 Alright, we're live and we were in here kind of pumping ourselves up pre-show. I don't know if you guys heard that but we're like, are you ready to rock? And then some chick drives by and she's like yelling out her car window. I don't know if she's replying to us or not but that was pretty awesome timing either way. The timing was most exceptional. It was really good, yeah. So she might have been, which was fantastic. Anyways, what do we got going on? We have a great show for you guys today and we are both burning to talk about what's going on with CSGO. Oh my gosh. Like multiple times leading up to the show in spite of the fact that we've barely seen each other today. We've started talking about it and then we have to give ourselves disciplinary. Stop, stop, stop. No, save it for the show. Save it for the show. So we're going to talk about what's going on at DreamHack right now with Team Fanatic and CSGO. Also, Ubisoft has taken a small break from digging, at least on Assassin's Creed Unity. They might be following up with some more digging with their other franchises but we got to give them credit where credit is due and when they do the right things, if we're going to, like if we're going to remod them for doing the wrong things then we have to congratulate them for doing the right things. What else we got today? Asrock has an x99 board coming out which has two 10 gigabit NICs and two gigabit NICs which is insanity. I have two NICs as well. There are two people named Nick who work here. Yes. What else we got? I was trying to find more Nick jokes. It is not December yet. So... Well, as long as you, you know, use an older joke it might have a couple NICs in it. Yes! Okay, Nintendo also files patents for Game Boy emulation finally and that's I think mainly on Android I think but anyways we'll talk more about that later. 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I salvaged it. While we're wearing Christmas wear. Merry Christmas everyone. Oh did you see the fan art of the Christmas shark? So good. That was so awesome. I tweeted it out earlier this week. Alright now we're going to have to have a little bit of discipline. Let's do Ubisoft first. So hold on let's just find the unity topic here. That brought up opportunity. So this was posted by Araf B'Nayan on the forum. The original source is... Post a link to chat. I'm sorry? Post a link to chat. Ah yeah that's right. Do you want to do those? You need to. I need to. There's reasons. There's a new functionality added. Because reasons. We'll try to fix that for next week. Good enough for me. Because reasons is good enough. Alright so there's the link to the thread on LinusTechTips.com. And the basic premise here is and I'm even going to remember to screen share with you guys this week. Whoa. Okay well the page isn't really loading. Double awesomeness. Alright so there you go. Wait I don't usually load the Linus Tech Tips forum page. That's right I usually load the source link. Yeah I know. Okay so assassinscreed.ubi.com the head of the game studio behind Assassin's Creed Unity has emailed players apologizing for bugs in the video game. And offering them free content. Which is pretty cool. I know a lot of people were talking about how they should have... I can't even find this topic. I read it but I can't see it in there anyways. No worries I know what's going on. I know a lot of people were actually talking about how they wanted a recall on the game entirely. Yeah that's stupid. It's a vertical and no one recalls a video game. The only reason you would recall anything is if there's like a safety hazard or it doesn't even do what it said it did. It's still an Assassin's Creed game. Yeah it doesn't run very well but that's more of a yo dog you probably shouldn't pre-order our stuff anymore type situation than a recall situation. How do you even recall? It's like recalling a movie. Well yeah that's a good point because you could have already possibly had the experience. But then you could recall a car after someone's driven it for a long time. That's true but you wouldn't give them a brand new car. I don't even know what happens. You wouldn't give them their money back. You fix it. That's how a car recall works. A patch is basically how a car recall works. So they already recalled it if they're patching it. You know what? That's kind of funny. Well what about the EV1? If we made game developers call their patches recall notices. Well okay I don't think that's fair because some patches could be like adding features not fixing things. So that could be an expansion pack or a DLC. But if it's a bug fix they have to call it a recall notice. They might not they might try to make... But they're not taking it from you. That's true. They're not recalling it. That's true. So and since okay anyways. I don't think this works. So recall is dumb. Basically anyone who bought Assassin's Creed Unity will get a free copy of Dead King's DLC. Which is pretty cool. And I believe it's people who bought the... Season's Pass. Yes. Season's Pass are eligible for a free Ubisoft game. So you can pick from Rayman, Raving Rabbids. I'm going to completely stop you because you're already wrong. The Crew, Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Rayman Legends. You never let me have fun. And Just Dance 15. I was going to come up with stuff like Prince of Persia, Sands of Time. No it's actual like good games. Like even games that aren't even out yet. So you can get a copy of the Crew. Mind you. Mind you the Crew might just be setting yourself up for disappointment again. Although we'll get into that topic next. So I mean I don't know what else there is to really say about this. Kudos to Ubisoft. I'm happy they addressed it. The Season's Pass will be discontinued. It's not like they've completely learned their lesson. They didn't come out and say we aren't going to do Season's Passes anymore. We're going to deliver all the content we can at launch and then if an expansion pack happens it happens and it'll be an expansion pack not a nickel and diming you for every little thing DLC scheme. I'm okay with expansion packs. I'm even okay with when they're like yeah we're going to finish the game at this date and then we're going to work on one and it'll be ready when it's ready probably a year from now. But when they're fixing like in-game currency to buy you know treasure chests and crap and open chests versus having the game actually not have like eyeballs floating around in the air like we're all on the same twink character. Be like oh yeah you need to be online so you can open these chests and then being like oh yeah you're having performance issues just go offline. Just shut her down. What? Did we even cover the thing where if they wanted I think it was PS4 players to delete their friends list? What? Or something like that? Oh crap I can't remember. I kind of ignore console names so I don't know. Yeah. Okay do you want to move into the crew? The crew. Yeah so hold on. By the way there's two days left in the Keep On Diggin' shirt campaign. I'm not wearing the right shirt but this is also Highlander so. It's a Linus Tech Tip shirt so you've got that much right. Yeah. 50%? Did I pass? Keep On Diggin' shirts are still available at teespring.com slash keep on diggin' with no G. Those are going to be available for another couple days. I wore mine to the gym and I think people thought it was like a workout thing. Really? Yeah. I actually had quite a few people like reading my shirt. I don't know that's totally off topic but anyways. So the crew will not be given to reviewers before its release date Ubisoft is claiming that this is because the crew is supposed to be a very large expansive world experience with a lot of other players in it and reviewers wouldn't have been able to experience that whole dynamic ecosystem therefore rendering it invalid. And I get that. It's kind of like if you weren't going to provide like okay okay well hold on there's flaws in the logic but just can you bear with me for a second. I'm nodding because I'm bearing with you for now. You were going to jump on me. I was going to add stuff actually. You were going to jump on me for what I was about to say. So for me it would be about like not providing reviewer copies of WoW. Like original. That's actually exactly what I was going to add. Okay okay but then that would be stupid because if you hadn't provided reviewers copies of WoW that would because they couldn't experience an MMO the way that it's meant to be experienced with other players and that would basically mean that you didn't test it at all which leads us to the next part where they see where they say that the Ubisoft the crew release will be smooth. That would be the I believe it was one of the lead lead designer says he's confident that it will go smoothly. Reason being we've reaped the benefits of a long beta program with thousands of players all over the world playing the game at the same time. Why exactly weren't reviewers able to get this game? Was it because there weren't thousands of players all over the world being able to play with them? Oh it seems like you solved that problem. Give reviewers the damn game. What are you doing? God. And like WoW had an open beta. Yeah I know. Pretty sure a reviewer could have jumped in the open beta that solves that problem. I left that off until we got to this part because the whole thousands of players thing like yeah they solved that problem. Tons of like every MMO that I really know of has had an open beta at some point. If they've closed the beta down by now then arguably yes there is no one on the servers but then you could also say well hold on a second why don't they just leave the beta users in there until launch. It's not like other games haven't done this before. Or even send all your beta users a message and be like oh did you want to keep playing the game we're opening the servers again for 72 hours. Whatever and then just don't tell them oh by the way there's also going to be reviewers on the servers. Who cares it doesn't matter. So then you know you've got your reviewers running around there's a bunch of people who've been playing the game for a while. Which is good. So they get to have that experience. Whereas reviewers actually that's another really good point that I just made. Whereas reviewers are going to be jumping into it with a whole bunch of noobs all over the place which might actually negatively affect the gameplay experience. So if you have that long term beta group that can kind of lead people around and get people in on missions and stuff that might be more helpful. Yubi should be watching because that's a perfect idea. You take your beta you end it four weeks before launch or whatever then you open up like a 72 hour period when you hand out the reviewer keys so that everyone who's been starved for it for the last few weeks gets to jump in and the world is nice and active with people who know what they're doing. You know Yubi if you want to surrender like your business practices division to Linus meeting group I'm