0:00

What is up everyone? How are you doing

0:02

and welcome to the win show? Oh,

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we've got a lot of great topics for you guys

0:06

today. AMD boldly announced is

0:09

new Ryzen seven thousand NonX and

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X3D

0:11

chips. Well, Intel Quantum launches

0:14

sixteen. Thirteenth

0:17

gen CPUs to compete against them

0:19

with no reviews,

0:21

no actual fanfare whatsoever. Alright.

0:24

Very interesting. Interesting. Different strategies.

0:27

Also, hey, Luke. Hey.

0:29

Do you wanna see some really weird

0:31

stuff? Yeah. Because I have got

0:33

some displays to show you. Don't

0:36

don't look don't look at them yet. We'll look at them later.

0:38

What else we got today?

0:39

Okay. Wizards of the coast are

0:41

being Just jerks.

0:44

That's

0:45

all the info I'm gonna get. Yeah.

0:46

They're actual but head wizards

0:48

now. Yeah. Yeah. They're not working

0:50

on our coast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

0:53

And what else? I

0:57

told myself I was gonna pick one early, but

0:59

I actually didn't do it. If he complains about

1:01

the topics today -- Oh, perfect. It'll

1:03

be on me because unlike most

1:05

WAN shows, I actually handpicked all the

1:07

topics today. So come out to you. Come

1:09

out to me. No. No. No. I I Microsoft

1:12

asked ChatGPT How do I fix

1:14

Bing and Windows Search? Oh, interesting.

1:18

I wonder what the answer is. Why

1:37

don't we jump right into our headline

1:40

topic today. Hey, Luke.

1:42

Look at these weird displays. Okay? You're not don't

1:45

don't look at anything. Stop. Stop. Stop.

1:47

Okay. Okay. Alright. Plenty

1:49

of high resolution and high refresh

1:51

rate monitors were unveiled at CES this

1:53

year. But I wanna show Luke

1:56

the monitor technologies that

1:58

require a little more justification than

2:02

than big and sharp and

2:04

high refresh rate. We are

2:06

going to have him play a little

2:08

game, where he tries to come

2:10

up with some potential

2:12

use case

2:13

for any of this. Okay.

2:16

Do you think you can do it? Are you ready?

2:18

Yeah. I

2:18

actually think I can. I don't know what any of the

2:20

boundaries are, but I'm sure I can think of something. We're gonna

2:22

start Here, I'm just gonna fire up my

2:25

my my laptop sharing thing

2:27

here. There you go. It's up there. We are gonna

2:29

start with Asus spatial

2:32

vision. That's right. This

2:34

is a laptop with the world's first

2:37

glasses free three d

2:39

OLED technology. Okay.

2:41

Okay. The way it works is it

2:43

actually has a camera on the front

2:45

of the laptop, on the bezel that

2:48

looks at where your eyes are.

2:50

So rather I should say stereo cameras,

2:52

that look at where your eyes are

2:54

and automatically readjusts the

2:57

of the image, which

2:59

achieves a stereo separation by

3:02

splitting up every vertical line.

3:04

So every other line is a right eye image

3:06

and every other line is left eye image.

3:08

And you

3:10

do not need three d glasses. I

3:13

think this one's pretty easy. I

3:16

mean, there's lots of, like, three d content, three d --

3:18

Is there? -- I Okay.

3:21

Is there a have to qualify Are

3:23

you sure that the year is not twenty

3:25

fourteen? There's lots of old ones.

3:27

Yeah. They made a bunch of old

3:29

ones for a very short period of time and maybe

3:31

you haven't watched any of them because it was horrible

3:33

back then and very not accessible back

3:36

then. And now you can buy a specific laptop

3:38

just to be able to see that. Are you sure that Nvidia

3:41

even makes a stereo

3:43

three d driver anymore? Oh.

3:46

That's interesting. But there's gotta

3:49

be other ways. I'm sure

3:51

if it's it's a laptop. Right? So I'm sure whatever

3:53

they are powering the laptop with is able

3:55

to display it. Okay. What would

3:57

you do with it? I don't want

3:59

it. I do nothing with it.

4:02

I I have no personal use case for this

4:04

at all. Is it There's no way I

4:06

would buy that. No question. Alright.

4:10

After Luke gives his answer, I'm gonna give

4:12

the real answer. So I'm

4:14

assuming it has something to do with, like, architectural

4:16

stuff. There are apparently two

4:18

d to three d layers

4:21

that can apply to games to the point where

4:23

you can play games that were

4:25

not developed for stereoscopic three

4:27

d. In stereo three d, it adds another

4:29

camera view somehow. What games?

4:32

Apparently modern ones. I have not

4:34

tried it. That does not sound like it's

4:36

gonna be every game. I have not personally

4:38

tried it, sir. Sir, I'm gonna have

4:40

to ask you it, sir. Sir? I

4:42

wouldn't try this with multiplayer games.

4:44

You're probably gonna get banned. Okay. But more

4:46

realistically, professional applications

4:49

-- Yeah. -- where your

4:51

boss comes to your desk, this is

4:53

an alternative to throwing on a VR headset.

4:55

Yeah. So theoretically,

4:58

I think, oh, don't quote me on this.

5:00

No. It obviously wouldn't be able to track two

5:02

people at once. I don't know. Just ignore

5:05

it. But the point is, if someone was

5:07

at your desk, you could show them and

5:09

manipulate a model, build a side, whatever.

5:11

And it could pop out or go behind

5:13

this screen and they could really get a better sense of

5:15

the scale. Like, say, for example, why is it

5:17

a laptop? Just

5:21

can you just help me out

5:23

here? Okay? Well,

5:23

I I guess the architectural thing. Right? And I

5:26

think that's kind of the direction that you're talking about

5:28

right

5:28

now. So,

5:28

okay. Yeah. Professional, whatever. Sure. But

5:30

then, like, literally, the scenario that

5:33

you're describing, there is zero benefit

5:35

to it being a laptop. So anyway,

5:39

during the development of the screwdriver, say, for

5:41

example, if Alex could have modeled

5:43

out at life size, you

5:45

know, different handle shapes

5:47

or something like that. That might have been pretty cool.

5:49

Sure. That's that's the real answer. Yeah. Alright.

5:51

Are you ready for number two? Sure. The

5:54

Lenovo Think Plus twist.

5:58

Twist. Okay.

6:02

Thinkbook plus Reinvent's rotating

6:05

design form factor. That's right, my

6:07

friends. This guy has

6:09

a high resolution OLED panel

6:11

on one side and an

6:13

e ink display on the other

6:16

side.

6:20

Wow. That sounds like a lot of

6:22

easily damaged things that are hard to

6:24

protect. What

6:28

is this for? Yeah. Whoa.

6:30

Saving battery life if you're doing

6:33

simple tasks that that

6:35

involve only, like, text editing

6:37

or writing emails or something. Oh,

6:39

I like it. Because I it. I like

6:41

it. Full turn off the other side. Right?

6:43

I believe you can. Yes. Yeah.

6:45

It comes with a pen that supports

6:47

both displays. That's kinda cool.

6:50

I think the main one

6:53

though that they were focused on

6:55

was like using it as an e ink tablet

6:57

as like a reader. Yeah.

7:00

Which you would only do

7:02

really if you wanna save battery life. Yeah.

7:04

That also sounds like a very heavy

7:07

e reader. Yes.

7:11

I don't know. Alright. Yeah.

7:14

Okay. Yes. Next? Okay.

7:17

Gate nine twenty seven in

7:19

Twitch chat says I owned the original twist and

7:21

it was extremely unreliable. Okay.

7:24

Fair enough. Alright. Next

7:26

up. Oh, this is good. We've

7:29

got a TV. It's

7:32

a 4K TV.

7:33

Okay. It's OLED. It's

7:34

4K. Yeah. Yeah. Four k.

7:37

Lots of k. TV with 4K4K4

7:40

k's. It's OLED. It's brighter than

7:42

last gen OLED. Okay. It's

7:45

ninety seven inches.

7:47

That's a lot. Which is a lot of inches.

7:50

But the big the

7:52

big wow factor feature

7:55

of this display is that

7:57

it is wireless. Do

8:04

you know wait, like, entirely? Do

8:06

you know the Samsung One Connect

8:08

box? No. Okay.

8:11

Basically Samsung has this super

8:13

slim cable that you can wire up your wall

8:15

and that carries power and display.

8:17

And then this box that you could have in your media

8:20

console that has all your HDMI inputs

8:22

and, you know, your optical connection,

8:24

you you know, Ethernet. Whatever whatever else.

8:26

Yeah. So it's called the one connect

8:28

box. Well LG is

8:30

take kicking that up a notch with the

8:32

zero connect. How do they deliver

8:34

power? It Okay?

8:37

Why why you gotta be an asshole. Well, I'm

8:39

just you're saying it's it's cabled

8:41

list. Okay? The box,

8:44

the Zero Connect box, wirelessly

8:47

transmits one hundred twenty

8:49

hertz four k video

8:49

with, they apparently haven't measured

8:52

it. Very low

8:54

latency. They haven't measured

8:56

it. That is complete crap. There

8:58

is no way they haven't measured it. I

9:00

actually, I would I don't make

9:02

bets. I guarantee you

9:04

they have measured it. There is no

9:06

possibility where they have not measured

9:08

it. I'm sure it's g sync. Wanna report it.

9:10

It supports g sync. That's cool.

9:12

Okay. How does it receive power?

9:15

From the wall. What the heck?

9:21

I don't. If you're sending one cap

9:23

I can understand. Okay. I'm sending one cable

9:25

that's a lot better than like fifteen. If

9:27

you're talking about like a computer or something,

9:30

sending one cable compared to two

9:32

is not a problem. I

9:34

actually don't care about this. And don't forget that the

9:36

Samsung One Connect is one cable.

9:39

Oh, that's way

9:41

worse for this. Okay.

9:43

One justification, I will give you

9:45

the one possible justification. A, this

9:47

is part of their signature line. I

9:49

don't think they expect to sell a ton of

9:51

them. No. I hope not. And

9:53

b, don't be a dick. They might wanna

9:55

measure that latency first before they do that.

9:57

And b, okay, a

10:00

potential use case for this. This could

10:02

be the the actual

10:04

viable version of the video we

10:06

did earlier this week, which the wireless

10:08

GPU. Wireless GPU. Yeah. So you can have it's

10:10

a ninety seven inch TV.

10:12

That is basically, like,

10:14

theater size. And if you could

10:16

have your connection box in a

10:18

cabinet on the side of the room or at the

10:20

back of the room or whatever and all

10:22

your consoles and all your other crap is

10:24

over there, and all you need

10:26

is power. It could make for a very

10:28

clean install. But

10:31

you can afford a theater room and a signature

10:33

TV so you probably afford a dry

10:35

waller. So,

10:37

like, just run one of the caves. Cut all

10:39

the wall and my embedded cave. And I

10:41

will say for this one, I will give them

10:43

a prop. It's a cool, like,

10:45

progression of technology. Sure. It just

10:47

doesn't matter because you're still sending a power

10:49

cable. Yes. But it

10:52

could matter in the future in

10:55

some other device or once if

10:57

they figure out, like, high high

11:00

high whatever wireless power, etcetera

11:02

-- Sure. -- something high wattage. Yeah.

11:04

Yeah. I don't know. Alright. I got another one

11:06

for you. This is the Lenovo

11:09

yoga book nine I.

11:11

Okay. I don't have yoga books. That's it.

11:13

That's it.

11:18

Wow. How does that not flip over?

11:20

Does it have a stand in the back? It

11:22

does have an included kickstand. Yes.

11:24

Is it like a big I

11:26

mean I guess.

11:28

I can't even see Oh, no.

11:30

That's that oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go.

11:32

Here we go. Wow.

11:37

Okay. Interesting. Wow.

11:40

It can go into a lot. So does the do the

11:42

How does this work? Does

11:45

this oh, because this fell

11:47

asleep. That happens. Wow.

11:48

Okay. Interest, is that you? Yeah. Way

11:50

to go, Luke. Oh,

11:56

If my laptop screen turns

11:58

off oh, the HDMI stops

12:00

grabbing the audio. So it starts out pointing

12:02

through the speakers. Got it. Soft.

12:04

So I'm having

12:07

a hard time understanding how it works. Do the

12:09

screens come off? The keyboard

12:11

definitely comes off. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So

12:13

that's how you get it done. So so so the

12:15

keyboard just like sits on the bottom screen.

12:17

It's two screens that clamshell together.

12:19

Yeah.

12:19

Yeah. So you can put the keyboard

12:22

here and use some screen

12:24

as like a rest

12:25

rest. Okay. So

12:26

to to, like, move

12:28

the laptop around like I wanna throw at my

12:31

bag.

12:31

Yeah. You close the screens together. Yes.

12:33

The keyboard is off. You

12:35

put the whole like, two piece

12:37

unit into your bag and then move, I

12:39

don't hate it. I didn't

12:41

ask if you hated it. That's what you would like. There's

12:44

definitely use cases for a dual screen laptop.

