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Linus Sebastian
Hey there Ryan Reynolds here. It's a new year and you know what that means. No, not the diet resolutions. A way for us all to try and do a little bit better than we did last year. And my resolution, unlike big wireless, is to not be a raging and raise the price of wireless on you every chance I get. Give it a try@mintmobile.com switch $45 upfront payment required equivalent to $15 per month new customers on first 3 month plan only taxes and fees, extra Speed slower.
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Luke Lafreniere
Above 40 GB on unlimited.
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Linus Sebastian
See mintmobile.com for details. Good evening everyone. My plan was to not discuss the whole situation right now any further. Like many of you, we wanted to keep this whole thing from dragging out, so we said our piece Steve from Gamers Nexus wrote a manifesto that could probably be best summed up as no you. And then it was done. Or so we thought. Shortly before WAN show, Louis Rossman released an hour long hit piece. And in a now deleted comment, Steve mentioned he had seen the video before it went live, making it clear that at the very least he was involved in reviewing this video before publication. When other creators reached out to us in support, we explicitly discouraged any escalation, while Steve seems to be doing the opposite. So here we are, more or less forced to respond yet again, but we'll keep it much, much shorter this time. Steve asked me to direct any further communications about his ethical breach and persistent defamatory statements to his lawyer. As I clearly stated before, I don't have a lawyer involved and I don't want one involved. I wrote last week's address myself with feedback from my team and this much shorter wrap up will come from me as well. The core issue has not been addressed at all because of ethical and process error. Steve published false and damaging information about a competitor Right of reply matters both because it is essential for accurate reporting and because scandal travels much faster and is a lot stickier in people's minds than the oh, oops, never mind that comes out when the allegations are found to be false. There's actually a good thread on the subreddit that you guys can check out that is not the visual for it, but that's fine. The point is that this is so much worse now. Faced with the unavoidable fact that he got it wrong and caused a bunch of damage with his actions, Steve has outright refused to apologize, correct, or retract any of his false statements. That's. That's next level man. I am extremely grateful that so many of you are seeing how misrepresentative the original reporting was both around the billet lab situation and around the honey thing. And I want to applaud the maturity of the folks, many, many folks who have come out and said, hey, I'm sorry that I raised a pitchfork. While I didn't have the full story, I'm still deeply saddened by the virality of Steve's first video. Because of that, many will never hear the truth, a fact that is worsened by Steve's ongoing refusal to issue any corrections or retractions, in spite of the fact that his reporting on me contains clear objective errors and misquotes. So, in summary, Steve's response shows that his standards for himself fall far short of the standards he holds others to. And look, look, dude. Stealthily removing the word journalism from the GN Patreon changes nothing. This whole thing is getting, quite frankly, kind of pathetic. Even my, and I quote, terrible response to the original hit piece acknowledged issues on our side laid out a path forward, which we have taken. I'm so proud of our team. And it included words like no excuses, I need to own the mistakes, and sorry. Steve's response contained no such introspection and no better path forward. His mask is now truly off for anyone who used to appreciate him for his ethics and objectivity. As it turns out, he only cares about those things when it's convenient. On that note, just because somebody is running a masterclass in deflection and misdirection, that doesn't mean that absolutely everything they say is wrong. So the last thing I'm going to do today is what you guys rightly expect of me. I will meet my faults and my errors head on. I'm sorry that I used unprofessional language. And if I ever said this truthfully, I don't recall it, but if I did, I take that back 100%. I'm sorry, and I will work to do better. So where do we go now? I don't know, guys. I see your calls to end the drama, but I can only control my side in this. My team and I have issued corrections and retractions where needed. We will continue to do so. There's a couple fixes that we need for the 5090 video. They're pinned under the video. We're getting all that sorted. Meanwhile, the other side is spitting on our olive branch, lawyering up publicly attacking my credibility with no indication that it will end, and now seemingly colluding with other creators to smear me in public. I don't want to play this stupid game anymore. There are only stupid prizes to be won. So, yeah, I think I've said enough for now. Obviously, I'm aware of Rossman's video. We alluded to it earlier, and I have some idea what it's about. In the lead up, he was corresponding with me, but I don't think now is the time for that. Right now is the time to hang out with awesome people who matter. And that's you guys. Welcome to the WAN show, everyone. We've got a great show lined up for you guys this week. Some game makers hope that Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to US$100 at launch. And, oh, man, we want to shout out creators who are doing awesome work and make sure we're getting some views for guys that are just incredible good people. Bitwit Kyle, his CES 2025 coverage is up, so I want you guys to go check that out. He's kind of had a pretty rough couple of weeks, to say the least. What else we got this week, sir?
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Luke Lafreniere
Wow.
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Dan
I had time again to prep topics. A student built an open source laptop in six months, and it's actually really, really cool. The video's awesome.
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Linus Sebastian
We've talked about. Oh, sorry, sorry. I'll save it, I'll save it.
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Dan
And GPU news. Something really big happened this week, and it was a graphics card.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, why don't we talk about that, please? The show is brought to you today by Squarespace, Notion, and. Oh, snap. Along with our rap partner, dbrand and our chair partner, Secret Lab. Why don't we jump right into. Ooh, how about student builds Open Source laptop in six Months.
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Dan
I like it.
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Linus Sebastian
This is actually the coolest thing. Why don't you run us through it? Because you might think. Okay, you might think hearing that like, oh, yeah, but like, it probably sucks.
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Dan
No.
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Linus Sebastian
What if I told you it didn't? Okay, okay. Go, go, go.
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Dan
So I'm probably going to butcher the name, but it's. Anyone? I think it's a N Y, O, N E. The specs are 4k AMOLED display didn't skimp there at all. The second I saw that, I was like, oh, oh, we're serious. Okay, sure. 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM, an RK3588 SoC which has an eight core ARM processor with GPU and NPU, which he points out in the video, an M2 SSD of some capacity Wi Fi 6, a 62.9 watt hour battery, which came out to about seven hours of battery life.
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Linus Sebastian
Sick.
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Dan
Brian Huang. Hope I said that right. Sorry. A senior in high school, mind completely blown, made an open source laptop from scratch. He called the Any on. I think it's Any On. I originally read it and thought it was anyone. But then in the video I think he says Any On.
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Linus Sebastian
Whatever. I'm just going to call it the super cool laptop that I can't believe a high school student.
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Dan
We're not going to show the video here because you need to go watch it. But we'll talk about it a little.
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Linus Sebastian
Bit and Dan will link it in the chat for you guys.
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Dan
Yeah, because AMD and Intel don't just give you CPUs and documentation. He instead went with that Rock Chip processor and honestly, where he like really hooked me in the video was diving through the specs of that processor and why he wanted it and things he's going to do for it and stuff. Very, very cool. A very expensive and complicated part of building a laptop are the IO interconnects. So Brian went with the friendly elec som, which helps, which has heaps of IO on board. We actually use the same board to make a DIY NAS last year. The next problem.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, that thing is so cool. Like so cool.
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Dan
Yeah, the next problem was the display. You can watch the video, but it was a huge pain in the mind.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, that is the tldw.
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Dan
This is where like. Because he didn't skimp out because there was an option.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
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Dan
He could have just got an external laptop display, mounted it permanently and then USB C'd into the laptop and been like, don't worry about that.
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Linus Sebastian
And that would have been way easier because the thing about mobile display standards and I really. Man, I know, I love the finger quotes but I especially love it here is.
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Dan
Oh, sorry.
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Linus Sebastian
Is that they are the kinds of standards that nobody seems to be able to agree on and it can, it can just be. It can be as simple as like the connector looks right and the receptacle looks right but if you plug them in it just straight up won't work. And getting your hands on the wiring diagrams or anything can be an absolute nightmare. So working with like EDP displays is super. Not the easiest thing in the world.
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Dan
Couple corrections already, my bad. Apparently it's any on E. Cool, that makes sense. And it's Byron, not Brian. I'm going to use dyslexia as my excuse.
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Linus Sebastian
There, that actually works. It is spelled right in the dock.
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Dan
Yeah, I don't know, I just read it wrong. But yeah, the display portion was crazy because honestly when I first saw it I assumed he was Just gonna go that route, right? Yeah, just use the IO.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, that would be easy.
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Dan
Make it easy.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Sad. Magician in chat says calling that a standard is saint like generosity. Yeah, it's a, it's a mess.
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Dan
But yeah, the display portion is super cool. He also designed the entire power system to allow for charge and discharge of the batteries. In total, it has 62.9 watt hours of battery capacity and 7 hours of battery life.
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Linus Sebastian
Okay, that is so cool. Like handling lithium, battery charging and discharging safely especially is not a high school project. That's so cool.
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Dan
This was a little above and beyond, I think. But he went ahead and made his own wireless keyboard with Cherry MX low profile switches and custom 3D printed keycaps. That's where you know he's just having fun.
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Linus Sebastian
When you have, when you have few levels of skill, then you just, you gotta flex it.
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Dan
Why not? Why not?
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Linus Sebastian
You gotta, you gotta flex it, brother.
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Dan
Byron then designed his own CNC'd aluminum chassis and got it anodized. The hinge for the screen uses framework hinges. That's cool.
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Linus Sebastian
Conveniently available shout out framework investment disclosure framework. But like just making parts available for their laptops. Love to see it all said and done.
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Dan
It boots up faster than his M3 MacBook. He does like a drag race near the end of the video. It's cool. I don't the same actual performance, but it boots up quickly, which is sick. And there's a line in here that says I suspect Apple had a bit more of an R and D budget.
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Linus Sebastian
This is a note from Alex Clark from our team. He says, seriously, watch the video. I learned things about how laptops are made and I think I have and I'm going to editorialize here. I agree, Alex. And above average understanding of laptops.
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Dan
Yeah, I learned a lot. To the point where like I'm planning on watching the video again because there was parts in there that I thought were like really interesting and I want to absorb it better.
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Linus Sebastian
Okay, now our first discussion question. I am hijacking this completely because you and I have talked many times about building your own laptop and how it kind of used to be a thing like you could buy a bare bones laptop and you could, you could pick a socketed CPU and RAM and storage. And in the case of the one that I yes, DIY'd for myself for first year university, you could configure it with alternative battery packs. So I had like a, like a caboose ass battery pack that stuck out of the bottom of my laptop and actually put it up at an incline. No, no, not that one. That was the Acer Aspire one, that extended battery I got later. Sorry. No, this one came out the back straight. It was an M5NE, like bare bones Asus laptop. Anyway, and you and I have talked about it and we've kind of talked about how, like, that's, that's dead, you know, everything is so integrated now that building your own laptop is dead. Will stay dead. The fact that companies like Nvidia are actively hostile towards it by trying to kill the mxm, like mobile graphics card standard over and over and over again at every possible opportunity makes it.
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Dan
Da Guess not. Except someone's senior high school project is just going to demolish that.
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Linus Sebastian
Except here's something that, that I didn't see coming. Instead of having modularity, right? And generic chassis and socketable CPUs and socketable RAM and socketable storage or slottable storage or whatever, right? So we saw all of that go tightly integrated and we lamented the death of DIY laptop. But then it got so much more integrated that now you could take a full system on a chip or system on a module in this case, and build a chassis around it and holy crap, you can build your own laptop again. And now that Windows on ARM is a thing, theoretically, like you, you could run like full fat freaking Windows and hand it to someone and have them not even notice, right? And okay, eventually someone would probably, you know, notice. They go to run an app that the emulation doesn't work for whatever else. But I'm just saying, like, this could be a computer that you could hand to your auntie and she could just use. And you built it. Yeah, this is so cool. I just, I didn't see this coming.
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Dan
And honestly, like, yeah, you don't, you don't have crazy GPU power. Like, he's talking about some of the limitations he played. This isn't in the notes, but I'm just trying to remember from last night. So I might say some things that are slightly wrong because I watched this video. But he was, he was playing Minecraft on it. Like it can play. And I know, yeah, Minecraft plays on your phone, but it can play games.
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Linus Sebastian
So what? That's so cool. That's where the hardware's at now.
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Dan
A big flex for him, as far as I could tell, was the npu. More, I don't feel personally like he really made this thing as a gaming machine and not every device that you have has to be a gaming machine. He's got that NPU in There he can do some AI stuff with it. That's cool. It's highly functional. A lot of what I use, like my work desktop, my worst desktop, just needs a functional CPU and some ram. Like, I'm in the browser all the time. Yeah, but does it play Crysis?
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Linus Sebastian
Oh, this is so cool. Second discussion question. Should we throw some money behind a V2 at the end, we're listed as one of the inspirations for the project.
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Dan
That's sick. I mean, sure, he did shout out the nas in the video.
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Linus Sebastian
That's so cool. Yeah.
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Dan
No, I mean the song.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Dan, do you mind just throwing a.
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Dan
We don't know if he wants that.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Oh, yeah, we have, we have absolutely no idea. And he might not even want to do a V2. I mean, he clearly might be moving.
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Dan
On to something else.
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Linus Sebastian
Clearly a super talented kid. I'm sure he could figure out something else cool to, to create. But, like, I would, I would absolutely be down to do like, like a, like a small sponsorship. I mean, even if he's just like, yeah, could I just, like, get a mod mad and get a bunch of, like, LTT gear or, like, you know, whatever else or, you know, dude, I'd. Yeah, sure. Cool.
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Dan
This is awesome. I, I, I, I'm pretty sure I commented on the video. Like, this is, this is the type of stuff that I really like finding on YouTube. Yeah, like, this is, this is the, like, little rewarding nugget that YouTube's. Like, you watched a bunch of garbage that I sent you. Here's a, here's the thing that you want. Now. I really hope he keeps making content.
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Linus Sebastian
Of some kind or just keeps making cool stuff. Like if someone, like an Apple or a Dell or framework.
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Dan
Dude, somebody's got to pick this guy.
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Linus Sebastian
If somebody, if somebody picks this guy up, then I just, I want to see him. I, I want to see him create something amazing. Uh, Dan, if you could just fire it over to. I think Sean C. Is handling, like, sponsorships and stuff like that, so just fire that over there. That I consider it greenlit for us to, you know, do something if he, if he wants to do something.
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Dan
So cool, though. Yeah, I think, I think, you know, the video, especially because it's his, his second video. I think video was hosted really well. Like, he has creator chops. He could go that route or. Yeah, if, like, a framework or someone else wants to pick him up. Yeah, this, this dude's gonna kill it.
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Linus Sebastian
What do you want to talk about next?
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Dan
My next one was the GPU stuff, man.
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Linus Sebastian
Really? Oh, okay, sure. We can.
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Dan
We can jump into something else.
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Linus Sebastian
You haven't talked about GPUs enough this week. It was a pretty exciting week. That 5090 review was thick.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
Like, it's. I think it's 22 or 22 or 23 minutes long or something like that. And not a dull moment at all. Like, I was doing script review with Adam. Um, I ended up reviewing probably about 80% of the script before I went in for my procedure, and then they finished up the rest when I was in the Twilight Zone. Um, and I was going through it with him. I'm like, good Lord, dude. Like, a lot of the time, my job as. As an editor is to. Is to cut. Just cut, cut, cut. Keep it focused. I mean, I talked about this at length on the Cullen and Samir podcast. But, like, what is our point? Don't waste the audience's time. Like, all of these things are so important to the way that we create content and the way that we communicate our message, whether it's, you know, is this GPU any good? Or, you know, how do you. How do you scrapyard war together yourself like a cheap gaming PC? The $69 gaming PC is making a return Nice. And it's better than ever. Pretty exciting. Anyway, right now we were shooting that.
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Dan
Interesting.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Anyway, the point is that that's my job is to go through and edit down for clarity, for conciseness. I think I ended up adding word count because I was just like, oh.
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Dan
My goodness, it was dense.
