 Boom. All right. We did it, Colton. We did it. We made it happen. 430, we're live. Oh my God. Boom. Yes. Yes. Congratulations. Roll the intro. Uh, Moss. Yeah. Cables, bags, organizers. Also, Zotac. They make lots of stuff. Check it out. A new egg. Will with one L. Link will be in the video description. Will Wheaton. Oh. Yeah. Oh damn. Uh, uh, uh, uh, there we go. Being on time was the most exciting thing to happen to me this week. That was amazing. Being on time was not at all the most exciting thing to happen to me this week, unfortunately. I'm sorry. Scrapyard Wars, man. Scrapyard Wars. Scrapyard Wars was sick. Linus, who isn't here, thinks that it might... Thank you, Darren. Oh. Uh... Linus thinks that it might be the best season yet. I'm not sure because season four was pretty freaking amazing. Uh, that was the one with Bob and Rod. Yeah. But, uh, we'll see. Because it was, it was very good. The ending was really intense. Some really crazy things happened. But I'm going to try to not spoil, uh, any of it because it was just so damn good. What did you do all week? I wrote fast as possible scripts. Fantastic. I did my job. I read one of them. That's what I did. I think. It was really good. Okay, there we go. I did my job really good, according to Luke. Should we, should we spoiler the title? Of the one that you... Which one? The one that you read today? Or... I read two of them today, yeah. Oh, um, now let's make a whiteboard. Okay. Yeah. Get ready. It'll be good, though. John, John is not a merciful god. Um, oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. What's happening? Oh no. Do you want to look onto mine? What? That sucks a lot. Do you want to do that while I read the first topic? Uh, sort of, but I can't show it on my... Yes, I can show it on my screen. Oh crap. Okay. I'm just going to go ahead and get started then. Um, reddit.com, the Build a PC subreddit got line of size today. Yes. As you can probably see. Oh no. That's being covered up. Ah, there we go. So... Dynamic scenes. So, Linus was made into a deity. Oh man. Some of our usual sponsors on his robes, as you can see. So epic. And this was funny because there was a sticky announcement, uh, discouraging April Fool's pranks on the forum. Yes. And then this happened. So, there you go. And you can see it right there. Uh, I appreciated the sidebar add-in. If we scroll down and go see the sidebar. Um, da da da da da. Linus subreddit is a community dedicated to our one true god Linus, crossed out Torvald's Sebastian. And then in brackets, Luke fans also welcome here. So... So if he's the one true god, what would that make you? Well, it's three parts, right? Oh, yeah. So you're talking Christian Trinity. So there's like, like, Gaben, Linus, Sebastian. Or wait, I guess in this weird situation, because usually Gaben is the original. But that's fine. Keep talking. Uh, Gaben, Linus, Sebastian. Me, I guess. Okay, there we go. Is what they're displaying in this situation. Okay. Usually, usually I think I'm, I'm not included, but that's fine. How sad for you. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The hot Canadian thing as well. The hot Canadian thing. That's fantastic. That, yeah. Okay. Let's find that real quick. So it even shows in the top corner as the underscore Linus, which I find funny. But yeah, top thread right now, hot Canadian. If you vote this up, this image will show when you Google search hot Canadian. If you click on it, it's Linus at CES like a while ago. Struggling. He'll move our feet out. Oh yeah. Good call. Wow. That was not what I intended to do. What? Oh no. Oh no. Xsplit is crashing. Xsplit is doing bad things to us. Oh. Oh. I can fix it. We have the technology. Good job. It's still lagging. Okay. We've got it. We're going to float in the middle of the screen for a sec. Sounds good. I'm down. Nope. It switched which sources. What? That is so weird. I'm moving the wrong source, but it's like working. Anyways. Cool. There we go. That was funny. Anyways, that's basically it. I think there's also one other April Fool's out that wasn't ours, which was Corsairs? I didn't even see that one. No, NVIDIA's. Is NVIDIA's actually live? Let me take off my scene for a second. This one was really funny. It's April Fool's in England. G-Assist. Passed me that there. Yeah. So, this is live. Okay. So, GeForce G-Assist. You can see the video playing in the background right now. I'm going to move us again. It does a lot of different stuff. They're saying that the GeForce GTX G-Assist takes advantage of cutting edge NVIDIA artificial intelligence technology to bring the next revolution in gaming. Stay in the game so you can eat in a Rainbow Six Siege match and it'll play for you is part of the idea. It's kind of like that old urban legend about the dude that bought the RV and he thought that cruise control meant to drive itself. Yes. So, he went in the back to do his business and bad things happened. Yeah. Bad things happened. Yeah. Crush your enemies. It'll play for you. Sorry, Boss Boost. That part will play for you. The NVNurture will tell you when you need to drink more energy drinks or whatever. It is ridiculous. This thing was pretty cool. And it's just like a little flash drive. I think we've all been at the point to be fair where we've had to be told to drink energy drinks. Really? When have you been told to drink energy drinks? No comment. Oh, jeez. Okay, I need to fix this thing really quick, which is actually going to be a huge issue. Yeah, why is it doing that? Did that just happen again? I don't know why it did that. I didn't fix it the first time. Do you want to talk about the YouTube ad thing? Sure. Okay. So, while Luke gets his horrible login issues fixed, next topic. YouTube's response to advertiser flight cost creators. Hundreds of brands froze spending on YouTube after it was revealed that ads were appearing alongside objectionable and even terrorist backed videos. So this is not just limited to YouTube. Apparently companies like Walmart and Pepsi, so some pretty heavy hitters, they said they're not going to buy ads anymore that Google places on third party websites. And Verizon has also said that it was going to suspend all digital advertising not related to search. So obviously Google wants to try to do something about this. And so there are new filters that are now on YouTube that advertisers can apply to campaigns that will help them avoid several types of quote unquote objectionable content. So there used to just be two filter categories that if you were putting an ad on YouTube that you could exclude. One was called sensitive social issues and the other was called tragedy and conflicts. But there's now three more including sexually suggestive, sensational and