 Ready? What? What's not ready? When the intro rolls, we're not gonna have any of it. Oh. Yeah. I can do that live. No, it's okay. Don't worry about it. Welcome to the WAN show, guys. We're gonna... The Japan show. Yeah, the WAN from Japan. We're gonna have to be a little quiet today. Because we're in the lobby. Yeah, we're in the lobby of like the most kick-ass hotel ever, by the way. This place is awesome. This place is absolutely incredible. It's great. They gave us kimono things. What is that music? That's you. What? It plays here. It doesn't matter if it's muted or not. Hey, shut up. It's a posit. Geez. So anyway, the thing behind us that you guys see is like this amazing little like... Gainormous koi pond. Yeah, there's like a huge koi pond. Like these salmon sized fish and like this gorgeous like plant life and trees growing out of the cliff face and all kinds of cool stuff like that. Cliffs. Salmon sized fish. Salmon sized. You know what? Okay. We're both pretty tired. Salmon sized fish. The fish I caught was the size of a salmon and it was a salmon. Was it a big salmon? I don't know. Just an average salmon I guess. Average salmon, but it was delicious. Don't worry about it. So we have topics. We do? Oh yeah, we do have topics. But like, okay, here, I'm just I'm gonna show this to you guys because this is straight up the most like... The best. Wow. Broken. No, no, that's last week. This is like the most broken, worthless, Wanshow doc that we've ever had. It has literally no actual notes. It just has stuff that happened this week that neither Luke nor I has had any time to look at because I've been on vacation and he's been covering for me on vacation. And apparently Ghost is actually working on it right now trying to fix it. Yeah, Ghost. There's no hope. And it like won't matter because we suck right now. Yeah, we're like... How much have you slept in the last like four days? Oh, four days, probably six hours. Because it was two hours before I came on this trip. And then I've had 2.3, I'm counting a hot dog as a third of a meal. So I've had 2.3 solid meals in the last five days. One of those meals was like one of the most amazing things I've ever had though. Yeah. But yes. But included raw chicken. Yes. So that was weird. That was pretty bizarre. So I've been super sick. And so I haven't rested well either. So yeah, we're gonna like hang with you guys for a bit. And this is gonna be the Wanshow this week. Welcome to the Tired Show from Japan. And we have the FreshBooks thing sitting there this entire time. You know what? FreshBooks is cool, man. Whatever. We have topics. We have topics. Right. Let's roll the intro. Yeah, alright. Cool. I don't know if I fixed the audio or not. It's like cutting out. It's weird. Is it? Yeah. It's kind of bizarre. It's a new age thing. Oh, geez. Alright. Are you gonna do this live scene? No, don't do the live scene. That's stupid. I got it. I got it. FreshBooks. That's not even. Okay, that is one of them. FreshBooks. You didn't do that. FreshBooks. FreshBooks. Squarespace. Squarespace. Linda. No big deal. I did it. No big deal. Yeah. You got this. Alright, guys. So, you don't have. Oh, wait. Can you open Twitch chat and paste links? Oh, we're awful. They're asking us to get Ed and Taryn on the show in Twitch chat. It's not gonna happen. It's just. It's not gonna happen. That's all I can say. Okay, so we were supposed to fly out of wherever we are back to Tokyo. At like 6 p.m. At 6 p.m. Instead, we're trying to reschedule our flight at the airport in the morning. So, we have to be at the airport at 6 a.m. So, it is now almost 1 a.m. here. We have to wake up at 4. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. But. It's so sweet. What we were doing while we were here was actually pretty cool. So, for those of you who don't know, we were sent to Japan by Logitech to take a look at the Omron Factory. So, everyone kind of knows Cherry, right? They make switches that go in keyboards. And it's slightly less common, I think, for people to know Omron, even though they're kind of like the mouse switch. Like the mouse micro switch equivalent to Cherry. Like if it doesn't have Omron switches in the mouse, you might as well not bother. So, Omron and Logitech partnered up over the course of two and a half years to create the Roamer G switches. And they're both so proud of what they've done that they invited us all the way out here to actually have a look at one of. Well, actually both. But we only filmed one of them. But the production lines for every single Roamer G switch that goes in. Well, right now, the Logitech G910. Yeah, that's it. So that's what we did. We checked it out. I was amazed at how different the Japanese approach has been to the German approach. And we'll give you guys more details in the actual video. But that's what we're doing here. So for now, I guess I guess what I'll do is go ahead and kick off our first topic. So this week, apparently, the Apple Watch reviews landed. Actually, I did check out some of the reviews on the Apple Watch. And I guess the the main summary here. So like some some headlines. So Gizmodo says Apple Watch meta review. It's not perfect, but it's still something, something. But