 All right, so we had a few of the the viewers in the twitch chat Saying some pretty rude things about how you know they're never on time anyway So they're probably not going to be on time tonight because people were apparently Counting down to when we were going to start our live stream, and they're like oh wow they won't be on Yo, we're on time tonight it happens to be nine o'clock hold on this computer says 901 This computer says 9 a.m.. 9 a.m.. Did you just did you set that because you just reformatted it was probably you you probably entered that Let me know wonder you weren't sleeping there we go yeah, that was it yep, I'm blaming on that yeah That's probably why you didn't sleep wasn't Starcraft. Yeah, it wasn't Starcraft wasn't before it wasn't before no For those of you who don't know what's been going on on the forum really exciting stuff We launched a contest where you have a chance to win one of two 3960 X processors comes with a gigabyte x79 ud3 motherboard, so normally with thought with contests like that We're good Good work, okay, so normally with contests like that There's lots of terms and conditions and rules and regulations, but we're just making it like Post the stuff and win some awesome stuff YouTube rules. It's like very unofficial so Basically if you if you get drawn then you'll win and we'll just eat the shipping and send it to you so guys if you Haven't checked it out make sure you go to the Linus Linus news videos and rambling section of Linus tech tips calm and Make sure you sign up because it's it's awesome all you have to do is post in the thread to qualify And it's gonna take a long time to go through all those entries Like a Excel yeah exactly we're like we're bones, but we have to find out how many entries each person has You will okay, can you dump from the server and make it into something that we can somehow? Oh, yeah, actually it's gonna be a nightmare So well, that's okay. Well be like well We'll make diesel help us we'll get my wife to help us We'll just go through it so you can get more entries by not only posting in the thread, but also by By also by sharing the contest around the internets and all that kind of good stuff So I'm just gonna make sure that the YouTube announcement actually went up And it looks like I did manage to do that hey hey like a boss okay So let's go ahead and start with some starts of Twitter Q&A. Let's uh let's kick things off with that of course the big exciting thing happening this week is Packs East that's like I've been okay. I've been monitoring. I got new shoes That is probably the least exciting thing that I've ever heard I actually lied I actually know that is kind of exciting because then you wouldn't be wearing socks and sandals I am NOT actually wearing socks and sandals right now though. I am wearing my boots So it's like socks and sandals in the winter winter boots in the summer Yeah, because we finally had like a good weather day here. Yeah, it was gorgeous We filmed our first outside video in quite a while. Yeah, yeah We did an outdoor unboxing today that also kind of turned into a bit of an adventure I'm gonna go grab it, but you might as well start talking about what we did okay? I'm gonna stop monitoring because hearing everything that we're both saying about two one to two seconds later is really confusing So I'm just gonna stop doing that We got an Otterbox armor. I think it's called armor It's absolutely ridiculous. It's huge now my laptop is playing it through the speakers. That is not helpful laptop, okay So we got an Otterbox. I think it's called armor It's massive and huge and has a cover the screen and all this kind of stuff It's supposed to work underwater for about 30 minutes I don't remember the depth and it's just huge and chunky so it's supposed to be like crush Resistant and all this kind of stuff so Linus threw it up in the air as high as he possibly could He threw it at a tree. He threw it at a rock He threw it into a pond at which it hit a rock, but it hit water first so it wasn't going that fast And then we kicked it like pretty far all the way back to where the car was which isn't like a parking lot away It was like a few parking lots and a street away so it went through absolute hell and And for like scratches on the phone it was okay Although we did the submerged test underwater after he threw it all the way up in the air and on one side The hinges are a little bit funky so it was a little bit separated so water did get through But we're thinking if we didn't totally screw it up by throwing it way up in the air like two stories up Before doing the underwater test that it might have actually been okay. He's gonna bring it in I don't know why it's taking so long, but he's coming And there's two gigantic metal hinges on the one side that latch on and they're pretty hard to take off But they latch on really really tight and the idea of the phone is that because it's water resistant It latches on with an o-ring in between so it seals so water shouldn't get in But then the other side is just kind of teeth so you slot it in like that and then it goes down and then this side clamps down if Both sides had the clamps like yeah here we go so I'm gonna go ahead and hold this up to the camera so here's the metal clamps that slicks presumably talking about and They're actually like super rugged. They're pretty beast. Yeah, you actually just Hard to get off actually. Yeah, here's a fork All right, so I need like something to pry it off. I did manage to get it off with my fingers before But it was it was kind of tricky so you loosen it there there we go So you pull it off there, and then the backing these these unclip Just like that and then you pull the whole thing apart so inside. There's a cushion and so these These guys right here. There's little notches Built into the plastic of this side all down there, and then there are plastic little I Want to give you guys an angle that you can actually see so there's a little plastic pieces that go there So you take the whole thing and then you slide it in with the plastic things Push it down and then latch it which engages the o-ring seal also I want to give you guys some idea of what we actually did to this thing because it is pretty beat up Like it's absolutely brutal So did you tell them yeah? Yeah, we threw it out a rock we threw a tree we threw it two stories up in the air We kicked it a couple parking lots on a street across and then we submerged it at some point Yeah, so we had actually submerged it while we already knew that it wasn't quite working, and I brought my iPhone down here So there may be an issue with my with my earphone speaker, but the phone actually is Functional the screen didn't crack it did survive The abuse so that to me is is a positive indicator While the the case is no longer waterproof unfortunately and all that good stuff But at the end of the day, it's it's one of those things where it's like okay buying a new case because my case is destroyed Versus buying a new phone because my phone was destroyed and that was like Ten times the damage that I would have a phone go through in like five years It within the time span of an hour like when I was kicking it I was intentionally kicking it like into curbs and stuff so that yeah like I wasn't even trying to just kick it along the Ground he's kicking it into the most possibly damaging things he could yeah, and he was trying to kick it hard and like Going over rocks, and I like how you say I was trying to kick it hard He's trying I kicked it hard. He's trying to kick it You're kicking it with a sandal you're like oh, I can't my toe She's trying to kick it hard whatever man I think that I think the point You know we should have done the water test first probably Yeah, and then my phone speaker would work But I'm gonna do the rice trick so you put it in a bag of rice and put it somewhere warm and the water makes Its way out, and I've actually seen phones that were malfunctioning rescued from that quite a few times in the past so So yeah, I mean we'll give you another update next time we know more part of the reason we did this I don't know if you told them this but I am starting my Android Where's my HTC? Don't know man. I don't know your phone The devil is okay, well whatever the HTC one Phone that I am switching to I am starting I've officially put my sim in now So I'm done with the iPhone for at least 30 days and probably for good I've already spent a little bit of time setting up some apps and Getting some cool stuff going on with it, and it's getting it customized the way. I like it and I it looks like I don't necessarily okay. I know where you're about to go with this, and I don't necessarily Agree that Android is inherently superior in some way But but he's got a month the iPhone 4 is extremely extremely long in the tooth in terms of the speed of the hardware, and I think a big part of that is Is brought about by the whole concept of forced obsolescence? So okay here I'll show you guys a live demo of what I think is probably the most ridiculous thing about this phone I'm careful when you move too far forward people are complaining about the volume So I'm gonna. I'm gonna fire up a text message here that I'm gonna send to That that guy that works for that company that I founded so what once QRS so when I first got this phone it was extremely snappy and I understand that some of the new apps and new functionality that get enabled are not necessarily gonna run a hundred percent On the older hardware, but when it's a messaging I get that okay But this is my SMS messaging app and I'm sorry I apologize But I'm gonna have to move away from the mic to do this demo so check this out guys check out the delay on this Can you see are you a manual focus? No, you're not okay So it picks this time it picks this time to not lag But you guys will just have to trust me on it I've seen it if that helps at all I've seen him typing and he types a few letters and gets like like it's a word Or two in and then all sudden it's like I'm gonna decide to catch up now it feels like typing on like you know a Pentium one and like typing really quickly in like Word 2010 like it's just inexcusable for a three-year-old piece of hardware to struggle with text input And I mean things like the YouTube desktop site are terrible on almost any mobile device And I actually can't quite figure out why that is But on the iPhone 4 it used to be I could kind of use it And I could reply to like one comment that I saw that I really had to reply to before bed now I can't do anything Nothing at all so that's that's incredibly frustrating so the faster hardware is definitely a huge boon And I'm really excited to spend some more time with it because man It's fast when the ones just kind of beast like the screen is just Insane 441 PPI was it I think so something stupid like insane So it's a 4.7 inch screen compared to the the the Samsung Galaxy s4 is 5 inch screen But they're running at the same resolution, so it's actually the highest pixel per inch screen out there Which actually leads us into our next discussion point which is that? HTC one might be delayed again Yeah, because okay, so HTC lost their tier one customer status with their suppliers But their suppliers for like cameras and like screens and so so maybe not all of their suppliers But at least one of their supply notably their cameras so They might not be able to hit their launch. They might not be able to release as many as they wanted to Etc etc etc and this is all coming off of the news that HTC's CEO Announced that if the one was a failure like he had already announced this before the camera fiasco started If it was a failure he was just gonna step down Call it a day so despite the one being incredibly awesome and getting really really really good reviews so far everywhere Everywhere everywhere like check out check out the Anand tech Sorry about that clap if that was too loud check out the Anand tech s4 is it s4 versus one? I think it's the s4 review where they basically I think the intro had at least three like Brutal shots that Anand tech took at the s4 Yeah, so check out the s4 review and then do like a control f for one because you'll see the mention one and every single Time they're like the s4 is Not good or falls behind in this aspect, but then the one Yeah, it's like they use it as the scapegoat to like go and talk about something awesome for a moment Yeah, it's it was just it was actually brutal like I've rarely seen them Not like you have to This is the thing about any tech publication is you got to understand Where their paychecks come from so someone like Anand tech Like it's not like they're getting paid by like Tim Hortons or okay for those who aren't Canadian It's not like they're getting money from McDonald's like They don't do food reviews And if they did do food reviews McDonald's would be crazy to advertise with them because they couldn't possibly say anything positive about it No offense to anyone who works for McDonald's But but in Antech realistically takes money from Intel Microsoft AMD Nvidia Blah blah blah blah blah the list goes on so it's not like they're you have to read between the lines a little bit It's not what they say but what they don't say a lot of the time or what they could have said But actually edged around or whatever made their way around and kind of like when when when a major site like Like like a like a Tom's Hardware or whatever else says. Oh, we were slightly disappointed by this That means like we expected more. This was like not good so Yeah, anyway, there you go there's a little lesson on reading between the lines because I mean there's a fine line between making sure that you are informing people about What they need to know about the product and making sure that you're not just Trashing things and destroying people's livelihoods because there was something about it that you didn't particularly like Um, you know, like I could say this case is the worst thing ever and it may just be my opinion Maybe I don't think the aesthetics perfect for if you guys are regular viewers, you know I like metal cases, but that doesn't mean that a plastic case is bad It just means that I personally wouldn't buy one for my own personal system. And if you harp too hard on something What if you got a defective unit and that's another thing too. That's actually happened to me. Yep where um, I was like Oh, yeah. No, it was absolutely It was a terrible experience and then it turned out that there was actually something wrong with it and defective units happen to everyone I mean it kind of drives me crazy you go on like new egg or amazon or ncix or anywhere and there's like There's a star review. Oh, it showed up and it didn't work. And oh and the best part is when people leave a review of a retailer Oh, I bought my stuff from uh, from tiger direct and it arrived broken. They suck. It doesn't work that way Yeah, okay So there's two ways that a retailer can go about this they can either open every single one and test them in which case Oh It was open Or they can keep it sealed and you might get a dead one Yeah The only place that would possibly be applicable was if you're ordering from the manufacturer's website because other than that they're just Receiving it and then selling it to you. Yeah Yeah They don't have any intervention in that at all Yeah Yeah, so I mean yeah be an educated consumer make sure that you're putting the blame where it's uh where it's appropriate and being I mean, yeah, just generally yeah be an educated consumer. That's the lesson from that last Uh, why does the twitch pad for i twitch app for ipad? Not be very good I want to watch the linus tech live stream. Oh dylan. We're sorry to hear that man. I wish you were I wish you were here What happened with the awesome corsair video for tech quickie? It's coming eventually We're waiting on a software update for that product because we talk about the software update in our video So we can't release the video until it's available Um This is how apple makes their money. Yeah, of course. That's how anyone makes their money planned obsolescence is kind of everywhere Okay for all of the complaints I have about my iphone 4 remember everybody's favorite golden child right now samsung My wife samsung galaxy 1 Is a piece of crap now Compared to how well this one has held up It's incredibly scuffed up. It was not very durable the battery life went like And in addition to all of that it never got software updates to the newer os Is it still running gingerbread which from a from a from the perspective of someone who bought a well-supported device? I look at that and I go that's totally unacceptable like yeah, that's not going to make it. So I never buy a samsung uh portable device again but This is totally not samsung, but my nexus s got updates all the time I'm not gonna forget about that either and that goes for samsung or any other company So it's one thing to deliver me a software update that gives me all the functionality, but maybe slows down my device Okay, you know i'm still not happy But okay, but if you don't give me the software update at all and then my device is slow And i'm just kind of sitting here going really seriously Like I haven't forgotten this. Yeah. I mean, yeah, go ahead sell your s4s, but You're not everyone upgrades their phone every year and if you don't then that kind of longer term support does mean something so I I love my s3 It's right here. But realistically I got it out of warranty Um, my nexus s