shocking, while that's all the S words, and profanity and rough language. And I'm doing the quotes because that's exactly how it's written on my screen. So that's a little bit. Obviously there's some gray area there. So reportedly some channels that just touch on somewhat sensitive or slightly offensive topics are being impacted by this. Rubin Report, H3H3, Ethan if you know him, Steven Crowder who's a conservative talk show host and several others. So what are your thoughts on this Luke? I don't know. I like it's it's not. It gets it gets a little messy because like we're in the space. I feel like it would be a lot easier for me to comment on it if it wasn't like our platform that we use and like are going to put this video on eventually. And the announcement is up like right now for this stream on YouTube. Like I don't know. It's it's a mixture of things. I can completely understand the companies that do not want to advertise on terrorist backed YouTube channels. I can completely understand the companies that don't want their products associated with certain types of content. And I can completely understand YouTube making systems so that they don't have to have their ads on certain types of content. There's a reason why really late night TV shows like shows that are on at like one or two in the morning get the like crazy ads because the other shows probably wouldn't even necessarily want to be associated with those ads. Right. It goes both ways. Yeah. Like what? Yeah. Unlike traditional TV, if you want to take out an ad spot, you would know like, oh, here's what this show is. Here's like the show's rating. You would buy an ad spot on the Super Bowl. Exactly. And it would go on the Super Bowl. And you know what's going to happen. It's going to be a flip ball except for that one incident with Janet Jackson. But other than that, you know what you're getting. But like that was an issue. And like that's knowing what content your ad is going to go on matters. Now the issue with it is how the filter works. Yeah. And what channels are completely innocent and get flagged and therefore make tons of less money. At the same time, it's YouTube. This isn't like a government thing. They can do whatever they want. YouTube could kill AdSense tomorrow. It would suck. Yeah. They're under no obligation, at least for now, like to offer it just to all comers. And obviously this gets into like the age old question of, oh, who gets to decide what's OK and what's not. Yes. That's the scary part. Yeah. And obviously, you know, oh, if there's like an ISIS recruitment video or something, then yes, don't advertise on that. That's a little bit more cut and dry. But like, for example, I mentioned Steven Crowder a minute ago, and according to Mr. Crowder, he was saying that his channel is being targeted by this. But he's saying that liberal commentary channels are not. And regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, and if any of you guys follow me on Twitter, you might know I have a policy. I don't tweet like what my personal political views are. I just that's just something I don't want to do. But regardless of what side of the aisle you're on, there are a lot of commentators, both conservative and liberal, that have an abrasive style. That's part of like their shtick. Like you said, both sides. Exactly. Like Crowder is a conservative guy who part of his whole deal is I'm going to come off as abrasive. I think my viewers will like it. But there are folks on the left wing that do this, too. So what if what he's saying is true, then you know, you have to start wondering where do we draw this line as far as being objectionable. And outside of just concerns about fairness, you also think about, oh, if you're an advertiser and where the advertisers draw the line, when would they say, oh, we're not happy about getting our videos excluded? Like where do you find that balance? Yeah, that's that's difficult to do. And then then there's the case for H3H3 where they're like a comedy focused style channel. And for them to get excluded is scary for people in comedy because it brings up the whole like like one thing that actually thought up. Thought of while sitting here was I brought up the late night TV show idea. South Park doesn't that show it like very normal times? I think it's I could be wrong about this. I think it's now slightly earlier than it used to be. Maybe some of you guys in the chat who are South Park fans can tell us. But I believe I don't have TV. Yeah, it used to be on like I think 10 p.m. Eastern on Comedy Central and in the U.S. I'm not sure. That's pretty late. Yeah, it might be earlier now because when it first came out, you know, people saw it and all sensitivities were a little bit different. It was like, oh, my God, this is like so well, it's not even has gotten like less racy. It's just more that people seem to like not care as much now. Yeah, it was back then. Oh, my God. This is like so shocking. And nowadays it's just like, oh, South Park, whatever. So yeah, I don't know. For comedy, it's an issue because there's the like if anything can be made fun of, everything should be able to be made fun of kind of ideology. Which is funny because they brought that up on South Park. You see, they're all OK. None of it is. Yeah, exactly. I usually kind of go in that camp. But then as an advertiser, I can see why you might not want to. And where do you draw the lines? Are all comedians in that bucket? Do you have comedy as a bucket and not all ads go on comedy or is it like different types of comedy? If yeah, it's ultimately I think it kind of comes down to the fact that a lot of people who aren't like technophiles will be watching a YouTube video they might not like. They see an ad coming up and they don't understand like, oh, here's how YouTube AdSense works. Works the videos are just kind of put randomly on other videos. The advertisers don't get a lot of say as to what they go on. But people don't realize this and they'll start screaming anyway. And so I can see why that would be a problem for advertisers. I sort of wish people just didn't care. Like I feel like that would just be a lot easier for everyone. Sure. I wish people would stop aggressively screeching about things too. But I also want a toilet made of solid gold. So yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm I just wish it didn't matter so much like I and I could totally see that one person who sends an email to whatever company because they're like, oh, I misclicked on this video and it's against my views and I saw your ad on it. So I hate you and I'm never going to buy your products again. But like just settle down. Exactly. Extremely quick aside because I know we have to move on. If you