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That's why the browser's broken. Alright, we're done with the show, guys. We've got some great stuff for you this week. Oculus is- What do you have? A Star Trekper. No. Unbox it now. Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me. Okay, okay, okay. Holy crap. Oh my god. Screw news topics. News topics don't make us do this. Every day, just- My friends- And like, gearing up guide with lots of glamour and all that stuff coming- And let the joke come- Aren't you a little short, Stormtrooper? Yes, thank you, yes. We're probably gonna make that joke for you guys, in spite of the fact that- At all. Just to prevent people from f-ing the comments of that video. Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper? Thank you, Leia. And I'm even shorter than Mark Hamill, so it's like f-ing worse. So this is from original- Okay, so there's a- oh. Wow. It's signed by Andrew Ainsworth, who designed the original New Hope Stormtrooper helmet. All that cool stuff. Or the helmets. Okay, I might be a little bit- I might be a little bit- I'm not quite up on my history. So they include a log that includes the Zero Trooper helmet. But we couldn't break it that hardcore. I'm getting scratched. Yeah, I don't want it to get scratched either. Okay, okay, hold on. They've got like Imperial Blit helmets, they've got Stormtrooper helmets, Darth Vader helmets, and Bust. And they have- So I don't know if it's in this box or if it's not. At any rate, we're gonna do a bit of- This side. And I have no idea how any of this is gonna work. So this looks- Is this the helmet? Fire? That's probably the helmet. This looks like Fire Armor. Oh no, hold on. This- Like that? Oh, I'm so- What? I think that's the Bust. So that we can- so we can- Him in the back of the land show set. Okay, they also- So they also include black, like, bodysuit thing. So that in the gaps in the armor you don't just like your jeans or whatever. So that's up. Okay. Stylin'. They include whatever this is. The best. They don't have official shoes. So they just have like some models and they're not available in every size. So this is just like- this is just like, you know, boots. And like two and a half sizes too big for me. I still have no way. Guess what this model of shoe is called. What? Guess. Trooper. 50. Wow. Right inside. Wow. So that's not- it's not from TrooperDuck. Oh. Okay, okay. So this- holy crap. Eli. Certificate of Authentication. All that good stuff. Comes with- holy. They numbered here as well. Wow. And a little display stand. Holy crap. Sorry, dude. To us, they're extremely expensive. And while I had been buying their stuff, literally for years, I had never really gotten to the funds to actually order it. So, um, all we have to do is show you guys how to put it on and stuff. So here's a neck thing so that you can see your neck through the gap between the helmet and the armor. This is presumably a holster for the bl- On Twitch. Apparently no one- no one can- no one's bored, I mean. Okay, so this looks like shoulders. Okay, so there's the- Yeah. Pro pieces here. I don't want anything to get scratched, so I'm gonna leave it all in the baggies for now. You should put the helmet on. Let's get the helmet on here. I'm not gonna make you guys- Through all the- No? There's other stuff? Oh crap. Okay, so that's the stand and- Yeah, that's the bust. That's the- Live on. Okay. So there you have- Here. There's the chest plate. Fantastic- oh, don't wanna- oh, look at that. That's the tinted lens, which I guess I'll leave off for now. Luke, I- wait, I think I got that wrong. What? Yeah. Yeah, I'm kidding. So there we have it, guys. Obviously I'll have to do some playing around with it in terms of size, because there's been a normal person's head. Can I put it on? Can I put it on? Yeah, absolutely. Here you go. Well, I'm holding the- Oh, I'm so stoked to do the unboxing. Don't worry. It should fit. No one wants you to break it. There we go. That's epic. That's massive. Yeah, it's huge inside. So you got a picture that- Yeah. I am, like, so- There we go. If you turn it away, it's super easy. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna put these in something safe and- Hang on, Bucks. Oh, you got- okay. Awesome. Yeah. You got a bronze. Yeah, it's a bronze. All right, so there's the front and back plate pieces. I'm gonna put those over there. Everything's all, like, scattered around. Protection. Right there. It's like the belts right in here. Okay. There's the butt protection. Not quite as robust as the crotch protection, but that's fine. Well, then the crotch. There's a tech tip. And then we've got the, uh, yeah, the utility- Whatever these are. Oh, this is the little canister that goes at the back of whatever it is. I never actually saw a stormtrooper use one. And there we have it, guys. Okay, let's just- we can drop this back there. Oh, no, we can't. Brandon! Is there anything in this? Oh, yeah. Oh, are those gloves? Yeah, yes. Thank you. Sweet. Your knife is- Oh, thank you. Someone says they're bailing, it's too boring. Don't worry, the show is starting in a couple seconds. All right, so the gloves aren't really that special. They're rubber gloves with armor on the back. But as long as people don't get too closely at them, they're just a- I mean, yeah, you're gonna have to compromise a little bit anyway, but okay. I won't- Just chew the whole thing in your hands. They're pretty warm. They're rubber gloves, so. All right. Oh, there goes my bottle. I'm sorry for the interruption there at the beginning. Oculus- The two-nine- The R9 290X, a graphics card that by all rights, really isn't that compa- 549.99 has now reached a- On Newegg. The most baffling thing about all of this is that this pricing is not even reflected in other markets outside of- Okay, so more on that later. Google and Foxconn have started to work closely, more closelier, on robotic manufacturing that will allow them to- I don't know, it looks like the objective is to get- And as another sort of benefit, potentially move manufacturing back overseas to North America, but then- Depending on workplace benefit. Depending on- Okay, you know what? We'll talk about that more in depth, because I have a lot to say about that one. And finally, what do you got? Well, you spilled a little bit in that section. I did. I always spill into your section. Also, the Flappy Bird in- Which is like, the whole internet has something to say about it, and it's ridiculous, and we'll talk about that later. It is so baffling to me that Flappy Bird matters at all. Like, at all. Our sponsor today is Squarespace, guys, squarespace.com slash Linus. Head on over there to check out the easy way to make yourself a beautiful, functional website. Visit squarespace.com, I think I just said that. So yeah, squarespace.com, they're our sponsor for today. Thanks so much for making the WAN Show possible on this f- the 14th. Which is either lucky or lucky, depending on how lucky you're planning to be today. Or- Alright, so let's get going. Topic here. Steam adds a recently updated feature to the storefront. This is actually either going to be awesome, this was posted by Esquiu on the forum. This is either going to be awesome, or it's going to open things up to abuse. What is your take on this? I think it's buried far enough