 And... Boom! We are live, baby! Oh, man! It has been a pr- I think calling it a rough week would be a gross understatement. Like, disgusting understatement. It has been so tiring. Like, shot three LTTs, shot and reviewed three FAPs, um, and also moved into a new office space, went to the Strata meeting for our building complex here, dealt with the inspector, failing us. Oh, also, by the way, I found out we are going to have to clear the path to at least one of the rear doors that are now covered behind sets. Do I need to go on? Like, can I just, you know, go off for a bit here? Yeah, no, absolutely. Absolutely. Because... I want to know more about the doors. We have had all hands on deck basically reorganizing this entire place for three days, and with all the stuff that people had to do, and just with all the stuff that needed to be done, it has been a nightmare. Like, if you guys have seen any behind the scenes footage, we're going to have a whole organization vlog series coming because that's the only way that we can get around to cleaning stuff up is by vlogging about it. But like, that unit on the other side of this wall that I'm pointing... Right there. That wall, the brown wall. The unit on the other side there, total disaster. If you were ever wondering what happens when you tell a dozen people, um, hey, there's an empty unit, so like, if there's any overflow, it goes in there. If you're ever wondering what that looks like after six months, boy, do I ever have the answer for you. A little something like that. By the way, Colton, that crate that you just saw, that is leftover slash ex-WanShow stuff, and then that Antec land boy is the recreation of Linus's first PC. So that could be like a charity auction thing for LTX next year or something. I don't know what else we would do with it. So like, oh man, and like the kind of crap that we're cleaning up. Like we're talking the rotted out husks of old CRTs and like... I thought you meant literally rotting. I was like, oh... No, no, but like dangerous. Yeah. And like furniture that we haven't used in months, like the couch that used to be on the LTT set that just went to unit 101. Oh, this was a good one. This was a really good one. So you know those old shelves we had back at the Langley place in the background? Yes. Okay. That was like the old A-roll when we were shooting in the dining room. Yeah, the like wood colored ones. Yeah, the wood colored ones. Okay. So all the shelves for them were in a scrap wood bin. And then those with just the mid shelves had just like a plank across them and were being used as like a warehouse rack. And I'm kind of sitting here going, you know, we actually have scattered around the two warehouses many, many pieces of warehouse racks that could have been assembled to make a warehouse rack. But like to be clear, I understand why people are doing these things a lot of the time because they don't have time to solve the problem properly. And we're like constantly working at a frantic pace around here. Like I get it. That just doesn't make it not frustrating. And yeah, so lots of people moved locations. Brandon and Max are in the camera den now. Luke has his own office. How's your office, baby? It's cool. I stole two of the beanbag chairs. Yeah, I saw that. So I will have the comfiest meetings ever with my employees that aren't local. We will have the comfiest meetings. My friends told me they were like, dude, you have the comfiest meetings. Yeah, I know it's weird. It's very weird because I've been with John for like two years. Actually slightly more than that because in the previous office, I was also with John. So you upgraded your workspace because you have an office with a door. But you downgraded your neighbor. Yeah, because I don't have one anymore. Yes, you do. And I'm massive. Right next door. But he's not like. He has to sit next to Nick. But there's like a big wall and stuff. Like John, I had a communal space and now like I got Brandon's old desk. Yeah. So my actual usable desk space probably went down. Yeah, down a little. Actually, like 30 something percent. Yeah, like it's actually a very I used to have all three of my monitors and quite a bit of usable space. And I have all three of my monitors and that's where the desk ends. Maybe I was sending a message. Of what? About all the shit that you don't need to keep on your desk anymore. I'm probably going to get another desk. Mostly because I want more monitors, though. I'm going to put monitors there. I'm probably going to go like I wasn't going to win that one. And off Craigslist for like 25 bucks each, because I just need junko crappy monitors to do like server monitoring. Right. I don't need nice ones. You know what we could probably figure out is like we have an affinity stand that I don't think anyone knows what to do with. Like maybe we could anyway. That would be great. Before you do furniture for your office, you're going to want to. Oh, wow, that looks really different than it does. Anyway, we'll solve that later. Oh, yeah, we moved the Wenshow. Yeah. Sort of. Yeah. So it's like 10 feet back from where it was. The camera is now is essentially where the desk was more or less before. Frankly, I don't think it makes a huge difference to the quality of the show. I mean, this show wasn't great quality anyway. And I think it's going to be a lot easier for people to move around because now it's not like right in the middle of a high traffic area. So this is interesting. You didn't know this. Oh, sorry. Before. No, before you do furniture stuff in there, check with Yvonne because like there will probably be like a plan already. OK. And like we might be able to get you like some shelving. I'm not even super worried about it. Yeah, like we'll deal with it. But the hexagon. Like a little notepad of the things that I like want. The hexagon wall from the spaceship. So the plan is to just lift that up. You know, the RGB wall. Yes. OK, I think that's just going to go like right here. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, because the spaceship is dumb and needs to go away. Getting rid of that. Yeah, we're getting rid of the spaceship and we're just turning that whole area into like a condo. Perfect. That's actually, yeah. Coming back to the final inspection. So the theory was that the inspector would come in and look only at the new tenant improvement. And that was actually why we built the new tenant improvement like a half a centimeter away from the old one so that it would actually be a completely separate structure. So the inspector will not come look at our old tenant improvement because if they did that, then any code changes in the last two and a half years would have to be retrofitted to that one. You don't want that. That's a big problem. Yeah. OK, so it turns out they also want to look at the warehouse space because that's under the new tenant improvement. So that needs three exits to the outside. And I thought that those two front doors would still count. But technically one of those front doors, which is now enclosed and is a dedicated exit for the new improvement because it needs dedicated exits because it's not actually technically part of the old improvement, that doesn't count for the warehouse. Even though, assuming that the employees of Linus Media Group are not a bunch of raving idiots, I'm sure people would be able to figure out to open one more door to get to the outside. And there are already two exits, but we need three. So those ones are technically sort of obstructed right now. Well, that one definitely is. Well, and the one behind where the long term dust project, that one definitely is too. So there's one here, one