ever go onto the FCC's website, they have a section for public comment. And usually it's for people who are kind of at least familiar with FCC regulations of the law and they kind of give a somewhat informed opinion on stuff they're thinking about doing. But if you look at the stuff that specifically relates to like decency and content or whatever, it's just full of the most like aggressive people who like clearly know nothing about how it works. They're like, this sort of content is so bad. Get it off my TV. So yeah, and there's a lot of people like that. So yeah, yeah. Apparently there used to be two filter categories sensitive subject. I went over this already. Oh, did you talk about the new ones? Oh, yes, I did. Yeah. Okay. YouTube has two statements. Did you mention those? They said there's a difference between the free expense expression that lives on YouTube and that's very true. And the content that brands have told us they want to advertise against. So yeah, I get that. If you're seeing fluctuations in your ad revenue, that's for us over the next few weeks, it may be because we're fine tuning our ad systems. So yeah, I don't know. It's it's I'd be interested if you could see like both paths of the future to see which one actually results in less ad revenue on YouTube. You know what I mean? Because some channels might get completely axed in terms of ad revenue. Some channels might only get certain types of ads because they're creating filters. So some companies could be like, we don't care, throw it on everything. Maybe some market research will happen at one point or at some point. Sorry. And we'll get to. Yeah. But like the total amount of money being invested into YouTube ads, will this potentially make it go up because people are like, okay, we can filter more aggressively. That sounds like a better advertising revenue for us. Or will it go down because they're axing too many things? I guess it depends on who the consumer base is for that company. You know, obviously you have a company like Walmart and a company like Razor. Their consumer bases are completely different. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, moving on to more tech related subjects because there's probably Twitch chat screams about that currently. Ashes of the Singularity receives receives. Wow. I can't talk today. Happy I did those Tech Week episodes earlier. Yeah. Use of the Z. Oh, yeah. That sort of worked out. Razor receives Ryzen performance update. Up to 31% improvement. Actually freaking epic. We're going to jump to the Extreme Tech article. This was posted on the forum by HK05. I'm also going to post this in the Twitch chat. I forgot that I like sort of had to do things while I'm on the show that aren't just only talking all the time. Giant advertisement in my face. Make that go away. Jump over the screen. There we go. Ashes of Singularity. Massive boost. It's pretty cool. I'm surprised it's Ashes of all things. It's barely even a game. It's essentially a benchmark with gameplay elements. I want to try something out. Let's go to Twitch. That's our channel, Thought TV, but not that. I want to search up Ashes on Twitch. She's playing it right now. See if there's anyone playing it. No channels currently live. I don't know. That's uncomfortable. It's a wonderful benchmark. I love it. It's a great benchmark. I don't personally know anyone. Let's do a straw poll. Let's do a straw poll. I want to see if there's anyone who's actually played through, not just started a game. I want someone who's played through the whole thing. Let's do a straw poll. Have you played through? Want to check out more of the notes on Ashes of Singularity? Absolutely. While Luke is working on the straw poll, AMD cited Intel optimization as the biggest reason that the Ryzen chips weren't blowing things out of the water on 1080p gaming tasks. We have a game in Ashes, which is publicly announced as optimized for AMD, as optimized for Ryzen. The performance boosts are, as we said, significant, up to 31% improvement. 1.27x performance improvement in GPU-focused benchmark and a 12% boost in the CPU-focused benchmark. Nice. Those are both really significant, but that GPU-focused one is really intense. That is not a small number. Bethesda has also pledged to work with AMD to improve game performance in future titles. That's really exciting. I guess, obviously, that depends on what kind of system you have and what kind of games you're into. It would be nice if the architectures were similar enough to where you would get similar performance across the board, but at the same time, we talk about morning competition and we talk about, okay, we want chips to have certain selling points. As long as devs can optimize their games for AMD or Intel, that's going to be a selling point. I see you're very amused by the straw poll. No, 94%. A crushing victory for the no's. There's probably a little bit of trolling going on with the yeses, too. I'm assuming. I'm sure there are some that actually did it, but I've never even clicked on the play button. I've done a lot of benchmarking in Ashes. It's a wonderful benchmark. Scales really well with different things. Not surprised they got this update really quick. Love to see them continuing on with different things. Their DirectX 12 stuff was really cool to play with. I like that they have GPU and CPU focused. I like that they have the performance numbers for both so you can see what's throttling you and stuff. It's a wonderful benchmark. Really good. I really like it. What's really exciting about what you were just talking about while I was messing around doing stupid things is that that's going to be fun for us and that's going to be fun for everyone that owns a Ryzen chip. Because as these things go on, as a new game that comes out from Bethesda, I guess, that's optimized for Ryzen, we'll be able to see more advancements in the benchmarking comparison. Because now individual game benchmarks that I used to do back in the day will actually matter a lot more. Because instead of like, oh, the versus between these systems, well, this one's 10% faster. So every single game is 10% faster on that system-ish, give or take a little bit. Games specifically tuned with Ryzen in mind will do a lot better than just a backlog that all us reviewers already had of games that didn't really have it in mind at all and were made for the Intel platform. Yeah, and if Ryzen undercuts Intel as much as some folks are predicting, then it's going to continue to become a more attractive platform for devs. So hopefully we'll see some more of this stuff and things will get more interesting. That's super exciting. Yeah, absolutely. I'm super stoked for that. That's very cool. That's in my opinion