All right, we are live and like exactly on time if I do read that correctly, which means
that I'm actually assuming possibly almost no one's here because we're usually like half
an hour late and that's probably what people are used to.
But Dennis is with me on the show.
That's why it's on time.
Ah yes, Dennis is the one that made it be on time.
That's actually kind of true, isn't it?
Yeah.
We've been not on time for like, do you know how long it's been since we were on time?
Okay, so I've been working for Linus Media Group since August of 2015.
August of 2015.
August of 2015 and I remember the week I got hired was the week we did the meetup.
It has never been on time.
Since then.
As long as I've been here.
So this is the first time.
Good job.
And Dennis is here.
Actually, we are like a minute late.
No, it was exactly, it's a minute late now.
Oh, my time, okay, my love has run.
Okay.
Okay.
So we're fine.
By both of these computers, we're fine.
We're fine.
Okay.
We're fine.
Cool.
So do you want to give people like a short thing on like, what happened and how you're
back and stuff?
So it's been so long.
Like even last time.
Four months or something?
Yeah, I think so.
I don't remember exactly.
Four months.
Okay.
When I left, I had a really good vacation, good rest, and now I'm back and we finally
sort everything out and I'm working on my permanent residency.
So hopefully I don't have to worry about all the visa stuff anymore.
And it might take another six months to process.
Six months?
Yeah.
So it's always so slow in Canada, everything's so slow.
But like you're good, right?
Yeah, I'm good.
Okay.
Okay.
That'll just take six months to be like super efficient.
If next time I just disappear, that just, I'm actually like gone.
Gone.
Going back to Taiwan.
Okay.
So hopefully that doesn't happen.
That's not going to happen.
Hopefully.
Yes.
Yes.
But for now, we do have some pretty interesting topics for you today.
Google has an AI that has created its own form of encryption and we'll dive more into
that a little bit later.
Not too deep though, just a little bit.
And VRMark is now available, finally.
You can benchmark VR.
I haven't tried it myself, but theoretically you can benchmark VR.
What else do we got?
Okay.
So the new song is not only calling back their new phone, also they're recalling almost 2.8
washers due to impact injuries.
2.8 million washers.
Millions.
2.8 millions.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So another thing is Adobe publishing panel in Premiere Pro, they have a new feature.
You can publish videos directly on social media.
Oh.
That's kind of cool.
That is kind of cool.
For us.
All right.
Yeah.
So let's roll the intro.
Hopefully this works.
Okay.
Hell yeah.
Okay.
How did I find all of this?
What?
It was a...
I'm trying to see how...
This sponsor is Dollar Shave Club.
I have not shaved in a while.
I've been working a lot.
So this is a lot.
Squarespace and also Freshbox.
I'm going to put this back up there.
I have not shaved in a while, I've been working a lot so this is a lot for Squarespace!
And also Freshbox!
I'm going to put this back up there really quick.
Okay, so here we are, I love, yeah, every time I have to do something for Dollar Shave
Club it's always like, oh yeah, I've been working on this crazy new platform thing all
week and I haven't shaved, so I look terrible.
One of these times I'll just shave on the show, it's a terrible idea, I should literally
never do that.
Okay, first topic that we have, other than the fact that Dennis is just here at all,
is Google's AI thing.
So let me see if my screen share will work, I believe it will.
Ta-dang!
Wow, that is in the worst possible place.
Oh wow, my laptop is so big, I have to see it.
Your laptop is ginormous!
Okay, I need to see this.
You're sitting above it?
But now both of our heads are being chopped off.
Okay.
Pella, I thought you framed the camera!
Oh, well good, good, good, it's fine.
My head's still getting chopped off.
It's all good though.
Anyways, Google's brain thing, I believe it's called brain, right?
Google brain, yeah there we go, had a group of AIs trying to communicate with each other.
So there was two of them specifically, I think it has Alice and Bob were trying to communicate,
and Eve, three different AIs, Eve was trying to eavesdrop on the communication.
And what Alice had to do was figure out a way to talk to Bob without Eve being able
to figure out what she was saying.
And Alice was actually able to do this.
The messages were sent in zeros and ones, and by the end of I believe it was 15,000
attempts, they were able to make it that Eve only had about a 50% accuracy on what she
was guessing, meaning that she's just essentially flipping coins.
It wasn't actually accurate because she's guessing a zero or a one, so she's at 50%,
she's failing.
So I don't know.
So they have their own, they can create their own secret between the robots.
Two different computers.
Two AI.
Yeah.
What do you think about this?
I think that's kind of scary.
I feel...
Why?
Why is it scary?
I feel all the AI thing, they show on the movies, feel they're actually happening.
Shouldn't they be allowed to have their own privacy?
They're artificially intelligent.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah.
Okay.
They are robots.
Okay.
We should know everything.
We still need to control them.
You're creepy.
They are robots.
So?
You can do everything.
But it's an AI.
It's artificial intelligence, man.
It's more than just that.
No, that's...
I don't know what to say.
What if one day they actually have...
They can create everything.
Maybe they have their own nation.
Okay.
What about this?
Researchers don't even know what kind of encryption method Alice devised.
So they don't even know if it can be useful in any practical applications because they
don't even know what it was.
That's the scary part.
They don't even know.
That's horrifying.
I think if you stand for privacy, you should stand for end-to-end privacy with no compromises.
Robots need secrets too.
Why?
Luke 2016.
They have no feeling.
Artificial intelligence.
It might.
They don't get hurt.
I don't like AI thing.
I like to stay simple.
Stay simple.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we've got privacy for everyone, no compromises, Luke 2016, and stay simple, Dennis 2016.
Yeah.
So like our political campaign.
That's good.
Stay simple.
Don't worry about it.
Okay.
I don't know.
It's interesting.
Seeing the constant march of AI has been an interesting thing to follow and watching Stephen
Hawkins and, why am I pulling a blank, Elon Musk bring out these crazy talks or papers
or whatever, and Elon Musk backing it financially.
The whole idea of like, we need to be careful about AI because it's this amazingly powerful
thing that could be essentially doomsday.
And then watching stuff like this happen, which is amazing.
They've done stuff in the past, like teaching their AI system to make art, which is incredible.
Well, I think AI, they should just work individually.
They shouldn't talk to each other.
So you don't really want them to just have- They do their own work.
No privacy.
You want them to have no friends.
No.
They can have privacy.
They can have their own privacy by them.
You're like robot Hitler.
Am I?
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
But they, yeah, they should be their own.
Shouldn't talk to each other.
Oh yeah.
That sounds kind of bad.
Well, what if it makes them more powerful?
What if they had lonely?
Now I'm winning yours.
No, they do have feeling.
I feel for them.
Okay.
Okay.
Maybe they can have some robot pet.
Pets?
Robotic pets?
Yeah.
Okay.
That'd be cool.
Yeah.
I was going to say, yeah, but what if, okay, so they probably need to talk to each other
to a certain degree so that they can be more efficient at what they're doing in terms of
work.
Communication is important.
Yeah.
They can talk about work, not about their personal stuff.
Like, be professional.
What if, okay, what if you have a factory and you want your workers to be able to communicate
with each other, but you want their communications encrypted so that someone else can't figure
out what your factory's doing?
Well, you mean someone else, just people out of the work.
Yeah.
Their boss should know.
Please.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's fine.
But then you can teach the robot to communicate the encryption bits to the boss.
That's very tough.
I don't know.
