game isn't aimed at linus the story follows a lot like a previous relationship i had well i mean it's not that i can't relate i mean i've ivana i've been together 15 years you think we never fought about anything you know you think we haven't drifted farther and drifted closer? Also, child of divorce. And we've actually had a lot of comments come in and saying, like, as a child of divorce, this game just kind of pissed me off. So...

I don't know. My parents are still chilling. Yeah, you know what? This is pretty good. JR6955 says it's... Well, I'm going to paraphrase a little bit. But it's like it's like it constantly teases you but you never finish you know so i haven't finished the game

i never finished the game get your mind out of the gutter mind out of the gutter mind out of the gutter so i could that could maybe that has to be one of the storylines it's a problem anyways true scott says he hasn't reached the bring back the spark in your relationship part yet that's the whole part that's the whole thing it's just the same thing over and over and over again is the multiplayer good to bring it all the way back to the award yes okay the co-opness is good jake's been in the chat he's like yeah i played it for half an hour with the gf um they should have had difficulty tiers it was way too easy for pretty much anyone that games like again i could i can enjoy it from a my wife is having fun and i'm spending time with her kind

of perspective but the thing is that even though she's certainly not a hardcore gamer she's absolutely capable of playing hardcore games yeah like she can play left for dead team fortress 2 like we could sit and play an actual game together very divisive and overcooked which like sure it's a game about cooking but it's also like still a gamer game you said divisive i think you meant decisive decisive sure okay you meant that she causes divisions on the team? I don't think that's what divisive means. Yeah, it does. Okay, I think you meant good at delegating or something like that. Sure.

Yeah, okay. To be clear, I mean, if you think she's divisive, that's fine. I just really don't think that was what you meant. Like causing rifts. Disagreements? No, yeah, that's not what I meant. Okay, cool. So yeah, she's not what I meant. Okay, cool. So yeah, like she can play games

that actually require skill, but because she hasn't played a lot of adventure games, she's still like enjoying the puzzles. Whereas I walk into a room or a boss battle and I see the glaring weak point and the obvious sort of mechanism for it for it i'm like oh okay this right right yeah look for the glowing thing a game that i think did that and i've talked about it a million times but titanfall 2 the storyline is honestly really short i still need to play it

but they never they never overuse any mechanics it's all it's there's a few times where i'm like man like i really wish i had that for longer but then at the same time if i had it for too long i probably wouldn't think the mechanic was as cool it takes two actually does that really well as well okay so each of the new stages issues you new gameplay mechanics that you then use to solve problems so they're not interesting enough they're interesting but the game is just too long okay the stages are too long and there are too many stages and there's not enough there's not a consistent character development that is taking place the way it feels and i could be totally wrong because i'm not an

expert on the game development process but the way it feels to me is as though they set out with 10 or 15 or however many zones they are and they set out with 10 to 15 teams and said create unique gameplay elements and create a whole bunch of puzzles for people to solve and then they just put them all in an order that kind of felt good and so that's why you're going through this develop develop well back to zero develop develop back to zero it's like playing zelda games it's like playing all the zelda games back to back to back to back to back to back where for whatever reason from one moment to the next link suddenly has amnesia and lost all of it and you're starting over again and it really just feels like that i'm talking about it takes two okay so just within the confines of the best multiplayer game award

do you have any problems with that best multiplayer game multiplayer so here's an interesting conversation um you know one of the things that I noticed about YouTuber awards, for example, is that MrBeast has won creator of the year twice in a row. Sure. I don't disagree. So why can't a game win multiplayer game of the year twice in a row, especially when you consider how game development has changed? has changed we don't get unless you're ea we don't get just a new edition with a new year number tacked on to the end of it of fundamentally you know that genre every year i think it would have to be evaluated on the changes that happen to that game so if that if in my opinion if that game was still under heavy development sure so how about this let's take um let's take a game

like okay you and i were have both been talking about how incredible it is that Anno 1800 is still in active development four years after release. Oh, yeah. And not just like, hey, we added a new horse armor that you can buy. Yeah. Like, since the game originally... Genuinely exciting updates. Since the game originally launched with two regions, so there's the old world and the new world, they have since added the Anbisa region,

the Arctic region, a shed load more resident classes, like building types, and not just building types, but like fundamental changes to the way that you build your cities and develop your trade they've like like they've they've really really changed the game uh a lot and in positive ways i think i can't think of a an update other than potentially that one character i can't think of an update that like isn't cool the anarchist yeah that's the only one that i'm like yeah that character is sort of yeah i finally

figured out how you get rid of his minds so we can talk about that later because we thought there was just this kind of like unassailable npc but you actually can do stuff okay so so yeah multiplayer yeah um so the options are back for blood it takes to knockout city monster hunter rise new world valheim i know you're not gonna be able to comment on essentially any of those except for maybe valheim valheim i mean was really awesome when i played it but i could see going for something a little more lowest common denominator or maybe unique uh it takes two is an only co-op experience right yes yeah yeah there's not that many of those games they exist but there's not that many of those games people are like that award exists it's called best ongoing game right but what i'm saying is that with the way that games get

developed like you look at i mean i wouldn't i don't know if it was the first one but wow certainly mainstreamized it releasing a game once and then updating it and at some times actually making it better and other times usually not not as much that's and that's fair criticism so you'd obviously have to legitimately make your game the best game again but i just i don't know i don't really see a reason why you couldn't say you know what this particular game amazing uh yeah yeah conrad says final fantasy 14 literally won an award and that's super cool i just don't see why you have to specifically carve out an ongoing game award i just don't see why you wouldn't just say

okay yeah in this genre this happens to still be the best the best game i'd be okay with that yeah anyways um then moving on to the final one is game of the year the contenders were death loop it takes two metroid dread psychonauts 2 ratchet and clank rift apart and resident evil village even how much everyone loved ratchet and clank i honestly i haven't played it again i don't have a playstation so i haven't played it but the feedback for a lot of these games was actually quite positive like overwhelmingly positive i think yeah um yeah i don't know i don't have anything more to say about it quite frankly i just i didn't I didn't play the other games, so I can't really comment.

