Really even.
Wow, how early are we?
One minute.
40 seconds.
Yeah, I was gonna say, to be fair,
not a full minute, but we are early.
Welcome to the WAN show of the 28th of April, 2017.
Yeah, we have some really cool topics.
One of them being that Acer has announced
their most badass gaming monitor yet,
which is pretty sick.
The FCC announces a plan to reverse Title II
of net neutrality, which I don't personally
know a ton about, because I'm a Canadian.
We were like, no to that.
But Jon will have much better insights on that topic.
Amazon's Alex, with an A,
learns to talk like a human, which is cool.
Elon Musk, at a TEDx conference in Vancouver,
teases a little bit of the Tesla electric semi-truck,
which is pretty cool, and four new Gigafactory locations,
which is pretty ridiculous.
And yeah, there was one more thing.
Oh my god, I keep on double clicking with my touchpad,
and I'm a super noob.
Nintendo is launching a new 2DS XL,
which is like flippy and stuff,
which is what the 3DS probably should have been
this whole time, so it could have been cheaper,
and that 3D option would have just never been there,
which would have been completely fine.
And that's the show this week.
Intro.
Roll the intro.
Look at it work.
Look at that.
Don't you like that when you just press a button
and something just happens?
It's so funny, man.
Ooh, the mansion.
Quickly analysis.
Sometimes.
Sometimes we just talk real weird stuff,
make noise, and take care of other people.
Oh my god, the next time you need it,
by the name of Canada, Spectrum Glasses.
And Cooler Master.
And move that back up there, and go back.
All right, so, first things first, that crazy monitor.
Let's get up to the top here.
Let's do it.
Acer's new gaming monitor.
The notes in the dock say that it is 44 hertz,
but my extremely techy brain was like,
there's no way that's accurate.
Thanks a lot, James.
Yeah, yeah, so it's 144 hertz HDR 4K UHD monitor.
Super badass, wanna keep talking about it?
Yeah, basically what Luke said,
being billed as the nicest Acer gaming monitor
that Acer has ever made.
There we go.
There's a local dimming for better contrast,
which is actually pretty cool.
Yeah, so that's part of the HDR bit,
where there's all the different zones,
and it can turn off different zones
to get better darkness and contrast and stuff.
Yeah, that's one of the better solutions
to get better contrast.
Four milliseconds of response time.
It doesn't say what kind of a panel it is,
but I believe it will be,
with four milliseconds, it will be an IPS,
so a little bit quicker IPS.
And should look fairly nice, which is cool.
Mm-hmm.
Also has HDMI 2.0.
I don't know if HDMI 2.1 has made its way
onto any consumer devices yet,
but if you wanna run 4K at 60 hertz on this monitor,
you can do it through HDMI 2.0.
You probably shouldn't, though.
It's 144 hertz monitor.
You're gonna wanna run at 144 hertz.
So, yeah, maybe if your graphics hardware
is not power, but yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
If you wanna buy, for some reason,
have multiple inputs plugged in at once,
and you wanna run something
that doesn't need the 4K 144 hertz,
you can totally do that, which is cool.
Like right now, if you had, say, this thing,
the Analog NT, which you guys can't see,
but it's right off camera,
you wanted to have that plugged in and your computer,
you could totally do that.
Yep, and it also has Tobii eye tracking built in,
so if you can scroll back up a little bit there,
if you're wondering what that kind of bar
on the bottom there is,
that is what that would be, it is an eye tracker.
So, you've got that.
Interesting.
Tobii's been an interesting technology to follow,
because I tried them out at a CES quite a few years ago,
and admittedly, it was not very good.
It was pretty bad.
It was a little bit of a work in progress,
and I saw it as well.
Yeah, but it's kinda been a while.
I know Sevedis, if you guys know Sevedis, big streamer,
he has it permanently mounted on the bottom of his monitor,
and he's done some streams where he used it,
and he says that it was pretty cool,
and I had him try it in front of me,
because I was like, oh, BS.
And it worked well for him,
so I'm assuming that it's gotten better over time,
which is cool.
I also want to say a couple more words
about that local dimming this monitor has.
So, apparently, it's 384 different backlighting zones,
so the amount of control the monitor can exert
over one tiny little section is actually pretty high,
but you do need a 10 series Nvidia graphics card,
so a 1080 or a 1070, something like that,
with a DisplayPort 1.4 conductor,
but that should not be very difficult to find.
That's the modern standard.
Yeah, yeah.
That's one thing about HDR,
with all the individually controllable, what the heck?
Is that like an accessory for it?
Is there a hood on it?
Let's see, let's see.
Yeah, what?
So, I wonder if that comes with it.
Let's see here.
I didn't notice anything about that,
but if you guys can see this on screen,
there's like, on a camera sometimes,
where I'm gonna use totally the wrong term,
I'm sorry, Brandon, if you can hear this,
but on a camera sometimes,
there's like those things that come out past the lens
to block certain light out
from getting in the lens that you don't want,
and it's kind of like the same deal,
but for the monitor, there's a hood on the top,
and there's two side panels, sort of like horse blinders.
Yeah, so if you're not in like a optimum environment,
and you have glare or whatever else.
And you're like, this is an HD monitor
with a whole bunch of individually
controllable lighting zones, and these look perfect.
You know, if you're gonna sink that much money into it,
I can actually understand the attitude,
and speaking of which,
no pricing or release information on this yet,
but hopefully soon.
I'm really interested in the hood.
I wanna get it in here and try it
to see if it actually really does anything.
You're really interested in the hood, Luke?
Yeah.
You know, I get that impression from you
just all the time, you know, listening to your rap
at your desk, yeah. Super gangster.
Super.
Yeah, anyways, I thought that was pretty cool.
It's fun to see Acer pushing more in the monitor segment.
Wow, someone just made a big change to the dock, thanks.
Oh, what is happening?
Oh, it looks like just to the table of contents.
Okay, so this is very much more you, John.
It is very much more me.
But the FCC announced its plan
to reverse Title II net neutrality.
I know most of what those words mean.
Okay.
And that's about it.
Do you know what Title II means?
No.
Okay, so here's what's going on.
So, the FCC has tabled a proposal
to undo the 2015 rules that implemented net neutrality
with a Title II classification.
Now, here's what this means.
So, before 2015, net neutrality was,
it had been implemented,
there were rules that the FCC had passed
to say, okay, here's some things that your ISP cannot do.
Again, the big thing for net neutrality advocates
was you couldn't have any sort of unreasonable,
what's the word I'm looking for?
There's no unreasonable discrimination with network traffic.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, that rule was already in place prior to 2015.
In 2015, they decided to,
the best word to use here would be strengthen it.
I guess that depends on your point of view.
