 Welcome to Tech Showdown! The theme this time is pixels. That's it. Last time it was future, we also saw how that went. So hopefully it goes a little bit better this time. I'm here with Sevadis. And I'm here with AntVenom. We've got some game streaming, game YouTubing guests to go along with our, well, potentially very game-oriented theme, but first, introducing the hardware. So, CoreSare provided their 600C case, a nice clean blank canvas for us to work with. We've also got H115i water coolers, RM1000X power supplies, along with some Dominator Platinum memory, to go with our Maximus VIII Extreme Assembly motherboard, our MSI GTX980Ti gaming graphics card, our 6700K processor, and last but not least, our cable mod, cables, and lighting. So beyond all that stuff I just listed, the rest is up to the imaginations of the two teams. And I wish the other one luck. Not because I want to wish them luck, because they don't seem to fucking need it, because this is gonna be my third time losing if I go down again here. So I wish myself and AntVenom luck. We got this. I'm confident. Let's go! Intel's Skull Canyon Nook features a 6th generation Core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3. Learn more at the link in the video description. Okay, so... Now, one thing I'm a little bit concerned about is this top panel doesn't seem to... Yeah. It seems to be like riveted. Ooh. In a way that I was not expecting it to be. Hang on, let's see what we're doing there. I mean, oh, at the top here? Oh, that shouldn't matter. Yeah, we're not doing the original thing on that. Look what's up there. That's not even required. No, you're good. Okay. So the top panel's door problem. Okay. The right panel's your problem. Yep. Left panel's my problem, and the front's my problem. How did I wind up with, like, the two, like, showcase pieces? This is great. Hey, man, you wanted to be a guest, so, you know... I'm not saying I'm not owning up to the challenge. I'm going for gold here. Well, you said you wanted to win, so we're giving you the... I wanted to be among the team that took Luke down. That's right. That's right. We're taking Luke down. He's not... He cannot be undefeated yet again. Okay, so this is nice. This front canvas comes off for me, like, really, really beautifully. Wow. Which is going to give me a lot of, uh... A lot of room to work here. So... I have to get started on this right away, because I'm relying on multiple layers of paint to dry. Fortunately, it's extremely hot today. Okay. Let's take all the crap off of you. Just... Oh, s***. So I gotta get started on this pretty right away. Okay. I think you're probably going to want to... I'm going to... We need to do painting really, really quick. I'm going to lay everything out, though. Okay. Uh, which is the top? That matters. Sorry? Which is the top for this? This is. Well, to clip those... Yeah, this is the top. Okay. Oh. Yeah, this is top. Should we have brown in the middle? So there should be a brown stripe in the middle on the sides? We didn't look up an image. Well, there is no top down. I have to get started right away. There is no top down, Mark. That's not a bad idea. Like the path brown. Yeah, the path brown, and then we'll build it up on the other end. Okay, so six of them. There we go. Regardless of my planning for the paint here, I need to get this first layer on, like, extremely quickly here. So I hope this tape works properly. Um, okay. Paint. Ugh. Alright, I need to paint all of these. Do all of them like that? Have you tried this one? Does it actually, I don't actually know if it matters. No, it has the arrow front. Yeah. Oh, it's just, it wiggles a lot. No arrow for it to do. It just wiggles a lot. Unless it's not, oh. Wow. It's pretty tight. It's pretty tight, yeah. Right now I'm just sort of tracing over this area right here, and then I'm going to like practice cutting this material. And then make sure I get the cut really smooth. Because sharpness is like a key thing here, making sure that it all looks really, really good. So I am working on a multi-layered paint job that is going to be the dog from Duck Hunt and the duck. So this is going to require about six layers of paint, which means I need to get started painting it for sky color. Sky color immediately. Because I mean it makes sense because our guest today is Sky does Minecraft, right? Wow. You went there. Even though I know it's going to turn out really well, it makes me feel so useless as I'm going along because I feel like I could be doing so much more at once. Well that's probably accurate. I did not check the drying time for this paint. Not that we had a choice because the colors that we needed were only all available in this, this Tremclad rest paint stuff. But it wants one to two hours to dry. I'm going to have to find a faster way to do that. Okay, so it's