was like my favorite phone i've ever had because that thing was a brick And lasted through everything. I think you mean like a beast because brick implies that it yeah beast beast, um because it just wouldn't die it died because of me it didn't die because like I killed the phone by accident it didn't die because It didn't die because it sucked and then it was on freaking jelly bean when I moved away from it supported jelly bean It wasn't on like I did something to it and gave it jelly bean like that's awesome. And then I don't know. I like like I said, I like my s3 But i'm just worried that in the future I might still be running the exact same operating system I am now because that's exactly What happened to Linus's wife's phone Andrew suggests that I do an iSwitched iPhone 5 probably not necessary because i'm pretty familiar with ios at this point We don't like to talk about slick's condition what He's really sad. I'm sick sad. I'm sick right now If you hear me coughing if my voice sounds different if i'm sniffling if i'm sneezing He seems like he has a rough exterior, but actually he's basically like a four-year-old girl inside What Lots of motherboards good for overclocking. Yeah, we're on time How does the armor compare to the life proof? I would love to check out the life proof if anyone knows anyone who works at life proof get them to give me a ring And we'll uh, we'll destroy their case too I'm actually i'm not sure how impressed Otterbox is going to be with our uh With our overview of the armor given that we actually destroyed it. It's legitimately broken Yeah, we broke it. So yeah I wish there was a water block for the x79 saber tooth. Yeah, it's a shame having uh little fans and otherwise awesome Uh awesome motherboards. What are your thoughts on custom motherboard covers building them materials aesthetics normal properties? Well aesthetics are fine. If you really want the aesthetic grab a saber tooth speaking of the saber tooth materials wise Just be careful make sure that's not something that's going to be a static issue As for thermal properties, it will make your thermals worse. So just be aware of that That's all I mean probably not the end of the world and no no new pants I'm still wearing the same pants that I always wear So there you go um You probably have some like packs topics or something you want to talk about right? I've got there's like some expo or something that you probably wouldn't know because you don't even like video games I like video games. Okay, you don't play video games. I play video games He he I played more jetpack joyride than you I have way better in-game items and I didn't pay for any of them You've been playing for way longer. That's true. But like I actually built them up pretty fast I was playing it a lot for a bit. Okay, so he saw me playing a game yesterday Yesterday and watched I think it was yesterday watched for a little bit then was like, oh I forget what it's like to play games It's like wow, okay Anyways, I actually hadn't heard of the mm massively multiplayer ba and mba. Is that what it's called? MOBA massively online battle arena or something, right? Or I don't know if it's multiplayer online. I'm pretty sure it's multiplayer online. Whatever it is MOBA I actually hadn't heard of that terminology until we unboxed the razor naga hex And I was like, oh, what's a MOBA? It's like oh I felt like an old person. That's what happened having a baby does to you. Maybe you are an old person Maybe i'm soft on the inside and you're old and decrepit I'm gonna move on before I get fired my game My gaming rigs almost done now. I just have to solder together that extension cable The reservoir is like slightly hanging on I have to figure out how i'm gonna okay I have to figure out how i'm gonna deal with the heat output of a 10 gig ethernet card An amped sound card so I have a zonar zents in there and a high-end lsi raid card All next to each other, which is the only place I can put them Um, also I need a replacement for the 10 gig cable. Yeah, it's going to my computer So diesel gets 10 gig the server gets 10 gig and my personal rig actually isn't even properly running off of it yet So the uh, there's passive cables and active cables for direct attach copper So I have a passive seven meter cable, which is like Borderline and there's a lot of crc errors and this yeah And this is like we've already had problems because of how borderline and crazy this is And now we have another problem, which isn't like oh my god, they're bad cables It's just like this is kind of ridiculous technology Well, they said it has to do with the transmission power of the switch as well But I mean it's you can't blame the switch because there's yeah like 10 10 gig seven meter You know Yeah, it's just when you put together multiple bleeding edge ridiculous technologies. There's often problems Yeah, sometimes you bleed Okay quickly before I go into pax east announcements I want to bring up the folding team before I forget this because I would have probably forgotten this if I didn't just Glance on my screen and see that um Whaler who's running the folding team whaler 99 specifically not any of the other 98 whalers Or the heartford whalers he is going to be He's going to be running hockey joke He's going to be running a contest where Okay, i'm going to forget some of the details, but he's going to post it on the forum So check out the forum check out the folding section Generally some of this might be wrong, but new members that have only been on the folding team for a certain amount of time If the the best new member is going to win this contest and if you win the contest He's going to dedicate one of his best folding machines to your account for a week Account for a week so it'll help just boost your score up cool So if you're a new member and you're trying really hard for a week, you'll get one of his machines So you'll just skyrocket and his are really beast. His are pretty freaking beast. Yeah, it's like kind of ridiculous So that's cool. Come check out the folding team come join if you want to help Um, if you do really well, you'll get help from whaler as well. And if you're not into folding there's also boink Um, which liquidus runs so you can check that out. That's cool. I'm going to move on to pax east now I just wanted to cover that before I forget actually, okay. Sorry. I'm gonna start with a word from our sponsors about pax east Um, so first of all, uh intel's got a huge presence at pax east. They've got their booth Uh, they've got their new vip tech zone app Which uh you guys should definitely definitely definitely check out Uh, probably the best place to find all the information about what intel's doing at pax east Is on the linus tech tips forum in our core i7 extreme edition and gigabyte x79 motherboard giveaway thread So just check this thread out Uh, so here we go sponsor messages So they've got their vip tech zone smartphone app It's available for android and ios where you can get new special promotions and some exclusive giveaways Um, also if you follow at intel edge on twitter and tweet them your favorite game with the hashtag intel inspires You'll be entered to win a lenovo u410 ultrabook and oh for crying out loud. The link thing here is broken again And all these images are broken now too what's going on here That's not good Oh, apparently my sign-in expired. Okay. Well that might have something to do with it sign in and then things will fix Okay, uh, okay. And finally, of course there is the giveaway on our forum itself where you just have to post in this thread Which has 313 pages now just kind of ridiculous and we're giving away the two 3960x's As well as the here we go back to us as well as the matching gigabyte x79 boards to go with them So guys check out the intel booth go say hi learn about ultrabooks. And of course, uh this time i'm gonna what's what's what's Uh, this time i'm going to get i'm gonna do this properly but we have to put in our sponsored ad here So stay tuned. We'll be back in 20 seconds This video is brought to you by our trusted partner intel For a limited time only with the purchase of any unlocked core i5 or core i7 intel cpu Get a free intel beanie with a chance to win an intel snowboard valid for canadian and us customers only some restrictions apply For complete details visit intel gaming promo.com Yeah, I stretched it while it was playing slicks like oh hey you got a little black bar on the uh on the edge there I'm like, oh, yeah. Okay. Hold on. Let me take care of that So either way, I think that was a lot more graceful than what we did last time So I think that's the first time it's ever been graceful Yeah, yeah, and but we still had the black bar next time we won't have a black bar So every single time it will get slightly better And yeah, it's acceptable and we're also I don't know if you guys have noticed this but we're reducing the length of our pre-roll ads So that one was almost 20 seconds long all the stuff we're putting in now is closer to five to ten seconds So yeah, we've got uh, the main the main constructive criticisms that we got was that it was too long Yeah, we tried to address that so we're getting that fixed. Okay, carry on Okay, so sorry for clapping. I always forget that it's not for you guys Yes, the main two announcement type things that i've seen from pax east So this isn't like I watched a gameplay video and I have feedback on it or anything like this I haven't had much time because it started today and I worked today. So I don't know next live stream I'll probably have like all the pax east coverage. So that'll help he does all this complaining But I already told him i'm gonna take him to pax prime I'm not even gonna get into that Okay, so um The only two like big new game announcement level things that I have seen so far there might be more than this Um is capcom is releasing a remastering of ducktales Seriously? Yeah, that would actually be kind of freaking awesome. Actually pretty exciting. I'm pretty stoked into that It is going to be available on xbox live playstation network and weu So no fun time for us. Oh but I don't know still cool. I guess okay. I have an xbox and a ps3 I don't know where they are Isn't one of them in your room? I have a playstation 3 because I was playing around with dust 514 Okay, um, it's yeah, I don't know. I put it back in the box pretty quick. Um, I can't handle the controllers I'm sorry. I have really big hands when I play with like stock dual shock controllers. I'm just like what is this thing? It's really small. Anyways Um, also blizzard announced hearthstone heroes of warcraft, which is a trading card game I thought first of all, I thought blizzard already ran a trading card game for one And for two, I wonder if they actually think they're going to be able to compete with stuff like magic Well, they're blizzard So so people will buy it Yeah, but I don't think there's going to be like the magic tournaments and like all the huge stuff that's already around for for card games, I think Probably the like if they really wanted to to give magic a run for their money What they would do is they would incorporate it into warcraft universe Probably warcraft universe would be the one that would make sense Um But hearthstone heroes of warcraft. Oh, here's oh, I missed that part All right. I heard hearthstone heroes and then I was kind of tuned out. Okay. Yeah Yeah, oh, okay. Here's a work. I mean if it has if it has warcraft branding wrapped around it In the video I saw stuff like hell scream. I saw thrall I saw like like a lot of big guys, but there was also smaller people So i'm assuming there will be like hero level cards. I'm all about elaria Yeah, she's hardcore. Yeah She's like beast you can take down deathwing with just elaria if you are like pretty conservative and you run back and forth so see most people because deathwing's in the in the in the world of warcraft now Oh really? So most people are gonna be like, oh, what are you talking about? I'm talking warcraft 2. You can't solo deathwing That's not possible But it was so annoying why were uh, kiren and scurry or whatever their names were the uh, The griffon rider hero in warcraft 2. Why was he so crap compared to deathwing? Like they weren't even remotely balanced A lot of stuff wasn't balanced though. Warcraft 2 was a balanced game. It wasn't like starcraft but Well, no, I mean fighting words for some people no, I mean I mean directly balanced equivalent units A grunt was the same as a footman, but then all of a sudden they were like, oh heroes and they're different I mean it was only single player and it's hard to balance things. Yeah, but still come on I mean he was he was so cool. He was like, oh Hi laddie, I loved that description. He was so cool. He was like, ah Well, that's what he said. I know but then he just completely stopped Whatever, um, I have more Gaming stuff but not directly Pax East so we can actually move on to something else. I can cover that later That was it. That was all you had for Pax East. For Pax East I expected more Launch stuff, but I think it's day one. It's still a weekday. It's day one for one. Weekday Yeah, it's weekday day one. So there might be more coming I'll try and post stuff in the gaming section of the forum as it kind of comes live So I'll post like bigger information about the two announcements that I just did with more details And I'm just going to post more stuff there in general Um as well as updates over the weekend, but I'm also expecting people are holding their cards for E3 and Pax Prime Okay So I'm expecting bigger announcements for E3 and Pax Prime so that I don't know because Pax East is pretty big but it's not E3 and it's not Pax Prime I would love to go to E3. I'm still trying to make that happen for us We did CES and the feedback was really good on the coverage that we did for CES so um, so the one that I was targeting because I We talked about Pax East but I thought it was going to be too soon Just in terms of like getting our stuff together and getting into a bit of a routine with the new company But I think E3 is might be doable and pretty much like 95% will be doing Pax Prime. So It's gonna be exciting. Hopefully make it to E3. That'd be pretty cool There's been a lot of people asking for more gaming stuff from us and we are trying to expand it's just interesting trying to feel it out and figure out what angles we want to take on things and how we want to make our own unique approach to the situation. So We are trying it's just interesting It's always going to be a hardware angle from us to be perfectly honest Like we're never going to be those guys that are all like Holy crap. There's this mod coming for this game from this indie developer You know what? There's enough guys out there talking about that I mean, we'd still love to look at it from okay. Here's this new game Let's talk Tress FX engine in the Tomb Raider game powered by AMD's Compute like like that's the kind of stuff that we want to talk about but we do want to make sure that we're staying focused on that gaming stuff. So Um Should we do some Twitter Q&A for a bit or do you want to jump into topics? You know what? Let's do Twitter Q&A But first I want to talk about a feature that I found in Hootsuite That made my life easier this weekend, but actually really annoyed me Scheduled tweets. Yeah, how do you know? Best assumption. Okay. No, not just scheduled tweets. It's more than that So if you I logged into Hootsuite and I just have I just have a free account So I'm not paying for a premium account. So Hootsuite is a social Media platform management tool for those of you who live under a rock and haven't heard of Hootsuite You can use it to do things like schedule tweets You can manage streams you can have a team of people managing the social media as opposed to just one person So if your name is say for example Coca-Cola then a tool like Hootsuite You're not going to have like one dude replying to every tweet that Coke gets So they had a they have a thing in there and I was like I was I was scheduling out some tweets for this weekend Because part of the part of the giveaway deal For me to get those extreme editions to give away on the forum was that I have to do some tweets about the Intel Pax presence and make sure that uh that people are checking out the new app and Keep on signing up for the Lenovo giveaway and all that good stuff speaking of which sorry I just wanted to find a good spot to cut you off there We did we did work to get you guys those awesome items. A lot of people have been saying like holy crap This is the best giveaway ever Yeah There like I was up till 5 a.m Last night sort of tying together all the last few things to get that launched. Yeah, like we Yeah, we love you guys and you know what? To be perfectly honest there was potentially an extreme edition in it for us But we gave away two Yeah, because we're like because we have enough extreme additions And two is just and two is just better than one So I think we're up to internal use. We have four extreme editions at this point We use them all which we use them all diesels editing rig the thermal test bench the video card test bench and and my machine But whatever use them all yeah We use them all the extreme edition in linus's machine that gets used for word processing And tweeting and tweet anyway I was in hootsuite and I was putting together the tweets that I wanted to send out this weekend And there's a new feature that automatically schedules your tweet For the