I’ve Been Reviewed - WAN Show June 13, 2025

Summary

Summary of "I’ve Been Reviewed - WAN Show June 13, 2025"

Released on June 14, 2025, "I’ve Been Reviewed" is an episode of The WAN Show hosted by Linus Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere from Linus Tech Tips. In this episode, Linus and Luke delve into recent reviews of their merchandise, explore the latest announcements from Apple's WWDC, discuss significant tech developments from Microsoft and Nvidia, introduce LTT’s new Touch Sand Collection, and share personal anecdotes and humorous moments.

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1. Being Reviewed: Shift Fashion Group on LTT Merch

Linus and Luke kick off the episode by addressing the recent surge in reviews of their products. Specifically, Shift Fashion Group, known for their critical analysis of apparel from major retail brands, recently reviewed LTT’s store merchandise, garnering significant attention.

Linus Sebastian [03:16]: "We're just doing it right away."

Luke Lafreniere [03:32]: "It's like we make a bunch of products and people are like, oh, we should review them."

They express excitement over the positive feedback, highlighting products such as LTT cargo pants and task jackets that have ranked highly on the channel's leaderboard.

Luke Lafreniere [03:54]: "They were very pleased with the task jacket too. Both of which are newer, more recently developed garments."

2. Apple’s WWDC and New Features

The conversation transitions to Apple's recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Luke shares his appreciation for the flawless execution of Apple's presentations, emphasizing the company's ability to deliver polished and impactful content.

Luke Lafreniere [00:49]: "I watched the finished output and I was just like, no notes. Upload it. Freaking awesome."

Linus and Luke discuss the major announcements from WWDC, focusing on enhancements in Apple’s ecosystem, including user interface improvements and new software features.

3. Apple’s Call Screening Features

A significant portion of the discussion centers around Apple's new call screening features introduced during WWDC. Luke shares his personal struggle with spam calls and how the new feature has been a game-changer for him, allowing him to filter legitimate calls more effectively.

Luke Lafreniere [23:00]: "With call screening, I can answer my phone and I can mostly not because most of the time it's nothing."

Linus underscores the importance of this feature, stating his intention to only use phones that incorporate such innovations.

Linus Sebastian [24:32]: "I will not get a phone that does not have call screening at this point."

4. Microsoft’s Handheld Gaming and CarPlay Ultra

Linus and Luke explore Microsoft’s recent ventures into handheld gaming and the introduction of CarPlay Ultra. They discuss the potential redundancy of integrated car infotainment systems while acknowledging the advancements CarPlay Ultra brings to the table.

Luke Lafreniere [20:35]: "CarPlay Ultra is a vastly more integrated car infotainment system. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Who cares?"

They ponder the necessity and practicality of CarPlay Ultra, especially in luxury vehicles like Aston Martin.

5. Nintendo's Mario Kart World Review

The hosts provide their insights on the latest Mario Kart installment, "Mario Kart World." While appreciating the innovative track designs, they express concerns over the game's increased complexity and the shift towards optimization-heavy gameplay, which might alienate casual players.

Linus Sebastian [53:00]: "I did like three of the Grand Prix. I three starred two of them at 150cc."

Luke Lafreniere [56:41]: "Mario Kart World has over 200 unique routes... but for most people, that takes the fun out of it as a casual game."

6. Nvidia’s ARM CPU and RISC V Discussion

The show delves into Nvidia’s rumored ARM-based CPU, the N1X, highlighting its impressive specifications and potential impact on the gaming handheld market. The discussion extends to why Nvidia is focusing on ARM architecture over open-source alternatives like RISC V, citing the latter’s current lack of maturity for mainstream applications.

Linus Sebastian [136:28]: "Nvidia's long rumored ARM CPU was a no show at Computex this year."

Luke Lafreniere [136:39]: "RISC V is so far away... Google is a thing they kind of have to contend with."

7. EVGA Motherboards and RTX 50 Series Mods

Linus and Luke address issues faced by gamers using EVGA motherboards with the new RTX 50 series GPUs. They offer a practical workaround involving the modification of motherboard pins with Kapton tape to ensure compatibility and maintain GPU performance until official fixes are released.

Linus Sebastian [137:18]: "The problem was due to high production costs and the company's policy on modifying motherboards."

8. Glorious Gaming Mice and Supply Chain Issues

The hosts discuss the challenges faced by Glorious in releasing their new gaming mouse, the Model O Eternal. Due to global supply chain constraints, the product is out of stock in the US, leading to frustration among eager gamers.

Luke Lafreniere [139:35]: "There's nothing funny about supply chain issues, but commiserating is funny."

9. Touch Sand Collection Product Announcement

A highlight of the episode is the introduction of Linus Tech Tips’ new Touch Sand Collection. These innovative swim shorts reveal hidden designs when wet, adding a unique twist to traditional swimwear. The hosts showcase the product’s functionality and design, including the rare “Brettasaurus” pattern.

Linus Sebastian [76:48]: "This photo shoot is incredible. It is a multi-layer material and when it's wet, the top one goes translucent."

Luke Lafreniere [77:18]: "The zipper pockets are huge. That was the idea – to fit phones and wallets securely."

10. Unboxing vs Review: Short Circuit

Linus and Luke clarify the distinction between their unboxing videos and traditional reviews. They emphasize their "unboxing plus" approach, which combines initial impressions with specific product testing, differentiating it from more comprehensive reviews.

Luke Lafreniere [167:53]: "Rather than intending to be comprehensive, we are intending for them to be first impressions of the host, but with the benefit of testing."

11. Wikipedia’s AI Summaries and Reliability

The hosts discuss the controversial introduction of AI-powered summaries on Wikipedia, which faced significant backlash from the community. They debate the reliability of Wikipedia post-implementation, considering the potential inaccuracies introduced by AI-generated content.

Linus Sebastian [102:58]: "The AI summaries were placed at the top of articles... the community was overwhelmingly negative."

Luke Lafreniere [116:42]: "Compared to almost any other source that I have found, Wikipedia is worlds more accurate."

12. Personal Stories and Banter

Throughout the episode, Linus and Luke share personal anecdotes, including injuries and experiences with gaming. These segments add a relatable and humorous touch to the tech-focused discussions.

Luke Lafreniere [162:34]: "They are using the same sound effects library as the fight scene between Sir Arthur or King Arthur and the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

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Conclusion

In "I’ve Been Reviewed - WAN Show June 13, 2025," Linus and Luke provide a comprehensive overview of recent reviews of their merchandise, delve into major tech announcements from Apple and Microsoft, discuss significant developments from Nvidia, and introduce LTT’s latest innovative products. Their blend of technical analysis, personal insights, and engaging banter ensures the content is both informative and entertaining, catering to a wide range of listeners from tech enthusiasts to casual fans.

Transcript

[Linus Sebastian]

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[Luke Lafreniere]

Hey there. Is your monitor running? You should go out and catch it. Welcome to the Land Show. We got a great show lined up for you guys. We're gonna be talking about Microsoft's big foray into handheld gaming. Or should I say small, Small little.

[Linus Sebastian]

Step, Little step of the toe.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Put pinky toe in water. We're also gonna be talking about Apple's jam packed wwdc, which I gotta say, I wasn't involved in the creation of this video. So I'm gonna say two things real quick. One, great job, team. I watched the finished output and I was just like, no notes. Upload it. Freaking awesome. And then number two, great job, Apple. I watched the video, no notes. Send it. What else we got this week?

[Linus Sebastian]

We got reviewed.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, we did our products. We did few of them. We actually got.

[Linus Sebastian]

We got reviewed twice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We more than that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Really?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you know about the. The backpack comparison, us versus Ridge? Yeah. Oh, dude. Yeah, we. We get reviewed a lot lately. I don't know what's going on. It's almost like we make a bunch of products and people are like, oh, well, we should review them.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's wild. So the second most important thing on this entire dock is that Spaceballs 2 was announced.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The show is brought to you today by Vessi. Oh, do and delete me. And of course, as usual, our rap partner is Dbrand, our laptop partner is Dell, and our chair partner is. I always lean the wrong way. I always lean like it's a mirror, but it's a camera feed. Secret lab. All right, should we jump right into Shift Fashion Group reviewing our clothing? If you guys missed it, Shift Fashion Group, a creator known for breaking down clothing from big retail brands, reviewed some LTT store merch. They had a lot to say about our T shirts in particular. And our fashion team is going to be doing a react video to share their expert thoughts. You guys are going to be able to catch that soon on floatplane. And because we didn't want there to be a perception that this is like something we're trying to paywall Our response to that's going to be a rare floatplane exclusive that is also going to go up on LMG Clips. So our WAN Show Clips channel, that's where we do put exclusives sometimes.

[Linus Sebastian]

We're just doing it right away.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We're just doing it. I don't know if it'll be right away. Right away, but it'll be very soon.

[Linus Sebastian]

Gotcha.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So we're gonna put it up there so you guys can check out their response. I'm actually very.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm really interested in seeing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm very excited to watch it because I didn't have a merch meeting this week. They're only every other week so I haven't had a chance to talk to the team since Shift Fashion Group uploaded their video. So that's gonna be super cool. Cool. They also had some really right away. That's okay. There you go. That's.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, it will also not. Haha. Got them. It will also not take up an exclusive upload slot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is what it' isn't it? Yeah, it's terrible.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, you get used to it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They also had some really positive things to say about our cargo pants which by the way, I am wearing. They actually tied for fourth place all time on the channel's leaderboard. They were very pleased with the task jacket too. Both of which are newer, more recently developed garments. So I'm very excited then about the direction that our team's going and our discussion topic today is, you know, how does it feel, I guess to even be considered in the same conversation as major brands like Uniqlo? I mean we've always had a goal of creating products rather than, you know, creator merch. And I think that if we were to go back and look at our earliest attempts, I mean even, even something like the water bottle, you know, ignoring the refined, you know, more easily cleanable, not to mention more rugged clip version of the, of the, of the top that we've, that we have created more recently. This is just an existing water bottle design and I literally like we have a lost and found at Smash Champs, the badminton center where I get. People leave water bottles all the time because it's a sports facility. So I get to see all the different brands that are clearly using the exact same tooling for their water bot bottles. Like we just, we just did a cool print on a water bottle. You know, you go back to our very early products, even on the, on the fashion side as well where we were just printing on top of off the shelf shirts and doing our best with things like the original stealth hoodie where they were. Okay. But we've clearly learned a lot. And you look at where we've come now, the fact that we are even being looked at with the same level of scrutiny as big names in the industry, honestly, pretty exciting to me. And I guess that's not really a discussion question. I guess I kind of did all the discussion without really letting you get a word in edgewise. This really is a. This is a terrible show. It's a terrible show.

[Linus Sebastian]

I just justice for Luke. I justice for him. This isn't the type of content that I would necessarily personally spend a bunch of time watching on YouTube, but I watched this whole video.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And not only was it, like, really interesting to see our stuff get looked at in this way, because we've had. We've had, you know, Project Farm. Did the screwdriver and the shirt, I.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Think did the shirt. It was more ad hoc. The shirt.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Well, all of his stuff is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. I think there's definitely product categories that he has a little more domain knowledge that is applicable to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. Yeah. But it. But it was fun seeing, like, actual. Actual people that are into this specific thing look at our clothing. And not only was it kind of fun to watch, but I think their hosting was really cool and. Sorry. Their hosting was really cool. I thought the video was good and the host was good as well, and it was just neat. I'm actually, like, kind of interested in checking out more of this stuff because it was. It was fun. How educational. It was like, learned a bunch of stuff, just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, dude, I love merch meeting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah. This felt like. Like my. Because I don't go to merch meeting, this felt like kind of that for me, if that makes sen sense.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, it's amazing how cool to learn stuff. It's amazing how. How perspective broadening it is to talk to experts in a field that you take for granted.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So, like, I guarantee you here, can you grab that white thing on the edge of the table? I guarantee you that if you sat down with the scientists who determine the optimal fricking dimple pattern on this and the optimal size of this roll for the turn radius versus the number of layers and what looks bigger to the consumer on the shelf. And why are they this long? There is so much thought and there's so much care and consideration and science that goes into the things around us that there's an unlimited capacity for learning interesting things. If you have a curious mind. And one of the biggest perspective changes, I think for me as I've gotten older and as I've learned how little I know, and not even that, but how little I think about things like that that have been deeply considered, the more understanding I am of the people in my life who don't give a sh T about TAG because there's stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

Going on for them still.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because to me it's so obvious that I should know like how many FPS a graphics card might have before I buy it and that I should, I should fundamentally understand the, the design balance between cost and power consumption and how loud it is and how, you know, what it's going to fit in and all of these considerations. But then I will, I will need a, I'll need a drill bit and I will literally just go to Rona and I'll be like, I don't know, that one looks like it's made with good quality and I will take it home.

