 Both teams were given permission to do their water cooling with stuff from the Linus warehouse. Problem is Luke and Linus didn't actually get the message so the BS mods guys get the first crack at it. Next showdown is brought to you by Synergy 2 in partnership with Gskill, be quiet and cable mod. Synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers so simple that anyone can use it. Learn more at the link below. We could do cream accents with a brown base. We have to commit to something. It's two o'clock. Yeah. Okay. Let's do it then. I don't think it's the greatest idea I've ever had, but like I think for us to win this, we really needed like a super killer idea and I don't necessarily think that we have one. So let's do it. So let's get this banged out as fast as we can. Do you want this kind of candy color or do you want this kind of this kind of candy color? Okay, here's here's a crazy idea. I'm sorry I'm changing gears on you again. That's okay. So this is gold brown, we could reuse the gold caps and do the base brown. But that would be that would match the theme that would match the color scheme, but not the overarching theme. Forget it. I said a dumb thing and we're all going to just forget it. Brandon wasn't recording that anyway. This is a pretty ambitious project that we've put in it in front of ourselves. Everything's fucked. We're fucked. You know, we're going to lose right? Yeah. We're going to get humiliated. Yeah. I don't want to give them the satisfaction. Okay, I'm just going to cry. I think because that's probably fair. Let's just give up. Let's just take all the candy off the shelves, literally jam it into our tower and build a computer. That could have to be kind of cool. I think we could make that work. A dark spin to Candyland. The dark side of candy. And like the D on Candyland is like, if we could illuminate the Candyland sign, I don't think that would even be that hard. And have the D like kind of falling off and not illuminated. Oh God. Okay, that is a lot of work. That's like two hours of work. Yeah, but the Candyland sign would probably be pretty important. Okay, what color? Green? No because it doesn't look like grass. So we get fake grass from somewhere and then I'm not worried about the color too much. We could just go with brown. Okay, so I think what we're going to do is kind of divide and conquer rather than trying to tackle everything together. We have the general theme kind of figured out. Luke kicked my ass with his diorama skills in the second tech showdown. Something like that. So Luke is in charge of making this the... Why don't you guys like talk a little bit or something, you know? And then I am on transforming this desktop surface and figuring out how the scenery is going to work. So I'm going to Home Depot, he's going to Michael's. We're both going to look for some inspiration and we'll be vlogging it up over there. So I got to coat this. I got to figure out some paint coatings for some other stuff. Since I'm covering things, I might as well figure out this horrible zit on my nose. Now that I'm out of earshot, I'm finding this place pretty oppressive. I just got to get out of here. And working with Luke, it's the worst. It's the worst. So we've stripped down the case. We know we're painting it inside, outside, some accents, colors, pulled the tray out, everything plastic, rubber is gone. We're going to be doing hardline water cooling, hopefully to GPU and CPU. We also might use these gigantic, this is a 400 millimeter reservoir. These might be actually mounted onto the desk and not inside the computer, which will bring the hardline across the computer and the desk and tie the whole thing together. So we don't have an actual plan, really. But we made it look like we did. We have elements. We just wanted them to sweat a little bit. When we get a good mod, it usually revolves around a lot of elements. So we're trying to just develop each key element. Some of the things we know that we're going to use, we're going to have, we got to have movement. Right. We know that we're going to do some big candy, like giant, well, we hope. As long as we can find them, we want some big giant, yeah, lollipop, whatever things. We're going to, of course, light the underside of the desk. We're going to try to use the sawhorse desk parts. We're going to try to enclose those with acrylic. And then we were probably going to do something with some sort of signage or a whole front skirt on the front of the desk and do some sort of signage. Like call it something, something candy shop, like winning, winning, winning team candy shop. We just ran into Pink Lamba. Right here. And so we know that our competition is in store. So we're going to let Samira out of their tires to slow them down just a little bit. You know, I just, I thought this was going to be like, you know, a, a by the rules competition. These guys just keep camping it up in my aisle here. Camping it up in my aisle. You know, trying to scope out the competition. Oh, the