a hot day. But where is the hottest place you can think of on a hot day? Inside of a black car. Or at least a car that used to be black. This is the sky color for the front of my case. And I'm going to be basically baking this **** on. In the inside of my car. In the front here. Over. Now that will hurt its adhesion. But I only need this to last for a few hours. So step two is I actually need to take my design and count pixels. Well, okay. Yeah, that's fine. I'm just going to draw myself a grid. I'm going to use this nice big piece of paper here. And I'm going to take one of those pencils that you, yeah, painted on so hard. I'm just breaking down my graphic here that I want to use into how many squares by how many squares I need here. I noticed, speaking of squares, that they already managed to have something painted before we started here. So I'm not really sure how the **** that works. This is for the Mario road up on top. Sure. So this thing, which will play these things. That's not descriptive. Right. It's theoretically going to go up here so that it can be accessed from this area. All of these are going to be used literally. I guess I could probably leave with that to the theme. Yeah. And then we're going to use this along with these, which we will color to make sense with this. And these, which will create the thing that he's coming out of. And then that whole situation is going to go up here. And then this, you can maybe figure out from what he's doing right now. It's pretty self-explanatory if you know what's up. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's going to be some of this stuff going on. And then these guys are going to explain everything and like how it all works with like this thing and stuff. And yeah, the other stuff you'll just have to kind of come along, see how it goes. That might be the one. Just checking to see which ones are the sharpest by rubbing them against my bare fingers. Because, okay, it cuts right now to make sure that I know how this is all going to break apart and like how it's going to look. So I think I might be okay. But I might do what I might do is cut a little bit too big and then just sort of make it make the cuts thinner and thinner until I get the perfect shape. So we'll see. All right. I think the fact that I have these lines that cut on made this like such a brilliant find because the scissors are just kind of like gliding with it. This is probably going to look super sharp. Yeah. I need your judgment call over here for a minute. Okay. Okay. To make my life easy, I can work with centimeter sized pixels. Yeah. And that will make this graphic go to about here. Okay. So it'll be about this big. That's what that means. I'll have to cut off his head about here sticking out of the bottom. But what do you mean? So like it's going to go from the chin up. I'm going to it'll mean that I'll have to make a lot of adjustments to the size of my grid. Okay. I mean, if you think we got to do it, then we got to do it. So I'm just actually you know what you could do? Is there a way you can like zoom in on that picture super far and then we could like use a scroll wheel and like actually see what it'll look like crops with the doc? I could see it. But I mean the whole hand. So you think we need that basically down to that? That's what I'm thinking personally. Okay. So this is not the right size. Oh my God. There's a CPU sitting here. Just the heck. All right. We really only care about getting the tops of these and some of the sides. I sort of piece it together so that the ones that I get the sides of will also go on the sides of the the build and the ones that have the non-painted sides. Those will go on the interior. And hopefully math works in our favor and we have enough with the half sides painted. Oh yeah. Okay. What do we got? Yeah. A little bit wide on each side. I might end up making it a little bit taller just while I'm cutting it. Okay. And then we'll surround it with blocks. Yeah. There's no way to take this off and cut it. So if I screw up the cut we're just like done. Oh man. If it's screwed up or if I screw up the top of the case like I can't get another case. I'm a little worried about this one. All right. Good. So first incision made. I'm actually really satisfied with that result. My one centimeter by one centimeter grid that I need for the big the big my big contribution to the project. So Ant and I have divided up the labor. So each of us is taking on one smaller project and one bigger project. So we're prioritizing the bigger ones right now. And then whoever has time left over will actually build a PC I guess. I forgot about that part. Yeah. Well you'd be surprised how often that's happened every single time. That's perfect. So good. We actually should do an install the install pretty soon. All of our blocks are the same