[Linus Sebastian]

It might work for the right materials.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And for me, for me, the way that I will use that drill bit, I don't care. It doesn't really matter.

[Linus Sebastian]

They're gonna use it enough times.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Exactly. I'm not, I'm not a professional craftsman or whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So it doesn't really matter. Whereas if I'm the kind of person who uses my gaming PC a lot, then I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put my, my, my points, you know, I'm gonna put my character building points in my time points into that. And it's made me, it's made me a lot more understanding and a lot more, it's made it easier, I think, for me to try to communicate the value.

[Linus Sebastian]

Except noobs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, it's not that it's made it, it's altered the way we've done our content is what I'll say. And we still, we still want to do graphs, you know, we still want to do charts, we still want to include numbers for the people who care about it. But if you listen to what we're actually saying in the background, we're kind of telling you what you pretty much need to know if you don't care about all of that. Because I'm, I'm a lot more open to the idea that you cannot care about that. And that's actually okay. Yeah, because. And like, dude, if I had told my like forum dweller, like 17 year old self any of this, he'd have been so mad. He'd have written a thing like this long about how Anyone who spends $30 more and gets 3% less should spend $30 less and get 3% more performance. That other product is completely invalid to the point where it shouldn't even exist. We should only have the one that's like the better choice. And it's like, like, seriously, dude, I'd get back in like the athlon. The Athlon 64 days, okay. Like I would actually get upset at people who bought a Pentium D and just bought a Pentium D because they like Intel. And I'm like, yo, it's so hot. And I literally would see this years later. Like, it's so hot it is going to discolor the back of your motherboard socket from how flipping hot this thing is. The performance is worse. And intel in with the arrogance they had back then, didn't discount at all. It was just more expensive, hotter and worse. And it's like your decision is invalid was my attitude back then. And these days I'm a lot more. Dude, I'm so much more. Just you know what, like people ask me what phone should I buy and I'm you should buy a phone you like. You know, it's been interesting there.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know be more opinionated about Apple.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was about to get into Apple. I don't think the, the first video is out yet, but we are doing a switch to iPhone challenge for lifelong Android users. And my wife going back to I think the original Samsung Galaxy, like before it was called S or one or anything. Was it S? I can't remember. I'm pretty. No, I think maybe it was a Galaxy 2. Whatever. She, she has been a Samsung Android user for literally like as long as Galaxy phones have existed and she's gone iPhone. And it's been very interesting hearing her perspective as someone who has tried it before. She actually gave it a shot like five or six years ago. I was like, you should try an iPhone, just see how you like it. And she hated it. And I'm not going to spoil too much, but I will say that it's a different experience than last time.

[Linus Sebastian]

Interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

The most eye opening part for me and I've talked about this on Wham. Before, but my mom had to switch from. We were like, we were an Android household. You know, everybody had Android phones or an Android house. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then we're not real people, we're just Androids.

[Linus Sebastian]

She, she had to get an iPhone for work and she got it. And just watching the adoption curve, like knowing where she was at with Android, which was like, you know, functional, that's about there. And then watching within like a day or two on iPhone. Just like she used, she used to do things that would have taken time for me to try to figure out how to do and she would do them accidentally. Like how she used to send emails that were text messages all the time and like all this stuff. I'm like, man, I don't even know how you figure out how to do this. And then she goes onto an iPhone and it's just. Everything just kind of clicked right away and it's like, okay, maybe it's not worse. It's just not really made for me. That's okay. That took a bit for me to accept Nexus S was or Nexus 5. Are you saying Nexus S was an amazing freaking device?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I will say, Raxis, there are certain things about the sort of the iPhone argument that I just can't get behind. So Raxis says, do you still have an iPhone? IMessage FaceTime is super nice. No, I'm sorry, I just, I kind of flatly reject that because any communication platform that is not compatible with everyone in your life, regardless of how much money they have to spend on their phone, is not a good communication platform. Like if we imagine, imagine when the, you know, the telephone, the landline telephone network was, you know, built up, you know, when, when, when I was a kid in the 90s, if I literally like had a degraded call experience with some of my friends because their parents, like didn't have the like bctel, you know, line, they had the whatever line. I'm just like, what are you even talking about? The fact that iMessage at least supports RCS. So there's encryption and there's rich media support cross platform now. Sure. You like iMessage? Sure, I don't care, whatever. Use iMessage. Sure you like it, that's great, go for it. But FaceTime has created an environment where I have relatives, for instance, who love FaceTime. Well, guess what? I don't use an iPhone and now I have to train them to use something else. Because Apple knows that if they build cross platform compatibility into FaceTime that there will be absolutely no reason to care about the iPhone's FaceTime and no lock in. So now I have to go and train them how to use another app when realistically, if a, if Apple was willing to make it cross platform or if something else was the norm, something that just was cross platform, we just wouldn't have this problem. I love technology as a solution to a problem. I don't love it as the creation of a problem. And FaceTime is both. It is the solution to a problem, it is built in convenient video messaging or video calling, which is great. That's so awesome. Breaking down the barriers, especially for families that are geographically dispersed for video face to face communication was hugely beneficial like to the world. Skype changed the world like in a big way. And it changed our ability to have relationships with people who are at great distances from each other.

[Linus Sebastian]

Classic. Microsoft changed the world with a communication service and then just do nothing with it and abandon it. Close it down later on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But then it also creates this cross platform incompatibility issue that can only be solved with a multi hundreds of dollars purchase. Now that's up. So I respect the good things that Apple has done with FaceTime and iMessage, but I completely do not respect the lockdown, the walled garden, the, the, you know, this kid is ostracized because they don't have the right brand of phone and therefore their messages, you know, screw up the group chat. Use a different ing group chat. Then like I'm sorry but I don't, I don't view, you know, what computer someone uses as a, as a valid reason that someone should be, should be ostracized or should be thought of anything of in any way. Like it's, it's, it's comical if it wasn't actually happening.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was an unplanned topic. Oh yeah, Not a bad option.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, we could talk about WWDC now because there's a lot of really cool stuff that's going on from wwdc. Like this is like three pages of the doc to the point where I don't think we're going to be able to talk through all of it. I don't, I don't really think I need to touch on Liquid Glass too much. It's basically transparency in the interface. It's, it's Windows Vista Arrow. Excuse me.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think it's sick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Which apparently Microsoft like kind of took a little dig at them. But honestly Microsoft, I, I think your dig was ill conceived. And the reason for that is that if you knew that Arrow was so great, why'd you abandon it? Why'd you ever abandon it?

[Linus Sebastian]

Why did you ever do the monstrosity that was Windows 8 and 8.1?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Aero was king. And you know what? Now the king is back. But on Apple. How could you let this happen, Microsoft? How could you let this happen? Glass looks so good. I really like it. There are some people saying that the accessibility could be a concern. It could be less readable. I think that's a valid Concern. Hopefully Apple can address this through the accessibility menu. Maybe they could, you could play around with the transparency.

[Linus Sebastian]

It seems pretty easy to solve. I don't know if they'll do it, but it seems pretty easy to solve.

[Luke Lafreniere]

One thing Apple does do very, very well is have really common sense features for their phones. Buried eight menus deep in the accessibility menu. So if you actually have like a real device use problem, there is a strong possibility that it's sitting there in accessibility for you to get taken care of. CarPlay. Oh man, CarPlay looks a lot better. I think both Android Auto and CarPlay are due for this kind of or maybe even more reimagining. Like there's one thing that still drives me crazy on Android Auto. I can't just, I can't just set and lock what my four like favorite icons are on the bottom, as far as I know. You guys feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this, but it's just my four most recent. I don't actually want that. I want the four that I want the most. And then I want to press the button to go to like my, my apps menu. That's the other thing too is it uses the same button to go split screen and then to go to your all apps menu. Ooh, why?

[Linus Sebastian]

That's wacky.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I have to press it twice if I want to anyway.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sebast contrary, I don't know in Full Plane chat said in Beta one there's already a reduced transparency option and accessibility. So they're already solving it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There you go. Don't stress about it. So yeah, CarPlay getting a phone call no longer consist consumes the entire screen and they're gonna have widgets. Widgets.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are you kidding me? Again? Vista innovation. Let's go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, let's go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

CarPlay Ultra is a vastly more integrated car infotainment system. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Who cares? Aston Martin looks like it's going to be the exclusive launch partner for it in North America. So.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So who cares?

[Linus Sebastian]

Four people will get it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, honestly, I am, I am extremely over this concept of taking the computers that we already had in our pockets and having our cars have a redundant computer that runs functionally, the same operating system. The whole CarPlay Android Auto thing, wireless casting is peak, peak car data integration in my opinion. And any move towards, any move away from that, I am, I am strongly opposed to at this point. I'm sorry, I just, I can't get behind this. I mean, if CarPlay this, I don't know will a CarPlay Ultra car support Android Auto? Because you I like you can get a car that has Android Automotive. My wife's new car has Android Automotive so it actually runs Android natively. But you can still carplay to it. Let's see. Anyone. Does anyone know? I don't see anyone in chat so we'll have to see how it goes. What else we got now? There's a bunch of new Apple intelligence stuff. Live translation of on screen content and audio. That's cool. Visual intelligence will look at stuff on your screen, tell you information about it. It's basically Google Lens. Yep. Call screening. Apple finally has call screening.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, that's actually I. That's the coolest announcement from this event.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think my Pixel 9a, aside from the outstanding battery life, haven't been too happy with it. It's. I have often issues where my keyboard doesn't come up, where my voice dictation thing doesn't come up after like close the app and reopen it or like go to a different one and reopen it. My. My ambient light detector. My ambient light sensor is like all over the place a lot often especially in like one of my bathrooms at home which you know, if you're anything like me, the can is somewhere you.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's one of your primary phone times.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Frequently use your phone. So it's pretty annoying to have my brightness going like nobody else is gonna.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do those chest puzzles for you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But the one thing keeping me from just being like screw this, I'm gonna get a new Samsung fold or something is the call screening dude. Game changer. Because for years like my phone number is and I'm just gonna mute my ringer now because it always makes some dumbass go look for it. But my phone number is not hard to find. In fact most prominent people's phone numbers.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not hard to find.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not hard to find.

[Linus Sebastian]

Epic video.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And so for years now I just don't answer my phone. So don't even bother cause I literally won't answer my phone. But what the call screening feature has done is it has enabled me to not miss calls from actual people who need to reach me. So I will. I'll have packages returned to sender. I'll miss appointments like on a semi regular basis because every single time I've changed my phone number in the past it has like immediately leaked again.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I think there's just someone who works at a carrier or at some somewhere that they have access to just like the nationwide cell phone directory or something that just uploads it or something. I don't. I don't know. I don't know how it happened. But the very last time, it wasn't that I leaked it, which had happened before that it just appeared in one of these databases and I was like, well, you know what? I'm just not gonna bother anymore. I'm just not gonna answer my phone. But with call screening, I can answer my phone.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I can mostly not because most of the time it's nothing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Which is pretty sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Love it. Love call screening.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I will not get a phone that does not have call screening at this point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. It makes sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

It is the. Considering all foreign, all phones are becoming so samey. It's like it's a must have feature.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm super into this next one, hold detection. So it'll be able to tell the difference if music's playing or not. Honestly though, music playing or not doesn't. Is not my main issue because I have no problem just putting my phone aside or putting an ear. Putting an earphone in and just leaving it in my pocket and just like going about my day. The only time it bugs me is when they have a recorded message that pops up. Thanks for staying on the line. Your call is important to us and we'll be getting to you in priority sequence. Hey, have you checked out our recent promotions on shut up. Because every single time that plays, I think, oh, it's a pro. It's the bloody message.

[Linus Sebastian]

Especially when there's an annoyingly long pause.

[Luke Lafreniere]

After hey, so what I wonder is if their hold detection will be able to account for that. Because that's what I need and if it can, then I'm so. Dude, that could be iPhone switchable worthy.