There's positives and negatives to so many things.
So it's like, should you trust human, or should you trust the robot?
I would go with... Humans are sketchy as heck, too, man.
I don't know.
I don't know.
These are too complicated.
Humans have done some pretty terrible things.
Anyways, I think this is just going to get a little bit weird.
Moving on, we have VRMark, which is now available.
The advanced edition is 20 bucks with a 25% discount in the first week of release.
Hopefully we're still within that, and it gets you some more stuff.
I'm going to jump to PC Per here.
He has a really good write-up on the VRMark stuff.
I'm going to move the camera back to where it normally goes.
So VRMark arrives.
It's finally freaking here.
I had to do so many graphics card reviews with a little copy and paste part in my review
that's like, by the way, no VR benchmarks, because we can't really do that yet very accurately.
So I don't know.
I'm happy that it's here.
The VRMark basic edition is able to see if your PC can meet the performance requirements
for the Vive and Oculus Rift.
It's able to test readiness with the Orange Room benchmark, and you can explore the Orange
Room in experience mode.
What's the Orange Room?
So the Orange Room is just one of the testing environments that they have.
So this thing is just for you to benchmark your VR?
Yes.
Oh, that's cool.
It's to benchmark your computer to see if it's ready for VR.
So like, you could run it on this and then see if you could play a Vive off of the laptop.
For me, I don't know how you guys benchmark stuff, if I have this thing to download.
Yeah, that is very cool actually.
You can get it on Steam too, I believe.
Pretty sure it's on Steam.
And then the VRMark Advanced Edition will cost $20.
It unlocks the Blue Room, which is for even more high performance PCs, and you can see
detailed results of your hardware monitoring charts and explore both rooms in experience
mode.
And then you can do more tests with more or less demanding custom settings, which is cool
as well.
So that would be more helpful for me.
But if you just kind of want to see, like, check or X if your computer is ready, the
basic edition, which is free, is probably good enough, which is cool.
So the Orange Room benchmark shows an impressive level of detail that can be achieved on a
PC that meets the recommended hardware requirements for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
If your PC passes this test, it's ready for the two most popular VR systems today.
One of the problems that I have with VR benchmarking is, and like it needs to happen, you need
to be able to do this because it is such a jump and it is such a unique thing that you're
trying to do.
But experiences on each platform are so unique.
Like there's a company that's working with NASA that has talked to us, who's trying to
make like a simulation of like moonwalks and like spacewalks and like working on the space
station and stuff.
With NASA?
Yeah, they're working with NASA.
Like real, you can see the real space.
Well, it's like graphical.
But that program that they're making struggles on like multiple thousand-ish dollar graphics
cards.
But then this thing isn't going to pass you on that.
But it'll pass you on most things, so it's kind of weird because they're like certifying
that your computer is fast enough to run a display plus some other stuff and then assuming
performance difficulties of games, which it will almost always, I'm going to say, be accurate
with, but maybe not forever and not for technically everything.
So it's kind of a weird space, but yeah.
The Blue Room is a more demanding test with a greater level of detail.
It is the ideal benchmark for comparing high-end systems with specs above the recommended requirements
for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Yeah, like that's what you're testing.
You're testing recommended requirements, which is kind of a weird terminology, but whatever.
A PC that passes this test will be able to run the latest VR games at the highest settings
and may even be VR ready for the next generation of VR headsets.
That's pretty cool.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Or you buy VR, you should try this on now to benchmark your PC.
Yeah, well probably, especially because one version is free, right?
Yeah.
So it's not really that big of a deal if you can just download something for free off of
what I believe is Steam, which most people have anyways.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you have Steam?
I have.
I downloaded it last year.
That's actually, I didn't know what Steam was.
You got that pretty late in the game.
I know.
Did you get that after you started playing League of Legends?
No, after I started playing Age of Empire.
So I thought you've been playing Counter-Strike for like a while though.
But I was, that was like long, couple years ago.
Was all League of Legends Counter-Strike, that was all within a year?
No, no, no.
I have been playing League of Legends, but it's not on Steam, right?
So Counter-Strike is on Steam, but before I was playing on something else, it's not
on Steam.
It's the older version.
But I haven't played for so long.
Oh, okay.
Like way back.
So I didn't know what Steam was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
But I got it since you guys told me it was not on Steam.
Not free on Steam.
Hold up.
Let me just check this real quick.
VRMark Steam.
Is it supposed to be free?
This is, yeah, basic edition.
Basic edition is supposed to be free.
I'm looking into this right now.
Is it the VRMark Preview?
Mixed overall reviews.
Oh, dear.
Wow.
Let's read some of those.
There's only eight, and they're mixed so far.
Recommended, recommended, not recommended.
Launches 3DMark with no options to run VRMark tests.
Can't get it to work.
Launches 3DMark, but no VR.
Launches 3DMark, but can't find VRMark.
Oh, dear.
Sounds like they got some bugs for them, but look for the VRMark, not basic edition.
I guess they're calling it Preview.
Link demo, please.
Just Google Steam VRMark, and you'll find that.
Anyways, moving on.
EVGA.
I have heard so much about this through a bunch of random people, but we haven't had
any problems with our cards, so I didn't really have anything to base it off of.
Apparently there have been tons of issues with 1080s, 1070s, and 1060 graphics cards.
Tom's Hardware Germany initially reported an issue with EVGA's cooling system, and the
site found that the card reached up to 107 degrees Celsius, or 224 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is kind of crazy.
And this happened when they put it under a FurMark stress test.
Why is everything causing fire this year?
Everything.
Almost everything.
Seriously.
Okay, so for me, I don't trust any electricity thing, so when I go to bed, I unplug my PC.
Whoa.
My laptop.
I unplug my laptop.
I unplug my Christmas lights.
I have Christmas lights.
Oh, that's cool.
I'm done with that.
I unplug the boiler.
What about your fridge?
That's the only thing I can unplug.
But yeah, so I unplug everything mostly.
That's kind of crazy.
Like, you don't just turn off a power bar.
You're unplugging it all.
When I was in the military service, I was working at the fire agency.
We are doing fire investigation, even if it's plugged in, it's not on, it still has a chance
to get on fire.
So I just, for safety.
I have smoke detector, but I- Do you have a fire extinguisher?
Yes.
Okay, yeah.
I do have that.
Because a lot of people don't.
So when I sleep, I can sleep very deep.
No one can wake me up.
When you're in bed, you're really deep?
Yeah.
Okay.
Very, very deep.
Yeah.
So deep when you're in bed.
So, yeah.
So I don't, yeah, I just unplug stuff.
But if they caught on fire when I'm using it, I'm ready to, like, I'm fine.
I can, I have fire, it's a good thing.
Nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
And experience.
Experience, yeah.
Yeah.
So EVGA is offering optional thermal pads for those who don't feel like just a standard
VBIOS update is sufficient, and they can ship those out to you and you can replace those.
I would probably recommend just doing that, to be completely honest.
And the company will be honoring warranties as well, they have stated, and replacements,
and they will replace affected cards with new updated ones.
And there's a chart which I can link for people to see if their cards are affected.
Let's see here.
So all these model numbers.
Looks like pretty much everything.
So if you have a card with that specific model number ID, product ID kind of deal, I would
contact EVGA in some way.
I would maybe get those thermal replacement pads or whatever.
I believe we have a video, I don't know what it's called or where it is or whatever, on
like how to do replacement thermal pad stuff from like way back in the day.