size. You know what that just adds to the charm. That goes there. Sounds like Linus is doing a lot of the work over there. I thought this was supposed to be a team project. This was like the best find. Am I going to really free ball this one free ball freehand this one. How about it make this too big. I don't know if we have enough blocks really like I thought we grabbed a lot. But yeah the magic doesn't happen. So it's just sort of making it look close to right at this point. That's about the best we can do. I think it's fine. People say Picasso was a great artist. I say check this out. So good. OK so I think I'm good. I ended up I cut off one pixel on the wing tip here. Which I don't think really affects the look and gives me one pixel of margin on either side. So now what I have to figure out is the order in which I want to do the colors. So what I want to do is layer my tape onto this template I think. I really wish I had used the shiny side which I would feel more confident about removing this from. But I want to layer on my tape cutting really really sharply in such a way that I can remove layers as I want to apply more paint. Wait no that won't work. Hold on I need to cover it more as I want to apply more paint. Wait. So I just need to file it down a little bit. But like it turned out really well. So the stenciling on the back obviously it's not showing through at all. So just file it down a little bit and it's going to look sharp. I mean it already does look pretty sharp. Okay so I really wanted to do this with tape. But it does not appear as though I'm going to have a choice. Which might mean my lines will be a little bit less clean. But I think that's a sacrifice I'm going to have to make here. So I'm going to go see how dry it is. I'm going to do my dog. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the Xacto knife to cut out color by color. And then I'm going to use tape to fill in the gaps as I do other colors. Part of me was worried that this would like bubble or something like that. And I'd have a real problem on my hands. In fact, that actually looks kind of fantastic. That paint is still tacky though. That is a huge problem. Because I can actually live with the other colors being tacky. Because I'm going to cut away my top layer as I go. But this one cannot be. I think I need more air flow. This paint, I can tell you one thing for sure. This paint is going to be wet when the judges are judging. I've never used one this big to do this job. I don't know if this will work. This is too big. It might work. It might work later. Whoa. It's all good. You okay? All right. So right now, I made this second shape. I mean, I haven't cut it, so it's not a time waste. But I looked at that and the way that this has to go on the side panel. And I'm like, yeah, maybe not the smartest idea. Maybe I should get something of the same width. So I'm going to do that. I'm pretty worried. We are down to an hour and a half and I have basically not started painting yet. The good news is that this second panel is relatively straightforward. So not a whole lot to go wrong. That could go wrong. All I'm hearing over there is time is a problem. So I don't really feel bad at all. I don't actually feel like time is too much of a burden for me right now. I'm feeling good. Everything about everything we're doing takes forever. We are not doing well for time. Thank you for asking. All right. So yeah, Linus is using the X-Acto knife. So like, as you can see, I still have like a lot of cuts to make here. But I think I'm just going to leave this be for now and then work on this material for the shape that's right there. And then we'll pretty much be good to go. And like looking at this, looking at this versus looking at that. Like that's going to be way easier to cut. I'm not even going to have to think for that. This is like the little pew pew thing. That's it's a square. Yay. Snap that off. Do that right there. And bam, final shape. So all I need to do is take the X-Acto knife to this guy and we're done. Like this entire side panel. You know, you can have a look at what that looks like. Does it look like pixel art? Like, is it perfect? No. Does it look like pixel art? Yes. So, okay. So I'm starting to get deeply worried about drying times here. This is still very tacky. Not to say it doesn't look good. I think it looks great. It just feels very tacky. So I'm a little worried about how I'm going to get my stencil on top of it without completely destroying the finish. And I really don't have a lot of time to wait anymore. So what I may have to do is build myself some kind of scaffold or something that gets it very close. And then I may just have to spray down as straight as I can in order to get the lines as clean as I can. But you can see where he's going to be. Yes. Alright. Alright, so we're done our