[Linus Sebastian]

And Adam has a note here which is, would you actually be able to trust this? Every time I'm on hold, the issue is important enough that I'm not going to risk messing up. I think not always. I don't think I would always trust it. But there are definitely times where it's like, you know, if it screws up, I could call back. It's fine. I just need to get in contact with these people like today, not this second. So yeah, I would use it for sure, just not all the time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Messages typing indicator for group chats.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow, welcome to current year.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Adam thought is they didn't have this. This is my whole thing. It's like imessage is so great. It's worth being on the iPhone. No, it isn't. It's just, dude, text exchange applications are a utility at this point. I can't, I can't, I'm sorry, I can't. New message screening moves unknown numbers to a separate inbox. Yeah, that's kind of cool. Payment via Apple Cache and group chat. That is amazing. That's also pretty sick and would change the world if it didn't require everyone to have an iPhone. So I don't really care until another party does this and once they do, then this is fantastic because literally none of my social groups use imessage because literally all of my social groups have a mix of Android and Apple users. So like say for example, like my Saturday badminton group, everyone pays for the session after the fact to the organizer and it's like such a hassle for them to chase it down. This doesn't solve the problem because we don't all have iPhones so as soon as across platform this is a thing that's going to be sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

People have pointed out in Full Point Chat that apparently Pixels already have hold hold detection. I didn't even know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I did not know that either.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't wait on hold that option often.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So yeah, not anymore. I used to a lot more but now I have a lot of help and that helps.

[Linus Sebastian]

And also just email and web chats are like better these days.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that's true. Okay, no key says checked. Most auto manufacturers. Seems like a select few support both Android Auto and CarPlay simultaneously. But are you talking. I'm talking about CarPlay Ultra Ultra though lots of them support them both. But I'm talking about, I'm talking about CarPlay Ultra. Will any of those with the deep integration with Apple in the infotainment system, will they support Android Auto? That I don't know. All right. You can keep IDs in your Apple wallet in certain states. That's super cool. I actually lost my, I lost my wallet. I don't know if I told you that I, that's gonna be very annoying. Yeah. I arrived at Vancouver Airport and I went to get in my car. This was after my trip for the, for the Microsoft Xbox announcement. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I don't know why. I don't even know why I put my hand in my right pocket. But I was like, oh my God. I, I, I don't have my wallet. My keys are in here. My, I have all my other things. I have my loadout. I don't have my wallet. So I had no idea. The last time I had used it was to buy something at Los Angeles International So I either left it on the counter where I bought a breakfast burrito at lax, or it was on the plane or it was in YVR somewhere. And no matter where of those places it was, it was behind a security checkpoint that I could no longer cross. So I filed lost and found reports with yvr, LAX and, and United Airlines. And I got to say, it's something I haven't done in a while. And lost and founds have gotten better. Do you know how LAX does it? You literally do not have to contact them. You just go on the lost and found website. You put in what category of item it is. There's a bunch of filters for like colors and description, and they just post pictures of everything they found.

[Linus Sebastian]

How does, how is that not rife for abuse?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, because you have to prove it's yours.

[Linus Sebastian]

How do you do that? Through the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I tell them, no, no, no, no, no. You have to talk to someone to claim it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But to find out if they have.

[Linus Sebastian]

It, select the item, and then you have to go through a person and.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Then there's no, there's pictures.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, that's what.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you select it, you'd be like, that's mine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then you fill out a whole thing or something. I don't know. They didn't find it. That's cool. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Yeah, you have to. You have to like do stuff to get it, but like not having to because you're in that stressed out state of mind. Right. So being able to just go look and they say, yeah, it takes about up to 48 hours. But would we just post it all here so you don't have to. I don't know. I thought it was cool. Anyway, it was United Airlines that ended up finding it, so it must have fallen out of my pocket or something when I was on the plane. So I got it back and it was. It was only my most recent experience that made me wonder how it is that in present year we're still carrying around. Okay, car keys is another one. Like the fact that when I. When I drove the Tesla for a couple weeks when I was doing the review of my in laws car, I was like, this is amazing. This is completely life changing. Why did I ever carry keys? This is awesome. And then also wallets. Why. Why do I have to. Why do I have to carry a certificate that I am licensed to drive a vehicle? Literally?

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, it made sense for a really long time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it made sense for a really long time. But literally the Cop pulled over behind me has a computer. And I know they have it because I literally see them using it while they're driving all the time. Distracted driving. I know. Anyway, they've got their computer there that had its photo id. It has a picture. What is the difference? What is that? What is the difference?

[Linus Sebastian]

I was still carrying my wallet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You would.

[Linus Sebastian]

Two reasons I think, really. I don't trust myself to have my phone not be dead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Also, I have a pixel, so it's pretty common.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The 9A fixes it. Dude, my battery life's amazing.

[Linus Sebastian]

For now. We'll see.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, dude, no, it's, it's, it's, it's iPhone. Like, it's amazing.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, all right, all right. Still not enough to get me to buy a new phone. But then the other one is, as Nicholas Cage pointed out. Do you really want to, like, hand a cop your unlocked phone with your ID on it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think that could be solved. I think you could just see it.

[Linus Sebastian]

On a lock screen. Yeah, I still don't want to hand.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Them my phone at all, I guess.

[Linus Sebastian]

Here's this thing that is exactly as much information as you need and nothing more. Thank you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think that's solvable. I think having it on the lock screen solves it to me. But I understand the perspective.

[Linus Sebastian]

They go away with it though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I would love to have it as an option.

[Linus Sebastian]

It feels like the same thing to me. When you're in the States and you got to pay for something at a restaurant and they take your card, walk away and I'm like, what are you doing in Canada?

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's not normal. They don't. People don't take your credit card out of your sight. You actually hold it the whole time and they give you the payment terminal. At least in Western Canada. I can't speak to the entire country. Maybe there's other norms elsewhere, but the fact that in the States they still like take it away to put in their machine is pretty wild to us. Yeah, but yeah, no, dude, like, I don't know, man, I. I would get rid of a wallet so fast. And almost everything in my wallet I could replace digitally, except my stupid, stupid driver's stupid license. So I still have to carry around a car shaped thing or a card shaped thing. No matter what G Freak says. I disagree about the phone as a key. The experience is objectively worse than a fob. Tesla also has cards. So, like, for me, the issue with the FOB is just that it's so bulky. I wouldn't even care if they were compact, which they totally could be. Like your.

[Linus Sebastian]

Your fob is bulky. Not all fobs are bulky.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And like the ones that, the ones.

[Linus Sebastian]

That you just your. Your fob, you just need to. People have to know when you put it on the table, you have to be able to roll up somewhere and be like, my car is better than yours.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He's referencing something. Okay, so fine, I'll just tell the story. I was so upset when I first got my car about how gigantic the key was and how big it makes my keychain because I have to carry fobs for multiple vehicles because I cannot be trusted to know which vehicle I'm going to take and grab the key from somewhere that is not right next to the garage, because that's really bad because of being able to intercept the whatever, something, something steal your car. Anyway, the point is that I keep all the fobs on my keys at all times because ADHD brain and it made my, my keys, my keychain, like, super bulky because they, like, are against each other and they like, they spread out. And so I was, I was googling around, I was like, okay, can I get a third party replacement for it? Like this thing is. And the answer is no. At least not in any official capacity. And so then the next thing I was looking up is like, is there any kind of workaround? Like, has someone done the equivalent of the, like, handheld Wii mod for. For the, for the Taycan fob? You know, like, cut it down, you know, shave it down here, shave it down there, replace the buttons here, 3D print a housing to make it smaller. The answer is no. At least back when I looked it up and then the last thing I looked up was, you know, the thing that I look up when I'm just frustrated about something that I have absolutely no way to solve and I just want someone to commiserate with me. And I looked up, is anyone else bothered by the giant stupid Porsche fob? And I came across this thread on the stupid Porsche owners forum that is discussing the size of the fob. And almost to a person, people love it. With this one guy who I just want to punch, whose post is like, man, I love the size, because I just, I love, you know, sitting down at the bar and putting my keys down and having it be more noticeable. And I'm like, yo, you can feel like that or whatever, like you can be a douchebag in your head, but imagine, imagine saying it out loud. Imagine articulating that thought. I know you have the anonymous non anonymity of the Internet to hide behind here. But holy shit. Really, buddy? Like, oh man, I just. I can't. I can't stand you. We have nothing in common, okay? We own the same douchey stupid car, but other than.

[Linus Sebastian]

And you have an enormous key. You have a huge and a tiny.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Penis.

[Linus Sebastian]

Throbbing with energy. Extremely energetic key.

[Dan]

Electric too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, just. Oh, I hate it so much. Anyway, we're supposed to be talking about Apple.

[Linus Sebastian]

The key is just ready and wriggling.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So you can now keep IDs in your Apple wallet in certain states, which is super cool. IPad.

[Dan]

See it in your pocket from over here.

[Linus Sebastian]

Are you just happy to see me or do you want a poor version?

[Dan]

Hey, at least he wraps one of them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Charged Nuclear says we should make a middle front pocket on our pants.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh my God, we totally should.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We'll call them the Epene sports gamer pants or something like that. They could be sweatpants. So it could be like a really baggy pocket. Like a huge pocket.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh my goodness. Oh man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

IPad OS. Wow. Apple refuses to put touchscreens on the Mac for reasons, I guess and refuses to make Mac OS touch friendly. But boy, are they ever moving in the direction of making ipados. Like being a computer friendly. Actually good window management for app multitasking. Actually good background app support. Actually good audio management and actually good file management.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dang.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sweet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think I'm going to have to do a new switch to Apple challenge. But this time not a MacBook.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tablets.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This time an iPad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you use tablets at all?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, but I'll use.

[Linus Sebastian]

Try to like mainline.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Interest. Why not, dude? As window management iPad pros are like pretty crazy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Kind of sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

And the price, I've even like seen one. But the last time some somebody told me they bought an iPad pro and I was like oh, neat. And then they told me the price and I almost fainted. And then they showed me like the reasons why it was worth it to them. And as a person who drew art, I was like, yeah, this is amazing. I get it. It's expensive, but I get it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. IPad. IPad is. Frankly, it doesn't have competition. I know there are other tablets, but I do agree anytime anyone asks me for a tablet recommendation, I'm just like, why haven't you bought an iPad already? It's. It's just obvious. MacOS. Tahoe. Sorry? 26. Everything has 26 at the end. I actually really like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tahoe or Tahoe?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Tahoe probably.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Phone app. You can make calls and voicemail from your Mac Live activities Stuff you're doing on your phone will appear on your Mac. You can click the notification to open a mirrored iPhone screen. The iPhone screen mirroring is actually super, super slick. There's some Spotlight upgrades, which is great because. Oh, this is actually in the notes. It's been neglected for a while. Yes. Spotlight used to absolutely embarrass Windows Search and now it still does, but only because Windows search is embarrassing. Spotlight's not that great the last time that I used a Mac regularly. And Apple's now Sherlocking a bunch of search alternatives and making it better. This is cool. So this is from our video, the demo they showed where Buddy grabbed an image through Spotlight, put it directly into a document, used Spotlight to erase the background and keep it transparent, and then sent that file to another commonly used app, all without going anywhere else except for the handy little search bar.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whoa.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very cool Vision os. Oh, my God, who cares? And that was far from an exhaustive list. But I'd love to hear from you guys. Like, hit us up in the float plane chat. What was the thing that you are most excited about?

[Linus Sebastian]

Not to tilt the floatplane chat, but for me it's easily the calling features and Arrow or whatever they're calling glass.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. Bringing back. Bringing back sick transparent interfaces. Dude, it feels so cool again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be innovative.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like it doesn't even necessarily.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it doesn't have. They don't have to be the first one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not everything needs to be the original Xbox ui. Do you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you need a tissue?

[Dan]

Yeah. You threw them over here for me already?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Man, I don't know.

[Dan]

Where did that go so wrong?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I. I'm. I'm going for. I'm going for driver's license in the. I'm in the digital wallet. I.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm super into it because it's just like I said, there's already third party apps that I can put like my Costco card in and stuff like that. So the stupid driver's license is the only reason I still have to carry a wallet.