sure we can handle that. That'd be totally fine. Stop making games that suck. Common sense and logic. So those were posted by E. Dort, Master Race on the forum. The original article there was from digitalspy.com for the crew not being given to reviewers before release. And then for the crew Ubisoft is sure that the crew launch will be smooth. The original article there was from pcgamer.com and that was posted on the forum by Master Disaster. Yeah. Okay so can we please. Yeah yeah let's do it. Let's do it. Alright let me scroll all the way down. So this is the main event today my friends. Hold on let me just. Oh my god. I know right. This is unbelievable. So I'm just gonna bring up okay whatever the source that I have for right now is basically a reddit thread with people talking about it so I'll just fire this up. That Dreamhack Winter 2014 Fnatic uses boost against LDLC. So let's go ahead and fire this up. This was originally posted on the forum by. Oh crap I forgot to put down the OP here. But I think that's important giving people credit for contributing to the news section of linustechtips.com. Here's the reddit discussion right here. Um warning this thread contains spoilers oh okay I guess spoiler alert if you follow esports events. Yeah that's a good call. Spoiler alert don't listen to this part. So I guess although it's like literally everywhere so good luck. Okay so here do you wanna. So LDLC and Fnatic are teams one and two. They played the first game LDLC one. They played the second game Fnatic one. And to give you a little bit of history a few Fnatic players have been kind of pointed out pretty heavily in this recent hacking point people out game that's been going on. And a few of them have quite a bit of public evidence against them. Yeah what's his face there was a good compilation of GIFs. Yeah GIFs. I still say give. Yeah I know. Is that on the reddit? I'll find it I'll find it go ahead go ahead. The third game was on map D underscore overpass. Pretty interesting map. And a map that Valve has asked their competitive teams to help them in terms of tuning and fixing any things that should be balanced or fixed on the map. Anyways the game was going 12 to 3 at halftime. LDLC was essentially wrecking Fnatic which is that's fine. But yeah 12 to 3 at halftime and in the second half Fnatic was on the CT side that's counter terris side. A boost at the A bomb site was found where if they use a couple players to kind of stack on top of each other they can get up on top of something by pixel walking a little bit. I think they were pixel walking a little bit. All this is a little bit early on. So they could see the three main pathways on the map from this kind of perch way on the back and they could use a sniper it's not like they could just see them. They could use a sniper to shoot people from there and actually kill them from extremely far away from a position that you should not be able to see and or kill those people from. Yeah there's a screenshot on the Linus Tech Tips forum of the developer view of the map where you can see where the oh that's interesting. Where you can see that the areas that they're walking on are not supposed to be areas where you can walk and basically the reason for that is that you'll tend to curve surfaces so you can end up with stray pixels that can be stood on even though that's not the way that that surface was intended to be used. So it's actually clearly states in the dream hack rules that pixel walking is not permitted although I don't believe an official judgment has been passed down yet because they're going to be reviewing it and they have committed to do something by the end of today. But honestly with all the poo flying around right now over cheating in CSGO with I mean we talked about this on the show last week but with with hacks as blatant as pressing a button and then zeroing in on the head of the nearest enemy being used and you know there's a lot of denial about whether it's been used in competitive play or not but there's also evidence stacking up against certain players lots of it stacking up against certain players. This is terrible timing it puts Fnatic under way more scrutiny than they otherwise would have been under and even if even if the I'm going to go ahead I'm going to call it a cheat because there is just no way well even if the cheat gets allowed here we go we've got an image or screenshot of the dream hack rules pixel walking is illegal even if they end up getting away with this the community is going to hate them for doing this. And like this is this is stupid most like we've talked a lot about how like it's very specifically e-sports it's not sports that's something Linus likes to bring up all the time but something notable about that whole idea is that basically all the sports I've ever played have pretty aggressive sportsman sportsmanship like rules guidelines you can get in trouble you can get put in penalty boxes you can be kicked out of games you can be kicked out of leagues for sportsman like conduct. You can get like big fines ten thousand dollars much tens of thousands of dollars fines for doing unsportsman like things in a game and this is one of the least sportsman like things you could ever do I would almost argue that in a fit of rage mid match swinging out at someone is almost not the same as this because this wasn't one round this wasn't right after you got nailed by some dude this was for the rest of the match it was 12 to 3 they ended up winning what was it 16 16 13 so the other team got one more game one more match after they started using this and I believe that match was pistol round before they were able to buy a scout on the second round so they could start sniping from that position and then they won everything I think that's how it went I didn't actually see it so for people who don't pay much attention to competitive gaming like when you're just in a pub you can see a kill cam a lot of the time so yeah sorry yeah like just a public random match on the internet you can see a kill cam and you can see where guys hit you from and you can even spectate the other team a lot of the time not the case here so until they could go back and watch the match replay or figure out where this guy was in a place where he should not have been they had no way of discovering where they were getting hit from even yeah there was there was a lot of confusion trying to figure out where they were getting hit from guys were dying and then guys were kind of looking around going like where the heck could we have possibly just been shot from and then that guy was dying it was a mess I think there might have only been one pathway that they could have possibly gone that wasn't under vision of this sniper and eventually that sniper got an auto sniper so it's just mowing people down and then they could just essentially win everything because if there's only one path that they could possibly come be coming from and counter strike you're gonna win like I don't know absolutely ridiculous completely pathetic insanely disrespectful I have I don't care about that team at all every one of the teams should just be kicked out I don't know that's absolutely ridiculous I hope Dreamhack solves this properly I hope Valve solves this properly there should be sportsman like conduct rules there's rules against what they just did so hopefully they figure it out I kind of hope that they were pixel walking just so that everything is no matter what invalidated yeah I used to watch Counter Strike a little bit I probably won't ever watch it again after the last little bit that's been going on shooters in general are quite notorious for people hacking in them Counter Strike has always been on the top of that list of people talking about games that people hack in so this is just kind of ridiculous I think top of that list is a little bit aggressive what else would be about suddenly cod hacking maybe not in competitive play so fair fair point okay um well I don't know I guess what else is there to say I wish I could find the I wish I could find what are you trying to find the there's there's a the collection of gifs that I was talking about from Flusha oh yeah yeah I'm sure Nick would be able to send it to us yeah I was looking at it before but basically it's just it's just like hilariously bad like you'll be looking over here and the camera just it does like it doesn't reload and then snaps yeah and then smooth movement again and then he and then you can tell he moves his mouse to where the guy's gonna come around the corner it's just just unbelievable and like how some of this stuff is working is you'd be able to see at a land oh my goodness hello truck you'd be able to see at a land if someone is using a wallhack where they could see through the wall so a lot of times it just puts your mouse cursor there so one thing that I noticed even in watching one of these gifs of Flusha was he was going smoothly across and then his cursor snapped onto someone's head and then he went smoothly across again and then came around the corner and shot it where the guy was but by the time he had moved around the corner that guy had happened to move so he shot exactly where the dude's head was previously but he had moved and I'm like dude what the hell like he pre-fired around the corner and missed right um very possibly um alright so let's go ahead and move on to our next topic I I just I got okay I guess sorry one last word um Valve Dreamhack administrators you have to do the right thing and the problem the problem with something like this is that it's not just one player deciding to go ahead and exploit something this was a team decision uh their mat their their coach after the match was asked about it the interviewer basically to paraphrase just kind of went I don't really know what to say like how long have you guys known about this and he goes oh a couple of months um so there's there's even more there's more controversy the person who discovered this this exploit was actually it posted a video on youtube about it and claims that Fanatic told him to take the video down and then they've allegedly just kind of had this in their back pocket and chose to pull it out at a quarter of a million dollar tournament on a map that valve had asked people the professional community to help them fix and help them tune up and there's been patches and updates to that map and if they knew this glitch was there they probably would have fixed it so this isn't a matter of like one player spitting on a referee you know what I mean yeah and an unsportsman this is an unsportsman like culture within this organization and when you call it professional esports professional doesn't just mean that you get paid to do it there's a there's a connotation that comes with the word professional that means I mean when I say I'm a professional youtuber that means I make money by being a youtuber but if I were to say that I want to behave like a professional then there's a whole lot more that comes along with that the word means so much more than just I do this