But they decided to strengthen it
by classifying ISPs and internet services
under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
And what this means is they'll be regulated
as what's called a common carrier.
And when you do this, what ends up happening
is the regulations are a little bit more strict
as to like what they could do.
Now, you may have caught the fact I said
the Communications Act of 1934.
It was actually enacted a long time ago
and it was originally, sorry,
just let me mute my laptop here, that's very distracting.
There we go, okay.
It was originally designed to regulate
landline telephone carriers all the way back in the day.
It was amended in 1996.
And so, now we have the legal framework that we have today.
So, can you explain,
because like from a Canadian point of view,
this came into our whatever
and we shot it down like almost immediately.
So, I don't even know a ton about it.
But the Americans have gone through this
a number of times before, have they not?
This is maybe like, this is the third major action
I can think of on net neutrality.
Yeah, because I've talked about this on WAN Show
since like 2013.
Yeah, exactly.
What's going on?
Why isn't this permanently blocked out?
That's one thing that I super don't get.
Okay, so.
Because it's been shot down every time, has it not?
What do you mean?
Oh, like, weakening net neutrality
has been shot down every time, is that what you mean?
Yeah.
Okay, it's a little bit complicated.
So, back in, I believe it was 2010
that maybe they first started
to promulgate net neutrality rules, the FCC.
So, they first did it under a piece of legislation
called Section 706.
So, that's Section 706 of the 1996 Communications Act.
And the FCC said, okay, there is something in Section 706
that allows us to say, here's what your ISP can't do.
It can't unreasonably discriminate
between different forms of traffic, right?
So, in 2015, that's when they decided
to bring in Title II, which is theoretically stronger.
And now, they wanna roll back
and kinda go back to the way it was before 2015.
Okay.
So, the concern here is, so there's two sides to this.
The telecommunications industry is saying,
even if you want net neutrality,
you don't want it under Title II
because the way Title II works is the FCC
can just kinda sit there and they can pick and choose
what things in it are applicable to broadband
because not everything is going to be,
because like I said, this is an extremely old law
that was originally designed for telephone providers.
So, they can pick and choose
what's going to apply to broadband.
The telecommunications industry,
for reasons I hope are obvious, does not like this
because they could, at some point,
they could legally do more onerous things
like rate regulation and actually tell Comcast
or Spectrum or whoever else,
you must charge this amount for internet service.
They obviously don't want that.
The other side of this is saying that,
well, if you go back to regulating it under Section 706,
it's gonna be very weak.
I actually have the text of 706 right here in front of me.
Oh my goodness.
And it's actually not very much.
But it says that the commission
with regulatory jurisdiction, blah, blah, blah,
shall encourage the deployment on a reasonable
and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability
to all Americans in a manner consistent
with the public interest, convenience, and necessity,
price regulation, regulatory forbearance,
measures that promote competition
in the local telecommunications market
and or other regulating methods
that remove barriers to infrastructure investment.
Okay, if you can digest that for a second,
it's all kind of vague.
There's nothing in there that says,
thou shalt not discriminate
against different kinds of traffic, right?
So, the argument from people who are more concerned
about net neutrality is that,
oh, well, this is very wishy-washy.
And even that last bit or other regulating methods
that remove barriers to infrastructure investment.
So, the head of the FCC,
who is pro-scrapping the Title II things,
people are worried that this set,
people are worried about the bit
about infrastructure investment
because he made a speech a couple days ago about this,
and he said, oh, well,
ever since they did this Title II thing
where they put strict regulations on ISPs,
there's been less money spent
on infrastructure investment,
which is a bad thing
because you're investing less in quality services.
But that's a very easy way for them to manipulate that
because if they know that's one of the things
that the FCC is looking for,
they're just gonna be like, oh, we don't like this law.
No more investment, get wrecked.
Yeah, it's an easy thing for them to do,
and there's some other things in his speech
I found a little bit eyebrow-raising.
One of them was he was saying that,
oh, people keep talking about fast lanes
for a certain kind of traffic
and they're afraid it's happening,
and he was over here claiming that hasn't happened,
but it already kind of has.
I think it was a couple of years ago
Netflix was forced to pony up a bunch of money to Comcast
because, was it Comcast?
I don't remember who it was.
It was one of the major ISPs.
I think it was Comcast,
but they ended up throttling Netflix's speeds,
which for something like streaming HD video
was super important.
So that actually kind of has already happened.
He didn't mention anything in his speech
about net neutrality,
which was also a little bit concerning.
So there's two sides to this,
but basically the crux of the argument is
which law is net neutrality going to be accomplished under?
One is stricter than the other.
So someone has asked a question.
Shouldn't the FTC be the ones governing net neutrality
instead of the FCC?
So that's a difficult question to answer.
Just for a little bit of background,
the FTC is the Federal Trade Commission.
They have usually been the federal agency of the US
to regulate things like consumer protection and also privacy.
So the argument for the people who are on,
the sort of the chairman of the FCC,
they're on his side that want to scrap these rules
and kind of go back to the way things were prior to 2015.
They're saying, okay, the FTC has been in charge
of consumer protection and consumer privacy
for a very long time.
Why do we want to take this out of their hands now
and put it into the hands of the FCC,
which the argument is is more ill-equipped
to deal with privacy issues and consumer protection issues.
Now, whether you buy that or not
is a completely separate argument,
but there's, you know, the question kind of comes down to
what's the inner working of each agency like,
and I don't think I'm really qualified to speak on that,
but yeah.
Well, if you live in the States
and you care about your internet,
follow up with the stuff John said.
Sorry, it was a lot in a short time period, but it's-
You fired through it.
I'm cool with it.
It's kind of a complicated issue
because you're getting down into the weeds of what the text
of the law actually says.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, that's not a thing for me.
I don't want to tell you what to do.
I don't use the internet down there.
So yeah, follow it up on your own.
I think that would be,
if I was down there and this was happening,
I would be very interested and I would be reading up on it
because I started to worry about it
when it became a thing up here,
but then it was shot down like immediately.
So it was like, okay.
I'm sure like the way your,
the framework of how your communications are regulated
in Canada is probably very different
than what we have in the US, so.
I don't know, but that would make sense.
Anyways, moving on to a new topic, Amazon Alex.
I'm just going to call it Alex
because I don't want to trigger it,
but there's an uh at the end of this.
So it's Alex-
With an A.
Yeah, Alex with an A.
Amazon's Alex with an A learns to talk like a human.
The reason why we're talking like that
and not saying the full name by the way,
is we just don't want to trigger anyone's version
of this thing at their home to start searching for stuff.
We don't want to be butts.
And that has happened before, so.
So yeah, Alex with an A is going to be better.