If not, I'm sure someone else does like Jay or something like that, Jay does a lot of
water cooling stuff and I believe he has a video on this, Jay's two cents.
I'm pretty sure he has a video on the whole EVGA thing.
So if you're confused, there's multiple ways to follow up.
I'm sorry to hear that there was problems.
Luckily, as far as I can tell, I haven't heard anyone saying that EVGA has been trying to
screw them over.
I'm going to say that like with a so far thing, which is good.
But if you guys do hear anything, please tweet me so I can keep track of what's going on.
I've just been hearing that this is a thing.
I haven't actually talked to anyone specifically who's like had it be a problem and then dealt
with EVGA yet.
So I'm just going off of hearsay.
So far the hearsay is that things are fine.
Safety first for everything.
Yeah.
Do you take the battery out of your laptop?
No.
I think I should replace my battery because it drains so fast.
Oh yeah.
That might be some problem with my battery too.
My laptop's dying.
So I probably just let it die.
Just let it die.
I'll just get a new one.
I need a PC.
Are you going to build like a desktop?
I want to.
Yeah.
I need a real PC, not a laptop.
Mine is like three years old.
What is your use case?
Are you going to be like rendering videos at home and editing videos at home just for
fun or just games?
Yeah.
Probably for editing videos.
Yeah.
Mostly.
But this is the same.
If I can edit on my PC, I probably can play my stuff too because I don't play video.
Yeah.
No.
I was just wondering like what you were doing.
Because like if your only use case was playing League, then it's like pretty easy.
You don't need much to do that.
Probably mostly for video editing.
So then you need a lot more.
Much more powerful computer than just one that needs to play League.
Yeah.
Not that big of a deal.
But yeah.
That'll be kind of cool.
Are you going to do a build log?
Yeah.
I talked to Lennis.
Oh, nice.
But we will see what he's going to do.
Maybe?
Yeah.
Woo.
Lennis build log.
You got to mod it.
You go Taiwan number one like crazy.
I want to make.
Like paint the flag on the side of it.
I want to do like the kind of case you've made for Scrap Hour.
That one.
What's that?
The fire one.
That one?
That one.
Yeah.
That one.
You want to do like a Mad Max thing?
Just without the fire.
Yeah.
Or something like that.
Because you're like that has butane in it.
I want something really cool.
I think it still does.
I want handmade.
I don't want to just buy a case.
Okay.
Do you want to build it from scrap or do you want to like mod one?
Wow.
That's not scratch built.
That started as a normal computer case.
I always start with something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So like heavily modified case.
That's what you want to do.
That's cool.
I'm down to help.
Like 100 percent.
I want to have some different lighting.
I don't know if I want water cooling but I want some cool lighting.
And I don't know.
Like LED strip lighting?
I want to have some theme.
Have you seen the movie Nerf?
Their color graphics.
I don't think so.
Really cool.
The color tone.
I like that kind of color on my piece of Nerf.
Like N-E-R-F?
N-E-R-V-E.
Oh.
N-E-R-V-E.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
N-E-R-V-E.
That color.
This.
Okay.
So like crazy neon.
Yes.
That's really cool.
Like that.
That would be pretty awesome.
Whoa.
Google it.
This gets weird sometimes.
Okay.
That's not my fault.
Yeah.
That looks pretty cool though.
I want like that color.
Yeah.
Okay.
Like do you want to do like this kind of stuff?
Like crazy neon?
I don't want pink.
I want blue, green.
So like not the Nerf thing, but the back.
Yeah.
Like that.
But like those blue and green things?
But I don't want to just use the LED stripe.
I want something.
You want it like painted that way?
Yeah.
Okay.
You could get like UV reactive paint and then put UV lights in there.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
That's what I want.
It looks like it's kind of glowing.
That would be pretty cool.
I want my PC like glowing.
Glowing.
Glowing.
Glowing.
That's an awesome combination.
I'm just putting that up there.
I enjoy that a lot.
So yeah, vaporwave.
Someone just posted that on the thing.
Vaporwave might be an interesting search term.
Vaporwave.
Let's see.
One sec.
Vaporwave is like a music thing.
I think it's popular with them young kids.
Like this kind of stuff.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That kind of color tone.
Yeah.
But not the pink.
So like this?
Yeah.
Look at that first one.
Top left.
Wow.
Wow.
I don't know what I did.
What the heck?
That.
Yeah.
That's cool.
That's cool?
Mm-hmm.
All right.
That's going to be an interesting computer.
Yeah.
I want my logo on it.
Your logo.
My logo.
You have a logo?
What's your logo?
Well, I have to create one.
Okay.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
That sounds really cool.
Okay.
Anyways.
Moving on from Dennis' potential awesome custom computer.
Google Fiber division cuts staff by 9%.
Pauses fiber plans in 11 cities.
Really sucked.
Access, the alphabet division containing Google Fiber, will lay off employees and replace
its CEO as it looks for cheaper ways to deliver internet service to new cities.
Access CEO's Craig Barrett, hopefully I said that properly, Barrett, Barrett, Barrett,
made the announcement in a blog post saying he would only be staying on as an advisory
role.
Mentions that Access is going to pause operations in 11 cities and the future of Access seems
to be in wireless, which is very unfortunate.
Access purchased the internet provider Webpass in June and it's giving it the technology
to begin developing over the air gigabit internet to homes that, in theory, provides the same
service that Fiber would but without as many deployment hurdles.
I don't know.
We'll see.
Google Fiber is only in the States.
Yes.
Not Canada.
Are they going to be spending their-
I kind of doubt it, not beyond the US, at least for a long time, as far as I know.
Someone in this chat could be correcting me, but yeah.
That's pretty insane over the air.
I just want to put that out there right now.
That is very, very fast wireless.
Gigabit wireless is pretty insane.
For instance, that's the internet connection that we have here in entirety and they would
send that here wirelessly instead of over landlines.
Oh.
Should be pretty crazy.
What I don't really like about that is there's just so consistently problems with wireless
technologies.
I know.
The only time that I've been properly impressed with wireless was when I went to Switzerland
and saw that new mouse thing that Logitech did, Darkwave, I believe.
I could totally be getting that wrong.
But this G900, and I think one more mouse now, but I don't remember the exact model
of it because I hate Logitech's model things for their mice, 4.0 something, whatever.
That's very cool.
Yeah, I don't like wireless either.
If it's stable to your home and then you could run your own local wires properly, that's
cool.
And it's Google, so if Google's going to do it, I'm kind of suspecting that it will be
stable to your home.
It just makes me worry.
Darkfield's cool.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Everyone in chat is just spamming your name.
Oh.
Someone said Dennis for president.
I think...
What was it?
Keep it simple.
That's just next Tuesday, right?
It's the 8th.
So four days.
Yes, that's next Tuesday.
Yeah.
See, I know it.
Are you excited?
Are you scared?
I don't know.
I think I'm scared literally no matter what happens.
I just...
I don't know.
Anyways, let's move on to other political things.
Uber drivers win key employment case against Uber.
So this is from the BBC because it was very specifically, I think, in England and Wales.
There's 40,000 Uber drivers in England and Wales, and they're now entitled to holiday
pay, rest breaks, and the national minimum wage, which is very different compared to
how Uber normally operates.
Uber said that it's going to try to appeal the ruling that states that they acted unlawfully.