cooler than the performance that came on launch, which was already like a really interesting story. Moving on, the Oculus co-founder Palmer Lucky leaves Facebook. When asked if Lucky's departure was voluntary, Facebook representatives declined to comment, but they cited a policy of not discussing internal personal matters or personnel matters, sorry. And I actually totally believe that. It doesn't seem like something they would necessarily hide. They've been fairly transparent about what's been going on there. Lucky willfully skipped the last Oculus conference after being a major personality at OC1 and OC2. Yeah, it's been a controversial thing for a while because of his involvement with Nimble America. To be fair, Oculus was sold for $2 billion. He's a very wealthy dude. The $10,000 investment, as I believe what it was, into Nimble America to make memes about Trump, I don't think that was a lot of money for him. Well, as I said a few minutes ago, those of you who follow me on Twitter, you might know I do not discuss my personal political opinions and this kind of thing is why. I don't have millions of dollars to just give to causes, but all the same, I don't do it. Yeah, I don't know. All political things aside, I kind of feel bad for the dude because I'm really into VR. He did a lot of really amazing things for VR. Now, whether they are commenting or not, whether they made him leave or not, I feel like he was squished out of that space. Whether through indirect pressure, whether through direct pressure, however it happened. We're probably not going to know either ever or not for a long time. Maybe just because it was too public of a position. I think he just wanted to work on things and he was put in a super public position and I don't feel like that was... I do not personally feel like that was the position that he personally wanted to be in. I have no idea because I'm not him. There's a lot of people who just aren't necessarily suited to wear both of those hats. You could be awesome at one thing, but yeah, that happens sometimes. Unfortunate. From talking to him in person, from reading some of his interviews, from watching some of his interviews, from reading his own personal Reddit comments, he didn't really like filtering his personal opinions and feelings and whatnot as most super public CEO figures do. I don't know. Maybe he will enjoy his life more now. Maybe this is a good thing for him. I'm sorry to see that he got squished out of his space, but if this was his move, it might have been the right one. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. He could go off and enjoy his billions. Not a bad position to be in. I don't think he got all that, but I'm sure he's super wealthy. His multiple millions. Yes. Yeah. I'm sure he's very, very wealthy. In other more funny news, a Samsung store caught fire the day before the Galaxy S8 announcement, which is just sort of hilarious. Truth is stranger than fiction, isn't it? Yeah. I don't even have anything specific to even say about this, but- Just LOL. How does that happen? Of course, there's different things. This is a CNET video. It doesn't show the store after the fire, does it? I will say they don't know what the cause of the fire is, whether it was exploding electronics or something else, but- That would have been hilarious. It would have been, but as of right now, the official word is we don't know. But it did happen. Yeah, this was pasted by HeyYo on the forum. HeyYo. HeyYo. Maybe a Scott Hall fan for all those who remember him from the wrestling circuit. Anyway- Oh, damn. I have no idea. I am super dating myself with that reference, but- I don't have a clue what you're talking about. Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy- I actually don't. The Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. They have 3,000 milliamp hour or 3,500 milliamp hour batteries, as you'd probably expect. They have a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, as you'd probably expect. They have the Bixby AI Assistant with a dedicated button, just in case you didn't have enough AI assistants yet. Maybe you can queue them all up at the same time and tell them all to do the same thing, and maybe one of them will do it correctly. That would be a pretty interesting thing to do. Oh, and the feature that they are highlighting. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Let's see if I can actually find that on the site. Essentially, they are touting the extensive safety testing their new phones are going through as a feature. I was saying earlier, what a brave new world we're living in, where, hey, this phone won't explode- Or has a lower likeliness, too. Has a low likelihood of explosion as a feature. Just let that sink in for a second. Hey, your pants are less likely to light on fire, so hopefully that's good. And your car and your house, no big deal. Also, it has an 18.5 by 9 display, which just straight up pisses me off. I don't even have a tongue else to say outside of that. No, and I was- At first glance, I saw that, and I was thinking, oh, maybe it's because they're measuring how it's got the curved screen at the edge, but that will make it bigger the other way. So I have no idea why. Hey, let's add another 2.5 to the ratio, just because. Why not? Yeah. It's so weird. The LG G6 had an 18.9 aspect ratio, which is a little wonky, but at least you've got that 2 to 1 sort of deal going on, which is kind of cool. They just had to add that 0.5. I feel like internally, just because it makes me dislike it so much, I feel like they're just trying to be like, oh, ours has slightly more numbers. Yeah, and I'm thinking, oh, they could do that. And also, you're thinking maybe that reduces down to a more common display ratio, but I don't believe it does. It's not like the 2.35 to 1 that they use for movies and stuff. It's not even that. So it's just strange. The Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch display, and the S8 Plus has a 6.2-inch display. Each has a 2960 by 1440p pixel resolution. The S8 works out to 570 pixels per inch. The S8 Plus is 529, hence the bigger screen, same resolution, lower PPI. That's a lot of pixels per inch, Luke. It is. That PPI. Let's see here. I don't know. The phone's right now like... I'm excited for the Pixel 2. So there's another thing. Let's see if it's... Yeah, it's right here. It's the Galaxy S8 Microsoft Edition to be sold in Microsoft stores. And this is just so ridiculous. This is pretty bad. I don't even know what to say. This was posted by Daring on the forum. He's a flow plane pilot. Thanks, dude. We're working on some really cool stuff that hopefully you will enjoy. So Microsoft is unable to sell really their own mobile OS, or that's