It will be able to do things like whisper,
take a breath to pause for emphasis,
adjust the rate, pitch, and volume of her speech and more.
She'll even be able to bleep out swear words,
which is pretty, that's kind of interesting.
Especially because she's going to sound more human.
Be like, man, what the bleep?
Doesn't sound like something very human.
Like most people don't bleep out their own sentences.
You know what I mean?
But I guess maybe if it sounds like a recording of a human,
then it would be fine.
I don't know.
I kind of wish we could.
I think swear words are actually funnier
when they're bleeped.
Just start saying bleep instead of a swear word?
Well, no, like if you watch any kind of TV show
where something gets bleeped out,
I think it actually adds a little bit of comic effect.
Maybe I'm crazy.
The sharpness of the tone.
The new tools are being provided to third party app developers,
allowing them to control pronunciation,
annotation, timing, intonation.
Wow, I just read that super terribly.
Timing and emotion, which is pretty cool.
I think that's awesome, because the more natural
these things are, paired with hopefully the back end getting
a little bit better, it's going to be very awesome for voice
assisted support.
My main thing that I'm excited for is locally based voice
assisted support, where not everything that I say
has to go into some permanently logged box somewhere
that I don't have access to.
Yeah, follow that one that are F for fat chance.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I know.
I don't know about that.
I'm just hoping that eventually some tertiary,
like these things get so good at some point,
it's so easy to do this stuff, that some side company just
makes one that you can buy.
I mean, I think there would be a sub.
That would be way more down for that.
That would be, I think, a pretty big segment
of the market that would be interested in something
like that.
Yeah, like a personal Jarvis.
I had this idea a really long time ago,
where I wanted to string all these mics throughout my house
and have all of them at the same time permanently recording
onto this giant notepad that was going to automatically delete
chunks above and rewrite and all that kind of stuff.
And I was going to have Dragon speaking permanently running,
so that it tried to dictate everything
that was said within my house onto this notepad.
Then I was going to have another program watching the notepad
and making actions based on what was there.
And then I was like, no.
What would be the ultimate point of something like that?
My own Jarvis.
But I'm not nearly good enough.
I see.
The problem is me.
Yeah, that last bit, you kind of lost me there.
Because to me, it almost sounded like you just
wanted to transcribe your own speech.
No, no.
Because there would be another bot watching the dog for words
that might show up.
So if I said Jarvis or whatever else,
it would then pay proper attention
to the next few words that come up.
And then it would do whatever I needed to do.
Yeah.
I'm just not.
I'm not.
If only you had a massive team of coders handy
and a massive machine learning apparatus.
Yeah, I'm working on getting a massive team of coders ready.
So far, I have not enough.
But the ones that I have are awesome,
because we're doing good things.
Boiler's been learning front end.
Really?
Yeah.
All right.
It's been great.
I would rather he was able to work on the stuff
that he's particularly very good at.
It's good that he's learning everything.
Hi, Boiler.
But yeah, I need more support for him.
I'm working on it.
Elon Musk at TED Vancouver was teasing a Tesla electric semi
truck up to four new Gigafactory locations
as well, which is pretty freaking cool.
This guy is going to take over the world.
There was a picture of SpaceX, and they
had one of the fusillages of the rockets.
Yeah, they had one of the fusillages of the rockets.
They had the giant boring machine,
and they had one other thing.
And it was like, what is even happening here?
It was so awesome.
Anyways, Elon Musk on stage at 2017 TED conference in Vancouver
today, he showed a shadowy image,
which I do not have a source for you.
A smooth continuous design.
Yeah, way to go, James.
A smooth continuous design between the windshield
and the upper facade.
So it would be very, I don't know how else to describe that.
I think it'll look very futuristic.
Yeah.
Can you try to find, is there pictures of this thing?
Elon Musk electric semi.
Musk also said that there will likely be four,
like I just said, new Gigafactory sites announced
this year, but none quite yet.
The company said in its most recent earnings report
that it plans to finalize locations
for up to three new Gigafactory sites
this year in addition to the existing Nevada location.
It's just a teaser image, but it looks kind of cool, I don't know.
It looks like a semi truck.
Well, the headlights are very Tesla-like.
Is that actually the one that was shown on the stream?
That's what it looks like, yeah, based on the caption here.
Give me one quick second to get this on screen.
Yeah, there you go, just any of those.
Cool.
Right there.
Can I blow this up a little bit maybe?
A new tab.
There we go.
So it's kind of hard to tell, but yeah, you
can see there's a seam there where
the windshield hits the top, but it's not
like a major difference.
I don't know.
It looks like a semi truck.
I'm excited for it, but it looks like a semi truck.
Are you planning to get your CDL and become a truck driver,
Luke?
Yeah.
I'm going to abandon FlowPlane Club.
I'm going to abandon Linus Media Group.
I'm just going to drive a truck, which
is going to be automated in a few years anyways.
I just hate having a job.
I just want to go down a career where it will take my job away.
You know, there's just between hating your job
and hating having a job, because I
think most people, the second thing is probably true.
I don't hate having this job.
I didn't say a particular job.
I would prefer to come to work every day,
because I'm a weird person.
I'm talking about like.
I'd prefer to come to work late every day.
Oh, I'm talking about worrying about living in a box
is what I mean, not the kind of doing a certain thing.
Minor complications.
No big deal.
Also, there's apparently a UK iron man
who demonstrated a flying suit.
I'm going to have to see this one.
He's a British inventor.
Apparently, he flew it at the TED conference in Vancouver,
which is pretty sick.
You can see him right here.
This is his suit.
You can see him there as well.
How far off the ground did he get?
That's what I would like to know.
He doesn't look like he's that far off the ground,
but it looks like he's got some type of propulsion on his legs,
kind of like Star Wars rocket boots.
There's a video.
There's a short video.
He's got some on his hands, which is actually pretty cool.
Yeah, yeah.
I guess it's more of a proof of concept than anything.
Like, I can hover above the ground,
so this is possible.
Look at me, mom.
The suit can fly uninterrupted for around 10 minutes.
That's actually pretty good, considering how slimline
the suit is.
It doesn't seem that big on him.
It's a decent size, but it doesn't seem way too big.
I mean, that's not bad, considering
how long was the Wright brothers' first flight?
How long did that last for?
15 seconds or something?
So I mean, tennis is looking pretty good next to that.
There he goes.
That's pretty sick.
Whoa, there's a bunch of power on there.
I wonder how hard that is to control.
He seems to be doing pretty good.
It looks like he is just keeping it steady,
just using his arms alone.
Because I was thinking like, oh, something.
This one, in other mock-up models,
like the one right below it, you can
see the rockets on his feet.
Oh, yeah.