as a profession and you know seeing seeing them you know congratulating each other on the successful execution of this tactic means that this is just a fundamental problem with this organization there is there's obviously some diamonds in the rough people like pasha pia pasha is awesome there's other guys in the community that are awesome but there's just so much junk to sift through to get to that and obviously like there might be a disproportionate amount of good people in the organization but how much the guys that are screwing around get attention makes them much a much larger group yeah so here's a good look at it you guys I'll go ahead and zoom in so just to be clear this is what pixel walking is so this is obviously not a part of the map that is intended to be stood on this guy right here has to jump on someone else to get here and then he has to jump on top of him so he can basically see the entire the entire I think that it's what four ways they can go and he can see three of these yeah yeah I think it's I think that's what it was made three main pathways on the map yeah kind of ridiculous yeah pretty pretty embarrassing like how pissed and or disappointed would you be if you were LDLC wrecking that whole match going 12 to 3 at halftime like really really good setup for the next next team switch and then just getting killed from nowhere for the entire rest of the match just to come out of it and figure out that they were essentially glitching ridiculous all right so I guess that's all to that's all to really say about it for now yeah are you still trying to find that gift list yeah I would really like to find it that's incredibly frustrating that I can't find it but but it's okay all right all right so let's move on to the next thing a Nintendo patents Game Boy emulation so this was posted by ah Ming on the forum and the original article here is from Pocket Gamer so let's go ahead and fire that up there you go Pocket Gamer oh someone posted the gift list right before I did that oh oh oh terrible terrible oh oh oh hold on maybe we got it oh this isn't the one that I was looking at that's not as extensive yeah no there was one I had that was a long one that was awesome yeah yeah not the right one unfortunately okay so let's move on to uh so what does what apparently Nick has sent it to you apparently Nick oh oh he has okay this better be the right one Nick no that's this that's the same one I'm pretty sure this one is longer than that but okay anyways all right yeah no it's okay it's okay let's move on let's move on okay so Nintendo patents emulation on for their Game Boy systems original article here is from Pocket Gamer I'll go ahead and share this on the screen so these are some illustrations from Nintendo's patent for an emulator that runs on mobile phones so there's an illustration of someone playing a Game Boy okay there were some more illustrations in the you can read a lot more details like the least helpful image patent thing I've ever seen yeah there we go so they've got some more details about it so the idea is maybe we could see it integrated into airline seats we could see it running on computers potentially on I guess that's supposed to be a tablet it's like yes this is a 1990s Pocket PC that uh you know like palm palm like black and white display thing that for some reason someone's playing games on so basically there's an example of an emulator architecture virtual core keypad emulation sound blah blah blah etc I mean those of you who are familiar with emulation will probably already have some idea how it works but the way that it's never worked in the past is with official sanctions from the original developers of the games now in some cases they're just not really around anymore in such a state that they would be able to that they would be able to defend anything so you go back you know far enough new things like Neo Geo or like main emulators yeah but Nintendo on the other hand has the resources and has the existing presence to take the emulation communities well really they're fun away from them I guess if you it depends on how they do this so if they just kind of go okay we're going to patent emulation so that anyone creating an emulator for a Nintendo system is infringing our patent and we can legally go after them and then they're just going to sit on all those IPs and all those old games then that's just that's a super doofusy thing to do and they they need to go just get their heads out of their butts if the intention is to patent it and then create an emulation console and then sell the titles at a reasonable price then I have no problem with them monetizing their old IP in such a way and that was bound to happen eventually we've seen a little bit it with things like the virtual console on the Wii and on the Wii U whereas if we if we saw them create more like those virtual console games like just the whole way they were doing that where they were porting them was just stupid when they could have just run an emulator in the first place and then they don't have to port anything yeah so yeah it depends on their approach if they're going to wait and like remaster everything or whatever else then that's super crappy because there's something to be said for those retro experiences and you you can't buy those retro games anymore unless you're e-banging it in which case the original creator of the content isn't getting anything for it anyway yeah and there's that whole there's that whole piracy argument which frankly I've talked about this before but I think is silly where it's not stealing if you don't actually remove the object from the other person in order to have it for yourself and if you weren't going to buy it anyway then it doesn't represent a lost revenue opportunity for the person that you are whose content you are enjoying that's dumb but what isn't quite as dumb is if that content creator is no longer providing that content in any usable way to you well then what are you supposed to do if it's not possible to purchase anymore then like we're not talking about you know a limited edition Sennheiser Orpheus headphone where they make two thousand of them and then they they're not available for purchase anymore we're talking about something that is lines of code and they're just opting not to sell it anymore and so they're the ones that are ultimately predetermining that there is no revenue opportunity to be had and they're forcing piracy it's it's it's much the same way where I think there's a gray area even with things like movies yes okay you can buy them used but there's no you're not even just that you can buy them used for one but you're not going to also get them probably in the Nintendo store some stuff a lot of stuff not that much I mean do you know how many games there are for Super Nintendo yeah but you know how many games there are that no one is interested in playing at all on Super Nintendo okay yes I'm just saying that in some cases it can be justified if there's no way to obtain it legally it's in much the same way that in some countries there are a lot of movies that you just can't obtain because there's no licensing deals in place it's like well come on well people are just supposed to move so they can you know watch Song of Ice and Fire I can't remember what the stupid TV show is called Game of Thrones I remember what the book's called that's funny wait isn't it Fire and Ice? Ice and Fire I said it wrong once I said Fire and Ice in like an audible.com integration or something and I got torn apart I didn't mess up mine yeah well yes anyway um so I guess that's pretty much oh yeah so so the big news here is there are popular ROM sites that are already pulling all of their ROMs because ROMs have been a very legal gray area up till now is it stealing if no one is selling it I don't know who knows also I don't think anyone is really pursuing it because they're not selling it anymore so that's right interesting okay kim.com is now free so the original article here is from KitGuru and the poster on the Linus Tech Tips forum was full grim and I don't know I don't know how closely you've been paying attention to the whole kim.com thing I can't find any of the topics but thank God for control F um it's a little bit not enough probably I know he's just frustrated and I've heard lately that he might have gone bankrupt um well okay the bankruptcy I think he declared himself bankrupt his ex-wife now has control of the family trust and if there's a trust I suspect that means the money is not exactly all gone so then he had to get a new lawyer something something something something something something anyway the point is um kim.com was one of the founders of mega upload which was taken down crap I think it was back in 2012 wikipedia has a pretty good history of the whole thing but the the the case against him and they were trying to get him extradited from New Zealand to the states for some reason and the whole thing's been just kind of a mess a complete sham um but the the argument against him was that he was responsible or and the the site's owners were responsible for the copyright infringing content that was uploaded to the site and then downloaded and the arguments went something along the lines of because I mean obviously mega uploads defense was well hold on a second we didn't put it there and we comply with DMCA takedown notices but then the counter argument to that was well you guys actually have advanced filtration in place for things like child pornography where it gets taken down automatically every link to it gets taken down and the file gets removed like you guys are actually taking this seriously whereas copyrighted files um the way that the DMCA takedowns worked is all they had to remove was that link to it and then the way that uploads to mega upload worked was that if you uploaded a duplicated file then it would just say yo that file's already there so do you want to just link to that one and then a file could have many many many links to it so it created it created basically a bottleneck in the system where it was almost it was very difficult to get things removed from it and there are some arguments to be made like the way that they would incentivize users to post popular things because the more clicks it gets I think they actually even had an incentive program where they would pay people to upload things that were going to get a lot of clicks. Back then I didn't use mega upload much so I'm not really sure. Well their revenue model was based on advertising so they needed traffic traffic traffic traffic traffic and then obviously the response to that is well hold on a second just because we're incentivizing people to um yeah thank you. Just because we're incentivizing people to visit our website doesn't mean that we're encouraging copyright infringement so back and forth back and forth back and forth at the end of the day I mean come on you can't put me in jail because someone uploads you know an mp3 of Kanye West or whatever the kids listen to these days to LinusTechTips.com if we do our best to remove it once we receive a DMCA takedown and or not even do our best because our best is very subjective but if we remove the infringing content once we receive a DMCA takedown notice so um so he walked today. There was a there was like there was a hearing and his comment on it is actually pretty funny. He posted on his twitter that the hearing was just like the entire mega upload case nonsensical or nonsense excuse me and um I guess that's all I really have to say about that. Yeah kind of ridiculous I'm happy he's free. I mean I don't necessarily think that enabling content piracy is the most you know noble of no but how that whole situation was dealt with was not correct either messed up yeah like completely not fair and completely messed up. The original article here is from Techspot this was posted on the forum by Missanthrope and Google Fiber rolled out in Austin Texas so congratulations to our buddies down in Austin Texas you guys are super cool definitely cooler than us because you have Google Fiber. Because you have Google Fiber. One thing that I think is interesting is I know we're not going to touch on this a ton but the internet access is a human right 93% of people that use the internet think so. 83. 