12:46

Sure. Like, I I don't know. That's not I

12:48

don't think that's even worth

12:50

going through all of them. There's lots of things that you could use

12:52

two screens for. Okay. Some of the

12:54

configurations were a little funny. I think that one where you

12:56

have them both vertical. Like, you have

12:58

to I didn't really see something in any of the

13:00

product photos that's gonna hold that up. I

13:02

see a lot of flipped yoga laptops

13:05

just -- Yeah. -- flopping all over the place. But

13:07

when they had them both like

13:10

the format was in

13:12

portrait. Mhmm. They had them both like

13:14

that. They actually kinda made more sense to me.

13:16

That's

13:16

pretty cool. I could that

13:17

being pretty cool for, like, development or something like that. I I

13:19

could see this being, like, an actual thing that

13:21

people actually buy. Alright. You ready

13:23

for the next one? Yes. There were a lot of

13:25

wild display concepts at CES

13:27

this year. It's fun when they do that. I should

13:29

say there are CES' still

13:31

on. Flex hybrid. Flex

13:33

hybrid.

13:43

What's going on

13:44

here? Is this

13:45

a phone? What is

13:48

it?

13:49

Is it supposed to

13:50

is it a tablet? You tell me,

13:52

Luke. I

13:53

don't know. It

13:57

looks like it's supposed to be a phone.

13:59

Like, the camera in the corner

14:01

looks like a phone camera.

14:04

Okay. Do you wanna see it again? Do you wanna see it again?

14:07

Yeah.

14:07

Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. We'll see it

14:09

again. Like, that looked like a phone thing.

14:15

Why? Look,

14:18

there's all the styles over here. Sure.

14:21

No one's ever gonna make specific apps for

14:23

this, by the way, whoever came up

14:25

with that. Okay.

14:28

So it's the same as like your phone,

14:30

but it's really big and also

14:33

you can make it really bigger

14:36

Again, this feels like cool

14:39

technology, but I don't think that

14:41

device itself matters, if that makes

14:43

sense. Okay. And we've seen all of that

14:45

before. We've seen like where it kind of rolls out

14:47

more screen when you pull on it. I

14:49

don't

14:49

think we've seen them together.

14:51

Correct. I don't think we have. I'm just

14:54

saying the individual pieces we have seen before. Oh, there's

14:56

more from Samsung. Oh, great. Very

14:58

good. Samsung display. I should

15:00

clarify. Slidable flex Yes.

15:03

I

15:04

actually like this Luke React channel.

15:07

Okay. So what

15:09

okay. Again, what is this?

15:12

Is it supposed to

15:12

be a display?

15:15

It's the slideable flex

15:17

solo. Right. But, like, I see a game

15:19

on it. That looks like the new need for speed on

15:21

bound potentially.

15:24

Is it plugged into a computer?

15:26

No. It's it's so It's a tablet. It's

15:28

a tablet. It's a tablet. Okay.

15:39

This is weird. How the app the

15:42

how it's being used right now is really

15:44

weird. I guess, it's just playing a video.

15:46

Yeah. Sure. Of someone using

15:49

it? Yes. It's not actually in use. Yeah.

15:51

I I mean, this is kind of neat.

15:53

I guess, I don't know. I

15:55

wouldn't want it. That's not the question,

15:57

Luke. The question Where would it be? I

15:59

mean, it's just a tablet that gets

16:01

bigger. So it's it's probably easier

16:03

to carry around especially if you're not carrying around

16:05

a backpack, so you're carrying around like a purse

16:07

and you find that this can fit in there,

16:09

but then you could make it make it bigger?

16:12

Things that you can make bigger go

16:14

in there. Okay? Yeah. They can. What

16:16

about this thing you can make bigger?

16:18

What is this? Slightable

16:20

flex. Oh, so

16:22

it just goes both directions.

16:26

It's even bigger narrower. It's the

16:28

bigger wrist. It's the it's the

16:30

bigger rater. Are

16:34

these are they actually planning on selling

16:36

these? Okay. Or they just like You kinda you

16:38

kinda hit the nail on the head. Okay. This

16:40

is Samsung display. Okay.

16:42

So it's like a technology display. It's not

16:44

Samsung Electronics. Got

16:46

it. So this is and

16:49

Luke didn't know. So it's

16:51

fortunate he didn't say anything too

16:53

rude. But we actually

16:55

have a sponsored video on these coming

16:57

out very soon. The tech

16:59

is cool. These are tech demos. And it

17:01

looks They're all tech demos.

17:03

From from that

17:04

which is

17:04

not fair. They

17:06

look well I'd say they

17:08

look better done than the versions of this that we've seen

17:10

in the past. I think that's fair to say.

17:13

But they aren't cooked. Yeah. And they're not intended

17:15

to be. Yeah. These are tech demos. And that's

17:17

that makes sense. But they're pretty

17:20

wild. It's cool.

17:22

I could that both directions

17:24

or one direction thing doesn't really matter to

17:26

me. But AAA tablet that

17:28

expands, I totally

17:30

understand. That makes sense. I've never been

17:32

a tablet person, but the tablet people that

17:34

I know would probably like that. You know it's

17:36

funny. I'm actually the op a

17:38

sit way. They a lot more things that they showed off

17:40

that will be in the video, guys. Make sure you don't

17:42

miss it because their displays

17:44

demo this year was

17:47

wild. That was not all of it for

17:49

real. In the tablet

17:51

form factor, there was actually one that I liked

17:54

better. They have I forget what I forget what

17:56

it's called. The corners go out or something. It folds

17:58

in two spots. Oh. So it's

18:00

like a twelve inch tablet.

18:02

Like, a big old tablet. Like, one of the, like, the big

18:04

iPad Pros. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it folds

18:07

twice with no display on the outside. It's

18:09

kinda nice. So it's, like, kind

18:11

of percable. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

18:13

And I was A percival tablet

18:16

that gets big totally

18:18

makes sense. Yeah. And for me,

18:20

I actually prefer further the idea of having

18:22

it fold up and be protected compared

18:24

to the idea of,

18:26

like, it having this No. I agree.

18:29

Presumably somewhat fragile

18:31

rolling mechanism -- Yeah. -- that

18:33

takes a while. It should be noted though that

18:35

it doesn't take that long. Those

18:37

are motorized to demo units. That makes

18:39

sense. But what's really cool is

18:41

that James, who I

18:43

was kinda envious of this, As far

18:45

as I can tell, other than Samsung

18:47

display employees, James

18:50

Stripe was the only person who was

18:52

allowed to touch all of these. That's pretty cool. So he got in there

18:54

and was like, rant. Right. Right.

18:56

Right. Right. Like, they're they're

18:58

manual. The demos that you see

19:00

are just motors. So they're

19:02

set up to manual mechanisms. And when

19:03

you're doing a display like that, you're gonna wanna make

19:06

it go pretty slow because people are gonna be

19:08

interested in, like, intricate

19:08

things that you wanna see at slow speeds. So don't blame for

19:11

doing any of that. But in use, you would just

19:13

open it. Yeah. Which is pretty

19:15

cool. Yeah. Yeah. I do I do think I

19:17

agree with you. I like the the dual folding one a

19:19

little bit better. It feels like you're folding,

19:22

like, a piece of paper or a map or

19:24

something like that. Mhmm. Yeah. Can make

19:26

sense? Tyler Bolen one's first

19:28

ever chat on Twitch. It's a

19:30

grower, not a shower. Yeah.

19:33

Yeah. It's a good first chat. Not always bad.

19:35

Okay. Good first chat. It's good speaker,

19:37

I swear. Also,

19:39

that that's that's the last that's the last one.

19:41

Not a small tab. Okay. We're good enough for you to

19:43

react to. Okay. But in

19:46

other

19:46

news, it's a really good

19:48

thing that I didn't buy of the wall.

19:51

Because there's now a

19:53

smaller version of

19:55

the wall, It's not

19:57

exactly petite. It's seventy six

19:59

inches. It's cheaper

20:02

and get this. They'll

20:04

do two hundred forty hertz now. They

20:06

are much brighter, and

20:09

the this is the big one.

20:11

The response time of this panel is

20:13

apparently two nanoseconds.

20:17

Whoa. Two nanoseconds.

20:21

For comparison. You know, it's fun when

20:23

you move to a new unit of measurement.

20:25

You moved past. We

20:27

went from milliseconds to

20:30

I mean, what's point one of a millisecond? I

20:32

think that's what would what would that

20:34

be? Yeah. Oh, man. I

20:36

I'm pretty sure Nano's under micro.

20:39

I think we went past an entire

20:42

order of

20:45

magnitude. Just skipped over

20:47

it. The fact that the fact that OLEDs,

20:49

like high end OLED displays now are rated for

20:51

like point one milliseconds. And

20:54

this is two nanoseconds

20:56

means that essentially

21:00

image image retention or

21:02

like image image blur is solved

21:05

at this point. Like, if you

21:07

could put a micro LED display in

21:10

something like a VR headset, you

21:12

would have absolutely no smearing

21:14

whatsoever. Now, obviously, the fact that

21:16

they're only able to make this in like

21:18

a seventy six inch form

21:21

factor means we're not getting VR headsets

21:23

anytime soon. Yeah. Yeah.

21:25

One one fun thing.

21:27

When when you in the audience I

21:29

think I think I am doing for this. When you

21:31

in the audience turn thirty one

21:33

point seven years old, you can

21:35

you can say that you are one giga

21:38

second old. And that's apparently

21:40

real. Oh, okay. Thank you

21:42

for that, Luke. Yeah. No worries. I

21:44

appreciate you. It's like a ton of seconds. But

21:46

it's a giga No. It's a giga of

21:48

seconds. It's not a ton of

21:50

measure of mass. That makes sense. Yeah.

21:52

Yeah. Good. Okay.

21:55

You guys are probably noticing

21:57

if you are a new viewer, there's

21:59

little messages coming down in the bottom. The

22:02

way send a message into the show is not through superchats.

22:04

It is not through twitch bits.

22:06

It is by either being subscribed on flow

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plane. We do actually monitor the flow

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in a merch message. That's right. Instead of

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can throw money at the screen and

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or a screwdriver? It will arrive

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And in the checkout, you can leave a merch message, which

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will either show up along the

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bottom get a response from our producer, Dan, or

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that you said on the show.

22:42

Sup had an f Just shutting up

22:44

picked up the backpack. Very nice. Backpack

22:46

review is so good. Yeah. So, yeah, it's moving

22:48

moving real good. People are loving

22:50

it. Speaking of monetization, Wizards

22:53

of the coast tightens DND

22:55

open gaming license, angering

22:58

community. I

22:58

think angering community is a bit of

23:01

an understatement. But --

23:01

Yeah. Sure. -- filed understatement. This is not a

23:04

community that tends to be be

23:06

big on anger or or know how

23:08

to combat things or write very well.

23:10

So I'm I'm sure this won't be

23:12

terrible for them. A leaked version of wizards

23:14

of the coast's new open gaming license

23:17

revision for dungeons and dragons is

23:19

causing massive customer

23:21

backlash. Luckily, it's leaked. Not just

23:23

customers. To fix it. Massive backlash

23:25

from everyone. From everyone. Yeah. Because it's terrible.

23:27

The new revision demands that anyone making

23:30

money really feel that anyone

23:32

making money from DND to

23:34

directly report it to wizards of the coast potentially

23:36

pay a twenty

23:38

five percent royalty

23:40

on gross revenue. Okay.

23:43

That's important. That last bit is really

23:45

important. I think that many

23:47

people do not really

23:51

Maybe they just don't really think about all the

23:54

different terms that businesses use to

23:56

describe money. Oh,

23:58

okay. So for example, I

24:00

mentioned on a recent win show that

24:02

this year twenty twenty three

24:04

could be the first year that

24:07

merch outpaces video

24:10

production for Lenis Media Group

24:12

or whatever the, you know, Yvonne umbrella

24:14

corporation. But for our

24:16

revenue, that does not mean. And

24:18

I've seen a lot of people that have sort

24:20

of misconstrued that to mean that

24:22

merch is more profitable.

24:25

That Ain't the

24:27

case? Physical goods

24:29

have much higher overhead expenses. You gotta ship

24:31

it around. You gotta make it. You gotta r and

24:33

d it. As revenue as

24:35

a measure of the of the

24:37

sheer top line number of

24:39

dollars that come into your

24:41

company. But there

24:43

are a a few different

24:46

places where revenue gets kind of

24:48

cut down to become the

24:50

actual amount left at the end.

24:53

So let's start first with

24:55

that your with your with your

24:57

cogs, your like, your cost of goods

24:59

sold. Okay? So when

25:01

I bring in seventy dollars of

25:03

revenue on a screwdriver. I

25:05

then get to subtract the

25:07

actual cost of my

25:09

of my screwdriver. now

25:11

I'm left with my gross profit.

25:13

Not gross like you, Iike,

25:15

but gross like Not

25:19

not the opposite of net. Yeah.

25:21

Yeah. Okay. So I'm left with my gross

25:23

profit. So that's essentially the

25:25

amount of money minus the cost of goods sold.

25:28

But my costs aren't done

25:30

yet to calculate my net

25:32

profit. Okay? The amount that I

25:34

actually made on

25:36

the screwdriver I then need to

25:38

subtract any associated costs. So

25:40

we have to pack this thing. Somebody has to do that.