the general consensus is it's first gen and it's got some first gen sort of mess about it. But, you know, it's a great start or it's really cool or I'd love to have one or it's a fashion piece. And I kind of look at this and I go, how? OK, now, to be clear, I may end up eating these words because I haven't got one yet. I do plan to get one. I do plan to use it. And I do plan to give it a fair shake because it's not like I just hate Apple or something. I really respect a lot of what they do and I really like a lot of their products. But the Apple Watch, unless I am somehow a complete idiot and having a screen on your wrist that isn't on without a motion activation gesture is asinine. And seeing reading between the lines in a lot of these reviews with pretty much everyone across the board going, it's first gen, it's first gen, first gen issues. There are some first gen things to work out. What that means is don't buy this. Yeah. Do not buy it. Yeah. That's a terrible, terrible idea. And if you buy it, you're basically dumb because what does first gen mean? It means beta. Pretty much. Yeah. I mean, it's not every first gen product has first gen issues. So when you say that, you're basically saying it's a bad, not finished product. And to me, it feels like an awful lot of sucking up is going on right now for the sake of making sure that you don't get taken off Apple's favorite journalist list because that list does exist. We've never been on it. So we have absolutely nothing to lose. We will never be on it. I think all they have to do is watch this stream right now. And us ever being on it is a foregone conclusion. No, I don't even have anything against Apple. We'll just never be able to be on it. Yeah. We're actually we're just not cool enough, I think. Not even just that, but like where I think we're too objective. I don't even think that's it because, okay, AnonTech was on it. Their objective. But then it didn't Anon like. End up working there? Yes. But that relationship came later. You know, he went from being a PC guy to buying a Mac and trying it out and falling in love with the experience for some reason. So that's like that's fine. So that's why we're not going to keep it for some reason. So maybe it's not because we're objective, it's because we're sassy. So the Apple Watch reviews. There are some there are some good things that came out of it. So some people are talking about how the functionality is great, how it feels really good. The fit and finish is really nice. Having it on the wrist attracted a lot of attention, a lot of compliments. But I continue to have the same issue with any oh no. But I continue to have the same issue with no, I'm not going to no, I'm not going to miss a beat. I'm not going to let you screw me up. I continue to have the same issue with screens that are not always on and battery life that is just barely borderline. Like the funny thing is one reviewer who gave a fairly overall positive sounding review said something along the lines of I equate it to my experience with the first iPhone. And that raises a couple of alarm bells for me. Number one, the first iPhone was revolutionary, but wasn't actually a great phone by any stretch of the imagination. And number two is that if this is like the first iPhone to you, then have you even used another smartwatch? Because that was what was amazing about the first iPhone was how different it was. The Apple watch is not fundamentally different from other smartwatches in the way that the iPhone was different from other phones at the time. So basically, we do it. It's got that like menu with all the circles. I know it's different. Well, you could say things like that about Android. Where to know and the associated devices. That's that's no, this is different. You can like flip through the pages. I don't know of any Android Wear watch that I could spend 10 grand on. That's true. Well, hold on. You could probably find a way. Like if you dip an Android Wear watch in gold and be like it is now 10 grand. Yeah, like if you put enough Swarovski crystal around it. I mean, Lord knows I've seen people do that with cell phone cases. So it's probably possible to bedazzle something with $10,000 worth of Swarovski crystal. That needs to be a world record. Like is there a world record for the most bedazzled thing? I think I saw an entire bedroom that was like done up. Yeah. Is that what that thing was called? The bedazzler? Yeah, I think so. I'm gonna look it up. Bedazzler. Yep. Yep. Yep. That was it. Oh, man. That thing was amazing. All right. Let's go ahead and move on to our next topic here. The new MacBook. Wondering how inappropriate to get about the bedazzling. But it's all good. Yeah, we're not going to talk about bedazzling that. This is another thing. Isn't this the same conversation? This is basically exactly the same conversation we just had, except to a much greater degree, because I could make the argument that the Apple Watch is a justifiable product. If you are an Apple iPhone user and you want a smart phone, and you don't want a Pebble, if all those things, then... You want a smart watch. Apple Watch. If that as well. If also have $350 plus, then Apple Smart Watch. Apple Smart Watch. With