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Linus Sebastian
There is so much here. And I applaud anyone in the audience who managed to make it through the whole video, because the thing is, there's a ton of nuance in it, and there's a ton. Like, it's a. I watched it back twice, actually. Once to review it for release, and then that was at, like, I want to say, like, three in the morning or something like that. So I, like. I got the call and I'm like, oh, yeah. I had my laptop next to my bed because I knew it was coming. I'm like, okay, yeah, here's a couple notes.
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Luke Lafreniere
And then.
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Linus Sebastian
And then once again, I was in my right state of mind. And what I noticed about it was, good Lord, was the cognitive load of watching that video high. Because you had to not only just kind of listen to us say, yeah, this is good. You had to listen to our opinion about whether something was good or bad or somewhere in between. And then you had to listen to the nuance and the explanation for why that opinion is not black. And white. Because I mean, we talked about this a little bit, I think last week. You know, fake frames versus real frames. That whole conversation. It's complicated, man.
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Dan
Before that.
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Linus Sebastian
But yeah, it's complicated, man. It's not as simple as like higher fp, a high FPS number, more better more gooder or low more worse or like we had that one chart that kind of. We like. We kind of like drop. It's almost like this like we put this chart on the table that all of a Sudden has a 4x multi frame gen on the same chart with the regular 59 was nuts. And one of the things that in my. In spite of being not in a very good state of mind because it was in the middle of the morning, one of the things that I noticed, I was like, dude, we've got to like highlight more that this is. This is mfg. And that's kind of our point is that this is clearly ludicrous and not comparable to everything else that's here. Um, and so it's. It's just. It's one of those videos that I really enjoyed. It made me think and understand even though like I'm kind of having to put myself back into. If I hadn't already script reviewed and looked at Nvidia's materials and all those things. But it made me think and it made me understand better. And I thought the thing that stood out to me the best was what an incredible job the team did. In spite of my relatively minimal involvement. I did review most of the script. I did work on titling intro angle. I obviously hosted little bits of it, including, by the way, I have zero recollection sponsors bought that.
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Dan
Really?
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Linus Sebastian
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We have an exclusive on floatplane. Like a behind the scenes of me having my procedure done, which I guess we can talk about a little bit more later. But. But watching this back is wild, dude, because I'm just like.
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Dan
I haven't seen it yet.
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Linus Sebastian
You know, I don't drink and I don't drugs. So I don't have any experience watching myself do something that I have absolutely. Like. I've definitely watched myself do stuff. I don't remember because it's a video from 17 years ago or whatever, but it's different. It's like watching myself do something that I don't recall. But yeah, that seems plausible enough. Whereas here I'm behaving in a way that is just. It's me, but it's like loopy me. Anyway.
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Dan
Interesting.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I was. I was. I was watching it back up I was telling Yvonne, man, I'm. I'm pretty funny when I'm high. Anywho, the.
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Dan
Did she appreciate the humor?
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Linus Sebastian
I mean, she was trying to wrangle me and also make a video and, like, keep me safe. So I think she was a little stressed, but I think after the fact, maybe. Anyway, what I was going to say was what an incredible job the team did putting that together. That, man, that makes this place feel less like Linus and more like Media Group.
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Dan
Yeah. I had a weird. In watching it, and I don't know if this is going to land with everybody, but it landed with me for whatever reason in watching it. It felt, man, I don't want to pay fan service to this idea. Not in quality. It felt incredibly higher in quality, to be very clear. But it fel. Felt old lttish because you intro it and then we went to people that were specializing in that at the time, because that's what we used to do.
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Linus Sebastian
Yep.
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Dan
For GPU videos. When I first started hosting GPU videos, I did not solo host the video. Linus would intro it and talk about the features, and then I would jump in and talk about the benchmarks. That's how we started so jumping in and having it go like. Like Dan, for instance, talking about the AI part because Dan does AI things. And like all the, like, David talking about the DLSS stuff because he just made a video on force DLSS in Indiana Jones. Like, all these things are just like, wow, this is really cool.
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Linus Sebastian
This is what the Vision has always supposed to be. Dude, Oliver.
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Dan
Oliver killed it.
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Linus Sebastian
Killed it.
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Dan
Like, he did such a good job at that section. I was just like, wow, like, this is really pro.
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Linus Sebastian
He absolutely killed it. Yeah, man. I. I don't know. I. I am having a proud dad moment.
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Dan
This was. This was. This was very cool.
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Linus Sebastian
For real.
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Dan
This was really.
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Linus Sebastian
And. And it's one of those things where I sent this message internally already. So I'm not saying anything that any staff won't have seen already or if they didn't see it, then I'm glad you're seeing it here. But what I said was like, this is the vision. This is what this company is supposed to do when absolutely everything is firing on all cylinders.
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Dan
Yeah. And I will. I'm going to step in. And Linus kind of said my line in the was there was errors with it. Most of them were pretty minor. There was one that really kind of sucked. We're working on fixing them and they're pinned in the comments.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. And we've never.
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Dan
We've never video was fantastic and we're going to have some amount of problems.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, we've never claimed to be perfect, but what we will do is we will keep doing better. Yeah, we will keep working hard, we'll keep doing better and the error rate.
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Dan
Will not be zero. We're going to have some amount of problems till the end of our time, but that's just, you know, we'll keep working on improving is what it is.
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Linus Sebastian
Super cool. I'm very happy with it. We managed to pivot the discussion to GPUs and not actually talk about the GPU at all. Instead we just patted ourselves on the back for six minutes. So do you want to talk about the GPU at all?
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Dan
What's in these notes here? The 50, 90 reviews are out. I watched a bunch of them. Super interesting. Just like I expected. A lot of people took different angles with it, tested different things. This is a generation that I'm going to say again, go watch other people's reviews, go read other people's reviews. Go do whatever. Right? It's, it's, it's very interesting. The whole story is not out there, even with all the reviews that are out there, in my opinion. I think this is going to evolve and show its head more over time as these different technologies are used more as we're able to see it in more scenarios, stuff like that. I also think as the, as the continuation of card embargoes come, we'll learn more and more. But yeah, it's super interesting reviews. Doing GPUs is changing significantly because of all these, you know, AI software features and everything else. But anyways, AMD RX9070 is delayed. It is apparently releasing or launching March 2nd. The company cites software optimization for FSR4 as the two reasons. Oh, good old brain. The company cites software optimization and FSR4 as the two reasons why it most likely decided to delay the launch of rdna.
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Linus Sebastian
For did you see some of the ad campaigns that went live, like in non North American regions that were like, oh, Radio 97, that's rough. Yeah, I mean, honestly though, this is one of those things where it would be really easy for us to dogpile on them and go like, oh, AMD software not ready, AMD this, AMD that, but like good, let them cook. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like some of the leaks that I've seen seem to indicate that this is going to be a really valid card. Like it might not be, it might not appease every possible buyer at every price tier, but it looks like it will be hopefully a really valid option. And if that's the case, then let them cook. Get it done.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
And then when it's done, let's have a look at it and hopefully it's awesome.
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Dan
And I support the delay for sure.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Because I mean, here's the thing, like, I'm rooting for everybody in the GPU space. I'm rooting for intel, obviously, who's been bringing it at the low end. I'm rooting for amd, who has been the only force even remotely sort of keeping Nvidia honest. And I'm rooting for Nvidia too, because I want better GPUs, and you need that competition. I don't want anyone to be in a completely dominant position because that's bad for the whole industry and it's bad for the consumer. So this is exciting.
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Dan
I will also say in support of them delaying, what I heard from the team all week was that the driver in the car, everything felt very stable, so it wasn't a problem. Which, you know, I appreciate that. AMD's Vice President and general manager of the Ryzen CPU and Radeon Graphics division explains more in this tweet. This one I really appreciate the excitement for rdna4. We're focused on ensuring we deliver a great set of products with Radeon 9000 series. We're taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more FSR4 titles. We also have a wide range of partners launching Radeon 9000 series cards, and while some have started building initial inventory at retailers, you should expect many more partner cards available at launch. And then there's. There's some indication that late January was the initial plan for the RX9000 series launch. It's possible that AMD might also have wanted to see how Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti will fare when it hits the market in February. Now back to Nvidia. Nvidia removed the hotspot sensor for the 5090s video cards reported on this and Der Bauer spoke about the issue in a recent video and reached out to Nvidia for comment. Nvidia first told him that the new RTX 5000 series GPUs now report memory temperatures instead. But this was already possible with earlier cards, including the RTX 4090 and RTX 4000.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I thought that basically happened once we got temp probes in the memory chips.
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Dan
I think so as well.
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Linus Sebastian
Okay.
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Dan
After further probing, they reportedly told him that API changes mean that the hotspot temperature is no longer accurate or relevant for gamers, but didn't go into further detail.
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Linus Sebastian
This is, this is something I really don't like. I mean, it's one thing if they, you know, want to put a disclaimer on it or something like that, but clearly Nvidia saw fit to put that sensor in the chip at some point. And as someone who has personally relied on hotspot to diagnose issues in the past, I, I really, I really don't like this. All. I shouldn't say all. I mean, technically the 8800 GTX had an IHS on it, but, but functionally speaking, all GPUs are bare die chips. And if you have even the. The slightest mounting error, they can, they can not only, you know, run a little hot or not perform properly or whatever, but they, they could, they can cook themselves. And like, if there's, if there's an area where there's like an air gap which, which will act as an insulator. And so when you have the hotspot temp, it tends to be from, from my experience, a little bit more sensitive to a slight mism and it can make it. And if you see a huge disparity between the dye temp and the hotspot temp, it can indicate a mounting issue. So you can kind of quickly get the card pulled off, get, get the cooler remounted, and then get back to it.
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Dan
I don't have a lot of experience because I was out of the testing game for all the generations that had hotspot sensors. Yeah, but they seemed cool. I don't know what this comment is necessarily about, but I'm going to just go for it first. The 5090 die size itself is huge. So the O. Oh, yeah. So the temperature you'll see reported by tools such as GPU Z will be an average across the die, meaning the temperature recorded won't be the same across the entire surface. It's just the, the average. Moving on, Nvidia shows off a weird prototype, a Titan design, which some people have been calling a 5090 ti with PCB on the bot. Oh, that.
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Linus Sebastian
No, yeah, 5090 ti. I thought this. No, this was rumored to be more of like.
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Dan
I think there's a different rumor about a 5090 ti that I saw. I saw.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, no, this was a 40 series slash Titan prototype. Okay.
- [31:44]
Dan
So, yeah, this is not what I thought.
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Linus Sebastian
I think we talked about this on wan show, but I just want to say this is Pretty cool. This leaked like ages ago and was the first indication that we saw that, at least to my knowledge. It was the first indication. It's, it's one of the first indications that we saw that Nvidia was considering an unconventional PCB design for an upcoming card. And this was rumored to be like a 4090 ti or like a 40 series titan card of some sort. And yeah, there. There we go. So it put a vertical PCB in it so that it could make much, much more effective use of the shape of the GPU to blow air up this way. Okay, so they're blowing air up this way. I mean, the idea is pretty simple, right. If you've got a flat thing and you're blowing air against it, you are effectively working against your own cooling fans. And you can do things like you can angle what you're blowing against, so it kind of goes this way and you can lift the heatsink stack off of the pcb so it can kind of make its way out and through and around. But at the end of the day, you're blowing air into a flat surface, which is going to significantly harm your ability to cool your fin stack. So this seemed like a really cool way to tackle that by. Here you go, putting the card on a little, like, daughter pcb. And then you can see here the frame for where the cooler is just kind of blowing through it like that. And then using some combination of like heat pipes or vapor chambers to move all the heat out into the fin stack. When this first leaked, it was like, whoa, that would be. That would be super, super cool, I guess. But like, good lord, our GPU is really going to go to four slots thick. And it seems like Nvidia did the same introspection.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
And was like, could there possibly. I mean, if we're going to do this daughterboard thing anyway, could there possibly be another way?
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Dan
And floating in the middle was a wild move. Very cool.
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Linus Sebastian
The answer is yes. And I think it's so cool. I don't know why the 5090 surprised me so much. Because if you go back to some of their older designs, especially their dual GPU designs, like, do you remember the 7950GX2? I mean, yeah, this thing, this thing was flipping wild. Look at this thing. Here we go. Let's pull, let's pull up some. Let's pull up some images. Look at this thing. This thing's cray cray. So it's got the main PCB here that plugs into your PCIe slot. And then it's got a built in SLI bridge which if I recall correctly is like back here somewhere. And then it's got a second 7000 series GPU on here. And then you can actually, it has an SLI finger still. So you can run quad SLI with two of these. I didn't know that. At least you could have crazy back in the day. Yeah, that thing was freaking wild.
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Dan
I knew it was. It was too sandwiched. I didn't realize you could. I mean it makes sense, but I didn't realize you could just buy two of those and have four.
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Linus Sebastian
Okay, Dalxy here brings up a really interesting conversation that I'd love to pivot to if we kind of think we're done talking about the. Cool.
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Dan
Yeah. Anyway, essentially the conclusion is this generation is wild. Go watch everybody's video if you have time.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, cool. So Dalxy asks at Luke, at Linus, can we bring back SLI for the 5090? LOL. Okay, here is a wild take that I'm sure is going to get clipped out of context and get me canceled.
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Dan
Not again.
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Linus Sebastian
The 5090. For Nvidia's most affluent gaming customers, the 5090 is a great value. Oh no, here, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. Think of the 50 90. I mean, there's no process node shrink, right? So you could kind of think of it as 40 more. Er, like kind of 90 ti plus plus plus an extension of the previous generation with some extra stuff bolted onto it. And if you think about it that way, well, for the people that are like, yo, bring back SLI. What are you better off with? A second 4090 or a 50 90? If all you're gonna get is about 30% more performance, wouldn't you rather have it for another 400? Wouldn't you rather have it for another four hundred bucks compared to another sixteen hundred dollars?
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Dan
All right, I don't even think I need to misquote you to get you canceled for that.
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Luke Lafreniere
I think I'm leaving. Have a good night, guys.
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Dan
Yeah, have a good one, Dan.
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Linus Sebastian
Bye. I'll give you a reference anyway, but kind of back to. Back to series.
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Dan
Yeah, yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
For Associated, for the people out there that were buying, you know, two 3090 ti's, which was the last card that supported SLI. Or going even further back for the people that were buying, you know, 22080 tis or you know, two, two titan blacks or whatever in SLI. Honestly, I think I would. I think I would rather have a slightly bigger monolithic GPU that consistently gets me better performance than one that will occasionally nearly double my performance but more often than not, more often than not run at the same performance for double the power consumption and microstudter all over the place. I guess what I'm trying to say is no, SLI isn't coming back and that's probably an okay, more than good thing.
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Dan
Put more transistors on this chip.
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Linus Sebastian
But with that said, it's not that Nvidia has completely abandoned high speed interconnects between their GPUs. Like if anything NV72 like their data center stuff is doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on what they started with sli. It's just that now in order to build that high speed connectivity into the gpu, in order to have it operate fast enough that those GPUs can act as one, it takes up so much die area and is so therefore expensive that it makes no sense to build it into every single consumer card knowing that only a tiny fraction of the people who Luke just mocked for being willing to spend that much more for a slight performance gain.
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Dan
Well no, it does depend. I think it was said well in our video, right? If you're using money to make this thing, then sure.
- [38:02]
Linus Sebastian
No, no, no, no. I was talking about the SLI argument like the same people who would go and spend double for that. Yeah, I'd much rather they go and spend a little bit more for 50, 90, 100%. 100%. So for those small handful of people that are wild enough to go and do that. Yeah, I'd rather they have.
- [38:20]
Dan
This is probably what they're buying anyway.
- [38:22]
Linus Sebastian
And for everyone else, yeah, honestly I think I would rather Nvidia doesn't just make the thing more expensive and it sucks. Right? But the reason SLI worked was because with the old interconnects and the old bridges, they weren't that high speed. The cost wasn't that high. But as resolutions of our monitors went up, as the amount of data flowing between the GPUs increased, astonishingly, it just couldn't keep up. It just couldn't do it without the cost not making any sense anymore. So that's my conclusion. No, SLI is gone and the 5090 for those folks that would have bought SLI, I stand by this way better value AJ.