down on the front page that I don't think it's going to be that bad. And then if you- you can just completely ignore it, except for- In which I do actually think it should be good. Okay, so here are a couple of problems I have. Let me look back to the earlier days of YouTube, back when the homepage, youtube.com, was not necessarily just videos about Justin Bieber. And it was- it was kind of a mix. Like there was an actual section at the bottom for technology, for example. Anyway, I got homepaged once randomly on a video that honestly I didn't really think should be special. It was actually- this is kind of funny, okay, so I'm a bit of a tangent here. It was actually a case video for an NCIX PC special system that was based around a brand new AMD product launch with an AMD graphics card at the time. The system didn't sell a single unit. It was the only system we ever released for NCIX that didn't sell a single unit, and we actually had to disassemble the prototype and then repurpose the parts. Okay, so anyway, that got featured on the homepage of youtube.com on one of the technology videos. That went from zero to a hundred thousand views overnight. That is how powerful, even the crappiest featured spot on the front of a high traffic page like youtube.com Try to game the system. Developers will try to game the system in order to get featured in that spot. I'm sure that certain ones will especially- some things where- Update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, because early access is such a big thing now. Yes. And when you're in early access, you're not too worried about if things are unstable and like going to your current audience more- So release time updates. And especially if you're in early access, you're probably trying to get funding. Such a big thing now that people are going crazy. I do still like the your games and software side though. Yes. For a small death, release daily updates to your game and tweak a texture here. I'd like to say yes. Because there's so many things going into really big outsourced to not annoy people with tons of updates. Because they're working on things very actively and some things don't. But have that naturalized. The more options developers have for communicating about their products, the better it is for them. With this new product section, corresponding developer tools, customers can easily discover products that provide ongoing value and involvement from the developers. And- Really terrible for this. But I forget whose video it was. Someone tweeted to me. I'm going to try and find this in a moment here. Tweeted to me a video about Batman Arkham Origins. Where basically they just came out and said- Game breaking but- Find that while you move to the next topic. Oh, the other thing Steam added that actually isn't in the dock that I'm more excited about than this is the new system. Did you see that? I think it was just somewhere in the dock. I guess it's not flushed. Anyway, they added a new tagging system that will allow people to add tags to games in much the same way that they would add them to things like forum threads or any other service. Obviously, if you and your brother are like- Let's put penis on that one. That's not going to work. It's not going to show up. It has to be something that it gets tagged with over and over and over again in order to become an official tagging product. But I personally think that's fantastic because this is something we were complaining about only a few weeks ago. Because I was sitting there in bed trying out Valve in-home streaming. I want to play a game with my wife. I got a couple controllers. I got a controller. What do you got, Steam? And the answer was- And I would even like it if you could do it in your own library. I don't know if this works, but if the search for that applies to your own library, so you could be like, okay, co-op. And then search through your own library for those that are on the store. I hope it's in both sections because that would be awesome. You're so ballin' that you have- You need to catalog them. No, look at bundles. I know. I'm just trolling in. I'm just trolling in. I'm just trolling in. Insanity button. Insanity button. Insanity button. Insanity button. Insanity button. Insanity button. What? Oh no, I thought that shirt was an Everyday I'm Shufflin' shirt. I was like, what? That was the only one Tastelike to wear that. All right, do you want to move on to the next topic while I find the Batman thing? We can. Do you understand what I'm saying? I love that you- I love that you spent all of your time on excellent At the same time for zooning other people in Germany. That's... Finally, you will have to listen to this little pamphlet that we made last week. The first thing to do is to And after that, there was a This was technology. I was talking about a software that's just the states companies cannot stop consumers from selling their digital products but Valve has been able to kind of get around that. They are able to get around that compilation and we expect like Origin and Ubisoft to have the same exact status. I expected the gaming community to explode, the gaming community always does, but as far as I can tell no one really cares. I think that's probably tied to the fact that Steam sales are so ridiculous that there's almost no point in ever selling a game because you'll get filled. But yeah I expected more of a backlash. One thing that I worry about is when you go buy a game in the store now, if you buy a physical copy of a game, half of it is a disc but then the disc just has a Steam key or a Ubisoft key or an Origin key. Actually pretty much always it's one of those things. If you install the game it's just like okay it's installed now attach it to what you want. That applies to physical games as well? You can't sell them? Yes. It's attached to that service and that service you can't sell things on. It's interesting. I wonder about double standard issues where they freak out with VRM issues there's always a risk of not being able to care if your game has no value anymore after buying it even if it's a year or two later. That doesn't matter you're just a consumer. If you go away this isn't a normal product. Then if you want to resell it it depends on what side of the battle you're on. One thing I'm happy about and I wasn't really sure what you were saying because I was looking this up sorry. So I apologize for repeating myself but one thing that I'm happy about is that Valve at the very least has already announced family sharing. So now it's kind of too late. The cat's out of the bag which means that if Valve's going to offer family sharing which would allow at least people within the same house. So now I'm going to have to sort of figure out okay Steam's really competitive. Okay maybe we'll do that on Origin. Okay. History standard however. And I know people because for frequent upgraders for hobbyists think about yourself a hobbyist or enthusiast. I think that it's wrong to say that anyone who's an enthusiast spends a ton of money. But you find smart money. So for example when I was in high school and I didn't have money I didn't have a full time job I was going to school. I was like lifeguarding one or two shifts on the weekends and that was all the spending money I had. I still had a ball computer and the way that I