25:42

They need to be paid. We have to put it in a

25:44

box. That costs money. Whoever

25:46

made the box has to be

25:48

paid. There's going to be some

25:50

there's going to be QC. There's

25:52

also going to be some general overhead

25:54

that's not necessarily associated with just this

25:57

screwdriver. But with screwdrivers in general, we might have

25:59

some bad units once in a while. We need to send

26:01

out replacement units via the

26:03

Trust Me Bureau guarantee. R and d.

26:05

There's the r and d that gets to be

26:07

amortized, but certainly has to be paid for at

26:09

some point. So then we get to

26:11

our net profit. Then

26:13

when we're done with that, now

26:16

I'm gonna get a little bit fuzzy on the terms because

26:18

I don't believe it or not actually work in our

26:20

accounting department, and we have to

26:22

pay taxes that profit. And

26:24

that's where we're left with I forget if it's,

26:26

like, earnings or, like, like, whatever

26:28

net earnings or well, whatever the actual

26:30

difference is. So don't worry too much about the terms.

26:32

The point is you've got your revenue, you've got your gross

26:34

profit, you've got your your

26:36

profit after you account for

26:38

paying salaries and operating

26:40

costs, electricity for your building and all

26:42

that other stuff. And then finally,

26:44

on that number, that amount that was

26:46

left over in your bank account, you then get to

26:49

write a big fat check to Uncle

26:51

Trudeau, and then

26:53

that's the money that you actually get to keep

26:55

sort of because that's your court. We've

26:57

played corporate income tax on that. But if I

26:59

wanted to actually spend it, I would then have to pay

27:01

personal income tax on after I

27:03

a dividend myself or whatever the case may be. Okay?

27:08

Cool. So twenty five

27:10

percent royalty. Let's come back to wizards

27:12

of the coast. Is on

27:14

gross revenues. That's

27:16

why this is so

27:19

nasty because it doesn't matter if

27:21

you made any money even.

27:23

Someone had lost money and then need to give them

27:25

money. They will take their cut and

27:29

really And So

27:30

say say you didn't make money on it. Say

27:33

you lost money on it. And then they

27:35

came, gave you the finger, and took twenty

27:37

five percent of the original

27:39

amount anyways. And that

27:42

also gives them free reign to use those

27:44

works in any way they see fit

27:46

without compensating any perpetuity.

27:48

In any way, forever, and they can

27:50

even sublicense it.

27:53

Heck. Yeah. Really? The

27:55

previous version of the license was in place for more

27:57

than twenty years and

27:59

allowed broad royalty free use

28:01

of DND's game mechanics and helped

28:03

the tabletop RPG's grow

28:05

into the two point five million dollar industry

28:07

that they are I actually bet you if

28:09

that wasn't in place for the twenty years that

28:11

it was in place, they wouldn't

28:13

be nowhere near the size of

28:15

company that they are now. And

28:17

I don't think it would be anywhere near as ubiquitous

28:19

as it is now either. Yeah. The previous

28:21

version, sorry, the new version does

28:23

not allow for anything beyond game

28:26

books and PDFs. This

28:28

eliminates videos, virtual

28:31

tabletop, implementations, kinda huge.

28:33

Computer games, also kinda huge.

28:35

Novels, apps, graphic

28:37

novels, music, and any other form of

28:39

media from being created with the IP.

28:41

Here's the really wild thing to

28:44

me. The

28:47

old license was perpetual.

28:52

So the new the the

28:54

new license Luke and I think both read on

28:56

this before coming into the show. The new license

28:59

specifically has language in it that

29:01

allows them to I'll

29:03

alter the deal at any point. Pra, I don't alter

29:05

it further. But the old one didn't.

29:07

I suspect if you created something already

29:09

using the old license, that

29:12

you're probably still fine. Yeah. But,

29:14

like, I gotta imagine that are

29:16

they just are they just anticipating that

29:18

nobody will have the money or time to challenge them

29:20

on this? Because the the original how

29:22

these things work? The original timeline for this had

29:25

it going into effect in, like, two days from

29:27

now or something like that. Like

29:29

these people were basically being

29:31

given no time to

29:33

agree, comply, and move

29:35

forward with these new license terms,

29:37

which is wild. You've

29:39

gone and you've built this ecosystem that

29:41

is thriving. You're clearly

29:44

doing fine. Okay? Wizards of the

29:46

coast brought in almost a billion dollars

29:48

of revenue last year. That is more than a

29:50

third of the industry's revenue.

29:52

You are fine you

29:55

have this openness to thank for your growth.

29:58

And now what? Some

30:00

bean counter who I

30:02

promise has never even touched

30:05

DND. Has no

30:07

idea how important third party

30:09

contributions are to the ecosystem

30:11

came in and said, Well, why not money? No.

30:13

We should get

30:13

money from this. Yeah. Why

30:16

not? Brutal.

30:19

Meanwhile, Hasbro and Wizard

30:21

of the Coast are already dealing with significant

30:23

backlash from the Magic: The Gathering community

30:25

over over printing cards.

30:29

Bank of America devalued the stock last

30:31

month after their research analyst came to the

30:33

conclusion that the overprinting was

30:35

destroying the long term value

30:37

of the Brand. Thanks.

30:39

This ain't gonna help,

30:42

guys. Your brand is

30:44

everything. People don't have to play and

30:46

dragons. Do you know how many games there are to

30:48

play? Do

30:48

you know how to table talk games? Do

30:51

you know

30:52

passionate The tabletop gaming community is?

30:54

Yeah. They'll make

30:54

a new one. And they

30:57

can. Trust me

31:00

they can. Like, do you know how easy it

31:02

is to make a definitely

31:05

not dungeons and definitely not

31:07

dragons game? It's

31:09

a dice fantasy game.

31:11

It's like elves and You

31:14

didn't invent that.

31:17

For real though.

31:17

Yeah. Like, really? Yeah. Do

31:20

you have any idea what

31:22

you're doing? I'm not even hyper into

31:24

d and d, but I'm still looking

31:26

at this

31:26

going, this is classic.

31:29

This is classic,

31:31

having absolutely no

31:34

idea. Out of touch parent company.

31:36

Absolutely. No idea what you're

31:38

doing. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. This is great. We're

31:40

getting lots of suggestions

31:41

here. We've got caves and lizards,

31:44

jails, and withers, Huts Hudson

31:47

Lizards. This is

31:49

what I'm talk this is what I'm talking

31:52

about. Right? Now, this twenty

31:54

five percent royalty. Hey, wizards

31:56

of the coast estimates that only

31:58

about twenty companies will be affected

32:00

by it. And from their point

32:02

of view, why should they be

32:04

essentially funding competitors? But

32:06

that's the thing. Is

32:08

again, you're you are missing the forest

32:10

for the trees here. I

32:12

had never heard of any of those

32:15

other companies. Until this

32:17

headline hit my Google News Feed. And

32:19

that's what I was kinda referencing you at the

32:21

beginning is like

32:22

All I knew was dungeons and

32:24

dragons. DND is the is the

32:26

is the big game in the space. Yeah.

32:28

You're the Kleenex. Yeah. So why

32:30

are you coming out and starting

32:33

a media war, a

32:35

community war in front of

32:37

everybody with every other

32:39

brand of nose tissue. All

32:41

you're doing is like to use

32:43

terms that maybe someone in your community

32:45

might understand, but I suspect you won't. You're

32:47

exposing part of your armor

32:49

and allowing another smaller group to

32:51

take a massive shot because,

32:54

like, if somebody if somebody in

32:56

this community that makes a really good compelling

32:58

product, which there are genuinely

33:01

many just uses this to

33:03

get a massive leg up. It's very

33:05

likely going to work. Like,

33:07

you're gonna get wrecked because

33:09

there are other very compelling

33:11

products. But right now or

33:13

before today, I

33:15

guess, If someone is really into DND

33:17

and they play for a really long time, they might

33:19

keep playing DND or maybe they go and play

33:21

one of these other things. Right?

33:25

Okay. Well, they're still in that community.

33:27

And that person is still bringing

33:29

interest from other people in their sphere

33:31

into these types of things. And

33:33

I find no. God here. I do not wanna restart right

33:35

now, obviously. This computer is

33:38

on for one day a

33:39

week. Alright. I'm using it for one day

33:41

a week. It's actually on for longer than that.

33:43

Anyways, they're

33:45

bringing more people into the space, and a lot of people

33:47

when they come into the tabletop, our BG space,

33:50

are going to default to

33:54

DND. Of course, they

33:54

are. They're not going to defaults to one of

33:56

these other games because they've heard

33:59

this forever. Armor

34:02

and shot, and I was using I was talking about

34:04

exposed armor. Lomillia's in Flipp plain

34:06

shot says, it was very very

34:08

clear from the from the

34:10

leaks that wizards of the coast has

34:12

already already knows to expect

34:14

backlash. And they're just accepting that

34:16

as cost of doing business. I can't even imagine

34:18

this is gonna be a significant amount of

34:20

money. It could be. It could

34:22

be because that that twenty five

34:24

percent tier is at

34:26

seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of

34:28

revenue per year. And

34:30

so if there's twenty of them, well, that's at

34:32

least fifteen million dollars so

34:34

you could twenty five percent of fifteen million dollars. It wouldn't hurt. But then

34:36

again, we're talking about at the scale of their

34:38

business, like, why? And they're creating

34:40

so much administrative red

34:42

tape. Yeah. For everyone's

34:44

expected to report their projects into wizard

34:46

of the New Year. Someone has to review

34:48

all that. Remember we were talking about those financial breakdown

34:50

things? Yeah. Now you have to factor

34:53

in the revenue loss that they're going to happen. I guarantee you they're going to have it. This

34:55

is a very passionate community and they're not

34:57

going to like this. So

35:00

they're gonna switch to other games. And some of these other

35:02

games or platforms they included like music,

35:04

whatever else. Some of these other

35:06

things, various forms of implementation,

35:09

they can pivot. Assuming

35:11

that their previous works fall under the

35:14

original license, so they're still fine,

35:16

new works can pivot. Tommy

35:18

Blue clarified something. Yes.

35:20

Sorry. I'm sorry. If you are

35:22

doing seven hundred and fifty plus

35:24

seven hundred and fifty thousand plus revenue,

35:26

it's twenty five percent on anything past

35:28

that. Yeah. So it's kind of like a bloody

35:30

hell. I forget the word. Like,

35:34

it's kinda like how tax brackets

35:35

work. So, yes, you're in higher bracket, but that bracket only applies

35:38

to your personal income over whatever level. So

35:40

when a chat is talking about using

35:42

chat GPT

35:44

to alter how d and d works to make a

35:46

new game. Like, yeah, I don't know if if you're

35:48

make if you're making stuff in this space,

35:52

and your company if your company's revenue

35:54

is over seven hundred fifty grand and you're making

35:56

something in the space, first off, good job.

36:00

Second off, I pivot, find a way. I'm sure you can do it. Screw these

36:02

guys. Don't give them that twenty five percent. By

36:04

the way, I took some fun ones

36:06

from float planes, some some potential

36:08

names for and d competitors.

36:10

Okay. We've got swamps and

36:12

donkey. We've got

36:15

planes and snakes. Nice. Okay. Pacements

36:17

and virgins. That

36:20

that could be a natural game.

36:24

I know. Right? That could actually totally be an actual game.

36:26

But like the adventure is, like, getting

36:28

out of the basement -- Yeah. --

36:30

trying to accomplish your fairly obvious task.

36:33

There's various ways

36:36

to do scopes.

36:38

I mean, so if you're just super bad.

36:40

You're Yeah. Basically, exactly. There's a compelling

36:42

story here. You could make that game.

36:45

Coming of age. That's

36:52

the expansion. And

36:57

then the to to round up the trilogy, we've got

37:00

fun for the whole family. Oh,

37:02

no. What? No. Because

37:04

because you've had children. Already

37:06

digital with that. Disgusting disgusting.

37:10

Get your mind out of the gutter,

37:12

sir. Get out of get

37:16

her step,

37:20

bro. No. That's the fourth

37:22

one. Oh, there you go. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

37:28

Alright. Cool, man.

37:32

Anyway, we do not support this.

37:34

Yeah. If you didn't

37:38

gather that. Oh, okay. Apparently, our discussion question here

37:40

was, how could Hasbro monetize two

37:42

of the most lucrative brands in the gaming

37:44

world without

37:46

completely alienating their

37:48

users. I mean, I can tell you

37:50

right now that all the references to

37:52

NFTs in the new

37:54

guidelines are not

37:56

gonna help. Yeah. Oh. Oh. You're a little late to the

37:58

griffed, guys. Yeah. A little

38:00

bit. I there's tons of ways. I

38:02

don't know. Yeah.

38:04

Anyway We always found

38:06

that their games were very

38:09

half assed, like the

38:11

DND video games. Were never

38:14

really that great. I remember the first time I ever

38:16

heard that there was a DND video game I actually

38:18

got really excited and then it was

38:20

junk. And I was like, oh. Yeah. I mean, you don't actually have to make

38:21

it. The third party

38:24

ones have been, by far, the

38:26

the better -- Yes.