hide your stuff. Yeah. As if you guys have anything worth hiding. Okay. That's the, we are so fucked. Just fuck off. That's the underside. Like it's fine. Okay. So I have a little bit of this gold left. I don't think it's enough. So I bought another one, but we can return that if we don't need it. This was just in my car. Don't worry about it. Ignore that. Um, so this is, I believe the same gold, but new. It's not the same at all. So that's cool. These are, uh, these are rollers. So what I think I'm actually going to do is I'm going to go chocolate brown on the edges and green turf on the top. So the desk actually has like a two tone look. And then do you want to do chocolate brown for the legs too? Uh, not necessarily. I still think we should get the wrapping paper, which it just occurred to me. We appear to already actually have. Oh, okay. So I wonder if we can just borrow that. Here's a white. There's actually a bright red spray bomb in the workshop right now. Okay. Check out my toy store hall as well. Okay. One quick thing. I got the fondue machine. They didn't really want me to vlog in the store. So here's my vlog for getting the fondue machine. I also got a bunch of multiple chocolate for it. Oh yeah. So hazmat guys. Um, yeah, I figured we could just like comically cross that out and write something else. I think, I think this will be good. I don't know. That's like accessories and stuff. You, you have to buy them as like, see their heat sealed. You have to buy them as like these sets. This is just a bunch of extra stuff. So I have, um, I have like a palette. That's cool. I have like a cage that goes around it if we wanted to have like some finished candy in there. I have, um, I tried to get as much of this kind of stuff. This could be like wasteland behind the computer because I don't know what the hell this is. Absolutely this could be. Yeah. Um, and then our hazmat guys could work on that. I got the hazmat guys come with hatchets for some reason. So I got them to throw in some brooms for them. Cool. Okay. So hazmat guys have brooms now. Wait, they only came with hatchets? Yeah, I know, right? Or like pickaxes or whatever you would call that. Sure. Okay. They're mining plutonium with pickaxes. Yeah, sure. Why not? So, right. So this is the, um, the like area behind it or whatever. And these guys are like working on it or whatever. Yeah, cool. I love that. So we should leave a, like a fairly significant amount of space behind the computer if we can. Okay. Um, maybe the behind the computer isn't even hidden on an angle behind it. Just like beside it over here. And then Candyland is over there. Cool. That's good. You sound worried. I'm f***ing worried. I'm like, I could not possibly be more worried right now. We are, we're going to get our asses. I think them being allowed to do like super crazy multi-loop water cooling and us not is like not really fair. Oh, I don't think that matters. I think that's a complete waste of time. Super matters. Oh, no way. Are you kidding me? No. Yeah. Yeah, but remember like he's going to go, wow, there's this water cooled. Yours is not your f***ing plebs. Absolutely. We are not allowed. Yeah. Doing it now is probably an issue. Even then I don't think, look, I think if we try to go head to head, that's for the keyboard. If we try to go head to head, those are stupid. Um, like hardline water cooled build versus hardline water cooled build. We're going to get our asses kicked anyway. They're going to do a better job of it. So we're better off executing our style better than they would execute their style or if not better than funner. And I know funner is not a word, but that was sort of my point. We're the funner team, you know? It's like we don't really get it, but we seem nice, you know? One of our shirts don't fit. Yeah. We're going for the sympathy vote. Brandon, where do you want this lens? Synergy 2 is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than Synergy 1. Features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other computer without reconfiguring, SSL encryption to protect your keystrokes from attackers, dynamic networking, so it detects the best route based on your setup, and being able to always run in the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget. And it even works across VPNs and tricky home networks. If you get the pro version, you can get access to other cool features too, like clipboard sharing, dragging and dropping files, copy pasting, lock screen synchronization, and lots more. We got some nice pink spray paint. Pink spray paint. We got steel rods. We got stuff from the candy shop. Oh yeah, lots of candy shop stuff. Bunch of paint prep stuff. Our chalkboard that we talked about already. We got some of these lights right here that we're going to use above and below. RGB. Yeah, RGB everything, all the stuff. And then our sparkly stuff we showed you. We got some sparkly glitter glue, stick things. And then all the associated like, you know, supplies, paint