did that was by spending so I would go on the used forums and I would buy like the next one down and then I would hire that so I'd put my like $100 down. It was tied up. It was in my computer. And then what I would do as soon as I started to see of something coming that relevant I'd flip it for you know $1.70, $1.80, make sure that I would take that cash and I would buy $1.80 that I recovered from that original card. I'd pitch in maybe another $100 so I'm spending $120 what I spent six months ago. And I would get myself a high tier of card this time. And I was awesome and then I was able to keep it up to $100 by turning through hard and flipping it for sometimes what I paid if you're a really really savvy shopper. This eliminates that. It turns enthusiasts into a perceived wallet rather than people who are enthusiastic about something rather instead of just spending money on it. There the difference between spending a bunch of money and being an enthusiast and this takes the enthusiast option, the sad enthusiast option away and turns us all into people who just spend a lot of money. Not everyone has a ton of money and to make the argument and we've talked about this before well just don't buy game of chess. I can wait two weeks because you're going to drop the price to $40 anyway. And that is an awesome thing. That's not how they are. You want to be there in the thick of things. You want to be experiencing all the different ideas and talking about it with your friends. You're all doing that at the same time. This locks those people in and extracts more cash from them and it makes me extremely unhappy. I'm not going to do it. Then shipping. There's the person to actually. There's space. Do you have any idea how much retail space costs? So there's that and there's storage because space adds up over time. When you have a palette of something sitting in the back of a bed any idea how much that costs to keep there for a month if it's not selling well. The fact that we're paying the same for digital media is I was actually I noticed that I'd never had a Kindle before I just loaded my Kindle review last night my ever and I noticed that on generous. Once for a period of days. I bought story of ice and fire or whatever it is the Thrones books as a. 14 impossible. They take longer than 14 days of back to back reading to real. Okay, probably not. Apparently I'm waiting for this. I'm sorry Twitch chat, but it does. It does kind of amped up. Let's kind of get me going. He's just excited for later. You just said yes. Sorry. He said get me going. Yeah, it's it's I yeah. So here's where we're heading guys. Here's a little bit of insight. This won't last forever because people said and competition. Still competing entities. Nobody has monopoly on all of this and goodness for that. It's damn close though. I know but what will happen eventually is this model go away and it will be replaced by a model that. And everyone was pissed. But started to accept and that is the subscription. As long as it got Amazon has their program for prime members. Okay is it going to be before gamers are just forced to when the news about certain like online so that's on. Compared to what we had at the time which was physical. We owned especially before pervasive always on DRM came about. We basically owned them compared to that we were looking freaking kidding me. But over time subscription based individual games with the justification of server. Services have been successful. Go did writes with respect to the software that we lease from them really that we thought we owned but actually we're leasing from point where that will become the more attractive. Compared to buying digital games that you don't have any rights for. There's some back and forth with that I and individual games when they have subscription if there's enough just justification for it. Eve online exists for a reason. Eve online has existed for a long time at a subscription fee. Dumped out so much stuff all the time that it kind of makes. Paying for them because you're paying for paying $15 a month you're paying for them. The wow model is difficult because you buy the game up front and then you pay for all the expansion and then you pay for the subscription and then you pay for gold and you pay for I mean you don't do that. No you can do that. You buy these time codes and you can sell the game like officially. It's a real game. Fonzie Scheme says I'm switching to board games exclusively. They're going to turn those digital too so yeah don't imagine. I'm going to turn off a table size tablet perfect for Monopoly. It's coming but I wouldn't be surprised if it does show up at some point if they do themed stuff because there's so many games. So I could easily see it being like I'm an RPG subscriber. That's an interesting. That's probably the direction. Wouldn't just be a steam subscriber because that's way too big or you could but insanely expensive right. They'll probably have like the $200 or $300 a month ultimate bundle and you can play anything on all of steam and that'll probably exist but other. Late one. It's a subscriber thing but your subscriber thing you get the games late or if you pay individually you get one day off. There's going to be so many ways for them to squeeze an extra three or four dollars out of us. Yeah. It's going to be because Netflix is a completely different realm. When you get like a library that is steam green light and everything is just all the time. So you'll be looking at 50 bucks a month. There's a month include DLC for those FPS is and $70 a month gives you a premium download service and access. And it's going to go on and on and on and on. It's more sense because you don't own any of that anyways considering you're leasing all of it. Yep. So now you're just on a monthly lease instead of a perm lease. Just don't pay it. And I wish that was true. There are so many things that I wish were gold. Why did we pay for that? I certainly gave them a penny for an ex membership but enough people said that that is now something that we accept and Sony is doing it as well and it has become industry standard. It become industry standard to pay for game servers and why do we accept it was never industry standard before. When did them the option to take away the ability for us to host our own games. Why is it that you can still. Valve cares or maybe they just don't care anymore. Whatever whatever the case may be. They gave us the option whereas you lose that stupid game that got pulled off of steam not that long ago. I don't even yeah I don't remember the name. It was some game and the point is shut down and the servers don't anymore. The game doesn't exist for paying customers because we allowed our. And we just accepted it and we kept getting them our money and I always get ragged on for love of physical copies of but I honestly think that I've always liked the physical something because even though a lot of them now are literally just ports for I actually own something we've let only really disappear which I don't like it all. I mean slavery you shouldn't own people. Well I'm not trying to own people though I'm trying to own that you're not trying to own people what kind of gamer are you. Okay yeah. I'm sorry. We rent for another 10 minutes or should we move on to some. Let's skip. I'm sorry. You guys