optimal time for more people to receive it. Whoa didn't know about that So basically, you know, it's a new feature. They introduced it to pay customers. I think a few months ago There's no information from hootsuite about what exactly is an optimal time So it's probably something to do with time of day It's probably something to do with not having tweets go out a couple minutes away from each other because that limits the exposure i've seen this with youtube videos if I launch two youtube videos at the same time versus Scheduling them out 12 hours apart. It's much higher impact Um, so you can't schedule for a particular day with it So you basically just sit there and write tweets And just click auto schedule Oh, wow and I was just like What is exactly the social aspect of this because I use twitter for interaction? That's what I actually use it for. I almost don't even tweet my own stuff I just talk to people and that is the way that like I think that was what twitter was initially meant for But it has turned into something where and I was doing some research about tweet reach. Are you familiar with tweet reach? Okay So tweet reach is a tool that allows you to search for like a hashtag or a keyword or even an entire tweet And see the reach so reach is an advertising term the reach and the impressions Impressions is another advertising term for how many eyeballs looked at it So you can see the impressions of a tweet based on how many times it was retweeted and by who to who and I was like I was just a little bit blown away by how automated and how um how empty it is a lot of the time Yeah, because that's really not interacting with your fans in like a positive way. That's just a yeah Yeah, make sure they see me as much as possible. I mean giving things away is good Yeah promoting contests on twitter. You know what? Honestly, that's cool If you want to give give away ultrabooks give away cpus I'm sure people aren't going to be upset that you're trying to give them a free stream But it shouldn't be all the time and you shouldn't be just like scheduling out your daily interaction on twitter Like it like I picture like the social media Sort of person for a company showing up at work Typing up, you know 30 tweets clicking auto schedule and then like chilling by like the coffee machine for the rest of the day We don't care anymore Like that to me is not not quite right and i'm not saying that's what's happening everywhere It just that it put that image in my head and it made me kind of the fact that it's an option and realizing that A lot of the people that are doing these jobs because for us, it's our personal accounts. Yes, same with uh, diesel So slick owns his twitter account. That's not something he does for linus media group. Yeah, so and You own yours and diesel owns his like all of us run our own personal twitter accounts and it's semi-optional Semi-optional well, I told you to get twitter. I told you to use twitter, but it's at the end of the day It's up to you how much you interact. Yeah, yeah work on it. Um, So, you know what's coming from us. Yeah, it's more our personal stuff I've got like pictures of my cats on there all the time. Yeah, you know Yeah, so that's cool when you're reading stuff from say not to rip on coke again. Maybe I should pick someone else Yeah, pick on someone else. Let's say like cisco. Does cisco even have twitter? I don't know. I have no idea Sure that so you're reading something from a huge company like cisco They're going to be sitting behind a pr firm. He's going to be running their twitter Presumably presumably possibly I have no idea I picked some random and it depends because like for example, I'm not picking on intel But I know intel has a ton of different twitter handles Yeah, there's at intel at intel edge probably at intel inside at intel pr at intel So there's lots of different ones and some of them I know are run by intel. I know that Okay, so maybe with some companies they outsource their entire twitter But even some big companies I know are actually managing their own twitter Yeah, so and I know and I know at the same time with with some of these groups There's guys sitting behind those social media accounts that are awesome. They're constantly pushing it They're pushing up promotional stuff But then they're also answering like everybody's tweets with like good information links to what they need to know all that kind of stuff A lot of these guys are really good, but you know, there will be that one person who's just like, oh Oh automated tweets and then drinking some coffee. Yeah, so it's just it just made me sad. Yeah That's all so speaking of twitter. Let's do some twitter q a I have a 460 sc. I'm looking to upgrade What's the best single nvidia gta? Well, the titan is the best one But you haven't really given us much to work with here dj. He said card not single gp. No single gtx card. Yeah titan 690 690 Single nvidia gtx. Oh, well, I don't know. It's it's a single you could make the argument that a titan is a better option than a 690 Yep I would go for more vram. Remember 690 only has two gigs of usable. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's true It depends on a situation. I guess no microstutter lower power consumption Titan was really smooth quieter operation 690 still more powerful Yes, but he said best which is well rounded. I guess best was best. I don't really know the titan Is lighter Ways less Actually, I think it probably weighs about the same I don't know. I don't think that's a benchmark that people really care that much about You know what? I was even I you know that scale that I kept in the nci in the old nci Studio, I was going to start weighing video cards as part of my length And looks and uh and whatever videos and then I just kind of bailed on it Like yeah Well, if you're going for weight 650 is a very good option. Yeah, so I don't really think that Someone apparently doesn't like the offensive logo on one of our hoodies. This is adidas. It says adidas So i'm not even wearing a hoodie. Uh, yeah, here's the yeah, okay Okay, is the price of a 660ti worth it over a regular 660? We actually found price to performance ratio the 660 is a better value However, if you want to push it to the next level and really start enabling those, uh, those better details anti-aliasing all that stuff Yeah, and what another thing you can do is we've released a few of them now and I continue I Will continue to release a bunch of them next one that is planned as tomb raider But we're going to be doing the graphics card roundups per game So if there's certain games that you play a lot and we release a video for it You can check to see like what's the best value? Yeah. Yeah, you can check be like, okay I'm planning on playing battlefield 3 What price bracket should I shoot for by looking at the frames per second? And then yeah check it out there because 660 and 660ti make it in I think so far every single one of those Yeah, because we just go based on what we can buy for an approximate price point. Yeah When is course are sending you a 900d? We will have one Um, we don't have a confirmation yet. I was actually on the phone with course there Was it yesterday or two days ago? When did I talk to course there yesterday? And they said we're working on it. We will get you one. So we will check it out. Honestly, though if you you know Just want to see a 900d and you want to hear me see me in the same video as it We did cover the 900d at ces Um your windows 8 test bench have problem. Yeah, we know There it is. Yay windows error message Will an optical 4000 dpi mouse be enough for gaming on 2560 by 1440? Probably I think so. I would think so. I actually use a lower My mouse calculates in CPI because it's an akari laser But I use a lower sensitivity than that on my 2560 by 6100 monitor That I found out today If I were going to replace the panel on it because I was hoping to just get a replacement part would cost me a thousand dollars Yeah, so I might as well just get an ips leonidas from ebay at that point Although I really haven't quite because there's no monitor on my desk right now So I actually haven't decided what to do monitor wise Uh, no good Sad uh, not only does he not have his gaming machine actually running it. He doesn't have a monitor Os is installed. It's tested out. Um, I just have to finish it up physically So what should nintendo? What should nintendo uh, oh should nintendo slash game freak release a pokemon mmo actually that would be amazing Are you gonna say no check out? poke mmo google poke mmo Uh, yeah Bam you can play it It's not actually released by nintendo or game freak, but they don't actually seem to be attacking them in any way There was a huge patch very recently released massive one. They finally implemented elite four Before they finally have as far as I okay These are patch notes that I read a while ago, so these could be fairly inaccurate. But yeah google poke mmo All right. I call it pokemo just because it's really easy to say that way. Um Pokemo, yeah massive patch recently released. Um, it seems like guys are kind of working on this Just in their free time So it isn't going super fast But the most recent patch made it like much more playable than it was before because it unlocked a ton of more zones I think you can get me you two now I think two versus two battles might be enabled now really I think spectator mode is enabled now So you can watch people fight. I think elite four is in like a lot more stuff I got someone ripping on me for thinking that pokemon was a good game. Pokemon was an outstanding game Pokemon was freaking amazing. I never watched the show once. I'm not like some kind of pokemon kid or whatever I'm older than him. So I saw season one when I was a kid and then stopped but pokemon the game is amazing It wasn't quite my generation but pokemon the game boy game was freaking outstanding It was a great it was a great rpg And it pokemon blew my room and the the the gameplay it's like the concept of the game lends itself Perfectly to mmo. Yeah heroes Out there collecting pokeballs and instead of having like stupid people arranged on a bridge such that you can't get past without them Seeing you and like you might as well just have like Some of them you can avoid because they look the other way. Yeah, come on. I played the game too I know I'm actually wasn't trying to say that uh player collision is not in the game So you run through people really I think npc collision is still in okay Uh, but just like to clear that up so that there isn't like random players Just haha, you can't get across nugget bridge because i'm standing in between one of the trainers and you You can you can walk through people but yeah, like oh man Man pokemon pokemon mmo would actually be sick I'm tempted to kind of try it the last time I actually played you couldn't do elite 4 You got to buy it. You got to buy it to pokemon It's really like Yeah, it's a really light game obviously and you just play it on pc obviously so it's it's really easy to run Don't worry about if your computer sucks. It's fine Someone thinks our live streams are awesome good work michael Hey, uh, can you suggest a good screen to use for gaming on three screens? That's about 200 dollars per screen Funny you should bring this up. Wow Fist bump to you. I'll let you start. I'm gonna go get one of these monitors the best segue ever The best one I can't remember the model name because acers model names of things are insane Um, but we just did a video for ncx tech tips today on a monitor ips monitor great viewing angles Um, I believe it's 1080p. I believe it's 23 inch it's 23 inch right? 23 inch 1080p. Yep, so it's 23 inch 1080p The bezel the actual physical bezel is ridiculously small. Yeah, zero point 0.08 inches right but then less than a tenth of an inch Yeah, the glass extends past the display so that bezel is insanely small, but you can see in the picture so the bezel's like Here and then there's a segment here in between where it's just uh, it's just black glass But it's a it's like a single sheet of glass over the whole thing Uh, so sorry, go ahead. I don't know where you were. Um, and because there's no physical bezel that goes Uh that is closer to you than the screen is when they're all lined up together. It works really really well Yeah, it's instead of faffing about with them for like 20 minutes to get it looking acceptable They just they flush up against each other really nicely and they are even still it's not a 0.08 inch total dead space it's smaller than most monitors and just the fact that they're so thin and glass and Like we had it set up today At the NCIX tech tip studio. We had three of these bad boys set up. So this is the the BID Whoa BID Or no H two three six H L BID So it's IPS five millisecond response time 1080p glass front Just outstanding monitor and it's 179.99 So right there so that's right there under your price point and just totally awesome. Just actually beast It doesn't have height adjustable stand and like it doesn't actually doesn't have a great stand at all It seems like a nitpicky detail though when you're kind of going. Okay. Well, what's the best surround gate? I mean, here's the problem with surround gaming on TN panels So most gaming monitors out there are using TN panels, which are very responsive But they have poor viewing angles and when you're setting up a surround config It's not always possible to make it so that those peripheral monitors are directly facing your eyes at all times Yeah, so you end up with weird washed out colors or you end up with color shift Which is when the the actual quality of the colors change depending on the angle which is it's very distracting I would much rather game on a good quality IPS surround setup than a TN setup any day of the week And I mean we checked out the the the response time. It wasn't bad It was pretty good. It was pretty good even compared to a gaming grade TN panel that we looked at pretty recently IPS technology is getting a lot better. It's kind of awesome. Yeah, actually Yeah, and all viewing angles on it like perfect. You're like, they were really good Yeah, you could still just see it perfect and like we film it But the camera doesn't really pick it up quite as well as the human eye does so as it like distorts a little bit in the camera it was better than that and If you get one of the IPS panels, you'll you'll realize like on almost any of them It looks a little bit better than it will in your camera. Yeah So yeah that that took care of that get well soon slick. Thanks Until we drive of course there. Yep, send them a message. Maybe they'll work on it more What do you think about Richard Garriott's new game? I'm gonna wait for for Yahtzee's review of his new game and then I will Formulate my opinion based on his because I'm sure even if he's wrong, it'll be absolutely hilarious I'd know it's not out yet. It's some I forget what it is. It's something isn't that Who totally bailed and then I don't think it was Richard Garriott But someone totally bailed on a huge project to make a connect three game. I Have I really don't think it was Richard Garriott, but just bringing that up reminded me of this No, ah, who was it? I don't remember the guy's name, but he bailed on a really big project That's been doing really well to make like a bejeweled game basically and everyone's just like How fast is your internet at home it's 100 down 5 up right now But I'm waiting for Shaw to hurry up and roll out 250 down 15 up in my area Please tell me the reason for making fixed side bezels on monitors And is it really costly to make thin bezels? It's costly in terms of defectives because the bezel actually protects the screen and the backlights and the internals In a big way whether it's in shipping or whether it's just general wear and tear the bezel genuinely protects it so I mean I've asked myself the same question because if you look at Samsung's 8,000 series and 9,000 series smart TVs They have bezels that are thinner than most known They have bezels that are thinner than most notebooks. Yeah, and if you look at things like smartphones you go, okay Realistically guys, why couldn't you put a bezel that thin on my pc monitor? The answer is they could they just won't because the flex of the materials Okay, when you get bigger Makes it harder to control unless you can make the device thicker people want thinner monitors So they end up with bezels most people aren't running three monitors So most people don't care and when you design a product for mass market You don't consider what too much what sort of less than 1% of the available people who might buy it would think I mean, what else is there? I wish they'd do it. I mean Samsung had a product there MD 3x thing it was like a custom thing. I did an NCIX tech tips about it. That was really cool the thing that was disappointing about that was It was TN so it was a surround TN and the oh my goodness the input lag and the pixel response time on those were Unbelievable. I didn't must have been like 25 millisecond response times like oh no, it was unreal It was like a business oriented skew. Okay, but still whoo. Yeah, I don't want to see my word go like Chop you wouldn't have even believed it if you saw it before before I started working here I didn't really think I cared about the monitor thing too much, right? And then I was like, oh, I've seen better monitors now Remember when we did the one on the Samsung 27 inch PLS with the glass panel was that the series 9? Yeah, or series 8 