what's stated in here. They really don't sell very many of them. So they're trying to sell a customized version of the S8. Listen to this. The phones are still running Android, but with a number of differences. Cortana instead of Google Assistant, Office is pre-installed, Outlook instead of Gmail, OneDrive instead of Google Drive. Okay. But did you tell them... Did you mention the triple... Yeah, it doesn't say it in here, but I'm going to jump back to the notes of this part, which is even better. The update will... Where did that go? Where did it go? The update will finally... Someone screwed up the dock. Someone did. I know this is... Because these are notes from something else. Is it further down, maybe, or is it just... No, it's not. Oh! They killed the link. Maybe that was on purpose. I don't know. Who noobed up the dock? Well, this is awkward. This is awkward. Anyways, what it said before... I can't find it in the dock now, but what it said before was that it would happen on the first time you updated the device. It would download OneDrive. It would download Outlook. It would download Cortana, all that kind of stuff. And because of Bixby being on the phone and Google Assistant being in Android, you would have three AI Assistant services on your phone all at the same time. So if you get lonely, you'll even need to go out and make friends anymore. Just talk to all three of your phone assistants. Just queue them all up at the same time. How are you doing? What are you up to today? I don't know. I wish you could get them to disagree with each other and you could have a debate. You know? That would be pretty good. Some people just don't like leaving home. What drives me insane about this is I'm pretty sure you could just extremely easily do this on your own. Because you're just downloading... There's an Outlook app, and there's a OneDrive app, and I believe there's the Cortana app. Yes, but it's Samsung, and they kind of have a history of these shenanigans where they just blow tons of stuff onto the phone. Even more bloatware. Yeah. Gross. I don't like it at all. Makes me unhappy very particularly. Anyways, Samsung to sell refurbished Note 7 phones. Oh boy. This was posted by SC Gazelle on the forum. We're going to check out the Wired article that was linked. I'm going to drop this in the chat real quick. The phones will be refurbished, broken down for parts, or recycled. One of the three. So it's going to be interesting to see. I'm really excited whether from user error or not. Because it can happen from user error. But the first one of these to explode or light on fire is going to be very fun. Just how news outlets take it. Just how people freak out. I'm really excited. Even if someone just straight up stabs it with a knife. Don't think it's going to matter. If it lights on fire it blows up. I can see someone doing that just for attention. Let me douse this thing with gasoline. Take a match to it. Don't do this. Don't do this. Yeah. And say, oh look what happened to my refurbished Samsung Note 7. Who's that dude on YouTube? TechRax? Oh, the tech destruction. He's going to make one. Oh yeah. I can see that. Anyways, they say the Note 7 is recycled and processed in an environmentally friendly manner. Which like, that's cool. Thank you. That's good I guess. They're going to remove semiconductors and camera modules for test sample production purposes. Basically, they're going to try to use them in many ways and refurbish and sell them as well. Which like, I don't know. I know a lot of people that really like Note 7s. Apparently they've had a 97% return rate. This isn't in there either. What the heck happened to the dock? They had a 97% return rate of Note 7s in South Korea, but significantly lower percentages of returns elsewhere. And they're also planning on absolutely killing, I also don't see this in the dock, but it was earlier. I don't know what happened. On absolutely killing any potential for the phone to charge at all through a software update. They've reduced the total possible charge of the phone and now they're just going to make it so you can't charge it. But also noted is that they expect clever users to just not update. So that they won't have that issue. So at this point, I just wonder why you would bother maybe just to be a contrarian. Maybe fight the power man. With that, speaking of fight the power, let's scroll very far down to our sponsor spots. Oh good lord. Thank you Moss for sponsoring the WAN show. And you can fight with power using Moss spring cables. That might be the worst ad tie-in spot I've ever done. So these guys are various types of USB cables. What do you have over there? C to C. C to C. So that's cool. So if you have a Nexus 6P like I do, which I just bought yesterday, then you can use one of these because it has a USB C port. Yeah. You know what? I'll put a quick aside during this ad spot. But I went to my parents and my phone was dying and I was like crap, I guess I'm not going to be able to charge my phone because I have USB type C phone. And I was like there's no way they'll have USB type C cables. My mom has a 6P and thus has a bunch of USB type C cables. She has more than me. How about that? And she was ready to go. Maybe with Moss cables. I'm not sure. Well there is a person that has more USB type C cables than you. That's amazing. Yes. It was surprising and odd. How about that? Slightly uncomfortable. I'm sorry. I didn't know the box opened. That wasn't Moss cables fault. That was me being silly. But one other cool thing about these, they're braided. They're nice. They have a little spring thing on the end. This is why they're called spring cables. So you can like bend them over and they'll snap back in place, which is actually pretty sweet and that's like to help them not like get screwed up right at the joint and stuff, which is cool. And if you use their organizer things, this one is the six pack. What's that called? The Minos? Menos? Menos. But there's a bigger one just called the Moss organizer. If I pull this out, there we go. They're magnetic and stuff. And these being metal on the ends can snap to them. So you can put the organizer on something like your desk and then use this to snap the cable down. Well, this end would probably be plugged into something else. So this end can snap there and when you're not using it, it can just sit on here. So instead of having like weird, not very good looking cable managing thingies like these where they're just like the weird white things and you just shove your cable in there. They kind of look like butt cheeks. And it's not great. Yeah. You can, and you have to shove it back in and take it back out and stuff. There. Magnets. Cool. And last but not least, there's the