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Dan
Not RD AJ, but floatplane. Yeah. Anyways said instead of SLI, I would rather see the ability to split a single card across multiple users either in VM environment or multi user game PC.
- [39:14]
Linus Sebastian
Me too. Is there that thing? No, no, it's totally a thing. GPU virtualization is 100% a thing.
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Dan
What's the name of. There's a particular piece of software.
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Linus Sebastian
Oh, I know the one. Something Hot seat. Something. I can't remember. There's a piece of software that allows you to do it. We haven't really played around with it too much.
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Dan
Yeah, yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
There's a. People are saying someone had it at Whale Land. Referencing at ltx. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a thing. We. Okay. I don't want to give away too much, but we might have a new multi gamers kind of thing coming and maybe as part of exploring that again and kind of seeing what the state of things is, we could explore that as well.
- [39:58]
Dan
I think that'd be cool.
- [39:59]
Linus Sebastian
But yes, there is some really cool slicing stuff. Even though Nvidia doesn't officially support it on their consumer cards. That was something that I actually chased intel about a lot back in the lead up to the release of Arc Alchemist. The original arcpus was like, hey, if you guys made this available to consumers, I'd really appreciate that. Not because I necessarily think, you know, the A770 is going to be powerful enough that anyone would really want to split it to two gamers running off of the same gpu, but because I would love to see some pressure on the incumbents to just make this feature freaking accessible because there is so much that consumers can do with CPU virtualization. And I would love to see the same kind of innovative use cases be possible with GPU virtualization. Especially now that they can do so much other than just, you know, push FPS in counter strike or whatever.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
So yeah, in conclusion, Dan. Yeah, 100% it's a thing. And no, Nvidia has absolutely no intention, as far as I can tell, of making it accessible on their consumer facing cards.
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Dan
A bunch of people have said different names of software solutions in full plane chat. I don't remember which one and I don't know anything about it really. I just remember it was in that video of Astral Multiseat.
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Linus Sebastian
That's the one. Oh, Tim in chat says I was the guy at the lan. It's Astro Multi seat. Okay, there you go.
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Dan
Yeah. So I was remembering him and his computer.
- [41:31]
Linus Sebastian
Did he die?
- [41:32]
Dan
Oh my goodness.
- [41:33]
Linus Sebastian
F. Yeah, everyone. Now let's go. Pay respects. Dan kicks it off. Love it. Love it. Taking advantage of his lack of stream delay. This guy. This guy. Winning Internet points like that. That's dirty pool, Sir. What's next, Mr. Dan? I would Never be able to tell if the stream went down.
- [41:56]
Luke Lafreniere
No, we have a. We have a thing for that.
- [41:59]
Linus Sebastian
Is it named Dan?
- [42:00]
Luke Lafreniere
No. I guess merch messages.
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Linus Sebastian
Okay, well, why don't we explain what a merch message is? Merch messages are the way to interact with the show. Just like Ryan A. You can head over to lttstore.com and instead of throwing your money at the screen to send a message into the show, you can throw your money at lttstore in the cart. There will be a little box that will leave you a spot to type up immersement merce message. A merch message. It'll go to producer Dan, who will reply to it or will forward it to someone internally who can help you out. Like, say, for example, apparently Sammy. Or he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to on the show. And we've got a few probably pretty interesting things for the merch message inclined to check out today. We are delaying the launch of the Mon Mat for now. We'll update you guys as soon as we have further information. But we do have some other new stuff. We're launching four new Labs branded items, including a zip up hoodie T shirt hat. Oh, I did not resize the hat. Way to go, Linus. Way to be ready for your own show. Fantastic hat and a lanyard that show that sometimes simple is best. We don't have any data to back up that claim. You will just have to take our word for it. I blame Artie. Artie wrote that. I just read the thing off of the thing I like. Go yourself, San Diego. Okay, the zip up hoodie and the T shirt are simply black with a Labs tag. No flashy logos or outlandish designs. Just quality, cozy materials. The hat features an embroidered Labs heat sink logo. And there it is.
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Luke Lafreniere
A little something like that.
- [43:42]
Linus Sebastian
Oh, man. And your head will feature hat head after you take it off. And the lanyard is inspired by the Labs phase collection that we released a few months ago with a sleek but colorful design.
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Dan
I really like the phase stuff. Do you have the lanyard here?
- [43:53]
Linus Sebastian
Should be. Oh, well, it's on the site. Do you want to pull up the site?
- [43:57]
Dan
Sure.
- [43:58]
Linus Sebastian
In the meantime, I have another update for you guys. Seven months ago, we promised that if you got 100,000 likes on the CEO PC build video, which is here, that we would actually make this stupid poster.
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Dan
Oh, no.
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Linus Sebastian
Oh, no.
- [44:20]
Dan
They did it.
- [44:21]
Linus Sebastian
Oh, no.
- [44:22]
Dan
Why do they keep doing it?
- [44:23]
Linus Sebastian
I don't know.
- [44:24]
Dan
They did it for the Rivian. I know they did it for this thing.
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Linus Sebastian
I know. It's almost like here, just hear me out here. It's almost like our community might be a bunch of stone cold memers. I know, I know. This is again my second controversial take so far. Gonna get me canceled. Second one.
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Dan
I feel like we gotta be above that second one.
- [44:50]
Linus Sebastian
I think they might be stone cold nemurs. Anyway, you can get it now at LMG gg. Hope it is available in a small art print or a larger print to order poster.
- [45:08]
Dan
If I get one of these and I put it behind my desk, it'll just make him like super embarrassed.
- [45:11]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. See this, this right here?
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Luke Lafreniere
Really like we could put them over all of the windows. I'm messaging arty.
- [45:22]
Dan
Don't do that just because it's a. It's a. It sounds expensive and wasteful anyway.
- [45:28]
Linus Sebastian
So that's a thing. Is the art print in stock? I actually don't know.
- [45:32]
Dan
There's like a little small one you can get.
- [45:34]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, yeah. The small one is probably the way that most people are going to want to go see. That's the. That's the thing, I think. Hold on. Yes, yes. The small one is not backordered, but the large one is a pre order. It's a print to order.
- [45:48]
Dan
I like the. They do the size reference. They show the small one amongst other things on like the grid. That's cool.
- [45:54]
Linus Sebastian
Okay. The last LTD store thing. I'll get this out of the way really quick. In response to this comment from last week, please sell the carabiners like the replacement zipper poles as a standalone product. There's so many I want to replace. I forgot why we said we wouldn't do it. We said we were never going to do that because deforming the zipper pull to change the carabiner can damage the pole and may cause it to break, especially on low grade zippers. It is even a risk with ykk. We don't want to be accountable for zippers breaking on a variety of random products. We are only covering breakage that happens on our own bags. Because of the failure of the original carabiner zipper pulls. We could technically sell them with a massive disclaimer that it could break. But. And this is Nick Light from Creator Warehouse. I think that's a massive risk and sets a horrible precedent. And I think that's right. We should create products that we can stand behind being used in a way that we can realistically anticipate that users are going to use them. Okay, Dan, hit me.
- [46:51]
Luke Lafreniere
Sure thing. Hi DL. I'm soon leaving behind a decade long Tech career on my own terms. What hobbies or special interests would you recommend to somebody who still wants to keep their feet wet in the tech world Home lab?
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Linus Sebastian
I mean, that's. That's not keep your feet wet. That's keep your feet in the ocean, drenched. I mean, yeah, I think. I think that's totally valid. I mean, the labs are sick.
- [47:14]
Dan
I want to get it. My apartment. Too small. Not enough space.
- [47:18]
Linus Sebastian
You know what? I need to finish.
- [47:21]
Dan
I have plans.
- [47:22]
Linus Sebastian
I need to finish painting my stupid bike. But, like, I, I think. I think painting. Stupid. Cool. Stupid cool. Yes.
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Dan
What's gonna happen first? I, I. The bike or Final Fantasy 6 bike.
- [47:33]
Linus Sebastian
I will beat you.
- [47:35]
Dan
All right.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. There's no way. I know how far you are. And I know how kind of broken the balance is in the pixel remaster, so good luck.
- [47:42]
Dan
That makes it harder.
- [47:43]
Linus Sebastian
I, I, in my opinion, I, I have. I have some strong opinions about the place.
- [47:47]
Dan
It made it easier.
- [47:48]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, it. Well, it depends. Like, if you just use cheats, then, yes, it's much easier. Oh, I haven't cheated, but if you try to play.
- [47:54]
Dan
I haven't cheated and I haven't wiped yet.
- [47:56]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, if you try to play properly, then, yeah, it could be.
- [47:59]
Dan
Boy, howdy, it's gotten close. I think in pushing to not wipe, I've probably done bad things with my economy.
- [48:08]
Linus Sebastian
Could be. It might not matter.
- [48:09]
Dan
Spent money on potions and stuff.
- [48:11]
Linus Sebastian
Shouldn't matter.
- [48:11]
Dan
Okay.
- [48:12]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. But anywho. Anywho. Yeah, painting. Super cool.
- [48:17]
Dan
You should wipe. Oh, my God.
- [48:18]
Linus Sebastian
I meant, you know. No, not that. He means be annihilated. Anyway, I kind of want to.
- [48:27]
Luke Lafreniere
Me after Chipotle.
- [48:28]
Linus Sebastian
Me trying to keep the show on track. Good Lord, you guys. This guy. This guy. What do people even tune into this thing for?
- [48:35]
Luke Lafreniere
I don't know anymore.
- [48:38]
Linus Sebastian
Monkey circus.
- [48:44]
Dan
Sorry, I just. That just caught me off guard.
- [48:47]
Linus Sebastian
So I want to get into casting. Oh, yeah?
- [48:50]
Dan
What?
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, like, I did it. I did a class once in high school, and it was super fun and super cool. Oh, my God. Yeah. I'm taking up a pornography. That's gonna be my new career. What?
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Dan
That's not what I thought.
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Linus Sebastian
Oh, okay. Well, what did you do?
- [49:09]
Luke Lafreniere
Casting.
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Dan
I thought you meant, like, game casting.
- [49:13]
Linus Sebastian
No, not that.
- [49:14]
Dan
Okay, casting pornography be the next option.
- [49:18]
Luke Lafreniere
Linus, don't answer that. My client has no understanding of what that means.
- [49:26]
Linus Sebastian
Perfect.
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Dan
I was like, this is such a weird metal casting. What are you even gonna cast?
- [49:31]
Linus Sebastian
Like, animation metal casting? Yeah.
- [49:33]
Dan
Okay. Okay.
- [49:34]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. So anyway.
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Dan
That's sweet, though.
- [49:36]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. I took a class in High school school, metal art and jewelry. And I had a lot of fun with it. And I. I'm at a position. Duh. Good lord. And anyway, you know what? I give up. I'm not even gonna. I'm not even gonna try. You go ahead. You do the show. You want to get a word in edgewise, have all the words.
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Dan
Oh, man. Okay. Sorry. Anyways, your casting, metal casting, I've seen a bunch of people have. Have relatively solid looking home setups for that. There's cool things.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, yeah. And so, I don't know, it just. It looks like a lot of fun. It looks very. It looks very. Or no, I shouldn't. I shouldn't say it looks because I have done it before. It can be very cathartic, like taking something from like a rough cast piece to seeing the finished product. Have you seen the earrings that Yvonne and I made?
- [50:29]
Dan
I believe so, yeah.
- [50:31]
Linus Sebastian
So we didn't actually do the casting for those. We just carved the, like lost wax. Like, like casting wax things.
- [50:38]
Dan
Right.
- [50:39]
Linus Sebastian
And then they did the casting for us, and then we did all the, like, finishing and polishing and everything. And that was super fun. And so, yeah, I'm just kind of looking at it going, yeah, that would be really fun. I need to get my stupid motorcycle finish painted. I'm so stressed about it, though. I did a. I actually have made progress. I did. I've primed almost everything now. And I think what I've discovered is that because I'm using like a candy, like a, like a translucent coating on motorcycle parts, which are so multi surfaced and multifaceted that I basically took the difficulty level to 100 out of the gate and I'm probably just doomed. And I think what I might need to do is either change my base coat color to something that can be a solid with just a clear coat on it, and I don't have to worry about getting the layering perfectly, perfectly even. Because I could do the hood of a car today, no problem. I could do that. But when you're working with a piece that has all these different surfaces and angles and divots and everything, getting it perfectly covered is really, really, really, really, really difficult. So maybe I should just find. Maybe I should just find something else. Or if I fail again, then maybe I'll just drop off all the parts and get them painted, I think. But that would feel like. That would feel like giving up because it would be.
- [51:56]
Dan
Do you guys drink, like, pop? Like cans. Cans, Specifically cans of pop.
- [52:02]
Linus Sebastian
Complicated answer. I like cans of soda pop.
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Luke Lafreniere
Okay.
- [52:06]
Linus Sebastian
And I often have them in my house. So my, my easiest way to control my urges is to just not have the temptation nearby.
- [52:14]
Dan
Yeah.
- [52:14]
Linus Sebastian
So for like, years and years, we just wouldn't have any soda in the house. But because we entertain so much more now that we're moved into the bigger place and now that we do, like, work functions and like, badminton, friends functions.
- [52:25]
Dan
Yeah, because I knew that work functions. You had them.
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Linus Sebastian
Like, that was our whole. That was our whole thing is like, why, why would we need a. Why would we need a place this big if we're not gonna, like, bring everybody over and like, hang out in the pool?
- [52:37]
Dan
Oh, my God. We call it pop up here. Whatever. Soda.
- [52:41]
Linus Sebastian
Doesn't matter. Everyone relax.
- [52:42]
Dan
Leave it alone.
- [52:43]
Linus Sebastian
Relax. We're all gonna be the same country soon.
- [52:45]
Dan
Anyway, my, my point was. Cuz I, I believe.
- [52:48]
Linus Sebastian
Sure, fine.
- [52:49]
Dan
No, sorry.
- [52:49]
Linus Sebastian
Go for it.
- [52:50]
Dan
I thought you were done.
- [52:50]
Linus Sebastian
Wasn't done.
- [52:51]
Dan
I'm go for it.
- [52:51]
Linus Sebastian
Wasn't done. The point is we have soda pop in our house.
- [52:55]
Dan
Soda pop, Coke.
- [52:56]
Linus Sebastian
Because we entertain now. And I found myself drinking it again.
- [53:00]
Dan
Okay.
- [53:01]
Linus Sebastian
So I would just, like, have a craving and it's in the house. I'm like, damn it. And so, so I, so I started drinking it again. And like, the quickest way for me to put on a spare tire is to start drinking soda regularly.
- [53:12]
Dan
Oh, yeah.
- [53:12]
Linus Sebastian
And, and so what I, what I, what I did was I, I, I tried this, like, bubbly, bubbly thing. They're awful. They're terrible. They're like the worst. It's the, it's the worst balance between, like, seltzer water and soda. It's the worst of both worlds.
- [53:31]
Luke Lafreniere
Memories of cherry.
- [53:33]
Linus Sebastian
But.
- [53:35]
Dan
We dipped a cherry in the water.
- [53:37]
Luke Lafreniere
We waved it around near a bottle.
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Linus Sebastian
Of soda, specter of lime. But I drank one and I, like, had opened it and you know what a cheapskate I am. If I have it and I started, I'll finish it.
- [53:50]
Dan
Oh, you might as well.
- [53:51]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, it might as well. I mean, I paid for it, so I might as well drink it.
- [53:54]
Dan
Yep.
- [53:55]
Linus Sebastian
And what I realized was I could make myself. When I go to the fridge, I could make myself take that instead. And that's the way that I'm conditioning myself to not even bother at all.