All I can say is that It Takes Two is a cool game, but I have a really hard time accepting it as the best game, if that makes sense. It was a risk-taking game, and I could absolutely see it winning some kind of award. I think it's really cool that PC gaming is finally getting couch co-op experiences that were really built for couch co-op instead of having it tacked on as an afterthought.

Yeah. But I, yeah, I just, I don't know. Game of the year, I just, I have such a hard time with. Beautiful, beautiful game. I just, I don't know. Game of the year, I just, I have such a hard time with. Beautiful, beautiful game. I just, I don't feel compelled to finish it. Yeah, I'd kind of argue this wasn't exactly the absolute strongest year ever. Yeah, that's fair.

I mean, I think if Breath of the Wild came out this year, we'd probably be looking at a different outcome, but. Yeah, and a lot of the strong releases of this year came out like right now, which is kind of hard to include in an award show that happened right now yeah maybe if halo infinite had come out when it was supposed to come out they would have had a shot at it and if it had co-op baked yeah like was what it was supposed to be when it was supposed to be that might have worked out pretty well for them and

they i i wouldn't be surprised if there was some concerns about giving an award to a game that has so much backlash because there is a huge amount of backlash over the cosmetic system and all this kind of stuff and is there oh yeah as someone who has completely ignored it it hasn't been bothering me i i checked out the halo subreddit once and went whoa and then kind of laughed and left because it was so negative everyone that i talked to about halo is like yeah man it's really fun when you go on the halo subreddit it's just hatred i'm like okay it's almost like you know communities that have been have become so jaded and so cynical just don't even want to w anymore yeah i don't know i've been i've been having fun. Like, I... Part of it is that I haven't touched a Halo game since Halo 2.

Yeah. And I only really played Halo 1. So, you know, for me, everything's fresh. I'm like... Oh, wow, this is so new. Wow, this has gotten a lot better. What are all these guns? Oh, yeah.

I... Jaden refunded the campaign because he has a 1080 and he's having serious performance issues with a 1080 he sure as heck won't be buying anything higher end than a 1080 these days I mean man

I haven't like dove into it or anything but yeah he refunded it because he found it unplayable even 1080s are worth like are they worth like $500-$600 still or something stupid like that it's not a cheap card right now yeah it's not a good time to upgrade conrad says it's fantastic most people that i've heard from have said it's fantastic jayden as far as i know liked it a lot but then when it was like in like contained corridors and stuff and then it became open world and it was just unplayable i've heard there's performance issues on the consoles out in the open world uh in the open world parts as well

makes sense uh but i'm my my brother asked me to wait oh you know what i was about to ask you to wait yes yeah i was gonna i was gonna say yeah we should just wait and co-op it yeah i haven't played yet that's that's my current plan is i'm waiting for co-op to open up i'm probably gonna end up playing co-op with like a bunch of different people yeah and that sounds great yeah but i don't yeah i don't think i want to play it single player i never really played halo single player well that's because you had an xbox that's true i played it single player because the pc version of halo 1 didn't have co-op yeah but like i always i don't know yeah i had it on xbox and i always played it halo 1 and halo 2 and halo 3 a little bit but mostly halo 1 and halo 2

um i played with my dad or my brother or my friends or whatever i never really played halo alone so playing halo look at this guy flexing his xbox and his friends growing up and the fact that his parents took an interest in video games with him luke could you like could you attack me more hey man we we can play when it when co-op comes out okay all right it sounds after it gets delayed three times all right we'll play we'll play in 2023 yeah 2023 no problem um speaking of 2023 i can't wait till 2023 to tell you guys about our sponsors. Oh, so good. Got them. Where are they? Here it is.

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This is hilarious. Their files and data are about to be published all over social media. What do they do? Oh, man. This is great. I can't wait. I can't wait. What do they do?

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The battery lasts only 10 minutes from a full charge. Where do they look for a new phone? Okay. Oh, man. Oh, man. Sure. Yep. OMG, your friend's house is on fire don't worry the pets are safe

it looks like they only have time to rescue their phone and one other device which do they take oh man uh oh man Oh, man. Yeah, I'm going to go with this one. Okay. We think your friend would like, wow, this is a really, really bad suggestion. Okay. Are you almost done? I'm almost done.

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to have to hear your answers. This is hilarious. Are you still on question three, Luke yeah i all the answers sucked i don't think you would do like i don't think any of those like correctly apply to you at all anyways um okay all right well i'm gonna talk through um what it suggested for luke we think your friend would like an anchor 622 magnetic battery uh mag go it appears to be like an iphone mag safe battery that also acts as a stand did it suggest the same bloody thing to both of us okay what were your answers can we go back

through the quiz i didn't even like them like i i feel going to be like, no, it should have been something else. And I'll be like, yeah, you're probably right. Because like a lot of them I don't think apply. How do we go back? You can't. Oh, you just do it again? So I said your tech addiction was pretty strong. Your tech knowledge was not quite as strong.

I had you at a two for tech snobbery and a one for tech style. Those are probably both fine. Yeah, realistically. I did 10, 10, or 4 yeah okay so for thanks so for the someone hacked your friend's computer um i put that you would uh okay next hack the hacker and steal their picks in retaliation okay and what did you say uh i said calmly contact customer service and the authorities and hope they can stop it yeah okay yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't have any illusions that they can stop it but no but that's sort of what we've we've tried to because there was the twitter thing forever ago

right yeah so i thought back to that i did contact the authorities yeah in that case it was because like they could do something so it wasn't directly yeah yes yeah. Yes. I wasn't directly answering the question, but I was like, this is as close as I can get. Your friend's phone is so old, it takes 30 seconds to open an app and the battery lasts 10 minutes. I said, who cares? If it has a screen and fits in their pocket, that's enough.

That's probably accurate. I said they've been waiting for the new Snapdragon chip for a year. No, I think that's pretty fair. For VR headsets are now so advanced, you can't tell the difference and everyone has one. How does your friend use theirs? I put that you'd hack it and use it to emulate NES games.