the MacBook, I fail to understand how Apple is receiving positive reviews for this thing. And I even skimmed through a few of the reviews, and I found things like, whoa, a lot of the complaints about the new MacBook, like not having enough ports are similar to complaints about the original MacBook Air and how it didn't have enough ports. So it's good. Well, actually, the original MacBook Air was a slow ass dog with not enough ports. And that never changed. It wasn't a great product. It was revolutionary in that it was extremely thin. It was the first ultrabook, like the first really good super ultra thin ultrabook machine. But it wasn't a great computer. It had a fatal flaw that made people upgrade them pretty darn quickly. When's the last time you saw a Gen 1 Air? No. And so I've got people. But dude, when he pulled out of the notebook, the no, not notebook, the the the the the Manila sleeve. Yeah, that's impressive. It was. Whereas the new MacBook is not enough thinner than an existing MacBook Air, cripples itself. And the big argument that I see supposed professional reviewers making are that it's fanless. It's as if the UX 305 doesn't exist. That's what it is, right? That's the Asus one, right? I don't know. There's Lenovo ones as well. Fanless one? Yeah. I saw them at CES. You're on Japanese Google. Yeah, Japanese Google. Well, I'm just Google.ca and then do it. No, that's the new one. Yeah. Yeah. It's as if the UX 305 doesn't exist. I mean, it's the same fundamental hardware idea where you've got what is essentially a tablet on an extremely small PCB inside a laptop chassis and then the rest of it filled with battery. And it's fanless because it's extremely low power. And so I see the same thing being done. Oh, it's first gen. But it's good. Is it first gen or is it good? Because it doesn't have any ports. It's not very fast. And it's extremely expensive. So you pay the early adopter tax. That's not the kind of thing that normally gets a glowing recommendation. No. Yeah. Like I've done, I'm fairly notorious for early adopter tax on certain things. Yeah, I've done it. And calculus and whatnot. But at the same time, every single time I've done it, I've recommended that people did not do it. So I just... This is probably not a good idea. Don't do this. It won't retain value. It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you know what? I saw a couple of reviewers who managed to say, I like it. I've got someone saying, stop talking about Apple. No one cares. Actually, you're objectively wrong. So anyway, I've had some reviewers saying... Because, okay, hold on. Let's back up for a second. The reason we're talking about this is not because this is ground we haven't covered and not because the Apple Watch or the MacBook, the new one are particularly interesting products to me personally. But because it's in much the same way that for all the negativity that came along with it, Gamergate was supposed to be about exposing the problems with gaming journalism. Here, I see a big problem with tech journalism, where you have to really read between the lines to find out what the reviewer actually thought of the product. Where they're saying, it's good. It's first gen. It's expensive. Which one is it? It's either good and you should buy it or it's first gen and it's expensive and you probably shouldn't buy it. You should probably wait a little while. So to me, it's a big problem. Let's go ahead and move on to our next topic though. Not that I'm giving into pressure. Netflix can now ban VP. They can ban VPN users with updated terms and conditions. You didn't even know this yet, did you? So there you go. It turns out that just like other competing services that have gotten more serious about blocking international users from using the US service, Netflix is cracking down on it. I mean, there's like half the stuff on the Canadian Netflix. I know. Actually, there's way less. Canadian Netflix sucks. Yeah, it does. But the reason that Netflix has to do this. I know the reason. And I know you know. I'm telling you because you're my co-host, not because I think you don't know. Not that we shouldn't cover it again. The only reason why I said I know is because we've covered this before. But it's because Netflix has to protect their ability to even negotiate content deals with the IP owners. And the thing is, even if it's the same movie, the second you go across borders, there's different people controlling it. That's right. And there's different agreements in place. For example, let's say movie X. Maybe in America, it's on Netflix. Maybe in Canada, it hasn't made it that far down the price chain yet. And it's still being shown on cable TV, for example. So that is why they actually have to enforce it. Because if they don't enforce it, they're going to lose the content relationships that they have in the territories where they're strong, like the US. Now for me personally, I see a future where this digital distribution is just worldwide and everyone can either suck it or... Well, that's basically the only option. The thing is, they're going to run into the problem again of... It's not easy enough. Some people are just going to start pirating. Well, no, that's exactly