38:28

-- respected we were talking

38:29

about, like, never winter nights or -- Yeah.

38:31

-- something that is less directly,

38:34

you know, d

38:35

and d

38:36

e. Never winter nights was, like, legendary. Balders Gate, I

38:38

believe, started like that as well. Yeah. It was before --

38:40

Yeah. -- winter nights. Like, there there's quite a few that

38:42

were done way better. Yeah. So clearly,

38:46

it's But I don't think to the old Republic, another

38:48

legendary game. Yeah. No. Absolutely.

38:50

Not a first party game. A lot of

38:52

OG video games were actually based

38:54

on DND like systems.

38:56

Everyone at your night is technically a DND

38:58

game. Oh, I didn't actually know that. Yeah.

39:00

Is is it DND though? Like,

39:03

was it first party? Because if so, then

39:05

what happened? Like, for real

39:08

though, this

39:10

bug is just, like, chilling with me

39:12

for the whole show. Apparently Baldish

39:13

Gate three is

39:15

coming. Mhmm. Yeah.

39:16

But it's made by the

39:19

the people that Are

39:24

we

39:24

saying that as a plus for

39:26

wizards of the coast? Because Baldgate

39:28

three is made by the company that

39:30

made another game that I can't remember right now that

39:32

is really, really, really good. And I'm expecting Dragon Age or Bubba's

39:34

Gate three is gonna be fantastic. A

39:37

larian

39:37

Studios. Yes. Clariant

39:40

Studios. What's

39:40

the name of it? The most previous

39:42

game that they made was fainted. Divinity original

39:45

sin two, it's really good. Told

39:47

me by Larry and Studios, it's a fantastic game. So I

39:49

I have really high hopes for Brothers Brothers

39:52

Gate three, like

39:53

very, very high hopes. Alright. Let's

39:55

hope for

39:57

the best. I have I have

39:59

a on on record, I have

40:01

the soundtrack for the original sent to you signed

40:03

by the whole dev team. Not the whole

40:05

dev team, but a bunch of the dev team because at

40:08

PAX East, the dev team was there. So I

40:10

brought the record and got them to sign. It was pretty sweet.

40:12

That's very cool. Yeah. Yeah, Luke's been trying to

40:14

get me to play it. We we've done it. We

40:16

started a co op campaign.

40:18

We've made it as far as the tutorial. We

40:20

got off the boat. We got off the boat. And

40:22

then stopped. Yeah. It

40:24

was fun, though. Yes. It was fun. Have

40:27

a ton of time and and we often

40:29

wanna play with your son, and it's a little --

40:31

Yep. -- I

40:31

don't think you'd be quite there yet for enjoyment. Well,

40:33

that is two player. So No? I

40:36

thought it

40:38

was. Four. Oh, but we started a two player game. Yeah. So I

40:40

think we'd

40:40

have to make a new game, I think. Yeah.

40:42

And then expecting all

40:43

three of those schedules to align, I think, is a

40:46

tall little rough Yeah. The of

40:48

the original sent two games that I have

40:50

because of wanting to integrate a new

40:52

person and they wanna make their own character and stuff. So

40:54

you end up forking like a million times is

40:57

is pretty crazy. But, yeah, a

40:59

fantastic game. And as far as

41:01

my understanding goes, Larry in is

41:03

a fantastic studio. So Apparently, yeah, Balders Gate is

41:05

officially licensed DND. Mind you, it was a hot minute ago.

41:07

So hopefully hopefully that's gonna

41:10

change.

41:11

Anyway, In terms of ideas to monetize the IP, clearly,

41:14

there are plenty, and

41:16

they don't have

41:16

to just -- The fact that -- alienate their

41:19

players. There's gate. Three, and

41:21

it's being released now means they didn't take advantage of that. Yeah. That's

41:24

true. Like,

41:26

that's fair. I don't know, man.

41:30

I think there's lots of

41:31

ways. I'm also surprised, has there been a

41:34

movie? GND movie. What

41:36

would

41:36

that even look like? Well,

41:40

like, here's a yeah. I don't know.

41:41

Dungeon and Dragon's honor among thieves is

41:44

apparently coming just twenty

41:46

twenty three.

41:47

I could

41:50

see this. I

41:52

could see it

41:53

being great. I could see it

41:55

being terrible. Yeah. Yep.

41:58

I don't feel like it's gonna land in the middle. I think

42:00

it's gonna be atrocious or or Great.

42:02

Well, Hugh Grant is in it. That

42:04

a good thing or bad thing? I mean, it's Hugh Grant, so

42:07

I'm not very good with, like Depends if you like

42:09

celebrities. He has sort of likeable

42:12

awkwardness. I feel like

42:14

they need

42:16

to kind of brush over

42:19

that it's DND, you know?

42:21

Apparently, there was a

42:23

horrible one. Oh, in two thousand, dungards

42:25

the dragon, so

42:27

IMDB, two thousand. And I didn't even

42:30

know about this. Well, it has three

42:32

point six

42:32

stars out of ten, so it looks like you didn't

42:34

really miss out on match. Yeah. Really?

42:37

But, like, the fact that I didn't know about it is

42:39

rough. At, like, fifty to sixty percent, there's

42:41

a chance that you'll just be like,

42:43

murder good movie. At at thirty six percent

42:45

of people liked

42:46

it. Mhmm. Yeah. The odds

42:49

are not looking good. Yep. If

42:52

you want the odds of your message appearing down there to be high, you're gonna wanna

42:55

send in a merch message. Dan, do you wanna give us a

42:57

couple? And then we'll -- Yeah. -- we'll try and do

42:59

the rest of the of the

43:01

curated merch messages towards the end of the show?

43:03

Sure. That sounds good.

43:06

Let's see. I've got one here from

43:08

ASK. Buying a bottle for my

43:10

friend's

43:10

birthday. At linus, how do you

43:12

decide which videos go up on weekdays

43:15

versus weekends? Depends

43:17

when they're

43:18

done. Nice and simple.

43:20

In a perfect world, we'd actually

43:22

love to come out with a

43:24

banger on Saturday just because Friday's win

43:28

show and Wancho doesn't like perform

43:30

the same way that a a typical

43:32

vibe does. So we we'd love to

43:34

be able to come out strong just so that

43:38

algorithmically we're sending signals that we don't

43:40

upload, you know, to

43:42

wet farts in a row. I'm

43:44

Google claims up and down that that doesn't matter, but it, like, totally totally

43:48

does.

43:49

Yeah. Okay.

43:53

Everything at creator summit is confidential, but I will just say

43:56

YouTube says a lot of things.

43:58

And the

44:00

experienced creators do

44:03

not appreciate the way that YouTube tends to oversimplify

44:06

how their algorithmic

44:09

systems for deciding how a video

44:11

is promoted work. They are not

44:14

simple, and you do kind of need to be

44:16

a bit of a a

44:18

bit of of a fortune

44:20

teller, suit sayer, tea

44:22

leaf reader to

44:24

even sort of maybe hopefully understand

44:26

how they work. And they not just

44:29

like, yeah, good video

44:31

get views. Quite any

44:34

who. Yeah.

44:36

But it doesn't usually work out that way

44:38

though. We do our

44:39

best. Yeah. Yeah. I got another one here

44:41

from Jacob. High line is in Luke. You

44:43

guys think float plane will ever turn into

44:45

a big streaming service for

44:48

tequies?

44:48

Not in the

44:51

way not like for techie. It's not for

44:53

techie's. It's for everybody. We have a lawyer

44:55

on the platform. Well, what's

44:58

interesting is that the

45:00

conversations that we've been having about new

45:02

features and how float plane could be

45:04

utilized. I guess so. Could

45:06

make it. A hugely

45:08

important video streaming service for techies.

45:10

We wanna talk about that. But not in the

45:12

way you're thinking at all. Yeah. Sure. Why don't we

45:14

talk about it? Yeah. Sure. You're about to you're about

45:17

to listen in on our weekly

45:19

flowplane -- Oh. -- strategy. Do we wanna

45:21

get do we wanna talk about

45:23

the the thing? On this thing? Let's not talk

45:25

about

45:25

that thing. Okay. Did you just go like

45:28

this to me?

45:32

Not quite. Okay. That's more separation. I guess I would have been able to tell.

45:34

Yeah.

45:37

Familiar. Yeah. There's

45:40

there's some video features.

45:42

I'll just say it like that, that

45:44

are are going to

45:46

eventually be coming to the lab's website. Well, we can talk

45:48

about some basic ones. Like, say, for example,

45:50

like a like a keyboard

45:52

videos, like, what what did Antoine want

45:54

to do with the video player again? Yeah. So

45:57

basically, like, a a video where you'd watch

45:59

a key get pressed by

46:01

the key presser. Could

46:03

be played on the site through by using by

46:06

using foot plain. Basically,

46:08

having a YouTube embed

46:10

would be cheap and I

46:12

mean, it would be free and easy, but then we've

46:15

all seen how that works where like you

46:17

get the suggested videos being sent at

46:19

the end of it. And it doesn't

46:21

really fit in with the rest of the flow of the website. You can maybe customize the

46:23

player, but the second video ends and it spits out a bunch of

46:25

suggested videos. You you know, it's not really part of the

46:27

site. And we might

46:30

not want everything to be, like, a sixteen by nine aspect We

46:32

might want to

46:33

we might want it embedded

46:35

a little more

46:38

tightly with everything around it. Like, there's a lot of Maybe use gifts, and

46:41

this doesn't exclude gifts, but there might be situations

46:43

where we want people to be

46:45

able to have more control over the actual

46:47

video or we might wanna have our own player for whatever

46:49

reason on it, etcetera, etcetera. So --

46:52

Yep. -- there's there's potentially gonna be

46:54

flowplane integration

46:56

extremely likely when it's just not there yet. So screw it. Let's just tell them about

46:59

the cool feature. Are you sure? Yeah. Let's just

47:01

tell them. This is like it's

47:04

the kind of thing that obviously talking about it, you

47:06

know, six, twelve, eighteen months before we're

47:08

ready to launch is gonna potentially

47:12

someone a heads up, but realistically like

47:14

what? Who's gonna compete with

47:16

this? Who could be done this feature in eighteen

47:18

months

47:19

other than us?

47:19

I know somebody could. It would just be

47:22

expensive. Well, yeah. But you that's what I mean. You

47:24

totally could.

47:26

Yeah. But lots of

47:28

things. I doubt anyone will do

47:30

it. So you know

47:32

how hard it is to find

47:34

any kind of credible

47:36

answer to this versus that, you

47:38

know, some some GPU

47:40

versus another GPU or some CPU

47:42

versus another

47:44

CPU. Sorry.

47:47

Keep going. I have something else to add to that, but going. Sure. I

47:49

mean, you usually end up on one of

47:51

those websites that just kind of has

47:53

a spec sheet

47:56

that may or may not be accurate and maybe a little

47:59

write up. But, like, it's like a generated

48:01

write up. It's just it's just honestly

48:03

not that useful. The

48:05

solution to that up until

48:08

now has been to search for it on

48:10

YouTube, and there's this entire

48:12

genre of videos now, this entire category

48:14

of videos that's just

48:16

gameplay captures with

48:18

frame time and time information on it and stuff.

48:20

Framatons clock speeds, temperatures, overlaid.

48:23

So that you can see the different products running

48:25

next to each other. The issue is

48:27

that someone has to go

48:30

capture that gameplay footage specifically

48:32

for that video They have to

48:34

stitch it together. They have to encode it. They have to

48:36

upload it to YouTube. They have to title it and you have to

48:38

find it. Well, what if

48:40

on the lab's website? We had a

48:42

comparison engine that gave you the specs

48:44

obviously. So you so you could compare

48:46

the the specs, the, you know,

48:48

architecture, or clock you know, the CUDA

48:50

course or whatever else the case may be, but where you could also dynamically

48:52

generate side by side video

48:56

of whatever games you wanna see, of whatever cards you wanna see,

48:58

and we had a custom player that could

49:00

play them back so that you could really

49:04

see the difference in gameplay experience. Like, stitch it into one player

49:06

so that it's a good experience and

49:08

and whatnot. That's what we're

49:12

building. Dan from the the labs

49:14

web Dan, the lead of the labs web

49:16

team ran a a

49:18

meeting today that was actually

49:20

super cool. We've done this with

49:22

Flowplane before, but it was essentially

49:24

like a site walkthrough. Where you sit the team down,

49:26

you go through the website, and you get feedback from

49:28

everybody about, like, how something feels. Does this work in the way we want it

49:30

to? Should we change this thing, whatever? You

49:32

go through the whole website and

49:34

do that. And some

49:36

really, really good things that came from that, actually.

49:38

Some really good feedback from the team.

49:40

And and he's gonna throw it

49:42

to some other people as well, including the

49:45

labs local theme and and flow play and stuff like that.

49:47

Just trying to sharpen it up a little bit before

49:49

we send it out. And there were

49:51

some really cool ideas that

49:53

came from that. The only one I'm gonna spit out was one

49:55

of mine, which was we decided that we were gonna

49:58

change how you know the compare tool, you

50:00

press the button as it's your

50:02

cart. Yep. We had another

50:04

kinda like floating little

50:06

module on the side that kinda did

50:08

that as well, but it was a little bit redundant

50:10

and just a little bit odd. So

50:12

we were talking about removing it. And I came

50:14

up with the idea of because someone

50:17

else worded, I think it was

50:19

damned. I don't remember who. Someone

50:21

else worded it in a way that gave

50:23

me this idea.