83 whatever talk about like a very specific target audience um polling users of a system and asking them if they think other people should use that system as well and should have the right to use it especially internet people because you ask internet people about whether people should have the right to do anything and they're bound to say yes and then you ask them if they should have the right to use the internet and I feel like I can't even imagine who the 17% of people who said no were yeah possibly trolls like I like I agree with it but like if you're going to do a poll like this at least do one that matters and has it like number at the end that's like oh that's interesting instead of like oh that's people saying they like something because they already definitely like it anyways um I mean if it's one of those things where the idea was just to get people like us to talk about it and spread awareness of the internet being important for freedom of speech and you know freedom of information access and all that kind of stuff then good job yeah but if it was to like move any political stuff then I don't think it really mattered but Google Fiber man oh sorry. I'm jumping back what I found interesting is that Google is kind of solving this problem themselves if you read part of this Google Fiber thing you can get five megabits per second down and one megabit per second up with no monthly charge just a three hundred dollar installation fee which can be spread over 12 months and then there's no charge that is awesome Google's kind of just giving people actually pretty damn good internet and a five megabit fiber line is better than it sounds because a lot of the time what makes your internet connection slow is not actually the the sheer bandwidth it's it's the latency so that's what makes something like a web page load slowly like sure on five megabit you might not be watching 4k YouTube videos or Twitch streams but you will have quick access to the web which is the intention and then for 70 bucks a month you get one gig up one gig down and one terabyte of storage across Google Drive Gmail and Google Plus photos and if you pay $130 a month you get 150 TV channels and you can record eight of them at once which is actually pretty intense so. Alright so let's move on to our next topic here. Asrock launches an x99 board with 10 gigabit per second ethernet so I'm gonna go ahead this original article here is from manantek.com and I've been saying for a while that I would like to see motherboards with 10 gig ethernet built into them however I'm not necessarily sure if this one is the answer so this is a workstation type grade board it's estimated it's gonna be out in December so it's not actually it's not actually available yet but it's estimated that it will be out sometime in December at the price of around 800 to 900 dollars so I believe it's in the article here so it's actually got two 10 gigabit RJ45 ports at the back and they are running off I believe it's an Intel chipset yeah Intel x520T2 and then down here what do we've got four oh yeah two of them are one gigabit and then two of them are 10 gigabit the cooling solution actually extends down over the 10 gigabit ethernet port so presumably that's dealing with the extra heat being kicked off by the chipset that controls that and then there's also an active cooler on the on the the PCH down here that takes care of all your SATA connectivity USB and all that kind of stuff so this is one beast of a board but looking at the article so there's a couple PLX chips under that heatsink with the cooler as well so they can actually do 16x 16x 16x 16x with four PCI Express cards but here we go oh shoot I can't find it anyway I can't find the discussion about it but basically there were people saying that oh well you know that might actually be a pretty good value because at 800 to 900 dollars it includes you know a $400 10 gigabit ethernet card but you can actually get 10 gigabit ethernet cards for like $350 I believe and of course this is going to be the one time that Newegg's search completely lets me down networking wired networking so I'll look this up sort of offline and then I'll go find something here wired routers do you want to cover the next topic here? I was completely off page give me one second I will try to find it I can use that we'll see we'll race we'll see who can find things first all right Supreme Court is talking about tackling online threats for the first time and this is actually kind of scary for a few reasons it's coming up because Anthony Alonis I might be saying that right is convicted after writing graphic gory fantasies about viciously murdering his wife and other women and posting them to Facebook ew yeah sorry I've already read them but saying that out loud is just really gross you're a gross dude oh by the way I found it so it's $333 so at $800 to $900 but that's for a single port one just to be clear so at $800 to $900 you can buy yourself a pretty nice x99 board and a 10 gigabit nick if you really want one and not spend that much and depending on how you feel about ASRock you'll have a lot more options in terms of the motherboard okay so Supreme Court yes I already said the gross part so we can continue on from there I'm just hoping you all remember it the Supreme Court is judging whether a sorry where is it essentially I can't remember exactly where it's here in terms of wording and I know exact wording is very important for legal stuff but a lot of it is based around literally would it be a teenager playing from League of Legends or grandfather posting on his fly fishing forum so what they're trying to describe with that is is the threat real if anyone here in the audience has played online video games kind of expecting everybody you've probably heard at some point in time a really bad comment from someone yeah like there's that classic one I'm an ex-marine with X number yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the copypasta like I'm gonna whatever your mom there's like there's all the crap that gets thrown around online and like every time anyone says that I'm just like oh whatever you can't think of something better like it's not oh no I'm fearful for my life or my mom because those are really common insults on the internet but like I'd like that's the problem with this is we have to be really careful with that line because like that negates almost anything said on so many platforms but then that's gonna open the door to so many people slamming the legal system with like oh look at this screenshot I got in League of Legends of this guy saying he's gonna come attack my mom like oh my god and then the flip side of that is I mean the flip side of that is that we might need do we need legislation in place to keep people from acting like complete doofus wads on the internet doofus wads see if this comes into and if this comes into play everyone's gonna be calling each other freaking doofus wads and maybe the world would be a better place if we called each other doofus wad instead of talking about what we're gonna do to each other's mothers I like your mother so my mom's pretty nice I don't know if she's seen the oh probably yeah I don't it's it's it's a very fine line that they have to walk so the accused claims his posts were meant as rap lyrics not as genuine threats which and then if all of a sudden we're gonna go okay well no it's not okay to say those things in rap lyrics then we get into freedom of expression and art and all that kind of stuff and so I I suspect this will not go through I suspect he will walk away completely scot-free from all of this and the internet won't change and while he's kind of maybe I haven't read his post but just that description and maybe I should if I want to comment but I really don't want to but just that description is disgusting and from that description maybe he's a disgusting person I haven't read them again and that could be glorifying whatever it could be a was it told when the title Oh sensational title it could be a sensationalist thing it might not be that intense probably is but I don't know but while that is disgusting there's gonna be a lot of people on the internet that might even just be joking to a friend yeah it could be within friends something is said someone else sees it and then goes like oh sometimes people don't put slash sarcasm yeah like almost ever ever yeah I know it's fairly common on twitch do the kappa thing what if you don't know what kappa means and then there might be a common elsewhere there might be a case by case I mean so a lot of the argument here is around arguing for an objective standard meaning that a threat would count as a threat if a reasonable person would think the statement is a threat and reasonable person has a legal definition and then so there's also subjective intent so whether he intended to scare his wife with the threat might be more important here not necessarily whether he intended to follow through on it and a lot of spousal abuse is spousal abuse is a great example because threats are used to great effect because the way that it the way that it works and this is actually a super creepy conversation that I had with my mom once about someone that she knew who was the subject of a beaten beaten wife sort of situation and what she said was he only hit me once but after that this is enough yeah you know what I mean and so if the idea is that this is that this is a verbal threat with maybe some weight behind it in in the past maybe there's some history there then is it really any different yeah so I'll be interested to see how that goes let's move on to the very sensationalist headline here this is from kit guru dot net original oh I don't think we said the OP for the last one that was rayou khan yeah whatever I kit guru dot net posts Activision using YouTube