prepare yourselves this product. This product anyway. He just. Anyway okay. Posted by Bebs cadu on the voice search just got a lot smarter hit it. Oh. So you're going to have to do it while I go. Oh they have a field put in your relationship with. Tax so you can be like this is my uncle or this is my mom or this is my dad or whatever you want to do. Okay. And yet they still haven't figured out that you have multiple contacts and. Think about it so I don't have to remember did I put them under grandma and grandpa did I put them under Archie and Donna did I put them under Donna and Archie. Crap. I'm getting a drink. Okay. So yeah you can attach these essentially to different people which is their their relationship status with you. Or you can say call mom the not to mention. Androids voice calling is ridiculous on iOS I can just say call wife mobile and it says. On Android. Call wife mobile it's like calling wife. To dial and she's got like four numbers and then it's like okay that one and takes forever to get to like do you want. Yes I do. Why does it take so long. Okay. It's like they want me to use my phone when I'm driving. It's like Google wants to kill us. Speaking of. One up so. With Apple there's a tab to add custom label and you can add whatever the heck you want so you could be. And then if you say call mom and it doesn't know your mom's number say you haven't added that custom if you say call mom it'll. What is your mom's name and if you mom's name it'll find that person. Like this add that custom. Know why this is a news article. Linus put it in here so I filled it out with everything that's on there. I guess. He could rant about the things that he doesn't like that already exists. I don't necessarily pertain to this. This was linked like he said by Beats could do on the forum. Let's see where this. One of my cares is linked from the verge. I just and like honestly and I know not everyone. My phone is just. And then his full name after that his first name is his middle name and then his last name is. That's what I want to know. Well I was just talking about like sweating series thing does it better anyways. Oh yeah. Do you know about the if you mom it'll ask you who your mom is and then you just tell her who your mom is and then it adds a custom field that they're your mom and then they. I'm still not just not impressed by. Like cool but at least I just don't see how it's a news item. So I think it's come down to which thing you want to fight about next. Really oh you know what no I'm not that angry. The Oculus thing I'll let you be angry. Actually not super. Reason OK so what. Well. I missed tech tips. It worked on mine. That's weird. One of the. Which one are you clicking on? I don't know. Anyway. This one. Oculus. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That's weird. Anyway. So go ahead. Anyways. So there's. Luke. What they do. Video. Monitorization platform for publishers professional seamless whatever ad delivery video platform. And they have solutions like video and SEO video email and syndication. video management and analytics available 24 7 blah blah blah there are video video and video streaming solutions actually instead of just embedding you you final s and they are because it's and they exist they existed before oculus um i quote lucky lucky i can't remember exactly how you say his last name said unfortunately he decided to do they didn't just decide to put an s oculoo is essentially what he's trying to say that was never their plan what they're trying to say is oculus Latin word for an i adding an s to some other company's final the problem is that it doesn't really matter you're still one letter off of another company's name and it's the company's not even in a competing industry their fight for that is that they could be they could be they aren't i know but they're defining what they do it's it's definition i'm not on their side i'm just playing so yes so am i um they're not trying to be like we do exactly these things because what they spread out from what they're doing their video streaming and what they're saying is oculus could very easily a roadmap have video because what if you start watching videos or certain experiences that come with development and media stuff so they're saying especially their roads could cross so take care of it now because it's a one letter off name for companies that could cross each other i i still they don't sound alike it doesn't sound different like that's actually a pretty big difference uh maybe i don't know um i the one thing that was kind of funny is if you google oculus first result is oculus that's probably not it's not oculus because you're not what the reality of it is they're not a small company i know i know because a lot of people have been saying that there's yeah um this is kind of like people were baffled that tashiba bought ocz ocz's business and they were like well tashiba have any presence in the ss oh we do have presence in the ssd they're huge they just don't necessarily sell the consumers but laptops very they're an actual manufacturer all that aside i don't think it's gonna either oculus is gonna have to change their they're not and if they change their name does it matter because they changed their name it could hurt them ending part of the problem is a lot of people it's called an oculus yeah that's true the oculus name has been passed around more than the rift i even catch myself very consistently saying i'm looking into an oculus or whatever because they only have one which is going to be part of the problem if they have to change their name now knowing them they'll probably change things similar but not similar enough that someone can sue them oculus i wonder if they're battening for the fake of it the oculus is and the one for bankers could be called the stock you and if you're making fun of the whole thing you oculus i'm sorry i'll stop latin word for eyes instead of i think so because oculus an eye so hopefully they can i don't know hopefully they can find a thing that makes sense if they have to change their name but i fully expect them to fight it although it is on because you would hope that all that that they just got a 75 million dollar investment that they very recently got would go towards making the all the trademarky stuff in the last little candy and saga it's like man and like no way words and latin words like that's that's that's one thing that sucks too is it's really really no you can't just make something that's like you can't say your word is bock be and they're like your name can't be book right they don't sound the same they're one letter off right that doesn't make a lot of sense you should be oculus's lawyer i should yeah that'd be cool if i it would let me see the really if someone else's name was luk which is a name can i not i mean objections consider chubaca he's a so move on to the isp disaster in the u.s comcast to buy and this is thousand subscribers i'm cast or time for cable services a comcast takeover of time warner cable to would be i mean they're evil enough as it is yes already enough of a of a of a you know backdoor colluding relationship going on between sps here in north america anyway in general without actually merging there's there's some things that just quote they say uh companies do not overlap completely with