50:26

Alright. It was like, I think the way

50:28

that it was originally described was, oh, we could just, like,

50:31

put some other products there and people

50:33

could choose to compare

50:35

those as well. And I was like,

50:37

okay. But what if it works in a similar way to the Amazon, like,

50:39

frequently purchased with section? Or

50:42

So we did that. The one they used to

50:44

have people who at

50:46

this usually ended up going

50:48

with this. So it'd be similar to that

50:50

type of event. So now it'd be, like,

50:53

this is often compared with these

50:55

things. So if you're looking at a specific say graphics card, it could be like, well,

50:57

this graphics card is often compared with these. So

50:59

if you hear some graphics card

51:01

from your friend, and

51:03

you're technical enough to know about the labs website. Yep.

51:06

But maybe you're not so

51:08

into gaming performance. So you're not

51:10

super technical in the

51:12

way understanding GPUs and their performance and all the

51:14

different range of possible ones there are out there

51:16

and you look up this graphics card -- Yeah. -- you

51:18

could see, oh, or maybe

51:20

headphones. Right? Yep. Might I

51:22

also suggest? Yeah. Maybe you should

51:24

compare against these other ones as well because

51:26

everyone else does. So the labs

51:28

local team doesn't have to, like, manually come up

51:30

with these lists of suggested cool

51:32

errors. It just happens fairly

51:34

automatically. So that's like a cool idea. It'll

51:36

take some time to build, but -- Absolutely. -- super cool.

51:38

-- saying it's coming now. I have no idea when

51:40

we're gonna work on it. We have lots of lots of things to do. Guys, there's so

51:42

much potential here -- Exactly. -- depending

51:44

on how much we can

51:47

automate a lot of this capture. There

51:50

is the potential,

51:52

but this will not happen in the

51:54

short term. But there is the potential

51:56

that you could basically kind of preview,

51:59

you know, whatever combination of

52:01

hardware you're interested in. Obviously,

52:03

there'd be limitations. Right? We're

52:06

not gonna go start throwing RTX forty nineties

52:08

on, you know, core two

52:10

quad q sixty six hundreds just

52:14

for jollies. So that people can, like, play around with it. would

52:16

wanna focus on things that are actually

52:18

realistic. But

52:20

the whole idea here is

52:23

to not just this data, not just

52:25

generate these captures, but make it

52:27

more digestible. I've got people asking,

52:30

would this be free? level

52:32

of it will be free. I can't

52:34

promise that everything will be free.

52:36

If you're sitting there, landed

52:40

on my face. What is bound to happen

52:42

eventually? Like, if you're if

52:44

you're sitting there, you know,

52:46

running it to the point where we're looking at it going, you know,

52:48

you're running a small business. You're in here for, like, two hours

52:51

a day. Every day, configuring

52:53

systems for people sucking

52:55

up video bandwidth at some point, you might just need a pro

52:58

account. So I don't know I don't know where

53:00

that line is going to be.

53:02

I don't wanna do it

53:04

at all. I'm just being transparent because, like, when when

53:06

linus first suggested the side by side

53:08

viewer thing, which was the first idea of integrating He's

53:10

like YouTube. YouTube. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I was

53:12

like, Please.

53:14

These are unlisted videos on YouTube. And

53:16

he was like, nope. I wanna do it this way. And I

53:18

was like, okay. What if we did this other option?

53:20

He was like, nope. I wanna do it this way.

53:23

I'm okay. Cool. No.

53:25

You're not. But this website doesn't

53:27

have a ton of potential in its

53:29

current form to make money. And

53:31

playing video costs a lot of

53:34

money. So what are we gonna

53:36

do, bro? I

53:39

screwed up. And this was his answer. And now I'm sitting

53:41

here, like, okay. I have to build this

53:43

thing. That's just gonna saddle, like, a ton

53:45

of cost. Then

53:48

it's it's concerning. So

53:50

we're gonna have to figure out at some

53:52

point how monetized

53:54

it. Maybe you have access to certain levels

53:56

of features, maybe you can watch a certain amount

53:58

of compare since a day or a week or

54:01

whatever, I have no idea, but just

54:03

leaving it fully uncorked all

54:05

the time when we don't wanna be

54:07

super annoying or aggressive with

54:07

ads. Are we are we gonna have any ads?

54:10

We don't wanna say that right now, I'm

54:13

assuming. But they're not gonna be, like,

54:16

super annoying because he's gonna wanna use it. Somebody can't be super annoying. We'll almost

54:20

certainly aggressively

54:22

pursue affiliate revenue. Yeah.

54:24

Like, that is one of the items. Makes sense.

54:26

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, if you're if you're

54:28

ultimately sitting on our site,

54:30

to make a purchase decision, then we want a

54:32

piece of that because if you think about

54:34

it, who did the work? Amazon

54:38

or us? If you if

54:40

if you buy ultimately

54:42

whatever it is that you buy. Did the

54:44

brand do the work? No. Did the

54:46

retailer do the work? No. Do you think to work? What

54:48

does it call when you're a retail employee

54:50

and you you get a a certain amount of

54:52

money for the amount of products that

54:54

Commission Yeah. It's effectively commissioned. Yeah. Or or like a whatever

54:56

you wanna call it. Like,

54:58

that's that's that's something

55:00

that we would absolutely pursue.

55:04

Now what I can commit now is

55:06

that that suggestion engine, for

55:08

example, that Luke is talking about,

55:11

will not prefer items that

55:13

we get better commissions on. Yeah.

55:15

That is that is my

55:17

one hundred percent promise to you.

55:20

It'd be purely based on in perpetuity.

55:22

Genuinely what things people

55:24

compare the thing you're looking at with.

55:26

Because it's one of those things that makes

55:28

me so angry about Amazon. That's why that went

55:30

away. That's why -- That makes sense. --

55:32

and it was the only thing I

55:34

used to shop. It it their

55:36

site is utterly

55:38

unnavigable. Now, I don't know if that's

55:40

a word and I don't care. The

55:42

point is that that was how I shopped because

55:44

already their site was impossible

55:46

to navigate. So if I could

55:48

find something that was approximately what I'm looking for, then that carousel

55:50

that had people who viewed

55:52

this usually bought this

55:56

what was how I found things, like almost

55:58

every time. And so that's

56:00

what I wanna bring back. I

56:02

want us to be able to

56:05

have you show up on some

56:07

piece of pair of

56:09

headphones, have a little thing that pops

56:12

up and says, hey,

56:14

couldn't help noticing you're

56:16

looking at AirPod's max. Would

56:19

you consider perhaps something

56:21

that is not heavy? And that

56:23

sounds better.

56:24

Yeah. Basically, though. So I

56:26

I think that's really cool. I would have never

56:28

thought about that if I wasn't prompted

56:31

by whoever on the team said, I think it was

56:33

Dan again. And there was a lot of other actually, really

56:35

cool things that came out of that meeting. So I'm I'm

56:38

quite excited. But

56:40

yeah, Flowplane is going to be involved with the lab's website in

56:42

in some way. It seems kind of inevitable

56:45

now because he he just says, no, we're doing

56:47

it every time I try to bring

56:50

up alternatives Here's the theme. Like, what's the point of being

56:52

vertically integrated? No. Yeah. I

56:54

get it. My only my only concern is cost.

56:56

We have media production,

56:58

media playback, testing,

57:00

and we've got this site that needs

57:02

what? Test data. Yeah.

57:04

Okay. Media production and

57:06

media playback. Well, okay.

57:08

Maybe I'll use some other immediate

57:10

playback. So, no, I'm not gonna do

57:12

that. No. It's a it's a it's a it's a great

57:14

solution and it's gonna end up being very

57:16

good technically. The only

57:18

concerns that I have are on the on the business side. And

57:20

there were there were some ideas of, like, maybe

57:22

the feature is entirely locked behind a

57:24

FlowPoint subscription. And we just make it so you

57:26

can subscribe to Flowplane or the

57:28

line of seconds flowplane through the

57:30

labs website -- Absolutely. -- or or

57:32

whatever. That will almost

57:34

certainly happen. Is a more all

57:36

you can eat, float plane

57:38

subscription that also includes

57:40

some kind of perks on the labs

57:42

website. I think that we're going

57:44

to see some kind of rejuvenation of linus tech tips dot com, the

57:46

forum, you know, where

57:48

there will be certain privileges that

57:52

are granted from that float plane subscription. So the

57:54

more value that we can add to a float

57:56

plane subscription, ultimately, I

57:58

think the

58:00

more this whole thing will make sense. If we're if

58:02

we're talking about theoretical features

58:04

that might never exist,

58:06

another idea

58:08

of integrating forum stuff is

58:10

there's been thoughts where the comments, if

58:12

we decided to do comments, there are no

58:14

comments right now. This might never be a thing.

58:16

There might never be comments at all. Like, don't

58:19

don't take this too far. But if we decide to do comments

58:21

okay, Luke. If we

58:22

decide to do comments

58:25

-- Sure. They could be integrated in a way where

58:27

it's really just the

58:29

forum. And the post on it is just a thread.

58:32

Forum postal. It's just a thread. Yeah. It's just

58:34

and it's just that is then integrated into the

58:36

lab's website. So it's viewable on both,

58:39

etcetera, etcetera. And it might just be this,

58:41

like, mesh of websites that

58:43

form into that'll help a forums SEO. So

58:46

it'll it'll like drive up

58:48

activity. It will add just

58:50

add more user generated content to

58:52

the forum. Which again is also

58:54

good for SEO. Not like the forums ever gonna make

58:56

money, but like but

59:00

if the development we do on the forum,

59:03

can enhance and enrich the

59:05

experience on the lab's website. Well, then all of

59:07

a sudden, it has a reason

59:10

for existing. No. For real. The

59:12

forum the forum

59:12

exists. It celebrated its ten year anniversary this week. Pretty

59:14

exciting. I saw that someone changed

59:16

the banner at the top to

59:20

the o g line of tech tips logo. Was that

59:22

you? No, actually. Oh, okay. It was probably mortise or

59:25

something. Correct. Yeah. Anyway, So

59:28

the forum celebrated its ten year anniversary, and the forum exists because of

59:30

the same reason that it has always

59:33

existed. It exists as

59:36

a a desperation backup plan somewhere

59:38

where our community can be

59:40

that no one can ever take

59:43

away from us And number two, because I just thought it

59:45

should. And it's it's caught us and it's net before.

59:48

Like, it is it has saved us before. Yeah.

59:50

Absolutely. And one at a time. It's it's like

59:52

infrastructure. Right? When it's

59:54

working just fine and you don't need

59:56

it, you're like, ugh.

59:58

Yeah. Why do we have this thing? Why do we

1:00:00

keep throwing money at this? When you do

1:00:02

suddenly and you're like, when

1:00:04

vessel goes out of business

1:00:06

suddenly and you need somewhere

1:00:08

to post your early access videos in

1:00:10

some way to collect money from people

1:00:12

to get

1:00:13

them. And you're like, oh, yeah, we got forum. Let's go. Yeah. That's

1:00:16

pretty sweet.

1:00:18

Yeah.

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Yeah. Anyways,

1:00:20

I don't know how the heck we got

1:00:23

to that. What topic were we on? Don't even

1:00:25

worry about it. Is it a merch

1:00:26

message? I think so. I feel okay just,

1:00:29

like, Came out of a haze. The point is

1:00:32

we're really excited. Yeah.

1:00:34

There's so many cool directions we can take

1:00:36

it in. Yep. And We've

1:00:39

had a good year. Team's really driven. They're

1:00:41

killing it. We we had a

1:00:43

good year. We're hiring.

1:00:46

We're building it. Let's

1:00:48

let's go. I've I've seen I've seen

1:00:50

a ton of speculation. It's really funny

1:00:53

because we're so transparent. Like, who who

1:00:55

else but us would put an actual

1:00:57

sales counter on the product

1:01:00

page for their two biggest launches of

1:01:02

the year? We

1:01:04

are so, like,

1:01:07

painfully transparent. I was I did

1:01:09

flag that when we were making

1:01:11

that feature, but I know.

1:01:14

I know. And the the amount

1:01:16

of speculation that I see that,

1:01:18

oh, this is overextended himself on

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the lab CAGW, he's

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gonna go under. We're

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fine. Yep. I'm

1:01:28

fine. Right. He's fine. Yep. Everyone is fine.

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Yep. We're growing.

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Oh, speaking

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January fifteenth. Do

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we have an LTT store deal of the week?

1:02:52

Nick is traveling,

1:02:54

and I don't know if he has,

1:02:57

like, cover So Oh.

1:03:00

Well, we have a new shirt.

1:03:02

A. The Hensley shirt. A.

1:03:04

Look at the stylish shirt. Okay.

1:03:10

That's cute. Weird picture, but yes.

1:03:12

Henley shirt. Let's go. Here's

1:03:14

a bunch of people wearing it. Here's

1:03:17

it. Being nice, soft, super nice.