This one, it just seems like he has them on his arms
and possibly his back.
Oh, there we go.
There's something on his back as well, yeah.
Yeah, but he doesn't have the feet ones on.
So I guess there's a few different iterations.
That's pretty cool, though.
That is pretty cool.
I want one of those.
Here's a different one.
He can move around pretty quick.
I just like the idea of like super extended jumps,
like jump assist.
That's in a few different games.
Or like you go to jump something,
and you like blast this thing, and it gives you
a little bit more distance and height.
That would be super cool, in my opinion.
I was trying to think of the possibilities of something
like this, just like a glide to work.
You make a slimline version of this
that you can wear that just kind of looks
like a normal backpack.
And maybe the wrist and leg things aren't way too big,
but they're nicely integrated.
I would be super down.
Oh, me too.
That would be so cool.
You know if something like that ever
does hit the market, like with the early adopter tax
is going to be on it.
Oh, yeah.
But like you can float.
Casey Neistat video comes out.
He's riding on a boosted board.
And then there's like a big gap, and he just like hops up
and floats over it.
Damn.
All while filming somehow?
He'll make it work.
18 trillion views.
Billions of views.
All the views.
Oh, man.
There you go.
I thought that was pretty sick.
There's also, OK, so you said you had something
to say about this.
Pleased to scan soccer fans' faces?
Yeah, so this is going to be at this year's UEFA Champions League
Final in Cardiff in Wales.
So there's going to be cameras around the stadium
and also at the main train station in Cardiff.
And so the expected attendance is, this says 170,000.
I don't think Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
can hold 170,000 people.
I think it was probably supposed to be 70,000.
Let me see.
Let me deal with this real quick.
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
Let's find out.
Capacity, 75,000.
OK.
So I think that was supposed to be a little bit north of 70,000.
They're going to compare it against a police database
of 500,000 people of interest.
People of interest.
So if there's a match, police will
get a heads up that could help them stop a terrorist
or frequent hooligan.
Now, here's the thing.
So in European soccer, there are,
if you get banned from one stadium
for doing something particularly bad,
you can get banned from a lot of them.
And hooliganism isn't as bad there as it used to be.
But if you ever watch soccer, English soccer,
European soccer, you can still see
some of the legacies of the hooligan era back in the 1980s.
They still have crowd segregation
at all the Premier League games.
So if you watch a Premier League game,
it's not like in the US or Canada
where if you are a fan of the visiting team,
just get a ticket, sit wherever you want to, cheer for your team
and hope nothing bad happens like that guy
did through the canopy.
Yes.
That was OK.
That guy was a jerk.
Different story.
But in Britain, you will see, so there
will be a specific section in every stadium
for visiting supporters.
And what will often happen is you'll
see stewards, basically stadium workers,
in really bright day-glo jackets standing
all around the perimeter of where the opposing supporters
are just to prevent any fights or any sort
of other unseemly behavior.
Oh my goodness.
So yeah, there's all these legacies of the hooligan era
that you can still see in European soccer.
So obviously, when one person does something bad
at one place, if it's bad enough,
they'll just say, OK, you're banned from every soccer venue
in Europe for six months, a year, five years for life,
depending on how bad it is.
So I'm guessing this is why they want to do that.
Doesn't this sound a little preemptive?
Yes and no.
Some of the instances are they're having pretty bad.
I mean, if you look at who's playing maybe,
it's going to be one of Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid
versus one of Juventus and Monaco.
So it's probably not going to be a huge rivalry in the final.
But even so, every big club has a few people
that are going to come, and they're
going to try to cause trouble just because they can.
But there obviously is a concern here.
It says, South Wales police will have
to alter the country's usage guidelines, only
harvesting as much information as they really need
and being transparent with the data they collect.
But there has already been evidence of police forces,
both in the UK and abroad, preserving face recognition
data for innocent people.
So how are they using that data?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the frequent hooligans thing, I get it.
But if you screw around a bunch and then you're like, OK,
I'm going to not be a jerk anymore,
are you going to get blamed if something bad happens?
If a riot happens in your area and you're just
trying to flee that area because you're like,
I'm not about that life anymore, are you
going to get screwed anyways because you
got picked up by a facial scan?
Oh, man, that's a good question.
I mean, because a lot of places do keep known hooligan
databases.
So that is actually a thing.
But as far as what is, I don't know.
I guess that would be a little bit of a risk.
But if they all captured on camera,
maybe that would exonerate you too.
So who knows?
Yeah, I guess we'll see.
Yeah.
No way to tell for now.
I don't like it.
I don't like the preemptive stuff.
I'm trying to think if any of those four clubs
have a large and active hooligan firm.
But then again, you also have to worry
about individual people just having too much to drink
and causing problems too.
So who knows?
Yeah, that's a good call.
Now, I know you're a Nintendo fan in terms of Mario Kart.
Are you a Nintendo fan for their mobile stuff?
What specifically?
Like 3DS, 2DS?
Oh, yeah, I have a 3DS.
I have a number of games for it.
So what do you think about this?
They have a new 2DS XL.
I'm going to throw the video up here and mute it.
But essentially, it's a 3DS XL without 2D capability,
as far as I can really tell.
For $80.
No, no, no, no, no.
Is that what it says?
Or no?
For like $150 US dollars.
Wait, where does it say?
Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry.
That was for the original 2DS.
Yeah.
Well, OK, I think the price is a little bit steep
for what it is.
But as far as just that aside, just looking at the concept,
I think this is a really, really good idea.
The 3D on the 3DS, I mean, it's pretty OK for what it is.
But it's not for everybody.
My wife has a 3DS as well.
Never uses the 3D feature.
I use it on mine, but if it one day just broke
and I can never use it again, I wouldn't miss it very much.
What do you use it for?
For everything?
I try to turn it on when I can, because it's
a feature which I paid for, so I might as well
try to use it and get some kind of enjoyment out of it.
OK, but if you had the option to buy one or the other,
and one's like, how much is a 3DS XL in the States?
Do you know?
I think they're a little bit cheaper.
It's closer to $200, so I think you're
saving about $40 or $50 with this thing, with the new 2DS.
Because in Canada, I think these are about $200.
And I think that original unibody design
was what turned a lot of people away from the original 2DS,
because it wasn't as portable, it wasn't very attractive.
It's a very durable system.
I've had a 2DS in the past.
I traded it in and got a 3DS XL eventually.
But it's a very durable system, but yeah, it's
not very wieldly.
Now, I'm going to do a straw poll.
I'm interested for the Nintendo people out there.
Do you like the 3D option on your 3DS?
So yes, no, and indifferent?
Yes.
And this is specifically for Nintendo people out there.
Don't press indifferent if you don't own one
and you don't care.