Does that seem like the closest one? No, I'd probably do number one. Fight aliens in a distant galaxy? I don't know. Okay, I was memeing a little bit. Because I feel like NES games in VR would just kind of be terrible. You'd still do it at least once. Yeah, that's true. So my answer was not wrong. It just wasn't the most right. I said number one yeah i mean if they're not more like blocks in distant galaxies

yeah because that's the only thing i fight in vr is yeah i just i looked at the other ones he's not gonna use as a doorstop yeah i don't think he's gonna use it to work with others in vr environments like that's not a thing. I strongly prefer for, for a technophile. I strongly prefer in person. Yeah. Like I feel like four would be the most wrong. Like I,

it's, it's a, it's a really funny thing. I'll be, I'll be traveling. Right. And this even goes like before my most recent trip, I'll be traveling.

And my wife will call me at like, you know, kind of close to bedtime. She'll be like, Hey, do you want to say goodnight to the kids and have a video call? I'm like, no, not really. I want to see.

I don't like, I don't like talking to people on the phone. I don't like talking to people on video chat. At the same time, though, it's very good. I feel like it's a needed thing in some scenarios. Yeah, for sure. But it's just, it's not my jam if I can avoid it. I would, I would realistically, if someone moved far away, I would just fall out of contact with them. I know, I know.

I sound like, I sound like a heartless, heartless B word, but I just, I just, I'm not, I'm not going to get on a- I mean, that's a reality that happens with a lot of people. So being honest about it, I don't think it's negative. I'm not going to get on a video call with you every Saturday and be like, hey. I'm the same type of person. I'm sorry. I just, yeah, you moved.

I didn't move. And it means nothing personal, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's just not how the brain works. It's just not my jam. Yeah. And question four.

The unfortunate thing about question four is they didn't have an answer that was my data i would run for my server yeah 100 that is the only thing in my house that has in fact i wouldn't even bother with my phone what i need my phone for i would run straight for the server and i would try and rip as many drives out of it as i can so what did you put for me for you I put you've got it stored in an expensive protective case so you can just grab that I kind of like it was a bit of a throwaway it was a bit of a throwaway because it was kind of like oh well he's probably you know got his data backed up and doesn't care about anything yeah I I had

the exact same reaction to this I almost clicked on the protective case one for the exact same reason that you did the one that i selected was their smartwatch because it said uh what's the point of being alive if they don't have the data to prove it and i was like the only thing he would save is the data so it wasn't about the smartwatch right i was just like none of these there's no way he's going to grab his PS5. He wouldn't waste any amount of time doing that. So that's dumb. I don't even have one. I know he doesn't have anything stored in an expensive protective case.

So I'm not, I thought about like, maybe that's enough of a whatever, but I didn't bother. And then like they're nothing. I'm like, well, he's not going to grab nothing either. Yeah.

So I, yeah, I just went with that thing. So in conclusion so i did take the quiz again oops yeah i put in different information i got something else in conclusion oh did you okay yes this this the stream is brought to you by anchor give the gift of of anchor power products just because it didn't get the recommendation right for us doesn't mean they don't have lots of good products so go check it out try the quiz and all that good stuff okay jake i've actually done it twice now jake is gonna flip if we don't eventually show the pictures ah yes we've got pictures of the lab this is gonna be pretty freaking cool don't worry jake i wasn't ignoring you we were gonna get to it we were gonna get to it i know i know you're petty like that maybe i'll delete the photos you wouldn't you wouldn't so guys the reno the reno of the lab is almost done because we were

keeping it keeping it pretty simple keeping it pretty simple here so we've got uh some fresh paint on the walls we've got some fresh access control going on. We've got fresh security cameras in there. Got that ubiquity goodness. What else we got going on here? Oh, I think this is more of the... This is probably POE for the access control, I'm guessing. It's sound. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll show that.

We're just in the front entryway, Calinan. We haven't gotten that far yet. The floors, I think we decided... Are we changing the carpet downstairs no we're just leaving it we're just redoing the stairway just the stairwell yeah the stairwell carpet is shockingly ugly yeah so this room no longer looks so oppressive anymore which is which is nice fortunately whoever was in here before actually did a lot of power and networking stuff that we just now don't have to do. That's what I said.

Oh, Jake says that's the fiber run. Oh, that's what you were talking about. Yeah, I said that earlier. So this is where the fiber terminates. Oh, this is where the DMARC is. Okay, so we got fiber into the building. This is where it was run to. So we would have had to have our networking equipment just sitting right in the front entryway, which would have been really stupid.

So Jake and the boys, they, what is this? Did you guys just, you didn't splice it or anything, right? It's just like a coupler. I think they just coupled it and then they ran it over somewhere else. We'll see that in a little bit. So it kind of runs above us. In fact, I think it runs along this cable management line right here. So they painted, I believe the ceiling might've been already black in here, but they painted the wall. So it looks a lot nicer in here. And then out in the, in like the warehouse and what will actually be the lab. We painted, so so looks a lot nicer in terms of like colors you guys won't

see this part above but what you will do is you will hear it yeah uh we used the same like cellulo spray or something very similar to what we did uh what we coded our existing studio with and man does it ever make a difference even without any of the equipment in there, you can actually carry on a conversation now instead of it just being like a ridiculous amount of reverb to the point where you can barely understand your own voice. Here's this from the alternate angle. Yeah, it was really bad. I like the orange accent, by the way.

Yeah, right? Even though it's just like a little splash, I think it's good. Yeah, I just want it to have a little bit of LTT, know yeah um yvonne did the actual color scheme i was like hey i just want like a little bit of orange and kind of grays and dark colors kind of thing yeah and she made it she made it happen that's good stuff so yeah it looks awesome um goes all the way over here over by the door. Okay. Yeah, there you go.

Let's see if we're heading upstairs. Yeah, there you go. So the paint upstairs makes this part look a lot nicer as well. One of the things I noticed when I was up in this room today is that the HVAC is crazy loud in this room. So if we were going to have any hopes of doing anything acoustic related inside the office space, I think we might just need to give up on that. It's super loud. Part of the problem, though, might be that they've got it running full tilt right now because part of the curing process for that insulating and acoustic spray is that that it off-gases a lot of crap. So you want it just pumping everything out of there. Well, what you want ideally is you want to do it in the summer. You want to open up your bay door,

and you want just hot air circulating. Yeah, pumping. Jake says the furnace is like right there. The HVAC probably going to have to be boxed. Yeah yeah we'll figure all that stuff out though give us time here's our sick sick networking closet by the way great job of the cable management jake it looks gorgeous gorgeous i actually don't think he did most of it i think most of it was one of our new guys who is still on probation so um yeah i shouldn't give maybe shouldn't give maybe jake too much credit for the the nitty-gritty details there's some comments in the chat that

that little balcony thing um with the with the little hobbit door below it i have a fire pole so the problem with that idea i mean mean, aside from it being stupid, is that it's stupid. Okay, what else do I need? No. There's like insurance problems. Yeah, it's really not going to be a thing. It's not going to be a thing. Jake says, I replaced the cables with small patch cables.