1:03:20

Here is no real product information

1:03:22

other than the materials it's made

1:03:26

of because it everyone's traveling. Don't

1:03:28

don't worry too much about that, but yeah, it's

1:03:30

it's it's super nice. Hey, do we have any

1:03:32

reviews on the pajama pants yet from

1:03:34

last week? I kinda

1:03:36

doubt it. I kinda doubt it. Yeah,

1:03:38

people. We don't send out a

1:03:40

notification to leave a

1:03:42

review for, like, a month or

1:03:44

something like that. So after we launch something,

1:03:46

there's a month and then there's, like, this flood of

1:03:47

reviews. Yeah. I was gonna say they would need to

1:03:50

have it and then have had

1:03:52

it for enough time to actually formulate a good review. So, yeah.

1:03:54

Speaking of the store,

1:03:56

let's talk about your junk.

1:04:00

You're doing an underwear

1:04:02

photo shoot? Yeah. So we have new patterns

1:04:04

for the underwear. The only reason that I put this in

1:04:06

the dock was because we were talking about it, but

1:04:08

then we never finished our conversation. Oh, okay.

1:04:11

So Nick gave me a

1:04:13

three week warning that we have new

1:04:15

underwear patterns coming. So since

1:04:17

he told me, I have

1:04:19

done some form of workout

1:04:22

every

1:04:22

day. No worries. My

1:04:25

goal is to

1:04:28

have no, like, like, softening

1:04:30

layer. Like, I okay. Like, I

1:04:32

have, like, I have apps.

1:04:34

Like, you can you can see them.

1:04:38

But I wanna not have I think I can tell. I

1:04:40

wanna not have more

1:04:42

bulk than they normally do. So because

1:04:45

you've always been pretty cut. But

1:04:47

I don't think I've seen that much bulk

1:04:50

in your abs before. So

1:04:52

I Makes sense. Well, that's because

1:04:54

almost everything I do is cardio.

1:04:56

Yeah. Normally. Yeah. So

1:04:58

I'm I'm doing just like

1:05:00

some not cardio. Nothing

1:05:03

nothing crazy, but a little bit of

1:05:05

anything lot of

1:05:06

cardio. So you guys have probably noticed

1:05:08

if you're on

1:05:09

float plane that I've been streaming

1:05:11

Beadsaber more lately. Ainan

1:05:16

accident. Gotcha. Trying to trying

1:05:18

to trying to get rid of trying to get rid of some

1:05:20

of that. So

1:05:22

yep. Yep. Now I

1:05:24

know you've been working out a lot lately. Yeah.

1:05:26

I've I've been working out okay.

1:05:29

So I set six

1:05:31

days a week because I didn't fully explain it.

1:05:33

So I do something that contributes to

1:05:36

physical health seven days

1:05:38

a week. I work out

1:05:40

-- Okay. -- six days a week. Okay.

1:05:42

On Tuesdays, I do

1:05:45

rotating cold and heat

1:05:47

exposure. For an hour and fifteen hours. You're

1:05:49

gonna have to explain what rotating cold and heat

1:05:51

exposures So I So

1:05:53

you,

1:05:53

like, light a fire and then

1:05:56

you just

1:05:56

So I don't the fridge over here and a fireplace here. Yeah.

1:05:59

That'd actually be really interesting. I don't think

1:06:01

that would work very well. But

1:06:04

I I do an ice bath for five

1:06:05

minutes. Oh, what ice

1:06:07

bath? And then I drip dry for

1:06:09

a minute and a half. And

1:06:11

then I do I I don't have

1:06:13

a

1:06:13

sauna, so a simulated sauna

1:06:16

for twenty minutes. K? And then

1:06:18

ice bath for five. Drift one and a

1:06:19

half, so on over twenty. I

1:06:22

basically do that rotation of three

1:06:24

things, three times. That

1:06:26

sounds awful.

1:06:26

It is. I won't do it.

1:06:28

Yeah. That's fine. I don't care how badly I need it. I will not do that. And then every other day of

1:06:30

the week,

1:06:31

I do some form of workout. So

1:06:35

today is sprints.

1:06:37

Okay? You know what I will

1:06:40

do and I'm not sure that you

1:06:42

would? Let

1:06:43

me just say this. Do you know what an

1:06:46

epilator is? Is that the

1:06:48

stairmaster machine?

1:06:48

Nope. That's an elliptical. Okay.

1:06:52

No. Okay. Later.

1:06:54

It's No. No. No. No. I'll explain it.

1:06:56

Okay. There there's there's stuff that I'm

1:06:58

working on that is more than just

1:07:00

the physique because I

1:07:04

not a huge body hair fan. Okay?

1:07:06

Let me put it this way.

1:07:09

The line between spending

1:07:12

in like beauty

1:07:16

products and actual

1:07:19

torture devices is truly a

1:07:21

thin one indeed. Dude, some of them

1:07:23

are terrifying. Yeah. Oh,

1:07:25

yeah. An

1:07:26

epilator. Is a hair removal

1:07:28

tool. Okay. That's like an auto

1:07:31

plucker. Oh. So it's

1:07:33

kind of like a motorized razor.

1:07:35

Oh. But it has a spinning

1:07:37

thing that has these wires that

1:07:39

narrow. So that when the hair gets caught in

1:07:42

the wire, it rips it out.

1:07:44

So it literally just rips all your hair.

1:07:46

Yep. Literally. Just rips out

1:07:48

your hair as you run it across your

1:07:50

body. I would

1:07:52

deeply prefer to do hot

1:07:55

and cold structure. That sounds

1:07:57

atrociously horrible. Wow.

1:08:00

Wow. It's really painful. Yes.

1:08:04

You as you might as you might So you've already

1:08:06

done this? Yeah. Well, I've tried it

1:08:08

because I'm just like, what is what is the

1:08:10

best way What is the best way to do this? So is your

1:08:12

plan to do this just for the photoshooties, you're

1:08:14

planning to, like, keep this up. So I will

1:08:16

say this, once

1:08:18

you've once you've kind

1:08:20

of gotten everything once,

1:08:22

it's way easier. Okay. It is it's like so many things in life. It's a

1:08:24

hundred times easier to keep

1:08:26

up than it is to

1:08:30

catch up. Wow. Yeah.

1:08:33

Wow.

1:08:34

It's it's very it's

1:08:38

very painful. That's

1:08:38

rough. Oh,

1:08:39

what? Like, not to be way

1:08:41

too specific. Yeah. Where do you

1:08:43

do this? Is this just, like, a

1:08:45

chest like, a a torso? Like, chest,

1:08:47

like, chest, like, on tummy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My, like,

1:08:50

my hair in my, like, tummy zone

1:08:52

is coming

1:08:55

in. I thought for a lot my dad has like a I

1:08:57

used to joke and I'd like slap my dad in the

1:08:59

chest just be

1:09:01

like killed all the forest animals. Because he

1:09:04

because he

1:09:05

had, like, all this

1:09:07

hair. He's very hairy.

1:09:10

And Even in my, like, late twenties, I was

1:09:12

like, not gonna be me. Yeah. Musta

1:09:14

got the jeans from the other side

1:09:16

of the family, whatever. And now my

1:09:18

tummy, I never really pay attention and I brushed

1:09:20

it the other day and I was

1:09:23

like, yeah. So when I

1:09:26

met Yvonne, it was like, Oh, treasure trail.

1:09:28

Yeah. And now it's, like,

1:09:30

thick above the perimeter forest. Yeah.

1:09:32

And it's there with Links adventure

1:09:34

-- Yeah. -- and a master sword.

1:09:37

And as soon as as soon

1:09:39

as there's no clear bare patch between the chest

1:09:41

and the tummy and the legs -- Yeah. --

1:09:44

it's like

1:09:46

a bit of a different look.

1:09:51

Yeah. Yeah. I'm

1:09:54

very jealous of both of you.

1:09:56

You're gel oh, yeah. No. No.

1:09:58

He's a very dude. Oh my god. Yeah.

1:10:01

Okay. Yeah. And okay. Okay. So people are bringing up

1:10:03

laser. I can afford laser. Not gonna not

1:10:07

gonna hide that. Finding

1:10:09

a place that'll do laser on men, not easy. Really? Yeah. I

1:10:11

mean okay. Especially if it's

1:10:14

like in an intimate

1:10:16

area, But

1:10:18

the vast majority Alright. I

1:10:20

don't wanna do that. That'd be horrible. Well, anyway,

1:10:23

the the point is that finding places that will

1:10:25

even do any kind of, like, laser hair

1:10:27

removal treatment on men is not that easy. Is there a reason? They

1:10:29

just don't wanna. Weird. Well,

1:10:31

like,

1:10:31

because, I don't know,

1:10:34

men or girls, I guess, I guess. Yeah. For real.

1:10:36

I don't know. Is there

1:10:37

is there any downside to laser hair removal? Does

1:10:39

it, like, mess with your

1:10:41

sweat glands or anything like

1:10:42

that? Yeah.

1:10:43

No. Okay. The downside is the cost, and you have

1:10:44

to go back a lot of times and errors. Like,

1:10:46

any hair I mean, any hair

1:10:47

It's all hurts. So people

1:10:50

have been saying, Nair. That's, like, That's

1:10:52

terrible. It, like, dissolves the hair. That also --

1:10:54

Wow. -- that creeps me out. Yeah. Honestly, I'd rather the

1:10:56

pain than put a chemical that dissolves

1:10:59

hair all over my body. Like,

1:11:02

if if we were talking about in

1:11:04

Oregon, dude. Yeah. If we were talking like, oh, I wanna It absorbs

1:11:06

stuff. III wanna, like oh, man. Well, I even

1:11:11

Okay. If we were talking like, oh, my stupid watch strap is

1:11:13

always catching in my hair. And I'm just gonna

1:11:15

do like a little patch around my

1:11:17

wrist or something like that. I

1:11:19

guy, I'd probably I'd yeah. I'd probably

1:11:21

throw some there. Run the epilator in a circle around your Yeah. I think I would

1:11:23

not do that. I think

1:11:26

I would not do that.

1:11:28

But if it's if it's like a

1:11:31

significant chunk of your body, I think I'd I think I'd rather do

1:11:36

it the natural

1:11:37

way. People are talking in flow playing chat, they're like

1:11:39

lasers almost always done on women.

1:11:41

So it's viewed as

1:11:43

like a safe space or

1:11:45

something, like, I don't know. Wouldn't it be a private room? Like, what does that

1:11:47

even mean? They want to avoid harassment towards the staff.

1:11:49

I mean Yeah. I

1:11:52

don't know. For,

1:11:54

I guess. I don't know. I just know that I

1:11:56

called a couple places and they were just not they

1:11:58

were like, I'm sorry, I can tell by your voice we

1:12:01

will not be working on

1:12:01

you. I'm like, oh, okay. Really? Yeah. Yeah. They were just like,

1:12:04

nope. That doesn't

1:12:05

seem fair. Well, but if you

1:12:07

just have a deep

1:12:09

voice.

1:12:09

I mean, They

1:12:11

clarified obviously because I'm I'm I'm I got

1:12:14

you. I got you. I got you. I got

1:12:16

you. Basically, they were immediately

1:12:18

not interested in talking

1:12:19

to me. Yeah. Ruff. I might have

1:12:21

somebody to recommend. Oh. Geek power says

1:12:23

gay guys definitely get laser removal done. I'd

1:12:25

imagine there'd be a number of places in

1:12:27

big city like Vancouver.

1:12:30

Yeah. I was probably just like calling the wrong

1:12:32

places. Like, if you go if you

1:12:34

go somewhere that, like, specializes in,

1:12:36

you know, that community or whatever else,

1:12:38

then I'm sure worked on guys

1:12:39

before? Yeah. That sense. Yeah. Yeah.

1:12:42

Anyway,

1:12:43

the point is Is

1:12:46

that even legal Appilitating hurts? I don't know. Yeah. I

1:12:49

imagine. Yeah. Yeah.

1:12:50

No. I I hate yeah.

1:12:53

I hate I've always disliked bullying

1:12:55

hairs. I don't know. It just sucks. I don't

1:12:57

know. And it's very localized and really sharp. I

1:12:59

think it feels like

1:13:01

a needle. Like, I I feel like when you get I

1:13:04

don't know why. Different forms of

1:13:06

pain despite even potentially being more,

1:13:08

like, in quotes, painful. Easier to deal with?

1:13:10

Yeah. Like, this is the same guy that was it last week or the week before? You were talking about, oh, no. It was the worst videos video

1:13:13

where you were

1:13:15

talking about, like, getting

1:13:18

someone to tackle you as hard as Yeah. Like, that's

1:13:20

actually whatever. Not a huge deal. But,

1:13:22

like,

1:13:23

if I pluck one of a, like,

1:13:25

a pluck a monograph Literally, rather

1:13:27

that you tackled me.

1:13:28

Yeah. I get it. Yeah. I get it

1:13:30

up to you. For some reason, I maybe it's totally mental, but it's just easier

1:13:32

to deal with. Yep.