Only press indifferent if you do own one,
and you're like, yeah, I turn it on sometimes,
but it's not amazing, I don't know.
Now we're going to get a bunch of indifferent spam
from the PSV, the crowd, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
We'll come back to that later.
But yeah, it's a little bit different.
It can play 3DS games, but without the 3D effect.
It can also play normal DS games.
The main thing is, unlike the 2DS, instead of being flat,
it does fold now, which is very good.
I think it needs to be much cheaper.
Apparently, it still packs the same power as the 3DS XL.
They're claiming that this addition
to the handheld market demonstrates their commitment
to the handheld market.
So yeah, that's cool.
Again, it's $150 US.
It launches in Australia and New Zealand on June 15th
and in the US on July 28th.
Is the Switch going to just cannibalize
part of the market for this thing?
This is why I'm saying it needs to be cheaper.
OK, I think a little bit.
But this is something I've talked to other people about.
The Switch is kind of delicate.
And it can't fold.
And it's pretty big.
You can't just fit it in your pocket.
And if you get the case for it, so you're actually
protecting it properly, it's pretty freaking big.
It's going to go in a backpack.
Well, you can't fit a 3DS XL in your pocket.
A standard 3DS, yeah.
What?
I can't.
In all of my pants and all of my shorts.
Get wrecked.
OK, Luke.
But it's still rather large.
Luke has large pockets.
He thinks it's very important that you know.
Not full of money.
They're empty in that regard.
But they can fit a 3DS XL, which is pretty cool.
I think it needs to be closer to $100 still.
I really think it's a little bit cheaper.
I think, OK, can you look up how much a 3DS XL costs in US
dollars?
I think it's $190.
I'll look on Amazon, I guess.
I'm going to check on the straw poll real quick.
You do that.
3DS XL.
No, not 3S XL, 3DS.
There we go.
So 51% of people said no.
Oh, goodness.
29% of people said indifferent.
And only 20% of people said yes.
You know what?
On Amazon, it's closer to $250, which I don't think is right.
They're really expensive in Canada.
You know what?
Let me check.
Well, I'm checking the US.
But let me check Walmart.
Like, if you just wanted to go to Walmart and buy a 3DS XL,
how much would that be?
Enter.
Come on.
$250.
Also closer to $250.
I could have sworn they were cheaper than that.
I don't think so, man.
I got mine for less than $200.
How do you remember that?
Probably like a sale or something.
Like, Walmart does really aggressive sales
on these in holiday season.
Yeah.
So right now, they're closer to $250.
I still think they should be a little bit cheaper,
because if you're saying the original 2DS has been dropped
to $80, you're paying almost twice that so you
can get one that folds.
I think the 2DS didn't sell very well.
I bet you they're dropping it to $80
to try to kind of get rid of it.
Because I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild that
wasn't like my brother's.
I think I saw a small child on a 2DS one time somewhere,
and that was it.
So yeah.
They are pretty dang durable, though.
That's the thing.
Like, a 3DS or a 2DS XL or a normal 2DS
are far more durable than a Switch.
They just are.
Absolutely.
Now, the Switch has Zelda, but still.
Anyways, sponsor spot time.
Oh, here we go.
We have to put our glasses on.
Here we go.
There we go.
So these are pretty cool.
These are called spectrum glasses.
They say staring at a monitor all day
can be hard on your eyes over time
and make it tougher to fall asleep.
That's why there's certain applications that you
can put on your desktop that will change
the color of your screen exist.
The idea is to reduce the blue light.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But then those are kind of annoying,
because if you need to see the true color of something,
just being able to do that is pretty cool instead
of something I think it's called FLIR.
No, no.
That's a camera.
That's the eye of a cam.
Flux.
F.lux.
It actually changes the color of your screen,
which I'm not personally a fan of.
Now, I have not been wearing these a ton lately,
but they seem comfortable to me.
But we have someone in office who
has been wearing them almost since he got hired,
and he likes it a lot.
Who?
James.
Oh.
Yeah.
James has been wearing them.
If he hears this and wants to come down here and be
a model for the glasses, that would be fantastic.
They look good.
We have a whole bunch of different models.
I like these ones.
John likes those ones.
Yeah, these are kind of the gray charcoal.
They're good.
There's another pair that don't look particularly that great
on me, but they look really good on Dennis.
They're these, or at least I don't think
they look that great on me.
Aren't those like the Burberry style ones?
I believe so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I actually do like these a fair bit,
because if you have a smartphone, which, of course,
the vast majority of you do, if you get an app
that says it reduces blue light, sometimes
the effect can be too aggressive,
and everything has this really noticeable red twinge.
Through these, the computer screens and things,
they still look very natural.
Very normal.
There is obviously a difference, but if you put the glasses on,
it doesn't look like the colors are super off or untoward.
It looks very natural.
It's just slightly less blue, so there you go.
One of the big things that James said,
he's one of the writers here, so he spends a lot of time
staring at Word docs and spreadsheets all day.
So with that much bright light, he
said that it's helped a lot, which is cool.
That's good.
They feel nice.
They come with a one-year warranty.
They say their product is extremely durable.
The low color distortion, they block high energy blue light.
That's the whole point.
But they do try to keep colors as similar as possible.
That's something we just talked about.
It doesn't actually seem to change that much,
which is cool.
If you're interested, go to spectrumglasses.com
slash collections slash products.
The link will be below on YouTube.
And use offer code Linus to save 10% off.
And this is actually a Vancouver startup,
so they're local for us.
Yeah.
And I think it's cool that James has actually been using them.
It says James has been wearing these nonstop for weeks, weeks
as in I think above four.
I think it's been quite a while, and he likes them a lot.
Apparently, he started wearing them so close
to his actual start date of working here
that people thought that they were just his normal glasses.
Oh, yeah.
So that's why I didn't know who was wearing them,
because I thought he just wore glasses.
Yeah, yeah.
So those are his glasses, which is cool that they actually
kind of blend in.
You would think they were just normal glasses.
But no, they have technology.
Our other sponsor today is, oh, I
did that whole thing without doing this.
There's the link that you guys need.
We're going to put the glasses back on.
If you want these, go here.
Go there.
There we go.
There we are.
Yeah.
Use offer code Linus, save 10% off.
Again, they filter out blue light from your monitor.
That's like the most aggressive, intense light
that you can have.
Moving on, we have Cooler Master with their Master Keys Pro
line of keyboards.
That's not in there.
Don't take it out.
I have the one with the keyboard in it.
Anyways, Master Keys Pro keyboards
come in different sizes.
I have the medium.
Jon has the large.
Oh, my.
They complete the Cooler Master Keyboard portfolio,
which is cool.
It can be simple, because you just pick your Switch color.