[Linus Sebastian]

I also, like, if I'm like checking into a hotel and they don't need my password, I will just hand over my license before they asked for my last name. Spelling.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I don't want to just give them my phone. I don't know. I would still definitely carry. But what I might end up doing at that point is carrying it like behind my phone case or something.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

So I have the option. But if I'm not carrying any other cards, then who cares? Zoon HD based as heck. Bring that back. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, apparently the Costco app has your card in it. I did not know that. I do.

[Linus Sebastian]

That makes sense.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I do not install apps anymore. I'm like, kind of anti app.

[Linus Sebastian]

So is Wendell.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I really. Yeah, Wendell from level one text, in.

[Linus Sebastian]

Case you're wondering, means that's based.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, I don't know about that, but my app fatigue does. My app fatigue hit me a very, very long time ago. And if I. If there is not an absolutely necessary reason that I have to have your app. Like, you can't do Disneyland without the app anymore. Frankly, it's like, impossible to have a reasonably good experience unless you have the app. I don't install corporate apps. I just won't. And then as soon as we flew back, I deleted the app because. What is it gonna. What is it? Why do I want it on my phone? I can't think of a single good reason to have it on my phone.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

By the way, there were a couple comments on the Disneyland vlog video that went up on LMG clips, sort of questioning why we would go to Disneyland during present time. We went to Disneyland a long time ago. And you're just getting the video publicly now. And then we booked it a long, long time ago.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's the bigger part.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We in a galaxy far away.

[Linus Sebastian]

This stuff started happening.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, Smugglers Run.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good run.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was like, right before we went, stuff started happening. So it was like, it's all booked. We have all our flights and everything. Like, it's not. It's not time to change it now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, shoot. I was thinking of Galaxy's Edge, actually. That one was the cool one that was new that we really liked. Smugglers runs.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I misinterpreted that then.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I was thinking about the same one. The one with the giant set pieces. Right.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, dude.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. That was Galaxy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Incredible. I got a feature that I really like on my phone that might also be a thing on iPhone. I don't know. But I get photo memories every once in a while. I actually really like it. And I very recently got ones from the Disneyland trip from that ride, which I technically did. Twice. Right. Right at the end of the Disneyland trip, I somehow met up with Sean Caldera and Nick Light, and we, like, somehow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's almost like they were there, but, like, it was.

[Linus Sebastian]

And we. We sprinted over this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know how it happened. You're. You're at Disneyland. I'm At Disneyland.

[Linus Sebastian]

But we. If I remember correctly, neither of them had done the Star wars area yet. So despite me having done it, I loved it. So we sprinted back over, and then we were able to do everything there in, like, a tiny amount of time because we did Smuggler's Run first, and there wasn't really a line for it because fireworks were going off.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Right.

[Linus Sebastian]

But then Galaxy's Edge or whatever that ride's called, it was broken because it's always broken. But we heard that it became unbroken, like the second we came out of a Smuggler's Run. So we just flat out sprinted the whole way and got there with no line and got straight in. Amazing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I always love, like. Like hacking. Hacking amusement parks for better efficiency. I sent Luke a video of my son, wanted to watch the fireworks and also. Also squeeze in one more run at Splash Mountain. And so I. I came up with a system where we could do both. So he would walk. He was walking backwards, and then I was, like, guiding him so that we could make good time over to Splash Mountain so he could watch the fireworks while we were actually moving at a pretty good clip.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was actually awesome. That was a really fun trip.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, it was great time. What happened? Okay. Yeah, I don't think I have too much else to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I think that's roughly it. It was a good event. And honestly, they announced a lot of things that, you know, it might still be an insurmountable barrier. I'm not sure. But they announced a lot of things that reduced my barrier from going to Apple stuff. I will say the call features.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

Those were, like, I've said multiple times, non negotiables. So now those are there. So it's like, okay, I still don't think I would go, but it's becoming more interesting. Okay, what are we talking about now? Should we talk about Mario Kart World and the Switch?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think we should. All right, no, let's. Yeah, let's talk about it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did we talk about Mario Kart World last week?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think we talked about. I hadn't even opened my Switch yet. We talked about how I thought it was boring, but we didn't talk about Mario Kart World or the experience of owning it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He watched me review our review. So that's. That's what I was doing before the show started. I was. I was watching our review of the Switch 2. It's going up tomorrow. And there was one point where he was like, which is when I gave my thoughts on Mario Kart World. I didn't really elaborate during the Switch 2 review because I really felt like with a device like the Switch 2, there's so much breadth for what you can talk about that you kind of have to pick a lane.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think it didn't make a ton of sense to go super in depth on Market world.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And the lane that we picked was a PC guy's perspective.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Which has kind of been our shtick with Nintendo consoles for as long as I can remember us making videos about them. And so, you know, we talked about what we like about the hardware, we talk about the comparisons. You know, PC guys, we're all about, you know, what's the gen over gen improvement? How does it compare to the other options that are out there? We talk about a lot of that stuff. You know, what about the game marketplace? You know, we get into the stuff that, you know, as PC gamers, either we take for granted or we, you know, look at longingly, like exclusive content or whatever. Right. So I just made this super offhand comment that is, yeah, Mario Kart World. Yeah, maybe Hot take. Not really enjoying it. And. Okay, why don't you. Why don't you go first?

[Linus Sebastian]

So I was a extreme enjoyer of Mario Kart 8. And I'm not actually even talking about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is the same thing, but on Switch, I'm talking about Mario Kart 8 on Wii U. I played the heck out of it. Fantastic game. Liked it a ton.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Literally got to the point where he was so sweaty at it that he had to play not during North American evening. He had to line up his play time with, like, Japan when Japanese players were online.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, the only ranked match much I could find.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're an actual sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was so much.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You are an actual.

[Linus Sebastian]

I really enjoyed that era. I had specific songs I would listen to because they were just in my playlist at the time. And it has turned out that, like, even years later, if those songs come on, my brain's just like, Mario, it's Mario Kart.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Blue shell. Watch out for the blue shell.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. And like, yeah, yeah, it was fun. But, you know, then I didn't play for many, many, many years. Mario Kart World gets announced, and I'm like, oh, man, it could be fun to, like, get into a Mario Kart game again. All kind of stuff. I played it for probably, like a couple hours and then was like, I'm gonna take a break and go do other stuff. And then I. I don't think I picked it back up again. I ended up putting a different game in my switch and playing that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think I might have fundamentally not understood what the game was when I got excited about it. So I have never played a Forza Horizon game, so I didn't really like when people were comparing it to that or even if they're comparing it to it now or not comparing it to it. I don't really know. I saw people kind of making those comparisons, and I was like, okay, that's interesting. But it didn't really mean much to me. But what I did pick up on is that it's open world and there's, like. Like, stuff to do. And my assumption was that there would be some kind of a, like, thread to follow through this world. Maybe, like, Breath of the Wild is open world.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

But there's a story and there's, like, stuff that you might want to do. And. And so my immediate confusion when I. Before I had even done a race yet was I got to the title menu and I was like, where's the campaign? Was kind of. I was like, because. And that's not. Okay, be fair to me. Okay? That is not a completely out there assumption. I mean, Smash Bros. Brawl had a campaign. It's a pretty weak campaign. You just move around on a world map and unlock characters. You just. It's. It's a fighting game campaign. Yeah, but for crying out loud, it had one.

[Linus Sebastian]

There was something. Mario Kart 8 didn't have a campaign either.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fair enough. But I'd be. It's an open world Mario Kart game.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was it maybe expect something?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Was it completely crazy of me to think, okay, there's some kind of, like, campaign or something?

[Linus Sebastian]

Usually the, like, the, like campaign. I understand this is not equivalent at all, but the campaign, Mario Kart games is usually, you know, getting first in all the different modes and all the different things and then unlocking all the stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So. So anyway, I. But then I was like, okay, but hold on a second. Like, open world where Grand Prix.

[Linus Sebastian]

Knockout.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. Knockout. Like online. Yeah, yeah. Where even is the. Where even is the open world? It's, like, buried in one of the, like, sub menus at the bottom. And that was my hint that this might just.

[Linus Sebastian]

They didn't care about that so much.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This might just be racing marketing kind.

[Linus Sebastian]

Of ran with that a little bit too hard.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Now, here's what. Here's what I will say. Here's what I will say from a. Purely on the surface, from a race just gameplay perspective. I actually love the direction they've taken the maps. Wait, I Will get. Wait. I will get there. And I started tracks. Excuse me. Oh, terrible. I actually love the direction they've taken the tracks. I found The Mario Kart 8 tracks a little bit too effect everywhere. I can't even tell which of these upcoming surfaces is even the one I'm supposed to be driving on, because we're gonna go this way and now we're, like, upside down and there's. I found it extremely disorienting as someone who doesn't know life, the game that's fair to even know what direction to go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whereas those, like, magnetic wheel things, which I did not love, I enjoyed, but I can see how that would be annoying.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Mario Kart World is. Is very. Gravity goes this way for the most part. There are still areas that I think you could find kind of confusing. Like some of the transitions you turn into a wave rider, and some of the transitions between land and water go in the water. And it's like, okay. That actually is, like, kind of stupid.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But in general, I like the direction they've gone. And so I would probably still buy it just to have it on my TV when people come over. But. But a game that I'm just gonna, like, sit and play. I, I don't feel a sense of accomplishment that matters to me from finding a white version of Yoshi by doing challenges in the open world thing like I did. I, I went and I like.

[Linus Sebastian]

You can also do that. Not open world.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. I got a hamburger.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Or something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, you can do that on normal tracks, doing normal races.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

It doesn't really incentivize. Well, maybe there, there's probably certain things that have to be.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Some people are super into it, and, and like, that's fine. But, like, cosmetics have never been super meaningful to me, so I didn't, I just didn't really, like, care about it. And so I just kind of. I, I, I did like, three of the Grand Prix. I three starred two of them at 150cc, and then two starred another one. I've been told that apparently it's hard. Elijah's, like, having trouble with it or something. So before, before my meal arrived at IHOP, I had, I had gold trophied. Two Grand Prix.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

At 150cc. And I was like, this is like, it just, it. Oh, man.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was, I was just trying. Honestly, I didn't even do any Grand Prix. I was doing knockout, and I, I think I first placed, like, half the maps or something. I haven't even tried.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. People are saying it's just a skill issue for Elijah. So maybe that's okay. Maybe that's something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But anyway, he tries. After a little while, I was like, I was like, okay, what now? I could go online, but realistically I'm not going to no life this game enough to be competitive online. And it's just I don't care. And especially, especially I don't care because of this comment that. Oh, man. Who. Who left it? Ah, shoot. Can I even. I accidentally scrolled and I don't remember exactly what they said, but one of the first things. Yeah, here it is from Hathos is Mario Kart World is so good. The skill ceiling is so high now with the wall riding, the rail grinding and the item aiming. And that's actually the reason that I probably don't think I could ever get into it, because I feel like it has become the kind of game that unless that you would be better off watching 10 hours of YouTube videos than playing 10 hours of the game if you wanted to get better. And I'm just not into it. It's very meta heavy. Like people are already like shaving minutes off of times. And it's like.