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Dan
And then you don't like it.
- [54:07]
Linus Sebastian
So I stock. I stock bubbly in my fridge, and I'll. I'll drink probably a solid like three or four a week. And it's just like having it there as an alternative makes me not drink soda. So in response to your question, I keep soda in the house. I enjoy soda 95 to 98% of the time that I'm craving a soda. I grab a bubbly and I choke it down to punish myself for wanting a soda.
- [54:32]
Dan
I'm fairly certain I've seen people build like aluminum.
- [54:36]
Linus Sebastian
Yes.
- [54:37]
Dan
It's my methadone, pop, coke, Dr. Pepper can crucibles where they have like a plunger and they put the cannon, they. They plunge it down into the crucible and they use the, the cans of pop as their material for their casting.
- [54:50]
Linus Sebastian
Oh, that's pretty cool.
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Dan
And I, I thought you might like that because it's like a, it's a way to reuse. Right. So you can effectively recycle aluminum cans. But you're. You're now directly doing it it. Which is, which is pretty cool. So maybe like if you were going to involve the kids in this project and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Dalxy and flipping chat said I built one. They're awesome. Yeah. So this, I'm pretty sure this is the thing you can do.
- [55:13]
Linus Sebastian
Super cool.
- [55:13]
Dan
Yeah.
- [55:14]
Linus Sebastian
I'm kind of more interested in making like jewelry though. So we'll see.
- [55:18]
Dan
Yeah, fair enough.
- [55:20]
Luke Lafreniere
I got one more for you.
- [55:21]
Linus Sebastian
Hit us, Dan.
- [55:23]
Luke Lafreniere
I got a screwdriver in the initial wave and it has nice gloss smooth finish. However, I noticed that my second one is more matte finish. Was this a material change or a nice patina from constant use?
- [55:37]
Linus Sebastian
The truth is I do not 100% know the answer to that. I can give you my best guess. One, yes, it does gloss out over time. Two, while we have not changed our molds for the OG screwdriver, molds do not stay exactly the same over time they wear. We did buy extremely high quality molds from Innovation Tool and Dye. Innovation or innovative? Whatever itd. We bought extremely high, high quality molds that should last for like a million plus parts is my understanding. But that doesn't mean that they don't change a little bit. So both possibly, but probably we didn't change something like the surface finish. Oh, sure. More topics. What do you want to talk about, Luke? Should we talk about. Should we talk about the Gaslighty rambling ridiculous full of misdirection response to our video from airstech. Here it is. We did a video earlier this week on the AIRS Tech.
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Dan
I have to give you scanulate. I keep interjecting today. I'm sorry.
- [57:00]
Luke Lafreniere
No, that's fine.
- [57:00]
Dan
I mean starting to annoy myself.
- [57:02]
Linus Sebastian
I mean it's like, it's. This is like having an out of body experience for me. It's amazing. You haven't punched me yet.
- [57:12]
Dan
No, the intro to this.
- [57:14]
Linus Sebastian
I mean, look at this face. Look how punchable it is.
- [57:16]
Dan
This is what I was gonna say, though. The intro to this video was gold.
- [57:21]
Linus Sebastian
Full credit.
- [57:22]
Dan
It was so good.
- [57:23]
Linus Sebastian
Full credit to Alex Clark. Yeah, I was like.
- [57:27]
Dan
It was actually amazing.
- [57:29]
Linus Sebastian
I was like, really? Dude? Are you sure?
- [57:30]
Dan
Oh, absolutely. Really? It was very good.
- [57:33]
Linus Sebastian
Thank you, Alex. And then he. He kind of pitched it through. I walked onto the set and I was like. Because I've done a lot of kind of embarrassing stuff on camera, but donning that get up, sitting in the incense.
- [57:49]
Dan
Dude.
- [57:50]
Linus Sebastian
And. And he was like, sitting there with. Dude, the outtakes of this are so funny because I think, you know, I don't do accents very well. Yeah. At my best, I will. I will shift between accents, like the sands of the desert. Like, I just. I can't. I can't maintain them. I don't actually have any training. I don't actually practice it. So what Alex was doing was he was sitting there on set, kind of directing, and then he just had a random interview of Russell Brand, and he would just play a clip and then he'd turn it off, and then I would try to deliver the next little bit of the line, kind of trying to mimic it. Dan, were you on set for that?
- [58:31]
Luke Lafreniere
No.
- [58:32]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh, man. Oh, no. I know who it was. It was Andrew who was on set. And the reason that I wasn't sure is someone. It was someone from the British Isles that was on set, and we were talking about my atrocious accent. So Andrew. Andrew is Irish. And having to see his face sitting there, so disappointed at whatever it was that was coming out of my mouth. That was hard. That was hard.
- [59:04]
Dan
That intro was so freaking funny, though. I. I saw. Fun to shoot. I saw. I think. Does it allude to the intro in the thumbnail? Like, can you. Are you in that? Get up in the thumbnail?
- [59:15]
Linus Sebastian
I don't think so. I think we left a little bit.
- [59:18]
Dan
I know. No, I noticed in the thumbnail.
- [59:19]
Linus Sebastian
Go to your laptop.
- [59:20]
Dan
Yeah, I noticed in the thumbnail that your. Your. Your shirt is like. Yeah. Very wide and very low.
- [59:26]
Linus Sebastian
I think that's Photoshopped.
- [59:28]
Dan
What's going on? And I clicked on it and then it. I couldn' Watching the intro. Okay, we'll show it. We'll show it. The incense, too. At first I was like. Did they, like, add that in in post? Nope. There's incense there burning.
- [59:42]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
- [59:42]
Dan
The whole set. Everything's just. It's. It's amazing.
- [59:46]
Linus Sebastian
We have a world class team. There's. There's no doubt in my mind about that. Anywho. Oh man, let me see if I can where's the Ah, yes. Okay. So they actually man, when you're down, sometimes it's better to just stay down. But they apparently decided, yeah, they responded not to stay down. So they posted a blog post debunking Linus Tech Tips misconception about ARES Devices. Good gravy, man. This is what is up with like people writing extremely long responses. Oh man. The device does not block claim number one. The device does not block RF signals, so it's ineffective. I mean, it doesn't interact with them at all. That's. Anyway, in short, no, wearing a special amulet does not make the 5G boogeyman less scarier. And also Aries Tech this is embarrassing. At this point, you're not going to win over anyone who has even a remotely functional understanding of how electromagnetic waves work. That's not happening. I don't realistically think that any of the people that you are ripping off with your scamulate are going to be deterred by like a proper explanation of why it obviously doesn't work. So why are you. Why are you even talking? Why are you even Streisand affecting our video? I really think this is just such a, such an obvious tactical error. So anyway, here I will read through the I'll read through my notes instead of just talking about how this is ridiculous. Earlier this week we posted a video on the Ayrestech Lifetune and how it doesn't do anything that the company says it does. In response, they posted on their blog debunking our claims about the LifeTune. Nothing that we hadn't previously discussed in our video was brought up and there was no new information because we had already reached out to them as part of our process for making our video. They do bring up their EEG testing as a way that they've proven the lifetune works, although we watched the video during research and the test seemed to be fatally flawed and fully allows the test subjects to be swayed by the researchers. Did they measure a change? Yes, but in all likelihood this was a placebo. And a placebo is a perfectly cromulent way to register a change in someone's behavior, even physiologically. Yes. Yeah, now we could spend a bunch of time picking apart their arguments, but fortunately Reddit saved us the Trouble. Eagle Falcon PhD in physical chemistry, JC Calhoun and Alundra 828 have all posted about this whole situation.
- [62:55]
Dan
Let's go.
- [62:55]
Linus Sebastian
I think this is a pretty good summary, but, you know, hey, that's their word. That's their word, not mine. Alex, the writer's thoughts here. All I want is a simple replicable test to show that it does literally anything. Aerztech, can you give us that? It is normal for companies to show us their internal testing to demonstrate how to independently test and verify their claims. Aeris Tech didn't give us any of that and instead just threw technobabble at us. There is, of course, a chance that Alex says he just didn't understand it, but we were able to figure out how the machines at ASML work. And this little amulet certainly isn't more complicated than an EUV machine. Yep, Agreed, Alex. Absolutely toasted. Ah, what else do you want to talk about? We've got. We've actually got a fair bit today. Oh, I want to talk about GTA 6. Sorry, I'm gonna hijack it.
- [64:00]
Dan
Yeah, I know. Let's do it.
- [64:01]
Linus Sebastian
Let's talk about GTA 6. So the headline here, here is some game makers hope that Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to US$100 at launch. And let's get through. Let's get through the whole thing. I'm gonna. I'm gonna blow through this pretty quick here, and then we can open it up to discussion. Industry analyst Michael Ball wrote in his State of video gaming in 2025 that some game makers hope GTA 6 will be priced at $80 to $100 US, breaking the $70 barrier and helping $50 titles move up to $60, $60 titles move to 70, 70 to 80, etc. He stated that game prices have never been lower in real terms than they are today. Larian's Michael Douse responded on Twitter saying, you're not supposed to say this out loud.
- [64:45]
Dan
That sounds like something you would say.
- [64:47]
Linus Sebastian
Here's a graph of GTA prices corrected for inflation. In real terms, a $70 GTA 6 would be the cheapest ever GTA, which is. Yeah, I mean, when you account for inflation. Pretty interesting. Here's a graph of US Prices for packaged video games. Shockingly, shockingly flat. So this is nominal prices. This is what it says on the sticker. And then this one right here is the like, adjusted for inflation version. So stands to reason that today one equals one, and in the past, one equals a lot more than one today. Redditors were quick to point out that simply adjusting for inflation doesn't tell the whole story. And that is true. Inflation is so Much more complicated than just price go up. Some things do not go up, some things actually do go down. Physical media had real costs, not just for materials, but also for duplication, packaging, manuals, shipping, etc. Sticking with the SNES example, we found an old pricing breakdown from Superplay magazine. Oh, oh, super cool. Okay, here we go. Breakdown of cost for your average game. 1% freight, 4% marketing 1.7% duty 4.6% developers royalty 30% retailers margin. So that's where Valve got their number from.15% tax, 33% Nintendo and 15% publishers margin. Shockingly little going to the actual developer. I mean I guess that shouldn't really shock us at this point in the games industry, but hey, there it is. So we know that about from other sources that about half of Nintendo's charge was manufacturing, so about $10 of the 60 cartridge. Now the bar to entry is arguably lower these days. Anyone can publish a game and there is no sort of shipping and all of that but. And sales are also significantly higher in 2020. Elden Ring sold 13 million copies in its first month of release. Back in 22,002, excuse me, the year's bestseller GTA Vice City sold less than 6 million copies by the end of the year. The plain simple truth is there's a lot more gamers out there than there used to be. Publisher revenue is also massive.
- [67:00]
Dan
I'll let you finish.
- [67:01]
Linus Sebastian
Here's just like, you know, casual look at the kind of revenue that these companies are doing on. On gaming. Sony Interactive Tencent, Microsoft Gaming. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. The list doesn't include private companies like Valve or Activision Blizzard who reported 8.8 billion in revenue before Microsoft bought them for $68 billion.
- [67:24]
Dan
Okay, there's a lot to unpack.
- [67:26]
Linus Sebastian
So with all that in mind.
- [67:30]
Luke Lafreniere
Would.
- [67:30]
Linus Sebastian
It be a good thing if GTA 6 was priced at, let's say a hundred dollars? Even though the original article from Michael Ball says eighty to a hundred dol. Let's, let's stick with $100 for the sake of, you know, following up our sensationalist, you know, headline regurgitation here.
- [67:47]
Dan
I don't, I don't suspect Rockstar exactly needs to do it. I think they are going to completely kill regardless. It might be good for other people in the industry. I think the examples of like this Nest cartridge are not necessarily fair because we have been in a predominantly digital distribution environment for a long time now.
- [68:08]
Linus Sebastian
Well, I think that's part of the Point is that that is a big part of why we, yeah, we shouldn't have to pay for physical manufacturing and shipping that we don't have anymore.
- [68:16]
Dan
You can make that argument for a certain period of time, but eventually that margin is eaten up. We've been in predominantly digital distribution for a very long time now. It has not been a couple years.
- [68:26]
Linus Sebastian
Not on the console side, I would argue.
- [68:28]
Dan
Even consoles, I think have been very predominantly digital for a while this generation.
- [68:33]
Linus Sebastian
We're downloading stuff, but PS4, I, I, truthfully, I don't know. I don't have the number.
- [68:41]
Dan
I don't know.
- [68:41]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I'd love to hear from you guys. Floatplane chat, I mean, let us know.
- [68:44]
Dan
Like we're gonna have predominantly PC people.
- [68:46]
Linus Sebastian
But yeah, that's fair enough. But like, man. Yeah, I know. 360, PS3 was the start. People are saying PS4 was pretty split.
- [68:57]
Dan
Yeah.
- [68:57]
Linus Sebastian
Whereas like, I think it's, I think it's pretty. Oh man. Some of these folks, I mean. Yeah, it makes sense that like our super connected in 2013 Buddy here is like I was 50% digital on the 360, which you know, for our like hyper connected audience.
- [69:13]
Dan
Yeah, that makes sense. That might not be that representative, but like I'm pretty.360 was all physical.
- [69:16]
Linus Sebastian
I'm pretty sure that normies have taken a fair bit longer to move digital. Especially. Especially with the inherent advantages of physical media on consoles. The fact that you can resell them is so huge. It's huge.
- [69:30]
Dan
But game stores are closing all over the place. Well, that I know because they can't say. And that's not new news.
- [69:35]
Linus Sebastian
That's true. That's very true.
- [69:37]
Dan
Like it's been big enough impact for stores to close since pre Covid.
- [69:42]
Linus Sebastian
Well, I think what we can agree on is that we aren't sure which.
- [69:45]
Dan
Is at least five years old, but.
- [69:47]
Linus Sebastian
We do know that digital distribution has been a huge thing for a lot longer than games have been stuck at around $60.
- [69:54]
Dan
Yeah. So I don't, I don't personally think that the reference back to the SNES cartridge is entirely fair. I think it was fair at a point in time.
- [70:02]
Linus Sebastian
Sure.
- [70:03]
Dan
And then game prices didn't change at all for like over a decade.
- [70:08]
Linus Sebastian
Right.
- [70:09]
Dan
So then it stops really being fair in my opinion. I think also like some people are pointing out, like there's way more sales now. It's like, yeah, okay. But if you look at the development teams at these companies, on average, I'd say they are way bigger now. Like way bigger now. The, the Amount of work that is going into making some of these games is incredibly immense. So I think that's another like kind of yin yang situation.
- [70:35]
Linus Sebastian
Can I, can I throw in a pitch here? Would you support the move to a hundred US dollars if it meant, hold.
- [70:45]
Dan
On, 140 right now, Canadian.
- [70:47]
Linus Sebastian
If it meant that we could as an industry move away from so many like microtransactions?
- [70:56]
Dan
Yes, absolutely. I would unquestionably agree with that.
- [70:59]
Linus Sebastian
So if the excuse from the industry is that, well, we had to do microtransactions because it was the only way to run our businesses sustainably with the stagnation of video game pricing, I don't.
- [71:09]
Dan
Believe they won't take both.
- [71:12]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I know that's where we're headed. But it. You couldn't allow me to imagine a blissful future.
- [71:21]
Dan
Genuinely 100% be on board it. I used to really, really like doing kind of like more difficult things in game in order to earn, you know, some cosmetic or whatever. Yeah, I really, really liked that. And then like, you know, trying to, trying to get skins in COD by doing certain things with that specific firearm was cool. And then now you can buy cooler ones and it's like, well, I don't know, it genuinely takes away from the game for me. So if you can put that back in, that has direct value for me.
- [71:58]
Linus Sebastian
Well, they won't, but they all know that's not gonna happen.