or whatever it was that monitor that had the gorgeous metal stand That just changed everything that just wrecked it for you. Didn't it? Yeah, then I saw the price tag and I was like, okay I'll find someone else but But still I'd love to have one of those They're insanely nice Okay, well, okay I've heard of MOBA games like I'm Perfectly familiar with League of Legends. I played Dota in Warcraft 3 and all that stuff like I'm Perfectly familiar with the idea with the concept. I know what the game type is. I just hadn't heard the term before I know your GPU tests compare three price points, but the 650ti and 7850 are very popular cards Can you test those two? We'll look into adding more cards, but bear in mind guys The more cards we add to these and the more price points we add The more of a delay there will be between releases and the longer it'll take us to address new games as they come out Because every time I have to go through and I have to find an applicable benchmark Which takes a while because not only do I have to go through the game and find a two minute segment Which can be done very consistently which pushes the card enough But doesn't have anything like I just said that would make it inconsistent that doesn't have any stop events in it That doesn't have any points where everything like where it's a big door And I have to wait for half the benchmark for the door to open or the game saves and goes into a cinematic Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah all this kind of stuff And then I have to run it a whole bunch of times and calculate and see how close I can get every run To make sure that there isn't a big differential Cinematic gaming just doesn't have a big difference Cinematic gaming just destroys benchmarking It's crazy And it brings a lot to it because our benchmarks are different because they're not canned and they're not the same calculated thing that everyone else is doing And I'd love to play Crysis 3 but originally my account was autosaved to a point where if I actually went past that point and it autosaved You couldn't go back or maybe it was Crysis 2 Yeah, Crysis 2. I was like, really? Really? You don't support saves? Even last generation consoles have hard drives. How hard is it to save something? They have online services Yeah, so after all that then I have to start benching. It takes a lot and then I have to do everything else I have to do Okay, so John asks how do you determine what power supply to use? Single GPU, 450 to 550, dual GPU, 650 to 850, triple GPU, just buy yourself a thousand watt power supply There Sweet And that's building in some room for, I mean make sure you're picking a good quality power supply, that's key as well We're back to where we were before Are we? Yeah Would you ever consider doing builds for people? Having people pay you to build a system? Sure, if anyone wants to pay me a thousand bucks, I'll build a system for you It won't be anything special, it won't be any different from what you could build yourself I just want to make sure that that's clear from the very start Two grand for water cooled Three grand if you want me to include a picture of the look on my face because I spent that time building your system instead of finishing mine Oh my god, now if someone does it their builds will be up and ready before yours is Amazing, that would be fantastic Ah, not good, okay, you know what, let's jump into a new topic before we do any more Twitter Q&A, what you got? Okay, so give me one second First of all, last stream we actually brought up, last stream was the like, we had a little bit of a heyday making fun of Origin One of the things that we brought up was that people that pre-ordered Crysis paid full pop for the game Oh yeah And then it went on sale, guess what folks? It's on sale again And for less, the regular edition of Crysis 3 is now $29.99 and the deluxe edition of the game is now $39.99 With all of that said, EA's CEO is stepping down I think he's like gone Is that what's going on? Because it's headlines everywhere and it's hard to say exactly what it's to do with Whether it's being voted worst company in the world in 2012 Are they going to get it again for 2013? I heard they're like consecutive winners or whatever Did they get it again? Well they're like in the final running or whatever I only read a little bit of it but EA is in again, they might possibly win it again Plus the SimCity fiasco Which is still a problem What a disaster I was interested in what they changed about SimCity So I watched a stream for a little bit and the guy got desynced from the server so it rolled him back So I was watching the stream and it rolled him back to all the way before I had connected to the stream And I had been watching for a little bit and I'm like alright well I'm done and I'm not even playing the game Wow I was like I don't care anymore and I'm not even the person playing Imagine you lost all that time because it syncs back to the last time the server had synced And the stupid thing is it's one thing if it's your fault Like when I'd be playing Final Fantasy VI and I'd be like Hmm pretty close to the end of this dungeon I think I should probably hit that save point I was like yeah I'm still buffing overpowered whatever And then Vargas kicks my butt with his stupid bears that I can't figure out how to do Sabine's Blitz combo because I'm like 9 Um you know So it's one thing if it's my fault But if you're supposed to be managing my autosaves Then you better be managing it Yeah in Morrowind if you die and you lose your save you're upset In SimCity if the server desyncs and you lose your game you're pissed off Yeah your rage quit like Like it's a completely different situation Yeah Other than that we've got HTC thing which I already covered And then I've got these two topics I'm not saying them out loud because I'm not sure when we're going to actually start talking about them Um yeah let's do those Okay first we got into a little bit of a discussion earlier today and then we paused We were like no We should talk about this on the livestream So survey results are something that apparently we share Sorry we share views on Survey results are a little bit interesting Things like Steam's surveys I personally find a little bit more accurate than most Valid Okay so this started when we were in the middle of a shot Like something And I got a call on my phone from an area code I didn't recognize And I was like oh I should probably take this just in case it's related to some important thing And it was someone that wanted me to take a survey on the media representation of lifestyles in British Columbia Which is the province that I live in And I was like really? As if anyone has time for this But the reality of it is someone replied to that survey Who was it? Do they actually represent the views of anyone who has a life? And like you're calling in working hours too Yeah calling during work hours So who do they actually get to talk to them about in this weird topic? Like really that was what it was It was like the media's portrayal of lifestyle And like that makes me think like oh lifestyle in BC interesting But we're like the least interesting people We're lazy people that like hanging out The way I interpreted it was like How do you feel like Like you look at a show like Friends Where like none of them have good jobs But for some reason they can all afford Okay not none of them Two of them have great jobs Okay but the others don't Okay whatever you look at any sitcom Okay look at like Big Bang Theory Where they like it's okay the professors are fine But you look at like the girl Yeah yeah How does she have this huge apartment Like awesome apartment And she's a waitress And like spends all this money Because that's another thing too It's not just about like the houses they live in But like you look at all the money these people spend They go and eat a lot, they buy a lot of stuff, they've got to ball their apartment So I think it was one of those kinds of things I'm like okay so you're asking all the people who don't have anything to do right now In the middle of a day on a weekday And I'm not saying everyone works nine to five Monday to Friday I understand that So it's not like they're talking to only people without jobs But mostly they're probably talking to people without jobs Yeah and like even completely taking any negative thing that he has said so far and might go into This is taking a very small demographic Whether that's bad or good You're getting a singular demographic And then you're reporting these results Who are you reporting these results to? What are they changing? What are they doing? Is this like for a lobbyist group or like That's the thing is like these surveys You don't know who's replying to them You don't know what they're going to impact And it's one thing to be like oh well Linus if you're so upset about it Why don't you reply to the survey? Well because I actually have better things to do than reply to every survey Like prepare for a live stream so that it's on time Like finish filming the shot that I'm actually in the middle of right now It stopped a shot yeah we had to cancel shooting Because he was like oh this could be important and it could have been Well it was from like Pennsylvania I was like who do I know in Pennsylvania? But who knows? Like it could be like you know Aquaman That would be important That would be important Actually that might not be that important He's probably not going to say that much stuff I'm Aquaman Although he might be helping Actually it's not Aquaman who talks like that It's only Christian Bale In fact you couldn't even convince me Batman talks like that Christian Bale talks like that when he thinks he sounds like Batman That's it and it's stupid And he's not going to be in the next Batman movie So I don't have to listen to him talk like that anymore He's not? No the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy is done And you know did I say Christopher Bale? I'm sorry Christian Bale You said Christopher Nolan Oh did I? Did I get Christian Bale right? Okay whatever I know their names Christian Bale, Batman, Christopher Nolan, visionary director So anyway the Christopher Nolan reimagining of the Batman thing is done now And you know why they couldn't properly implement Robin into any of those movies? Christian Bale refused to be in a movie with Robin What? I know he's a crazy actor I know he's insanely dedicated and he will like become the role he needs to become and he's great in that aspect He wouldn't do it if there was Robin But he's just insane at the same time He wouldn't do it because it's Robin He like attacks people that are on set Have you heard about that? No I think there might be a lot of things in this story that are wrong Yeah all opinions blah blah express blah blah belong to this guy not Linus Media Group Inc What about just this story? Everything Not things that he says No I'm just an employee of Linus Media Group Inc technically it's an incorporated company Yeah so So all the opinions expressed are totally nothing irrelevant or they're nothing relevant? They're... I don't care Carry on Okay So this might be wrong I think it was a guy holding a boom pole for a mic And the mic comes a little bit into the camera And Christopher Nolan gets... Christopher Nolan or Christian Bale? Christian Bale my bad You got me all mixed up I'm sorry It's okay Christian Bale got so mad and like part of this is on film Got so mad that the guy ended up... I think someone just said the machinist I don't remember He got so ridiculously mad that the guy ended up quitting and then he quit and they had to pay him money because he quit Because it was like a harassment thing Because like how much he got attacked Just because like boom pole came into the frame for one little thing Which as far as I know is like fairly common It happens It's not good No And it's your job to make sure it doesn't And it was a mistake But you don't have to like attack the guy and like totally wreck him I don't know I can't really remember very many specific stories But as far as I know he's just absolutely insane Cool I mean you know what I was... It's one of those things where to be truly elite at almost anything There's a little bit of quirkiness involved Like find me someone who is the best in the world at something Who's like a normal bro Yeah Like come on No, you're not going to be able to do it I don't see I don't really follow that many like things that closely I mean okay look at guys like The only one I can think of is Keanu Reeves But he's not the best in the world at acting He's not the best in the world at anything He's not that great at acting He fits his roles really well though Look at Steve Jobs who you could argue is one of the most influential businessmen of the century But a terrible person Well okay we can't really say he's a terrible person He's a terrible person He rests in peace and all that But he did a lot of questionable stuff He was a terrible person He did a lot of questionable stuff Why don't we just agree he did a lot of questionable stuff and call it a day He did an insane amount of questionable things to his employees Okay asterisk Linus Media Group blah blah blah It has nothing to do with these statements So I mean you'll okay so find me one of those guys who's like a true visionary Head and shoulders above everyone else at anything And they're probably a little different Maybe I don't know Like I said I don't follow that much stuff It takes a unique way of looking at things I think I mean everyone agrees Steve Wozniak is a little different He's a little bit different He's awesome He's a little bit different He's a little different Truly elites are a little different So I don't know Yeah because I guess you can still be awesome You're just not average person style Because like Notch is very personable with everything And he's kind of an awesome guy And he's like I guess you could say he's the best indie Okay Is that a thing? I don't really think so but Best indie developer? Yeah I think that's a thing I would think that's a thing Yeah but to me a developer is a developer And any developer So you're going for best developer Can quit their job tomorrow and be an indie developer Right but then I think you'd be engaged on different success He was able to release an indie game That was... Okay have you met him? Actually yes Okay is he a bro? He seems like a nice enough guy Seems like a bro And he was pretty chill But then a lot of stuff comes out after these people die Right From like biographies and stuff That's true But of anyone I could think of Notch is like way too chill Okay For anything to really be like that If anyone if there's like the dark past and dark stories of Notch Let me know because that would be hilarious but I don't know Someone's suggesting Gabe Newell From everything I've heard Gabe Newell is actually just kind of a boss So okay and he is truly elite at whatever Oh yeah definitely And there's exceptions I guess there's exceptions to the rule Yeah but they prove the rule That's the convenient exceptions prove the rule Yeah yeah yeah Whatever So I just got an Apple TV Right It's actually kind of awesome I'm like the least interested person ever but continue Airplay is as an if you're an iOS user And you know I use my iPad too You know I use my iPhone or I did as of before like a couple hours ago So as an Apple user Airplay is wicked Because it's just a matter of going play something And you can people are complaining you can't have the apps you want On the Apple TV Gen 3 And I can't quite figure out why that's an issue If you're an Apple user if you're not then I understand I heard you mention this before Can you push I know you said Okay continue for a little bit and then I'll interject Sure so anyway you can install whatever apps you want So you can't install like your CNN app or your Olympic app Or your whoever you know if there's a special presidential debate app Or whatever you can't install on the Apple TV But if you want to install any apps you want You can install it on your other iOS device And push it just by pressing a button And it's there's no leg the quality looks great Is it as good as if you directly plugged in a Blu-ray movie via HDMI No probably not but it actually works exceptionally well If you want because people are complaining there's no jailbreak for it So you can't install your own apps you can't You can't get access to free media And that makes it sort of useless and worthless But for an iOS user it doesn't If you're someone who uses other platforms And was planning to have the Apple TV integrate perfectly with your daily life You know what you probably have the wrong expectations Because it's designed for people who are going to be using iTunes And an iPod and an iPad and an iPhone And you know what those people do exist And they can buy an Apple TV Gen 3 and that's great I didn't buy it because I particularly needed an Apple TV If I wanted a media player on my TV I would put a Pivos Zios on it or a Pivos Eos Because those are freaking awesome And I know the guys at Pivos and they're awesome too But what I actually have on my TV is a media PC Because that's what like you know yeah represent Media PCs are just kind of great It's kind of awesome It's an awesome experience And have you ever heard a computer that's as quiet as my media PC? It's silent you can't If it was it would tie pretty much You can put your ear on the panel And you actually can't hear that computer So it's