[Linus Sebastian]

When I was, when I was going hyper sweat with. On Wii U with Mario Kart 8, I was. I would just like practice. I would do. You know, you just play ranked matches online and you'll see what other people do. Sometimes you don't notice like, oh, that line's really good or oh, I didn't actually notice that shortcut before or whatever. You just kind of grow. And if you got really, really sweaty, you could do time trials and go against the person who has number one and try to like follow them and figure that stuff out. Time trials don't always transfer to real races because there's no items and all that other kind of stuff. There's certain risks you don't want to take. If there could be a blue shell or a red shell or something coming. But it was like playing the game is how I got better at the game. So cool. I also don't want to sit and watch 10 hours of YouTube videos to get better. Wall riding for me just completely broke it. I didn't actually. I didn't look into the game a ton before I bought my switch because I was like, it's Mario Kart. I'm gonna get Mario Kart anyways. And I'm still happy that I have it for the party game aspect. Like you were talking. And I just hope that whenever there's party games, people don't grind Mario Kart. Because anybody who does wall writing at all will completely break the experience for everyone.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

And that's why, like, the second I saw wall writing was in, and I was like, okay, maybe it just makes it so that, like, if you ride up on a bank or something, it's not as bad. And then I noticed how it works, and I was like, game over.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So basically, my issue, it's done. My issue with Mario Kart 8 is, like, on the surface, gone. Because it's very clear which way gravity goes, which addresses that. But once we get a little bit deeper, it's actually amplified, like 10x. Because now. Because my issue is that it's not obvious where you're supposed to drive. And so to me, so. So to the people who want it, like, it's the same reason that I just. I. Luke and I played, I think, like, half a dozen rounds of deadlock, I think it was. And we were just like, we. We didn't get in at the very beginning, so we got dumped into a closed beta at a time when people had been. No. Lifing it for months. And it was just not even a little bit fun until you've, like, watched countless hours of tutorials and know all of the right meta. And you know what? I'll be the first to admit that getting super into a game like that can be extremely rewarding and extremely entertaining. Supreme Commander would be an example of a game that I know lifed enough and was complex enough that I would say it is comparable to either of those games. You have no. You have no equivalent units across up to four different races in an rts. And the maps are so diverse where they'll reward ground, land or sea, or in particular, they will reward first one, then the other as you progress through the tech trees of all three of them. Like, it is. It is extremely, extremely deep in terms of its gameplay. I get it. It's a lot of fun, but for me, that's not Mario Kart.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, there's also.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's not the role Mario Kart serves in my life.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, there's. There's one of. One of the comments. I think I might have lost it because they didn't tag me. Yeah. So I don't know where I went, but somebody was like, wall riding is. Is slower. Wall riding in a lot of places where they clearly intentionally wanted you to wall ride is slower. Wall riding when you break the map by doing crazy shortcuts and stuff, is not slower. That's the part that I'm complaining about. Another Thing that I'm complaining about is I liked Mario Kart 8's I honestly, I played very little of Deluxe, but I'm pretty sure it was just the same game ported to Switch, so I don't know, it's probably the same deal. But I liked Mario Kart 8's drifting so much that it got me, like, interested in drifting. And I watched Initial D and, like, learned how drifting worked.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, that's funny. I actually hated it in eight, and I love it in world.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, because it sucks in World. Is that why?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's because I only ever played Mario Kart ds, like, a lot. Like, I probably have a couple hundred hours in Mario Kart ds. That's the only one that I've ever played a ton. And the drifting, I fired up Yoshi. I fired up the standard bike, and I was like, ripping it up, and I'm like this. Okay, so they just ported it straight out of Mario Kart ds.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So, you know, I guess it's just.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like a favorite game thing, I think so. Hathos also encapsulated another issue that I have, which is like, hold on, hold on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hathos has another one first. Hathos. So this was the person who I highlighted earlier saying they loved it. Hathos replied, I can't even Disagree. I've watched 20 videos to learn how to get better already. Yeah, okay, sorry, what were you gonna say?

[Linus Sebastian]

Hatho said is shortcuts galore with over 200 unique routes between all the different courses. So a practice player will just be unstoppable. However, I don't think most people who ever get there. I know I wouldn't be able to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Memorize that many routes, but that's the problem that completely takes the fun out of it as a casual game.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I remember having this conversation with Luke back when he was no life in Mario Kart 8. Because I was like, dude, you fucked up.

[Linus Sebastian]

As a wanting to have fun at someone's house game, I did ruin it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. It was absolutely no fun to play Mario Kart with him. Yeah, that sucks.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And. And when. When you're that good at a team game, like, if you're that good at counter strike or something, and you can just. You can just put like an equal superstar on the other team or whatever, that's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's an individual game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But when it's an individual game, it's all about what Mario Kart is for you. And if you want Mario Kart to be like a sweaty no life.

[Linus Sebastian]

And.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I did optimization problem, then that's you know what? Like, that's cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

All power to you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's just. I wish that wasn't what Mario Kart was to me as a kid. And so as, like, an old man yells at cloud gamer. I just. I wish it was more for me, but it isn't, and that's okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I'm sure some people enjoy it. I don't like that type of sweaty optimization. I often do like sweaty optimization. I just don't like that kind.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Braxa says cough, cough. Super checks. Actually, Luke won our last one. Or the second last one.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think it's been a long enough time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think we're pretty even again. Yeah, I have. I've degraded, which is good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that's good. Hey, I got. I got air hockey.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I heard.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it's not working.

[Linus Sebastian]

Did it make it upstairs?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It. No, it's upstairs now, but it worked, like, for an afternoon and then is broken. So someone's coming to look at it. Arcade games, man. On the one hand, they're like industrial grade. On the other hand, it seems like they break a lot, just from my experience with them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Interesting. What breaks on an air hockey table?

[Luke Lafreniere]

The fan.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that seems like something that shouldn't break that off.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it really does. Anthony says. Whoa. Why is live quality so much better on floatplane? I don't know, but the rest of y' all should try it. Float plane. Oh, we're supposed to explain and to merge messages, whatever that means. Merch messages are the way to interact with the show. We believe that when you throw money at your screen, you should get something in return. And, boy, can you ever get some cool stuff on lttstore.com. man, there's been. There's been a lot of reviews of LTT products lately. Aside from the. The shift one that Yvonne flagged one for me. What was your name? Oh, shoot. I've put it away.

[Linus Sebastian]

But there's the Unnecessary Inventions video.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. We were highlighted by Unnecessary Inventions. And then there was Linus versus Sponsor, I think was the title of it. Yeah, here we go. Switch and click. This is a couple weeks ago, but I'm just seeing it now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I haven't seen this. That's really interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

LTT commuter bag versus our own sponsor, Ridge. Their own commuter bag. So I thought that was. That was pretty cool. Anyway, there's lots of great stuff on lttstore.com including some new stuff this week. And all you got to do to send a merch message if you want to. Yeah, do that. Send a message to the show or get a message through to producer Dan, who man that drip though anyway, is add something to the cart, a little box will pop up. You leave a merch message and it will go to producer Dan, who will forward it or curate it and we'll show you how that works. Dan, want to read us a curated merch message?

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure.

[Dan]

I've got one here from Jake. Evening, dll. I purchased PS2 VR fired up. Sorry. PSVR2 fired up. Beat Saber, then promptly smacked my hand against the desk. I finished the song to find I had reopened a recent cut. Blood everywhere. Any absurd injuries?

[Linus Sebastian]

I shouldn't necessarily have laughed at that, but.

[Dan]

No, that's hilarious.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, that's funny.

[Dan]

Is it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm sorry, that's funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is pretty funny.

[Dan]

Trollers are stained.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's extra funny because they played through it and they seem to be okay.

[Dan]

You don't know that.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then we're just like, oh, God, that's amazing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's funny stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know if it's absurd, but it's certainly my most recent injury. I, I was, I had my, my brother, my brother in law and my son and I was like, yo, we like, we have these go karts at my house that we don't really use that often because Yvonne's not really that into them. And so it's not something that we just like, we'll go out and do as a family. So I was like, hey, boys, should we, should we hit the go karts? And so we're, we're all, we're gearing up, we're all putting on helmets and everything. And I realized that my son and his friends took the stupid things out and they plugged the chargers into the backs of all the carts. But one of the wall warts was not plugged into the wall. So all of a sudden I didn't have a cart. And I was like, oh, man. I went and invited too many people because I could have just only asked two of them. I could have told. I could have told my son that he has to like stay home or whatever and hang out with his, you know, his niece. Cousin. My niece. Anyway, the point is I didn't have a vehicle all of a sudden. Crap. So I went and I dug up my old man who even made it. San Francisco Special. Z Board. Was that what they were called? Z Board, San Francisco Special? Yeah. Yeah. So I dug up my old Z Board, this thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

And you still have this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, why not? Wouldn't You?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, it's from a decade ago. Yeah. A little surprised.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, take out these shoes. Would you believe that these were on special?

[Linus Sebastian]

Let's go. Those are actually kind of sick, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Anyway, so I dug out my old Z board and I was like, okay, I'll try and keep up. But it's. Yeah, it's old. It's a decade old. And electric batteries and motors and stuff like have come a long way in 10 years. That thing is not fast by modern standards. So I was trying really hard to keep up well, which ended up being both a blessing and a curse. So the bad part is I couldn't keep up. So I was kind of taking hacky shortcuts to, to try to keep up with them as we were cruising. But it ended up being a good thing because, dude, I bailed super hard. My brother in law looked back, he said I apparently did like a full barrel roll in the air before hitting the ground. I don't actually recall much of it. All I recall I was trying to go around a speed bump so that I wouldn't have to slow down for it the way that they were. And as I got to the edge, I rode up the curb.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So it just dumped me. And I've got this. I don't really normally bruise.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I have this gorgeous. Oh yeah, green. Yeah, that's a good one situation going on here.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know how much it's going to show up on camera, but it's not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It won't show up on camera. It's definitely there. I don't bruise super, super hard for the most part. So that was, that was really dumb. I'm sure I could come up with a hundred dumb ways that I've injured myself.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was it just ways we've injured ourselves or was it. I thought, I thought it was gaming. Was it related to the VR thing or was it just ways we've injured ourselves?

[Dan]

I don't think I've ever just any recent, absurd injuries.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. This is not recent at all, but.

[Dan]

Probably not even recent.

[Linus Sebastian]

My most absurd injury is definitely the. The hockey laces from Nerd Sports.

[Dan]

Oh.

[Linus Sebastian]

I thought I was gonna have permanent scars from this. We, we were filming nerd sports back in the day and we had to do ice hockey and I don't remember the exact issue. I think the skates didn't really fit me properly or whatnot. And I didn't know how to skate very well. So my skates were kind of like buckling in and it made it so that the laces on the outside of both of my ankles were cutting into my feet. Well, my ankles the whole time. But I didn't want to stop the shoot because, you know, this is our one chance to do it. By the end of it, I genuinely had cut, like, grooves into each one of my ankles, and they were bleeding. And I had to. That night, I had to film a video. After we did this hockey thing, I had to go and film a networking video back in the office. And then Brandon and I were going to. I think it was Switzerland or something. So I was on the plane with my ankles just bleeding. And I. Like a country I'd never been to before, going to, like, pharmacies, trying to figure out, like, is there something I can get for these grooves that are in my ankles? And then there's a few videos, like, actually a few for quite a while, where if you see my ankles ever, you can see a line on the outside of them. And I thought I was going to have permanent matching scars on my ankles for forever because they. I. That line lasted for, like, years, I think, and then they're gone now, so. Which is weird because I've had much smaller cuts that ended up scarring, but those didn't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. Shoot. Sorry. I'm trying very hard to find something. It's not my absurd injury, but it's definitely an absurd injury. And it's. It's. It's kind of funny if. Oh, my God, Skip. I don't care about any of this.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not the leg press one, right? No way you'd show that?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Dan]

Is it somebody that's gross falling over?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it someone falling over? What are you even talking about?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think Dan's referencing a lot.

[Dan]

I thought you were just gonna show Jerry.

[Linus Sebastian]

What? What is it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Tech tip. Don't drop your phone on your face.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got it on the security camera.

[Linus Sebastian]

What? We're raising it up too brutal?

[Dan]

Let's make it worse.

[Luke Lafreniere]

She was readjusting it to reach something, so it was like. And then the corner got. Dude it, like, cut her. Cut her face open.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, I. I had to go get the. The. The. Like, the. The adhesive, like, strips. The flat adhesive strips that, like, hold it together. It actually ended up not scarring much. Like, I know where it is, and I can notice it, but it's not. It's not super noticeable. But she. Like, they. They're heavy. Like, when that much weight hits you in one spot and it's like lined up, will break skin.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And you're. Dude, your face bleeds like a. It's crazy.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's totally a thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Bing search, by the way, was how I found it. Google, I could not find this. Go Bing search quality. Check this out. So I searched for. I tried Linus, Twitter phone drop face because I knew it was there somewhere. 1, 2, 3, 4. Yeah, there you go. Like. Oh, no, not that one. This one. That was like the sixth or seventh result.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's pretty good. That it got it at all.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Google. Like, I tried a few different combinations, including this one, and couldn't find it at all. Yeah, really hard to get it. Google search has just gotten so bad. Rysa asks, do you have a security camera just for the couch? Absolutely not. We ain't doing no freak offs. And if we did, if we did, that's not how I would record them. I'm not judging. As long as everyone's consenting. I'm just saying I'm not judging, that's all. I'm just saying that that's not why I have that camera. That was just the living room camera and I. It was punched in. That's why the quality was.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wait, wait, wait. You have like proper camera cues or like, what? What's the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why wouldn't you.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, if you're gonna record it, do it right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I mean, if it's gonna eventually.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anything, do it right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If it's gonna end eventually end up in a court of law, it might as well look good. Cinematic Floatplane X.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's like that guy. There's some guy who had a tape get leaked recently or part of it, and his response was basically like, well, don't release just part of it. I like, I last longer than that. Release the whole thing. And I was like, wow, that's. Seriously. That is one way to respond to that.