Moss backpack, which has a giant power cable coming out of the end, which might be a little bit confusing. Oh, I didn't even notice that. There's little spots for your fingers. You can unplug it from the wall more easily. I don't think I've ever seen that on a power cable before. That goes into the bag where you can find one power plug for like your laptop or whatever and two USB power plugs, which could be pretty nifty because if you have two USB banks that you have often plugged into your bag, I guess, and like your laptop, you could have all those plugged in and then just as you're moving around, plug this thing in inside your backpack so you don't have to have your laptop or whatever exposed. Hustle free charging if you're not using your device at a particular time. That magnet looked pretty strong. I think even insane clown policy would be proud of that magnet. I think it's amazing. Moving on, we have Zotac. So Zotac is talking about their EN10. Zotac's Magnus EN10 series is one of the smallest VR ready mini gaming PCs available. It is pretty wicked. I've seen it a few different times and it is available with the GTX 1060 or GTX 1070 configuration and it features Intel Skylake Core i5-6400T, which is pretty wicked. Those things are cool. And there's the VR Go, which is in my opinion probably the best implementation of a VR backpack. I'm not just saying that because it's during the sponsor spot. I really like that they have hot, swappable batteries and I really like the capacity of the batteries because you can actually game for a pretty significant amount of time while swapping those out. It's actually pretty cool. I just didn't do a dedicated video on it because no one is really all that. I can't say no one. There is a very noticeably smaller percentage of people that are interested in VR content right now, so there you go. But it is a very acceptable amount of weight for a backpack. It feels like, when you play a military style game, it feels like actually realistic. Enhanced realism. Yeah, I don't know. It's not heavy enough that it'll actually feel tedious, but it is heavy enough that you realize that it's there, which can actually help. The hot, swappable battery thing is probably the best solution that we're going to have until we figure out extremely efficient GPUs or extremely high capacity batteries. And there's a couple that are like that, but that one, the VR Go has the best capacity, I do believe. Then there's the 1080 mini, which I have made a video on showing people the different ways that you can use it because I didn't think Zotac actually did a very good job of that. Sorry, Zotac. Oh wow. I did it for you anyways, so it's fine. It has ice storm cooling, a 90mm fan for increased static pressure, and a 100mm fan for maximum airflow. There is actually two different fans on the cooler. They look relatively similar at first, but you can tell that one of them is slightly larger than the other. Anyways, that's it for the sponsor spots. Moving up, we have a few extra things in here that is interesting. This was just sort of sad. I don't really know how else to even say it. It was posted by NumLock21 on the forum. Razor servers went down, resetting all device settings for keyboards and mice that didn't have their settings saved in the cloud. And that's actually still a scary thing because you'd think at first, oh yeah, but the devices have local storage. That is not a default setting. It is not a default setting for your device to store your settings locally. They are normally stored in the cloud. So a huge number of people's devices were set to default, and that is just sort of disappointing because a lot of people haven't really dialed in and don't necessarily memorize all their settings. So it's a reality of global proportions, Skynet screwing up our RGB. Pretty much. RGB is important. I guess there's RGB profiles too. No. I hope my laptop is still the same because I actually spent a while fine tuning it. I'm not even kidding. Because I call it Haunter and it's black and purple themed, so I took the fire preset but made it purple fire. And I have two different tones of purple for the fire. Oh yeah. So you see, I'm also using fire. Mine is like, it's blue and white. But yeah, the fire effect is awesome. I'm a huge fan of it. It's super cool. I guess you did that for Duke. Yeah. But Brandon has it as the default, which actually looks kind of like a fireplace at first glance. And the thing is, I think with PC customization, the amount of effort you put into it, it's not like a liquid. It's more like a gas. It's going to expand to fill what options are available on your setup. So if you have this Razer Chrome with things like, oh yeah, you get like a billion customization options, make it yours. I mean, you're going to want to do that. So there you go. So actually kind of a catastrophe for some folks. Speaking of which, I'm going to hijack this super hard. But if anyone can help me find... I want stickers that I can put on my laptop that can make the face. But I couldn't figure out how to do that. So basically the back of my laptop right now is flat purple. It is one type of purple that looks pretty similar to a Haunter's type of purple. Oh, and you just make the face. But I want to have three different stickers, one for each eye and one for the mouth. But I haven't, I don't know anyone that sells like individual stickers for those things. And I don't know how I would go about making that. So if people want to like tweet me with like telling me how the heck I could do that, that would be amazing. And I would love that. Because like I want to use wallpaper engine to somehow get like an animated wallpaper of like Haunter floating there. And then I want to have Haunter stickers on the back and then purple dbrand everywhere. And then the purple fire. Like for the stickers, you can just find like a vector image or just a really high res image of Haunter and then like isolate the stuff like in Photoshop. Is there like websites that you can buy? Like I don't know anything about how I do this. Is there like websites you can upload images and print stickers from? Yeah, or you could just get like a printer to do it. Yeah, like I don't see why you would be able to do that. And then you'd cut it out, I guess. I got my wife's wedding ring on Etsy. I feel like you could do this. Yeah, yeah. She loves it, by the way. The internet is wonderful. I wasn't laughing at it because of that. I was just laughing because like holy crap, modern times. No, it's just waiting for people in the stream to say in the chat to say things. So yeah, no, I'm sure she loves it. But yeah, like I just I would love to be able to do that properly. That would be super cool. Domino's is