1:13:34

I don't I don't know what

1:13:36

it is or why or whatever, but

1:13:39

it's just always been that

1:13:39

way. Right. Yeah. Well, the

1:13:40

heck, this is the second time this

1:13:42

show. How did we get here? I

1:13:46

don't know. Where

1:13:47

did we get here from? Oh, right. The modeling

1:13:49

session. Okay. That makes

1:13:49

sense. Yeah. So I'm gonna be ready this time. I'm gonna be

1:13:51

ready. Nice. Yep. Are

1:13:54

you are you trying to do anything? Because so I

1:13:56

know you're trying to get more definition in the

1:13:58

job area. Yeah. A little more

1:14:00

definition. Trying to

1:14:01

do more? You mentioned something about your

1:14:04

chest. I have no pecs. I am Three

1:14:06

weeks is not a long time. Are you one

1:14:08

week in? So you have two weeks left?

1:14:10

Yeah. That's one of the reasons why at the roast me

1:14:12

making flat chested jokes that my

1:14:14

wife was, like, probably not

1:14:17

that okay. You know, I'm flatter

1:14:19

than her. sorry, Like, so

1:14:23

are you not going to try to

1:14:25

work on those areas like that. Saber actually helps a lot with that. That makes

1:14:27

sense. Yeah. There's a lot of It's not it doesn't help

1:14:30

the way that, like, doing weights

1:14:32

would. It

1:14:34

doesn't help bulk up, but it helps define it a bit more. Well,

1:14:36

this would help with

1:14:37

packs if you did these. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

1:14:40

6 you most people would go

1:14:42

with the the bench. But well, I don't know. I don't know anything. You know,

1:14:44

I don't know how a weight room works. I

1:14:46

haven't

1:14:46

I barely do. I haven't oh, shut

1:14:50

up. Compared to me -- It's so --

1:14:52

stop. It's so de stop now. It's

1:14:54

so de stop. And that community is

1:14:57

so critical. It's crazy. Luke, Let me put it this way.

1:14:59

Reason in a lot of cases. Let me put it this

1:15:01

way. I haven't set foot in a

1:15:03

weight room since

1:15:08

grade ten. Not even set foot. Mhmm.

1:15:10

And in grade ten, our school

1:15:12

gave you options. When you were

1:15:14

doing the weight unit in

1:15:16

PE, You could

1:15:18

do that or a sport. I did one day.

1:15:20

And I switched

1:15:23

over to the sport. I

1:15:26

have literally not even sat on a weight machine of

1:15:31

any sort in over twenty years.

1:15:34

This is the first time. So you and I have talked about this a bunch. Yeah.

1:15:36

One of my biggest problems

1:15:38

for the last long time.

1:15:42

Has been that I keep

1:15:44

trying to work out

1:15:46

and for certain reasons that

1:15:48

I don't necessarily wanna go away into,

1:15:50

but I end up injuring myself. Like, every

1:15:52

time every time. And then, like, it's hard to watch, honestly. It's

1:15:55

Yeah. Like, you know, I'm sure it is. And

1:15:57

it's hard for me too. Like, it's

1:15:59

just it sucks. So

1:16:01

I get excited. I get motivated. And then I push too far. I push too hard and I

1:16:03

injure myself. And there's reasons why that happens, and I don't

1:16:05

wanna go into it. But

1:16:08

it happens. And then

1:16:10

I get really discouraged and I get really, like, self loathing and

1:16:12

unhappy and lethargic and then

1:16:14

III lose it. Because,

1:16:19

like, oh, I'll injure one specified area. It's almost always

1:16:21

one of the three things. It's my lower back,

1:16:23

it's my right knee, it's my

1:16:25

right shoulder. Yeah. Like, it's it's always one of those

1:16:27

things because those are pre existing injuries from when

1:16:29

I was growing up. And I'll I'll trigger one

1:16:31

of them. And Even

1:16:34

though I could wear Like, if it's my

1:16:36

knee, okay. Sure. You can do everything upper body. Who cares? Right? But I'm just super

1:16:38

discouraged because leg day is actually my favorite day. I'm one of those weird

1:16:40

people. I

1:16:43

love doing leg day. So when leg day gets taken out of the rotation, I'm

1:16:45

like, oh, well, try to get motivated. If it's

1:16:47

my shoulder,

1:16:49

if it's my lower back, I'm just kinda But if it's

1:16:51

my shoulder, it's like, okay. Well, I could keep doing leg day, but

1:16:53

then I'm like, okay. But the upper body stuff

1:16:55

is the

1:16:57

stuff you actually get like credit

1:16:59

for. Yeah. So then now I'm just like,

1:17:01

well, that sucks. And 6 just I just get

1:17:03

really demotivated. So my my biggest goal

1:17:06

this time by a huge amount formas everything. I usually don't

1:17:08

get injured because of form problems. I don't

1:17:10

wanna get into it. It's way longer

1:17:14

conversation. It is. But the the big goal this

1:17:16

time is don't get injured. Yeah.

1:17:18

So I'm doing everything really sucks.

1:17:21

Five five. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing everything really,

1:17:23

really scientifically. K. I have

1:17:26

notebooks. Yeah. I track

1:17:28

everything. I know you have

1:17:31

that trainer. Not right now. Oh. I'm going going back to him. Okay.

1:17:33

Cool. Because he was fantastic. There's no

1:17:35

nothing against him. Right now,

1:17:38

my schedule is just too I

1:17:40

was I was doing stuff previously. I got sick for three

1:17:42

weeks there. I have wisdom teeth coming out soon. There's just stuff all over

1:17:44

the place. Once my schedule gets a little

1:17:46

bit more juice or it's no.

1:17:49

What? No. Trust me. My penis is

1:17:51

small enough. Our

1:17:55

balls matter. Yeah. I

1:17:58

mean, both are Drew. I was gonna say, is it?

1:18:01

I thought it was just thought it

1:18:03

just reduced Paul. Anyways, you know,

1:18:05

I

1:18:05

mean, both of the things

1:18:07

I've learned. Oh my god.

1:18:10

Okay. So, yeah, I've

1:18:15

been I've been very, very, very focused

1:18:17

on being being as, like, scientific and documented and measured about everything as

1:18:20

I possibly can. So

1:18:22

I'm, like, taking really extensive

1:18:24

notes I even

1:18:26

track, like, how grip feels. Right. So like in in one of

1:18:28

my sets, I end up doing

1:18:30

a lot of things that require grip.

1:18:35

So I'll, like, note how my grip feels throughout the entire thing

1:18:37

to, like, make sure there's no possibility of

1:18:39

over training

1:18:41

all this type of stuff, blah blah blah

1:18:43

blah. And it's been really it's been an interesting rabbit hole

1:18:45

to dive down

1:18:46

because traditionally, I don't I don't

1:18:49

know a lot about this, and I wouldn't

1:18:51

say that I do now. But

1:18:53

I know a lot more than I did like three months ago because I've been doing

1:18:55

a ton of research and trying to make sure that I

1:19:00

don't This is hilarious. This is probably

1:19:02

the least tech win show in a very long time and people are loving

1:19:07

it. So dumb. What even is

1:19:10

this show? I have no idea anymore. I can I can

1:19:13

if you want to

1:19:15

target other areas, And

1:19:18

there's way better people to talk to about this

1:19:20

than me, but I can send you, like, a a

1:19:22

thing. Like like a workout thing? Yeah. I'm

1:19:25

not gonna do it. Okay. I'll tell you right now. I'm

1:19:27

just not dude if I was there? No. Okay. No. I just wouldn't invite

1:19:32

you over. Feel like that sounds like I

1:19:34

mean, you have to go somewhere else anyway so you don't have Oh, like, at a gym. Yeah. I'll do it once.

1:19:36

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No. I'll I'll

1:19:38

do it once. I'll I'll try it.

1:19:42

And I will be open minded, but I'm not gonna like

1:19:44

it. Yeah. I I always hated it,

1:19:46

and I I've talked to the

1:19:49

line of silence. I I only ever liked

1:19:51

doing things that were really sport specific. It's like something that

1:19:53

I really used to enjoy was was

1:19:55

pushing weighted sleds. Sure. Because to me,

1:19:57

it's like, okay, this is similar to

1:19:59

rugby or football. Which I'm I'm gonna have

1:20:01

to do this. Yeah. So I might as well be good at this. This is really specific. I like this. I

1:20:03

never really liked just

1:20:07

like lifting weights. Because I always wanted

1:20:09

to train the sport instead of train strength.

1:20:12

But recently, there's like

1:20:14

health reasons why I'm doing

1:20:16

this. And that is motivating. Yeah.

1:20:18

So I'm doing it for that. And that's why I was saying, like, I'm focusing

1:20:20

really on on injury prevention and

1:20:22

stuff like that because I'm like,

1:20:26

the goal is health reasons. So

1:20:28

I don't wanna if I hurt myself,

1:20:30

that's a big negative for health reasons. Yeah.

1:20:32

So, like, I I it's yeah.

1:20:35

It's that I have found that to be motivating for getting

1:20:37

into the gym because I have started to

1:20:39

feel significantly

1:20:39

better. Like losing the weight

1:20:42

when I was just focused on

1:20:44

that was

1:20:45

good mentally and physically because I felt I felt a lot better. I could tell you I could

1:20:47

tell you felt different. Yeah. Yeah.

1:20:49

And now I have

1:20:52

not lost I

1:20:54

was losing weight fairly rapidly, I think. And then

1:20:56

in the in the course of the last month,

1:20:58

I have actually not lost any weight at

1:21:01

all. My waist size has gone down, but I have not lost

1:21:03

weight because I've been converting. Right?

1:21:05

Yeah. I've been working

1:21:08

on composition. So

1:21:11

I'm more focused on reducing fat amounts and stuff like

1:21:13

that. I don't care about

1:21:14

weight anymore. For you to get me dragged out to

1:21:16

the gym, the best way to do

1:21:18

it would be to make it work. So

1:21:20

why don't we do a float plane exclusive?

1:21:22

Okay. Lineas' first gym session in twenty plus years. Sure. And we'll

1:21:25

just we'll drag a shooter

1:21:27

out with

1:21:27

us. We'll someone from the social

1:21:30

team or something like that, and we'll do it. Okay? We could use, like, my apartment

1:21:32

gym or something, or whatever.

1:21:34

Because I don't know about filming,

1:21:38

like, doing professional filming in gyms. Well, it won't be professional filming. It'll just be a full plain exclusive. So sort of shot one

1:21:40

like an iPhone

1:21:43

order. Yeah. Sure. Fine.

1:21:45

Sure. I mean, people have gotta be,

1:21:47

themselves the all Yeah.

1:21:51

Yeah.

1:21:52

I said, like, if we showed up with

1:21:54

someone with, like, a, like, a, like, a No. No. No. No. No. Yeah. Alright. Let's

1:21:58

talk about some tech.

1:22:00

AMD announced their Ryzen seven thousand non X

1:22:03

and Ryzen seven thousand X3D

1:22:05

chips at CES that made a

1:22:07

lot of noise about these

1:22:10

And they're pretty exciting. K.

1:22:12

So last gen, the fifty

1:22:14

eight hundred X3D,

1:22:17

was kind

1:22:20

of worse. The regular fifty eight hundred x.

1:22:22

Overclocking was locked. It was clear that AMD had

1:22:24

some some challenges. They had to

1:22:26

get the voltages dialed in per

1:22:29

specifically for this thing. If I recall correctly, the clock speeds weren't

1:22:31

even quite as high as the regular fifty eight

1:22:33

hundred x. Don't quote me

1:22:35

on that one. The

1:22:38

point is, this time around, the x three d's are pretty darn aggressive. Base frequencies

1:22:44

are lower. But turbo frequencies

1:22:46

look like they are pretty equivalent to their non X3D

1:22:51

counterparts. That's exciting. Because they

1:22:54

have double the level free cash, so we should that same kind of uplift hope.

1:22:57

But they

1:23:00

not only are

1:23:02

going to have the extra cash, but

1:23:04

they're actually coming in at lower TDPs, a hundred

1:23:06

and twenty watts versus a hundred and seventy

1:23:09

watts. I'm pretty excited about these. But

1:23:11

I'm also really liking the

1:23:13

look of the regular Non X

1:23:15

seven thousand series chips. And here,

1:23:17

it's less about the specs and more about

1:23:19

the difference in price. The seventy nine hundred

1:23:21

is over a hundred dollars less than

1:23:24

the x. Theoretically,

1:23:28

anyway, closer to a third

1:23:30

of the power consumption than to

1:23:32

half of it, same

1:23:35

cash nearly the same turbo frequency and

1:23:37

much lower base

1:23:40

frequencies. We see that on the seventy

1:23:42

seven and the seventy six hundreds as

1:23:44

well. But then, these things could be gaming

1:23:46

monsters for a much lower price and much lower power consumption,

1:23:48

which is a

1:23:51

big deal these days. Meanwhile,

1:23:53

Intel launched t series and regular non

1:23:55

k series chips that completely

1:23:58

slipped under our radar

1:24:01

They're supposedly launched. I can't see anywhere you can buy them, and I didn't see a

1:24:03

single review. We didn't even get so much as

1:24:05

a heads up that these things

1:24:08

were coming. Let

1:24:10

alone review samples, which leads

1:24:13

me to believe

1:24:16

that this could be

1:24:18

bad. Here's the info on

1:24:20

these. They are mistakenly

1:24:22

labeled as unlocked apparently. They

1:24:25

are in fact not

1:24:27

unlocked. Where is don't I don't actually see that here, but

1:24:29

it's in my oh, yeah. There it is.