By the way, Jake, I saw the green patch cables that you got for the pink rack. I'm not sure if I was supposed to see those yet, but I saw the box of them and I'm extremely excited. So we're going to have the mesh front door, the pink mesh front door, and then there's going to be just like green patch cables behind it. It's going to be freaking awesome. Nice.

Yeah, I'm super excited. What else we got for topics today? Is there really anything else to talk about? The gets an unreal engine 5 experience on consoles so epic surprised everyone with a showcase of ue5 called the matrix awakened during the game awards digital foundry is very impressed which is a good sign yep uh so i mean just to be clear it's not a game it's a tech demo but there is a little bit of gameplay a little bit of exploration. And it's the most Unreal Engine 5 that anyone's been able to actually try. So it's sort of a showcase, kind of like that Rock Lumen demo thing from May of last year. But it looks pretty freaking incredible yeah looks pretty amazing uh i don't know if i'm allowed to show it am i gonna get is this stupid video gonna get claimed if i try to show it definitely might yeah maybe just go look it up yourself yeah go look it up yourself super

cool though uh yeah yeah i'm just we're just not gonna we're just not going to do it. And what else we got here today? Lab renovation. Ubisoft NFT thing. Do we really have to talk about it? No. No, let's do it. Let's do it.

Let's do it. Hit me. The trailer for Ubisoft's NFT cosmetic system, Quartz, got so many dislikes it was unlisted. The trailer went up on December 7th, and the first supposed game will be Ghost Recon Breakpoint. It was later delisted, the video that is, but the link is still around. Because, I mean, it's unlisted, so as long as you have the link you can find it. They're the

first major publisher to go live with an NFT system. Basically every cosmetic is a unique digit with a serial number attached to it which is engraved on the cosmetic item there will be limited edition quartz cosmetics uh there's metadata belonging to each cosmetic will which will have the previous owner history you can obtain your favorite streamers used cosmetics at exorbitant prices. Nice. Just in case underpants were out of fashion. Game of water. Yeah, or that. The beta for Quartz has already started

in select countries, and you can check it out at, I mean, if you want, at quartz.ubisoft.com. Full rollout starts in 2022. And the announcement was super popular. You can see that it's got, oh, actually, you can't see anything of the sort

because our window is in front of it. One moment, please. Nope, you still can't. I can do this. Oh, lordy. It got 228,000 views, okay? And 1,500 thumbs up. Wow!

That must be a really, really popular, popular announcement that they made. And it's so useful that we don't have a way to, we don't have a way to, you know, express our displeasure in a way that brands actually suffer for. suffer for. Except we kind of still do. So if you get the return YouTube dislike Chrome extension... I'm not gonna turn on sync. You can actually, I believe, I believe it still works until like two days from now. No, it doesn't seem to be. Oh, yeah, there we go. There we go. The bar is here. 39,000 dislikes. Woo. So this is the big problem. This is the big problem is that when YouTube removed the dislike button and it's going to happen. So I think December 12th is the drop dead date for removing API access to dislikes.

Is that something like that? I think it's coming up quick. It's coming up real quick. These kinds, when that happens, these kinds of extensions and these kinds of workarounds are going to go away. They will not work anymore. And you will have no way of knowing, looking at this video, how nearly universally unpopular this move is.

how nearly universally unpopular this move is. And this, you know, I don't want to belabor the point, but I think this is such a perfect example of the kind of stuff that is going to be so much easier to get away with. And that seems to indicate YouTube's at least secondary motive for making this move because in a big surprise move YouTube is bringing back a rewind replacement of sorts it's not going to be called rewind stream right because I think they would be crazy to call something rewind at this point

but I can tell you right now, it sounds honestly kind of cringe. Of course it does. So here's how it's going to work. It's a live interactive stream on December the 16th. Ah, nice. So there's going to be a live chat. Four days after the dislike button goes away. Ah, good.

Totally a coincidence, Luke. And using the live chat, users will participate in challenges based on trends from this year, get involved in real-time experience, and answer trivia questions. When viewers complete all the challenges, they'll be able to watch a musical performance

from a mystery guest that reward is is that the most try hard that you have heard all year if if the the thing that i'm trying to think about is like if Steam did a thing where they were like, okay, we're going to have an event. There's a bunch of challenge things you can do. And if you do them, some cool thing will happen. But you don't know what it is. I might partake. But because it's YouTube, I hate it.

But it's not even that. And I don't know how fair that is. It just is probably going to be awful. Oh, yeah. They've got some good guests. Apparently, BTS is going to be on there. So, surprise. That's who I assumed the reward was going to be.

And many popular YouTubers will appear, including Mark Rober. So, that's cool. Nice. But I just do not foresee any possible way that this will be anything other than cringe. It's called Escape 2021? Yeah, something like that. So basically my point is this really throws YouTube's intentions into question, just with this very suspicious timing. I know that they were working on this for quite some time, but this just really does not look like an accident.

And then that Ubisoft thing is an example of public pressure, which is one of the only ways that we can affect any kind of change in our corporate overlords. Public pressure caused Ubisoft to at least be ashamed enough of this concept for now to pull the video to unlisted. And this is the end of it. In two days, you will no longer have any ability to push back. All they'll have to do is disable comments or moderate the comments, which is more likely. And people coming along this,

let's say impressionable young people who don't sort of fundamentally understand how stupid and potentially exploitative this concept is, will have no idea how horrible it is. Like, more transparency is always better. And you should always be outraged when transparency is being pulled away from you. There's also creators that will just,

I don't even know what it's called, favorite or whatever. It shows the creator's circle thing in a heart. Yeah. And it puts it at the top. There's creators that will just like bomb their own videos with those. They'll just heart like every single positive

or neutral comment and there's so many of them that it takes forever to scroll through it scroll through it scroll through it you'll never really find the negative ones so yeah i'm really frustrated um there's another oh there's another issue. Oh, no, sorry. Ryan77627 says, hey, not exactly. The extension will switch to cached slash estimated versions of dislikes once the API is fully deprecated. It will not be as accurate, but it will certainly give a number. There's a lot of videos that launch on YouTube every day.