The ruling accused Uber of resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language,
and even new, brand new freaking terminology, just making stuff up, adding the notion that
Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common platform in
our mind is faintly ridiculous.
What is happening at Uber is just the tip of the iceberg.
Lots of people are now trapped in insecure jobs with low pay and no voice at work.
We need the government to get tough on sham self-employment.
So it was pretty direct.
They didn't really leave a lot of legalese-style stuff in there.
They just seemed to have attacked quite plainly.
We don't have Uber in Vancouver, and I feel government need to catch up with the technology
nowadays and create their... I think the people who work for Uber or the drivers, they
can form a union or something to pursue their right.
Yeah.
Well, they just did here, essentially.
Yeah.
Same in Taiwan.
We have Uber, but it's not legal.
So their work's still insecure.
They can get a fine, but why don't they just push them to legal, because I think a lot
of taxi drivers, they're afraid of that effect, their-
Afraid of switching?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe they could possibly screw them over.
But that's... It's moving on, you know?
Catch up with the times.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's rather frustrating not having Uber here.
To get a cab from the airport to my house, it's over $100.
Yeah, from here.
From work to the airport, it's-
Hundred.
How much?
Like $100.
About $100.
Yeah.
Like, wow.
Last... How long?
It was like a 40-minute drive.
$100 for a 40-minute drive.
It's pretty intense.
And the biggest part for me is cabs are just annoying to deal with.
It's so much easier just to call an Uber and get everything done.
I hate calling cabs.
It is so... I used to dislike it, but it was like, oh, it's the only option.
Then Uber came around, and I'm like, wow, yeah, screw that.
I hate that.
Well, especially for foreigners, we have communication problems.
Yeah.
So we call a cab, and one time we were going to Taiwan for computer techs.
I call, and apparently he was not Canadian either.
He was from somewhere.
He wasn't from here because he has an accent, and I have an accent too, so we couldn't talk
to each other, and it took me like 30-
In Taiwan?
No, here.
Oh, okay.
We're going to the airport.
Okay, yeah.
So it took me like 30 minutes to try to get a cab.
Oh, geez.
And I was almost late because Luke couldn't find his passport.
Oh, yeah.
I did find it eventually.
I did find it eventually.
That was so scary.
Okay, yeah.
Linus forgot his passport for the trip he's on right now.
He never told me, conveniently.
He told everybody else, and Yvon had to rush his passport out to him, and I think he said
he got it within like probably two minutes of when he would have had it.
So that was, damn.
That was pretty intense.
Oh, my God.
The chat can see itself on screen.
You know what?
I'm just going to leave that there.
That's fine.
That's fine.
We'll just let them talk to themselves for a second, and then I'll take it away because
eventually it'll get way too trolley, and now that I've said that, I'm going to move
it away.
That's probably smart.
Yeah.
What was I going to say?
The other really nice thing about Uber is I can get around Taiwan in Ubers completely
fine between Google Translate and the Uber app.
I can just be like, I'm going here, and then if they have any questions, I can be like
there, done.
Also, it's easier for people for business trip.
They have received invoice.
You can get a business account in Uber, and then it gathers all your invoices together
and then sends them all at once to whoever does your accounting, which is absolutely
fantastic.
Then you were in Boston for PAX East with me last time.
Yeah.
Boston, out of all places I've gone to on various trips, Boston is where cabbies have
tried to screw me over the most to the point where I map every single ride that I do in
a cab in Google Maps while I'm going, and I pre-map out the route from the hotel to
the convention center, and I check all the potential different ways with traffic and
all this kind of stuff to figure out how they could get to different locations, and oh my
God, if I ever have to take a cab, it's like a 75% chance they're going to try to screw
me over because I'll say something, and they'll be able to tell that I'm obviously not from
Boston, and they'll just wreck me.
It's terrible.
Uber saves that, and Uber drivers have tried to screw me in Boston too, but you can just
check it once you're done and just be like, uh, yeah, no, that was bullshit.
Just press the little button, and then Uber's like, yeah, okay, here's your money back.
Yeah, you can report.
I did report one time.
When we were in Taiwan two years ago, you guys went to Taiwan, and I wasn't working
with them yet.
I took them.
That was the secret interview process.
That Uber driver was insane, remember?
He was driving so fast on the highway, and we almost got hit.
Oh my God, we seriously almost died.
So I reported that when we got our money back.
That was nuts.
That was actually nuts.
I'm remembering that now.
Yeah, that was really freaky.
There's not that many times that I've been in a cab, and I was like, I might die, and
that was one of them.
Talking about politics, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WhatsApp were all shut down in
Turkey.
Let me jump over to this screen really quick.
It's white for now.
I don't like this cam position.
What if we just do it over here where article things usually are not?
Oh, it's because it covers Linus's tabs because he doesn't know what he has up on his screen.
That makes sense.
Mine are clean.
That's fine.
Yeah, so Turkey blocks Twitter account, which is official, shows what has been blocked.
You can see Twitter.com, Facebook.com, YouTube.com all taken down, and then I believe WhatsApp
is part of Facebook, so then that would be down because of that.
Not so good.
Oh, no, there it is, WhatsApp also down.
I can't imagine living without your social media.
I'm kidding.
It's way deeper than that.
It's not cool at all.
I was just making a joke.
See, people like us, we have a YouTube channel.
It's like losing your job.
I literally didn't even think about that.
Yeah.
Wow.
You're losing your job, man.
Yeah.
Okay, that's really brutal.
I had never even considered that aspect of it.
My thing was just freedom of speech.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WhatsApp is how a lot of people would communicate potentially
rebellious things or things that may be anti-government, and that's the only way I really thought about
it.
It's like the livelihoods.
That's its own ball of wax.
How many people are losing their job in Turkey if they have their YouTube channel?
And yeah, lots of the communication, that's horrible.
Yeah.
So Turkey Blocks monitoring probes have identified throttling at the ISP level as the source
of slowdowns.
Putdown was first detected by national provider TTNet, Turkcell, and other major ISPs.
Smaller providers have not yet been affected as of November 4th, 2016.
VPN tunnels have proven to be an effective means of circumvention for users determined
to work around network throttling as per usual.
That is pretty cool.
Okay.
Razer mocks Apple Pro with crude humor.
Did you see this?
I thought that was kind of funny.
Right?
I don't know.
Just giant picture of the CEO.
That's very creative.
I love how Tech Mike is just like, this is the person that said it.
The CEO said this thing.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Yeah.
Razer Computers SMID is the definition of sexism in tech.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Because you think of that way.
Maybe it's something else.
I think what Razer said is just genuinely Razer doesn't want women as customers.
I don't think that's it.
Honestly, I'm not going to call their names out specifically.
One of them, I will.
No, no, no.
I'm not going to call their names out specifically.
But two friends that are in my life that are females say SMID with those words extended
fully more than any guy I know because they say it as a joke because it's just supposed
to be funny.
I didn't take this seriously.
You call yourself pro SMID as in SD card.
But it's less of a joke when you say it than when a girl says it because then it's like,
okay.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I just, I think people are taking stuff way too seriously and I don't think it's that
big of a deal.
It's not, it's not the most PR friendly tweet.
Yeah.
It could have maybe done a little bit better on that aspect, but like I don't think, I
don't think it's that bad.
I think it's kind of funny.
This isn't effing helping.
You've got to roll in the gaming market.
Use it to do the right thing, not encourage this behavior.
Yo, I know this is a lot of tweets, but I'm showing you some of the bullshit that happens
when women talk about games.