cuts. That took a while, but now I'm going to move on to assembling the computer and just making sure that we have a completed machine that we can showcase off. So this is either going to be a moment of triumph or a moment of despair. Hey, that's not bad. I can live with that. HDMI no signal. Oh, God, why? HDMI no signal. I've never glued an Amiibo before. It's kind of weird. Don't screw up. I think I might have done the power light and not the hard drive light. So first things first, I'm going to touch up this spot right there. So the good news is I did all of this in pencil. So if I catch the light just right, I can see the lines. That could have been bad. So I pick up the processor and I have it in this hand and the heat spreader just falls into my other hand. So this is all I got for like a way to keep from spraying over the black that I've already done. I don't know what the hell this is. OK, so that's two out of four colors. The next ones are going to be the ones where it really takes shape. And I can probably do both of them in one go here. So on these fans, we got these like different color rings. So just to try and like color match everything, we're not really too sure if like this color or this color will really work at all. So just to be safe, we're going to go with white and just kind of go for safe as far as the fans are concerned so that we don't have to worry about, you know, getting any of the colors wrong. Everything I do now can completely destroy the project. OK. Oh, shit, I think I just made a huge error. Oh my God. Dude, destroyed it in a good way. Thanks, asshole. No, like own. Dude. Beautiful. Oh, it's so beautiful. Nailed it. That's like the only bush you have there. Yes, I know. There's my glove. My glove for the love. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I didn't I didn't expect what you're doing at the bottom there that brought it all together. Tell anyone that I was that. I was like my specialty in my field. I decided to create like actually a little story around this rather than just placing everything at random. So like, as you can see, like this this guy right here, this guy right here has no idea what's coming. Like everything behind him, it's like everything in front of him is like nice and lovely. Everything behind him is just like danger, danger, danger. That lighting in there. Right. Yeah. Although cable mod sent us some kits that are magnetic. It came unplugged, came unplugged. The RGB came unplugged. There it is. I have to make a video, dude. I know. Is this actually working? Yeah, totally is. Plug in the controllers. Okay. Post 99. Okay. Got it. Good enough. Not the most amazing looking thing ever. Unfortunately, tape would have worked better. But we might just have to live with that. And by night, I mean, we will definitely just have to live with that. Okay. I might have made a small error. Define small. Let's say an upside down. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Yeah. It's amazing. You're going to do it. I'm going to do the eight. All right. The fans in the front are spinning. That thing. Whoa. I like it. Love it. Okay. We're done. Done. Okay. Peace, bros. I'll see you in the judging room. Well, okay. So we got to move ours over there. How do you want me to do this? I just want to stay where you're at and then I walk it through the office. Sure. Yeah, let's do that. So because the way it hangs down, it's going to, oh, will it close? I don't know. Yeah. I think it's going to be close. Hold on. I mean, if you cut it open, dude, I could like. But you know what? I forgot it was inverted ATX. Kaboom sucker. Done. Perfect. Okay. I love the build already. They're trying to butter us up by saying, Hey, take a mint. So there's free mints in one of five collectible tens. Let's go. You want the squid one? Oh, I was going to go for the star one. We were going to leave sugar cubes. Yeah, we couldn't find any. That was going to be the. They didn't have the dollar store. I was going to go with the star one. I don't know if these are real mints or not. This is cool. This is playable though. Like, holy crap. Okay. The case looks wicked. Oh, you guys have a screen. That is a beautiful duck. Interesting. That's all this guy right here. And that's the system that's playing right now. Yeah. It's not. So there's Donkey Kong on the side of the glass side of the case. Looks very cool. The aesthetic is dank. All the buttons on this controller. This is very nostalgic. All right. Let's see what we got going on here because I spent the past 45 seconds just like marveling at how all the buttons on this are mapped correctly. We've got like an homage to DK here, like with all the ladders and whatnot. There's no looking at here. There's like a big Mario sock over the heat sink. It's kind of crude, but it still looks pretty cool. There's a bunch