there. We only have two. So the good news is that we were planning to rearrange some stuff anyway. That way? So workshop is maybe going there, but then maybe also staying here because it's pretty. I like this set. It's the one that I still really like. Yeah. But the green screen is going to shrink and then the condo is going to move this way. But then what we could do is we could maybe come get our final inspection while that stuff's kind of torn down and in flux. And then maybe the inspector could GTF out of here. And then if there ever was a fire, there would actually be two full exits for the maximum like five people that are ever in the warehouse at that time. No, there would definitely be three. Three. Full exits. People for the five exits, five exits. Yeah. Many, all the exits. We have the best exits. Make America pay for the exit. Those jokes like just never get old. I know, right? It's like, oh man. We haven't intro'd the show yet. Oh, right. Did anything else crazy happen this week? We just finished the inspector part. We just finished the inspector part. Anything else crazy? Oh man. I don't know all the things. It was like archeology town around here, man. Honestly, organization vlog could be as much fun as moving vlog because even though we didn't... No, I don't want to talk about that. Yeah. Someone broke into my van and it's not warm. We're talking about it. Yeah. No, I'm not going to get into it though. Oh, not the specific bits. Yeah. That was a really loud train. Honestly, we've actually... Here, wrap your brain around this. Okay. I'm about to blow your mind. All right. We've been in here longer than we were in the Langley house. No, I know. I had that realization. I walked out of my office today to come down to here and was like, buy office and then just like brainwave hit me and I fell over into a beanbag chair because I was like, holy crap. Because I was like, that felt more impactful than leaving the old office. And I was like, I wonder why. And I was like, oh, wow. We've been in there forever. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? It's my two year anniversary on Monday. It's your two years? Yeah, buddy. Is that past the point where I can just fire you for no cause and with no notice? Well, I mean, you are the owner of the company. Is it, Max? Max, Max like... Max, like... Max, I know. Yeah, dog. All right. Well then, I guess you're still on the team, Colton. Yeah. Woo. Colton's still on the team. Let's do some ads. I'll get to the ads later. Made it. Get to the ads later. So yeah, there's actually like more archaeology to do here. Yeah. Than there was there. And you remember how freaking crazy that place was. So yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun and there's a lot of personalities involved. Okay. Things got snippy a little bit because like, I know you weren't here this week. I saw some of the team chat though. Things have gotten a little snippy. You know, there have been some messages to the group chat about grading people's ability to park their cars far enough back from the sidewalk. You know, like there's been... That was like way too sassy. That was probably over the line sassy. And so yeah, stuff's gotten real this week. Meanwhile, I'm like sitting on a train. Yeah. Meanwhile, you're on a train. I can't really tell about what my event was. I can't talk about what my event was. Retrieving our broken company van. Yeah. Which was like... So I was expecting this train trip to be horrible. I only got two hours of sleep beforehand, which sucked. But like it's a train trip, so whatever. Yeah. Um, got held over at the border. They didn't want to let me down because they couldn't understand what I was going to do. Don't let me, don't let me. Well, they were like, why are you going there? I need you, I need you, I need you right now. Don't let me, don't... I can't remember. Okay, sorry. They're like, they're wondering why I was going so far to pick up the vehicle and then like stopping off somewhere else. It's a fair question. It wasn't my vehicle. Yeah, it's a fair question. And then he kept on getting confused about who I worked for. Okay. Which was really difficult to understand. Also a fair question. Well, not really, because he would be like, who do you work for? I'd be like Linus Media Group. Be like, who owns the vehicle? Linus Media Group. Okay. No, you didn't. So is it your vehicle? I was like, no, it's the company's. What companies? Linus Media Group. Okay. So you did make it pretty easy on him. Yeah, like it wasn't super complicated. Okay. But then yeah, we got pulled in and it wasn't, it just took an annoying amount of time when like there's a train that's going to leave. Right. But I left intentionally like way early, so I ended up being totally fine, which is part of the reason why I got such a small amount of sleep or whatever. And then the wifi on the train was legendary. No streaming of any kind allowed. Yeah, that's normal for... Not even music. And any files above 10 megs, they just killed. Really? Yeah. You know, you can VPN it usually. Yeah. Some of the airlines... I see that on the ferry and stuff. Like I'm not new to that, but it's just like, all right, come on, come on. And then so I get down there, get the vehicle. It's fine. Check out Rod's shop. It's amazing. Holy cow. His CNC is incredible. It's so, it's expensive, but it's badass. Yeah. Rod's pretty dope. And then I went up to Microsoft. And things happened. And then you guys will hear about that later. Yeah. So my week was definitely more eventful than yours. I mean, mine was pretty eventful. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. You know, but we wouldn't know that. No. Right. Get owned. Right. All right. So I guess we should get into the news for the week. We haven't even rolled the intro. Well, okay. Without looking at the doc. Okay. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get into the news. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get into the doc. Okay. Guess. Vega, Threadripper, Core i9. Yep. Maybe NVIDIA did something. Yeah. Cool. Sounds good. Roll the intro. Let's just roll the intro. Forget it. Screw it. All the first topics are i9, Threadripper, and Vega. Sick. Sick, brah. I'm trying to see if NVIDIA did something, but I don't think so. Maybe it just wasn't newsworthy because, like, it didn't make it into the circle jerk. Right. Yeah. Am I allowed to say circle jerk while I'm flashing our sponsor logos on the screen? Let's just hope they don't look at that part. All right. Yeah, it must be the WAN show. That's weird. I resized it. Now it looks so different to me. It kind of does. I wonder, yeah, we could probably move it a little closer, even try and take up even less space out there. All right. So why don't we move into our first tech topic of the week. So the core i9 CPU lineup specs have been finalized. This is, according to PCPern, it was posted by the Benjamins over on the forum. Now, there was a lot of speculation that the reason that Intel wasn't finalizing some aspects of the rest of the core i9 lineup was because they had no idea if they were going to be able to make these bloody things based on how much power they were going to consume and how much heat they were going to output. Which, OK, is kind of a weird trend. Can I just say if these processors being huge amount of power, huge amount of heat, Vega, huge amount of power, huge amount of heat, where for the last longest time, it's just been like, those things don't matter because they're just constantly going down. Well, that's, I guess, what competition does is it forces you to push the envelope a little bit. Yeah, which is cool. So here we go. So