So this one is a blue.
Is that one also a blue?
That one is also a blue.
Cherry blue.
These were probably picked for me.
Blue's my favorite color, although it does annoy people
on my stream.
That's fine.
You like blue?
What's your favorite color?
My favorite color?
My favorite color is Switch.
Switch.
That's a difficult question.
I like greens.
Greens.
I'm a green guy.
Special.
I like my greens.
Rare.
Uncommon.
Yes.
The Master Keys Pro White M and L have LED backlighting,
which is cool.
If you're into a more brighter, clean white keyboard,
that could be for you.
It utilizes the ARM Cortex M3 processor
on its on-the-fly system, which is pretty cool.
It has lighting modes, macro recording,
and combined with four profile keys, which are somewhere.
They have easy-to-use software.
They've combined n-key and six-key rollover together,
which is cool.
And it's ideal for both work and play, because it's a keyboard.
So you can WASD on it, and you can home row, which is cool.
That's totally up to you.
Check them out at the link below.
That's coolermaster.com slash product slash line slash
keyboards.
Yeah.
Cool.
Cool.
Or check out the links in the video description on YouTube.
And there we go.
I'll take that back.
Oh, no.
At least you hit the thing in front of it.
I'm going to put these back on, actually.
They're pretty good.
They're pretty good.
I like them.
I don't know if they look that great on me, but I like them.
Let's get Dennis out here.
Dennis can come out here and model.
Dennis, yes.
Dennis.
Dennis!
Dennis!
Can you hear that?
I can hang out some.
Cool.
Yeah.
Oh, there we go.
There he is.
There he is.
Let's put these on and stand in front of the camera.
You have to be our model.
Wouldn't you?
OK.
So this is my glasses, no?
Those are just regular glasses, yeah.
Let's see.
Do I look different?
Not very.
No.
I think they look good.
They look so natural.
I can't see now.
No.
No.
I like this.
Actually, I actually like this one.
Here, one second.
Put them back on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
OK.
OK.
Put your other glasses on.
Oh.
Oh, I think this one a little bit bigger.
Yeah.
But what do they do?
They filter out blue light.
So look at the screen and then put the glasses on.
See how that works?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's supposed to be less harsh on your eyes.
You can fall asleep easier afterwards.
All that kind of stuff.
I'm going to sleep at work if I wear this.
Makes it easier to fall asleep is not going to put you asleep.
They're not sleeping pills.
They're just glasses.
But it'll make it less harsh so you're not
forced to kind of stay up.
Anyways, back to normal content.
AMD puts two GPUs and 32 gigs of RAM
on a Radeon Pro Duo graphics card.
So Brandon saw this down at NAB but decided not to.
Wow, this is the Ars Technica show, apparently.
We have so many Ars Technica news
articles today, which is cool.
I like those guys.
But yeah, Brandon saw this down at NAB
but they weren't showing really good demos.
So it was hard to.
Yeah, I actually really like it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wait.
Actually, yeah, because it filters out blue light.
Yeah, but it still looks solid.
This is the longest ad spot ever.
Oh, I'm not even looking at Twitch chat, but I feel like,
oh, my god, this is going to be awesome.
Yeah, probably.
Sorry.
That isn't even, I was just interested.
Yeah, the card combines two Polaris GPUs for $1,000
and it launches in May.
This is not targeted as a gaming card at all.
They launched it at a camera and film show.
They didn't even announce it to us at all.
It's not a gaming card, but it is super cool regardless.
And you get what appears to be the Team Rocket logo
on the fan.
It's almost exactly the same.
I really like the blue.
I really like the position of these power connectors,
especially with the types of systems
that it's probably going to go in.
And the fact that you might have a bunch of them in a row
if you're going to do something like that.
Yeah, that's going to make it much easier
if you have tight gaps between your graphics cards.
Absolutely.
Yeah, AMD claims 11.45 teraflops of performance
compared to 16 for the older Radeon Pro.
But one that is also substantially cheaper, cooler,
and less power hungry.
And you get dramatically more RAM, 32 gigs.
That's crazy.
Just think of how much stuff you could hold in your frame buffer
with 32 gigs of RAM.
You would never be wanting for a large frame buffer ever again.
A whole game.
Basically.
Yeah.
Let me just render this entire game first.
Every possible scenario.
No, that's obviously way too much, but still.
I don't know.
I think that's pretty cool.
It's not like, it's not for us.
It's not for gamers, you can go over here.
Every time.
Yeah.
I need to work on my chair positioning.
You know, most people probably, actually maybe,
there could be a ton of H3 fans in the audience.
Have you ever watched the H3 show when Hila's like this?
Oh, and she just pushes Ethan out of the screen?
No, she like goes out on her own.
Oh.
And I feel like whoever sits on this side,
because that normally happens to me,
and Linus is pulling me over.
Is this floor like slanted or something?
Every so slightly?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I think it's because you have to end up sitting like way
on this side of the table.
Yeah.
So everyone wants to naturally correct themselves
to where they're supposed to be on the table.
I think there's something in that, yeah.
Anyways, moving on, let's see what else we have.
The show's technically been over for 13 minutes,
but I want to look at this one too.
Fallout is bringing post-apocalyptic warfare
to your tabletop.
Actually not an Ars Technica article this time.
Wait, the show's been over for 15 minutes, what?
No, like it's an, oh!
My Twitch page just died.
I wanted to post the link in the chat.
Come back, Twitch, no.
OK, it's fine.
It's fine.
I think it's supposed to be about an hour long.
Oh, we still have 15 minutes then,
because we started at 4.30.
It's only 5.15.
Oh my goodness, I thought we started at 4 for some reason.
That was weird.
Anyways, Fallout 4, miniatures game,
goes on sale this November.
Don't worry about it.
It's cool.
It's fine.
Apparently it was possibly going to crowdfunding,
but it is not.
I'm not entirely sure if that's true.
It just says it'll skip crowdfunding.
I don't know.
Anyways, some of the miniatures are detailed down here,
which look pretty cool.
You guys can't see anything.
So would you paint it yourself miniatures again?
Yeah.
So people other than me might be good at it,
which would be pretty cool.
If I got into a miniatures game, I would definitely
have to fund someone else to paint my miniatures,
or I'd just be all gray all the time, one of the two.
What if you 3D printed a color scheme directly onto it?
Would that even work?
If you got some filament that took a little bit longer
to dry, and you could just sort of.
So paint with melted plastic?
If you could get a nozzle or a thing that
had fine enough control or something, I don't know.
But then I'm doing art.
It's still me doing art, which is bad.
But at least you won't have to worry about holding
your hands super steady, you know?
Yeah, I would still really, really, really suck at it.