1:24:31

It's up at

1:24:34

the top. Sorry. Is right here at the top. Core unlocks

1:24:36

desktop processors. Nope. They

1:24:39

are apparently not unlocked. And

1:24:42

so not only are they not unlocked for

1:24:45

overclocking, but they also have

1:24:47

more limited performance. Their TDPs

1:24:49

are sixty five or thirty five

1:24:51

watts. turbo power go as high two hundred nineteen watts on a Core

1:24:53

I nine thirteen nine hundred and but

1:24:56

it won't

1:24:58

do that forever. K series chips will boost forever as of twelfth but nine

1:25:00

K chips have power limits and will down

1:25:02

clock to base clock after boosting for

1:25:06

long enough. The core I five thirteen six hundred and

1:25:08

below also have some interesting

1:25:10

characteristics. Level two cache drops

1:25:12

to eleven point five versus

1:25:14

twenty megabytes for the k variant, Remember

1:25:16

how I was just talking about AMD's X3D chips

1:25:18

and how adding more cache can be really great for gaming? Well, you can probably extrapolate

1:25:21

what taking cache away

1:25:23

is likely to do. Leak

1:25:26

slides showing this led to speculation that these chips are actually derived from

1:25:32

Alder Lake. Oh, instead of

1:25:34

Raptor Lake, interesting. I I doubt that. I

1:25:36

doubt that. There are

1:25:39

some improvements over twelve gen.

1:25:42

So the I fives

1:25:44

have more e course apparently.

1:25:46

Okay? So that's cool. Yeah. No.

1:25:48

Okay. Anthony

1:25:50

wrote in here that they did not seed

1:25:52

review samples at all. So

1:25:55

okay. But at least, hey, you get

1:25:57

oh, Newegg has them now. Let's see. Are they actually in stock?

1:26:00

Can I buy one? Yes, I can. And you

1:26:02

get a free Intel screwdriver with purchase. What Intel's

1:26:05

competing with me? It's just gonna say. What's going

1:26:07

on here inside versus screwdriver? What's

1:26:09

it look like? We've been

1:26:12

ratcheting? Okay. Well, there they are. So

1:26:14

we're gonna have to get on this. Neither Intel's

1:26:16

gonna have to send us some samples

1:26:18

or we're just gonna have to buy them because I wanna know what the crap is

1:26:21

going on.

1:26:24

Oh, yeah. Here's something you won't find

1:26:26

that Intel also quietly did on any promotional slides, but they quietly increase

1:26:31

the price of most twelfth gen chips by

1:26:33

ten percent. So this actually

1:26:35

makes twelfth gen more

1:26:38

expensive than thirteenth gen. Okay. Our discussion

1:26:41

question is, what is until trying

1:26:43

to hide with these

1:26:45

quiet launches and

1:26:48

price adjustments?

1:26:48

Maybe that its name competes

1:26:50

with one of the companies the T series.

1:26:55

Thanks. Thanks for that. And how is Intel expecting these

1:26:57

to keep up with AMD's also just announced

1:27:00

Ryzen seven thousand NonX processors? They're

1:27:02

not, which is why they shadow

1:27:04

launched it. Yeah.

1:27:06

I guess

1:27:07

so. It's a little weird. Yeah.

1:27:08

I good luck Intel. Yeah. Speaking of good

1:27:10

luck, Dell apparently wants to phase out chips

1:27:15

made in China by twenty twenty four.

1:27:17

Yeah. They'll plan

1:27:18

to stop using Chinese made

1:27:21

semiconductors in all

1:27:23

its products in including chips produced by

1:27:25

foreign suppliers inside China. They're also telling suppliers

1:27:28

to reduce the amount of

1:27:30

other made in China components and

1:27:32

products. Dell

1:27:34

is reportedly concerned about US China

1:27:36

tensions after the US added Chinese memory

1:27:38

chipmaker, YTMC, and twenty one other major

1:27:42

companies in China in

1:27:44

China's AI sector to a

1:27:46

trade blacklist in December. Blocklist

1:27:50

in December. Dell also expects to move fifty

1:27:52

percent of production and assembly capacity

1:27:54

outside of China by twenty twenty

1:27:57

five. Most major brands are now

1:27:59

sourcing most it's from Taiwan and South Korea. Apple has moved

1:28:01

its a tiny fraction of

1:28:03

their production to

1:28:06

Vietnam, but the Vietnamese Labor force

1:28:08

is less than seven percent, the size of

1:28:10

China's, with only twelve percent of those being classed as

1:28:15

highly skilled.

1:28:15

Interesting moves. This might

1:28:18

China is creating a

1:28:20

lot of their own problems

1:28:22

right now, but they're also I

1:28:25

also kind of feel for the companies there. A lot of this has nothing

1:28:27

to do with them. Like, this is a tough

1:28:30

situation all around. Speaking of China, by the

1:28:32

way, I

1:28:34

did get some details wrong on the situation

1:28:37

with the Michaels. The whole thing

1:28:39

where they where they

1:28:42

arrested the Huawei CFO, I'm not gonna say she did

1:28:44

nothing wrong because Huawei

1:28:46

is a shady shady

1:28:50

company. Yeah. But that particular thing was

1:28:53

a little more complicated

1:28:55

than just she did something

1:28:57

illegal and it was bad and

1:28:59

should have been arrested. So There

1:29:01

was a lot of political political four d

1:29:04

chess going on. It's all I'll

1:29:06

really say about it at this

1:29:08

point. The

1:29:10

main takeaway from last week though

1:29:12

was not the details. The point

1:29:14

was I'm not traveling somewhere

1:29:17

that arbitrarily detains Canadians. That's it.

1:29:20

Yeah. It's

1:29:21

it's interesting though because

1:29:23

if okay. Sorry.

1:29:27

Well, no, I'm gonna jump in with this, sue for AWS and

1:29:29

float plane chat. Why feel sorry for

1:29:31

Chinese companies? They're owned and controlled by

1:29:33

the Chinese Communist Party at the end

1:29:35

of the

1:29:36

day. Not all

1:29:38

of them. That's why. Why in that? That that's my whole point.

1:29:44

They did you

1:29:46

answered your own question. Okay.

1:29:47

Yeah. What I'm saying is this might

1:29:49

be an interesting, like, business move

1:29:52

for Dell I

1:29:55

mean, they they sort of directly called it

1:29:56

out. But if one of the companies that they

1:29:58

work with gets put on a block list,

1:30:02

that could be extremely

1:30:04

disruptive if it happens suddenly. But if they try to

1:30:06

get ahead of the curve on this and work

1:30:08

with companies that aren't gonna be put on

1:30:10

a block

1:30:11

list, because those companies are are outside of there, say, in

1:30:13

in Taiwan or elsewhere or or

1:30:15

Vietnam or whatever. Yeah.

1:30:19

Less disruption

1:30:20

in the supply chain is good when you have a

1:30:22

supply chain. It's gonna be hard to have less disruption

1:30:24

in the supply chain. I forget what the

1:30:26

numbers are, but it's like a like

1:30:29

an incredible percentage of earth's rare earth metals

1:30:31

are mined in China. Like, there

1:30:36

is no or we can

1:30:38

work in the industry as we

1:30:40

know it. In places where China runs the mining.

1:30:42

Yeah. That's a whole other thing. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.

1:30:47

Okay.

1:30:47

Moving on. I feel

1:30:48

like we should do more merch

1:30:51

messages, but there's probably other topics in

1:30:53

here that we Yeah. There's a

1:30:55

couple others that we I wanted to talk about EA

1:30:57

not being able to recover sixty percent of players corrupted Madden Safe files. Now obvious,

1:30:59

I don't play Madden. So I I don't

1:31:02

really have any skin in this particular

1:31:04

game. But

1:31:06

here's what went down. Madden NFL twenty

1:31:08

three has had server side issues for months

1:31:10

with the latest being a temporary data storage issue

1:31:12

that led to the corruption of many players

1:31:14

connected franchise mode save game being lost. There's the

1:31:16

corruption of many last week anyway. For

1:31:19

about fourteen hours between December

1:31:21

twenty eight and twenty nine, players

1:31:23

trying to access the CFM server an error message saying leads were unavailable. If you

1:31:26

tried to log in during this

1:31:27

time, your save data was

1:31:31

corrupted. Unfortunately, this period came just hours after a

1:31:33

Twitter post letting players know that they

1:31:35

could now play CFM without

1:31:38

issue. This was after developers fixed a previous problem

1:31:41

in the game, meaning that more players than

1:31:43

normal may have tried to log

1:31:45

in during this period. You wanna know

1:31:47

what a depressing piece of information? Sure. I have not fully

1:31:49

validated this. I just heard this from someone.

1:31:51

I don't remember who,

1:31:54

sorry, whoever it was. FIFA Ultimate Team,

1:31:56

the like, not

1:31:59

completely, but people are gonna

1:32:01

get mad at me if I

1:32:03

say it there's money printing machine. Yeah.

1:32:06

Pay to win. Talker, basically. Football,

1:32:08

but yes. It's not because you can

1:32:10

still

1:32:10

be better than the other players. Shut

1:32:14

up. Pay to win FIFA soccer. Just brought in by

1:32:17

itself. Just FIFA

1:32:20

Ultimate Team. More

1:32:23

than Eldon Ring made this year.

1:32:25

Eldon Ring was game of

1:32:27

the year. Wow. And

1:32:29

was like, mass sometimes game of

1:32:31

the year wins. They're not necessarily, like,

1:32:33

the most popular thing, but elven ring

1:32:35

was extremely popular. Oh, yeah. It was a

1:32:37

it was a cultural moment.

1:32:39

Have Absolutely. Yeah. FIFA Ultimate Team still made more money

1:32:41

to annihilated it, destroyed. So you

1:32:43

you wonder why the games industry

1:32:45

is going the way that it is. Yeah.

1:32:47

So the reason that I wanted to talk about this save game

1:32:50

thing is that III

1:32:53

have, as someone who

1:32:55

has lost save files, and

1:32:57

then ultimately just never gone back and finish the game because of

1:32:59

how disheartening that was. I feel

1:33:02

for these guys. This

1:33:05

sucks. And this is a huge

1:33:07

part of why I get so angry at Nintendo for locking cloud saves on

1:33:09

a portable device to people who

1:33:11

pay a subscription that

1:33:15

should be illegal. This is why I get

1:33:17

This is why Look, this is why

1:33:19

I didn't play fantaption

1:33:22

for so long. That RPG -- Yeah. -- from

1:33:24

here in Obusaka Gucci, I think,

1:33:26

is his name. But basically, one

1:33:28

of one of the guys that worked

1:33:30

on Final Fantasy six with my all time, mostly

1:33:32

favorite game. I would have said all time through through nostalgia

1:33:34

glasses, it's my favorite game, but there's probably

1:33:37

games I've played since

1:33:39

then that I think objectively or better. But one

1:33:41

of my all time favorite games and the reason that I didn't play it was because it

1:33:43

was exclusive to

1:33:48

Apple Arcade. And I just I had no way of knowing

1:33:50

I had no way of controlling that save file. Any save file that

1:33:52

isn't on a server that I control

1:33:54

doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned.

1:33:58

And I just This

1:34:00

is why. This is my problem

1:34:03

because if I lose it

1:34:05

Alright. I lost it. That sucks, but

1:34:07

that's on me. That's on me. Yeah. If somebody

1:34:10

else loses it, that

1:34:12

is crap. That's garbage.

1:34:14

That's garbage, and I hate

1:34:16

it. But I caved. I

1:34:18

was at Costco right before Christmas, picked up an Apple TV,

1:34:24

I've been playing fantaption. It's great. I

1:34:26

love it. And the reason is that I always

1:34:28

just assumed it would get ported

1:34:30

to something else at some point.

1:34:33

And so I just, like, waited. Passively just

1:34:35

waited and waited and waited. It's been a long time. Our twos out. can't waiting. Apple funded

1:34:38

the whole damn thing. It's

1:34:44

never going anywhere

1:34:46

else. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:34:48

Yeah. Did

1:34:51

we do the LTX update? I'm gonna try and play it before I

1:34:54

have to actually pay for Arcade though, but

1:34:56

I

1:34:57

did buy an Apple TV. You'll return it. Part of the no. Part

1:34:59

of

1:34:59

the reason I bought the Apple TV. No. That's not

1:35:02

why I bought it at Costco. Part of the

1:35:04

reason I bought the Apple

1:35:06

TV is because I've been so bullish

1:35:08

on the shield for so

1:35:10

long. But I realized, like, you know, whether it's our whether it's

1:35:13

our admittedly ignorant

1:35:15

conversation about Roku, or

1:35:18

whether it's Apple TV. I actually haven't tried

1:35:20

a lot of other platforms, so I also

1:35:22

want to just try it. I've never tried

1:35:24

an Apple TV and we're on like the