Skylake X goes up to 18 cores, as we already knew. But this is some interesting stuff. It'll turbo up to 4.4 gigahertz at turbo boost max speeds, and it'll turbo boost at turbo boost 2.0 speeds of up to 4.2 gigahertz. So that's pretty sick. That's pretty sick, I guess. It'll cost two grand, which we already knew, and it'll have 18 cores, 36 threads, as we already knew. So the pricing looks like from the 7900X, which is kind of the flagship right now at a thousand bucks, you're going to pay 200, 200, 300, then another 300 to get 12, 14, 16, and 18 cores respectively. And they pretty much are all going to turbo the same, except the 7900X and the 7820, which are going to hit 4.5 gigahertz. So those are your single thread kings if you need a high core count processor, because otherwise you're just getting a 7700K, because you're not stupid enough to spend money on an LGA 2066 motherboard, so you can put a 7740 on it. How that stacks up with Threadripper is that basically multi-core at the same core counts performance is going to look fairly similar. Remember Skylake is a generation behind Kabylake on the consumer side, so that is one fewer generational improvement that AMD has to fight with on this platform. So at similar core counts, they're going to perform pretty similarly, except maybe a little less for AMD, because their max turbo is 4 gigahertz. But what AMD brings to the table is higher base clocks, so in those highly threaded workloads, AMD is going to look pretty good, and they bring lower pricing to the table, so your 16 core is going to cost a thousand bucks, so AMD is going head to head against Intel's 10 core, and their 12 core gets to go up against somewhere between an 8 core and a 10 core, but that 8 core is actually kind of kneecapped with only 28 PCIe lanes versus Threadripper's full 64. And then the 1900X is that kind of weirdo skew, where it's only got 8 core 16 threads, just like the consumer top end Ryzen 7, but it's got 64 PCIe lanes for being able to put like lots of GPUs or other devices on it. And Nick needs something, what can I do for you? I need you to get me water. You need me like water, like the other words. I'm going to show you guys something while Linus is gone that I just think is absolutely wonderful. I opened it on the wrong computer. It's okay, I'll figure this out. Perpetual Wancho Doc. So this happened on Twitter. You guys might have seen it. It was pretty popular on the Reddits today, but Nvidia tweeted out, Welcome back AMD, Threadripper and a GeForce 1080 Ti make a compelling pair. It's interesting because you have to remember that they're technically separate business groups, the graphics cards and the CPUs on AMD's side. So Nvidia is like totally okay with doing stuff like this. The fight is coming. Give me one second. I think with that, we're going to move on. Wow. Okay, hold up. How do we turn this back on? Does it automatically? You can talk normally. It just automatically turns back on. Okay, so unfortunately, a light that is like right here was unplugged and it takes like a long time for it to heat up, which does that make sense? Because it was already hot. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I was unplugging a vacuum and I don't know, I plugged the wrong thing. You're going to vacuum here right now? No, no, I unplugged it. Oh, unplugging. Continue. Okay, anyway, sorry, moving on. Enter Max is going to have the first out of the gate AIO for Threadripper. I'm going to drop this into the chat and then try to get it up on screen real quick. I don't see it warming up, so I'm really not sure about that. Yeah, that might be a good idea. What's up? We're going to talk about Threadripper's first water block and I showed off. Yeah, Colton accidentally unplugged that. I showed this off. Did he accidentally copyright strike our own channel? I showed this off. Yeah, you heard me, Colton. I showed this off real quick. Oh, cool. What? Yeah, so that happened on Twitter. No. You know, with how much bad blood there is between those two companies, that almost comes across as like throwing shade, man. Yeah, like, oh, man, that is like, honestly, like the way. Okay, so first of all, so AMD did segment the company, so they switched over to the- I said that when you were going. AMD and Radiant Technologies group. So like technically, Nvidia is just talking to the CPU side. Yeah, and technically, a lot of the bad blood really came from the company. Really is between Nvidia and ATI. That's how far back it goes. But like the engineering teams, like the engineering team at AMD contains ATI people still, like for sure. There's a lot of lifers that are still around there. Hey, Brandon, is it like coming back? So. Here, here, here. No, it's fine. It's fine. Don't worry about it. I don't see it warming up. I got a solution here. Like, it's not plugged. It's not what? Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, we use the flashlight. Flashlight on the phone, baby. There we go. No problem. Okay, we got this. We got this. So what's your vibe? What's your vibe? Genuine, welcome back to the enthusiast party or are they throwing shade? Like, haha, you weren't around for five years. I would give them benefit of the doubt here. You would give Nvidia the benefit of the doubt when it comes to crapping on AMD. Okay, but it is crapping on them. The welcome back. The welcome back part is crapping on them, but they are legitimately saying, like, we think our GPUs will work well with your CPUs. Which they will. Yeah. That's a good point. And they are legitimately saying that. Like, to the guy who, like, goes on vacation for a year and then scores his first touchdown after, like, a really, really, really long time. And you're like, welcome back. You did a good job. Like, it's a little sassy, but at the same time, you're like, okay, good job. Or it's just broken now. Yeah, it's possible that we, like, hey, the light's on. Okay. Oh, lordy. Okay. What else we got in the news this week? Wow. World's worst throw. Sorry. This is interesting. So this was posted by a knickknack on the forum. North Red Ripper News. The original... I think it isn't on. It's warming up now. You guys will... Yeah. It's coming back. Don't worry. It's coming. It's coming. The original article is from Tom's Hardware. Okay. So there was a lot of controversy over Intel's... I don't even remember what the stupid feature's called anymore. But their bootable RAID that bypasses the PCI Express controller in the chipset and goes straight off the... Ah, something, something, Rock. Dang it. V-Rock. Ah. Ah, so V-Rock. Intel's software RAID that's running straight off the CPU that's bootable. There's a lot of controversy over Intel's intention to allow users to upgrade to it with, like, a hardware, like, enabling key that they have to plug into their motherboard. Yeah, yeah. Although... So I'll give them this, though. They were a step ahead of AMD, who is straight up not able to support bootable NVMe RAID at all right now. So there... How many people do you think this excludes? Okay. Two answers. Answer number one, very few. Yeah. Answer number two, within the community of users... That are gonna buy something at this tier. That are buying $1,000 processors, $400 motherboards. If I'm spending this kind of money on a motherboard, I better have cashola to just drop on NVMe RAID. But even then, buying a one terabyte NVMe drive as just your bootable drive, and then doing other stuff with other things, like hard drives and whatnot, for, like, huge amounts of storage beyond that, seems pretty reasonable, I think. Yeah. Like, even my crazy, stupid, overbuilt computer just has one NVMe drive. And... And it's lightning