each other in fact we do not operate in any of the same zip code when i read that even without doing any further research i was like wow that impossible then reading on the thread on our forum someone said the only services in my area are but i assuming that guy on the forum isn't just lying for fun and it makes complete sense that they would both be offered in at least some type of overall somewhere and saying that they in zip code sounds a little bit insane maybe someone in twitch chat i'm wrong yeah let us know no deep research of this so i can wrong but like really no that seems a little bit sketchy to me i mean was this kind of communication bound to happen forget the isp side of things let's talk about where all the cable tv providers gonna survive as i don't know about you but i sure as heck don't have a cable tv subscription i'm not planning to get one i will never need one ever again in my life i had one i think i had one for a not super large period of time when my was kind of staying with us for a while wanted to watch it other than that i think we really had one um and then since i have moved out it was actually a fair amount of years ago i have never had one and i have never cared let someone say they don't directly compete and that's i mean that's another thing to do is what do you mean don't directly compete i mean if you're in neighbor control them both i don't know blah blah they have localized monopolies in all areas because of the infrastructure um someone says time Warner cable is better than Comcast someone says uh parents just cancel tv and use now i have i protect 900 technique for you version with the uh okay so this is stupid local allow more than one isp area in most places in the states that's actually because i'm canadian we have crappy peas but at least we choose which pile of poop or both for both it was both yeah we give all of our money to all because i want we need to do dramatic music we have like a now we just need like we need to do like i want to live in a world money to every certain better monthly on the first and 15th of the month ever missing a payment because missing a payment is not american and i can't i don't want to pay for netflix and cable tv because netflix should never have sporting events on it instead have one service for live and one service for video on demand and then service for movies and i want to pay for that too eventually you'll just get this like combined check from like the combined conglomerate that is all of the companies it'll be like this is your monthly check for content entertainment bye bye of your paycheck owned well like uh oh right the buy-in large yeah the buy-in large it all comes back to that at some point costco and then that'll be that well that was oh nope not going to go into that yet argued and been pissed off about that later yeah we'll talk about all right let's put that here oh i uh happy topic happy topic happy topic yeah uh is that yeah yeah that's the one one of our youtuber buddies here doing a donation per subscriber to cocoon house so up to $500 going to donate 10 cents per subscriber so i already tweeted about this so you can find that in my twitter feed if you want to know more about it but it's at timmy tech tv on the twitter and there you go you guys that out she makes tech videos let's move into our squares guys if you haven't already heard of square space square space and if you go to squarespace.com slash this then you can definitely give us credit when you go and check it out and try out two weeks to a website for yourself and pretty it up and then 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guys mostly know what squarespace is it's just the kind of thing you have to kind of try it to believe it we switched from a wordpress site to squarespace for linusmedia group dot com and yeah that's that's what picking it up thing bit by bit which you can play around with on squarespace but you don't have it was able to be done in like less than a day and i'm not a designer yeah so it's the kind of thing that designers or even non-designers can do if you have a little bit of know-how all right so let's move into the topic oh it's going to be an angry topic which one do you want to fight about i'm gonna let you pick uh should we do you can start getting people talking about it now happy birds okay so freaking flappy bird yeah freaking flappy so there's a massive amount of people disagreeing with each other and as far as i can tell just massive mountains of said that onion is taking the game down quietly fairly quietly he hasn't said a ton there is like screen captured some of his tweets but usually it's like he said four to five words and then people have essays on what he's saying but like we're not interpreting a poem part of the problem is yes l so he's he has interpreted a lot of people incorrectly i think that's actually sort of an impolite these days is it now but like sorry the only reason why i'm saying that is uh i know some of it at least some portion of it this part is fairly straightforward is because he was getting a lot of uh what he felt were attacks someone would say like i've been playing for the last eight hours and my eyes are bleeding you but like that's not actually necessarily a negative thing they i don't think they really mean me i hate you part and they've been playing for the last eight hours probably because they i'm gonna play this and i think he's having a lot of trouble with all the pressure that sure but it's a lot of other things a day on that but then 100 accurate or it might have been an estimate or it was accurate or it's totally not accurate who knows if you go to our social media page for our social blade page sorry um for line extremely wide range it's actually order of magnitude from the minimum to the maximum and b like like even necessarily or the other it's just there's people saying he took it down for legal reasons even when he said he didn't but then kind of might make sense that he did and then who the heck knows uh there's people wondering if he's having problems with nintendo because of the pipes and then who the heck knows he's not even good it's like how did this become an internet sensation there's been people saying that he got bots to download and rate it so that it would go up to the top of the list so that people would actually start playing it and that's why it played but then who knows why would he take it down at that point it down because he's making so much money a new version of helicopter and who cares but then did he copy everything's a new version of helicopter yeah but then did he copy a newer game total biscuit has good comments on it where he actually doesn't say a ton about it he's talking to his own about why he's abandoning the sub rate because he can't take all the all the hate essentially all the people that over so many things and he he's much it was so sudden quick it was uh zero to not hero all this he was getting attacked by a lot of people um there's there's much crap going around that i didn't have enough time to properly say this is how you're going to find us on twitter what's your theory and we'll try to go through tweets on this i mean one thing i have for both on total biscuit bane and don newin here or don newin here is like people stuff on the internet there's you can't the