[Dan]

It's like the opposite of the Streisand effect.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

It's like, well, now I don't want to watch it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Dan]

You made it gross.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like. All right, dude.

[Dan]

All right, next. Controversy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Moving on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. Somebody. Whoever that is. I don't know. Should we talk about a topic?

[Dan]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Dan]

Should talk about. Oh, an announcement.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow. They're very far down this time. We sort of main topics. So the first one is explain. I'll do it. Because he's clearly doing something else.

[Dan]

Are you sick?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

What's the floatplane announcement?

[Linus Sebastian]

What?

[Dan]

You just did a merch message for like 10 minutes.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, I didn't even realize that. Yeah.

[Dan]

Get off the Benadryl. Say something for me. So I get through this show. We ran out of Sprite. I have to use Spritz up. That might be a Canadian thing. I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. It technically says CW announcement first.

[Dan]

Yeah, that's the top one.

[Linus Sebastian]

You said float plate.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What are you even talking about?

[Linus Sebastian]

You said float plate.

[Dan]

I guess I did. I don't know what's going on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Announcing the Touch Sand Collection. Three new fun products to help you touch a little more sand this summer. The hydro phase Swim shorts.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What? We'll get to those in a sec.

[Linus Sebastian]

Water reactive swim. Okay, you want to do something else first? That's a sick picture. I honestly love that there is just no text there even.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Also, isn't that great?

[Dan]

There's no crop.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, my goodness. Is that a giant inflatable bread?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. We'll get to in a second. First, I want you to hold this.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, you got it? No, no, hold it up. Hold it up so the people can see. For the people that's gonna fall, can you just chill? Okay? Just. Can you just relax?

[Dan]

Dell will send us new lovely laptops by Dell. This is what I have to do too, to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Dan]

Get things away.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There you go. It's hard to see on camera.

[Dan]

Let's punch into Linus cam. Oh, yeah, that one works too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We'll go to loot cam.

[Dan]

Oh, my God.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's not easy to see from working on it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's so easy to see in person. Oh, no.

[Dan]

It's pretty good on camera too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it? Oh, well, is it just like the compression or something? Okay, yeah. Give us a bit more zoom. There you go. There you go. Okay, you can really see it here. So it's. It's a multi layer material and when it's wet, the top one goes translucent so it's covered in little bread sources. The camera is not doing a great job of picking up the contrast, but it's very easy to see them in person.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Super cool. Anyway, hold on. I'm gonna go back to the wide.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cam, which didn't get wet. Yeah, still just plain blue. And then here. Yeah, I know you can't really. Oh, that's not bad.

[Dan]

It shows up on stream, that camera just. Oh, is it a very good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it just this display?

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, cool.

[Dan]

Yeah, that looks fine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. So cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's awesome.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on though. We got to get the details of the Product. Before people buy it though, I think there might be some details that they need. Yes. Okay. So the bread is a rare drop.

[Linus Sebastian]

The bread.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The bread source is a rare drop.

[Dan]

Oh. You'll only know when it gets wet. Oh, that's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So.

[Linus Sebastian]

So it's a circuit board.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Circuit board I believe is the standard drop.

[Linus Sebastian]

Most will come with a circuit pattern. With a 1 in 20 chance to receive the elusive Brettasaurus pattern.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Correct. But they will all have the same cool. Only reveals the pattern when wet.

[Linus Sebastian]

This photo shoot is incredible.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

What the heck? I. I keep thinking it's just a green screen, but it's really not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is a real Bre Taurus, by the way.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pool thing. AI Fun fact. Fun fact. No, it's real fake. We apparently spent a thousand dollars on it, which I don't recall. Sounds a little low. It's not over your limits and it's impossible to ride. I have tried.

[Dan]

That's what I hear too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I jumped onto the top, grabbed my grab put, grabbed my hands on here and then it immediately, because of the high center of gravity, went face first into the pool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that's the thing that happened. Here's both patterns. Here's a nice little high quality silicone.

[Linus Sebastian]

I like that, by the way. That's a fun. That's a fun logo.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think the team absolutely knocked it out of the park with this product. Very cool. It's. It's everything that was good about our previous swim trunks, but way better.

[Linus Sebastian]

I really like the color too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. No, me too. Me too. I think they nailed it. W. Calderini says if I buy 20 pairs, am I guaranteed bread?

[Linus Sebastian]

Technically, no.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No. I'm afraid that it doesn't work that way.

[Dan]

Learn statistics.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Anyway, that's not the only thing that we have. So there's the three. There's the three different products. So the touch sand collection also includes the big Hexi beach towel. It's big.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wait, did you tell them about the draw cords?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, no. Oh, sorry.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do not drop draw cords.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

They do not drop printed on the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on.

[Linus Sebastian]

You can confuse your friends that are standing very close and looking at a part of your body.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. It says do not drop there. Little details, little details. Okay. The big hexy beach towel. Do you want to do the. The read for that and I'll just show it?

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. A huge two sided towel shaped like a hexagon. Because why settle for anything less than the bestagon? One side is a plush velour perfect for lounging. The other Side is full of Terry Loops to dry off after a swim. That's kind of neat. Perfect size to also use as a beach blanket.

[Luke Lafreniere]

By the way, this is Canadian dollar pricing. I'm on the global site, so we'll have to clarify what the US Store pricing is after. There you go. Okay. And then the last one is what? Oh, yeah. Touch sand sticker sheet. So we have a touch sand sticker collection. As usual. Super, super cute. And I believe. Is this available as a bonus bin item? I believe it should be.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have no idea.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm not 100% sure. So, yeah, let's check. Let's check the. Let's check the US region. Here we go. So the swim shorts in the US are 69.99 and the big Hexi beach towel is 49.99. That' beach towel. Big old beach towel. All right, what are we supposed to do next?

[Linus Sebastian]

I do not see them currently in bonus bin.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know if they're a bonus bin item or not.

[Dan]

Just got my daughter the Switch two. Oh, wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, wow. That was not open, which is very lucky. But it's huge. And like there's. It's a hexagon, so there's a bit here at the top that's like, whoa.

[Dan]

That's almost as big as the table.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's a multi person beach blanket.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's a big beach.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Okay. Wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's massive.

[Dan]

Just got my daughter. The Switch 2 is her first console gaming device. What was your first gaming device and game you got to play? Mine was a Game Boy color with Pokemon Red.

[Luke Lafreniere]

First gaming device. I mean, I think the first gaming device I ever played on would have had to be a Commodore.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let's go, let's go. Non PC for both of us. In that case, it's going to be PC.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. I played on my friend's nes, but I had. Oh, wait. Nope. No. My grandparents had a pong machine in their basement and I think I probably played on that before I had a Super Nintendo.

[Linus Sebastian]

What was the first one? First console that you got?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Super Nintendo. First one I ever had.

[Linus Sebastian]

First console we got was Super Nintendo as well. But my. My grandma technically got us original Game Boys.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really?

[Linus Sebastian]

Which I actually don't think got a lot of use.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The games were. It was a different time. We were more desperate for entertainment on the go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is what I'll say. I don't know if there's too many Game Boy games, with the sole exception of Tetris, that people are like, I.

[Linus Sebastian]

Don'T think we had banger.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I would. I would play that for hours and hours and hours. Today with all the other options that I have for gaming, I would play that.

[Linus Sebastian]

I had a Toy Story game for original Game Boy that I actually remember being like single digits of years old and being like, this is bad. They should have made a better game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Prepping for his future career as a reviewer.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

From a very young age.

[Dan]

Just hated since he was a child.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was. It was rough.

[Dan]

Born to be a hater.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Yeah. You know what?

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Full plane announcement.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. People are saying Pokemon. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. I missed.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was an original Game Boy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I missed a major, major game. That's fair, right?

[Linus Sebastian]

I could be super wrong on this too, but I think that came out kind of near the end, and most people that I know played it on color.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I played it on. I didn't play it until it was on color.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But wait.

[Linus Sebastian]

Or did I. I think they're.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right, though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What did Pokemon Blue come out for? Because that's the one I played.

[Linus Sebastian]

It came out with Game Boy Pocket. I don't even know what that is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Developed by a game freak and publisher, Nintendo, for the Game Boy. What happened when you put a smaller version, a Pokemon Blue cartridge in a Game Boy color?

[Linus Sebastian]

It just got a blue hue, if I were correct.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Then. No, I. Dude, I totally missed it. That. That. Yeah, that's. That's key. That's huge. Yeah. I played Pokemon.

[Linus Sebastian]

Apparently it came out with the Game Boy Pocket, though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I actually played it on PC, though. I emulated it really, like, way later. Oh, this is way later. I didn't. I didn't pick up Pokemon until much, much later. Yeah, I never. I don't think I ever ended up playing another Pokemon game.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's probably fine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I think I've played the Pokemon game at this point. Yep. And I don't really feel like I'm missing much.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not like game freak is doing almost.

[Dan]

A. Oh, Pokemon Stadium, though.

[Linus Sebastian]

They've been trying some stuff recently. I shouldn't be so new.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Be nice. Be nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Speaking of being nice, not only do we have Luke's shelf. Okay. I didn't know he was gonna talk about me. My bad. Not only do we have.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait, hold on. We never did the call to action. All of these great, exciting products available now at lmg gg. Touch sand.

[Linus Sebastian]

Touch sand. I'm gonna give me some of these shorts. They're awesome. Full plane announcement. Not only do we have Luke's show floor walk of Computex up. This week, Sammy and Justin work together to build a sleeper PC.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What?

[Linus Sebastian]

Dan, hands over the Xbox 360. What?

[Luke Lafreniere]

What are we even. Hold on. What are we.

[Linus Sebastian]

What.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is happening right now? Dan, hands over the Xbox 360. Well, that's an Xbox 360 now. With 60 gigabyte hard drives.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I was trying to figure out why this is so tall, but then I kept reading, and that makes sense.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, can you keep reading because.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, this is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, hello.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is a fake power brick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's a fake power brick. What does the. Hold on. What? Okay, so hold on. This is a. This is a fake 3D printed power brick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Exclusive. This is amazing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What's in the power brick? Is it. Oh, it's a bigger power supply. It's gotta be a bigger power supply. I know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why are you still here?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Shareholder value increasing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow.

[Dan]

All right, this man's committed.

[Linus Sebastian]

So the specs are 1050 ti and an i5 8400. So just stuff off the shelf that was small enough, 16 gigs of RAM. The PSU is a 300 watt LED driver. Those things used for outdoor lighting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

We couldn't fit in a psu, so we thought it'd be cool to replicate the original Xbox 360 PSU case with 3D printing. Whoa.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It does come off. I just know how to take it off. And Justin wasn't here today, so I couldn't take it off to show you guys.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whoa. It does work and can play Halo 3. And then in brackets, the best Xbox game in history because this person didn't play Halo 2. But I will say that the cooling is a little sketchy. You can turn it on by pressing the power button. And it has a red ring of death for aesthetic purposes, which is sick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That checks out.

[Linus Sebastian]

We can jump into the video and.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, give me a timestamp.

[Linus Sebastian]

3321.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Okay, so. Wow. This is, like, full on, like, video content.

[Linus Sebastian]

What the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is not behind the scenes. This is like. Dang.

[Linus Sebastian]

What the. What the heck?

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, wait for it. We're just gonna. Hey, there we go. That looks pretty.

[Linus Sebastian]

That front grill. I didn't even see it. That looks awesome, dude.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's awesome. All right, well, congratulations. I.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Didn't know that we wanted to do that, but now that we've done it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I want to watch that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I agree that we want it.

[Linus Sebastian]

The power brick. Like, here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on. I'm going to switch The Linus cam.

[Linus Sebastian]

It took me a second to realize this wasn't official.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, me too. Yeah, it's 3D printed. We got some random.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why is it. Which camera? The dock there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I see a random Amazon.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like random walk.

[Luke Lafreniere]

PSU.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. An LED. LED driver PSU. Yeah, it was like 80 bucks.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then got that to work. This feels like very much a full LTT video.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Which you. You get on flow plane. Heck yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right. Yeah. So check it out. Lmg, gg, slash floatplane.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dan is just shattering it right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, Dan. It's okay, Dan. They can watch the video.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. Dan dismantled it a lot. Sammy. I'm sorry about that.