fast, and I can't tell the difference between the stuff that's on the SATA RAID. Yeah. Because it's pretty fast, having, like, three really quick SSDs in RAID 0. So there aren't a ton of consumer applications for NVMe RAID boot drives. However... Boot drives, that's the part that I'm trying to make very clear here that I'm talking about. Because you can always software RAID NVMe drives. Yeah. That's been... I have a software RAID of NVMe drives that we're running our editing server off of. Yeah, so we're specifically talking about boot drives. Yep. And honestly, I have a hard time telling the difference between an NVMe boot drive and even a good SATA SSD boot drive. Like, not even RAID 0. Unless I'm hitting it pretty hard. Yeah. Um... However, Threadripper is being targeted at the workstation user, as well as the enthusiast who's just like, HURP-A-DIP, I WANT THE FASTA-EST, I WANNA GO FASTA-ER! And just, like, buying more NVMe drives, even though they know they can't tell the difference. And on the workstation, where you're working with some, like, huge data set or something, we're talking 16 cores crunching it, you could run into an I.O. bottleneck. But how do you care about it being on the boot drive? Also, they're enabling the feature in the future. So this is kind of a... It's kind of an odd story. I didn't even notice that part at launch. Okay? No, I was just mostly messing with you. So, like, it barely matters and it only matters for a limited period of time? Yes. All right. This is kind of... Okay, this is one of those things where, like, it's kind of like Intel having... Okay, so Intel had support for NVMe RAID within their... What's that stupid RST? Rapid Storage Technology? Oh, yeah. SRT? No, RST. Their Rapid Storage Technology, like their driver, like software RAID doodad that lives in the system tray. Yeah, there you go. Okay, so they had support for NVMe RAID going back quite a ways. But the problem for me, when I bought that 48 NVMe server... Man, that makes me feel old. I didn't... I shouldn't say bought because SuperMicro sent it to me, but I bought the drives that went in it. Going back quite a ways, I still remember making the video for, like, the first drive, let alone... Right. Anyways. Okay, so when I got the 48 drive server, I ran into all these problems trying to create a RAID array because it turned out that it was capped at 12 devices. And I was like, well, this is a spectacularly first world problem that affects very few people. Like... Like me. No one else had ever brought it up to SuperMicro. I was like, hey, so you've got this 48 drive enclosure. Like, how do you run all the drives together? And they're like, nobody's ever asked. And I'm like, what do you mean nobody's ever asked? And they're like, well, don't take this the wrong way, Linus. But most of the people using a device like this kind of know what they're doing. I mean, they said it a lot nicer than that, like way nicer than that. But it was pretty savage. And I got all the way to, like, one of their, like, A-class support techs. And the guy's just like, yeah, like, we're shipping this crap to, like, you know, tier one software companies. Like, they've got their own proprietary crap they're running on it. Like, they're, like, forking Linux distros to, like, build their own freaking thing. And I'm like, so, like, you know, you got a number for someone over there? Maybe they want to hook me up for one. Like... Oh, brutal. Yeah, so I ended up with Windows storage spaces. Which is a huge problem. Which is working great, by the way. Which is working great. Which is working great, by the way. Not working great. What? For me. What's not working great? I have, I've talked to multiple people about it. I tried to set up my system with storage spaces. Oh, yeah. Do you remember? Because the, like, I had lots of problems with those two boards. The first one wouldn't boot with certain RAM configurations. Yeah, yeah, for your personal RAM. And then the second one had just no RAID setup. Yeah. It just didn't exist on the board at all. Yeah. So I was like, uh, I'll try storage spaces. And everyone was like, it'll be fine. And it's been fine for everything except for Ubisoft games. Oh, really? OK, well, that I didn't see coming. Steam games launch fine. Yeah. Origin games, I think I've had problems with, like, one or two. And they were, like, super retro-y ones. All the new ones work fine. And then every single Ubisoft game doesn't work at all. You know, you have a NAS anyway. If I were you, I would just be software RAID 5 and then mirror it. It doesn't matter. Yeah. It's just annoying. Like, why? And OK, we could definitely blame Ubisoft here. But at some degree, I wouldn't be surprised if it's both sides to a little bit. Yeah. I don't know. I think your NAS also supports iSCSI. You could set up an iSCSI target. It would be totally fine. Yeah, that would probably do it. I'd be loading games off hard drives. Like, I don't want to put everything over there. Yeah, right. Yeah. Oh, this is cool. This was posted by the Angry Computer Master on the forum. The original article is from Video Cards. Apparently, Threadripper water blocks are coming, which is important because Threadripper is also the Heatripper. Could really use it. Yeah. So it's available in a variety of different colors. There's red, there's silver. It's a variety of sorts. And it's by a company called Bisky. Bisky? It's a Chinese. There are so many Chinese case and cooling manufacturers that I had never freaking heard of when I went over to Computex. Cognitively, I'm aware that there is a billion people in China. And cognitively, I'm aware that that's as many people as there are in North America and I think most of Europe combined. Cognitively, I'm aware of these things. So it makes sense then that there would be, like for every EK and Swift Tech and... EK and Swift Tech, I've never heard of this company before and I'm going to assume that they're bigger than both of them. Could be. So for every EK and every Swift Tech, there's probably a brand that exists solely within China that's as big or bigger. And it's like, blah! That's gotta be great for that company because then you only deal with that country's issue. Although it has some pretty special issues. Right, we've learned that. Yeah. Apparently, there's a whole bribe economy. In the tax system. When you're paying local taxes, there's bribes that you have to pay along with the taxes and that can depend on who the person is and what their status is and it changes over time. Almost impossible to automate. It's pretty sketch, actually, but carry on. But you'd probably get used to it. If you're there your whole life and you get used to it. And shipping stuff is probably relatively simple. Not going over tons of different borders, not dealing with all that. Although I think the last mile is legitimately by bicycle in China, so there's that. Not all of them. I mean shipping to stores and stuff. Yeah. But carry on. Well, it's impossible that it's all of them. No, no, okay, yes. Not everything. Yes, you would have to... Yeah. But... Because it's like big apartment buildings. Yes, yes, yes. I doubt you're shipping a Threadripper to a hut. You know what? We should go on a field trip to China at some point. I've been there now. You've been there, right? Yeah. But I was there for 48 hours tops. I was similar. Yeah. I was in my hotel room float planning almost the entire time. I was in a hotel that specifically had instructions for how to bypass the Great Firewall of China. Oh, yeah. My only exposure to it was like on TV, something came on, and I was like, like I know what's behind that, but like why are you even