comments on those yeah and i about myself and i current comments about myself i mean i mean i can't take that seriously and like one thing one thing that you have to do uh is like just try to focus on the positive ones or the neutral ones neutral ones honestly you can often get a lot of information you know how okay i don't know if you've noticed this but how negative comments are there on my right now yeah be honest almost you want to know why i public statements about how much they're bothering me because i just ignored them but how to make negative your work go away is find the people who are saying something positive and thank them for saying something positive the reinforcement will always always work better on people than reinforcement and arguing with people why would you and doesn't you are you going to hope impress them with your anger with your arguing with your with your i mean in the case of someone like like john like total biscuit with your formidable and articulate excellent arguing probably correct arguing but i mean it's arguing on the internet no one wins it can people and that's that's part of john's thing is he's saying it's it's like the volume is so much of it and mind when the subreddit was fairly small because there was some negativity but it wasn't just like overwhelming waves and he just can't deal with it because of the volume i find ready a negative community in general i mean don't take this the wrong way guys but the the whole internet culture of glom onto things that are more stupid or um that you don't like you don't like and and making that as public as possible definitely exists reddit with its up um really does it very effectively finding things that they really hate and bringing that to i mean it's part of the structure of the website and i'm not criticizing saying it's wrong i'm just that it would be i think it fosters a culture that might either cause people to be um you know lifted i mean in ways that gave in gets i mean i'm pretty tongue-in-cheek about the whole lord and savior gave n thing but you know when something gets joked long enough i think people do a little bit seriously like a controversial thing biscuit said which happens every once in a blue moon it can create that sort of overwhelming wave of negativity in the same way that it can create an over wave of positivity and there's really no middle at it because anything on red that's at the top that's going to be seen either really positive or really negative and that that i think is is the reason i think someone created it or something but i don't go there because it's not something that i don't personally prefer that approach um we have our own website you know if people want to talk to us like i've had people ask me if i'll do an an everyday i did it as an advertisement for the live stream the first time i did one yeah so i i posted one and people asked me questions and i did answer them but i didn't really do it right so anyway the linus tech tips forum is the place to post if you have questions that actually reminded me about which is people were saying there's way too so yeah theories away and reddit has that power they can make things blow up they're sort of like terrorists that way and everyone hated linus in his video says reddit is it is and like and that's yeah i saw that i think at least once ah why you stupid chrome i'll go on this side okay okay i think this is all right i don't think you wanted to deal with the comments not everyone can take okay that's fair enough that's fair enough i mean no one wants to hear this but i would make the argument the internet is always going to bring out anonymity i think brings out the worst in people and sometimes the best in people but often in people and people will say things to you on the internet that they would never say to you in person the village of meeting internet haters in super charming guy we had lunch uh i gotta remember this it was it was it what people say on the internet is not necessarily even the real person and i that was that was and stop fighting with things that people said on the internet because i started to see them not the real people but as their personas in the same way that my video personality is not is not 100 of exactly who i am i mean i think i'm fairly genuine and and you know it's not necessarily intentional but when you when you're talking to a camera that's not the same that you like you know sit back and hang out with your friends you have to project energy and then that change at least to a certain degree ways all right um so okay someone says fabio says when he was he was also living in a hundred dollars a month is a lot he got 50,000 a day it got suspicious i don't think that's a big thing that the money is legitimate matthew says i actually when getting thrusted into the spotlight even the most popular i okay i think that was a typo but under the pressure and that's true going from zero to hero overnight um in i'm with i'm with dong even though i don't necessarily think that people who have gotten internet famous more gradually like it was it completely threw me off and that happened very gradually like people kind of knew who was online and then they you know recognized me in person from time to time or they me and then i got recognized in person from time to time then i'd go places like tech trade shows like ces or like nci grand openings and i'd go to places like the internet and then i'd go to then i'd go places like tech trade shows like ces or like nci grand openings and one in every five or ten people is who i am and i got to adjust to that over time where um zacky says i think he just took it too or take it so and yeah sometimes it's stressful overall it's a fun okay i hope for the next one you show off uh flappy space program oh you've got to be kidding me okay i'm afraid everyone's making flappy everything okay flappy birds after being had the ads change uh days later okay i pulled it down because he wanted to stop hearing about negativity i like that he took it down but people found a loophole to getting him of course he's parted like crazy already yep someone says i think he just misinterpreted some of the comments and that it was stupid anyway says nick nick girls started calling him the fla- if that happened to me would for 50 grand a day for grand a day you're making like and girls call you the flappy you can drive up to them in your car i'd be like sunglasses with flappy bird beside of them i'd be like sup sup ladies i'm the flappy bird guy not everyone's like that can you beat my high score 44 four i think you need to not go down that couldn't handle the pressure of the people that would have have just been like, all right, done, sure. Just like disconnect from the, and then just let their game rot. It's not a bad strategy. Just like unplug for a couple months because the internet has a short, the attention span of the internet, go back to Reddit for a minute, is on Reddit's front page. Yeah, so like if you disconnect for long enough, just, it won't matter. You're fine, don't worry about it. All right, okay, I think that's about it for now. Let's move on to our next topic. Let's make sure we're not missing any of our headline topics before we. Yeah, 290Xs have gone as high as $900. $350 clear of the original price of the 290X. So this was actually