dead silent It takes out almost no heat It's an LGA 1156 dual core Yeah anyway So yeah Apple TV is actually it works really well though The question I was going to ask was Couldn't you just push apps? Yes That's why I said just continue Push whatever you want Because I was like yeah it's probably going to stay there And it's obviously got all that integration Netflix Hulu got a complete UI overhaul on the latest iOS update So yeah if you're into Apple stuff then great And if you're not then there you go Let us look into Air Parrot for your PC Something something something Okay None of this I care about again because we should just have media PCs But kind of cool I guess Why isn't cable card in Canada yet? That makes me so mad Do you know what cable card is? No Okay you know how we used to have analog TV tuner cards That you could put in your computer And you could watch TV on your computer Record TV and then you could use Windows Media Center To actually turn your TV into a media pub Okay it was awesome Cable card is a standard that allows you to take Instead of having a digital set top box It's a card that's a PCI Express card That you plug your provider's card into And then it can decrypt the signals So you don't have to have a set top box at all You can run the whole thing through your computer Cable card the reason that the media PC died At least in Canada anyway There's a lot of reasons the media PC died The reason the media PC just couldn't do anything in Canada Is the cable providers here refused to implement cable card And it's just baffling to me I mean they don't want you to archive and you know Have media and so I get that But I really don't understand why the CRTC didn't address it And like come on if you Archiving is going to happen We run into this every freaking time Like remember okay you don't remember In fact I don't remember But I remember my mom talking about it When radio cassette players that you could record on Became commonplace All of a sudden there was a big hullabaloo about Oh my goodness they can record from the radio What are we going to do You know what here we are what 25 years later I don't know when the cassette tape decks came out I'm young But is the music industry dead No Does that affect size gundam style song From pulling in millions of dollars There's a new huge research study covering piracy And saying that it doesn't affect music sales at all Interesting Which is really interesting I don't know if that's quite true Because there are definitely times when I would have bought something if I couldn't find it In the past I don't have any of that stuff anymore of course I was like eh Usually they're saying though Same thing Gabe says about piracy Gabe Newell Is that it's a distribution problem And it's a pricing problem It's not a piracy problem You know what actually when steam came along Was when I stopped downloading games Well I still download them but I download them legitimately Because steam is the platform If every platform worked the same way as steam Like when my phone has unlimited data You know what actually Microsoft's music service is really good Except that I was missing a lot of the artists that I would have liked to have on there It's not as broad as something like iTunes But I mean a subscription based service makes a ton of sense And when I have unlimited data Then we're talking If I have the distribution medium Where I can just enjoy my content on whatever device I want whenever I want Otherwise what am I paying for exactly? I mean you still buy box games which is just baffling to me I like, well at the same time I still buy and collect I had to drive this guy around For how long were we out? An hour and a half? A while actually because freaking Because he noobed out and took us to a store that didn't carry PC games Okay there's two of this store in existence at all One of them is near my parents place And I used to go there when I was a kid because it was near my parents place And then one is closer to where we work So after work I was like hey Well I have to go back to my apartment Can you drive me so I don't have to take a bus Like around this ridiculous loop and over this thing and all over the place And then all the way back and across to where I live Can you just drive me? So he's like okay we drive to the first place, they're closed We drive to the second place which is The same name as the place where I used to go when I was a kid And they're a movie store Yeah like movie rentals as if that business model isn't completely dead Like what are you doing? The place where I used to go as a kid which is the same name and is still there Three quarters of the store is games, they have one section of a wall for movies This was the complete opposite The lady didn't know what Starcraft 2 was I said Starcraft Heart of the Swarm and she was like Star what? And I was like oh this is not going to go well This is not going to go well, I didn't stutter This is not going to go well Oh no way, someone guessed it Carnival of Fear says Willow Video Yes Holy crap Fist bump to you man Carnival of Fear on the Twitch chat Guess the name of the store that we went to The one that doesn't have games is terrible Yeah The one that does have games, the other Willow Video is great So anyway I don't remember where we were going with that You couldn't drive yourself because your Pontiac is a piece of crap No actually my Pontiac still runs I just don't get enough money from my employer to insure it Actually what you do is you spend all of your money on physical copies of games Which is the exact same price as the downloadable version Except that all the gas that's involved and actually driving and going and getting it That wasn't my gas Yes Anyways I still buy old school games Because I still like playing games like Super Nintendo and Nintendo stuff So I still collect certain games for that I like having the physical cartridge for that I have my collection of games that I've got through Ok those are collector's items but let's face it Some mainstream title like Starcraft 2 will never be a collector's item But I still have my Starcraft 1 Battle Chest I want to have my Starcraft 1 Wings of Liberty I want to have Heart of the Swarm and I want to have whatever the Protoss one is So that when I'm older I can have my whole progression of games If anyone from Blizzard is watching I dare you to call the third installment like Juggalo Nightmare or something That would be awesome Because you know what's funny is people would totally still buy the game anyway And it would make headlines everywhere if they called it like something ridiculous That's just weird Like Red Bucket Odyssey Or something like if they just called it something absolutely brain dead That would be amazing Ok bring this up at your next board meeting if anyone from Blizzard is watching I just saw someone saying it might be Legacy of the Void I didn't know that apparently it's Legacy of the Void I prefer like Red Hamburger Odyssey or whatever I said before Not Juggalo Fantasy or something I don't even remember what you said Juggalo something I wouldn't want to play a game called Juggalo Fantasy I thought that was your point Oh it's Maw of the Void apparently Maw of the Void? I don't know You guys have to make up your minds but it's something of the void Ok let's do some Twitter Q&A Apparently I've been signed out of some account or something Whatever Le Twitter Q&A That's the best French slick hasn't been fired in a while Things looking up for him maybe a promotion Don't give him any ideas you're fired How long was that? I had like a two week streak Yeah I think it had been a while It's been at least two streams It's pretty good No effect on music sales derp How would an internet company offer better internet plans for less money? Bigger infrastructure? More customers? Instead of making $39.50 on a $39.99 plan They could make a little bit less than that maybe? I don't know Piracy has no effect at all on piracy Oh right that was the guy who corrected his tweet Piracy has no effect on sales So apparently it was BBC wow One of the few credible guys Ok they've been called into question There's been some problems lately Problems with everyone And apparently music sales went up this year Holy crap apparently some guy is selling his house for bitcoins That is the craziest thing I've heard today Huh Wow I will be floored if bitcoin ever goes If bitcoin ever does anything It's been going like crazy Ok it can go crazy all it wants but at the end of the day gold will be the one There I said it Quote me on that it's always going to be gold and precious metals and gems Yeah It will always be mineral resources or precious something Precious resources in some way It will never be backed by something virtual But do a little bit more research I've looked into it It's been a while since I looked into it I think we should do more recently It was floundering last time I looked at it So maybe it's taking off more now It's kind of taking off a lot Ok I still think it's insane It doesn't matter if you think it's insane Because a currency is only worth what you can actually buy with it You can actually buy things with bitcoin You can actually buy some things And you can convert it into cash very easily now Ok alright CanadianBitcoins.com or some crap like that You can buy them for I think it's 79 bucks per coin and you can sell them for 50 something per coin Ok so then in that case what makes it any different from any other currency? I don't know You're just saying it's not worth real money So I'm like ok if you can't buy something with bitcoin and you're complaining about that You can turn it into real money and buy it that way Ok I was solving your complaint But that's exactly it Why bother turning something into real money? I was just saying you had that option If you couldn't buy something with the currency that you had that was bitcoin So you were out of the money that you made this week from your real job But you've been mining bitcoins You want to buy something that doesn't have an option to buy with bitcoins You can convert it into real money and buy it that way Ok except that you've spent And this is the research I did You just spent as much on power mining stupid bitcoins as you did on the actual bitcoin money you get Very possibly It's actually more So the only Probably the value of bitcoins has also gone up a ton in the last one Ok Like I just said 50 bucks per coin But then they get harder to mine all the time and need more computational power all the time So I'm just kind of looking at this going ok so this is just like What? You might as well just fold Yeah From the folding team Folding team Ok What cherry switches do you recommend for 50-50 FPS gaming and typing? I really like browns Honestly if you have the option to try them all please try them Yeah try them all Because no matter how much It's so individual Yeah and no matter how much you can read about them no matter how much you can talk about them You really just need to feel it I'm one of the biggest haters of Apple so right away I can pretty much disregard it Being a hater or a fan of anything makes it very difficult for me to take you seriously Because you have to look at things objectively And to say that Apple has had no original ideas and overcharged for everything is just not right It's not correct so They have taken or purchased many of their ideas Yes That is a fact but they have had some original ideas They have pushed the industry in a lot of ways Absolutely Especially smartphones I mean their retina display turned around the garbage stagnation that was going on with pixel density in a huge way All of a sudden everyone was like Oh it matters now Oh holy crap we have the technology why don't we actually freaking build them So I mean that is a huge thing I mean pushing the industry in the right direction is an innovation I think Personally I have no love for Apple but I try and look at it in an objective way at all points in time And the reality of it is something to say no original ideas The iPhone might have a lot of ideas that were integrated and pulled together But to say that there is no original ideas that go into something like a new car design from Ferrari You know what they are not inventing the internal combustion engine every time But to engineer something into a product that is beautiful and functional and people will pay money for it Is an idea whether you like it or not I think a lot of people are looking at the Apple having no original ideas idea Your Ferrari example I don't think really applies I'm sorry because we are in the tech industry where new things are invented all the freaking time And you are comparing it to cars where new things are not I'm just saying the integration of a bunch of things into something functional and different That's more than the sum of the parts is an idea That's my point that is an idea I would say Asus' PB278Q monitor which uses a PLS panel from Samsung Honestly I think it uses a shell from one of their other monitors or maybe that was a different one It uses a DVI connector they didn't invent any of this stuff But that product is more than the sum of the parts There Do I support PCI fans? I'm not supporting one right now I don't have one in my hand I know what he means I wanted to support one It's not really a support or not support thing I would never use one because I think they are ugly I think he was maybe asking that in reference to your cards Oh yeah no I won't put that in my system To me iTunes is the lesser of the evils they all suck in different ways but iTunes seems the most powerful iTunes has a particular power to shut down my computer it's really good at that Or be insanely annoying I refuse to use it I've never once had iTunes installed on any of my computers John Carmack is pretty elite okay I don't really know I don't know what he's done lately Not even that I just don't know him I don't know like yeah Like Gabe Newell I've seen him out of his environment Not I've seen him personally and out of his environment so I could be constructive on that I don't know Gilliam agrees with both of us he read part of the Steve Jobs biography and he's terrible when it comes to people but that's what pushes his team Yeah you know what yeah Why do I always end up missing these streams? I don't know Exploded at the guy for getting in the shot or slowing production or something like that Yeah it was apparently the Terminator filming See you guys gotta stop pointing out that I wasn't getting fired for a while I was on a good streak and then now he knows and then now I'm screwed Actually Linus is right slick, CarTech is changing all the time Did you see some of that stuff at CES? Yes but it's not changing on the same level as computer technology But it's becoming technology so quickly look at the Tesla Because it's being integrated from computer technology Tesla, basically a computer on wheels Because it's coming from the other side What's like saying that an airplane is car technology because it has wheels on it? Saying that a car is coming from computer technology Completely ignoring like jet engines and everything else You can put a jet on a car it's been done That's true but I don't think that came from cars The one big badass car that everyone knows for having a jet engine on it they took it from a plane That's true they did do that I was hoping you hadn't seen that Ash says I personally prefer Windows based systems but Apple has innovated and changed the industry for good in many ways They have they brought build quality back to notebooks I don't think I would be holding an Aspire S7 with outstanding aluminum build quality Gorilla glass all over it and one of the most beautiful industrial designs I've ever seen If Apple hadn't turned the entire notebook thing on its head with the MacBook And gone you know what people will pay over $499.99 at Best Buy for a notebook Because that was where it was heading And it's bad for the entire industry it's bad for you guys to get good products You need build quality not just specs Is the free internet and Google fiber decent internet? Yes it's like gigabit or something stupid like that Wouldn't more FPS than your monitor's refresh rate rewaste? Yep that's one of the reasons why Nvidia has adaptive v-sync Adaptive v-sync is awesome Yeah it actually works really well That's one of my favorite Nvidia technologies Just go Google it sorry we don't have time to cover it right now Because I do want to it's wow it's 10.30 already okay I got a few things I want to talk about you got anything urgent? Not urgent I might take the Elder Scrolls online thing because it's so long And make a huge thread about it on the forum instead of Make it after party and talk about it a little bit I'll talk about it a little bit in the after party but I'm going to make a thread on the forum because it's just so long Okay let me do a few of my things here and for some reason Oh wow this is super annoying I got signed out We got to do build of the week Oh it's done now Guys if you emailed me there I am going to completely ignore it so just bear that in mind And I'll block you so just don't email me there Message me on the forum Yeah message me on the forum that is the play Well mind you my forum messages are keep telling me I'm not authorized to I'll reply to my forum messages eventually We got to fix something Yeah Okay so let's start with our build of the week I'm extremely excited to bring this to you guys So let's go ahead and switch