copyright system to hide the glitches in Call of Duty so let's go ahead and post that up there also share this on the form here now this is a little bit sort of jumping the gun and Activision has fired back and said whoa whoa whoa hold on a second we're we didn't intend for it to hide you know game bugs you know we want those reported we'll fix that stuff but what we intended so it says glitch slash cheat videos that's the important word here in the headline from kit guru what we wanted was for people to stop posting cheats we're trying to get cheating reduced in the game and having people not post it all over the internet would be pretty freaking helpful if you guys would all just please help us out with this a little bit we're trying to make it a fun gaming experience not full of CS go professional players who are yeah Counter Strike yeah CS go and like while that's honorable and everything and actually probably not a bad idea they're going about it the wrong way because this can permanently hurt channels yep and I mean it's it's for them to hear about it from so so this was an email from machinima to some of their partners yo dogs maybe you know ease up on this because you might get you might actually get okay the problem is that a YouTube community guidelines strike has the potential to permaban your channel if you get a few of them and to get one for something as innocuous as posting an in-game glitch or any which is fine almost all the time so so using using the using the takedown policy on YouTube is is and causing potentially irreparable harm to channels is not the right way to deal with this so I still I still think activision's digging here even if their goal may have been noble they and but the thing is a lot of the time I think big companies make because they can they can retract their their claims and the strikes do go away and strikes do expire eventually as well I've had a strike in the past it was a complete misunderstanding but I didn't end up filing my dispute early enough or something something I knew I wasn't going to get any more strikes I didn't deal with that makes bar after I think six months but you know a lot of the time they might just not even think about it hey this is someone's livelihood and these strikes can get YouTube still isn't necessarily understood properly by everyone I don't understand YouTube properly I made a video where we threw stuff at you I thought it was comedy gold and it turns out people hate it so there you go shows you what I know actually we've we've done I've done a few unpopular things lately I'm on a bit of an unpopular role but the truth of the matter is I'm human you know I I thought the whole thing with the the teasing future videos and the innuendo I thought that my response to it was funny apparently a lot of people didn't think it was funny what was your response to that you didn't see that I don't think so oh yeah in our test bench video I basically said something along the lines of well we've been receiving a lot of complaints about teasing future videos at the beginning of our videos and the amount of innuendo in our videos so I'd like to I so I wanted to you know formally address this but instead here's a teaser of an upcoming video and then I compared open test benches and closed cases to boxers versus briefs which is not actually sexual no no and that's an important distinction here because I had people giving me a hard time somewhere else with open test benches boxers and briefs I didn't I didn't think there's a lot you could do with open test benches I mean it is arguably potty humor but is it sort of it's underwear come on underwear is lowbrow but it's not like but boxers and briefs is also kind of just one of those classics you know what I mean so yeah okay I had intended for the way for the way it was gonna work in the intro I had intended for it to also have kind of a humorous acknowledgement that what I was doing was stupid and not funny where I wanted a hook to appear from the side of the screen and then reach for me to pull me off the stage but we couldn't find anything we could have used this just as a c-stand yeah boom pole would have worked perfectly we were in a hurry and we couldn't find anything to kind of do that with and then apparently it didn't work so yeah apparently it wasn't funny anyway so there you go guys some people thought so I thought so still some people thought my thing with you guys soaring at me was the main complaint I got was that they couldn't understand but then like I rewatched it and I could hear everything so I didn't really get that I understand that it was kind of distracting but yeah I guess oh well we tried we tried sometimes we fail yeah that's okay that's fine we hope you guys forgive us speaking of forgiving us Panasonic's Lumix CM1 I am willing to forgive anything Panasonic might have ever done in the past okay I was wondering where you're going with that one I wasn't going anywhere with that Tom's Hardware.co.uk posted this one and this looks freaking awesome now I originally said this back when Samsung did the Galaxy camera why isn't it a phone why isn't it a phone well Panasonic finally did this right so here I'm just gonna go ahead and pull this up the Lumix CM1 will have a one inch sensor in what is otherwise a phone a Leica lens and it's planned to go on sale for somewhere in the neighborhood of a very very entry level kind of I don't know I don't even know what to go like a high-end point-and-shoot because it's it's kind of in the I think it's in the 900 pound range so it's not cheap okay I was gonna say a high-end phone but I thought those dollars not pounds no it's a bit more expensive than a high-end phone but it's uh okay so here we go blah blah blah blah blah blah the Lumix CM1 pixels are four times bigger compared to the Lumia 1020s and but it has so it has half as many pixels but they're four times bigger which means they can capture more light so in comparison the HTC ones ultra pixels were only 40 to 80 percent larger than other high-end smartphones at the time so basically what this is gonna mean is we're finally going to have something that just sheer to the way that physics works okay bigger light capturing area much larger much better much bigger lens element in front of it better pictures this should be assuming they don't completely screw it up the best smartphone camera available period and it's not going to cost that much more than an iPhone 6 or 6 plus I wanted this for a little while because there's a lot of people that want their phones to be able to last a while be able to call and text people and take good pictures that's all they really want and there you go so 20 megapixel stills in both jpeg and raw formats as well as 4k video recording although only at 15 fps which is likely limitation of the snapdragon 801 soc so that's from the toms hardware article so they've decided to position it more like a camera than a smartphone from the like the overall look of the device to the controls and they're also calling it a compact camera with smartphone technology but I hope people glom onto this because I think it is really cool I'm really tired of phones being sold based on their cameras which frankly none of them are that great we might as well have a camera that's sold based on the incredible additional functionality it has thanks to not only Android because we've seen Android cameras before but also the fact that you can actually just make phone calls from it and literally only have one device that you need to carry around with you for people who are shutter buds really cool I like that a lot yeah the ring around the lens will allow manual control of aperture ISO shutter speeds and white balance and it's expected to be available on December 1st sorry it was an estimated 900 euros not pounds because dealing with those features on a touchscreen is sometimes really not cool yeah it's actually nice that they're making that hardware stuff no I think it's fantastic what else we got here we actually don't have a ton of topics left we've been blowing through stuff sup oh yeah right sponsors I've been trying to play that for like half an hour it's okay though yay sponsors all right so we got a couple sponsors for you guys today our first sponsor is Squarespace visit 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So then I was ahhh so I was on my phone a lot and now I'm not on my phone as much so now I use it for like texting hangouts. Instagram. Calling. You're a social media junkie now. Instagram Twitter like all this stuff. I corrupted him. Which is not difficult for your phone to do and then I try to take pictures on it and I'm like wow. You should get an iPhone. It's really bad at doing this. All the photos look horrible. I tried to take a picture of that chunk that the fan took out of my finger. Right. Why would you take a picture of that? Because I was like look look what the fan did. I don't know whatever. And like the Moto X would not focus on it because I had to get my camera my phone too close to it. Right. But too close was like this far away. Right. I'm like just do it. Oh I'm so tired of camera. And the way that camera apps still give you a hard time about locking focus really really really bothers me. It's like no just touch. It's easy to use. 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The point is you don't have to leave your house and you can still look like you leave your house and shop and are like and you know look good. OK. Sony compensating PS Vita owners after false advertising. So in addition to overstating the device's ability to link up to the PlayStation 3 staff at the firm's ad agency are also accused of using their personal Twitter accounts to mislead the public. So to qualify for the payout users must live in the U.S. and have bought a Vita before the first of June 2012. Those affected should be able to choose either twenty five dollars cash or credit refund or a fifty dollar voucher which can be spent on a selection of video games or other services. I guess that's pretty much all that's pretty much it. So if you happen to buy one go get your money. Yeah. So this was posted by How to Gaming on the forum and the original article is from the BBC. Can you do this topic in the least amount of words possible because I think it'll be hilarious. OK. OK. I will I will take that challenge. So I'm going to go ahead and I'll just screen share the the post here. Don't worry. Everything is fine. So this was originally posted on the forum by SOF 0 0 6. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. OK. I have an idea. There we go. All good. Yes. Sure. All right. So F 0 0 6 and there's a video and the video is basically IGN News saying a thing for like 30 seconds. That's what they do. And why is the Xbox one so big? Because I think we all are pretty much on the same page about how the Xbox one is significantly larger than the PlayStation 4 contains basically the same hardware but a less powerful version of it contains no internal power supply thanks to its massive external brick. Whereas the PlayStation 4 has an internal brick and the PlayStation 4 doesn't have any overheating issues. Well, Microsoft's response is in as few words as possible. R R O D which is no words only letters. What even is that? R O D. Yeah. Come on. You had several of them. Yeah. Red ring of death. Yes. So basically they said look it's for cooling and I think that they have a great point here. There is no purpose in personally I don't care about external power bricks. I don't think they're a big deal. If you have a game console you probably also have a TV. If you care that much tape it to the back of your TV or something. Who cares about a power brick. And then having better cooling for the unit without adding additional cost for you know like intricate heat pipe systems or whatever else is a totally legitimate reason to have something be a little bit bigger as long as it's not too big. And when you look at the Xbox one console well it's meant to fit in you know like a like a media center cabinet and as long as it still fits in there it's going to be fine. And that's the problem is you know people going oh well you know it runs like you know super awesome cool well you probably are running it responsibly outside the cabinet you know not next to a you know heater vent. Whereas we're talking consoles. Anyone can buy a console and they could put it inside a cabinet with a heater vent under it and run games with the door closed because it looks nice. It could be possible. One thing that I have to bring up about the brick thing. People wall mount their TVs strapping it to the back of the TV is not as much of an option. If someone is playing in a dorm room and playing off a monitor it still could potentially be an issue because you're not going to strap it to the back of your monitor. Okay well where's their monitor sitting? Is it on the wall? No. Okay then they can put it under the desk. There might be very limited room under the desk. Well then they can tape it to the side of the desk. You haven't lived in a dorm have you? No. That much space literally matters. Speaking of that much space mattering. Guys let me know on Twitter if you want me to do a video on my plan to... Well okay you kind of know this already I guess but I have too many pairs of headphones. Okay yes. Yeah this is a new thing. Not that thing yet. I haven't heard from Ruckus yet about the wireless access points for the other thing. I was thinking something else. Oh okay. The size thing with the stuff. Wow. I'm trying to be super vague. Yeah you are being vague. Why don't you just type it while I talk about the new plan. So I've got about 20 pairs of headphones and people kind of go well why do you need so many pairs of headphones? And the reason is that any time I'm going to evaluate a pair of headphones your memory for what something sounds like exactly is on the order of seconds as opposed to being able to listen to headphones six months ago and like remember and be able to compare it to something new. So I actually have to maintain a fairly substantial collection of headphones in order to do side by side comparison. I'm not doing blind A B testing yet but at some point I'd like to switch to something like that in the future. But for now I'm at least trying to continue to improve the process so that means having things for side by side comparison. That means having a sound level meter so that I can make sure that they are all dialed into the same volume before I'm testing because things that are louder subjectively sound better to us. That's fact. That's like period. If you're not using a sound level meter in order to ensure that the headphones are at the same volume level when you're listening to them then who knows. I mean it's just a freaking guess. So I was wondering if you guys want to see me do like a blog video or something on like a wall management system for headphones or something like that. So let me know on Twitter if you're interested in that. Oh yeah no actually oh okay totally unrelated to that. But SLI tiny PC something like that. Okay go ahead and do another topic in the meantime. Okay where is that? Another topic give me a second. Oh okay so Smash Bros was we used fastest selling title in the US. That's not surprising at all I think everyone saw that coming. But it is official and one of the biggest complaints I've seen about this launch at all is the fact that it's difficult to go out and buy the controller adapter so you can play GameCube games on it because they're selling out so quickly. Which in comparison to a lot of launches lately is not that bad of a complaint. It's kind of awesome. I think it was the Watch Dogs release on Wii U was so underwhelming that it was outsold by some like super old game but I don't remember what it was. The stats for that isn't in here because like no one cared. And I know people at Nintendo are trying to push for like big new other like third party triple A titles on Nintendo but no one cares. Just keep making games like Smash that's all we really want anyways. Okay this is cool this is kind of related to what he was talking about but only sort of. This is an Indiegogo project that didn't get funded. I tend not to like to talk too much about crowdfunding projects on the show just because so much of the stuff that I've crowdfunded. Oh why is that not working? This was up earlier today. Alright. Well I tend not to like to talk about it too much because so much of the stuff that I've crowdfunded and so many of the stories that I've seen are just sort of a disaster. I don't like to give these guys too much attention if they haven't done anything in particular to deserve it. But this one is pretty cool and if I can get the page to load I'll bring it up. But basically it's like an MATX super tiny case that is capable of having two graphics cards installed in it which I think is pretty darn cool. If any page with any kind of reference to it would load maybe this Tom's Hardware one then I would be able to show it to you guys and you would be able to appreciate its greatness. Do you want to move on to the next topic in the meantime while I struggle to? Sure. Again I don't have one but I will try to find one. Welcome to the show guys. Hope you're enjoying it as much as we are. I'm going to go off sheet and talk about what happened with Inquisition a little bit more. Stuff that didn't really end up in the video. So we've had problems with the past where there will be DRM on games that doesn't allow you to activate it too many times and it would automatically activate in the background if you change hardware on your computer. So if I'm testing graphics cards I'm changing a lot of freaking cards. Especially if it's not working at the beginning. Which it rarely is. Yeah so anyways that happened with Dragon Age Inquisition. It locked me out after we had figured out what exactly we wanted to do with the testing and how exactly we were going to do it which was the Unfortunate in-game benchmark. So I called them up. I think unfortunate is a generous word to use to describe that in-game benchmark. So I guess I didn't call them up. You have to go on their website and sign up for them to call you. Which is not that bad I guess. Not great. But I would rather that I could call them and then get on the list for them to call me back. Because doing the site thing was just kind of annoying. Anyways they called me back in like an hour or something and then the very nice lady on the phone but very very nice lady surprisingly nice lady on the phone had to send me off to someone else and that was fine. And then that dude that picked up was super nice and that whole experience was great. That was awesome. And I was actually really really happy because usually we trash on EA and I was like I'm finally going to have something nice to say about them. And then my game went invalid again and I had to get them to call me again and they never called me. Oh EA you tried. And you know what the people behind the phones are super nice. But the policy is interesting. And the developers are probably awesome. Yeah. So who's bad? Someone's bad. Executives? I don't know. I guess that's where the blame lands. And the frustrating thing about this is we actually have the same problem back with Crisis 2. And that one had a lot more activations for one thing so it took us we had been through several benchmarking sessions with it before it ever actually ran out of activations. And then when we called them that time they said well we can't give you unlimited activations but we totally understand your situation but we can give you 50. And we have easily run it more than 50 times since then. So I'm pretty sure that they gave it like a lot more than that. So the fact that they didn't do it this time is very frustrating. What he did was he reissued me the game. He actually deleted the game off my account and then gave it to me again. Oh that's terrible. That means we can never use Inquisition as a benchmarking title then because we'll just keep running out of them and we'll keep having to be reissued games. That's ridiculous. And every sometime we have to be reissued a game we would have to call them back and it's been super crazy frustrating. Alright so I found this thing. So Luke was talking about that case that I want built that is about the size of a console and kind of how I want the internals laid out. And that's fine. Silverstone has already given me hack about A, not coming to them with my ideas because they and probably very actually rightly so see themselves as the leaders and properly cooled small form factor cases in unique form factor cases especially. And B they're like well we have some concerns with your idea because of this this this this this and this. So I'm actually planning to discuss it with them at CES. And we'll see if maybe something comes of it. I have no idea. But this is pretty cool. So this is a crowdfunded project that never made it that intended to put an M-ATX board with PCI Express extenders and the graphics cards literally right up against a mesh side panel keeping any of the of the air as long as you have a blower style graphics card keeping any of the heat from the graphics card from contaminating any of the other components. And this was a critical part of the design for my case was we were going to be able to keep it small by using maybe a duct or something to have the graphics card directly intake fresh air from outside filters of course and then blow it out the case. And so I thought this one was pretty cool. I think it's a shame it didn't get funded. But then again maybe it isn't because maybe they had no real business model anyway like so many crowdfunding. I think a lot of people didn't know about it though like everyone in the comments is like oh wow that's super cool wow that's beautiful superb awesome yay cool. I had. Whoa hold on a second. The crowdfunding campaign was a disaster but apparently NCIX Tech Tips has one coming. Oh well there you go. So they're probably doing it anyways. I'll be checking it out. That's cool. Cool. Well