- [72:01]
Dan
I also think as much as. I honestly think a lot of this can be justifiable in regards to price increase, but to a certain degree, I don't know how much it's going to matter. Yeah, looking at the economy right now, I don't know that many Canadians. Honestly that can just drop 140 bucks.
- [72:21]
Linus Sebastian
That was my next point, is that at the end of the day, they can theoretically raise the price to whatever they want, but the price is going to be whatever the market will bear. And as we've seen, especially on the PC side where the promotions come so fast, people are just gonna wait and they go so deep it's going to end up whatever it starts at, whatever MSRP is, unless you are Nintendo, unless you are Rockstar, unless you are one of these AAA developers or publishers, you are not going to be able to draw a line in the sand and say no further. This is it. This is our primary pricing. It's not gonna, it's not gonna happen. You're gonna, you're gonna get whatever you're gonna get and you're gonna do your Steam summer sale and you're gonna do this, you're gonna do that. And I just, I just, I don't see the, I don't see it having a huge impact because a $60 game already isn't $60. A $60 game is already, you know, 38.99 on Steam. You know, Black Friday or winter sale or summer sale or spring break sale or. But whatever.
- [73:27]
Dan
Some games hold out longer but it ends up being pretty quick.
- [73:29]
Linus Sebastian
And so that's exactly it. So we can have this new higher ceiling. But basically I think what's just going to happen is it's just going to go down to the price the market will bear and that will be that.
- [73:40]
Dan
Neither of us are claiming to really know anything about the actual economics behind this. So maybe that drop. Maybe most people have crazy FOMO and buy it right away. I'm just looking around in our environment and if you know anything about it, the economic environment in Canada right now is dire. It's really rough. So it's not as, it's. As far as my understanding goes, the economic environment in the States is genuinely not as bad. So if you're feeling it down there, it's really bad up here. And a lot of people that I know are just that are doing pretty well comparatively genuinely. Like people with really solid jobs up here are not going to be dropping $140 on a game.
- [74:24]
Linus Sebastian
Well, it's compounded by the fact that our currency is taking an absolute.
- [74:27]
Dan
Yeah, but that's part of it, right?
- [74:28]
Linus Sebastian
Beating right now. So anything that like is imported from, well, anywhere effectively our purchasing power has just been.
- [74:37]
Dan
Yeah, so like as speaking as Canadians, which is the only thing I can realistically do. This is crushing for us to be honest.
- [74:46]
Linus Sebastian
Like yeah, it would be, it wouldn't even. He's rounding. It would be more like $146 at a straight one to one conversion. Like it's one of those things where I will often see, you know, Canadians complaining about the pricing on our store. It's like, why is your Canadian pricing so bad? Because our pricing is in US Dollars, Our costs are in US Dollars, our markup is a certain amount above that and then that, that's it. That's how much the product costs us and that's what our markup is. So when it's so high in Canadian dollars because the loonie is like in the toilet and if I just did a one to one conversion out of the goodness of my heart, we would be just losing money on every transaction on LTT store. That's Not. That's not realistic. That's not viable.
- [75:27]
Dan
The, the wily in full plane chat said no. Luke should try speaking as a Spaniard.
- [75:32]
Linus Sebastian
I, Yeah, I, I'd like to hear that.
- [75:34]
Dan
I have no idea. I. I'm assuming it's a joke, but even if it's not, I can't imagine what the economy is in all the places around the world. We're just talking about Canada and if you want to see some insane graphs, just look up like cost of living versus income charts over time for, for Canadians.
- [75:52]
Linus Sebastian
If you look at a macro trend graph, it won't look much better across most of North America. But we're having a particularly acute with like housing go of it right now.
- [76:03]
Dan
Yeah, yeah, it's. It's rough and it's rough. It's. It's rough everywhere as far as I know. I just know that it is particularly rough up here.
- [76:10]
Linus Sebastian
Joint Tracy says here in the UK we're not doing much better than you guys. Yeah, I've heard that too.
- [76:14]
Dan
I don't think a lot of people have the disposable income to jump up to this rate. That being said, in times of economic crisis, as far as my understanding goes, entertainment stays an expense for a lot.
- [76:24]
Linus Sebastian
Of people and gaming is still one of the best value dollar per hour. Dollar per hour things you can spend your money on.
- [76:31]
Dan
So I could just be totally wrong.
- [76:32]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I mean maybe people will cut out, they'll cut out travel, they'll cut out eating out, which we already know is happening too. When I was over it, when I was, was when I was overseas, my news feed started to slant more like, you know, British and Irish and, and all of that. Right. And I read this just like devastating article and I forget the exact number, which makes me feel even worse because it's just, it's disappearing and nobody even can be bothered to remember the rate at which it's disappearing. But it, it pretty much was like talking about the rate at which Irish pubs are closing.
- [77:03]
Dan
Oh.
- [77:04]
Linus Sebastian
And it's like terrifying because what's gonna replace it? What's gonna replace the small independent? Dude, they're so unique with that character and that history.
- [77:17]
Dan
Yeah. Nothing.
- [77:17]
Linus Sebastian
Nothing like what a. What a Tim fucking Hortons?
- [77:20]
Dan
Like, honestly, I don't, I don't drink. You don't drink?
- [77:23]
Linus Sebastian
I don't drink. But it's.
- [77:24]
Dan
Neither of us are probably frequent.
- [77:26]
Linus Sebastian
But it's not just the, it's not just from my understanding, it's not the drinking. It's a social thing. That's your, that's your kind of your town square. You know, it's your. It's your place to go. And.
- [77:36]
Dan
And they're often warm and genuinely pretty inviting. Yeah. It's a public house.
- [77:41]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. There. Thank you. That's a really good way of putting it. It's right in the name. Public house. And they're just disappearing. 603 says people don't socialize like they used to. The drop in the last 20 years of people gathering is astounding. And, man, did Covid ever not help with that.
- [77:59]
Dan
Oh, no, not at all.
- [78:00]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, sure didn't help.
- [78:03]
Dan
I used to go out to eat with people, like, all the time. That was like, how I socialized. And now I honestly can't remember.
- [78:10]
Linus Sebastian
Yvonne and I asked him out. No. You don't even remember.
- [78:12]
Dan
Was it Earl's with you guys? Was the last time I ate?
- [78:15]
Linus Sebastian
No, we went to Boston Pizza.
- [78:16]
Dan
When was that? Oh, yeah.
- [78:19]
Linus Sebastian
It wasn't a memorable dinner at all. I guess he knows why that's funny. Anyway, I was.
- [78:26]
Dan
I was maybe a little focused on other things. Okay. I sort of forgot about the food.
- [78:30]
Linus Sebastian
When Yvonne reached out. When Yvonne reached out to him to get some dinner with us, he was like. Like, immediate response. Why? What's wrong? Yeah, and, like, that's partially on us for not spending time with our friends often enough, apparently.
- [78:46]
Dan
Wasn't actually what I said.
- [78:47]
Linus Sebastian
Something along those lines. It's partial. Partially on, you know, Luke for not, you know, just being in that mindset. And I think it's partially on just like all of us. We're just getting out of the habit of just spending time together, you know, why are we. What are.
- [79:03]
Dan
What's our excuse at this point? I don't know. I think it's habit forming. It takes. What is it. It takes a month to form a habit. And Covid, for a lot of people, was a lot longer than that. So.
- [79:13]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, no, he didn't get fired. And if he did, we'd do it somewhere much nicer than Boston Pizza.
- [79:21]
Dan
You'd fire me at a nice location.
- [79:23]
Linus Sebastian
We'd put him down real nice.
- [79:26]
Dan
Wow, it's so interesting. I need to, like, pay. Pay attention to where you invite when you go to dinner.
- [79:30]
Linus Sebastian
So if I, like, ever invite you to Gotham's or something, then.
- [79:34]
Dan
Oh, no, no.
- [79:36]
Linus Sebastian
Nice last meal.
- [79:39]
Dan
No, I said, yeah, sounds great. With a big smiley.
- [79:42]
Linus Sebastian
Okay. Well, it was right away she got a vibe.
- [79:45]
Dan
Yeah, I did follow that up with a different message.
- [79:47]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
- [79:47]
Dan
Being like, so I stand behind.
- [79:50]
Linus Sebastian
I stand behind the vibe representation.
- [79:52]
Dan
I definitely might Yeah, I get. I get away with the first message excuse, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, yeah, it was. It was a detectable vibe, for sure.
- [80:03]
Linus Sebastian
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Dan
Whoa.
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Linus Sebastian
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- [82:40]
Luke Lafreniere
Somebody stole the packaging.
- [82:41]
Linus Sebastian
That's pretty straightforward.
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Dan
Is it a stand then?
- [82:46]
Linus Sebastian
Whoa. It's also a stand. Okay, okay, that's pretty cool. The grip is also, is also a stand. And yeah, Dan wanted me to show that it, that it actually rotates. So if you want like the most, you know, comfortable, you know, angle or whatever you want to watch landscape or whatever, it moves around. Okay, that's pretty cool. It's crazy thin. 2.5 millimeters, which is smaller than almost any camera bump and will practically never get caught in your pockets. You can even use it as a kickstand to watch the WAN show. Oh, that's awesome. And, oh, it's magnetic. That means you can use any MagSafe accessory mount or charger on top of the grip. Or you can stick your phone to a PC, case, microwave, or other magnetic surface. Oh, good, you could, yes, you could do that if you really wanted to. The OSNAP Grip works on all phones and looks slick with its CNC milled aluminum trim. Love can be a pain in the grip. So they have a BOGO deal for you and your partner this Valentine's Day. Buy one and get one 50% off@osnap.com wan or by using the link in the video description. All right, let's oh, do merge messages. Thank you, producer Dan. Hit me.
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Luke Lafreniere
Sure. In the past, AMD and Nvidia competed across every price. Now each price point is segmented by a brand. Intel Low, AMD Mid, and Nvidia High. Does the consumer benefit from this similar to how cars are?
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Linus Sebastian
Well, the thing about the automotive space is that at every price point there is competition. Like, even if you're buying a two million dollar hypercar, you could choose, you could shop with Pininfarina. You could shop. I probably butchered the pronunciation, but don't worry about it. Where the heck is that Ferrari Lamborghini? You could shop with Ramac. You could, like, you've got, you've actually got an entire smorgasbord of options for like ridiculous hypercars. And then at the low end, things are super competitive and are only going to get more competitive as China continues to export more inexpensive EVs. When you've got like three semi monopolists almost at each price band. I think the argument that you have competition gets a lot weaker. Now Nvidia does compete across more than one price bracket. They do ultra high end, ultra ultra high end, ultra ultra ultra high end. And I am a little bit below that. They also do high end and like mid high. And then AMD is competitive at I would say like the high end down to the mid range. Especially if we go back and look at their sort of previous generation products that they use to fill the gap sometimes. Intel meanwhile. Yeah, low end. Only like low end. But gaming is what I would describe intel as because low end used to mean like $60 GPUs that are used as a display out. I mean the Arc B580 is still a, you know, $250 GPU. Like let's, let's be real. This is a gaming card but it's at the low end of the, of the like legitimate modern current generation gaming cards. No, I don't think the consumer benefits from this until we have more direct competition at least not enough.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Luke Lafreniere
Hi Linus. No other videos on the Tonight show comes close to the number of views yours has. Not even bad bunnies. Why do you think that's? What do you think that's a sign of? We would like to hear your comments on that. Cheers.
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Linus Sebastian
I think that is as simple as me being YouTube native.
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Dan
YouTube?
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Like where are you going to find Bad Bunny's audience? You are going to find it. I, I don't, I honestly don't even know what the most popular. Yeah, sure, Spotify for sure. But I was gonna say like even like social, like social media. I don't know what's most popular in the Latin world.
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Dan
Yeah, I have no idea.
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Linus Sebastian
But you know, on those platforms, Instagram or something, I'm sure I'm gonna be getting 26 views for every million that he gets. Like it's, it's, it's a completely different, we're running on different, you know, tracks essentially and this is home turf. I'm gonna perform best on YouTube. I'm gonna kill it on YouTube and anywhere else. I'm gonna, I'm gonna struggle by comparison with that said, you know, credit to their team, credit to. Credit to Jimmy and, and Bad Bunny himself. And I did a pretty good job too. Even off YouTube, especially the clips with the glasses actually is performing really well like on Facebook.
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Dan
You mean the color changing glasses or.
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Linus Sebastian
The screen on Facebook? Dude, that segment, I think it actually includes both of those. That segment is performing Cray Cray. And I think it's actually doing pretty well on Instagram as well, which are both platforms where I am not in a, in a particularly strong position. Yeah, let me see if I can, let me see if I can find it. They upload so much stuff. That's another thing too is a lot of the time it's hard to evaluate how successful one of their clips was in the first, you know, week because you'll have stuff that will over time go viral. Like there's, there's clips on the Tonight Show YouTube channel that have a hundred million views. We have never uploaded anything with 100 million views.
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Dan
No.
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Linus Sebastian
So you've gotta, you've got to give them, you've got to give them time to cook.
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Dan
I do think, like, I think especially 5ish plus years ago that type of content was getting hyper pumped by YouTube.
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Linus Sebastian
This is true. And like, like I said, I think I did a great job. But you've also got to just understand that it's a completely different. It's a completely different model. It's like a, like a scatter gun, right? Yeah, just gonna.
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Dan
A lot of them were uploaded like at the same time. As far as I could tell, they're.
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Linus Sebastian
Not optimizing for the YouTube platform at all. And, and we threw our weight behind it too. Like we made sure to throw social promotion after it to give ourselves the best possible chance.
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Dan
Apparently the top video has 493 million views.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, there you go. There you go.
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Dan
That's a lot.
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Linus Sebastian
So let me see if I can, let me see if I can find like, this is. Yeah, this is wild. I can't even find the one that performed really well. There's one that has like millions of views or something. And these, these are, these are not that I love.
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Dan
Can you scroll down a little bit? I love that you guys sent that photo in as your, your official.
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Linus Sebastian
Oh yeah, buddy. We had a backup. We had a backup in case they didn't like it.
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Dan
The other ones are just so. They're so serious, so professional.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
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Dan
And then it was just like wide Linus.
- [89:19]
Linus Sebastian
Our backup was sad Linus.
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Dan
It was a bit of a half measure. Backup.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, we wanted, we wanted to, we wanted to put them very firmly in a corner of. We can publish a meme picture or we can publish a meme picture.
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Dan
Oh my God. Galaxy's right. Dude, make another poster. You should do wide Linus as a poster. No, no text on it even just huge Linus face.
- [89:45]
Linus Sebastian
No, we did some like meme products with that in the past. And honestly, I regret it. I wish we didn't do it.
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Dan
Okay.
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Linus Sebastian
The people who bought it, they seem to like it. It didn't actually sell that well. Like I was opposed to it in the first place. Place. It didn't sell that well. And more importantly, I want LTT Store to be.
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Dan
I think you were doing like sequin pillows and stuff.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. We also did a desk pad.
- [90:04]
Dan
I didn't like this pad.
- [90:04]
Linus Sebastian
Or we did mouse pads as well.
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Dan
Yeah, but that would have been white background, wouldn't it?
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Linus Sebastian
No, no, we did, we did like Linus face. Like Linus selfie. The, the wide one. We did that as a mouse pad.
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Luke Lafreniere
I gave one to my dad.
- [90:15]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Yeah. He hates it.
- [90:17]
Luke Lafreniere
He has to have it turned away because Linus scares him.
- [90:20]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. So I, I don't know. I, I, I, I don't want us to become like a, like red bubble, you know, like first party red bubble store.
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Dan
No, yeah. I, I, I genuinely thought a poster of it would be funny. I, I didn't like the sequin pillows either, but yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
Anyways, I want LTT store to be taken seriously. LUS 2025. Also LTT store. Well, I can't do anything about like, Elijah making promises.