And a big part of the problem is product launches from companies, which that won't matter for. I brought that up last week. I think that is very cool. And honestly i i brought that up last week i think that is very cool and honestly in a lot of ways i think that is very important and there's ways that you can contribute and help those programs so if you want to go do it um but it is extremely far from solving the problem uh jake i actually was not following this apparently there's a zero day that originated from minecraft servers that caused a huge poo storm i don't have any more details on this no i don't actually um i i heard people talking about it during the show yeah yeah i i'm seeing articles from like six hours ago i wouldn't have heard about this got it i cassie says i wonder when linus is going to release his book i have made basically zero progress on it i haven't

touched it since the last time we talked about it which was i think when wansho was in office pre lockdown so that should give you some idea i mean realistically i don't think my book would be worth reading until i've bowed out of the industry and i'm ready to just go tell all on it so yeah probably not anytime soon uh wow i don't know about you but i have not been on the ball on the incoming merch messages i've done some of them but i keep forgetting yeah so how soon will it be where we can just click show even after the thing expires and it can just show it? But that doesn't really work because right now it shows it without a message when it expires. Oh.

What if we just showed it again? I mean. Because that would be a lot better than having to like directly address bananas for the boys from Ryan M here. Bananas for the boys. Boys. What do you mean? You don't want to address that come on not really come on not really all right is there anything else to talk about other than i'm sure conrad could find a way to make that ubisoft crap uh i guess that's it i don't know all right cool let's do some merch messages yeah uh for those of you who are leaving super chats you guys are doing it

wrong merch messages are the way to send paid messages to the show because that way at least if we don't get to your message you still get your order hey there's no way for us to lose also and it functions super chats are broken and you know i don't want to i don't want to throw anyone under the bus because they're really trying to help but the workaround that i was offered for it was you know okay what's the saying when the cure is worse than the disease yeah i don't i don't know what it is but yeah i just really don't think it made a ton of sense so super chats unless i happen to remember to click the viewer activity tab right at the beginning of the show are still broken for me.

So what you really need to do is send a merch message. You go to lttstore.com, check out some cool stuff. We got toques, we got water bottles, we got Northern Lights desk pads, we've got hoodies, we've got t-shirts, we've got the party shirt, we've got all kinds of good stuff over there. And then in the checkout, you can leave a little message

and it'll pop up on the show, assuming that Luke and I managed to actually see the um there is another thing to talk about by the way oh what is it the uh the game awards we talked about the awards we didn't talk about the announcements oh okay there's a few telltale is back they're making a video game adaptation of the amazon original tv series the expanse never watched it and probably won't play it nice i i did like wolf among us even though it got kind of samey and clearly they were not focused on it towards the towards the end yeah the middle uh yeah i've always had problems with this name but senua senua's saga hellblade 2 a lot of people are really hyped about that and

alan wake 2 both got announced people are really hyped about that and Alan Wake 2 both got announced people are really hyped about those The Matrix Awakened we actually mentioned that earlier so we'll just get past it in an effort to get a bigger slice of the battle royale pie that helped bake PUBG is going free to play actually kind of interesting

there's going to be some noobs to headshot are you going to play? I mean I have never thought that game was cool solo so if other people want to play i'm down right that's pretty much it um wonder woman game coming out being made by monolith which as other people have pointed out i think is a very good pairing yeah i think that makes a lot of sense i think they'll do a really good job with it yeah so that's cool pretty excited excited about that. Among Us VR. Could be cool.

Paramount Plus is making a Halo TV series that apparently looks like very high budget. So that could be cool or terrible. We'll see. Probably cool. I would wager cool and then there's star wars eclipse which looks really cinematic the the trailer that they put out looks really cool i mean you saw my tweet earlier this week i'm sure did i i don't know oh it was very funny i said i want to fire the star Wars sequels out of a canon. Oh, I did.

Yes. Get it? That was good. Get it? So many people didn't get it. Like, I had people correcting my spelling. Oh. And I was like, I spelled it with two N's, but not together.

C-A-N-O-N. Yeah. I was about to say one N, but there's two in canon. There's one in the end. Oh, man. So part of the problem behind this is not just that Star Wars has been a very up and down thing for a long time. Mostly down. It's also that it's made by the French studio that's behind Heavy Rain and Detroit Become Human.

It's listed in the doc as a minor controversy. I don't know how minor it is. I think it's more in the doc as a minor controversy i don't know how minor it is i think it's more on the major side of things um but they were on the the the cancel train a couple years ago right and as far as i know they're it's kind of still the same crew right now they're making a star wars game which is actually kind of interesting because usually disney is very you know they kind of try to keep their hands clean in regards to controversy stuff when they work with other companies they've had a lot of controversy yeah i was gonna say there's a lot of evil there boy are they ever bad at it then yeah okay but usually when they try to work with

other companies they're like no you have to be squeaky clean um right so oh uh one moment please you gotta go uh sorry what's that oh um uh give me give me 15 okay bye my wife is leaving without me i can drive you home oh no it's okay i'll just do okay whatever you want it's fine it's completely the opposite direction doesn't make sense all right let's do some anyways they they said some i don't know all the details behind it because i heard about this literally today but apparently in the past they said some like homophobic stuff and stuff if you're interested you can look into it their name is quantic dream that's the developers behind star wars eclipse got it all right super chance yeah i mean they give me merch messages merch messages all right super messages That's the developers behind Star Wars Eclipse. Got it. All right. Super chance. Yeah.

I mean, they give me merge messages. Merge messages. All right. Super messages. Justice says, howdy from Ladner. What would be the best way to contact you in regards to maybe touring the neat building I work in? You're going to want to try the publicly listed email.

It does get monitored. Not by me, but it does. Peter H asks, wife swap style LTT host swap series when? Also, more gift cards for the LTT backpack and screwdriver when they launch. Peter's buying gift cards. I have no idea.