of like Tetris blocks in the bottom space invaders machine. So there's like a Mario diorama on top. It looks like they used a couple of little shot cups to make pipes, which is pretty sweet. Oh, and it has like the flag and everything. Oh, this, this little thing is official. It has Super Mario Brothers 30th anniversary on it. That's pretty, that's pretty sweet. So I like this. This is cool. But over here, we've got an official AntVenom Minecraft style. Wait, it's like Minecraft as well as Duck Hunt, but it's like a 8-bit Duck Hunt. What's the theme? No, I know. But like, but like, is this like a Minecraft Duck? What's the theme? I don't know. There's a thing on top of the graphics card, the little orange guy. Do you know what this, do either of you guys know what that is? The little orange guy. I don't actually play. It's a creeper. I don't play Minecraft. Okay. It's a creeper from Minecraft. Colton knows. Yeah. Okay. That's pretty impressive. It's actually pretty clean overall. Yeah, they did a pretty good job. Plug on the controllers. Like come on. Yeah. And push the purple power button on top. Oh, that's cool. They put a little Zelda emblem here too. That's pretty sweet. I do like the setup here. The game is frozen though, so. Oh, you're good. You're good. You're good. Okay. Burkle's going to keep playing Super Mario. We're going to finish looking at the Minecraft slash old school 8-bit case here. So we've got Pong over here. So what's going on? Oh, look at this side. So on this side, on the Mario case, we are, we, so they also, they put the Mario game in here. They both want the Space Invaders here. That's interesting. So Space Invaders, you have one that goes from Pac-Man. You have actual Pac-Man who apparently is missing an eye, but that's okay. Okay. I feel like the NES build has a lot more going on in the inside. There's definitely a lot more going on here. Yeah, because you have, like over there, all you really have was the one, what'd you call it? The Creeper? The Creeper from Abyx. You have the Creeper, but here you've got like the, like the ladders and stuff from DK. You've got the Mario sock as basically a RAM cover. And we don't know what's in that sock. All right. So I'm going to give the Mario themed PC, I'm going to give it a seven out of 10. Overall, I liked it. It has a little bit more kind of wow factor when you first initially see it, but with the theme being pixels and stuff, the more I looked, there's a lot going on, but I think some of it was a little bit kind of shoddily done. I think the theming for the most part is really, really good all the way through the DK ladders on the front. The Mario sock is a RAM cover. Most of this build has been touched in one way or another by the theme, which I really appreciate. So in all, I think that the NES build, no, I did not forget, deserved a nine. Well, I spent the whole time playing video games on the NES build and it had free mints and it looks cool. I would say it's almost a 10 out of 10, except it's a little bit dirty. You know, it's not very clean, but you know what? A little spit shine and polish, this bad boy could be a 10, but it gets a nine for me as written right here. And I wrote Sevadus's name on it. All right, so the Minecraft theme build for me gets an eight out of 10. I just like it. It's clean. It looks good. I think everything all in all was pretty well executed. When I looked around the outside, I thought the paint job, especially for the duck hunt on the front, where it actually looks like the duck is fleeing in terror, very realistic. I think the diorama on top is slightly more realistic than the NES build because there is a background, but basically nothing happened with the inside, which was a little bit disappointing. But a good score, I think, is deserved for this. So this one gets an eight for Linus and AntVenom. Well, I'll start off by saying I did really like the paint job on the front. I thought it looked great. And if Linus was involved, you know, that's a great paint job for Linus. So I think he really put in the effort and he worked hard. And no, it looks really cool. I wish they had almost carried through the blue paint job throughout the case because that would have looked really cool. Or just paint on the other panels. That would have been awesome, but it still looks good. The one on the pong side I thought was kind of shadily painted. I can't really remember. It was shoddily painted. It wasn't as good as the front, but obviously the front of the case is what you're going to see the most if it's like in a desk or something. But yeah, I thought it was good. It just didn't have the extra little flare that was on the other PC build. So therefore I gave it an eight out of ten, which is still good. That's like, wow. The closest actually. 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