[Dan]

Sammy said to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think he did.

[Dan]

Yeah, he did. It's literally in the dark.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think I was there for that.

[Dan]

It's in yellow. I know you don't read it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you want to open it, feel free to. I don't know how to. And Justin was working.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're good. We got to do another merch message. No, no, no, no. I think we should let Justin do it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, boy.

[Dan]

It's fine. It just all clicks together really nicely.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan]

That there. That was the other merch message. We can move on now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay, Cool. What do you want? What do you want? Oh, we should probably. Let's get sponsors out of the way and then we've actually got quite a few more topics.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, we do.

[Dan]

Sounds good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

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[Linus Sebastian]

A topic?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, not that one. Anyone but that one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I switched topics.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, space. Dang it. Not that one. Fine. What was the first one gonna be? You don't even know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nope.

[Luke Lafreniere]

See I knew it. I. I knew it. It's not even tech.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. It's kind of tech. A movie is technology.

[Luke Lafreniere]

By that logic, anything is technology. Our next topic will be the wheel.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's technology.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It is technology.

[Linus Sebastian]

If there was an innovation in the wheel, that would.

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah, do it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Unpoppable wheels.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Spaceballs. I have to say we can talk about something else. The teaser trailer. Kind of amazing.

[Linus Sebastian]

I haven't seen it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How. Why are you so excited about this topic if you can't?

[Linus Sebastian]

Because obviously. What do you mean?

[Luke Lafreniere]

But you didn't even see it.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I read about it when I sat down and I was like, I'm very excited. You do not honestly need to tell me anymore. This is exciting. I will see it. Yes. Thank you very much.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

What do you mean?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, it's really funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

Of course it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, I don't know, sort of. Some of. It's not that funny, but that's how these things work. I know.

[Linus Sebastian]

They're not. They're never 100%.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. 98 year old Mel Brooks has announced the sequel you've all been waiting for. The first Release was in 1987 when he was a much younger man and I was a baby. Little baby. No way. Yeah. What? What?

[Linus Sebastian]

Rick Moranis is coming back for this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Rick Moranis is back. Bill Pullman is back. So we're going to have the original Dark Helmet. And Lone Star star. Rick Moranis didn't even come back for Ghostbusters. So, like. Yeah, okay. I don't know how that happened. Discussion. Question is, what is the greatest spoof parody movie ever made and why is it either Spaceballs or Galaxy Quest? Adam's thoughts. It's Airplane. Like, come on. Spaceballs isn't even the best Mel Brooks film seen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Airplane. Maybe I should add that to my list.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, man. Man, this is. This is wild. Outside of that, you have greats like Monty Python's Life of Brian and. And Holy Grail, Spinal Tap, the Cornetto trilogy, Shaun of the Dead.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was close.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And you know what? What? You know what's wild is between the writer of this topic and Adam, they've still managed to not get it right. What do you think they've still managed to not get it right? First, I want to.

[Dan]

Very careful with your words.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Excuse me.

[Dan]

I'm excited to see what you're gonna say.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are you gonna tell me? Okay. No, I want to let Luke go first. Yeah, I'm not gonna look at chat.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm not a movie person.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's Fair. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

A lot of these.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Out of this, honestly, I have seen Spaceballs.

[Dan]

That's sad.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have seen parts of Shaun of the Dead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I have seen so good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Parts of Smile Tap. Oh, I've seen Monty Python.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. That's something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Robin Hood. Men in tights. I've seen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is that what they're referencing when they say Robin Hood?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's not very good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, so I've seen men, tights. I would not rank that as number one, but it was good. I liked it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I liked it as a very small child.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then I tried to watch it again as not a child, and I was like, this is really stupid. So I don't know that mileage may vary. Mileage may vary. Look, my taste in movies is all over the place. As a kid, I loved that. The terrible Kevin Costner. Robin Hood.

[Linus Sebastian]

Princess Bride is not a spoon. Spoon for parody.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, Princess Bride is. Well, okay. It's.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't think so. Maybe I didn't see what it was. Spoofing in parody.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The book is. I don't know. It's written in a really funny, unique way. Like. And I fell for it. Like, it's written as an abridged version of, like, a very boring story that, like, cuts out all the boring stuff and is just the good parts. And so I actually thought it was. I thought I was reading the abridged version of the Princess Bride. I went looking for the actual Princess Bride, and it's not a thing. So the way the author writes the book is, like, really funny. He's like, yeah, something. Something yada, yada lineage, something. Who cares? Let's move on. Like, it's really. It's really funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

S. Morgenstern is not a real author, so William. William Goldman, I think, is the actual author. But the book is called the Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern. Abridged by William Gold. Like, I don't know. It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is that a spoof or a parody, though? I don't think it fits in with.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think it's a spoof for a parody.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I don't think it fits. If it did, I would vote that one. Princess Bride is fantastic. But, yeah, I really haven't seen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, the best spoof parody is absolutely Last Action Hero. And anything else is an incorrect answer. You haven't even seen it.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's why I'm shaking my head.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You haven't seen Last Action Hero. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wan show watches.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is that what we call it when we watch Star Wars Finally. That we said we're gonna do eight years ago and we haven't done yet. Wayne. Show watches.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Disorderly asks. Last Action Hero is a spoof. Yes, except.

[Dan]

Oh, I said I hadn't seen it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Except it's a spoof that literally stars one of the greatest action heroes of all time who was at the top of his game at the time. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's awesome. And the poster for this is amazing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Actually, I take it back. The greatest spoof of all time is Disney's Enchanted. Sorry. Second greatest. Last action. Last action. Here.

[Linus Sebastian]

Look at this poster, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, it's so good.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is awesome. That makes me want to watch it alone.

[Dan]

I'm gonna put it onto my. My list. Yeah, sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, we're gonna watch it together. Luke hasn't seen it. You haven't seen it. Let's have a movie night. Yeah, we're doing it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is it. Is it Wan show watches. Are we. Are we commentating?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I don't think so. I think we got to just enjoy it. Yeah, we can talk about it. We can talk about it after.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, I'm down. Down. I am down. Because on straight up, literally, just the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Poster McBain makes me very excited. You have got to be kidding me right now. McBain in chat says Last Action Hero isn't funny. Okay, there's so much to unpack here. You are not. I. You are not going to have your username be a spoof of Arnold Schwarzenegger and tell me that Arnold Schwarzenegger spoofing his own iconic roles is not funny. I can't with you. I'm sorry, but I can't.

[Dan]

It's the second band tonight get banned.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I can't with you. That is some premium. Premium tier rage bait right there.

[Linus Sebastian]

I bet you. I bet you McBain thinks that you can't melt cheese on cheeseburgers effectively.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's real cheese.

[Dan]

Action heroes. A real documentary anyway. Absolute kino cinema.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Actually. Oh, man. We're ignoring Happy Gilmore.

[Linus Sebastian]

Happy Gilmore was great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Happy Gilmore is great.

[Linus Sebastian]

Happy Gilmore 2 is coming.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Who cares about that? But probably. But Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore one is extremely goaded and is absolutely a parody movie. Yeah, that's tough. That's tough. Shrek.

[Dan]

I don't think that that's a documentary. That doesn't count.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right. I mean, it is. Oh, man. You could make an argument. Shrek's pretty great, but I. I think Shrek is more of its own movie.

[Linus Sebastian]

Than it is I think so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Parody.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I think you could probably make the same kind of argument about like something like Enchanted or Happy Gilmore where they actually do stand on their own as movies. They're not just parodying a thing. Whereas, like, Austin Powers would be an example of a movie that has absolutely no substance whatsoever other than parodying the source material. Yeah, yeah. Austin Powers. Yeah, I agree, McBain. We can agree on this. Austin Powers did not age well. I watched it with my son and I was like, not only do I not think it's funny anymore, but he didn't even think it was funny. And he's 12. Literally the target audience for it.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is rough.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Would. Would the Weird Al movie count as satire or parody?

[Linus Sebastian]

The Weird Owl movie?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I think it's meant to be. Like, I haven't watched it, but I thought it was meant to be at least somewhat biographical.

[Dan]

Oh, absolutely. In no way.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay. Never mind.

[Dan]

It's definitely satire of autobiographical kind of things. Mockumentary.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I haven't seen it. Then. Then that's. That's the problem. Then maybe it's great and I. I just haven't seen it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think Tropic Thunder is a spoof or parody.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, it is.

[Linus Sebastian]

Of what?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Of a genre. So that someone asked too, like, what is. What is Happy Gilmore a spoof for? Parody of. Of sports movies. Like, they're like, what's the source material for Happy Gilmore? It's not just golf. No, but it's. It's. It came along after Caddyshack, so it was like later, but it was of the genre of like sports and golf. Golf movies. Says in the army now with Paulie Short. No, I really don't think so. Now we can move on.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right. All right.

[Dan]

Way to go, dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No. Paulie Shore movie belongs on a greatest anything of every. Of any amount of time. I'm sorry.

[Dan]

Paul Blart Mall cup.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Wikipedia Halts AI Summary Trial After Editor backlash the free encyclopedia terminated a two week test of AI powered simple article summaries. That was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sorry, I'm going to leave you guys for this one. I'm just going to run to the washroom and I'll be right back.

[Linus Sebastian]

They. They terminated early after massive backlash from their community of volunteer editors and contributors. I recently did my first ever actual real Wikipedia contribution and it seems to have been accepted. So go me. The AI summaries were placed at the top of articles above the existing human written article summaries known as the lead in the Wikipedia community. The AI section was tagged as unverified and included a disclaimer that the AI does not follow Wikipedia. Wikipedia's accepted editorial process feedback from the editor community was immediate and overwhelmingly negative, as it should have been, ranging from yuck and catastrophic decision to essays tearing apart the quality of the demo summaries, which I think you need that whole range to really tear something down. So good job. And others arguing that AI summaries do not align with the community's values and that such features will do do immediate and irreversible harm to our reputation, which honestly, I think is true. Many editors have suggested they'll stop time. Oh, I guess I get it. Time donations. Sure. Time and monetary donations if AI features go forward. Discussion Question. How reliable do you consider Wikipedia? Does adding AI summaries make it more or less reliable? I will say back into my day when we were in school, teachers would not allow us to cite Wikipedia as a source. Now the clever people would cite the sources that Wikipedia cited as a source and then just run with that. But some people didn't. Apparently people are saying they're still not allowed to. And that's kind of fair, I guess, because you should probably cite the source that Wikipedia used. But I do generally see Wikipedia as pretty reliable. Adding AI summaries. Yeah, that would make me immediately not treated as reliable, like, instantly. But I would also just scroll past the AI summary.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are we talking about citations from AI? Because that would greatly enhance the Google AI results. If I could just check the citations.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can you not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, they're not there that I'm aware of. How to make chocolate chip cookies. I don't know. Seriously, how's there no AI result?

[Linus Sebastian]

Seriously, there's no.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Where's your AI summary?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The one time I want it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that's weird.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How do I build a PC here?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, because I thought, There we go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got an AI overview.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. How did I not notice that?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So what. How's it gonna. How's it gonna cite every. Like one of these. This is. That's not a.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, this is often how you find out that it's just making junk up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I guess. Okay, I. I was looking down here, so I'm an idiot.

[Linus Sebastian]

Where you expect.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was looking down here and I was expecting, like a comprehensive thing of like, all the links instead of just being here.

[Linus Sebastian]

Somebody in flipping chat binky draws says, I wouldn't trust Wikipedia for contentious topics and public figures. And yeah, I think it's more. I would trust it based on the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Topic I've definitely found sites that are far less accurate than Wikipedia. And like, my point of reference would be information about people that I know, like information about myself or information about, you know, Luke and stuff like that. Like, there's. There's definitely communities and sources of information that I'm just like. Yeah, you just obviously make things up and you have no idea what you're talking about. Whereas Wikipedia, even though there are little details that are wrong, it's generally pretty good. It's generally pretty close. Like here, let's. Let's have a look at my. Let's have a look at my Wikipedia. Yes, I'm Canadian. Yes, I'm a YouTuber. I'm known for channels that cover technology. Pretty good. Pretty good. I disagree with the way that they're measuring this. You can't just. You can't just add subscriber counts. Like that doesn't really mean anything.