it. It has to be easy and it has to be global. But the problem is that the easy solution came along. So Netflix to me is kind of like the steam of movies and TV shows. And then all the other guys are going to kind of look at it. And we're seeing this already with services like Hulu. All the other guys are going to look at it and go, oh, holy crap, that's really profitable. Maybe we should actually develop that business. Maybe we should actually develop that business model. And so much like we're seeing with Origin and YouPlay, we're going to see fragmentation to the point where instead of one service like Netflix, you're going to just have a Netflix and a Hulu and a Bulu and a SetFlix and whatever all the different things end up being called. And once it's actually managed by the owner of the property, they can wait for whatever global deals are in place now to gradually expire and they can roll it out worldwide because ultimately that's going to earn them more profit anyway. And that's the only thing that's going to motivate any of this is looking at how successful Netflix has been and how they can cut middlemen out of the equation. And that's an excellent way to do it. Like how HBO, what is it, HBO Go? Or is HBO something else? I think it's Now. HBO Now, sure. I think they're two different, I think they have both of them. I think they're two different things. HBO isn't necessarily going to want to push all their stuff to Netflix so they're going to have their own service. It's super annoying. Got people calling for Sex Flix and Bulu. Yeah, because you said SetFlix. Oh, I said SetFlix. Whatever, I guess it's kind of quiet. I'm trying to be quiet, but I'm ending up getting louder and louder. I know, I've noticed that. I'm like an embarrassing person to be around. You are. Much like Taron bringing water through security two times. Yeah, both times we went through security, we got water through. Yeah. That guy is such a caveman. It's just like you put him in any civilized... We were in the terminal to go to the plane and he got like the lady that was serving us food to fill up his bottle with water. And I'm like, you're going to just forget and then he just forgot. And I was like, damn dude, you didn't even take a drink from it at all. It's completely useless. Like we were boarding in like half an hour. What? Oh, I love that guy. He's fantastic. Dinner tonight was hilarious. Like there was... Okay, I think probably the funniest part of it was this is like a... We actually, Omron treated us to about the ballerist dinner. I think I... As you can see behind us, this place is pretty nice. Yeah, this place is incredible. We had dinner here at the restaurant in the hotel and we had our own chef. And we had our own chef who sat in a little room next to the room where we ate and prepared the food as it was brought out. It was how many courses? 11. 11 courses. Ridiculous. We had two dedicated servers in addition to the dedicated chef. And all the food was like crazy. But I laughed internally when one of our hosts told me that it was not going to have any seafood. Because the second I lifted the... Like they have these paper covers over your setting. The second I lifted it up, there was a roll with sashimi wrapped around it. Just like, okay, because I don't eat seafood. So throughout the course of the meal, how much seafood was there? Not a ton, but there was seafood. Well, there was the prawn tempura. Yeah, there was the sashimi thing. There was the sashimi thing. And there was more seafood. There was turtle or something. Yeah. Yeah, they wouldn't tell me what it was till I ate it. Yeah, there wasn't much of it. I was kind of sketch about that. Yeah, there wasn't a lot of it either. What else was there? There was little bits here and there. I would count raw chicken as kind of more hardcore. Seafood. Okay, it's not technically seafood. Raw chicken, seafood. Yeah, seafood. Seafood. Okay, it's not... Some of the stuff was like amazing though. Like I really loved these. They have these bizarro, not really candles, but like... Those are cool, yeah. Some kind of fuel that... Basically what they do... When you light it, the whole thing torches instead of just like a little wick. And then there's a metal bowl above it. And it's basically like pre-calibrated so that you get the right stick under it. And then the right amount of water and the right amount of food. And once the flame dies, the food is cooked. I was like, that's amazing. So they had like these soups, these broths that your meat would sit and cook in while you ate other things. And then once the flame died, you knew it was ready to eat. And so there was the... The steak was amazing. Oh my god. The beef, like the tender beef in the broth was amazing. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty awesome. Linus was too sketched out to finish his raw chicken because that is pretty sketchy. That was a stroke of brilliance. I'll let you talk about your brilliance. So we had like the hot pot thing that he's just talking about when there was the beef and a few other things in it. It was like a small... It was 11 freaking courses and there was a hot pot. So it wasn't like the most giant hot pot thing ever. But I took Linus's raw beef, which he had ditched onto Edzel and Edzel had... No, raw chicken. Raw chicken, sorry. Which he had ditched onto Edzel and then Edzel had in turn ditched it onto me. And I cooked it in the hot pot. Stroke of genius. It was a lot better. I wasn't into the raw chicken, I will admit. The taste was fine because like the outside was... The outside was kind of like cooked dish. Like it was like it was like blue steak. I think they like dropped it and then immediately flipped it in a pan that was on low. No, I think it was a little more than that. I had not much. It was maybe a little more than blue steak. Slightly, yeah. But it was not cooked properly. But it was not cooked. Like it was not cooked. And what they said was that at very high-end restaurants in Japan, it's okay to eat. There's other... There's a bug. There's other stuff like that too. Like the puffer fish. You like the puffer fish? You can like die from if it's cooked improperly. Yeah. Oh wait, is that illegal now? I'm not sure. I think it might be. I don't know. But yeah, crazy stuff. Yeah, anyway. So they claim that it's okay. So I did eat a piece. But the texture for me was just abominable. Like I could not eat it. I just about horked all over all the table and made a total mess of everything. Because that texture... Like I don't eat raw fish either. So yeah. All right, let's go ahead and move on to our next topic. Boom. LG may have accidentally leaked an upcoming 8K iMac. What? More Ks. Personally, I don't see it as incredibly unlikely. 8K would be what? A little over double the pixels of 5K. Maybe quite a bit more than that actually. Whatever, I haven't done the math. I'm not gonna math right now. I don't care. It's not gonna happen. The math is not happening at the moment. I'm sure someone will correct us in Twitch chat. Congratulations for using a calculator. But anyway, I don't see why they couldn't do it. They already created a custom interface for the 5K iMac. So they've shown that they're willing to do that. So just taking that modified display port and going even wider does nothing but add design complexity and product cost. Something Apple has shown in the past that they're willing to do because they have an unlimited R&D budget and they have great margins. Because a lot of companies, if they spend another $3 on it, it breaks their margins on that product. Whereas Apple, if they spend another $3 on it, they'll charge you another $100 and everything's fine. Everyone's happy. So Apple has confirmed nothing about this. But I guess that's cool. I'm personally not that super stoked on high-res displays past a point. I think that moving to 4K is probably about as far as I'll need to go at any size lower than about 32 inches for a long time. I hear you and I know your arguments. But you haven't seen an 8K screen. I haven't seen an 8K screen, but what I have seen is a 5K screen from this close. What I've also seen is the evolution of 1080p smartphones to 1440p smartphones and how little that mattered. I know. I'm just saying. So while it could be marginally better, looking at how one thing that Apple did extremely poorly on the 5K iMac is they equipped it with a GPU that's just plain not adequate. And I even ordered the beefier version with the R9 295X, the 8G card versus the R9 290. And these are mobile. These are M cards with 4 gigs of RAM. And that thing stuttered all over the place. So I don't know what GPU they would put in an 8K iMac that would fit within the thermal envelope unless they're going back to Nvidia. And they do that from time to time. Yeah. They do just... They can swap. That's fine. They just do whatever they please. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I've got people asking for 1080K. What? What? I guess we should probably do sponsor spots. Yeah. 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You can make a website even if you're super tired and can barely talk and say made a because Squarespace is that easy. Because you can apparently use Squarespace. Yeah. Yay. It's simple, powerful, and beautiful. They have 24-7 support via live chat and they have templates that allow you to make sure that your website's gonna work on a mobile phone, on a laptop, on a desktop, or I mean probably even on like a Jumbotron. Even like an 8K iMac. You know what we should do just to be like complete butt heads is we should like take. Go to a baseball game and like pay them to put Linus Media Group's website on the Jumbotron? Yeah or something like we should find a way to find some completely stupid display and put our corporate website on it and see if it scales okay. That'd be wonderful. We should try it. I'm actually, I'm kind of tempted to do that. That would be pretty fun. Anyways, it's only eight dollars a month and if you get a year of it you get a free domain which is pretty cool. 