We were talking about wife swap on the pre-show where I was joking that such a thing, haha, probably exists. And it turns out not only does it exist, it ran for like seven seasons and there were like- Spin-offs. There were, yeah, there's similar clone shows and in different regions and stuff like that.

Max asked, when is Luke going to host TechLinked? Yeah, you should totally host TechLinked. You should ask Riley for a chance to host TechLinked. Sure. Outfrost, LTT is expanding a lot. Would you consider reviewing mice, like build quality, or more home server stuff, like HBAs and NICs, like stability of aftermarket ones?

Also would love to see Linux compatibility on more reviews. I think Linux compatibility in particular is something that we would like to expand our testing to include. The one issue with that is that it goes up and down right that's fair but if it's in a fully working state at one point it probably won't be that far from it in the future so yeah that's that's at least reasonable to you know think okay let's go ahead and get rid of this one uh nicholas says not an expert here should a reasonably nerdy person calibrate their monitors and TVs,

or is it only for content creation? Frankly, if all I'm doing is consuming, then all that matters is how it looks to me. Personally, I like to run my displays in a color-accurate mode, but I do not actually prefer a warm color temperature, which tends to be the most color accurate way of displaying it. So I tend to go for like a calibrated or a neutral type profile and then a neutral color temperature rather than a warmer color temperature. And that's my personal preference. And it is totally up to you what your personal preference is for consumption.

personal preference and it is totally up to you what your personal preference is for consumption but when it comes to creation obviously it's important that it's all created to a calibrated standard so that when everybody else has their own preferences they're not stacking their preferences on top of your preferences causing all kinds of problems andrew asks t-powered gaming pc when we really do need to do that. It is on the list. I'd love to build something for the spiffing Brit. Enjoy your new mouse pad, Andrew. Ignition Knight.

I've accidentally played Overcooked with my wife. Do you think if we play It Takes Two, it can save the marriage? I mean, yes. Yes! It's the character the super annoying book character yeah yeah oh man uh jake says for your tv just use the artings guide for an ltt themed blanket they are thinking about it oh yeah yep we're definitely thinking about it sebastian just finished my fall semester in

electrical engineering your videos were the only reason I pursued the field three more semesters ago. Hey, keep up the good work, Sebastian. Love it. Christopher, thanks for the quality content. Just built my first PC at 20. Will be using it for my coffee roasting business. Control-Alt-Delete coffee roasters. Hey, very nice.

Enjoy. Eli, are you guys going to talk about the log4j2 rce exploit yeah but like is that the is that the minecraft thing yeah i think yeah yeah sorry we just didn't we don't know enough about a little bit too tight to the show yeah yeah i was i was doing some stuff today definitely doing some stuff we finally got a smoke machine we ran into the weirdest edge case man we had a a mesh version and a solid front panel version of the same case and we loaded up the mesh version with like extra noctua fans and the gpu temps were actually nearly identical to the solid front panel version with just like one stock fan in it weird yeah so it turns out that there's a lot more to optimized case flow case airflow than just

making sure your case is meshy making sure it has holes it's gonna be a good video so we got a smoke machine to kind of demonstrate what was happening in this case so that we can that's cool talk through that nice so that'll be fun tamas i'd love if ltD would cover more augmented reality news and products. Hey, for sure, bud. Unfortunately, you and dozens of other people, all dozens, it just, the content does not perform well. I'll say this. There's a really cool HoloLens segment in the videos that I was working on overseas. Oh. I think I'm allowed to say it was

with intel at this point oh well it's a whole thing where there was going to be another event and i wasn't really supposed to talk about that i was there until after the other event was like announced but then is real close their borders like immediately after I left so the other event is actually cancelled. So yeah so I think it doesn't matter anymore anyway those videos are coming soon. Joshua asks do you have any plans for Express shipping on LTT stores? Right now it takes almost a month for orders to ship to India. You would be horrified to see how much it would cost for express shipping. We are far better off focusing on getting our volumes up as high as we can with the shipping provider that we have so that our rates can be as good as they can be.

Yes, it's going to take time sometimes. We're sorry. But that's the way that it's going to be for now. I want to like buy a plane ticket for your shirt. Johanna's asked basically the same question. Robert, Christmas bonus time. Make sure the LTT backpack has a thick pad of foam on the bottom. I wouldn't describe it as super thick,

but what it is is it's constructed in such a way that it actually kind of tapers at the bottom of the pocket. So that helps to keep it from falling down so fast neat right uh let's do that simon how has ltd prepared the office for earthquakes and other potential natural disasters so because we do live in an earthquake zone we have pretty stringent um earthquake proofness requirements in our building code. Other than that, we haven't really done anything else other than just do what we're supposed to be doing,

which is like, you know, bolt down shelves and stuff. A lot of it's just baked into the building code. Yep. Wise, I'm planning to make an unraid VR slash VM slash NAS setup. Should I go Intel or AMD, which is going to give me the fewest issues i might go thunderbolt for io might even mind while the gpu is idle i know i need a motherboard with good iomu man that is an extremely um sketchy configuration the odds of having that working like daily driver perfect pretty slim if you can find someone else who has built basically exactly the same thing

and has it working perfectly and you can just clone their config great but that ain't that ain't a good that ain't that your chances Your chances, they suck. They suck big time. Kenneth is saying that apparently when they remove the dislike button, they're also increasing ads on the site, which I find pretty interesting. I didn't know that part. Oh, really?

And also he's saying, if you guys are hiring accountants in a couple of years, when I'm done with my degree, we probably will be. We need accountant applicants now, actually. my degree we probably will be we need accountant applicants now actually yeah now is the time we need accountant applicants i mean you know in a couple years feel free to reach out maybe we won't have found anyone yet but we'll see we need yeah apply now do it go go go rafael says work for a pc retailer assembling pre-builts the

past week has been an actual nightmare with at least 50 asus prime motherboards just dying for no apparent reason which now have to be returned after we already built most of them oh rough week but you treated yourself to a neon hard drive t-shirt and an insulated water bottle hope you enjoy it nice phil hey guys love you both equally the purchase is a gift for a friend mystery water bottle and northern lights desk pad love it nice his name is race after race bannon wow from johnny quest his name is race wow race bannon i love it all right cool brayden says oled awesome burnin not awesome microled perfect middle ground for a PC? Question mark. All right, here's the problem with microLED. Just because an LED is not organic doesn't mean that it won't eventually burn out. In fact, that characteristic, I think I kind of bought into the narrative of, you know, oh, well, they fade because they're organic.