it over here So I am signed in in this tab so we should be able to see the pictures Phase change cooled custom test bench with a 3930K in Titan So this is a balling machine His 3930K is at 5.3 GHz stable 16 Gigs of RAM and he's got a Titan Is that Titan running at 1245 MHz? That's outstanding actually Those are good speeds Some of these are before and after such Oh before and after such okay You'll see different cards sometimes You picked this one so why don't you walk us through it I didn't have that much time because we were at work But as you can see, well scroll down a little bit He actually built the test bench himself I think he's got a vandal switch on the front But I didn't actually get to see it too closely But you can see a little bit of wood grain there This is actually his own creation if you scroll down a little bit more Wood grain here? Yeah a little bit more though We'll go back to that in a sec because you can see the phase change and everything It's just kind of awesome I think it's a Sphinx These are all just awesome but if you go down a bunch more I don't know where it is There's the Titan So it showed different cards before this There we go, he actually made his own bench That's awesome Which is pretty beast because like It's a really nice bench And from working on benches so much here Like having a really nice bench matters We've had some We're pretty much running exclusively on nice benches now But we've had some pretty poor ones For those of you who are wondering we use high speed PC tech stations Yeah they're awesome And they're actually just amazing But this guy went out Oh oh oh oh You jumped a whole bunch Okay so anyway here's some water blocks Okay sorry Go ahead There's a lot of in progress shots This has been posted elsewhere And it existed elsewhere before this So if you guys have seen this before Sorry it was never featured before It was never on our site before This is just like as he's getting closer and closer to phase change That's insulation so that the motherboard doesn't die When it's run at subambient temperatures Very important for any kind of below ambient cooling And he blacks it out to make it keep on looking good There's just he's doing tubing and making sure that he has right spacings for everything Spacing for phase changes is really hard because it's very large GPU temperature minus 73 That's just so beast That's just ridiculous So that's using looks like dry ice Yeah dry icing I believe that's the Titan on there right now Wow And then see I can't exactly tell what that is Maybe not a Sphinx on top of the phase change cooler Oh yeah it looks like maybe like a panther or something Yeah maybe a panther actually Leopard or something like that But just outstanding build so I don't know if we ever actually said this forum member's name But do check out Alatar's post on the forum hits called My phase change cooled custom test bench system with 3930k Titan And check it out and do give him your props because that thing is flipping brilliant And everyone sitting in the room with me right now thinks so anyway Yeah it's an awesome machine Awesome machine just I mean totally impractical Like it's not like if you guys are like oh Linus I want to build one of those today Should I do it? I'll be like no But for those who have the skill and the know-how and are willing to put the work into it Very very cool machine Okay next we've got our featured news items from the Linus Tech Tips forum So Mysticode actually I think had a couple But he posted up the new series of Logitech G series peripherals I'm actually going to go grab them because we just got our shipment of these So you saw something about them I unfortunately actually do not know much about them What I saw about them was that they were being released Logitech hasn't been doing a ton lately on the gaming side So this is really interesting they're pushing pretty hard I'm not really sure where I'm looking here we go They're pushing pretty hard now with the gaming side They're doing their G series for gaming which is a little bit interesting Because they already had G for gaming But now it's this like specific G logo and they've revamped a whole bunch of their products So Linus is back here with Is this the full suite of products that they're revamping? Do you want to switch so they can see us again? I don't know what the button is It's function one There you go Okay so also if you want to So we've got the new Logitech G series here So this is the let's start with the entry level one So there's the G100S Which is an optical ambidextrous small gaming mouse We haven't unboxed any of these so I can't unfortunately show you what they look like themselves The G400S is an optical mouse So this one oh oh oh oh here hold on So there's the G100 so it's smaller Looks like a little something like that there we go We'll unbox it soon The G400S is a little bit on the larger side so it's that familiar Slightly you know what that looks It's less curved I think Than check that out is that less curved than like an MX It's at an interesting angle Yeah it's at a weird angle so it's actually kind of hard to see But it's a right handed grip Just like the old When did that start? Did it start with the MX Duo? No because the MX Duo had a particular It was an MX something It's been a long time Can't remember it's been a long time but that traditional I think most people know it as like the G5 shape So that traditional G5 shape MX518 I think there was another MX something or other in there There's been a lot So there's that traditional shape and then that's an optical mouse And then the G500S is a laser gaming mouse That's also using that traditional shape Has some additional buttons And is just generally a higher end version So they're using I think one of the biggest things they're talking about with this Is the surface materials So a lot of people are saying they haven't really changed anything Blah blah blah all they did is change the look But what they did do is they put a durable hydrophobic palm surface Dry grip side panels and fingerprint resistant button coatings on it Which is actually kind of a thing Also this is an 8200 DPI mouse now I don't know if the G500 was I don't think so I don't think so That's interesting I thought they basically just featureized a mouse that they already had On board memory profiles now Is that new? Don't think so Okay Low friction feet braided cable and buttons braided up to 20 million clicks Okay so the last one we have here is the G19S So the G19 has been their Uber flagship for a while With the full color LCD up at the top For their whatever they call it game panel Game panel is what they call it So this is a reimagined G19 With their new G series sort of concept going on With the advanced surface materials Up to 5 key rollover, dedicated media control, card USB ports All that kind of good stuff Now if you were to ask either Slick or myself Bearing in mind that neither of us has actually touched a G19S I think we'd both agree that the G710 Plus is probably going to trump it The fact that it has mechanical keys for me personally Is more important than the LCD screen But we're going to check it out anyway Yeah So there you go Logitech has new peripherals So a big thanks to I don't know if I ever actually said who it was who posted that New ROG, oh, oh, oh, oh, new series Ah there we go So that's Mysticode there Next up we've got Corsair announces a fully mechanical backlit K70 keyboard So the new K70 rather than having some membrane keys Is fully mechanical on every key So that includes the F keys, these keys here Which on the previous K60 and K90 were not mechanical It doesn't have macro buttons It's cherry red switches Which leads us into a bit of an interesting discussion topic Are people complaining about Twitch? Or not Twitch About what's the streaming software we use? Help me Xsplit Xsplit, wow, brain fart Someone's saying use OBS I think Xsplit's actually been behaving really well today Once we decided we were like we will try a different streaming software Xsplit was like whoa, whoa, whoa, sorry, sorry Calm down man, calm down Just calm down So the K70 doesn't have macro keys But it comes in two different color schemes So it's either got that silver plate And this is one of the things Corsair does really well Is the keyboards are built incredibly rigidly That thick aluminum backplate is kind of awesome And then they've also got a black version right here So that's a black anodized aluminum with a red backlight So I do wonder a little bit where the market research came from That indicated to Corsair that the majority of gamers prefer red switches Because I would love to see them branch out into more switch types Personally, red is at the bottom of my list from the big four Myself as well I'm not saying like oh red's bad, it's just we don't find it I'll still use a red over a membrane any day Oh yeah, yeah, definitely But, you know, in terms, and it's all personal preference I personally prefer blues, blacks, and browns to reds And I personally don't know more than probably one or two other people who don't agree with me So I'm just not sure And I would be really interesting to hear where that came from Red is used because it's better on the eyes in the dark We're not talking about the backlight color, we're talking about the Cherry MX switch type Yeah, so there you go Someone says I like my Ducky with reds Okay, alright, alright Like we said, it's a preference thing We just both don't have that preference I just haven't seen much evidence of it, so Right Let's go ahead and do that thing where we find more Guys, remember, all you gotta do to be featured on this livestream is post some cool tech news In the tech news and reviews section on the Linus Tech Tips forum Who have we got here? Oh, is it Mysticode again? Wow, Mysticode, you're rocking it on the news We should get him like a little badge or something For being like our news guy We both know him Do we? Yeah Oh He's a... I know you don't know this yet He is... What booth was that? No, no, suite He met us in a suite The Antec one? Yeah Oh, really? Yeah Oh, nice, okay Okay, well, hi Anyway, so ROG Gaming Mice from There's an ROG Gaming Mouse from Asus So they're saying supposedly it'll reduce hand fatigue I actually checked out the link earlier The shape looks a little bit funny It's for hardcore gamers with features like 8200 DPI Adjustable weights Macro programmable keys It's kind of the usual laundry list of features I'll be very interested to see What Asus can contribute In terms of differentiation And I'm also a little bit I'm a little bit uncertain What... I mean Asus is branching out into almost every category so far But peripherals other than headsets has been one that they haven't really touched yet And it's cool that you can build a system with all Asus And I understand because a lot of the time it's true Asus' mentality tends to be kind of like Why have someone else build it? We can do it better And a lot of the time they're right Which is... It's not like their attitude is going to change if that carries on But I've got to wonder who's going to be left to partner with Asus Because you can't partner with them because it's always conflicting? Because they'll always be competing with everyone Like when we were looking for sponsors to help us go to CES We were looking for sponsors that weren't conflicting So we ended up with Corsair, Seagate and Linksys Not one of them, at least at the time, had a single overlapping product Now Corsair has the Voyager Air and Seagate has the Wireless Plus Ah, ah, there you go But at the time they didn't have a single overlapping product And that makes the other sponsors feel more comfortable Whereas now we're not going to be able to have Asus sponsor anything If we want someone else involved So, I mean, yeah, they're bosses but it's just... Anyway, I'm waiting to see what the software is like Because that makes or breaks gaming peripherals these days We spent some time with the Apex Raw software from SteelSeries' new keyboard And most gaming software is just buggy Like gaming peripheral software, is that your experience? Honestly, I've avoided a lot of it Like it just doesn't work And the SteelSeries one, you know what? It didn't have a ton of features It doesn't turn your hair blonde when you press a particular macro combination But it worked But it actually worked and it was responsive and elegant and all of that stuff that we actually appreciate So let's see how this pans out I'm looking forward to actually checking out the mouse I'm a little disappointed to find out that the top surface is brushed aluminum So unless they have some kind of beastly fingerprint reduction technology going on there It's going to look really cool for about 10 minutes And then it'll look like brushed aluminum with stains on it Okay, look at this I actually didn't realize that all of our news postings were from Mysticode So thanks, man You are a boss And Noctua has announced free Haswell socket LGA 1150 mounting brackets for existing customers This is one of the things that makes Noctua so awesome And I'm not going to dwell on his post too much But go ahead They did it in 2011 as well That's exactly where I was going They actually did it with 2011, they did it with 1366, and they did it with 1156 They give you mounting brackets When you buy a Noctua cooler, don't actually bother thinking about what it's compatible with Because they will take care of it Noctua is awesome You guys probably already know if I was going to be a fanboy of anything It would be Noctua cooling products because they're just awesome And when you get their new kits, it's not just like, oh, I got a Ziploc bag in the mail that has some mounting brackets No, it's like a retail package And the mounting hardware is beastly It's made of thick laser cut steel And it's in nice custom cut black foam setting It's really nice, really premium quality stuff It feels like you paid for it, but actually you didn't We're both kind of into the Noctua It's pretty boxy, you got crazy tunnel effect That's okay, I got this And then GoodBytes actually did a great job of posting up all the cool stuff that happened with Nvidia's GTC keynote presentation I'm actually looking at it in reverse order, but here's their wave simulation Here's their new facial simulation, so they've re-kejiggered their old Dawn demo And it looks like it could be a person other than maybe a little bit of unnatural-looking lighting Like it could be a Photoshopped person, I guess is where we're at with that They demoed some hair effects and then some not hair effects, this is faces as well We're getting so close to the point where we might actually be playing games with what look like actors running around Look at this, un-freaking-real, looks outstanding Wow, that one's pretty crazy actually It's not perfect, the wrinkles don't look quite right, the forehead, the pimple, the ears aren't quite right There's stuff that's not quite there, but that smile, it's kind of a goofy smile But it's a goofy smile you could actually expect someone to make You could see that smile on someone's face That's crazy Just outstanding, so showing growth of computing in the CUDA market, which is huge I didn't even realize Shazam uses GPU acceleration for queries So that's awesome GPU roadmap, so they're talking about their desktop and other GPUs So what they're doing that's going to make things different and more better and drive gigaflops up and all that good stuff Bearing in mind guys, this is whatever kind of scale this is, help me, is that exponential? That's exponential No wait, no it's not, it doubles every time, it's an exponential scale here So just because this looks sort of linear or like it's leveling out, it's actually not at all leveling out So a linear line here would be exponential growth Volta with stacked DRAM, so they're talking about that Tegra roadmap, so this is a logarithmic scale right here guys So we're talking huge increases in performance Moving on to the Logan and Parker Tegra processors Kayla computer, which is like a development thing was demoed by Jensen NVIDIA grid, this one right here is the one that I really want to talk about So NVIDIA grid is up to 16 GPUs in a box with, hold on, wait, was it 16 GPUs? I think it was 16 GPUs Something absurd Two 8 cores, 8 grid video cards, each with two of the most, yeah 16 GPUs, 16 cores and up to 192 GB of memory Look at this backplane right here, where all the PCI express power goes into, isn't that amazing? Look at all these GPUs that are going, so there's two chips per card So this, whether you guys like it or not, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, I don't know how long down the line That is what you're going to be gaming on, not on a desktop PC They are serious about this technology and it is coming You might still be on a desktop PC but it's going to be streaming from that Well yeah, you'll still be on a desktop PC, you'll still be able to have your own awesome peripherals And you'll still be able to get, you'll probably be able to get better performance, like a better gaming experience So we don't know how far away it is, but it is coming And so it's not just for gaming, but it's for any kind of distributed computing workload that is GPU friendly That they're building this for, so they showed things like running on some, so okay, you got to pay like 25 grand for a base one And 40 grand plus a yearly software license for the maxed out one, so it's like serious