posted on a non-tech, I like Mac and PC, posted it on our forum. So here's a link to the article on a non-tech by Ryan Smith. This is like, it's like, so there's a couple things here. Number one is the prices have hit $900, which is, number two, oh, oh, oh, they changed them. Just happened. Interesting. I wonder if there's an update to the article. What's this P? It's not on, there's also not as many cards as there were. Interesting. $699, $799 for the liquid cooled one. Okay, well, I don't want to use anymore. I want to know what this P means. When I did this article like, hours ago, they were there. Apparently, because, okay, so to be clear, guys, okay, so there were a couple of observations. Number one was that $899.99, whether it had an air cooler, reference cooler, a water cooler. It's not how it was when I looked. It's not how it was when you looked. So when he looked, that's what it looked like. And the other interesting observation that this wasn't happening in other territories. So Ian Cutress, who also checked out some of, you know, his favorite UK retail, and pricing was only marginally above the North American MSRP, which it usually is because graphics cards tend to be more expensive in Europe. So. That inspect element on that P. Yeah. That's interesting. And if you're clicking on these SKUs, they're just not linked to anything? What is going on on their website? What are they doing? We should call up Paul and be like, Dude. Yo, dog. Oh, this one works. What are you doing? Premier member. Premier member. Does that mean you have to be a premier member to buy it? Oh no, it's eligible for free shipping on returns, free three day shipping. Oh, okay. So like prime, but premier, which has the same letters as prime. It's more better. All right. All of this is due to Litecoin and Dogecoin. And all that kind of stuff. And I got a whole lot to do with how performance competitive something like the 290X happens to be. I really don't know where the end of this is, but it's clear that for gamers right now, even at $700 that competitive card, for right now, the better option is like a GTX 780. And then, you know, get like a pretty decent chunk of cash towards a nice CPU to go along with it. There was a comparison made by Nantech saying that if you paid that price plus 10 bucks, you could get a 780Ti and an i5-4670K. I compared it, it wasn't exactly $10 as far as I could find, but that was maybe due to pricing. But for not very much more, you get a 780Ti and a 4670K talking about like 50, 60 bucks. So. And we consider that you don't need a 780Ti to perform better than a 290X. There's a cheaper card that does that. It starts to become pretty hard to justify for gamers and. I doubt it. I'm not sure. Sorry guys, don't quote me on the game bundle. AMD also has their game bundle running as well. I think that was added, was it thief to it? So that would make. All right. No trouble posted on the forum. The original source is. Google.com, Google and. Fox. Factory. Will amount is heavy investment upfront in. It robotic systems replacing. Low wage menial jobs like. Plugging in connect. Actually, I mean, some of this is being done already. So things like. Plugging in connectors on motherboards or even assembling things like phones and tablets potentially completely replacing those low end jobs with machines. This will allow them to do a couple of things. Number one is reduce their labor force. So there quote, this was in the verge article from someone in a department that used to have. 30 connecting. Why. From. You know, little tiny like phones and stuff all the way up. OEM PC. That team and reduce it from 30 people doing all the stuff to five. Okay, so there is okay. Number one and then effect number. That this approach could. Move new tech jobs in the manufacturing. Back overseas to North America. It's not very surprising because of certain acquisitions from Google recently, they bought Boston Dynamics which makes those crazy like running things like big dog and things called. Wildcat. A wildcat. So they recently acquired a robot. And either looking at the AI forever. This just all kind of makes sense. Now big. Manufacturing but when something like Boston Dynamics. I'm a lot of extremely. Take something like that and adapt certain systems like the articulating arms. Into some type of manufacturing system. Because I mean really that's the advantage that. Humans have old machines is the ability to. They do things as well as to have everything from good course motor control to very fine motor control. The ability to diagnose something and look closely at it and carefully while they're assembling something and. Robotic vision which is advancing very very quickly these days and. More wow look at that. I haven't actually watched this video before. That's fantastic. It's a really old video too. Yeah this is from 2008. Yeah. And being able to build devices like this that have the grace and reactivity of a human. We don't necessarily need people to put stuff together anymore and. This is a quote from the Verge's article again. Let me just find the right. Is that one of the benefits is that they want to compete better with hold on. Let me see if I can. Are you playing. Apparently the sound from that video was terrible. Oh sorry. Sorry guys. So this is from another article that. Is the Verge Foxconn begins. For workers with robots ahead of US expansion. And this is a quote. We have to begin to add more value in the process. Otherwise it will be difficult to. A young generation. And that is similar to one of the things that President Obama. Was that he replied that certain. Low jobs are simply not going to come back. And the country should therefore focus on developing more advanced manufacturers. I call BS. How does removing menial jobs make. It easier to employ younger people who are on those menial jobs. Haven't replaced those jobs with something. I actually didn't see that quote. I don't think they're helping the job market. I think this is inevitable and has been happening throughout the entire history of human existence. Well yeah it was bound to happen. But like. I mean I personally throwing this out there. I think the robot. On the scale of the industrial revolution and mass production. Wondering if it's gonna be bigger. In terms of what a difference it'll make. How the labor force get. And how tasks are. By people because. We are not talking. I mean. The goals here okay. Goals of making it more appealing to the younger generation of people. Or moving manufacturing back to the US. Neither of those goals are actually gonna be creating additional jobs. And if. The. Instead the end objective. Give the. Existence that came up with the idea. Of replacing the people. Teams with a large upfront investment. But then a very small. What I worry about. What impact will this have. And how far away are we. From the by and large. I mean maybe Wally. It's actually kind of a really big deal. Because the thing about low end menial jobs. Is that. The executive. That's just like. Decision making to be done before someone has. Work and at the end. Someone has to actually make the sandwich. Or what else will they do. It's becoming thing because like in the wall. One just kind of carts around. And doesn't have to pay for anything or do anything. But why is that. Why would the super