Well, that's a reason that they fade. But LEDs can fade for lots of different reasons. And normal LEDs can also fade. So what I heard back when I was considering the wall from an installer is that it is extremely common for the panels to fade unevenly, which is essentially burn-in, and extremely common for the cabinets to fail. So, I was looking at this very expensive, like, what was it? Like a quarter million dollar TV. It's going to be huge. Knowing that I was going to have like, what was it?

16 cabinets or something like that. And that the odds, by the time you have 16 of them installed, of one of them failing in a relatively short period of time was like very good. I just kind of was sitting there going, no, I don't think,

I don't think this makes any sense. Um, now that's not to say that micro led won't get better. It very likely will. But if I was going to be excited about anything, it would probably be what James's video, which is coming probably sometime in the next week or two is about. And I don't know if I'm allowed to say what it is yet. I think there might be some embargoes involved. But man, pretty cool. Pretty cool. If you want some hints as to what the future of TVs might be,

you can go watch the video that James also wrote. Future of TVs, I think think is what it was called. The Future of TVs is Not What You Think was a video we released about a year ago that James wrote that should give you some idea of some of the really cool stuff that is coming down the pipe over the next few years. Thank you, John G. Chosen 477, I'm finally able to buy your merch i was expecting free shipping inside canada though yeah so same thing um we basically have one big bucket that everyone who orders pays into and then we use that to pay our shipping provider and we actually lose about 10 on it so we're not

we're not like gouging we're just trying to make the merch accessible to everyone. And that's not the best for the people for whom the shipping might've been cheaper, but, um, hooray, hooray Canadian socialism or something. Yeah. Yeah. That's what the S in store is for. No, it's for store it's ltt store it's not just s nah the whole thing's an acronym um yeah moving on i guess the 2005 water cooling video reminded me

that the first time i saw linus he was doing maintenance on a custom loop uh with what i say oh yep the silverstone tj11 nice it's been a minute good old silverstone tj11 man silverstone they have had some good shiz over the years tj11 man was that back when uh what's their face maximum pc used to do their like dream pc builds and all that good stuff those were so cool tj11 i love that silverstone archives all their cases on their site why doesn't every manufacturer do that why do they just remove all reference to their old products as though they never existed it's kind of weird like um there's there's uh there's a creator who was trying to create

like a digital museum of Apple's marketing over the years because they will just expunge it when they're done with it. And he was like, but this is sort of really important, you know, historical... Design and stuff. Yeah. There's a lot that goes into marketing. There's a lot that goes into it there's a lot that goes into it

and he was like this is this is historically really important and uh so he had it all archived somewhere and they were basically like cease and desist you may not you may not display this this is our copyrighted material they're not wrong it's just lame but i mean i guess they can't they can't put it all in a table book for 250 dollars if it's freely available on the internet right i mean but that's the irony right is that they they did it anyway and people bought the book anyway so clearly it didn't matter apparently the tj11 is still on sale are you serious i was gonna kind of ask like has silverstone stone done a lot lately yeah i know they really pushed to increase skew counts i'm sure they're still doing that but I was going to kind of ask, like, has Silverstone done a lot lately? Yeah.

I know they really pushed to increase SKU counts. I'm sure they're still doing that. But like. Believe it or not, Silverstone has a case coming that we have a video coming about that is flipping amazing. Cool. You know what? Why don't you do a couple more merch messages? I'll go grab it.

I think it's right over there. Sweet. Thoughts on the Flow X13. Oh, well, that's a question for me. I know. The Flow X13, I'm surprised you didn't love it. The one issue I have with it is it kind of feels like the display is either, I don't know, it's like low contrast or it has readability issues from a distance. That's the only issue I had with it.

The battery life is just awesome for something with a dedicated gpu in it the performance is great um i used it on my on my trip to tel aviv and i thought it was awesome gaming with it on the go yeah i know i still love it i've got i've got two oh no the silverstone machine has been moved they cleaned the set okay i'm gonna have to look for it elsewhere all right baby all right uh dennis says watching your content since 2015 and still loving it convinced my friend to buy some sweet merch with me so take some of our first income nice heck yeah i appreciate well not me but we appreciate your first income. Steam Link finally died. That actually sucks. Those were pretty cool.

Is a $200 Shield Pro really the best alternative right now for couch PC streaming? Left my old water bottle on the bus, so finally getting a replacement. I think a lot of that depends on how far away the computer is, how realistic it is to run cables through walls, things like that. I don't think I'm up on streaming to the TV technology right now. I know Shields have done it very well in the past, but if you could do it with a wire, it's pretty good. How much are 20 ounce in real units? Google's really good at that i'm sorry i'm not trying to be sassy i just i have no idea and google for sure knows and they google actually has i don't know if you guys know this it has built-in calculator things for for equations like that

so it will do it for sure and well good to see desk pad measurements are in metric it has both actually um could we well okay uh i think the desk pad measurements might be in metric i think you're right the desk pad configurator which is not out yet has both um could we get another terran macro guide but this time for linus no i don't i don't i'll be honest with you i don't really use macros um i don't video edit so that's that's the thing the reason why i tilted my head i was like why yeah i just would you even use it for i have a confession back in my younger days i had macros for some of my most commonly used passwords like i'm talking back like ogg 15 days um because i mean password managers like we have them now weren't a thing did you have did you have one set up for your windows password uh no okay i think

the logitech driver didn't load like pre-login or whatever back then not that you couldn't just extremely easily bypass windows passwords back yeah so whatever whatever um alex says my steam link finally died is a 200 shield pro really the best alternative right now for couch pc streaming yeah kind of and it does a lot of other stuff well as well um i i said it's really good try to run a cable if you can oh oh have you gone through these but not archived them uh all of them except for that one. Oh, no. And this one. I pressed that. What LTT shirt does Luke have on? I want it.