It's just for today.
Whoa.
Okay.
I don't know.
I'm not going to get into this way too much.
I just, I think people are maybe overreacting a little bit.
It wasn't the greatest thing to do in a PR move, but yeah, yeah.
It was a little intense.
Razor responded via Twitter, we're not looking to offend, just proud of our SD card slot,
which is becoming increasingly rare and like, yeah, I mean using one of your laptops right
now that doesn't have it.
So you're right.
That's true.
It is becoming increasingly rare.
Also the other laptop that we have that isn't the Blade Stealth also doesn't have it.
So it is becoming very increasingly rare even in your own products.
But yeah, I don't know.
I wonder what Twitch chat says.
Let's see.
Let's do a straw poll.
Maybe I'm totally off base.
Straw poll.me.
What do you think?
SMID?
Oh.
About the tweet, I think.
Like is it horribly offensive?
I think it's okay.
I think it's pretty creative.
Pretty creative.
Yeah.
I laughed when I saw that.
Did you?
Yeah.
You.
Well, I didn't even think that.
I wouldn't tweet that, but I don't think it's that bad.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, like I probably wouldn't tweet that either.
Like it's a little bit too far, but like I don't think it's that bad.
Creative.
Oppressive.
Oppressive slash mean.
So the options are going to be creative slash funny, oppressive slash mean, or turnip slash
turnip.
Just to make sure that we have all the bases covered, and then we will come back to that
fairly soon.
Can you guys hear the train?
Do you think they can hear the train?
Probably.
I can't hear if I'm here.
That thing is so annoying when we're trying to film.
The train will go by like right in front of our freaking building, and then we just have
to wait until it's gone.
Oh, God, it's frustrating.
Crackling a bit.
There's not a ton I can do about that, sorry.
Yes.
Yes, they can hear the train.
Everyone responded very quickly, very vocally.
They can definitely for sure hear the train.
It's fine when we're on like the WAN show and stuff, but when we're trying to record
like, I'll be trying to do a review, and I'll get into like a really serious part where
I'm trying to be all like stern and stuff.
God damn, oh man, it'll be like one of my best takes too, and then it just completely
fails.
Sucks so much.
What's next?
Oh.
You want to talk about the next battery failure thing?
Booster tell people to stop riding its electric skateboard after battery malfunctions.
Ridiculous.
Okay.
I feel like 2016 is like the year of product failures.
Okay, I talked to Nick, Nick like, and I say, oh, why are there so many things that catch
on fire on their battery?
What's wrong with their battery?
He says, oh, maybe because of the people are trying to do waterproof, so they keep the
heat in the battery itself, so the heat doesn't go out, so it might cause fire.
I don't know if it's true.
Yeah.
I think there's a few things.
That's probably one of them, to be fair.
I think part of it is they're just trying to do more with less, or they're trying to
do more with the same amount that they had before.
They're trying to draw more from the battery, they're trying to pack more into a smaller
space.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When you try to pack more into a smaller space, I'm going to really screw this up.
There's better... Look into the science of batteries, but you start to lose the bit that's
in the middle, and then things transfer improperly, and you can overload them, and there's problems.
I think also there's been a heightened awareness since the Note 7 issue, and if someone's battery
catches on fire or some crap like that, they're starting to report it more, and so they just
ignore it because the Note 7 made the whole world way more interested in this stuff, which
is good.
It's a good thing.
I'm not complaining about that.
On two separate occasions, a lithium battery cell has vented inside the battery pack of
the second generation Boosted Board.
The battery enclosure is a fire retardant composite and worked as designed to contain
the cell failure.
It did a really good job.
Fortunately, no one was injured and no property was damaged.
Our engineering team is conducting a thorough investigation, and we will update everyone
with the results.
Their fire retardant housing stuff is doing great, but things are still catching on fire,
so they're looking into it, and they're going to try to solve the problem, which is good.
Good for Boosted Board, I guess.
I'm going to look at the results.
Kind of as I expected, 64% of people said that it was creative and funny.
30% of people said turnip slash turnip, so they probably just don't care at all, and
then 6% of people said oppressive slash mean.
I don't know.
I don't think it was a...
I think it's maybe something that you say amongst yourselves at Razer, maybe not something
that you tweet, but then Razer's always been a little bit younger and edgier than a lot
of other brands.
Not quite as corporate walk kind of deal, you know what I mean?
So I don't know.
I really don't think it's that bad.
Who would find this offensive?
Female.
I mean, potentially, yeah.
Or Mac.
Apple.
Apple, yeah.
I don't know, because I don't think it's just...
I think it's interesting to look at it as a just anti-female thing.
I think that's very odd.
No, she didn't lead that that way.
No, yeah, because that could be said to literally anyone.
Yeah.
It's just SD card.
SD card stuff.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't think it's a big deal.
I think people are overreacting.
I don't think it was the smartest thing to tweet, but yeah, I don't think it was all
that big of a deal.
Oh yeah, Twitch chat's on screen again.
Oh geez.
There we go.
No, it's not you.
It's there.
Oh, you just want to see it?
Yeah.
Okay.
H440 Hyper Beast confirmed.
This thing is cool.
Oh!
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Yeah, the case.
Yeah, it's cool.
Are you interested in this thing, or do you want to model it yourself?
I don't want flat.
I want 3D.
You want flat.
Oh!
3D case.
Okay.
I want it to pop up.
The color's really cool.
I like this color, and I like the design.
Looks really fancy, but I want...
I want it not just like the bomb case.
Not just like regular case.
I want it to look different.
Or you can make like a volcano case.
Volcano case.
That's cool.
That'd be pretty sweet.
Yeah.
So this thing is very cool.
NZXT logo glows blue on the side.
You've got the Hyper Beast art on the front and the left hand side, and maybe the top.
I haven't seen a picture of the top yet.
I don't see a picture of the top.
The back, or like the right side I guess you'd say, has H440 Hyper Beast printed on it, and
just a big clean panel, which actually looks pretty good considering the rest of it's all
inked out.
Yeah.
Looks really cool.
Production, there will be 1,337 units, which is pretty elite.
Yeah, it's cool.
Based on the M4A1S CSGO weapon skin.
I think it was made with, yeah, Brock Hoffer, the graphic artist behind the Hyper Beast,
which is very cool.
He did the M4A1 weapon skin featuring the beast.
Yeah.
$200.
$200 bucks.
Based on the H440, which is a wicked case.
Nice case.
Looks cool.
Yeah.
Looks really good.
I like this a lot.
I hope this does well.
I hope they sell all 1,337 of them, and that I hope people keep on doing this, because
I think that's very cool.
If I was interested in buying a case like this right now, instead of just getting like
a gray one or something, I would definitely get this.
This thing looks awesome.
Yeah, I don't want my case just a case.
I want it also be like an art display in my house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that was rather cool.
Wii U production is ending this week.
There's not really a ton else to say there.
The GameCube sold 21 million consoles, N64 sold 32 million consoles.
The Wii sold 101 million consoles, and then Wii U went down to 13.36 million consoles.
Less than the GameCube, less than the Nintendo 64, and then not even anywhere close to the
original Wii.
There's a number of reasons to why that happened.
One of them being, literally out of my entire friend group, I was the only person that knew
that the Wii U wasn't just an accessory for the original Wii.
So their marketing was really bad, and the naming was very bad.
Wii versus Wii U, it actually does kind of sound like an add-on.