business But they were showing demos where they had like just mundane workstations running crazy stuff They were showing off how this technology could be used to emulate multiple different processors on a network So you could have one grid device and then you could go like in a LAN cafe Your premium machines have GTX 680s and then your next down machines have GTX 560Ti's I don't know when a LAN cafe is going to be paying 40 grand plus 5 grand a month for But pricing can only go down Right, one thing I worry about is SimCity wasn't ready for launch Diablo 3 wasn't ready for launch I could just keep going, nothing seems to be ready for launch And the online component seems to be a big part of it The online component, the server power, and like this is not when you're running the game there Okay, so let's forget wide area network, let's forget internet for now In a LAN setting LAN setting, this is awesome Like let's talk workstations, okay Awesome So you put, instead of buying quadros for each individual computer, you get a grid You deploy quadro 4000s to every computer in a work area And then as that grid gets less current and all that sort of good stuff And you start replacing it or adding more grids with more up to date GPUs It can just power fewer virtual, more powerful GPUs Because you have like this pool of resources that you can allocate to make computing power And then you can put it wherever you need it to go It is extremely exciting And this is definitely the future of what's going to happen at some point We don't know when But the fact that they were showing it off, working, holy crap Because we're already running 10 gigabit LAN here for our editing and rendering PC Speaking of which, we're already running 10 gigabit LAN One thing that this would be cool for is if this technology trickles down So if at some point it's not insanely expensive If at some point you can maybe even build your own It would be very cool to be able to have something like this in your house In your house And just be like, okay, I've got stations all around I can just sit at the station and be like, yeah, I want this to emulate just the most beast thing ever My kid's at his friend's house He doesn't need his GPU power right now Or I mean, by then it'll probably be able to dynamically just like on demand provide GPU power Everybody's asleep I want to have the most beast machine ever Imagine if Nvidia decides to make a consumer version Because it's not so different from something like what they're doing with Project Shield Yeah How different is it than that? That would support Project Shield really well Yes, it would But with a desktop GPU This is what I'm saying though They're doing it They don't even have to trickle down the hardware They can just trickle down like the logic processes in the software That would be awesome So maybe it takes 20 years before it reaches the consumer But that's the thing Remember guys, dual core CPUs were completely out of reach to a consumer For years and years and years and years So this is going to be completely out of reach Maybe for 10 years or 20 years or 25 years And then you'll see like little bits of it The enterprise always trickles down And there will always be an enthusiast option So don't quote me on this But I'd be super stoked to see Grid reach the home I would do a home Grid I will basically protest and riot against like streaming games down to my computer Tell me something But wait, but Grid at home is awesome And if I had a super powerful machine And like my brother came over And I could like help push from my machine to his And like little stuff like that Like that would be so cool Like if he could just bring over a Raspberry Pi and a set of peripherals And I could just like power it That would be like sweet Like that would be really cool Okay, I know I often ask you this question And you always beat around the bush because you're so cheap How much would you pay? Hold on For a Grid device that basically makes it so none of the other You don't, none of the other All the other computers in your house So you're running 10 gigabit Let's say minimum You're running a 10 gigabit backbone in your house for your network So you saw on 10 gigabit Even using the horribly optimized remote desktop connection I was playing back video on remote desktop connection smoothly Like it was ridiculous I've never seen that before So if you're running 10 gigabit everywhere How much would you pay for a device? Let's say you've got a wife and two kids hypothetically Everyone's got a computer and one of the kids is a gamer and your wife plays MMOs You know like sort of typical household let's say How much would you pay for a Grid that makes it so all of them could just use Raspberry Pis? Assuming a life cycle of maybe it'll be sort of It'll be good enough to be high end computers in the whole house for two years Two years, okay How much do you pay? Not being around the bush I'm going to try and give you a number But one quick second One problem with that little scenario is you've got three or four people there, right? Like three or four people-ish We were playing one video to one computer off of one computer On 10 gig? On 10 gig Yeah, but by then it might be 100 gig who knows Yeah, but I'm just saying But let's say the network backbone is good enough So no issues with network backbone? Fiber in the house You've got something stupid, something crazy It's fiber Okay, so just the machine I don't know because if it's only going to be awesome for two years Like if I'm going to go- It'll be less awesome And you can just- you'll probably rack mount another Grid into your house If you can just link them? You'll just- well that's what they're doing So it's just a resource pool You just keep adding more Grids Two or three? Two or three what? Okay That's it? Probably How much does your computer cost alone? But I'm thinking about this in the way that Okay, my kid's computer is probably not going to cost that much My wife's computer probably isn't going to cost that much Okay My computer- okay maybe more than two or three Plus- But this sucks too because it's one gigantic investment It's one gigantic investment That's hard But it's one gigantic investment that you can use to beam games to your smartphone To your media PC Yeah, that's awesome To your gaming desktop That's awesome To your buddy's gaming desktop But it also puts it above a possible price bracket of a lot of people Because it's one big investment And by then- I'm sure there will be a payment plan I was just going to say they're going to have to come up with some financing You can lease it You can probably lease it Lease it or rent it to own You can lease or rent it to own And you could- I mean let's say you could beam stuff I mean let's say by then wireless technology is at the point where you can- I mean you can already do HD wirelessly Sort of I mean it's not quite perfect But But let's say you know it can power all that crap plus Who knows See this is really interesting because- And your internet might be Google Fiber by then So it's actually good So you could actually beam your GPU power to yourself somewhere else At least at a certain degree Like 720p or whatever like something This is exactly what I want this to become I don't know what I'd pay for it but you could probably convince me to pay a fair amount Okay Because like Because home server has always been something that's been really interesting to me Your own power in your own house just completely beast That is what I would really really like to do Okay so then I'm going to take it one step further And why wouldn't you pay a monthly fee to have a rack in a data center that has your grid in it? I like having control of everything Okay Rack in a data center if it's mine Yeah If it is completely mine Yeah I don't want this hosted by Google because if it's hosted by Google it's not completely mine Okay Like I mean like serious business completely mine Yeah I have to own it Okay I still honestly I still like having everything local because if something goes wrong I like being able to tinker with it And if I'm on a LAN Oh my voice is getting a little bit messed up Sorry guys I am really sick If I'm on a LAN I'm not really that worried about like losing internet connection randomly like our forum does But like I don't know I like being able to be physical with things I like being able to take things apart I like being able to work with things I like that too I shouldn't have said that But yeah I like being able to tinker with things so I don't know I would still like it on site But if there was an awesome option to get my own thing that I have complete 100% control over that I can host in say a data center Then I might look into it that would be interesting Okay So you're not opposed to the idea of distributed network gaming I'm opposed to not having control of it I see okay Okay Well And and like okay you still have the problems like it will only be applicable when it's insanely fast And it will be So it's already insanely fast But network backbone and you need network backbone across the planet You can't have network backbone in a city It'll happen Because you're going to be playing oh I know but this is going to be a long time like I don't even think the next 10-15 years On the other hand look at what's changed in the last 15 years I agree but there's still places with terrible internet and if I want to play with some of my mods in Australia Oh Okay Skype calls lag Okay that's true Like there's a lot there's VoIP in the game But then There's the game in general But look at what we had 15 years ago Remember 15 years ago was 1998 Yeah Okay Like But look how reluctant people are to replace their lines Yes But they're also finding Unless Google goes literally everywhere They're finding that well Google might They might They could Let's not write that off as a new possibility Definitely They could go everywhere but they like that In my opinion that might even be what has to happen Is Google might have to be the ISP for the planet at that point Which is Kind of terrifying actually Yeah Yeah Okay well I think that's pretty much it I have one more thing I wanted to mention Apparently Reddit is going to start allowing you to downvote ads that you don't want to see again So that's an interesting thing Cool Yeah It's like falls in line with the Reddit concept overall That was an article on the verge today Also I'm caught up on Adventure Time now So since we last talked about it and how I said it was indefensible to watch it I'm not going to defend myself it's a stupid show but I have finished all of it now It's entertaining though Yeah It's fun to like I said last time I don't actually just sit there and watch it Indefensible I'm doing something else No that's not a good defense Whatever man Do you have anything else left? Google Glass being banned Oh yeah that's a good one So there's a I think it's a bar I don't remember what it's called It could just be I don't even know But there's a place down in the States Some type of restaurant of some sort That has banned Google Glass That made insane Cuffuffle everywhere Everybody went nuts Whole bunch of people are banning it now Because basically you can take pictures, you can take video, you can do whatever all on the fly And in a lot of different places if you walked in with a video camera they would be like hey man No don't do that So the idea is We've actually run into that before Yeah we have So the idea is we don't want you having a video camera filming everyone in our establishment So we don't want you to have Google Glass filming everyone in our establishment So tons of people are banning Google Glass and I think it's interesting It's a liability problem It's a liability problem, it's a privacy problem There's a lot of problems and the world is changing Privacy is disappearing Privacy is disappearing but where there is privacy it's becoming valuable and treasured and protected And not protected well enough Not protected well enough exactly It's eroding every day Every single day it erodes more And you know what it's a generational difference in perception of privacy I mean I was just utterly baffled the first time I saw someone posting their drivers license on Facebook I was like Whatcha doing man I was like are you special? Because that's the dumbest thing in the world And like we've had problems where we accidentally, and honestly though we push out so much content It's hard to not We're going to have some weird mistake that we didn't mean to be there, something was in the wrong place We didn't realize it said something on it, whatever But like those are not on purpose and hopefully people just ignore them I don't know But at the end of the day it was everything I mean look did you hear about the exploit where Apple IDs were being compromised if someone knew something in your birthday Like that was it So anyone who posted their drivers license on Facebook If you knew their Apple ID and their birthday you could compromise their account Holy crap No it was unbelievable, Apple pulled down their You could almost get away with identity theft at that point Because if you break into their Apple account you can figure out all their general information And then you've got their drivers license And you've got their drivers license So the first time I saw that I was just blown away But it's a completely different mentality because kids are growing up connected I grew up where not everything had a network chip in it My son is going to grow up in a world where everything he looks at is capable of communicating with something else He will take it for granted that everything just communicates with everything else And no matter what groups are fighting against it and pushing back It's like having some dudes in grass skirts pushing against The tank No, no I was thinking the ice thing, glacier Like pushing against a glacier You know they're in grass skirts because it's still warm where they are But the glacier is coming Slowly but surely That's the image I was going for You got there, you made it I made it, slowly But that's what's happening And I don't actually, it's all fine and good to say Oh Linus you could be part of the solution not part of the problem You know what I actually don't think I can I don't think there is a solution to this I think it's just going to happen I fight for it because I try and help delay it And you have to protect your individual self as much as you can But It's part of the reason why I don't have Facebook anymore The masses dictate what happens And so we'll see what goes on Yep Um You know what I'm kind of tired It's after 11 We went for two hours today And thank you guys so much for tuning in to the live stream And I will see you again next time Unless you have something else you wanted to discuss I've got the Elder Scrolls Online thing but that's real long Oh boy Um, I don't know you're welcome to keep going But I'm going to go sleep I was up until like 5am last night getting everything launched And then had to go in and shoot NCIX tech tips today So it's been kind of a long day I don't mind continuing But I'm only going to talk about Elder Scrolls Online So If people aren't interested in Elder Scrolls Online Yeah, and watch them all just leave And then you can just end the live stream That would work If none of you are interested in Elder Scrolls Online And you all leave I can see the viewer count I can just go to bed, I don't have a problem with that That's okay Everything's fine Everything's okay? Okay, I just hit the table pretty hard today Okay, so this is going to be very long winded And I'm going to jump all over the place Because I didn't have enough time to actually Sort these notes So these are just notes that I've taken for a long time Elder Scrolls Online, people have been asking about The combat system a lot One thing they're trying to break away from is a rotation of combat So auto attacks Things being on very specified cooldowns So that you have a certain weave of spells That just makes sense And you're always going to do exactly that Is being done away with You tap left Left click for a swing Or left click for fire So if you have a ranged attack Or a spell, or a sword Whatever, it's just your general thing is left click Holding left click is to charge So spells you can charge it up a little bit With weapons you kind of take a bigger swing And do more damage And holding right click is for block So it's all active At the same time if you double tap a direction You will dodge in that direction So a lot of spells and what not You can see coming, you can dodge But it's a five slot Action bar So it's going to be a little bit hard to talk Because I am pretty sick My throat is a little bit messed up Five slot action bar for skills One quick slot for consumables One slot for an ultimate One slot somewhere for a costume And one slot somewhere For switching weapons Costume isn't like Oh I'm now Something random I don't mean costume as in just A random thing that you wear It is pretty specific, you will loot a costume Say you're fighting a whole bunch of pirates You will loot a pirate costume You can then put on the pirate costume And pirates will refrain from attacking you That is the idea It will help you get by them and help you avoid Combat, it can also be used For role playing situations So if you want to go wear that pirate costume In town you can do that Can I wear leopard print in town? I don't think leopards would drop A leopard costume They wouldn't? Unless