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Dan
Technically you can.
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Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean.
- [90:52]
Linus Sebastian
Once it's out in public. Well, okay, but I shouldn't, I shouldn't. Like, that's, I think that's the strength of our organization though, is that we, we allow fresh ideas.
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Dan
I don't disagree with you.
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Linus Sebastian
We encourage fresh ideas. And sometimes those fresh ideas are just sort of awful and we live with those consequences.
- [91:12]
Luke Lafreniere
They can come out moldy.
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Dan
The curse of growing as an organization.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Dan. Dan, 160 in floatplane chat says, at Linus, we are still your boss. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing, Right.
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Dan
A weird thing is like you think about how, how connected you are in you are to the company. Right. You have a lot of feelers and a lot of things that are going on. You definitely don't know more than half the things that happen in a week at the company. No, like, not even close.
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Linus Sebastian
Not even close.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. You can't anymore. You got a hundred people presumably, like working an entire workweek. Like, these are, these are more than that.
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Dan
When you, Even though contractors and remote.
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Linus Sebastian
Even though, you know, in the grand scheme of things, you know, compared to the kinds of companies that we are talking about, right, we're talking about an AMD or an intel or an Nvidia or whatever else, like, compared to these These behemoths, we are tiny peanuts but these are still unfathomable numbers on a weekly basis. Let me, let me just do the math here because it's 40 hours a week per person on a weekly basis we are doing 4000 hours.
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Dan
How are you supposed to keep up.
- [92:16]
Linus Sebastian
With that of work? Like it's, it's. On the, on the one hand sometimes you look at sort of the organizational inefficiencies, you go it's a bloody miracle we can get anything done. And then on the other hand you look at some of the things that we accomplish and you go holy crap, how is this even possible? This is incredible. Sometimes in the same meeting.
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Dan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's actually pretty cool.
- [92:38]
Linus Sebastian
Common.
- [92:38]
Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
What else we got?
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Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, let's maybe do one more. Hello LLD. I'm looking into getting a 5090 and possibly doing a giveaway for it or a system when I launch my PC themed card game later this year. Any advice on hosting a giveaway or things to consider?
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Linus Sebastian
I will say this. Hosting a giveaway is not something that we have found is a particularly effective promotional tool. We've had some really good success with charity auctions. Those have done really, really well in terms of resonating with our community.
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Dan
That makes sense.
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Linus Sebastian
But the thing about giveaways that we found is that you think man, I am making one winner, I am making one lucky winner.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
What you're actually doing because people are mostly self centered which makes sense. And I mean this in the context of compared to strangers. I think that if you talk to the average person they are probably extremely.
- [93:41]
Dan
Generous if their buddy wins it that.
- [93:44]
Linus Sebastian
They know they'll be stoked.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
But everybody else in the pool is not their buddy. They're just a stranger and they would much rather have it for themselves. So what effectively you've done is if you have a thousand entries into the draw is you have created 999 losers and minus one.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Linus Sebastian
And that's it. That's their experience with your brand. That's their exposure to your brand. You might get people just like signing up for the giveaway but I doubt that they are going to have any kind of long term affiliation with you or your brand. And I have personally not had great experience with just like doing giveaways to you know, promote a thing we're doing or whatever else. It doesn't, it hasn't been very effective for us. Some brands still do it though and clearly they're getting some kind of ROI like AMD they, they are really into doing the giveaways as part of AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade, just as a way to kind of drive engagement. Although I do think a lot of the time stuff like that pretty much comes down to like a team trying to create a KPI that proves that somebody interacted with the media that they sponsored. And so it probably comes more down to that, like, hey, here is provable, demonstrable evidence that this, this piece of content we sponsored, this AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade, was viewed and people interacted with our brand. Even if the giveaway itself has absolutely nothing to do with, you know, what their, what their desired outcome is, like, it's, it's mostly an exposure campaign. AMD exerts functionally zero force on the content of these videos. All they ask is that there's an AMD product in it and you guys, like, you know, in good faith, don't completely freaking ignore it. That's, that's all. From my understanding, that's pretty much all that they ask. Plus the, the giveaway call call outs.
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Dan
I used to stream a bunch, and when I did that, at one point in time, my stream was almost functionally a giveaway stream. I would buy humble bundle keys and other people in the community would buy humble bundle keys and we'd put them all in a pile and we'd give them away. And it got to the point where we were giving away so many keys because I was like almost trying to buffer against this whole you're just making losers thing that it started making losers anyways. But the losers it was making were people that only won one game versus other people that won more than one game. And it got to a point where it was just like, this is just stupid, stupid. So we stopped and then I converted my whole stream to almost effectively charity streaming for like two or three years. And we raised like, I think in the end, over those years, we raised over 100 grand for BC Children's. And that was cool. And that community was really cool. And then I moved and stopped streaming, but sick. But that was like. That was the correct pivot is basically what I'm saying.
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Linus Sebastian
Graham's nice guy. Okay, what's next, Mr. Dan? Oh, we get to do more topics. We have been bamboozled. Bambu Labs, maker of some of the most popular 3D printers for home users, has announced a security update in which they update. They are limiting third party tool access, for example, certain slicer programs. Bamboo claims this update will ensure only authorized access and operations are permitted and mitigated risks of remote hacks or printer exposure issues. We talked about this a little bit last week. The 3D printing community quickly became outraged by this, worried about the long term effects such as that this might allow Bamboo in the future to restrict filament types, add a possible subscription. They also raised many more concerns. Bamboo did put out a response titled Setting the Record Straight about our Security update in which they denied the claims about some people's future concerns like restricting filament or possible subscriptions, but they don't seem to have addressed and they said this is this is security related only, but people are basically still super not happy about it and I think this is a pretty unnecessary stain on their reputation. I'm gonna leave this to the people who kind of understand the tools that they're using and the impact better before I wade too deep into it, but I will say the reputational damage has obviously been very, very high. As someone whose household almost exclusively uses the Bamboo Handy app already. Yeah, I know, right?
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Dan
It's a great name.
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Linus Sebastian
It's not going to impact me until they like screw it up even more potentially, but I definitely want to throw my support behind our brothers who want more open tools. Samsung has quietly removed Bluetooth connectivity from the Galaxy S25 Ultra's S Pen. This change takes away Air Actions, which lets users open apps, navigate through galleries, or use the S Pen as a remote camera shutter. Over the many years that I used a Note 9, the camera shutter remote control was probably my most used feature with the stylus.
- [98:50]
Dan
People talk about that all the time.
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Linus Sebastian
It is so everyone that I know that has an S pen, this was so handy. This would be enough for me to not consider an S25 and to just get an S24. Samsung explained that the decision was driven by low user engagement and pointed out that similar functions are available in the Galaxy watch starting at $60 and the Galaxy Ring starting at $300.
- [99:11]
Dan
Whoa. Interesting. Sorry. Rest assured in flipping chat said we are in the DoD supply chain or Department of Defense. I'm assuming they're American. American and had to throw out all of our Bamboo printers because it requires an account hosted in China now. Whoa. Crazy.
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Linus Sebastian
So I guess what he's saying is you should probably sneak onto DoD property and dig through their dumpsters. Slash S slash S. Good luck. Do not do that. Don't even try.
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Dan
If you do vlog it, Poor chat.
- [99:45]
Linus Sebastian
Poor chat. No guys, if you do vlog it, it's just a prank, bro.
- [99:51]
Dan
Contact shy it's just a prank.
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Linus Sebastian
Anyways, a Redditor has written a script to Put words in my mouth. Little did he know he doesn't need a script for that. He can just misquote me by snipping out context. Redditor Lab Tech901 wrote a script that takes clips of me saying specific words in Wancho Vodka and rearranges them to make me say whatever they want. Let's have a look at some of the results here. Dan, Do I have audio? No, yeah, it's fine. I had Twitch Chat open in a tab by accident. Who cares? You know, I haven't attacked Twitch Chat much lately. Yeah, I kind of miss my favorite punching bag. Love you guys. You're awful. All right, ready? Dan, hello, my name is Linus. Today I wanted to talk to you about something very important to me. I do it not like to the viewers. I do not like to Luke and I definitely do not like to Dan. I do not like Dan so much that's. I'm hoping he goes away and it never returns. I also want to talk about.
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Dan
It reminds me of.
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Luke Lafreniere
Homer Simpson with the. That episode.
- [101:11]
Dan
No, there's. There's a. Okay, so far from back in the day were kind of like that. But then there's another. There's a. Dan, do you want to.
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Linus Sebastian
Just drop the link if people want to check it out? Yeah, sure.
- [101:21]
Dan
There's a YouTube creator. I don't know how many people are gonna like these songs, but there's a YouTube creator called Young Scrolls that makes what now? That makes Elder Scrolls music. Saint Gib I. I genuinely really like this ep, but they. He makes Elder Scrolls music based on voice lines from the game. Dagoth Wave is legitimately a sick song. Has 13 million views. I'm not surprised. It is dope. It's. But it sounds. Some of it can sound kind of like that because it's. It's lines taken from different parts of the game. And I, I, I kind of like there. There incredibly good at what they do to the point where, like, they make it sound good anyways. And I did appreciate. I saw someone. When AI music started kicking off a bunch people were like, oh, like, you can use this now. Like, you don't have to just pull voice lines from the game and like, stitch them together and make your music. That way you could make it, like, flow better by making them speak the lines out properly using AI voices. And they were like, no, the reason why I do it the way I do it is because I like it the way I do it. And I was like, sick.
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Linus Sebastian
Fair enough.
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Dan
Nice. But yeah, immediately listening to that, immediately Reminded me of young scrolls.
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Linus Sebastian
Dan, do you know what spider web cables are from that last merch message that popped up? Because I am super interested in fiber splicing and stuff too. I've wanted to do a video on that for a while. We just kind of find an expert to kind of walk us through it and then we'll basically just kind of stand there and go, yeah, and then we'll try it and we'll probably fail and it'll be fun.
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Dan
Yeah.
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Luke Lafreniere
Because we have a little tiny baby, you know? Know Fusion Splicer.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I would love to. I'd love to do that. I want to do that. Can we, can we, can we, can we do that? I want to do that.
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Luke Lafreniere
Linus, post on the forum. In the video suggestion.
- [103:04]
Linus Sebastian
You just tell me to post on the forum. Yeah, okay. Maybe instead.
- [103:09]
Luke Lafreniere
I actually don't know how to tell people that we have a video idea Internally, I mean.
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Linus Sebastian
Oh, internally. Oh, you can just send it to dance.
- [103:19]
Luke Lafreniere
Okay.
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Linus Sebastian
Okay, cool. What else we got? Bye. Bye. Blu Ray. According to Tom's hardware, Sony announced that it will end production of recordable Blu ray discs. Also MiniDisc, which they still made mini disk MD data and MiniDV cassettes in February. The company had already discontinued recordable consumer Blu Ray and optical discs in mid-2024, and at the time indicated they would continue production for business and corporate clients until it became unprofitable. I guess it is this day some media outlets are mistakenly reporting this as the end of Blu Ray. But professionally replicated Blu Ray movies are not affected by this announcement. And Sony is not the only producer of blank media. Pioneer even has discs that are good for 100 years. So that's just a quick little bit I wanted to throw in there. And then finally, TikTok is back. On January 18th, two hours before the official ban came into effect, TikTok began shutting down its services in the U.S. including cutting live streams that were currently active and forced rebooting the app for users who had it open. Once it was reopened, they were met with a message explaining the situation and the ban. Less than an hour later, the message was changed to explain that they're hopeful about working with President Trump to change this ban. And then, less than 12 hours later, services were restored in the US with the following. Thank you for providing providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties for providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive. So TikTok is back, but it has to have 50% ownership be under a US based company. So we will see how that goes. I think Mr. Beast is bidding for.
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Dan
Oh, boy.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah. All right. Why don't we do land show after dark? I'm not gonna lie, my mouth's getting a little sore.
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Dan
So you are feeling it a little bit?
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Linus Sebastian
I'm feeling it a little bit.
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Dan
That makes sense.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I. Overall, it went really well.
- [105:19]
Dan
I'm very surprised.
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Linus Sebastian
I had the uppers this time. I had the lowers last time, and I didn't go under. I just had local numbing and they like basically dug in there and got them because they were impacted. So that is to say they were covered by the gum. It was a pretty awful experience. I was knocked on my butt for a couple days. I needed the pain meds. It was. Got a little bit infected. No, no dry socket, thankfully. But yeah, it sucked. And then this time, because the experience was so awful last time when they asked me, hey, do you just want general anesthesia? I've never gone under before and I've always been a little bit uneasy about it just because, like, like, very, very, very occasionally you can like not wake up and stuff. Like it's still, you know, chemicals in your body, which is not a thing I'm a huge fan of overall. But the cost difference was, like, negligible because contrary to what a lot of people think, we have an imperfect healthcare system. But it isn't, you know, just completely.
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Dan
There are a lot of things I do like about it. There's a lot of things that are numerous flaws.
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Linus Sebastian
There's a lot of things that are bad about it, but there's a lot of things that are not that bad about it. So the, the cost difference for going under general anesthesia was pretty minor. And I was like, you know what? Sure, let's. Let's go for gold. So they basically injected the one thing into the iv, injected the seventh thing, second thing into the iv and I kind of went, oh, yeah, Is that it? And I woke up hours later. It was shockingly fast. So anyway, yeah, so I went under General. They removed the whole thing. And then we posted a float plane exclusive of me coming, me heading in, and then me coming down. This is, this is me before, because I wouldn't be driving if I just woke up from general anesthetic still before. Oh yeah, this is me extremely high. Anyway, that's on float plane right now.
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Dan
But you're. But you're smiling and walking around, so it must not have been that bad. Like right off the hop, I Don't know.
- [107:17]
Linus Sebastian
I don't remember.
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Dan
Fair enough.
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Linus Sebastian
So, yeah, that's.
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Dan
But I know you were, you were in voice chat playing games with like employees, I think on like a day or two. Oh, really? It was Wednesday.
- [107:30]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I think. No, I think so.
- [107:32]
Dan
No, Tuesday. Tuesday.
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Linus Sebastian
You sure?
- [107:34]
Dan
Yeah.
- [107:34]
Linus Sebastian
Anyways, I was at the gym anyway after I woke up from sort of like my twilight sort of first day, I. It's been really good. They did an amazing job. The sutures are super clean. Nothing's really gotten infected or anything.
- [107:47]
Dan
And so now this was an after work, just people having fun thing.
- [107:52]
Linus Sebastian
Now I'm sitting here kind of going like, man, should I have even bothered going under? Because it was. Yeah, it was overall pretty good. I saw a lot of comments that are like, what is he going under general for? For this? It's. It's relatively common here for people to do it. And the only reason that I did it was because the experience the first time was pretty. Was pretty. Not very good. But yeah, the tops are supposed to be easier. I just, I guess I just was like, yeah, but like how much easier? And if it doesn't change things that much, I guess I'll just do it. So.
- [108:21]
Dan
Yeah.
- [108:22]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, I basically had a really, really fitful nap and. And then was this guy for a bit.
- [108:34]
Dan
So out of it. Oh my goodness. I'm excited to watch that.
- [108:38]
Luke Lafreniere
Oh, man, oh man.
- [108:39]
Dan
I'm assuming there's some Avon commentary too. She's filming, right?
- [108:44]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's the one who filmed it.
- [108:48]
Luke Lafreniere
All right. After dark.
- [108:50]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, let's do it.
- [108:51]
Dan
Yeah.
- [108:54]
Luke Lafreniere
There we are. All right, you ready for some merch messages?
- [108:57]
Linus Sebastian
Yes.
- [108:58]
Luke Lafreniere
Hi DLL. Building a new PC soon, but not sure whether to go with a 9800x3D now or what. Wait for the 9950x3D benchmarks. What do you think about AMD's claims that the 9950 will match the 9800 gaming performance?