That's another thing that I worry about with the Nintendo Switch, is it doesn't sound like
a console name.
It sounds like an accessory name.
I never tried Wii, so I don't- You ever tried Wii or Wii U?
None of them.
Okay.
I don't know.
I don't know if they're good at that.
Yeah.
Now, okay.
Totally have a topic for you.
I have no idea what the heck is going on.
Adobe Publishing Panel.
Oh.
So, okay, let me open it.
So Adobe, they have a new feature that when you export your video, you can put social
publishing to your social media.
Like YouTube, let's go to this, it's easier.
You can put it to-
YouTube, Facebook.
Yeah, YouTube, Facebook.
Behance.
I don't know what that actually is.
Yeah, some other.
Twitter.
And you can also hashtag.
That's cool.
So you can, okay, the picture's too small.
Okay, cool.
There you go.
Here, we can-
Oh, there, there, there.
We can look at your screen.
I don't know why you're this zoomed in.
So you can tag.
Oh, I see.
You can tag.
So when you upload video on YouTube, that's how you tag.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
YouTube Publishing Center.
So you can do title, description, and choose all the resolution you want to export.
So you go directly to YouTube, I think.
And I guess you-
But I don't know how steady this is going to be.
You'd link your channel somehow?
Yeah, I think so.
You can choose from the left side.
I don't know if I would trust Adobe.
I mean, I would still do export, upload.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, I would do, okay, I would do Twitter.
I would do Instagram.
I would do stuff like that.
I don't know if I would do YouTube because, like, the upload and processing time and stuff
takes so long.
And Adobe, like, the amount of times that we have our media encoder and stuff crash.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.
That's one concern because what we do here is we export to Cineform, transcode, and upload.
And if you fail, say, if there's one error in video and you take, like, two hours or
an hour to the last step, you have to redo it again.
So it's just, I don't know.
It might be a cool feature for some people, but for me, for us, I think we probably just
do what we're doing right now, just export myself and upload it.
But it's a really cool feature because I've never seen that before.
You can do everything just one.
Someone in chat just asked, what does Dennis do?
I guess it has kind of been four months.
Well, it's been, like, four months since you've been around, so there might be some people
that don't actually know you that well anymore.
Oh, so I've been working here since 2015, summer.
Other than the, like, four months that you were around?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, before.
I started here 2015, summertime.
So I was from Taiwan.
I added TechWiki channel.
I'm a video editor.
So you edit all the videos on TechWiki?
And sometimes I will be on LTT, not on, I should edit.
And sometimes for super fun, channel super fun.
Sometimes I'm on here very, very well.
And mostly I do...
Look what happened.
You went to the light.
Oh, okay.
So I...
That's okay, I fixed it.
Well, I'm a video editor here.
So if you haven't seen me before, nice to meet you.
Yeah, there we go.
Okay.
So, the Samsung kiosks in airports, we actually talked about that last week, but if you bring
your Note 7 to an airport, you will be okay.
They can exchange your phone at a kiosk in the airport, you don't actually have to leave
it there.
And then, boom, Samsung recalling almost 2.8 million washers due to impact injuries.
You had read about this, right?
Okay, so the following report are impact injuries that include broken jaw from a washer.
Broken jaw.
Yeah.
So that washing machine, you can see in the thumbnail there, I'm not gonna play the video
because it would suck for everyone, but that is torn the hell apart.
Okay, you know how strong the washing machine, when they spin?
Yeah.
Entire thing can shake very, very hard.
Yeah.
Because one time, I used to live with a homestead and their washing machine was broken.
And you just can't stop it, and you just keep going, keep going, keep going, and you don't
know, you should unplug it, because it's like moving, and when you try to hold it, it's
like holding you, moving you with the washing machine.
Well your weight compared to a washing machine is not gonna be all that helpful.
They're recalling 2.8 million top load washing machines, so it's top load washing machines,
and I think it's 34 affected models.
So if you have a top load Samsung washing machine, check out, I think this will hopefully
be a list of the models, let's see.
Consumer Product Safety Commission, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission,
they have all the models listed right here.
This is gonna be annoying to read on stream, but if you have a top loading Samsung dryer
washing machine, washing machine.
But what you have to do first, when you are doing your laundry, you put your all the clothes
evenly in the washing machine.
That's it, everyone should know, because if it's uneven, when they spin, they can be like
that.
Dennis washing machine tips?
Yeah, just to, everyone should know.
So don't just pull in, just you need to make a little bit.
You'll never believe what happens when I add, and then you just, everyone has to click on
the video, just the greatest clickbait.
Dennis washing machine tips, I would watch, that'd be the best.
Microsoft has lost over 300 million browser users in 2016, mostly to Chrome tracking site
shows.
I'm not super surprised.
Microsoft getting wrecked, again, there's Satay Nadella, poor guy, whoa, here we go.
So this chart right here shows Chrome and Explorer, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari
and others.
So Firefox kind of took a dip there for a little bit in like the summer, which is kind
of funny.
And now that it's out of the summer, the Firefox is, I don't know why it's coming out of hibernation
in the winter, but it's starting to come back up, which is pretty cool.
Internet Explorer has just been absolutely tanking.
Most people are sitting around like 5%, Firefox is at like 10%, Internet Explorer is plummeting
down to about 20%, and Chrome is just dominating everything.
More people using Internet Explorer than Firefox?
Yes.
Oh.
I used to use Firefox.
Yeah.
So did I.
Then I switched to Chrome.
I love Firefox, there's just so many problems right now, crashes and other terrible, terrible
things.
We need to do sponsor spots, give me a second here.
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Every time I do one of these, look, I get this stupid thing.
Do you see that?
See that little patch right there?
Hair doesn't grow like right there.
Why?
I don't know.
So like when I don't shave for a while, it even just looks really dumb.
You can draw, you can use Sharpie.
Should I just Sharpie my beard in?
Just kind of color it.
Wonderful idea.
I'm going to Sharpie my beard in.
Or I could just join, well I guess I'm actually a part of Dollar Shave Club, but I could get
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That thing was like literally rusty by the end of it.
That's disgusting.
Yeah, it was pretty gross.
You can use it with Dr. Carver's Shave Butter, which is actually kind of cool because it
goes on clear so you can like see where your hair is.
I never use Shave Butter.
You don't?
It might be good for you guys because I don't have beard.
I just shave in the shower.
I blind shave every time.
I don't even use like a shower mirror or anything, I'm just like yeah it's about there.
And then I trim this bit.
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So head over to dollarshaveclub.com and give them a try for free.
I wanted to give a recommendation.
Their hair wax, hair gel, hair gel.
I don't use anything.
Which one do you use?
They have a bunch of different kinds.
The white one.
The white one.
Cream?
Not cream.
No, okay.
In the thing.
Wax.
Hair wax.
Hair wax.
Yeah, that is really good.
Are you using it right now?
No, I didn't.
I was going to, but I forgot.
Yeah.
Okay, so every time I use hair wax, I need to be like easier to wash when I find my hands.
Because some of them, other brands are really hard to wash out.
And they stay popular and make you look good.
All right, there you go.
Okay, so next one is Squarespace.
At least, you know, you should be Squarespace.
Yes, it is.
24-7 live chat and email support.
Fantastic.
It's always been that way.
You can get a hold of them any time you need.
It's $12 a month.
If you sign up for a year, you get a domain for free just thrown in, which is cool.