But there's some of the monster enemies, which are pretty cool.
Let me see if I can pull this up.
Wow, it's all transparent stuff.
Good job, polygon.
It looks neat.
It looks cool.
I'd be interested to see someone actually play it,
because I'm not a huge miniatures person myself.
I'm really into the Star Wars, Edge of the Empire,
role playing game.
That's super fun.
And I'm really into other tabletop games,
but I've never gotten into a miniatures game.
We should get Tyler on the show to talk about this.
Maybe.
Yeah.
The main reason why I haven't is because the cost scares
the ever living crap out of me.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Those things are so expensive.
My goodness.
We started playing, what is the name of that football game
we started playing?
Blood Bowl.
We started playing Blood Bowl.
We still haven't done the finals.
It's Anthony versus me for the finals,
and we just haven't done it.
And the trophy looks like the Lombardi trophy,
except the football has spikes on it.
And then it's gold instead of silver, but yeah.
Let's see here.
More topics.
Microsoft is completing their Windows Phone wind down
by June.
OK, this isn't even a tech topic.
It's just hilarious.
A Russian spy ship was sunk by a sheep barge.
So I don't know.
I don't even really.
The circumstances just seem so random,
because it was a Togolese ship.
It was a ship with the Togo flag carrying sheep
between Jordan and Romania.
It's the most random thing.
And a Russian ship hit it, and the Russian ship
sunk, a Russian spy ship.
So the Russian ship was built in 1970,
and it was converted into an intelligence collection
vessel in 1989.
That's it right there, I guess.
Yep.
Oh.
There's the barge.
So that's a pretty big barge.
OK.
When you're reading the description for it,
the barge sounds like a raft.
It does.
It sounds like it's ginormous.
It sounds like a pile of wood they just put some sheep in.
Told it to go float, yeah.
OK, that's a pretty intense.
That's not like some random raft with a-
No, it's not.
This is like inertia in action.
Like, you can't, yeah.
So it just got super wrecked.
That's far less interesting than I thought it was.
Anyway, moving on.
Oh my goodness.
OK, next topic.
We do have other topics.
We do have other topics.
The Windows Phone wind down.
AMD.
AMD.
This topic was supposed to be by Zmuel on the forum.
We're going to jump over on the forum real quick,
make sure I'm not logged in.
Good.
AMD making money from ad revenue from installing drivers.
So apparently, when you install one of their new drivers,
yeah, so Terry Macadon, hopefully I'm saying that right,
says that some of you didn't like game icons installed.
So we updated the Radeon software package without one.
We heard you.
Sorry.
So without having an option for it,
it just linked game icons onto your desktop
which were shortcuts with monetized tagged links
to go get the game, I guess.
I can't think of a demographic that
has less tolerance for bloatware than people who
are really into PC gaming.
I'm amazed that like, yeah.
It was even a bitly tracking link.
So they weren't even trying to hide that it was happening.
It wasn't a direct link to the official page.
Like I said, it was a bitly tracking link.
It had a referral ID included in the final URL destination.
Man, first they draw the capsaicin molecule the wrong way
now this.
OK, do you want to explain that a little bit?
Oh, OK.
You put me on the spot.
Go for it.
I believe in you.
So the capsaicin thing, it was like what
they were calling some of their events surrounding
their new Radeon stuff, right?
Because capsaicin is the chemical
that makes hot peppers hot, and hot peppers,
what color do you think of, red, like AMD Radeon.
So capsaicin.
But so they had like a whole branding package up for this.
Can you pull the logo up, actually?
This will work.
Yes, give me a second.
Greatly, just type capsaicin in cream and you'll find it.
Luke is going to pull up the logo of this thing here.
So image search will probably help you.
There you go.
I'm working on it.
There we go.
OK, so can we pull that up?
Very good.
So that is purportedly the molecular structure
of capsaicin, except there's a huge problem here.
You're going to have to draw with your mouse here.
Yes, this ring over here, this ring, this sort of six corner,
this hexagon here.
So the thing about capsaicin is this ring
is actually aromatic, which means
you should have a double bond here, a double bond here,
and a double bond here.
And there are either real double bonds.
What's actually happening is the electrons
are sort of going whee, like that, all around these six.
These are all carbon atoms.
Each corner is a carbon atom, right?
So they neglected to put in the double bonds
or the aromaticity in this.
And so the molecule is actually not capsaicin.
It's something completely different.
I don't know what it is, but it's not capsaicin.
It's not the same stuff that actually
makes your hot peppers hot.
And they went to the trouble of saying, oh, we're
going to use this organic chemistry
model in our branding.
So if you do that, you should really do it correctly.
I mean, this is a field where if you know anything
about pharmaceuticals, for example,
or if you have one molecule, if you take it
and you make it a mirror image, a change as small as that
can completely change what it does inside your body.
So this is not correct, and it bothers me.
So first, this, and now they're putting bloatware
in with their drivers.
What next, AMD?
Don't.
What next?
You're going to turn your ice cream machines off past 2 AM?
I'm modern in chemistry in college.
That's why I know this.
Yeah, just to explain.
OK, probably last, because we're just running out of ad topics,
to be completely honest.
Ad topics, show topics.
There is a 3D printer with tank treads, which is just sort
of awesome.
Twitch chat is going to blow up here in a second.
Ad topics.
I was thinking about the AMD ad thing.
I'm just going to post this in Twitch chat.
What didn't you minor in in college, says Twitch chat.
Well, I'm minoring in chemistry and political science,
so everything that aren't those two things.
So there we go.
OK, what's happening?
MIT's mobile 3D printer built the largest structure to date.
So you can kind of see it there.
Here we go.
There's a video, which I will mute.
OK.
So it's spraying out a lot of stuff at a time,
and it's sort of foaming up a little bit.
Looks like Cool Whip.
Cool Whip.
So that is a 3D printer that is driving around in order
to lay its, I guess, I don't know
if you can call it filament, to lay its stuff.
I don't know what it starts as.
Excretions.
Yeah, there you go.
Look at it go.
Looks like a big pot, like a pot or anything.
That is super cool.
That is cool.
I feel like the military would be super stoked
with something like this.
Oh, like if you could quickly have some sort of shelter
for things.
Yeah.
Yeah, like a field.
Like I doubt, seriously doubt, whatever it just printed
is like a defensible structure.
But if you could just throw up something
that people could shelter in, absolutely.
Yeah, exactly.
No, this could be useful, or for like, I don't know,
disaster relief or something if you
need a bunch of temporary shelters for people.
Yeah.
I don't know, I don't know.
I think that is pretty sick.
It looks like a very, it's like the universal constructor
from Deus Ex, except much more rudimentary,
but still very, very cool because we don't
live in a fictional universe.