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But it doesn't remove nails in the way that a hammer would. I could use like my foot as a hammer but my foot is not a hammer. You can't use your foot as a hammer. You could. No. You could. That's stupid. I have. I've used my palm as a hammer. There's a door in my place and the the doorknob is so loose that the not bolt but the other thing that I can't think of right now because I'm tired will slide out and I have to get it back in so that I can actually close the door. So I just hammer it with my palm. Okay. I have to get my palm as a hammer. We should probably talk about like Wensho topics. Oh right yeah Wensho topics. Well I thought I think. Until confirmed Skylake launch. Oh yeah. That's pretty important. I think we knew this wasn't going to be a very good Wensho. Sleep deprived in the middle of nowhere. This sounds like a horrible teen movie. Sleep deprived and in the middle of nowhere. I decided to go off the trail into the cabin in the woods and there's a koi pond and it's quite wonderful actually. But there's a murderer and they get picked off one by one. And like there's a chick with boobs and for some reason she's in the shower when every time someone attacks. And then when she's running away she could have actually totally gotten away but she tripped. Right. Yeah. Which gave a really good opportunity for like a slow mo of her tripping. You know what would be like a really cool like you couldn't do it with a movie like something pre-recorded but like a really cool like interactive storytelling concept. Whether it was done with live actors or whether it was done with like episodic gameplay. Okay. Is like what so the concept would be that the audience because you know how you always regret not being able to give advice to the actors. Please don't please don't open that door. You know please don't come out of the safe room. You're in the you're in the safe room. Don't come out of the safe room. Just stay in there. What are they going to do to you in the safe room that they can't do to you when you come out of the safe room. It was obvious right. So what if there was like a concept where you could actually like everyone in the audience had like a tablet or something. So it's like Twitch plays Pokemon but with actors. Yeah. So you can actually dictate the terms of the story and they could have some preset branches but it could actually play out a little bit different every night. So it's like Twitch plays Pokemon but with actors or like Dungeons and Dragons but not with dragons. It's kind of like choose your own adventure. Yeah. So you know what the decision is but you actually don't know what's going to happen until it happens. So I think that would be a lot of fun like as a play concept and then again as like an episodic gaming concept. So the developer might not tell us how games multiplayer edition. Hold on a second. This could be cool. So the game developer wouldn't necessarily just develop one path but they could justify the expense of developing multiple paths by making it a microtransaction for you to try paths that you didn't choose. That is a business model. Why did you just give people that idea? Because it's really good. I don't know. It's horrible. That's a really good idea. It's really expensive and a lot of microtransactions. You don't have to pay every path. Yeah but then they're going to make you pay for any path and it's going to be ridiculous. Well no you buy the game or okay you make it free to play and you can play one path for free. I play the game once and I do it my way. I mean it couldn't be quite like choose your own adventure because I don't know if you read many of those but basically there was only one right path usually and then like every other path was like instant your head got cut off and alligators ate you. Like it was just stupid. Do you go left or right? Right. You trip. You die. Yeah pretty much. Whereas like I would you should have a guaranteed number of decisions so you should be guaranteed a certain number of forks and then I mean obviously they can't develop you know 350,000 forks so if there was something extremely unpopular they could just go. They got some sort of generating tool. Yeah like this didn't work. Not enough people chose this. Can you pick another one or whatever else the case may be but I think that would be really cool and remember this is something that wouldn't have to happen over the course of a normal sort of game time frame. It would be more like an episodic thing so it could actually happen over the course of a couple of years or a few years much like a like a tv show might take a long time for the story to develop. So gamers could actually play their way through the story in real time and then maybe at the very end or something you have the option to you know buy an additional playthrough and you can play it completely differently or something like that. Right yeah that's interesting. Rumor XFX R9 390 pictures. I'm just going to randomly see the titles of things and then we can go back to going on tangents. Right I guess I kind of hijacked that. Are you completely ditching the live actor idea then and just going with video game? No I like the live actor idea better. It just seems a little bit harder to execute and a little bit less likely. There's really good improv actors like really really good improv actors and you could just throw curveballs at them. Has anyone done this before? It seems like the kind of thing that should exist. I feel like it's an improv thing but like probably not to the same