there you go. That was a bit of a different spin on that than I expected. I've got wheels from oh okay the guy funded the first run out of his own pocket. So like so many of these crowdfunding campaigns the crowdfunding is probably just you know a way to help do something that they were already planning to try to do anyway. Moving. I had a few people comment that it was presumptuous of us to put we are moving in our thumbnail when we were crowdfunding for the move. The crowdfunding is to help with the move. We're moving. To help us build sets. We are moving. We are going to move. It might take longer. We might not be able to afford nice sets or you know proper acoustic dampening this or that at first. It might take us longer. The crowdfunding is to help us. We are moving. We have to move. We cannot stay here. So that's basically all there is to that. Speaking of the move I actually had kind of an interesting exchange with Logan from Tech Syndicate today where and you know what the truth of the matter is I don't blame him for this because when I watched the part of the tech that it came from it was obvious that they were goofing around. They were talking about my badminton gambling debts and Wendell building a robot bird that was stuck in a badminton center that I uploaded a video of a bird that was stuck in like on my Linus cat tips channel two or three years ago and they like zoom in on the thing and they're like blah blah blah Illuminati and like so somewhere in that whole obviously goofing around trolling the heck out of everyone segment they said something like we made 2.4 million dollars last year and amongst robot chicken bird gambling badminton people decided that was true. People decided that that was true because I mean obviously we have a relationship with the guys at Tech Syndicate. We've collaborated with them on projects before so obviously Linus shares all the financial details of his company and you know based on the size of Logan's channel and how many you know hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars that Tech Syndicate brings in obviously Linus is making making 2.4 million dollars a year right. So I basically went dude can you can you issue a public sort of retraction of that because people are misinterpreting it and going oh you guys are crowdfunding when you make 2.4 million dollars a year and he's like what why would I have to do that. It's a joke. It's a joke. I'm just like it would mean a lot to me if he just said something so he's like okay and he sends out a tweet today and so I like I retweeted it I'm like yeah obviously a joke and then now now now he's emailing me he's like oh I kind of feel bad and so public public statement from me dude don't feel bad. I laughed throughout the whole segment and I didn't even notice because I assumed that I hadn't even watched the part with the 2.4 million part because I didn't notice it. I had actually watched that part I just didn't notice it because it was all silly and I was I was looking at you know Illuminati bird conspiracy garbage not not not that so yeah dude don't feel bad. I thought it was funny. It's just a couple people on the internet that apparently take things way too seriously and the only reason that I was upset and sort of asked for him to clarify it was because we are taking some flack over our crowdfunding campaign in general and people misinterpreting him and then repeating it as if it's fact loses the context of the joke and so that is the problem not anything about the joke that was an issue. So anyway Sony has an innovative watch. Innovative is a word. This was originally posted by TechDreamer and the original article here is the one that I liked better was from Gizbot I think here of an innovative watch made entirely out of e-paper so there's a I'm gonna I need a faster way to like I need to set up like a tab system so that I can sort of alt tab tab and I can oh my gizbot link is no good. Anyway the watch is made entirely out of e-paper they've got a well okay the okay the strap and the watch surface are made out of e-paper and the idea is that you can change the look of your watch very easily so you could have like it looks kind of like you know leather or it looks kind of like metal finishing paper that can actually be pretty interesting yeah they're claiming a 60 day battery although none of this has been verified off of a regular watch battery so 60 day battery life off of a watch battery and let me just fix the link boom there it is. The amount of jerking around we've had lately with freaking battery life I know I know I know I know but it looks pretty cool so there's a there's a video in the in the CNET link here I'm just gonna fire this up and you guys can check it out so there you go hopefully I don't get a hopefully I don't get a strike for this I've actually I've actually gotten copyright complaints from playing promotional videos for things in my in land shows isn't it from someone who wanted it was I think it was LG I want to say basically their their PR firm wasn't talking to the right people and miscommunicated something anyway so so the point is oh look how I grabbing this is no I don't think it's that attention grabbing I think this is a bit of a silly video but I also think they're having some fun with it now you might have noticed that the company whoa hold on a second what was that that doesn't say Sony that says fashion entertainments the S is for fashion entertainments and this very tired looking man tells us about how it can the look of it can be customized it doesn't have a lot of the more traditional or even expected smartwatch features things like you know oh heart rate monitor this and and that but looks cool I don't know if I care oh I don't I'm not gonna buy one yeah but like I don't know if anyone should I like the idea I like the idea get the combination of the annoyances that you've had or if you were playing badminton it's either gonna be a strobe light or when you actually want to look at it it's not gonna be able to turn on so you have the annoyances of it just not always being on then you have it running off of a watch battery that only lasts for 60 days these shoes they change colors with every step it's a watch though it's not your shoes no no the technology they're looking at bow ties watches shoes here's the here's the bow tie one I like I don't know if the watch is the right product maybe the other stuff is a better product than the watch but the concept as a smartwatch I don't think it makes any sense I think it's like a fashion watch maybe but then you're probably better off getting something that isn't this and isn't gonna die off a watch battery in 60 days because replacing that's a lot more annoying than charging something I mean I don't this will be eye-grabbing that's super cheap I guess it could work as a party favor yeah it'll be a long time before it's that cheap but I don't know I think I think it's cool what they're doing it's it should be noted that there is no Sony branding on it so so FES fashion entertainments is a subsidiary of SOTY so even though they're not really talking about it and they've actually raised 3.5 million yen 30,000 US dollars from more than 150 supporters via crowdfunding in order to get this idea off the ground I do find it interesting that a company like Sony if we're gonna get criticized for crowdfunding then Sony mind you Sony is more broke than us they have more assets but they they may have less assets I think they're not okay but okay no I know I know but like if we if we look at it like that's like saying like oh yeah the dude on the street has 15 cents in his cup and I own a house so I'm way more in debt and he should be giving me money like that's that same broken logic it is broken logic but they they made less money than us last year even if we only made a dollar we made more money than something negative right but then they still have their assets I know they have the assets holy crap is it six o'clock yeah wow okay so um and Linus is now broken yeah because there's a whole bunch of stuff that I still really wanted to talk about this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen totally just a concept yeah this is a crowdfunding thing no but again they have a crowdfunding campaign even though most of the time the crowdfunding video at least sort of shows off a sort of functional product of some sort this secret bracelet is just obviously not even anything other than a pipe dream I mean the idea behind it is very cool so there was a simple sketch then a first molding now it's a dream okay a simple sketch in a molding the jump to dream is not real far not a whole lot of progress has been made basically the way they want this to work is you'd have this this bracelet that projects your phone onto your wrist and they're like oh yeah the way it's gonna work is let's see no they don't have any diagrams here I kind of wonder if this is just a way to drive more traffic to their secret app which is just like an encrypted messaging app because I can't imagine they're gonna build this and you can even tell from their campaign video like the campaign video looks pretty looks pretty sleek and if it wasn't so poorly done I might even believe they'd made some progress on it but this is just nothing and then this is just a motion tracked screen and then there you can see like they're just kind of completely faking it the motion tracking on this one's particularly bad you can see it wobbling around on his skin see because he's not holding his wrist still enough so the way it's supposed to work is there's like a pico projector thing here and then there's proximity sensors all along the edge here so that as you put down your finger you stop the beam and it knows how far away your finger is it knows which beam you broke and then it's you're at where you press but the problem with that is they show things like typing on a keyboard and then if we go later on in the campaign video like I can see how people who aren't that tech savvy might fall for this but this is just straight up not gonna work I wish I could find the part of the video yeah there we go so with seven of those if the way it works is by interrupting the beams you will not be typing on a keyboard it will have no idea where you're pressing well with that level of they'd have to come out with their own keyboard and they would have to be like you know how old phones that work where you like tap something a number amount of times so like if you interrupt these two beams twice no no it wouldn't be like that because they could have an on-screen keyboard as long as it all lined up and the buttons were nice and big then it could work because it knows how far away you are and it knows which beam you can attract how far away yeah okay yeah so it could work but it won't work with any kind of traditional keyboard and it's obviously nothing more than just like basically like a Razer project is it Christine is the project Christine from CES last year apparently they're still interested in that I think they're having a hard