bother... Huh, I couldn't even figure out why they didn't want people to know about that specific thing, but I was like, oh yeah, look at that, they really do censor TV. How about that? But it would be interesting to just go see like Chinese land parties and like... Oh my god, no, that would be super cool. Like that would be pretty fun. Like isn't one of Nvidia's big certified land centers there? I think so, and we should try to meet with like a big Chinese computer hardware reviewing group. Yeah, that would be very interesting. See what they do. Just be like... Do like a studio job. Yo, what's up? Yeah. Like how do hardware reviews work in China? Because like honestly... And like what are your big brands? Yeah, like the truly global manufacturers, the guys like Intel. Like they could put us in touch for sure. AMD would probably be easier actually because they're less segmented from region to region because they're a smaller company. You know, because they haven't had a great five years. But yeah, like someone like AMD could probably be like, yeah, like here's the guys who matter in China. That would be super interesting. I wonder if we'd be able to get a visa for that. It's media, so it would be harder. Yeah. But maybe we could make it meetings or something. Speaking of visas, get out your wallet because it's sponsor time! Come on, that was pretty good. That was alright. Mack Weldon believes in smart design, premium fabric, and simple shopping. And you know what? It's one thing to say they believe in it, but they actually like do care about it and do do that. 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Or Floatplane. We got news. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Cool. What's up on Floatplane right now? Oh, I never thought about that. While you're giving that up, I can talk about... I don't think we need anything on screen for this necessarily. Discord is announcing video chat and screen sharing. Although one big thing that's going to lack on this launch is there won't be any audio pass through for the screen sharing. Although I don't necessarily know if I care all that much. I'm sure it matters to a certain degree. Is that like something where they're running into like DRM sort of restrictions possibly or like... They're passing the video through. Yeah, but if they can't pass the audio, like that... It's less likely. It would make the group movie watching experience a little less likely. I could maybe. I don't know. I think Skype does it though. I'm just guessing. So... But then Skype maybe has a bigger legal team or something. I don't know. They are saying now friends on Discord can watch each other play their favorite games while talking face to face. That sounds weird. I don't know if that's really going to be a thing. But it might be a lot easier for streamers. Maybe you're just getting old. Maybe. That's possible. I could see it being a much bigger thing for streamers. Discord already has streamer mode and like ties into Twitch where you can have all your subscribers in your Twitch channel and all this kind of stuff. And if you can have voice and video calls, streamers can have like a streaming room and be in streaming mode and all kind of stuff and use that instead of like Skype for playing, doing streams collaboratively, which makes a lot of sense. All right. I've got a lot of good stuff on Floatplane this week actually. We've got the cheapest PC case on the market. Oh man. We found it. We hot-rodded the snot out of it. It's actually awesome. That looks really cool actually. It's actually sick. Alex did a great job. I love how now that we have like Alex and these other guys, it's like, oh, this thing sucks. We'll like tear the trash out of it and like make fun of it and then make it awesome because we're just going to mod the hell out of it. That's right, baby. 4K gaming at 120 hertz on a DIY monitor. What? Yeah, baby. Wait, did you make that? It's a kit. Okay, that's cool. Unboxing the real Razer Toaster is in video. Ruining your performance by sandbagging their drivers. Oh, that's a trigger-y video. I know, I know, but it had to be done. Of course. It had to be done. We've got a couple of other things. We've got a lot of behind the scenes vlogs and stuff like that. We've got a couple of tech quickies. Crappiest Dessel I've set up of all time. We've had a lot of simultaneous releases lately, so it's pushed out some pretty old videos that have been taking a while to make their way to the platform, but we've got some really good stuff coming. But like kind of in place of that, there has been a lot of... Oh, sounds on. There has been a lot of like the moving stuff and whatnot. I've actually got one more vlog and then I'm going to start doing some meet the team pieces because people have asked for like kind of proper intros to some of the new people. You know what's interesting talking about stuff on YouTube now that did really well on Floatplane as well, and if you're on Floatplane you would have seen it earlier, is the Pippin video. Yeah! Did really well. People love that. It's still going too. It's beating the Threadripper. 1.1 million views on... Did it help that we had a sealed... Some people were pretty salty that we opened that thing, hey? Really? Yeah. They were like, that was vintage and... And I see their point. It was not sealed. It's not like you can make a new not sealed one. I don't really agree with that. But we didn't damage it. I collect old games and stuff, but in my opinion they're there to be played. Yeah, see that's a philosophical thing though that a lot of collectors... Like, okay, so this is... I hear like I know that there is a lot of people that view it this way. I just don't personally. So it's a stupid tangent. One of my wife's friend's daughter is turning one. Okay. And so... Yvonne is getting for her daughter something that's really for her mom, because like what does a one-year-old do with a toy? Eat it. And she started collecting Polly Pockets. Do you remember Polly Pockets and Mighty Max? Oh, you're younger than me. No, I know like people that I knew... I hate you. Wrong. People that I knew were into it. I... Was it? I don't know. Okay. Like kids my age were into that stuff. Okay, fine. So anyway, she's just... Just for like for lols, she's started collecting Polly Pockets and... She has a little like thing for them and stuff. And I was looking into it. And... Polly Pockets and Mighty Max for that matter are one of those toys where I can legitimately see how the sealed one would have a lot more value than the non-sealed one, because the pieces are so small and there's... It's really hard to track down exactly what they're supposed to come with. But that's a lot of value to sell. Yes. So tell me this... But what if I bought it to play with it? So if you... And not to sell it. If you collected Mighty Max, let's say for example. Okay. You know what? No, let's say you collected Polly Pocket. I'm not judging, I'm just saying. That's probably what you would collect. Either way. Would you buy something... Would you collect something like that to sell or would that be more of a display piece? Like if you collected toys. If I'm collecting it to sell, then in my opinion that's a business. What if you collected it just to own it? Because that's a third. That I would want to do something with it. You would want to do something with it. I would want to play with my little Polly Pockets. So you would take it out of the package even if it's just to put it on a nice display case and create a little scene of a still life thing. And I have done that because I have the Halo's Master Chief Helmet on a stand. That's out of its packaging. I have the