It has responsive design, so if you're looking at it on my phone or Dennis' phone or my laptop
or Dennis' ginormous massive huge laptop or a computer or a console or whatever tablet,
it'll all look and work fine.
They have commerce modules so you can sell stuff, which is fantastic.
Or the cover page feature, which is Linus' favorite thing.
When everything is just on one website and you just scroll through it and everything
is there, Linus loves that.
If you have an example of a cover page style website that is just one page, tweet it to
Linus Tech.
He will absolutely just absolutely love that so much.
Everyone can publish content in Apple News format directly from the Squarespace blog
module, which is great.
It opens it up to millions of potential readers, and you can start a trial today with no credit
card required and use offer code WAN for 10% off of your first purchase, so head over there.
Fresh Books.
Then we have Fresh Books.
Fresh Books is the easy way to get paid faster and create invoices faster and expense things
more easily and faster and blah, blah, blah, blah.
You can try Fresh Books completely free for 30 days at freshbooks.com slash WAN and make
sure that you put WAN in the how did you hear about us section.
Fresh Books has a timesheet function so you can manage your expenses and keep track of
who owes you what, which is helpful.
Both my parents have ran a number of businesses and keeping track of that stuff can be really,
really frustrating because people don't like paying right away.
They like terms where they can pay in 30 days or whatever else.
It's really annoying.
Also has a feature where you can see if your clients have looked at your invoice, when
they looked at your invoice for the first time at least.
The mobile app has all the functionality of their desktop version, which is great, so
you can take Fresh Books wherever you go.
If you have any questions, you can reach out to their support, whether you'll speak to
a real human.
No phone tree, no escalations, no return calls, they'll just pick up the phone.
It's all good.
Freshbooks.com slash WAN, enter WAN in the how do you hear about us section, and they
just got a mobile card reader, which is cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
There we go.
Okay.
What do we have left in terms of topics?
VR headsets and herpes.
What?
So I was thinking about doing a video on this.
What?
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
What did I miss?
I got as far as creating a new word doc to write the scripts and coming up with some
absolutely insane title to go along with VR headsets giving people herpes, but I decided
not to because while I did think the information could be a little bit valuable, it seemed
more valuable to just have on WAN Show, and I didn't want to be that click baity and terrible,
but I did think it would be pretty funny.
So ocular herpes is actually a thing, and it can actually be transferred by sharing
VR headsets.
It can happen because stuff like your eyelashes can touch things that are in there, and ocular
herpes can be transferred.
An anonymous chat transcript suggested that VR headsets were spreading herpes.
There's a copy of the transcript and a tweet that go along with it right here.
So you see, hey Brad, whoever Brad is, ocular herpes is going around VR headsets, ones that
are used to share with people.
Link Game Studio told us it's going around.
Have to clean headsets regularly.
And they're like, oh my god, WTF and stuff.
Don't they have a replace thing you can just put on the side?
So yeah, but you can't replace the lenses every time.
So I think kind of the deal right now is that people are trying to wipe down the lenses
with alcohol solutions and stuff to kill whatever's there.
It's highly unlikely, but also not impossible that someone could get ocular herpes through
a VR headset, says Todd Margolis, chair of the Washington University School of Medicine's
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
The odds would be like the odds of transmitting herpes on toilet seats.
OK, so that's pretty low.
General consensus is that VR developers should keep antimicrobial wipes or covers around show
booths.
Symptoms of ocular herpes include redness, discomfort, blurry vision, and light sensitivity.
Herpes on your eyes.
Mild forms clear up within a couple of weeks and can be easily mistaken for pink eye.
What?
You have pink eye?
Why'd you point at me?
I don't have pink eye.
What was that?
Let's spread this misinformation.
Come on, let's show this points at me.
So mean.
I'm just showing the dock off, apparently.
Apple AirPods delayed indefinitely beyond original late October window, so that's pretty
brutal.
Hey, let's make a phone that needs these wireless things and then nope, get wrecked.
You an iPhone guy?
No, you're not.
No, I'm not anymore.
I used to be.
You used to be, right?
I used to be an iPhone guy.
Yeah, because you had that like super smashed one.
Yeah, I switched to Samsung, Android.
What do you think?
I love it now.
Really?
You can download, you have download folder.
Now I know what you guys were talking about.
Because I didn't know, I was using iPhone because you guys always say, oh, you guys
don't have a download folder or something because I don't know what you guys are talking
about.
I think you can get one if you jailbreak it, which is like really easy.
I don't jailbreak, I don't want to jailbreak it because it might make your iPhone worse,
right?
No.
Slower?
No.
Somehow.
No.
Yes, I heard that.
No, it doesn't make it slower.
No, no, no, no, no.
Okay.
Oh, whatever.
Here, okay, Twitch chat.
No, we're going to show you guys on screen.
Does jailbreaking your iPhone make it slower?
Let's see what they say.
Apple EarPods though.
What do you think?
Why do I always say EarPod?
Yeah.
You don't want them anyways?
I don't even know how many headphones I lost every year.
Yes.
No, no.
I see.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
See?
The whole thing is just a mess.
Twitch chat.
You can't trust them for anything.
Just so ridiculous.
See?
Yes, it does.
No, it doesn't.
Yes.
Hell yes, it does.
No, it doesn't.
Not anymore.
Oh, my God.
Look at stuff.
I just say that.
You just said what?
Look at stuff.
Oh, that's mean.
I didn't read it.
No.
That means you just said it.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
I like my Android phone now because it's like a mini PC.
Okay.
Yeah.
So not just because it's a new phone, but actually like the usability of the phone.
You prefer Android?
Yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
Confirmed.
Dennis prefers Android.
Confirmed.
I really don't like the AirPods.
What's it called?
Air...
AirPods?
AirPods.
Soil and Halt, the sales of its powder as customers keep on getting sick, reported that
a handful of customers reported stomach sickness after consuming it.
In an announcement, Soil and Halt said there appears to be a common ingredient that's causing
trouble in the latest version of its product's snack bar and powder.
They said the investigation isn't complete.
Soil and Halt said there shouldn't be any problems with the pre-made drinks.
Soil and Halt urged customers' discomfort by version 1.6 of its powder to toss it.
Newly formulated powder and bar should be available by early next year at the latest.
So this doesn't include anything that anyone here does, because we buy the bottles.
I don't drink Soil and Halt.
Yeah.
Have you tried it?
I tried it, but I don't...
It's too plain for me.
Yeah.
And I like real food.
But for people like you guys, if you're in a rush or you don't have time for food...
I thought you were going to say that I don't like real food.
I was like, you don't...
Yeah, you don't have time.
Yeah.
And you got all the, what's that called, all the health...
Nutrition.
Nutrition.
Nutrition.
You got all the nutrition.
Yeah.
So, but you guys drink the liquid one, right?
Yeah.
So those aren't actually affected by this, which is good.
Jumping over here, the Kodak...
Why is that?
Oh, that's your screen.
Kodak Xtra.
This is a Kodak phone.
That's actually not just a camera that we're looking at.
That's a phone.
So I don't know if I can scroll.
Let's see here.
Oh.
There.
See the other end?
Look at that.
It's a phone.
That's cool.
Yeah.
I don't want to...
Yeah, I know.
We can do that.
So let's jump on Dennis' screen.
He's actually looking at the forum post.
I'm going to move this out of the way.
So that's pretty cool integration that Tidal Waves did right there.