time getting hardware partners called it what else you got so much oh this is this is one more just kind of silly thing that I wanted to I wanted to talk about so the a dedicated one key hash key is now available also a silly crowdfunding thing if I recall correctly so this was originally posted by Linux user on the forum and here's the isn't original he just ripped off the control delete keyboard yeah but now it's for social media junkies rather than people who want to restart their computers it's called hash key and it's an idea for a tiny one key keyboard that only does one thing put hashtags instantly okay cool it's actually doing not bad like the crowdfunding campaign because people are just gonna get because he launched it at the right time because people just want to buy it for Christmas stuff it's a cool stocking stuff not gonna be available in time for Christmas I know but it's Christmas so you're in Christmas shopping mood yeah annoying my mom if she buys it I don't know five years before Christmas it's probably fine now one commenter here on gizmodo actually brought up a very good point and said have y'all ever seen a British it's a British Kickstarter have y'all ever seen a British Mac keyboard where is the hash key whoa whoa we need to stop hashtagging things they got their own pound yeah I didn't realize that good I actually need it I didn't realize that it's not called pound outside of North America it's it's always been hash hash sign and then a hash tag I've never said pound key oh yeah was pound until the whole social media happened I could tell like of course there's there's situations where you should probably use it but like don't I hate social I hate social media hashtags I don't know I've never really been so this is cool I'm speaking of social our forum Adam the geek just posted I just got a pebble steel since then I've since then I've been playing around making watch faces made a WAN show watch face sick yeah that's awesome I love it so I just wanted to wanted to share that little bit of fan art I love this fan art stuff it's cool no one ever made fan art of us before except that one really creepy thing um yeah so this was originally posted by ah Ming on the forum and it's from hardwarezone.com Sony is this is this is amazing so they're releasing the VPL GT Zed one this is a 55 kilogram so guys for those of you who think Imperial we're talking about 130 pounds something in that neighborhood 4k ultra short throw laser projector it does 4k 60p over HDMI 2.0 with four inputs it needs only seven inches from the wall for a 17 by 9 aspect ratio image you need like two people to haul this thing that is a hundred and forty seven inches tall so you can fit it whoa what from seven inches from the wall it's a laser projector this thing is badass if you were looking to build the ultimate home theater setup and you kind of went you know what my home theater setup is not gonna have a projector mounted on the ceiling you only have to have it this far from the wall in order to have a home theater sized perfect for every single one of them is pretty cool hand assembled in Japan okay how much does this cost you're talking about home theater setup uh well you'd be a pretty you'd be pretty your ball okay so like 50 grand i think yeah 50 grand us so it was like lottery home home theater yes so to put this in perspective this is 135 inch would be like the typical 4k projector distance this one sits seven inches away now it's not small it's a meter wide like it's huge that's really big but it's pretty pretty freaking cool i thought that was that was pretty darn sweet uh what else is there to say about it yeah i guess that's pretty much it i think that's pretty much it for the show for today unless you had anything else that you really wanted to hit guys thank you so much for watching i mainly just wanted to talk about that whole um which we had to talk about dreamhack winter uh what a disaster because that's just been ridiculous i wanted i wanted to show that ubisoft was still digging despite doing some good things they did a good thing they did let's give them credit i'm not taking off the shirt yet and i'm not gonna tell you guys to stop buying the shirts they have like one dude in the hole trying to put dirt back in it and then they have another dude in the hole trying to throw dirt back out so i don't know if they still haven't solved their problems well the hope is that the guy putting the dirt in will suffocate the guy taking the dirt out and then they can just keep on digging they can get rid of that guy that's not the hope well that might be their hope based on their based on their goals yeah yeah yeah people are bringing up star wars but i haven't been able to see the trailer you haven't seen it i have not seen the trailer oh you know why i haven't seen the trailer yet is because last night someone linked me to an imager post it's amazing saying here's the star wars trailer and it was someone secretly filming in a movie theater and i was like okay cool and then you get rick rolled oh like oh so it's not real so no i saw a bit after that i was like oh whatever it's not real it's just people trying to spread this rick roll whatever i guess rick roll is coming back so i was just ignoring it completely it is and then today so real we're filming that thing that i'm not gonna bring up that's coming on sunday um and brandon's like oh yeah have you seen it yet i'm like well i got rick rolled and he's like what oh yeah that's what it is you got you got wrecked roll yeah i got completely destroyed not only did you get rick rolled you didn't get to watch the trailer oh so do you want to talk about it uh you can talk i don't like spoilers yes yes i will talk about it well the trailer has a lot of like long dips to black so there's not a whole lot of spoiler to happen it's like it's like basically like a two second snippet and then it's like dip to black dramatically and there's like like he's like a couple seconds and it's gone they're not showing you anything but but there's a couple really cool shots that reminds me of the world's a drainer trailer where it's just like the orc facing at the screen like breathing angrily like not showing you anything it was actually a really cool trailer no they are they're showing nothing but uh okay so there's there's one shot that like made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and they've got a couple of x-wings information flying like a couple feet over the water and the water spray is like flying up behind them uh they've got obviously a sith um you know firing up a lightsaber that's actually got like a hilt on it oh yeah but the design of the hilt isn't very good it's kind of stupid because there's actually like things that they come out of so the traditional way that that was used the the handguard was used as if the sword slid down yeah well that wouldn't block the blade because if you slid down the blade you cut off the thing um there's nothing preventing a lightsaber from being cut in half it would have to be like up on a weird angle or something but yeah okay i got you so it is it is amazing how emotion invoking just that music is yeah that music with some kind of imagery to it i i i do love star wars and if i think i said this on on netlinked today uh over on ncix tech tips but if abrams screws this up he's gonna be called jar-jar abrams yes i've read that somewhere okay i still like the joke even if it isn't yours yeah because it like star trek i enjoyed the movies but there was really no risk that i wasn't going to enjoy the movies i'm not a trekkie like i i watched a bunch of next generation with my dad when i was a kid but like as a as an adult and even as a teenager i never got into any of the star trek series hold up pause sorry apparently the dreamhack match is being played again from halfway that is retarded no that's not right that is super dumb okay we don't ignore that for now we don't use the r word to describe things that are dumb because that's not pc sorry but i i acknowledge that your anger is not entirely unjustified and sometimes angry outbursts over an incredible injustice um don't make it through the politically correct filter i'm sorry that's just stupid but that is ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous hopefully that's not actually what's happening hopefully he's trying to add to the trailing match apparently that's not confirmed yet okay okay no the decision isn't final yet okay good good anyway back to back to star trek um so i didn't really have any emotional investment in it i was able to watch those movies as just like fun space movies that i don't really care about star wars is a whole other ball of wax i'm sure nick has official verdict okay not been decided good um so star wars i have a much more i like read tons of the books and like i owned like star wars like encyclopedia reference style books like the ultimate guide to vehicles and weapons and characters and like read them cover to cover multiple times as a kid like i'm a star wars kid so if he screws me as the old you know if i hear any mention of midi-chlorians i will walk out of the theater do you know the old like straight up golden black box the vhs box yeah yeah yeah i've got that one ours is like half destroyed because of how many times i watched it as a kid well i'm a little older than you so for me it's the one with the uh the the blue star wars text the um my dad i think my dad had a version before that one purple empire one and then the uh maroon return of the jedi one and black box set yeah uh but i also own the gold one that's funny so uh so there you go the remastered ones the the one the gold one is pretty bad it's got a lot of remastered crap in it grido shoots first but the one that i owned before that is the one that i grew up watching over and over again han shoots first the way that he should have it's not even a debate i don't even understand what there is to debate about it you know people star star wars people need to just get together and i'll go look we're not going to talk about this anymore because there is no debate the many movie where han doesn't shoot first is not a star wars movie any movie that mentions midi-chlorians is not a star wars movie any movie that has jar jar binks in it is not a star wars movie and revenge of the sith i can i i enjoyed it but i have never once rewatched it so i i maybe i'll go back and give it another shot um and see if see if it still holds up to being not complete garbage right use the force harry quoting gandalf thank you for that jerk you're banned all right now now the twitch chat is full of han han did not shoot first and so the show is over thanks for watching guys peace bye show is so over like over enough that we're never going to do it again grido shot first until next friday yeah so then we'll do it again yeah very specifically at 4 30 pst yeah unless we're late usually so like in any range specifically from 4 30 to 6 we'll be like we're only like six minutes late today or maybe eight they're both even though