Dragonborn Fighting a Dragon statue thing from Skyrim. I have Soldier 76. I have Master Sword and a Stone. I have the chick from Horizon Zero Dawn. I have a few little statuey kind of thingies that are kind of around my house. I think they look really cool. If they were in their box, it would be the Game Box or plain white foam. Okay. All right. Fair enough. Which sounds super lame. Honestly, looking at these Mighty Maxes and Polly Pockets, man, I think there's a legitimate business model there of just buying actually huge quantities of every toy. Yeah, and that's cool. Go ahead. But I'm the person that's buying it and then using it. Right. Because like... If you want to buy it to resell it, sure. Nostalgia, man. As my kids are growing up... That's another thing. Who has nostalgia of a Pippin? Yeah, I guess that's a fair point. Like a maximum of 42,000 people if everyone loved it. Loved it. And I pretty much guarantee that's not what happened. So I'm kind of thinking... Okay, this is our next... Investing in Polly Pocket? Forget this Linus Media Group thing. Screw it. You and I... No one else is listening, right? Yeah, no, I'm in on this. Okay, so you and I are going to go into business. We're just going to find cheap storage space. Nice. And every new... I mean, someone's probably selling theirs now that we're out of this. Right, right? Okay. Every new stupid crappy trend, we buy like a pallet of it. Perfect. Okay, we buy a pallet of it. Heck yeah. We just store it all Indiana Jones warehouse style, okay? And then we just wait for 20 years because I kid you not, like sealed Polly Pockets going for like 80, 100 bucks. Woof. Yeah, we're talking a 10X increase in value. Over 20 years, that's actually a not freaking bad return. That's not bad. You just gotta nail it every time. You don't even have to. If you get it right, half of the time. And you can probably flip it for something the other parts of the time. Exactly. It's like something like... You know what's a really good business model right now actually, which is kind of frustrating? Hit me, hit me. Is making like advertising more aggressively and getting better SEO using trendier websites than companies that are actually doing what they're supposed to be doing and just buying knockoffs from China. Like there was this new bra thing. It's like kind of a sticker and then you pull the thing in and it pulls. I don't know how it works. I don't get it. Oh, it's like the strapless push up bra, right? Yeah. There was a lot of online pop up shops that happened. And it's essentially like little mall kiosks, but on the internet. And they just pop up with crazy SEO. They advertise through like Facebook and YouTube super aggressively. Like really, really aggressively so that they're always in your newsfeed. And you're just like, oh, I've seen this advertised everywhere. I guess that's the one that I've seen that people are talking about. I guess I'll just buy that one. And you just make it something. If it's just super generic, you just buy a crap ton of them, ship them over on like a drop ship and then just throw up a whole bunch of different. You could even have one company that just has like a hundred websites. There are a lot of like skeevy crappy ways to make money. Aren't there? Yeah. Some people are bringing up fidget spinners in the Twitch chat. And honestly, here's what I would kind of tell you. Because I think they were being kind of sarcastic. But here's the thing. And some of you might not be old enough to appreciate this yet, but nothing is as good now as it was when I was a kid. And I actually mean that objectively. Wagon wheels would be a perfect example of a candy that was delicious and tastes like utter trash now. But like there's actually been changes to the recipe. Yes. Honey nut Cheerios are another example. When I was like six, they were like, oh my God. They were awesome. They killed Honey Nut Cheerios. Like poor Marquez who loves his Honey Nut Cheerios so much has never even tasted Honey Nut Cheerios. I had the good old days ones. Okay. So anyway, here's what will happen with something like fidget spinners. They'll come back, but they'll be crappier. So if you bought a bunch of cheap ones today, that would be a bad play. But if you bought a bunch of like premium and specialty ones, like a bunch of like cool ones, or ones with like timeless branding, like I don't know if Pokemon is timeless, but something like, oh man, I don't know about like Toy Story, but like Gundam branding, like some kind of really resilient anime or something like that. A really high quality one from like a reputable maker, a palette or two of those would be worth a gold mine 20 years from now. I'm sure of it. I wonder if even like Dude Perfect ones. No, okay. Nothing against Dude Perfect, but I wouldn't bet on any YouTuber, including ourselves. Because they're too short-lived. It's potentially too flash in the pen. And you look at every YouTuber has what I call the curve, where they go like, sorry, I'm going to go across your face because I was right behind the thing. Where they go like this, everybody grows really slow at the beginning because that's the nature of the algorithm, and then they grow, and then they plateau, and then they decline. And sometimes it's a slow decline, and sometimes some come back. Phil DeFranco, iJustine, these are examples of creators that bucked the curve. And you can also just kind of flat, and then manage to come back up again, and then you'll flat, and then you'll come up again, and then you'll flat. Yep. But that curve, I've seen it so many times, and there can be a thousand reasons. Oh yeah. Got into TV. Yep. Just lost their passion. Team fell apart. Got bored. Decided to form an MCN. Didn't adjust with the current meta. Didn't adjust. Didn't change their thumbnails. Just didn't care anymore. There's a thousand reasons why people fade off the platform. But I have seen very few examples of turning your platform's success once you are no longer supporting the YouTube audience into some kind of actual, sustainable, off-platform success. I think Harley from Epic Mealtime would be an example. But I do have to wonder if his fortunes today would actually be even better if he had stuck with YouTube for longer. Because YouTube is kind of like the investment phase of a modern web video production business. It's like where you're burning money. It's like when you've got your seed funding. And the funding might just be your own time. Yeah. But that's where you're investing into the business, and you're growing the audience. And then there's like a monetization phase, where people might try to go off-platform, or they might try to... Sell shirts. Open a merch store, or they might try to... Or they might try to... PewDiePie's mobile game, where they try to monetize in other ways. If PewDiePie spent all his damn time on his mobile game, then the plateau would happen. Because the YouTube audience, and investing into that audience and growing it, is how you open up new opportunities for all that other stuff down the line. And basically, the second you stop focusing on YouTube, that's where you start to see a decline. Generally speaking. Some people are like, uh, this guy? Because you didn't call them out. Like, yeah, not the point. Yeah, the point isn't any particular individual right now. This is a greater observation about the platform. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I feel like we've gotten a little off-topic. This was posted by Mr. Troll on the forum. The original article is from WCCF Tech, so you can take it with a grain of WCCF Tech. But AMD is rumored to be building, once again, a dual AMD top-of-the-line GPU card. Which would surprise me a lot. But apparently they're gonna throw a couple of Vega 10 XTs on a single graphics card. Really? Wow. Apparently nearly 600 watts of power draw, because... Yolo... I guess. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Wow. I would recommend not buying it. If they make it. Like, directly. And that's the end of that chapter. Over 50 teraflops of FP16 compute, 25 teraflops of FP32 compute. So this thing is like, it's almost like a workstation card. Except that they're gonna Aries Gamer brand it up to the 9. And it's 600 watts per single card. You know... And you can just put two. The power supply makers have to be just giddy right now. Oh yeah. Because for the first time... In quite a few years. Ever. A 1500 watt power supply might actually be necessary. I'm serious. If you went 18... From what I'm hearing, rumor-wise, an 18-core Core i9... But who's doing this? Just hold on. Hold on. That's what I don't... No, no, no, no. Hold up. That's what I don't understand. These new processors that everyone's pushing in the consumer space are not consumer processors. I don't... Like, I don't understand why everyone, like on Reddit and all this kind of stuff, is freaking out over these processors. Who's... Why are you buy... Are you buying this? Why are you buying this? It's not for you. It's not for me. Okay. Why does anyone care? You could have used a computer with that much wattage before if you just bought server parts. Okay, let me dump. Let me dump. I'm gonna let you finish, but... You can go ahead. It's just so stupid. I don't know. It's a chicken and egg thing, though. Will we ever get software development that is really and truly, honestly multi-threaded... If it doesn't come to the high end... I think we're gonna wait for consoles. And eventually trickle down... I think we're gonna wait for consoles. To consoles. Yeah. But it's gotta start somewhere. So can't we be excited just for the beginning of it even if we don't buy it? I mean, Knight's Corner is like old as hell now. That's true, but Knight's Corner didn't have single-threaded performance like these new ones do. That's true. These are like... They're the everything. When people are like, Ugh, that one's too expensive. It's like, are you gonna buy the other one? Is that one more affordable for you? This is the have your cake... It's still in the red. And eat it to product. But, okay. But think about it this way too. What about the used market? Three years from now... It's the used market on a $2,000 processor. Yeah. But it would be like, you know, $600. Because we've seen the curve. In three years? Yeah! Maybe four? But it would be cheaper. It would be cheaper. At least the process is finally starting. Because here's the thing for the power supply makers. For all this time, they've had a product that has no legitimate purpose. They tried to be the first one out. So they're like, everyone else can now make things that need more... Whatsoever! And then no one stepped up. There was no upgrade path. At all! Yeah. Whereas now, there is legitimately... Okay, when all of my baller friends get tired of their Vega 64s and buy something more efficient, probably. And their, you know, Core i9s. Because word on the street is like, overclocked. You could be looking at hundreds... Not a couple. Hundreds of watts through an 18-core Core i9, through the socket. Okay? So, you know, I could buy this stuff for pennies on the dollar. And have legitimately a baller-ass gaming machine. But I need a baller power supply for it. So like, Scrapyard Wars 2026 is gonna be banging. Yeah, pretty much. And like, the one thing that we're gonna make sure that we invest in this time, is a good power supply. Yeah! Like, a really good one. Yeah, yeah. What else we got here? Paris is apparently considering esports for the 2024 Olympics? Which, like, I've defended esports on the WAN Show against you for years. And I think this is so dumb. Yeah, I'm clear on that. I would be down with there being like, an e-Olympics. Sure. But that should be like, it should be like... Okay, and... Don't take this the wrong way. Careful now. But it should go Olympics, Paralympics, and then e-Olympics. Because quite frankly... Even if you just see it as like, first one into the gate. The audience overlap is like, negligible. Yeah. Probably. You could run that thing, but... You could run them at the same time. No, because then I think that's like... Okay, think about like, you know, households with one screen. You know? Okay, fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Junior doesn't want to fight with grandpa over, you know, who's got the TV. Yeah. But, you know, what have we got here? They'll consider an inclusion as a medal event, according to... Okay, wait, wait, wait. You gotta read this quote. You have to. Right there. We have to look at it, because we can't say, it's not us. It's not about Olympics. And the next one? The youth, yes. They're interested in e-sports and this kind of thing. Let's look at it. Let's meet them. Let's try and see if we can find some bridges. The youths. They like the electronics. We need to find a way to incorporate it so that the youths are interested. Oh my goodness. All right. This was posted by the Beast PC on the forum. The original article is from Tom's Guide. This is apparently what the iPhone 8 looks like. It's an iPhone 8 dummy unit. And it's a video. Dang nabbit. Looks like a Marquez video. Looks like a Marquez video. I like that carpet right there that still doesn't have his thing that I told him to put on it when I inspected his studio. Okay. Well, we'll see how that goes. I, wow, I can't actually believe how much I hate this. Really? I don't mind it. Oh, I think it's... Because the screen extends on each side of it. It's terrible. I think it's just a way to get more screen real estate. Because you have like little notification things up there. Like your battery status and stuff is in line with your camera. I don't mind it at all personally. That, I really hope that's not the touch sensor on the back. That is pure cancer. Right in the middle? Is mine right in the... I don't have that phone with me. Yeah, it is. Is it? I think so. I thought it was up a little bit. No, you might be right actually. That might be closer to the iPhone 8. Closer to the LG approach. I mean, I'm gonna Google it. I can't remember where I have my phone on me. Wow, I actually don't remember the last time I was that not caring about a iPhone. Apparently it'll have... It's not in the middle at all. Oh yeah, okay, I'm sorry. Apparently it'll have wireless charging. It'll still have a camera bump on the back. And this is ridiculous. Okay, this is supposed to be by Snorting Frogs on the forum. We have been hounding Seagate to let us play with their 60 terabyte SSD. Since they announced it like a year ago. They still haven't gotten one to us. And now they announce a 64 terabyte NVMe SSD? Gosh darn it, you guys! No, I'm real upset now! Well, I'll just ask for this one instead. There you go. Disney to pull their content from Netflix. This is originally from Bloomberg. This is a big deal actually. Yeah. So, the happy ecosystem where you just pay one flat fee and you get pretty much all the content that you could want is getting fragmented. So much for the idea of pulling the plug or cutting the cord or whatever it's called. There's a Tide commercial. So much for cutting the cord and being able to get pretty much everything you want for like 15 bucks a month in 4k. You're gonna have to start building your own cable package the way you used to. Subscribing to a bunch of different services. And there is a huge gap that just got formed in the market