rich allow that to happen. They obviously don't care. They will obviously let you just rot and die. With a lot less of the everyone gets everything. And then maybe. I mean I was I went to the drive through at Burger King. Wendy's today. And I was. And you know. A lot of the drive throughs had. Voice that says. Hi welcome to. Can I take your order. And then you say whatever. And then you get a completely different voice of the actual person taking your order comes back. And I was thinking about it. To the drive through. Point fifty years from now. Years from now. Will there be a restaurant you can walk into. Or will it be. You know future style. The drive through and. Be completely gone. Will you care if a robot makes your food. Depends. What if it does a better job. Because quite frankly it probably will. Then I probably wouldn't care. What if it's faster and does a job. And yet. Because like. And people are going to be like oh but you're taking jobs away from people. Yeah but that's. I'm ignoring that part completely. It's what I would care about. I. I robot. Unless. Was worse in some possible way. One has to sandwich or assemble a phone. Speaking of assembling phones like. I actually took. I felt like this kind of gave me a better understanding of the electronic assembly process because I took. All completely apart. I was kind of sitting there thinking about it today as I was in the drive through and I was like. This article and I was like if a robot could do that. What couldn't it do. It's it's going to be interesting there's there's. A forum on the Internet. That I frequent that talks about like future. And stuff like what what is actually going to happen. And the future 60s. Was all this awesome stuff. All this automation that we're starting to see and stuff but then. No one thought about the. Occasions. One will have a job. And then it's like. Who's going to make. The Uber rich the one. Ever paid the people that aren't doing anything. Because there's nothing for them to do. And. You know the the gods and clods talk that Kyle's dad gives him on South Park. I mean not everyone is cut out to be a lawyer. I personally couldn't handle it. There you go. Up front. Upper tier. Memory and. You know. With people and like I'm just not cut out for that. Not everyone can do every job. And if you take a. Tire segment of what people do. I just don't know what they'll do. And I mean you look at some of the. New jobs that are. Things like being game streamers. Twitch TV you're aware of this. Game streaming is that some. That anyone. To be willing to pay for. Tire generation of people. Those jobs it is to entertain each other. If there's yeah that's that's actually I've. Could we sustain our. Well if you look into the past entertainment has exploded. Completely it's getting bigger and bigger and there's more and more and more jobs because. Other stuff to do so it does kind of make sense but then that's the same thing as the lawyer. Not everyone can be an entertainer. Not everyone can be a lawyer not everyone can. Be a lumberjack because that's incredibly hard. Not everyone can do all these different things. I know my wood's hard. Um. Yeah. It's interesting I hope that it's. But. Who knows. I don't think we have the position to influence it one way or the other. We just have our little show. We'll try. Thank you guys for letting us be entertainers. Please let us keep. Speaking of which you can support us on the forum. Please take your sandwich. And. Well no not your sandwich money. I don't want the people who might not. Which is anymore to give us their money. See I don't know how to feel about this. Terrible. About like. Like I actually feel. Safe at least for now. Maybe. You know maybe it isn't. What if. They've talked about the. Exactly. For movies anymore. So. Be really expensive for a while. And even if you don't need actors. You will still need people for. Ex. Sensitive stuff. Time. And. And you know mouth and facial. Synchronization with with a voiceover. Comes to be. Need me anymore. Really nice B roll of a product which can be. By a robot. And it could do better shots than poor. Could ever do. Because it's a. Points about it. And will we need me anymore. And how far away are we from that. Probably not. Far that terrifying. So. OK maybe we do want the sandwich money. Anyway guys. If you go to the Linus Tech Tips forum. And you click on the if you love us. Click to see our affiliates and support us. We do have all the support options there. It ranges from everything as simple as. Adding our. To your. To your browser toolbar and to your bookmarks. Affiliate kickback. All the way to contributing directly to the costs that are directly associated. With our business here. So paying. All these shows. And that's all there. No pressure of course because. Free and we will. Everything regardless of whether you guys contribute it's just that we'll appreciate it very much. If you do. Which leads us to our. The Titanfall beta. I didn't get a code. Did you get one. I did. You. Apparently and this was posted by Chris. On the forum. If you contact the support. You received didn't work they will add access to your account. He posted a chat log. Of it working. And there it is Titanfall. Right there. Mixed reports with some people saying it is balls. Thing and some people. And it's overrated which it probably would have to be given how hype. Yeah it's a. Idea is that we're. From modern warfare for for the first time in a while. It's it's something is different. They have jet packs they have these giant robot things. There's there's different areas. Pilots can run around other robots can't get them there's all these there's. There's very. The levels are much more vertical. Because if you go really high with the jet pack. And. On the robots you can start ripping them apart there's. There's. Much. More. And. Have next before. So now it does. And it has all this other crap so we'll see if it's worth anything at all. I'll stream I'll try to stream it at some point in time. Tell me. Nope. You got a date. I don't. NDA because I've seen a lot. I don't know. NDA you can have a non disclosure agreement for a date. Is this anything to do with that. On the show a couple months ago. Actually. Oh. Okay one more thing speaking of. Microsoft. Gaming posted by Beeps could do on the forum calls it quits after only six months ex valve employee employee Jason Holtman. He is gone there was a bunch of talk. About how Microsoft was serious about PC gaming again and we haven't given up on you guys and since. Has been released we have no compatibility on the PC for this controller they're throwing. Unfriendly. Thank you very much Microsoft to me it is no. Incidence that. And decided to leave so thank you very very guys much for. Taking the time out of your on a Valentine's Day no less I'm glad the Titanfall servers were down because. If it wasn't for that I'm willing to bet a lot fear of you or be. No I will give you the benefit of the doubt you would have been here this show anyway right. Secondary monitor at least on a. Monitor or like on a phone or something or in the background or on a tablet you would have had it all TV that's behind you that you can. See and you would have been wearing open headphones so you can hear us in addition to the game sounds. So she watches later. I'm still I know okay.