rollers, that kind of crap. Nothing too exciting. So, we're going to go in there. Yeah, we're running out of time. Bye. You don't have to worry about the edge because we're working. So these will, yeah, fall. Seven minutes. By the time we get it cleaned off, we'll have a toast. Okay, we're going to have to do that in the morning. Okay. So, we're going to have to do that in the morning. All right. So, from what I can tell, those guys haven't done anything that looks good. So, yeah, we could just wait a whole other day. Don't touch that because it's not secured in any meaningful way. Okay. The idea evolved from a flowing river of chocolate that the user can consume into having it be like a candy place themed into having some things maybe be wrapped in foil, but then be chocolate inside and then into now the tower is a factory and outside is like where the workers harvest the materials to make candy. The guy can't even stand up. What? Well, no, that's fine. We'll just hot glue everything. I mean, all of those changes occurred within a span of a couple of hours, meaning that there's been very little decisive action and very little time to act on it. Wait, the decisive action is the action. I mean, this is what I'm talking about because we get fun, you know? That's what this project is supposed to be about. It's not supposed to be all like serious who can build the best, you know, modded computer or whatever. Look at these guys. So I don't have the paint booth set up right now, which means that this is pretty much our best bet. Preferably like paint or white tape. This isn't ideal. Tuck tape, tuck tape. Hit me with the tuck tape. Nice throw. Okay. Their measurement of a good day. How much painting you can do. Maybe it isn't about painting. I'm going to spring into action. Springing into action for day two. Let's get on this. First things first, I need to get another coat of my stain on here. Got my dark brown stain. I got one here. You know, I've got other ones that I can't show you because it's too hot for TV. I mean, that's hot to some people, I think. Like maybe we could do like a brick street kind of deal and use like Kit Kat bars and have the wheelbarrow there and they're like laying them out on top of the GPU or something. Totally cool. This is honestly not the one I wanted. They didn't have the one I wanted in stock, but I think it'll get the point across. It's probably good enough. Yeah. So I'm going to work on getting this while you finish disassembling, I'm going to work on getting this cut out and I want it to line up as perfectly along the sides as we can get away with. I reflected a lot last night and I'm coming into today feeling a lot better actually. Today's a fresh day. It doesn't have to be affected by the failures of yesterday. So this is what we call the comfort surface. I think we need a mouse pad or else we'll lose some points because our comfort surface is like exceptionally uncomfortable. Yeah. No, it's not exceptional. I mean, it's a little uncomfortable. You definitely red mark your hand like real fast. This has to come off and I need to do some more staining. Tell me objectively, does it look bad? Like, no, and you're going to cover it anyways, so why does it matter? Okay, fine. Good. While Luke and Linus are going with brown, the other team is getting started with good old fashioned white. Hopefully their plan for painting won't be as big of a let down as it was in Scrapyard Wars. Yeah, so I just finished cleaning off all the stickers that were on the case so we could paint where those were and then just kind of wiped it down with thinner to get it ready to paint. Okay, so I got full coverage on the first coat. I'm going to let that sit. It might take a couple hours. I'm not sure how to get these grates off of some of these parts, but I'm working on it. Great. Get it? Yeah. We'll make it great again. We need to jury rig ourselves some way to hang things once we're done painting them. Honestly, Luke, I think a good enough paint job plus our X factor could be enough to do this. Maybe. Because I honestly don't think the judges are going to look that closely at the paint. This mistake yesterday was not just like going with something and then just frantically doing it. I think that's what we need to do for the next three days. Well, that's, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I agree on the first part, but that is what we need to do now. There's kind of a wild card here because I really didn't see this team assignment coming. I mean, literally no one did. Not even Colton. Yeah. Oh yeah, you were here for that, right? Yeah. I was like, what? That doesn't make any sense. I'm not going to be the kid on the schoolyard that whines about the teams. I'm going to be the kid on the schoolyard who makes the best of his crappy team. Luke and Linus might have a shot at making up for their slow start. They're going full speed ahead with whatever half big idea they have, but will it be enough? Find out next time on Tech Showdown.