- [109:12]
Linus Sebastian
I think it's pretty likely. I mean, most games are not going to be touching more than eight cores these days. And so as long as they're steering everything to the right die and we're not splitting the load across CCDs, there's no real reason that a 9950x3D that I can think of should not perform about like a 9800x3D would, as long as they, you know, give it all the power and thermal headroom that it needs, as long as you have adequate cooling on it. I mean, it's basically got a 9800x3D there and then it has like another die with 8 more 10, 5 cores but no 3D V cache. So it all comes down to how well AMD through, you know, microcode, working with Microsoft, all that stuff can, can manage the load and make sure, sure that all the correct load is falling on all the correct course.
- [110:03]
Luke Lafreniere
Hey, Lily. Luke and Dan. After your last tooth removal, you said you didn't want to risk of going under. What changed your mind this time?
- [110:12]
Linus Sebastian
I don't know. Yolo.
- [110:16]
Dan
It's pretty bad last time.
- [110:18]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, it kind of sucked last.
- [110:19]
Dan
The chance of risk is pretty low.
- [110:22]
Linus Sebastian
It is pretty low.
- [110:23]
Dan
It exists.
- [110:24]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. And I would, I don't know if I'd ever recommend someone do it just because I wouldn't want to be responsible for that.
- [110:30]
Dan
I went in saying that I, I didn't want to do it, but then he was like, yours are growing in like sideways and stuff. You need to go under. And I was like, well.
- [110:38]
Linus Sebastian
And I do wonder if me going under General, you know, made me a compliant enough patient that they were able to really get in there and do a better job. Like I, I actually do kind of wonder.
- [110:47]
Dan
That was also mentioned. Mine were like really far back and they were like, we're gonna have to torque your jaw around like, like a lot. So it's better if it's kind of droopy.
- [110:56]
Linus Sebastian
Nice.
- [110:56]
Dan
And the tongue, as far as my understanding goes, right, can be really annoying if you're like awake.
- [111:02]
Linus Sebastian
Right.
- [111:02]
Dan
Yeah. Anyways, I don't know. I don't know what I'm talking about.
- [111:06]
Luke Lafreniere
Linus the short, Luke the tall, and Dan the man. Is there any decision that you have made recently that I don't know that you from 10 years ago wouldn't agree with or vice versa? And why can't staff swear, even in floatplane exclusives?
- [111:20]
Linus Sebastian
Sure. I'm going to take the easy cop out answer and I wouldn't have gone under general 10 years ago, but I'm just like, yeah, whatever, screw it, go for it. I'm. I don't know, as I, as I get older, in some ways I'm getting like way more conservative. But as I get older, in some ways I'm also getting way more yolo. So I don't know how to reconcile.
- [111:38]
Luke Lafreniere
To clarify, conservative as.
- [111:41]
Linus Sebastian
Oh, like in, in terms of being risk averse.
- [111:43]
Luke Lafreniere
There you go.
- [111:46]
Linus Sebastian
Anywho, sit on that for a minute. As for whether staff can't swear. They absolutely. Can we just bleep it?
- [111:52]
Dan
Yeah.
- [111:52]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, people, people, people swear all the time in this office. It's f Cking unprofessional is what it is.
- [111:59]
Dan
My bad.
- [112:00]
Luke Lafreniere
I learned from Lou.
- [112:01]
Dan
I'm trying to get. I'm trying to get better. I'm actually actively working on it. It's not working very well but I'm trying.
- [112:07]
Luke Lafreniere
I think it's more punctual now. I don't think it's important.
- [112:11]
Dan
I don't think it's a good thing. I also don't necessarily like. I don't There's a point really against it. Yeah. But I think like for me I think it. It can limit the use of language sometimes because you use. They're often used as like multi use words and killer words. Yeah. You can. You can stretch your vocabulary more and stuff by not using them as much. I think that's one of the reasons. Reasons why I want to do it per chance. I'm never gonna like completely stop. But yeah, I think also being better at reining it in around certain company like kids or whatever else would be good.
- [112:51]
Linus Sebastian
Yes it would.
- [112:52]
Dan
Yeah.
- [112:53]
Linus Sebastian
My kids are gonna be old enough that it's not gonna matter by the time you get that sorted out.
- [112:57]
Luke Lafreniere
Luke. Really?
- [112:58]
Dan
Yeah. My biggest problem is generally when we're like playing games because I'll get hype well and I'm just like. Like on wan show I don't. Because my brain like switches into this mode but when I'm playing games gaming with my bro I'm in gaming with my bros mode so my brain isn't like thinking like oh yeah, don't say that. I don't know. It's not great. It doesn't feel like a good look.
- [113:25]
Linus Sebastian
What about decisions you made recently that you from 10 years ago wouldn't agree with?
- [113:34]
Dan
Decisions I made recently. I feel like I'm going to twist this and go with like Observations I think 10 years ago having self recognition that there's like really cool things about being a what feel. I understand we're barely out of small but what feels like huge company there are like benefits to it.
- [113:52]
Linus Sebastian
We're like adamantly oh yeah against like there are about growth sometimes there are.
- [113:56]
Dan
Still parts about it I do not like oh 100% 100% and I think I probably do feel strongly more strongly about that than most people here. But there are more things that I do like about it than I would have expected for sure. And certain of my decisions have contributed to leading us down a path of continued expansion over time. So like that would be very surprising for Me, I think.
- [114:30]
Luke Lafreniere
Hey, Linus, I remember you mentioned a while back that you wanted to make more women's clothing and was wondering if an LTD skirt was in the pipeline.
- [114:38]
Linus Sebastian
Not that I'm aware of.
- [114:39]
Luke Lafreniere
I've also got some other merch messages about women's clothing in general, and if it's not selling well and if you're planning to do more at all.
- [114:47]
Linus Sebastian
No, it hasn't sold particularly well. I don't think we've lost money, but I think overall, we have not. Not made any money on it. So there's a. A significant opportunity cost there when our team is working hard and building what I believe are really good products. Like our. Our women's clothing was really good, and it not selling. I mean, that just. It's. It's discouraging across the board, right? Both for the bean counters and for the people that pour. You know, you got to think about it, right? Like, they pour their life, you know, into what they create. We. We take that kind of thing really seriously. We don't want to. We don't want to waste our time, right? And so if we're. If we're making something really great, and ultimately, you know, it's not. It's not resonating, you know, it's not resonating enough, then we'd rather create something that makes, you know, more people really happy. It's. It's just. It's a natural thing. And whether that's, you know, whether that's right or not, you know, yeah, we could. We could debate about that till the cows come home, but at the end of the day, like, think about your own dopamine hit, right? Like, if you post something on Reddit and it gets four upvotes, or you post something on Reddit, it gets 40,000 upvotes, which one makes you feel better? So, yeah, I still want to, you know, try to support it as best we can, but it's just not really. It's not really fly in as it is right now.
- [116:08]
Luke Lafreniere
Hey, Linus. Slick. And who again, if you had to choose whether to turn off the taps for hardware or software development forever, which would you choose? Thanks for keeping it positive, you guys.
- [116:19]
Linus Sebastian
In the context where you say hardware and software, it really makes it sound like you're talking about electronics, hardware. In which case, to your knowledge, we aren't doing any of that, and we certainly can't turn off software development.
- [116:34]
Dan
I don't think he means like, up a company.
- [116:36]
Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, no, in general. Oh, I think this is more like a. Oh, traditional.
- [116:42]
Linus Sebastian
What Is I'd rather have all the hard hardware we have today forever and continue seeing software develop. You find new, innovative ways to use it. No question. That's not even. I mean, unless you disagree. Hit me.
- [116:54]
Dan
No, Yeah, I think so, I guess.
- [116:55]
Linus Sebastian
Like really, do you want to play all the same games that you play today on like faster and faster hardware?
- [117:00]
Luke Lafreniere
They would have to optimize the games.
- [117:04]
Linus Sebastian
I actually pitched. I pitched a video internally today called Game Developers are Not Lazy because this is just a completely f. Cking bull argument.
- [117:16]
Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, sorry, I probably shouldn't stare. Did I stir up my own drama?
- [117:19]
Linus Sebastian
Dude, I just keep. I keep seeing people just. Just mindlessly parrot having seemingly no understanding whatsoever of the actual dynamics that are at play in the games industry. Even I understand just a fraction of it having never worked in it it. But I understand it well enough to know that if a game has a problem, it almost certainly doesn't boil down to that. Every developer who worked on it is a lazy. Like, there's. There's no way. Yeah. Nerdle in chat says, as a backend developer can confirm everything I do takes.001 seconds slash S. No, like, come on.
- [118:00]
Luke Lafreniere
Does if he use PHP properly.
- [118:03]
Linus Sebastian
Gerald says, what about spaghetti code? There are organizational issues, there are workflow issues, there are management issues, workforce issues. There are tons of issues that can lead to sloppy work. And you know what? Sometimes it's because a developer is an absolute just complete idiot and sucks and they should not be doing that job. And they totally suck. I would hazard a guess that that is overwhelmingly rare.
- [118:33]
Dan
There's also people that aren't really developers that somehow, you know, fumble their way through managing to make a game. Yeah, but the game is good. Yeah, it might just be like coded.
- [118:42]
Luke Lafreniere
Terribly Undertale famously is like 10,000 nested ifs.
- [118:48]
Dan
It's crazy.
- [118:49]
Luke Lafreniere
It's actually bonkers.
- [118:50]
Dan
But incredibly famous game. Super successful. People love it.
- [118:53]
Luke Lafreniere
It's made by artists. Artists. They're making art.
- [118:56]
Dan
Yeah. So like, who cares?
- [118:58]
Luke Lafreniere
Maybe they do need ray tracing to actually get it to function.
- [119:00]
Linus Sebastian
Maybe.
- [119:00]
Dan
Don't worry about the elitism so much. Is the game fun?
- [119:05]
Luke Lafreniere
Just make fun games.
- [119:05]
Dan
Is the game fun?
- [119:06]
Luke Lafreniere
I want that as a tattoo.
- [119:08]
Dan
If the game not fun, then who cares? Anyways, who cares if a spaghetti goat if the game's not fun?
- [119:14]
Luke Lafreniere
Parasocial friends. Linus, I see you on Reddit often. Which social platforms do you all like or use regularly versus just having them for work?
- [119:23]
Dan
Oh, like in usage. Okay. I thought. I thought he made. Yup.
- [119:32]
Linus Sebastian
I don't actually use Reddit that often. I've been, I've been on it a little bit lately just because it's. I tend to like to keep my finger on the pulse of, you know, what the heck is going on sometimes. As for social platforms that I use, man, I, I barely touch Twitter these days. I use Facebook almost exclusively to, you know, just look at user comments on Smash Champs and to just browse Marketplace because I just, I think Marketplace is hilarious. It's full so much crazy stuff. I, I almost never open TikTok. I use YouTube obviously. I don't know, man. I'm just, I'm. I don't, I don't have a lot of time for it. I like, I read the news. That's one of my, that's one of my vices. Like I'll, I'll just get like buried in like reading articles and stuff. That's my like doom scrolling. But I, I don't prefer video. I've talked about this so much over the years. In spite of the fact that I'm literally a video creator for a living, it is not my preferred method of digesting information. And that's still true today.
- [120:44]
Luke Lafreniere
Hello, lld.
- [120:46]
Linus Sebastian
Oh, well, no one else answered that question.
- [120:48]
Luke Lafreniere
Luke.
- [120:49]
Linus Sebastian
Are you guys just trying to get me out of here because my mouth is sore? I'm good.
- [120:53]
Dan
What was the question?
- [120:54]
Linus Sebastian
What social platforms do you use? I know you outside of work. Yeah.
- [120:58]
Luke Lafreniere
Oh.
- [121:01]
Dan
Most of them are begrudgingly YouTube. I like YouTube. I like. The one thing I don't like about YouTube right now is I don't know what's going on with my phone, but it'll give in. This thing where every time I unlock my phone, if YouTube is one of the things that is open. Not even if it's the most previous one that was open. If it's one of the things that will open the second I unlock the phone, it will bring it to front.
- [121:26]
Linus Sebastian
Nice.
- [121:26]
Dan
And it will bring a short up.
- [121:30]
Linus Sebastian
Nice.
- [121:30]
Dan
And start playing it.
- [121:32]
Linus Sebastian
Wow. That should actually be illegal.
- [121:35]
Dan
I wasn't watching shorts. YouTube was not the most recently.
- [121:38]
Linus Sebastian
Can we ban dark patterns like that? What the heck is wild?
- [121:42]
Dan
I don't know if this is a specific. Like I don't know. I'm only the one having this problem.
- [121:46]
Linus Sebastian
I haven't seen it.
- [121:47]
Dan
I have no idea. But that's been happening to me a bunch and it's been really annoying. I've also had situation. Yeah, I don't know. I've had stuff like that. That's very frustrating. But I do generally like YouTube. YouTube. I begrudgingly use.
- [122:01]
Linus Sebastian
People are saying they've seen it.
- [122:02]
Dan
Yeah.
- [122:04]
Linus Sebastian
Okay.
- [122:04]
Dan
I don't know what that is, but that's really annoying. Especially when, like, if I'm out in public and it starts randomly playing some short of some dude, like, screaming something like, I don't.
- [122:14]
Linus Sebastian
That's wild.
- [122:15]
Dan
What do you mean? Like, I don't want this to happen right now. Anyways, I begrudgingly use Twitter. I begrudgingly use Facebook. There's, like, you know, old high school contacts, family members, stuff like that.
- [122:25]
Linus Sebastian
Facebook is the new phone book.
- [122:27]
Dan
Yep.
- [122:27]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
- [122:27]
Dan
Especially, like, extended family. Like.
- [122:29]
Linus Sebastian
Like, there is no white pages anymore. So what the heck am I supposed to do if I need to, like, contact somebody?
- [122:34]
Dan
If I'm messaging you one time every five years, it's probably on Facebook. I have, like, most of the annoying text messaging apps because everybody has their favorite flavor. Discord and YouTube are probably the only ones that I'm, like, fairly happily using.
- [122:52]
Linus Sebastian
Okay.
- [122:53]
Dan
Yeah.
- [122:56]
Luke Lafreniere
Hello. Lld. With Nvidia's showcase at ces, do you ever think that LDT will ever integrate robots into the staff?
- [123:03]
Linus Sebastian
And if so, how ever is a big word? I mean, ever is a massive word. Yeah, I have a hard time imagining a future where we would be sophisticated enough to have, like, a. Like a digital twin version of our warehouse that our AI robots use to navigate the real one to help Jamie lift things. Like, it's. It feels science fiction and, like, comical. But, you know, the flip side of that is, 10 years ago, a lot of what we do today would have seemed completely out of reach. Like, the way that LED lighting has changed the cost calculation for media production. Didn't see that one coming.
- [123:44]
Dan
Oh, Tynan says, depends on what you call a robot. That's a pretty good point. What about 3D printer?
- [123:48]
Linus Sebastian
That's a very good point. I mean, yeah, robots are everywhere.
- [123:51]
Dan
Robot vacuum.
- [123:52]
Linus Sebastian
Sure. I. Oh, dude, I would totally deploy robot vacuums to this place if I thought that they could actually navigate our mess.
- [124:00]
Dan
Oh, yeah.
- [124:00]
Luke Lafreniere
Would, like, a standing robot just be, like, a CNC humanoid? Because technically, all robots are CNC machines. One of my pet peeves is, is people saying just CNC instead of CNC router or CNC mill. It's actually a hilarious pet peeve.
- [124:22]
Dan
That bothers you?
- [124:23]
Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, just a little bit.
- [124:25]
Dan
That's your, like, gonna have to change job title.
- [124:29]
Linus Sebastian
Dan Besser, Pedant. He knows it too. Yeah.