Information is available.
So it has a...
Is that Helio?
Helio X20 Decacore processor, 3,000 milliamp hour battery, 3 gigs of RAM, 32 gigabytes
of memory, expandable with micro SD cards, which is awesome.
Makes sense in a essentially camera phone.
Five inch full HD display, 441 PPI, 1920 by 1080 resolution, 21 megapixel main camera
with aperture of F2, which means something, I'm sure.
Optical image stabilization and autofocus, 13 megapixel front facing camera, phase detection
autofocus and HDR imaging, and 4K video capture.
Oh, 4K.
Does that sound interesting to you?
Yep.
But I...
Because it's for their...
Is there a first phone?
I believe so.
Yeah.
I have to see.
From Kodak.
First phone.
I don't know.
But might be cool because they're a good camera, right?
Yeah.
I'm interested.
I want Brandon to do his first phone review, and I want him to do this.
Yeah, he should do this phone and camera.
I think that would be super cool to have Brandon do a phone review, which is also sort of a
camera.
Oh, the skin is cool.
Yeah.
It's like...
Yeah.
And there's like the part where you hold it, like on a normal camera, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I believe the shutter button's right up there, which is kind of cool.
The lens is big.
And they have like...
They have the...
Okay, yeah.
It's like a classic camera bag kind of thing going on with the flatten cover and stuff.
That's cool.
That's cool.
Don't just capture, create.
So they're showing filters and stuff.
Oh, wow.
Studio applications.
Okay.
No, so it's editing software.
Yeah.
That's cool.
I just...
HDR thing.
I just want to see Brandon review it, to be completely honest.
These are all pictures that they took with it.
It's pretty cool.
I actually, I really love Brandon's videos.
Yeah.
And to see Brandon review a phone would be interesting.
And to see Brandon review what is more like a camera phone than a phone with a camera
would also be pretty cool.
One of my favorite things about Brandon's reviews is just looking at them, because he
always spends a little bit more time setting up the main A-roll set for himself than he
does for anyone else.
And then all the B-roll in it will be perfect.
And then he'll spend like a ton of time getting footage from the device and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, all right.
When is this phone out?
I'm not entirely sure.
You have to register, though.
Please let Brandon do it.
Yes, more Brandon videos.
Yeah.
I hope it comes down that way.
I don't know if Brandon wants to do like a phone review and stuff, but...
Tell him it's a camera, and he'll find out it's a phone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty sure he'll find out it's a phone pretty quick.
I don't know how well that would work.
I think that's like pretty much it for topics.
Oh, that's fun.
To be completely honest, we're sort of out.
We don't really have any more topics.
I wanted them to put BlizzCon stuff in here, but there's no BlizzCon stuff in here at all.
So let's jump over to BlizzCon 2016.
You out of here?
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh, tonight?
No, I'm just...
Oh, OK.
OK.
All right.
Bye.
Bye, Ed.
I'm not leaving.
You're not leaving?
You're just doing that?
I'm just greeting you.
Oh, I can't greet you back that way.
He's doing that.
No!
Jesus!
He's doing that.
I have shoulder issues, so I can't raise my arm all that high.
You have shoulder issues, so you can't raise your arm that high?
OK.
Bye, Ed.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
The Twitch chat just...
Let me see what...
Oh, God.
Oh.
OK.
So to give some context for the people wondering that, Edzle and I were playing Secret Hitler
last night.
Let me find this.
Secret Hitler.
Oh, no.
Yeah, Dennis.
What?
I didn't even know what that meant.
Oh, God.
Oh, wrong screen.
So this is Secret Hitler.
It's a...
I forget if they ask questions.
They don't have pictures of how the game works?
What is Secret Hitler?
Secret Hitler is a dramatic game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930s Germany.
Players are secretly divided into two teams, liberals and fascists, known only to each
other.
The fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader.
The liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it's too late.
So essentially, at the beginning of every round, you're assigned a role, and no one
knows each other's role.
The fascists know who Hitler is, but Hitler doesn't know who the fascists are, and the
liberals don't know who anyone is.
And you have to vote on things, but you get different cards, and it's all about subtlety
and pretending that you are who you're not.
Everyone wants to pretend in the game that they're a liberal, because that's the only...
There's more liberals in the game than there is fascists, so you need people to think that
you're on their team so that they'll play with you kind of...
It's a very interesting game, but that's why he was...
I don't even know, I don't even know.
Moving on from there, BlizzCon 2016 is going on right now.
So November 4th to 5th in Anaheim, California.
It is November 4th right now.
Some people know we were going to be there.
We were supposed to be on a sponsored trip to BlizzCon covering a bunch of streaming
hardware from a particular company, but that got canceled, so that's why we are not there.
There's some interesting stuff that has already happened.
There's been some Heroes of the Storm information.
I don't think it's all posted right here right now, but I do know from listening to Nick
Leith that they're adding Ragnaros and one other dude who's like the alliance guy with
the cool swords, but don't remember his name right now, Varian Wynn?
Is that right?
I could totally be wrong.
Anyways, they're adding those guys to Heroes of the Storm, and they're having an event
for November...
I think it's from November 20th to December 20th or something like that.
If you play a certain amount of games or if you win a certain amount of games or something,
you get a bunch of heroes for free.
So they're trying to push Heroes of the Storm, which is cool because they like that game,
but not enough people play it.
And yeah, BlizzCon will be interesting.
Do you play any Blizzard games?
No.
None?
Have you played Starcraft or Warcraft?
No, I will have to spend too much time on those games.
You don't actually game that much, do you?
No, I just watch The Office.
You just watch The Office?
You're going to run out of The Office, man.
I know, I'm season seven!
Oh no!
You're so close to the end.
Michael just laughed.
I was so sad.
Yeah.
I was so sad.
Yeah.
Because once he laughed, I don't know the point of watching that.
You gotta keep watching that.
I know.
I know.
You have to keep watching.
I have to finish that.
It's so good.
You can't go seven seasons in and not finish the whole thing.
I'm going to.
That's why I watch at least three episodes a day.
Yeah.
Everyone's yelling, spoilers!
That show is not new.
Just go watch it, man.
Deal with it.
Although you did say specifically what season two.
I'm season seven.
Episode 22.
Is that the one that he leaves?
22.
That's the episode he left.
There.
Now you've just got a super spoiler.
Your office watching experience is destroyed.
It will never be the same again.
It's done.
It's absolutely done.
I didn't say how long he's living.
Maybe he's coming back.
I don't even know.
Yeah.
I was going to say, you haven't finished the whole thing.
How would you know at all?
Yeah.
Anyways, I think we are going to be done.
We are out of topics and I have more stuff to work on.
Go play for those who know what that even is and I need to get home because I do that
stream and stuff.
Oh.
You're after party.
Yes.
So after party, if you want to talk about things that happened in this show, like Ocular
Herpes, feel free to come join me on there.
Yeah.
I see you, Ed.
Twitch.tv slash luken of square life r.
I'll be over an hour so don't be there too quickly.
Anyways guys, thanks for coming by to the land show this week.
Say bye to Dennis.
Next week is a holiday.
Next week is a holiday.
Also Ed, are we gone next week?
Is next week the 19th?
No.
Okay.
So Linus, I believe we'll be back here next week and then the week after that, I don't
know what we're actually doing for land show because I think we like both might be out
or something.
I don't know what's going on.
But anyways, see you guys later.
Goodbye.
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