for someone who's the aggregator. Who's like, okay, basically a cable network. The online cable network is coming. Where they're just like a platform where you buy your Disney and your Netflix and your other packages. And you view it all in one space. And it uses all the APIs to bring together a nice little thing. I wonder if that's gonna be Plex. I think the TV makers are gonna jump on this. So you think there's gonna be like a Samsung? I think Google could jump on this. I think Samsung is gonna try and do their own thing with Tizen. I feel like Google might fail. I think Google's gonna try to do it through YouTube and people aren't gonna want that. I don't think they will. I think they're gonna do it through devices like the Nvidia Shield TV. Because remember too that there are TV manufacturers, including Sony, that bake full Android experiences into their TVs. Yeah, yeah, but there's people that want this on their laptop. The trend of like, university girl watching Netflix all the time on her MacBook. Is like, that's on her MacBook, not on her TV. It would be interesting for Plex to go after it. I don't think Plex would have the... I don't think Plex would have a... I don't think they'd have a seat at the negotiation table. Come on, Plex. For their support of piracy all these years. They're like, oh, we don't support piracy, but support of piracy for all these years. I don't think they win a chance to talk about this. Interesting. So I'll be interested to see where this goes, but one way or another, Disney pulled their catalog from Netflix. They will stop supplying Disney and Pixar branded movies starting in 2019 and launch an online product of their own going directly to consumers. This is part of the reason why Linus started it, and I've been doing it for a little while now. I've been collecting, when they go on crazy sales on Amazon, Blu-ray copies of movies and TV shows that I'm personally really interested in. Because like, oh, yay, it's on Netflix. Then it might just disappear. Gone. Who knows? And like, to be clear, I'm still going to have a Netflix subscription. And I do as well. But the Blu-ray does look a lot better if you're a big snob. And if you're like a crazy fanatic of a certain show or movie, there's extras. And some of them are really cool. I really like commentary. That's one of my things. I've always really liked, like, one of my favorite things ever was the making of DVD. I think it's Halo 2 or Halo 3. I don't remember which one. That was amazing. I love making of things and I love commentaries. I really like interviews with producers, actually. Yeah. Like, honestly, like the making of usually has the interviews with Larry David on the Seinfeld complete collection that I got at Costco. It was like so cheap. It was awesome. That's the thing. You snipe them on sales. Don't buy them at full price because they're really expensive. Like, HMV shut down. And I got like six seasons of Game of Thrones. I should have got that. I'm still not watching. But like, I know I'm going to watch them. I got like a bunch of seasons of Walking Dead. Six seasons? No, I got, I think four seasons of Game of Thrones, like six of Walking Dead, which I still want to watch. I haven't even started it yet. But yeah. So apparently they'll continue the relationship with Marvel TV. I got Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey in a Combo Pack for like $5 or something, which was awesome. Oh, oh, oh, oh! OK. Now this might be a case of picking studies based on confirming your own bias. But this is off TechCrunch. Apparently, some study finds, and I haven't looked at their methodology at all, but this is just funny to me because honestly, I think fitness trackers are the stupidest, most useless fad of all time. We're very against them. And I think we're both very for like physical health and exercise and taking care of yourself. I'm about that if you have to like track your steps, you're really not doing it right. Yeah. So Fitbit apparently turns teens off exercising. What? What? A lot of it has to do with pressure from competition with peers, encouraged in app leaderboard and also all the other things that are like push, push, push, compete against this other person only work for short term style motivational effects. Or, and this is the other thing, I believe that fitness trackers are great for people who were already going to be ripped as hell and exercising all the time anyway. Like it's one of those things where I don't see the fitness tracker as a solution. If you're only going for steps. Yes. That's another thing they mentioned here. The completely non-personalized 10,000 steps per day target was cited as unfair and pressurizing goal generating feelings of guilt or lack of ability among users. Like if you're working on it, but it's really difficult, like very difficult for you to get 10,000 steps a day, and you just feel like you're failing all the time because you can like 9,000 steps, but you're like really trying. That's what I meant. That's terrible. I don't even know how to check it on here. This? No. Wow. Crap. I legitimately actually don't know how to check on here. I never use the Apple watch, so it's like, I should just switch to a watch. Honestly. Yeah. I've said that for a while. To start sharing your activity, sync to the iPhone. Yeah, I don't even have it synced to my phone right now. Gamers Nexus tests the Noctua fan rumors. So we'll post the original article here in the Twitch chat. I did already. Oh. Already then? I knew you were going to go in at this next. They tested differences including appearance, noise, and effectiveness, and the online community was quick to crap on Noctua about this, but it turns out the differences in the tooling were mostly to do with just having two separate sets of molds at two different locations and two separate facilities that have different capabilities, and tuning that took place between creating an original mold and a later mold. And their quality standards haven't changed at all. I was informed by Noctua that our LTT edition fans were actually produced in China. All of them. And the NF-A14 has been- And they were great. Yeah, they were great. The NF-A14, I believe, has been over there for a long time, but basically, Gamers Nexus got a larger sample and debunked the claims. It was down to unit-to-unit variability for the original posts, and basically, it's all within margin of error. There's no difference between China and Taiwan-made fans except for the appearance. And Noctua has always had issues with their color matching. We've got old Noctua fans where the cream is closer to white, and the brown is closer to like a reddish brown, or closer to like a pure brown. Those ones I particularly don't like in terms of color. The newer ones are not that big of a deal. So there you go. So that's pretty much it for the WAN Show. Did you have anything else to add? I don't believe- I can't talk about what I did this week, so I don't really believe so. All right, it's been a long week, so I'm gonna get the heck out of here. I actually have a bunch of stuff I have to cart up to the second story over there after this anyway, so. Okay. All right, we'll see you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel. Bye! Wow, lots of viewers today. 6,800? Almost 6,900? No, 6,900. That's pretty sick. That's pretty sick. D-9-100. All right, so I guess keep these organized. Oh, right. I also noticed the kids' ones for these comes with a whole bunch of replacement ones so that even if you break the side off, you can just replace it. That's sick. That's actually pretty smart. They know what's up with kids. Yeah. Someone on their team has had a child.