degree right. Yeah what you're talking about like they'd have to have you know in universities where there's that like oh well you have to input your answer to the question that's on the board and you use the little white clicker. Yeah it would basically be like that. Yeah. So there would be options so the actors would have some idea what's coming but you know what the the director or the writer or they could not shake it up a bit. If they're if they're proper improv actors they're going to be able to react really well. But the thing about straight improv is that it doesn't have the production values no of a proper play whereas what I kind of envision is a proper play where you dictate how it goes. Wow okay. I think that'd be really cool like imagine like a murder mystery type play like they already do murder mystery type stuff where like the audience has some interaction but imagine one where like the murderer can kill everyone and get away with it because the audience chose all the wrong things for the actors to stay in the safe room and then he just like closes off the air. Or something like that right. Yeah. Like that'd be really cool. Yeah. I think that'd be really fun to watch. It's interesting. So this is like super rumor because WCCF tech has actually updated the article in a very very deceptive way so they didn't actually manage to change their headline. All they did was add a note in the body of the of the article so you have to actually read it in order to know that that's an R9 380 which actually says absolutely nothing about new GPU development for AMD graphics cards because the rumor on the street right now is that the R9 380 is just an R9 290 which means this is just a rebadged R9 290. Yes. So the R&D that went into it was probably an updated BIOS and a new sticker design so yeah. Yeah. That's about it. I don't know. Oh right Skylake. Yep. Oh we gotta we gotta close this off pretty soon because we really need to sleep at least a couple hours today. We have eight minutes. We have eight minutes. All right well then let's talk let's talk Skylake. The LHC restarted that was pretty interesting. The what sorry? The LHC Large Hadron Collider. Oh yeah. So for the first time in two years the Large Hadron Collider has been fired up. There was a Windows update. Yep no collisions but things are moving so that's cool. There wasn't a Windows update. There wasn't a Windows update. What are you talking about? Two years? Oh you're rude. Intel confirmed Skylake launch. It's coming in the second half of this year so that means we're not going to get it at Computex which is a little bit unfortunate. I was kind of hoping for that. I was kind of hoping for Skylake at Computex. I mean the thing that you guys need to know about Skylake though is that it's not going to be like a you know benchmark crusher like you know something like Conroe was for example. It's going to be an incremental improvement. It's not DDR4 on the mainstream yet. Really? So it's going to use DDR3 and DDR3L. It's going to have 20 PCIe Gen 3 lanes just like the existing Haswell-E. It's going to have USB3. One thing that I do expect to see with Skylake is support for PCI Express based SSDs so NVMe. Right now there are very few motherboards that support Intel 750 series SSD that was launched recently. We actually have a video coming on it. There's very few that support the 2.5 inch one. The 2.5 inch one. The PCIe one that plugs into a PCIe slot is fine. Very widely supported. So I guess that's about all there is to say about that. We really appreciate you guys tuning in at this totally unusual time for the WAN show. We were planning to stream the WAN show at the normal time but we had an opportunity to take an earlier flight back to Tokyo so we could hang out in Tokyo for the day instead of just seeing the airport. That sounded like a really good idea. Kind of figured we'd go to Tokyo for the day since we flew all the way here. So I think that's pretty much it guys. Time to go to sleep for two hours. Yeah. I'm going to go hit the can because I still got a mad case of the travelers stomach thing going on. Oh jeez. And like eating things that make me feel kind of gross doesn't help. No. No. Not helpful. I'm probably going to hit my head on a few things and then fall over. Oh my gosh. It's hilarious. His six foot three-ness is so out of place here. I have taller, I have a few taller friends that would just be ruined here. In the doorways in our rooms here, which are awesome by the way. They're incredible. In the doorways of our room, it's probably like to here. He's like this to get through. I was crouching down picking something up and I stood up and turned and whacked my head on one and it hurt so bad. I've hit my head quite a few times when we've been here but that one hurt. Taryn had a pretty good one too. Yes. He crumpled a little bit. All right. Good night you guys and we'll see you again next week. We have to wait for it. Hold up. This is going to be a little janky but. I almost always do that too. Yeah, it's cool. Oh, I never checked out the straw pole results. Wow. Four plus hammers. Yeah, 43% of our audience owns four or more hammers. 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