But MIT.
That is a wild, I want to see that GIF again of it.
OK, here we go.
So is Caltech going to make a slightly better one just
to one up MIT?
I feel like that might happen.
MIT or Caltech, go.
I have to choose one?
Yep.
No basis for comparison, though I used to live in Boston
and I kind of wanted to go to MIT when I was a kid,
so MIT, I guess.
There you go.
He's host.
Done.
There you go.
Clear and definitive decision, MIT is better than Caltech.
I didn't say that.
If you're watching this from Caltech, I did not say that.
Apparently antivirus software from Webroot
nukes a customer's machine.
I need to dive into this a little bit more.
Going to post this in the chat.
What is that picture?
It is an ice cream cone that's melted a little bit.
Cool.
Good, good.
Again, it's the Ars Technica show,
so we keep going with Ars Technica news.
What's the scoop?
OK, get it?
Understand where the ice cream cone thing came in
on this false positive issue that has crippled
a quarter of my customers.
Wow, brutal.
It's pretty bad.
Apparently Webroot just wrecked some stuff.
I haven't used any of their software in a very, very long
time.
Yeah, what do you use?
Defender?
Yeah, just whatever comes with Windows,
because I'm careful about my browsing habits.
So many people these days just on Defender.
The Defender, and then every once in a while,
download the free trial sweep of Malwarebytes.
Yeah.
Sometimes you might need something specialized
to get things off if you already have a problem, but you know.
I just reformat every once in a while.
Use Defender and be careful about where you browse.
Apparently Webroot was flagging Facebook as a phishing site.
Nice.
That's possibly accurate.
What is a phishing site, sorry?
A signature update that it had just
nuked hundreds of benign files that were needed
to run Microsoft Windows, as well as apps that
run on top of the operating system,
and it flagged Facebook as a phishing site.
Where's the delete system 32 mean?
Yeah.
That would be appropriate right here.
You know what the most secure computer is?
One that can't run.
Yeah, I was just about to say, the most secure computer
in Abacus, which Colton doesn't know what that is, I think.
Do you know what an Abacus is?
You know the GeoGuessr video?
I said overclocking in Abacus, and Colton was like,
what's that?
It's the little thing that you have beads on.
It's like the beads around.
No, no, no, no, no.
Crap.
You said straw poll after I started my explanation.
This is not my fault.
Do you know, or did, did you know what an Abacus is?
Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?
Is this one B?
Yes.
OK, let's see.
This is going to be the last thing on the show.
I want to see how old I am.
That's what this poll is all about.
Do you modern kids not know what Abakai are?
Maybe.
No, maybe, OK.
Is it Abakai?
Well, it sounds like Latin, and a plural US is I.
So I could be just completely making that up.
But you know what, let's search it, let's Google it.
Oh, thank goodness, I'm not too old.
OK, that is a thing that people know.
The Abacus, plural Abakai or Abacuses, whichever you'd like.
Abacuses.
I think Abakai sounds sexy.
Abakai sounds better.
Hand me those Abakai over there, I need to crunch some numbers.
That sounds like a really cool name of a protagonist.
Abakai?
Abakai.
It sounds almost biblical, like Abakai in the quest for truth.
Can someone make that video game?
Yeah, let's make that happen.
Or like band name.
Like if you're like an experimental rock, Abakai.
OK, someone, I want to look up if this is a thing.
OK, I spelled it wrong.
Wait, would that actually be it?
It would be it.
Aba, Abakai.
Yeah, Abakai, you got it.
Abakai NetSuite Consulting.
Abakai, Abakai.
Search like Abakai band, see if there's
a band called Abakai already.
Why don't you just be a nerd band?
I hope they're experimental rock.
No.
OK, make a band, call it Abakai.
And play experimental rock.
WAN show 10%.
That's all we need.
Thanks for watching the show this week, guys.
We didn't have a ton of crazy news topics.
A lot of what was happening in the tech world this week
was at NAB with all the cameras and cool software stuff
and things that happened at a photo, video, and movie show.
So I guess follow Brandon on Twitter.
Follow Brandon on Twitter.
Wow, I don't know his exact handle.
I think it's Brandon Y. Lee.
Underscore Y underscore Lee.
Yeah, OK, so check him out on Twitter.
I'm sure he posted stuff from the show.
Also, I believe we've uploaded some videos recently.
Well, that's kind of the whole point of this company.
So yes.
Yeah, I think we've done that also
because I forgot to promote my own system.
Check out Floatplane Club.
You can go to the forum.
If you go to the forum and look at the buttons
on the top of the forum, which I will actually just show you.
I don't know why I didn't already do that.
You can go to, if you're signed in,
there's a Floatplane Club button.
And if you have Floatplane Club, right under here,
where it says forum information, right in this little area,
right before computer hardware, there's
a section called Floatplane Club.
And you can see all of our non-time-sensitive videos
one week early.
And that includes TechWookie.
We've got some great stuff for you.
Just today, we posted a video on Floatplane featuring this guy
in what I think is one of the funniest sketches
that we've done on TechWookie, basically, ever.
That was fun to do.
We haven't done a ton of sketches on TechWookie.
So it was kind of cool to intro a video that way and stuff.
Yeah, it's a piece on the inherent nihilism of modern
life, but with tech.
Yeah, which is pretty cool.
So if you want to check that out,
and tons of other really cool line of detective stuff,
like, if you want to be a little preemptive about it,
because it's not on there yet, and I do not
have a date for you at all, if you
want to be able to see Scrapyard Wars before everybody
else, you can get on Floatplane Club and see it there.
Again, I do not have a date.
It is not on there yet.
Edzal is trying to edit it right now.
Yeah, like as we speak, I don't know when it's coming out.
Not a clue.
I don't know either.
I'm not even just not telling you guys.
I have no clue.
I don't think our CEO even knows when it's coming out.
We're all purposefully not asking him.
I've just been asking him how it's going,
not when it's coming out, because I don't want to know.
And notice how vague that is.
How's it going?
How's it going?
How are you?
We give Edzal an out.
How are you?
How are you, the viewer?
How are you?
How are you, Luke?
I'm good.
We're going to end the show.
I'm going to end it.
Doo doo.
Same time next week, hopefully.
Well, we're on time this week.
And Linus will be back next week.
So no.
So maybe a half an hour later than it started this time.
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Ka-ka-blah.
Spectra.
Those cool glasses that we wore during the show.
And like, go throw blue light and stuff.
Coolant master master keys.
those keyboards that we showed during the show and like you can type on them
and then stuff will go to your computer how about that
sick let's sick bro it's a keyboard bro sick board bro what am I supposed to say
sick keys bro sick keys bro sick keycaps bro okay nice cable bro okay