you put on the leopard costume And you start like Running like a leopard on all fours Crafting skills I don't think there's leopard costumes But anyways there is a costume slot That adds a pretty interesting dynamic to the game Enemies will behave Differently Based on Yourself and the people you're with And themselves and the people they're with So they will attack in synergy So they will attack different people in your party Depending on things more than just the general threat mechanic That we've seen in a lot of games They will attack based on combos that they're doing They will attack based on tons of stuff So for example if a foot soldier runs up to you He could throw like an oil pool down And then yell Light it up! Which is actually an exact quote from the game Foot soldier does throw down an oil slick And does say light it up And then a fire mage will cast a fire spell on it And it will just turn into a combo And do tons of damage Because it is a synergenic combo spell It will do more damage than normal But you can see the oil slick go down You have time to move Another interesting thing You can do that If you have a physical type person You can do something like throw down an oil slick And your mage destruction type character Can light it up There's obviously tons of other combos That's just a really simple really easy example At the same time Which ultimates can be affected in the same way So if someone casts a spell like a nova If a teammate runs into the center And activates something It converts the spell entirely into a super nova So it becomes like a very advanced version of that spell Does more damage, more range Everything, just makes it a lot better Da da da da da On release the game will have 16 dungeons That is for the 16 different mini territories That are within the land of Tamriel When you hit maxed out The game will be able to do a lot of damage In a single style When you hit maxed level All of those dungeons are ramped up to a max level style Speaking of max level There is 3 main factions When you hit max level within that faction They're saying that's somewhere around 120 hours of gameplay When you hit max level You will be able to then do The story line At a way higher difficulty So a level 50 difficulty Sorry again Kinda hard to talk You can do the quests of a different faction At a level 50 difficulty And the only people you will run in while doing that The only people you will run in to while doing that Are the people from your own faction So you do the quests for another faction But you're only questing with your own faction That's to save face on pvp aspects of the game So you get another 120 hours of gameplay there So you get another 120 hours of gameplay there So you get another 120 hours of gameplay there And it's at an advanced difficulty like I said Once you've done that You can then do the next faction's quest Which is at an even higher level of difficulty Another 120 hours worth of gameplay This is all like solo or duo Kinda questing gameplay So that's 360 hours Of solo duo level gameplay So if you're coming from An Elder Scrolls fan aspect Going I don't really like the MMO style Of things I wanna play an Elder Scrolls game That's 360 hours of content Of just Elder Scrolls game aspects So that's still pretty freaking awesome So that's still pretty freaking awesome Da da da da da I have tons of more things Just give me a small moment Upon leveling up you will be able to have One point that you put into health, stamina Or magicka In earlier release talks of the game That would affect many things Like your running speed Jump, what not Now it does not at all It is just health, stamina or magicka Jesus Christ What was that Tell me to prank you Oh I have a plan God That actually got me like crazy That totally set me up I was not expecting that at all You've never done a like scream thing at me In the entire time I've known you Like trying to startle me You've never tried to startle me Oh no I'm big into startling people You've never done it before Yeah but if people expect it then it's no good Is it cause I'm large? It's just not fun So you have to only do it when it's not expected I was in the zone Twitch chat is like exploding That got me pretty good What was I even talking about Health, stamina and magicka So you can put points in there I'm going to catch up to where I was Are you going to bed or something Yep That's the only reason I was still there That totally throws me off And then leaves What a jerk So health, stamina and magicka Like I said Those no longer affect other things But every single time you level up You also gain a point to put into an ability These abilities are active or passive abilities You can unlock these abilities To have the option to be able to put in a point Into it when you level up By using those actions So say you're a destruction You're a monster You would then cast spells in the destruction spell tree And then you would level up that tree And then be able to put points into it To unlock active and passive abilities Now I'm all freaked out thinking he's going to jump at me again Yeah So abilities are unlocked by using weapons If you're a fan of the Elder Scrolls series You'll know that while there is Classes, things are very dynamic And you can spread out If you start as say a mage You could immediately upon looting Or buying the Edemer weapon Start using not your destructive staff But using a sword As you use your sword You would then level up your sword ability You could start wearing heavier armor You could start doing whatever and really really spreading out And that's okay You can get all of the abilities in the game As any class other than the class specific abilities Let me check this for one quick second There we go There's fifteen different skill lines That will be available On launch, they are planning on releasing more To do Okay, I'm just trying to find which ones are actually included in launch Classes that have been currently announced Are Oh crap Sorry one second Right okay I'm going to jump back a little bit When you start the game there's three Three skill sections open Which is class, skill, skill And skill is the skill that you're going to be using And you're going to be using skills Which are the skill sections open Which is class, weapon, and armor Weapon will contain things Like Weapon skills Will include two handed Hand and shield, dual wield Bow, destruction staff, and Restoration staff So that's like one section which contains a whole Bunch of different spread offs And as you use those different weapons Like I said earlier you will unlock different passive and active abilities If you are a Say sorcerer class Your class tree will have Things like dark magic, de-edric Summoning, and storm calling So you can specialize in Those little subjects Along the way And those are the only things that are unique to Your class So if you're a healer You can still use a two handed Sword and plate armor and be crazy But You can't have De-edric summoning because that's the sorcerer's Class specific Stuff So while you can still spread into all the Other 14 skill lines that are currently Available, class is specific To your class So it's not quite as open As some other elder scrolls games But it is still very open and much less Restricted than most MMOs Other skill lines that are not available Upon very first starting the game You know what takes me off about Some MMOs or even like RPGs Where they have like an RPG Character building element The thing that drives me crazy Is when they actually just have An actual linear progression Where they'll just be like grayed out at the Beginning of the game and be like Here's the stuff you get when you play more That drives me crazy That's what I really really like about the other scrolls games Is it's very much your own experience Trying to stay true to that Of course they are Giving a little bit of leeways because it's an MMO They need to make some changes But I think they're making some of The right changes personally Maybe not all the right changes, that's up to you But I still have a lot to go through Again, this is all I'm going to be doing for the rest of the stream So if you're not into elder scrolls online It looks like quite a few of you weren't There's no point in continuing watching Skills as you use them Will drain from different resources So it's not just one resource like a lot of games are Magical abilities will also Will obviously take from your magicka or mana It's magicka in the elder scrolls But I'm saying mana because most people would understand that But martial abilities, sprinting, stealth All that kind of stuff Will take from stamina So there's actually two different pulls that you can take from When using skills So I'm going to go ahead and start I said you can unlock all the skills in the game That is very true, you can get every single ability in your class tree You can get every single ability in all of the trees All at once Leveling up to 50 is not the only way to unlock skills You can also collect things called sky shards Once you get three sky shards You can cash those in for an ability So once you hit 50 The game is really not over Because you will probably not have A vast majority of your abilities So you have to go out there and find sky shards You can go out there and finish the other faction quests And I think factions might even have their own little class trees More skill lines that are available I was trying to say this earlier More skill lines that are available Not at just level one, but that you unlock later The ones announced so far Are world, guild, and AVA Or alliance vs alliance World will include things like Vampirism, which has been announced And I am assuming lycanthropy Although that hasn't been confirmed That's just an assumption by me Guild will include things like Mages and fighters guild Thief and assassins guild are being worked on But will not be in launch So they are being worked on for Either a patch or an expansion Or something in the future Alliance vs alliance will include things like Siege weapons, and other than that I do not know Classes that have been announced Do I have this somewhere easily accessible? I know there's like dragon knight Or dragon warrior and a few other things I'll try and find classes in a second Finesse, very cool So they will award additional loot And additional experience depending on The finesse of your kill This has been noted to be kind of difficult To do early on because Things will die before you can actually Achieve a finesse kill So finesse is awarded for Dodging attacks, blocking attacks Interrupting spells And countering attacks So if you do any of this, when you kill the guy You'll see a little F beside the experience That you get, and you'll get more experience And more loot, so that's actually cool because It rewards effective good play I'm just going to level up faster, get more gear, that's all good Mounts are in the game Housing is not currently planned And I don't think they have I don't think they're going to do housing At any point in time Destruction and restoration trees are Fully implemented, other classics The other schools Schools of magic are in the game But only in the game in some form They're not fully fleshed out trees Healing spells are aoe or cone They are not specific for a target Sorry my throat's getting pretty raw So you don't just click on an ally And heal him, you're healing either In an area around you or a cone in front of you Racial crafting styles Do exist, so you can make like Orcish or elvish armor This is a trend in the elder schools And you can learn the crafting Styles of other cultures So if you start off crafting you'll likely only have your own But you can learn it over time From other cultures at the same time No die system is currently in the game I don't mean dying as in death, I mean dying as in Changing the color of your armor and weapons Lua addon support is supported in the game So we will see addons in the game Which is very cool I think it's very cool At level 16 is when you get your weapon swap ability I mentioned this earlier So if you're using a restoration staff And healing your buddy, but then You kill most of the stuff that was threatening him And he's not really taking that much damage anymore You can switch weapons to a greatsword or something And your whole action bar will change over To a pre-done set that you have For that greatsword So in the middle of combat you can completely Change what you're doing This is where the cool well-rounded aspect of the elder schools Comes in, because as you know It's not a single player game anymore, it's multiplayer So you can't just pause the game and swap out your whole gear set Like you do in a single player game So they had to try and come up with some way That you can dynamically change what you're doing in the middle of combat That became the weapon swap So you swap out your weapon and everything changes Which is actually really really cool There we are, the classes I was trying to say earlier The classes that are leaked out so far Are templar, sorcerer, dragon knight, and knight blade Now, the knight blade was kind of accidentally announced I don't know if that's official That was just kind of said once during an interview So I'm not so sure about that But templar, sorcerer, and dragon knight are very officially announced Sorry There might be more classes specifically announced At Pax East But I haven't gotten any information about Pax East yet This is all within the last week So this is very current In Alliance vs Alliance battles You can siege castles Which is pretty awesome Castles and forts and what not The walls will take dynamic damage So if you hit it with a siege weapon It will impact and damage the wall Which is really cool Things like boiling oil can be used And you can pour it down on the guys that are trying to get in your gates Like this stuff is awesome Like I said, siege weapons There's siege weapons, you can get skills in them The castle fights are supposed to actually be epic A lot of people have said this in the past though I'm a little bit reluctant to get excited But people that have played the game There's a lot of game reviewers that were able to go down to their studios And play the game there People that have played the game have said that it's awesome So still a little bit reluctant Because there's been tons of games that have said That castle siege weapons are awesome So I'm not so sure about that There's a lot of games that have said That castle siege battles were going to be awesome and they weren't But yeah Could be great, not entirely sure They've been quoted multiple times Saying stuff like not a ton of numbers Or crazy calculated DPS Will be in the game You don't need to see plus 50 over guys heads As you hit them or heal them Numbers are not elder scrolls In this way we are making an RPG Instead of a calculated MMO So what I'm assuming is They're not going to have graphical damage They're not going to have a very easy way to figure out the exact Damage numbers that you're doing They'll probably just have health bars And you'll see with each hit how much health bar goes down That's kind of interesting for me for boss fights Because you won't necessarily be able to know How much damage each person is doing So it makes competitive rating A little bit interesting Let me jump through this a little bit I don't know If anything in the elder scrolls Is As a lot of people might know I'm a pretty big fan of the elder scrolls And I'm pretty excited for elder scrolls online Or else I probably wouldn't be doing this But I don't know if anything is absolutely ground breaking Or incredibly innovative They've done things that were kind of expected And things that were asked for Which is awesome, they have listened to fans Not that long ago They released gameplay footage And they talked about it only really having third person view People kind of freaked out And were like that's not really elder scrolls man I want to go into first person I want to swing both my weapons and see everything moving I want it dynamic combat in first person So they said okay but we're going to do it right So they decided not to just have a scroll in a both first person Where randomly there's hands in front of you And you go like this The game is going to be built around At least the PvE aspects Not so much PvP Because that's impossible But the game is going to be built around Say a boss, if the boss is going to do an action You should be able to figure out that he's doing it in first person You're supposed to be able to play the game Fully in first person So you should know about AoE effects and what not They haven't really said exactly how this works yet And as far as I know they're still working on it But it's awesome that they were like Okay you know what, you're right That wasn't very elder scrolls We're going to fix this So they are working very hard on making a very good Version of first person Not just Graphical textures of hands in front of a blank screen So that is very cool Is there anything I've missed? Let me see One second I went pretty quick actually So I think that's kind of everything I might have missed more stuff Like I said I'm going to make a thread about this on the forum So I talked really fast If you missed stuff I will try and make a thread about it on the forum I think that's it for the stream Do I have anything else left to say? He's done I'm signing off because I want to go home And go to bed Have a good one guys