beginning to deliver pizzas in Europe with robots. They've already done this in New Zealand. I don't know if they've done this elsewhere. But the first place in Europe to get it will be Hamburg, Germany. This was posted by Kogunel on the forum. Hopefully I said that correctly. Dropping in the chat, jumping into the article, which is still loading. I guess we'll just watch it load. Why not? Oh, there it is. Mail on the Daily Mail online. That's the little robot guy. It sends a code to your phone, similar to like a two factor authentication kind of deal. And then you have to type the code into the robot in order to get the pizza. That thing is amazing. I hope it's tamper proof because what's to keep someone on that crosswalk from just, oh yeah, pizza. Well, no, the code. You have to enter the code in order to access the pizza. What if they have a hammer? Yeah. Yeah. And it has a lot of letters on it or something. I would really hope so. I also wouldn't be surprised if they only run them. It doesn't say anything about that in here, but I wouldn't be surprised if they only run them at like certain times. Pino. What a brave new world we're living in. There's actual pizza boxes. I love how there's like person that got low to the ground with their camera and took it at like this specific time of day of this like little robot. What was that line from, what movie was it? I think it was Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. It reminds me of Rome and how the sun hits the buildings in the afternoon. It's like that, but with the pizza bot. Yes. Yeah. Look at him go. That's fantastic. He's gone. Oh, there he goes. Oh, look at him go. That is, that's just powerful. I love how like no one even really reacts. I would be so interested if that drove past me. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's exciting. I don't know why it's exciting. It just is. It's a pizza bot. How is it not exciting? You shouldn't even have to explain that. That's fair. My favorite thing, if I can find it here, that happened as right when I say the name here everyone's going to know what I'm talking about. This was posted by SC Gazelle on the forum as well, along with the previous post. We're going to use the link from The Verge. Elon Musk launches Neural Link to make you a cyborg, which is so exciting. So very cool. I'm going to post that in there. Elon Musk launches Neural Link, a venture to merge the human brain with AI. So this is like a very, very early company. They're not planning on doing any public things for a while. They're setting themselves up as a research company in the medical space in California. I don't expect anything to come from this for quite some time. I personally view Elon Musk's companies in two different categories. There's the this is going to make a difference now category. Like Tesla. Like Tesla, SpaceX, Solar Cities, and back in the day before he sold it, PayPal. And then I see the other bucket, which is that Elon Musk likes researching this and is interested and wants to drive it further. This might happen one day. Yeah, his company that researches the potential issues with AI and how to make safe AI. And then now this. I like how some of the chat, which plays Dion already said Deus Ex. So for you Deus Ex fans, maybe one day you could you two can unleash your inner Bob Page, hopefully not for world domination purposes, but maybe for cool things. I don't know what those would be. You might have to ask Elon himself. But yeah, yeah. So more recently, Musk told the crowd in Dubai, over time, I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence. It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output. What are the bandwidth of the human brain is tech with the topic? Neural lace. Humans could improve themselves. So interesting. Would you do it? If someone was like, I can put a chip in your brain and it will enhance all all parts of your life, you'll be slightly better at everything. But what's the risk? You're asking me if I would do it because the way you describe it, there's no reason to say no. But obviously, there's probably some sort of downside. You're not telling me. So no reason to say no. How invasive of a surgery are we looking at? Well, they're putting it in your brain. Yeah, I guess they'd have to open your skull. I think about it. Yeah. Yeah, I could be better at most things. I could be better almost everything, actually. So I would do it. Yeah. Elon Musk was like, hey, Luke, that's all you have to say. That's your standard. If Elon Musk comes up and does that, I'm in. I'm done. No worries. I'll sign papers, hand them over. I'll do it. But yeah, I know if I was offered to be in some form of program, I would I would probably engage just like all the tweets that I've sent to Elon Musk asking to be the media contact that goes to Mars. Like here's my resume. I have done the Twitter's. I have done the videos. Send me to Mars. I won't be able to do the other stuff. I'm too much of a dummy. I can't do the science things. Unfortunately, I'm sorry. I can board a rocket. But I will get on that rocket and I will make so many videos about whatever is going on and I will be so interested and I will die on Mars. I don't need to come back. Yeah. You could go up to Mars and like you could estimate because the gravity on Mars is different. You could drop a GPU onto the Martian soil and see, OK, like what's what's what's the likelihood of damage? I could Earth. I could make holy shit videos about all the tech that we have. Yeah, that would be something we can do. Hey, portable solar panels even crappier because now we're on Mars and they're further away from the sun. TechWiki videos. There we go. Yeah. How does solar panels function on Mars? Just the same. Yeah. Except not as well. Like it if you like it, dislike it if you didn't. So yeah. Well, you'd be able to probably float them more easily. You would. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. There's a little bit more exposure so they'd probably get more energy. Define exposure. Exposure to what? Wouldn't atmosphere reduce how much and like distance to the sun reduce how much energy you can get from solar panels? That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Because the sun's I imagine the sun is like less bright on Mars. That's why I said it probably don't work as well. Unfortunate. Yeah. Which don't quote me on that but I'm pretty sure that's true. So I did not know that. I have not thought about or dove into that so I'm going to refrain from making contact. Yes. And that's why I said don't quote me on that. There's a quote at the end of this article that says most healthy individuals are uncomfortable with the idea of having a doctor crack open their skull. That might be true unless you're me and our giant fanboy Elon Musk. If he's like this is a good idea. I have done it. I would be like so shall I. Maybe it's not even a chip. Maybe there'll be like nanites that you can just inject right here and they'll just sort of migrate your brain. Down. Super down. See I would be down for that too. Go both arms. Yeah. Strap them up. Yeah. That's how it works. If you have twice as many nanites you'll be twice as good at whatever it is. Yeah. But yeah. I'm also weird where like even before I started having intense knee problems being like really into sprinting and stuff I would look at the guys that unfortunately were amputees at the knee and get like those those curved metal legs. Yeah. And how they're like so much faster with envy. Like I want to be that fast. Yeah. It's like take them off. Human but better. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm yeah. I was talking to John earlier. I am not Adam Jensen. Adam Jensen wakes up and goes I didn't ask for this. I wake up and go oh damn thanks. Yeah. I'm down. Yeah. When this body dies hopefully I have another. I don't care. I just want my consciousness. I'm trying to think like what the most appropriate application of your consciousness on cyberspace would be probably like adjudicating means or something like that. Like yes like like like know your meme could just assimilate your consciousness or maybe even like compensate you somehow. I have no idea how that would work. But yeah anyway you wouldn't need much compensation just for some digital services I guess. You'd have to pay for the storage in some way. So like Dropbox or AWS storage of some kind probably AWS instead of giving you the BC medical services plan you would get like free malware scans and stuff like that. Yeah. Because you would be just code. That's a good call. Yeah. Yeah. You'd probably want to pay for certain services like Netflix so you could just immediately watch every single movie that they have. Oh yeah. Yeah. I guess you could do that if you were code. What else do we have on the dock anyway. I don't think there's a ton else. We're coming to the end of the show. Oh this is why this conversation is going worse. Yes. That's actually pretty much it. There's a couple other things. It wasn't a super intense week in terms of news. It was a super intense week in terms of Scrapyard Wars. But you guys aren't going to be able to see that for a while. A while at the least. Those take a while to edit. I believe Ed is already working on it but just like ingesting that much footage onto our server is a feat in itself because there's multiple days of tons and tons of footage. And then he needs to go through and I believe it's called shot logging instead of shot listing because they were already done. Not really sure how that works. But he has to like build the story arc out of shots and then pick what shots are actually worth using and what shots aren't really worth using and then try to chop those out and figure out how many episodes we can squish it into reasonably. Figure out the episode time. Start editing them all. Get them all into rough cuts so we can kind of see how far they're going to go and so on and so forth. So I don't know. Samsung 34 foot HK 34 foot 4K HDR LED display for movie theaters. Super crazy. It's hosted by WM Groom AK. I guess I chopped in his name with it on the forums. We're going to jump there. I don't know if this we're going to jump to hot hardware actually. I don't know if they have an actual picture of it. I don't know if that is it or not. Samsung is touting a nearly infinity to one I'm calling them contrast ratio. Pretty epic. That's a pretty bold. That's a very bold claim. It is very bold. I believe this is the first time that movie theaters would have HDR which is pretty cool. I don't know if I've said this on the WAN show before but the first time that I ever saw HDR was at the Nvidia suite and I mentioned how HDR can actually make you feel slightly uncomfortable. Have I talked to you about this? No. The Nvidia guy really didn't like me bringing this up. He was notably upset. But they had a very dark scene with a bright light in the middle. And it did show off how it's like oh wow that is a bright light instead of just a white spot on the screen. But because of that it was so bright and everything else was so dark that it was actually like whoa. Yeah. And like normally in movies like oh you see an explosion you see whatever it's all going on but it's not going to like make you pull back. It's not going to hurt your eyes really. This was like it was an uncomfortable part of the screen to look at because it was so bright compared to everything else. But yeah anyways it'll be 4096 by 2160 resolution and its peak brightness and this is what I'm talking about. Its peak brightness will level at 10 times higher the standard cinema projectors at 146 FL compared to 14 FL. I'm guessing this is advantageous for like dark scenes where it may be hard to tell things apart. But yeah exactly. Yeah but like I don't know. It's going to be pretty interesting because I think you're going to get a lot more of the like something happens on screen and the whole audience goes oh kind of effect because if it goes if there's like if you're in a really dark room and it's like a horror scene and someone's like sitting in the chair and they like don't know what's going on then all of a sudden like the lamp turns on right beside them. Like that's actually going to be a really like withdrawing moment because it's going to be really freaking bright. It sounds like that THX noise they used to play in the movies. Yeah pretty much. With that I think the show is over so time to roll the intro I guess. Outro. Outro. Yeah it's the intro but. We're introducing the end of the show. Yeah it's also the exact same thing that we play at the beginning of the show. That's true. I thought that we should maybe have like a slightly different one for the end of the show. Like maybe we pick up the couch and leave. Let's make that happen. Holy crap. That's a great idea. That actually totally makes sense. Which wouldn't even be that hard to do because we could just do it in reverse. Linus finally actually picks up the couch and helps me carry it out instead of just dropping it every single time. Yeah let's why don't we make that happen. I feel like that wouldn't be hard to do. Alright. Let's roll the intro. Or maybe you can just keep walking to the end and just like go out of frame. Whatever man I'm out of here. Anyways. Moss cables. Cables bags organizers. Gonna get them at the thing. So tech. They make graphics cards and small computers and backpacks and crazy stuff. Okay goodbye. I forgot where the button is. Oh god.