That's elemental, baby. That was our biggest product flop ever. Yeah. But then we turned it into a success by selling it for cheap. And get this. We're bringing it back for a third time. We're ready to flop even harder than before. Why? Because. for a third time we're ready to flop even harder than before why because are you guys having a hard time getting shirts in general why wouldn't you use it for different we can get black ones oh

yeah so we we can get enough black ones that we can do another elemental so uh basically the way elemental seems to kind of work now is we take the two top selling designs from the last failure or like the least worst ones we continue those we do two more and then rinse and repeat so that's what we're doing again we're taking the two best of the worst from last time and then lloyd has done up two more two more new colors so there are now a total of eight elemental designs over three generations once the new ones launch and they too can be yours for i don't know you could buy them for full price but or just wait if you hold out we just might discount them sorry i had something i had something stuck behind there like it's such a stupid product because we don't make any money on

it but it seems to actually generate a shocking amount of hype and there are people who actually do like it so that's cool i think they're fine i don't think they're necessarily as cool as some of the other options which is why i think they might not sell that well i don't think it's a bad shirt um i just think there's a lot of other like potentially cooler ones and you see we are going to be getting more wan hoodies as soon as we can as soon as we can i don't want to promise anything because worldwide logistics is so screwed up right now that if i promised something i'm basically setting myself up to be a big liar thanks tomic this purchase is sponsored by my birthday oh okay hey linus and luke picking up

a new lanyard for my badge as i just started a new it job a month ago i've been watching since 2012 and knew nothing about tech beforehand now i'm starting a career heck yeah brian cool david w hi from the uk been watching since the house just turned 18 a few weeks back are there plans for a wi-fi mesh comparison video i would love do it, but we don't really have a suitable test platform for it right now. What we need is a relatively RF clean environment so that we can isolate our variables. And it's just not something that we have available to us at the moment. Kind of need both because you want to test it out in a messy environment too anyways yeah i'm sure you're right greetings from serbia been with you since the beloved kitchen and

that one disappeared um no it's just down one christopher says love the new party shirt oh okay yeah no i'm gonna show that one uh really appreciate your work keep it up hey heck yeah yeah i really wish a lot of these we had just pushed to the thing that's okay here's something for the linux challenge stupid stuff windows does addition step one use the xbox app to install a few games to a secondary drive step two do a fresh install step three enjoy inaccessible undeletable folders i believe you man i had to get the new minecraft launcher for my kids and it was a mess like the one in the xbox store whatever, just total mess. The old Java edition launcher was just perfect

for both Minecraft and Dungeons. It was fine. I haven't tried it, but I have heard if you get Halo through Steam, you get the cross-platform play thing, so you can play it on Xbox, but your save doesn't transfer. It only transfers if you bought it through the

windows store which is just like why okay it's not even like that big of a deal because i don't know that many people that are going to play a single player game on both but like some people will alex f slowly replacing all my underwear with ltt heck yeah nice thanks thumbs up does this banner support emoji well we didn't push yours to the banner so i guess we don't know still i think so because the yeah anyways okay dagan says been watching since 2017 love the content merch keep it up hey thanks day again verla hey you're welcome glad your boyfriend will enjoy it hey we got a couple of these ones and we got two more. After Anthony's latest MacBook Pro M1 Max review,

for creative purposes, would you still prefer MacBook, seeing that it falls short of the 3060 Mobile in all tests except video editing? Really, the answer is, what software are you running? Because if the software that you're running needs a Mac, then buy a Mac. And if it doesn't, then don't buy a Mac. That was like when my mom was working on movies

and TV shows and stuff, a lot of sets kind of required iOS devices because they used things like AirDrop or whatever else. Yep, I can see that. And there was like a mild debate starting about like whether or not she should get an iOS device. She's never used one before. And the conclusion,

which we probably should have gotten to a little bit faster, but we did get to, was like, it doesn't matter. She has to get one. So like, let's just get it and then try to learn it. And luckily she adapted to it really fast and everything was fine. But Alexis, I want to buy your water bottle,

but it's metal. And that usually makes my water taste metallic. Does that happen with your bottles? So they end up with a bit of like manufacturing stank taste for I'd say probably somewhere between the first five and 15 washes. Like I'm pretty sensitive to it. So I'll take a new bottle and I'll just sit

and I will wash it like five or 10 times. But after that, no, I do not detect any metallic taste. And if you go on the site, we do not censor our reviews. I hate it when companies do this. Every review, aside from ones that are spam, every review stays on the site. So if you go through the 471 reviews, I actually remember reading one that mentioned metallic tastes like yesterday or today or something like that you can

see we actually get so many reviews on the site that all of these are from today these five if we go on to the next page all of these are from today yeah we remove ones that are clearly spam or are clearly inappropriate um there's ones that have had like lots of wording in it that is like not appropriate for a tech review um so that's a thing had nothing to do with like the actual product etc those are the only things that would be removed oh you know what i think uh i think the review i saw was on the mystery bottle mystery bottle this one doesn't have as many reviews either because well it's got a lot jake is holding the case hostage does he have it he has it oh yeah i couldn't find it where is it i think he hid it from you oh speaking of which jake is coming over for uh for gaming tonight do you want to come too

yeah okay cool so why don't we just all head to my house after yeah nice okay here it is from evan jensen perfect doesn't have metallic aftertaste boom you heard it from evan first my biggest gripe with reusable water bottles is that most give the water a metallic taste. These do not have that problem. Yay! Confirmed. And we've apparently got some gaming to do now, so we will see you all later. Thanks,

HiBee, with this shirt. I will always wear it with Linus and Luke in my heat-sinking heart. Thank you. Weird comment. Love it. We'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel bye what a weird message i love it hold on there might be one super chat i gotta do okay hold on hold on there's one there's one super chat i gotta do rusty trampoline says linus would house delays and rumors of an lg 97 inchinch 4K OLED in 2022 cause you to rethink your home theater choices?

97-inch OLED? That's pretty big. That's pretty big. That's pretty big. I think I want to go projector though. I think we've got light control in the room now. I think we're going 130-inch projector. And Rob from AV Rant was like,

you got to go JVC. But then there's also an Epson that we want to check out as well. So that's, I think, what the contenders are at the moment. All right. Bye, guys. Bye.