- [124:36]
Luke Lafreniere
Okay, fine. I accept.
- [124:40]
Dan
Automation on Markbench. That's a pretty good argument.
- [124:43]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah. Yeah. Literally, a robot arm that's already deployed. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff in labs.
- [124:47]
Dan
There's other examples other than that too.
- [124:51]
Luke Lafreniere
Hi, Dll. Have you seen the 3D Benchy controversy? Interested on your thoughts about enforcing copyright after years of being so lax?
- [124:59]
Linus Sebastian
I've only peripherally noticed it. It seems kind of annoying. So basically, someone owns the prop. The copyright for the benchy model that everyone uses as their kind of benchmark for 3D printers. And finally someone either, like, did they acquire it or they're like, finally, after so many years, they're. They're enforcing it and like, not letting people freely distribute it. Yeah, yeah. And it's just like, apparently the controversy is not true. So there you go. Oh, it's misunderstood. Give me a sec to find the link says Rysa. So there you go. Let's just.
- [125:34]
Luke Lafreniere
My understanding it has something to do with modifying it and then redistributing it, because then it's not a benchmark anymore. But now we have Bodhi.
- [125:42]
Linus Sebastian
I don't know. Oh, my God, who cares? Because, like. Yeah, exactly. It's.
- [125:45]
Luke Lafreniere
It's a. It's a bench that is now the new benchmark called Bodhi.
- [125:50]
Linus Sebastian
Okay, sure. Now I need to see it.
- [125:54]
Dan
Of course it is.
- [125:58]
Linus Sebastian
Bodhi.
- [125:59]
Luke Lafreniere
It's such a wonderful community. I love. I love all of them. Bodhi.
- [126:05]
Linus Sebastian
3D print. So what am I. What am I even. Look, 3D Bodhi.
- [126:07]
Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, 3D Bodhi. There you go.
- [126:09]
Linus Sebastian
Okay, 3D Bodhi.
- [126:10]
Luke Lafreniere
It's got same. Same sort of overhang bridging test. Like.
- [126:14]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, okay.
- [126:15]
Luke Lafreniere
Bodhi. The benchmark.
- [126:18]
Linus Sebastian
All right, sure.
- [126:20]
Dan
Yep.
- [126:21]
Linus Sebastian
If there was anyone who was gonna. If there was anyone who was gonna maliciously comply this hard, it would be the 3D printer community. So good on you guys.
- [126:28]
Dan
That really. That makes sense.
- [126:30]
Luke Lafreniere
Artistic nerds.
- [126:31]
Dan
That makes a lot of sense.
- [126:32]
Luke Lafreniere
The best.
- [126:32]
Dan
Yeah.
- [126:33]
Luke Lafreniere
All right, let's see.
- [126:35]
Dan
You should really. Have you talked to Lab's web Dan?
- [126:41]
Luke Lafreniere
Not really. Maybe just occasionally you two should chat at some time. That would be nice.
- [126:45]
Dan
Yeah.
- [126:46]
Luke Lafreniere
Hi, Dll, as someone currently watching their country burn down, are there any steps someone can take to prepare for moving without having a job lined up? Up?
- [126:55]
Linus Sebastian
Honestly, not really. I have people reach out all the time, like wanting to move to Canada to work at lmg. And every time I'm just like, yeah, I can't explain this because it seems like, especially over the last few years, we were importing people at a historical rate. I shouldn't say it seems like, because over the last few years, we've been importing people at an. An historical rate. And yet If I have like a qualified international candidate, I have to go through all this, this like paperwork and LMIA and, and yeah, spend a ton of money and like freaking can't get people in here. And I'm just, I. I've never been able to kind of. I've never been able to kind of bridge those two facts in my mind. And so whenever people reach out to me from somewhere else, I'm basically just like, dude, I got no idea. Because as someone who's already here, I have flipping no clue how to facilitate getting people here. It's. It seemed incredibly complicated. Even in some cases for people with, you know, that are, that are young and able to work and have decent credentials and it's just like, nah. It's like. Okay. So then just randoms then. Okay, sure, fine. Cool.
- [128:08]
Luke Lafreniere
Hey, LLD question for Linus. What was it like for you during the procedure for getting your wisdom teeth removed? Coming from someone who's going to, to have the same procedure later this year or next?
- [128:19]
Linus Sebastian
Couldn't tell you. Don't remember any of it. I mean really, the best advice I can give you is to talk to your dental professional and ask them what it's going to be like because they're going to be the ones that know your case the best. And my sample Size is of 2. I've had this procedure twice. Both times it was different. So really it's two sample sizes of one. If we want to be very dan about it, I did the same thing.
- [128:41]
Luke Lafreniere
I had.
- [128:42]
Linus Sebastian
No, no, be pedantic about it. Don't. It's okay.
- [128:47]
Luke Lafreniere
No, what you actually meant to say was. No, I'm just. You're gonna ding Anyway.
- [128:50]
Linus Sebastian
All right. Thank you. Anyway, talk to your dental professional. They're gonna, they're gonna have the, they're gonna have the best insight and the most experience to share with you.
- [129:00]
Luke Lafreniere
Hi Dll. What's the one most impressive thing someone has done in a non technical job interview with lmg?
- [129:07]
Linus Sebastian
I haven't interviewed anyone in like seven years.
- [129:10]
Dan
Probably every single interview I've done has been a technical interview.
- [129:14]
Linus Sebastian
Cool.
- [129:16]
Dan
Sorry.
- [129:17]
Luke Lafreniere
Hey my big L's. I know you guys are no longer in the underwear business, but me and my fiance love them and need more. Any brands you would give an approval for a similar fit and feel prove.
- [129:29]
Linus Sebastian
We'Re not in the underwear business. We've actually got new samples from a new supplier that I am yo wearing yesterday that are looking really promising. So there you go.
- [129:41]
Luke Lafreniere
Yeah. Friday's thong day. Let's see. Hey Linus, you sometimes Use the phrase exactly one for emphasis. Is that a reference to something or did you make it up?
- [129:51]
Linus Sebastian
It's kind of inspired by John Cleese's character in Fawlty Towers when he, like, puts on a German accent when he's talking to the German that stay in the hotel. It's. I don't know, I just think it's funny, you know, precision and Germanness.
- [130:09]
Luke Lafreniere
What exactly won my homeland but got hit by ransomware last week and I lost terabytes of raw video and photos.
- [130:18]
Linus Sebastian
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.
- [130:20]
Luke Lafreniere
Any advice on possibly on the possibility of data recovery, cleanup and future security enhancement?
- [130:27]
Linus Sebastian
I mean, at the end of the day, data safety comes down to three, two, one, right? Like three copies in at least two locations. Bloody hell. What's the one hit me.
- [130:37]
Luke Lafreniere
One off site, two formats.
- [130:41]
Dan
One off site, two formats.
- [130:43]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah, one off site, three versions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As for recovery, man, that's a challenge, right? Because there's lots of smaller recovery places that might do a great job or they might be a fly by night loser that's going to do more damage than good. There are like, you know, your reputable data recovery guys, but I promise you, even they could end up doing more damage than good. So that's number one. And then number two is you will pay. Unless that footage is like, you know, of the orchestration of the JFK assassination or something, like you're going to pay more for it to recover it than it is worth. Other than just, you know, saying, I get it and I've gone through data loss before and it really sucks. There's not really a lot that I can offer you that blows. You know, obviously I made that investment into Hexos to make it hopefully easier for kind of techie people, but not necessarily, you know, networking command line people to have like buddy backup and cloud backups enabled really easily on DIY hardware. But that particular feature is not rolled out yet. Hopefully I'll have exciting news to share in the future, but for now, not much.
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Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, I take my most important files to the cloud nightly. Let's see, what else do we have here? Hey, dll, how is the glow in the dark holding up on the Taycan? Is it just as strong as when the wrap was first applied? How long does DBRAND expect it to last?
- [132:18]
Linus Sebastian
It should last as long as pretty much any glow in the dark thing that you have, which is to say that I believe the effect does fade a little bit over time, but no, it still works pretty good.
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Dan
Do you still charge it like when you leave your house.
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Linus Sebastian
No, that was really cool. Fun project. And it looks really cool when you first pull out of the garage. But realistically, there's enough. If I was somewhere else, it would be super cool. But there's enough light in my area that within probably, like, five minutes, you can't make it out too well. Anyway, so I was like, okay, well, this is kind of an obstacle in my garage.
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Dan
Right.
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Linus Sebastian
And besides, I have some other cool plans for those black lights. I want to take them to Smash Champs and set them up in the lighting grid. Or not grid, but in the. In the side lights for the quartz. And I want to do, like, disco badminton, you know, like disco bowling. So, yeah, the. The nylon shuttles do flores. At least the Yonex ones do, and.
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Dan
Oh, sick.
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Linus Sebastian
So if we could maybe put a fluorescing top transparent coat over the court lines. The tape on the. On the nets also fluoresces already, so that could be freaking cool.
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Dan
That's sweet.
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Linus Sebastian
It's not the kind of thing we'd do all the time, but it's like. Like once a quarter or something doing, like, disco badminton night or something. I think people would come out for that.
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Dan
Yeah, I suspect it would be pretty popular. You might be able to do it more often than.
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Linus Sebastian
And then I would do it over on the LAN party side so that if we wanted to switch out the house lights and turn on all black lights for the lan, then we could. Which I think would be pretty cool.
- [133:45]
Dan
That's pretty cool.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
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Luke Lafreniere
Get some Chauvet Hex pars in there. It'll be fun. I've got a couple more. Yeah, I've got.
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Linus Sebastian
I assume that's a really cool light.
- [133:55]
Luke Lafreniere
Yeah, they're like the moving head things, and they swing about in clubs and stuff. Hi, LLD. First time buying from LTT since I started watching you. In 2020, I'll be traveling for the first time to Tokyo. What would be your must see shops or sights and favorite meal and drink?
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Linus Sebastian
Ooh, it's not in Tokyo. But my highlight for sure was when we took the Shinkansen to the Deer park in. Okay. When I travel with my family, I'm not really, like, a travel guy. I'm just there to, like, help wrangle kids and make life less stressful for everyone else.
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Dan
People are saying nara.
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Linus Sebastian
I do. Yeah, nara. I do whatever. So I just, like. I go where I'm told to go and do what I'm told to do. And, you know, Yvonne and the kids, they, like, do lots of cool Stuff and that's super cool. But NARA was, Nara was really great. So that was really cool. I'm sure you'll get lots of great recommendations, by the way in, you know, the floatplane chat. But in terms of, of my recommendations, I. Yeah, sure. Deer park, it's pretty sick. Not in Tokyo, so sorry about that. The, the Mario Kart, you know, go karts on the street things. Overrated, I'll say that.
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Dan
Yeah, I kind of always assumed that.
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Linus Sebastian
Yeah, just whatever, I'm here.
- [135:18]
Dan
Yeah, sure.
- [135:18]
Linus Sebastian
Yeah.
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Luke Lafreniere
Hey, tech. Napoleon Lafeniere and I guess Dan Linus. What's the last video you fully written, which wasn't a challenge video. Also, what are a few projects or videos you've canceled?
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Linus Sebastian
Last video fully written. Oh, I don't know. Canceled projects. Cancel things all the time. I, I honestly do not remember. It's going to be a lot easier for me to try and figure out this last thing. I've written one. Oh no, not title contains. Why don't you have Luke do one in the meantime and then I can, I can try and bring up a list of videos.
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Luke Lafreniere
Only one left. Hey, dlo, I broke a four thousand dollar printer at work due to poor documentation from the manufacturer. Are there any things you broke, broke or damaged because of this?
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Dan
No, but what I can say is that we at Floatplane, as in, I think actually most of the teams at this point have found and corrected software documentation for other companies before.
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Linus Sebastian
Nice.
- [136:24]
Dan
I can think of honestly quite a few right off the top of my head where we'll be like, hey, this thing doesn't work. Kirk, we're following your documentation. Here's all the details. We think it's like maybe this other way. And they'll get back to us and be like that documentation is wrong. Cool, here's the stuff.
- [136:42]
Linus Sebastian
Cool.
- [136:42]
Dan
It's like, oh cool. I'm so happy we spent all that time trying to figure that out. Turns out even massive multi billion dollar companies make mistakes.
- [136:54]
Linus Sebastian
They do, they do because it turns out they're staffed by people and people are. They do their best for the most part. I think for the most part. There was one that I accidentally archived. It was something about how to help people like set up parental controls and stuff. And honestly the best advice I can give you is stay out of it. Let them figure out their stuff. And if they're not willing to put in the work, then you shouldn't be giving them tech support on how to manage parental controls because at the best of times they're an absolute cluster bomb. They are Terrible. I still remember spending like an hour trying to figure out how to join a Minecraft Dungeons game with my kids. In spite of the fact. Because they're minors and I'm not. In spite of the fact that I am literally set up as the parent in our family unit.
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Dan
You'd think that would allow it.
- [137:40]
Linus Sebastian
So annoying. Okay, so, yeah, let me. Let me get back to. Let me get back to your question. So here's our dashboard celebrity tech scam. That's alex. Nintendo Switch 2, that's David. $20,000 server. That's Jake. Ray tracing is mandatory now. Oh, that was a. That was a team effort, but I think it was Adam that got it across the line. Every RTX 5090 at CES that was collaborative. My new TV sucks again. This was written by me and Alex's sections were written by him with a little bit of me kind of laying out which beats I wanted. Unreleased AMD thing. That was me first. A game on the RTX 5090. That was. Was me. I've never been this angry and confused before. This was. I believe this might. Oh, this was Plouffe Steamos. This was Jordan. So let's see. Let's find a not. Let's find a not CES content piece that I wrote. Start to finish tablet life through a gaming thing. We have a. We have a really talented writing team. They do a lot. AMD upgrades are very ad lib, so you could kind of think of those as being largely kind of written by me, but also like not really. Not really written in that sense. This I wrote a lot for. I wrote a ton of notes because I was the tester for the project and Jordan used some of my notes verbatim in the final script. But. But ultimately he was kind of tasked with operating in the role to kind of get it over the board. Yeah, let's see. I. I think probably the last one. Oh, dbrand. I don't know. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, very. Again, very like kind of written by me in the sense that I was there. Jake did a great job of the. The Hexos reveal. I think probably the last one that I wrote start to finish would have been the Equinix tour. Yeah, let's go with. Let's go with Equinix tour. Yeah, there it is. So this one, I basically got briefed by them, wrote it, hosted it, and then came home.
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Luke Lafreniere
That's all I got.
- [140:02]
Linus Sebastian
No, that's all I got.
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Dan
That's all I got too. Yeah, that's all we got.
- [140:07]
Linus Sebastian
That's all we got. Hopefully next week is a little less ridiculous. What are the odds?
- [140:16]
Dan
I think most betting sites would not say favorable.
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Luke Lafreniere
40 to 1.
- [140:20]
Linus Sebastian
Interesting. What about the Magic 8 ball? What does the Magic 8 ball say? Is there. There's got to be a web. Magic eight Ball. Ball. Magic eight Ball.
- [140:28]
Luke Lafreniere
Come on.
- [140:29]
Linus Sebastian
Here we go. Ask the eight Ball. Here we go. What is your question?
- [140:35]
Dan
We don't have to type it, do we?
- [140:37]
Luke Lafreniere
No, you just. You just ask it.
- [140:38]
Linus Sebastian
Look at the ads on this site. Good Lord.
- [140:41]
Dan
Wow.
- [140:41]
Linus Sebastian
Okay, so hold on. You just. Oh, okay, sure. So will next week's WAN show be less ridiculous?
- [140:49]
Dan
There you go.
- [140:50]
Linus Sebastian
This is. This is Linus Mode. I can't see the ads. Here we go. You may rely on it. Oh, all right. Well, we'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.
- [141:04]
Dan
Bye.
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Linus Sebastian
It.