[Linus Sebastian]

But they're not technically inaccurate.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, they're not anything. Yes, this is true. Founder, former chief executive on it stepped down and took the role of chief vision officer and. Okay. Boom. That takes you to that. Yep. So far, pretty good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wait, from 2007 you were a presenter for NCIX.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait, no, wait. Yes. No, yeah, yeah, that's wrong. Thank you. Thank you, Luke. So. And I think I went past 2013 as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

You did.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I did. So this date. This date is wrong. Yeah. Okay.

[Dan]

Give it like 30 minutes and somebody will have that updated with this as a citation.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I am the only source, so as a primary source, I think this is kind of. I don't think. Is that how biographies work? That would be an autobiography. Probably, I guess. Don't you have to check with a third party source before you can have a biography?

[Linus Sebastian]

What's the source for that?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I also grew up on a hobby farm. I did not grow up on a real farm. I have always made sure to distinguish between that we raised animals versus that we did it commercially. There were a couple of occasions where we engaged.

[Linus Sebastian]

I didn't actually know that's what that distinction was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

A little bit of a. Of commercial activity. We sold eggs to like local natural health food store at some point, but that was over a very short period of time. So I grew up on a hobby farm. Not the same thing. I've been married to Yvonne Ho since. Nope, that is not our anniversary date. But maybe I. Maybe I spread that misinformation on purpose. I'm actually not sure. Source is Bixby Showcase. Okay. Father of three children. Son, two daughters. That is accurate. So, I mean, we can Keep going if you guys are into it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Your signature, It's.

[Dan]

Was it 2006? You just said NCIX.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This has. From 2007 to 2013.

[Dan]

Refresh the page.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Refresh the page.

[Dan]

I told you what.

[Linus Sebastian]

People have theoretically already fixed it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, yeah, okay, that's fine. But like, let's. Let's not do that. Where. That's not the point of this exercise right now. Was asked to be the host, which is Sebastian shot videos with the camera borrowed from the son of the company's president. That is true, but I am the only source of that piece of information, so, you know, I could be an unreliable person. This is not true. This is. Whoa. This is 100% incorrect. It was actually due to high production costs. High production costs and excellent viewership during the early days of the NCIX Tech Tips Channel. That was the reason I was instructed to create Linus Tech Tips as a cheaper offshoot. The problem. Why would anybody create a sequel of this? Why? What do you like? That's a fundamental, complete misunderstanding not only of what I said, but also of just any reason for anyone doing anything ever. And I don't. I'm not trying to, like, be mean or anything right now. I'm just trying to draw a little bit of attention here to the way that things can be not just misrepresented or. But fundamentally the world misunderstood to such a degree that in your attempt to interpret what someone else is saying, you could completely miss the point in a way that just would obviously make no sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

Could have also just like, derped a sentence and that is the one that ended up getting quoted in there or whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I guess that's possible.

[Linus Sebastian]

A lot of things are said.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I've derped things before.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is a thing that happens to all.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So it was actually because viewership was good and growing and our brand partners wanted more, but the costs and more importantly, the time investment was too high. And so we had to find a way to produce videos faster so that we could have more videos up on our product pages without putting this amount of time into them.

[Linus Sebastian]

And my comment there bolsters your argument of having multiple sources for one piece of information. Yes, because it's less likely you might have, like, someone who misquoted or whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Tiger DirecTV was absolutely a competitor in the early days. Newegg came later after us. If I recall correctly. Linus Tech Tips was created this the other. Yeah. Found Linus Media Group following a dispute regarding company management. Yeah, that's vague enough that I would say that's probably fin. There was a lot more to it than just the non compete. I also signed a long term agreement to help them build their team which included the hiring of Riley actually, who now works here. So there's a bit more to it. But yes, a non compete clause was a critical part of this negotiation. That much I would categorize as incomplete but correct. Stepping down as Chief Executive officer, creative role and continues to be involved with writing and production. Yes, it's true. I'm involved in more than just writing and production. You can't have a vision for a company that does a lot more than just make media without being involved in other things. Controversy emerged via an Investigative video by YouTube creator gamers Nexus. I think you mean hit piece. There were investigative elements of it, but let's, let's not mince words at this point. I've had a chance to show our side of the story at this point, so let's not pretend it's anything other than what it was. Which described issues specific to both Sebastian as an individual and the Linus Media Group as a whole. The report detailed how negatively reviewed a prototype water block that was never a review, never called it a review, and it never was Billet Labs despite installing it on hardware for which it was not designed. So there's a lot of little details that have not been updated here. Sebastian also failed to return the water block to Billet Labs. Sebastian had nothing to do with it. Sebastian found out about it when the hit piece went up. I knew nothing about us being asked to return it because we're an organization that at that time was already close to 100 people. So it's. This is true. Systemic issues relating to. Oh, systemic, yeah, there were systemic issues that, and that's the part that is accurate that I have to. That I gotta own. Right. Like that's the thing. It's just because I'm saying some of these things are wrong doesn't mean that all of them were wrong. The company paused video production while it investigated the claims. That is true. This is also true. Personal Life said his favorite YouTubers were. I mean, yeah, that's, that's, that's something. I'll be honest with you. I threw out Totalbiscuit because he was one of the only names of YouTubers that I knew. I never really watched a ton of YouTube but, but I mean he was my favorite in the sense that I had talked to him and he seemed cool. I don't know if I ever actually watched one of his videos all the way through though. But at the time that Was probably also true of Marquez and Austin because I just didn't have time to watch YouTube. This is true and this is true. Oh, great. These are the three things in my personal life. Multi factor authentication fatigue attack. Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wait, 20, 23. Multi factor authentication fatigue attack. Oh, wait, 23.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, that's not what kind it was. No, no, this was the hack. Yeah, that's not what happened at all. Yeah, Luke caught another one.

[Linus Sebastian]

What's that citation? Where did they. Where did that they reference.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, here, I'll click it. It was our video, so the citation is right. My channel was deleted last night. But the interpretation of it is completely wrong. It was actually a cookie. Cookie hijacking attack.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it was a screensaver file that was supposed to be a. It was disguised as a PDF and then they session hijacked.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So this was an interesting exercise. I hope for people in nothing is true.

[Linus Sebastian]

Everything is permitted. Assassin's Creed has been based the whole time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Let's go. And here's what I'll say though I'll repeat what I said before we started this. Compared to almost any other source that I have found, Wikipedia is worlds more accurate. Quite good in terms of the things that I actually know, like the details of my own life. And one of the really cool things, more accurate world.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wikipedia as a system is as you correct those types of things, when people update it, if it gets changed back to something that's wrong, then there's like a back and forth and they kind of like fight it out. And there's. There's now this. This piece of information. Like in your own argument you're saying like you need two different references for something. This is still information just coming from you about these things. So like it's. It's not technically perfect and yada yada, yada, yada, yada.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes, you're right. Sorry. It was a session token, not a session cookie. I misspoke. Which I can do. What an what an what? A perfect illustration of Luke's point.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. Me me when me when me me when I'm like 15 or something. Yeah, yeah. Desktop background.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I still have that as a duvet.

[Dan]

So edgy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So edgy.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was such a sick game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, Raxis is on fire tonight. Reading Wikipedia is so inaccurate. Watching every single WAN show is far more reliable. Yeah, I don't know.

[Dan]

They don't change between week to week.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What. What are we even talking about? What's our topic right now? I don't remember where we started.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wikipedia. AI summaries.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh yeah. Right. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

We're not even that far off.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. AI, dude. AI. Summaries of. As you can see, not accurate information. I don't. Yeah, but I also. We're going down the translation of a translation translation chain and it almost never leads to good results.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can I just say as well, they said here like there's a. What they call it the lead or something. Yeah, the article summaries written by humans known as the lead on Wikipedia are good. Like I don't think we needed this to be honest. Like usually if I'm scrolling down in a Wikipedia article, it's because I have read the lead, I kind of understand what's going on and I just desire for more information. The summary is already very good. Like people do. Wikipedia is a wild thing that it exists at all and I cherish it. Anyways, moving on. We should do a main topic now. Maybe we have a bunch of those. Android 16 earlier this week Google announced that Android 16 is available and starting to roll out to Pixel owners using a Pixel 6 or newer. Android 16 is laying the foundation for the new Material 3 expressive design language which is expected in September of this year. Material 3 expressive is supposed to bring us a revamped quick settings panel, physics based animations, interesting dynamic color schemes, background blur effects and more. There's an optional 30 second video that we can watch. Are you queuing that? No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hilarious. Because someone was updating this in real time and now it's incorrect for a different reason.

[Linus Sebastian]

Ah, no.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Dan]

See, first party resources can lie, I think.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I was muted. I was pointing out that now it's wrong for a completely new reason. Session token hijacking account attack.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think I said it right, but I don't remember. Anyways, here's our unlisted video. 30 second video. Dude, our designs getting more interesting again. Are we out of the dark ages of design?

[Dan]

Maybe the top menu still seems too giant. Back to Android 10.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's like animations and stuff and it's not clear.

[Dan]

I don't like it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Things aren't like just squares everywhere and boring things look interesting. That's so exciting. Me too. But I'm exciting that this seems to be happening a little bit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I like iOS 26 better. Needs more glass. I was muted. Oh, because I'm eating.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Have dinner on your own time.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Way to. Way to be mean or something. I don't know. I lost.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Speaking of me being mean, I have an idea. Why don't we do movie night tonight? I know you guys aren't Doing anything. Got him.

[Dan]

I am. Actually.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tomorrow night.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's no way you guys have plans on a Friday night. You've got to be kidding me. Both of you. Unfortunately, I don't believe you. And I don't believe you.

[Dan]

I. For a rare time, I do. Actually.

[Linus Sebastian]

I can explain it. I'll have to type it and it's not like, cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right, fine. I'll allow it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I can type it though, if you want.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, maybe next week then.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Cuz there's no way you guys have plans two Fridays in a row. There's no way.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I don't believe.

[Dan]

For mine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right, fine. I'll allow it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I definitely did not wait.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you guys have a heart out tonight? Like, do you need. Do we need to wrap pretty soon or what?

[Dan]

No, by like 1:00am oh, wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What does that even. Well, see, that's what I'm talking about. Then if we wrap by like nine, then we go watch a movie and then you go to your thing.

[Dan]

No, no, no. The thing ends at like 1am oh.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That makes more sense. All right, fine. Next week.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't have a super hard out, but I do have to be home at a certain point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pathetic. Pathetic.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's a good reason.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I get. I get it. I get it. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Next week. What was I gonna say? But yeah, next week I'm super down. Next week might be interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm sure we'll be fine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, that. Oh, it's that. Okay, that makes sense. Oh, hey, I have an update for you. You finished Final Fantasy 6. Congratulations.

[Linus Sebastian]

Thank you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Here's your trophy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, thank you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Actually, I need this.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can you show me how to do this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'll show you later. I. Oh, I got over.

[Dan]

That's why you have the tell.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got over the line.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's big enough for me too. Damn.

[Dan]

Damn. Linus. Bring the swimming trunk.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You can change.

[Linus Sebastian]

You see the pattern?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Don't do it in a hot tub. It's not hygienic.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, sorry. You're sorry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Painting mere days after Luke finished Final Fantasy. Which is kind of wild for a competition that went on, I think, for over a year. I dropped off my parts at the. At the motorcycle shop. And they are gonna make some time for me, I think because they're so tired of looking at the pieces of my bike in their shop. For two years.

[Linus Sebastian]

What?

[Luke Lafreniere]

They've been there for two years?

[Linus Sebastian]

I thought you had them at your house.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I have all the paintable pieces, but I didn't. I don't have like the engine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, that's fantastic.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What would I do with it?

[Linus Sebastian]

I thought, I mean, I didn't think they were going to store it the whole time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I am. Well, I prepaid, so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like it could be worse. It's not like I just like dropped my stuff off and was like.

[Linus Sebastian]

Have they been like raging at you this whole time?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They've actually been very understanding. Once we're done and everything's done, I'll. I'll probably shout them out. Assuming everything like goes according to plan. Realistically, I don't think that he wants more business right now. When I ask asked him about it, he's like, yeah, I'm working like 70 hour weeks right now. I'll get to it. I'm gonna, I'll prioritize it. I'll make it work. I'm like, yo, buddy, thanks. But yeah, he seems pretty busy right now.

[Linus Sebastian]

I guess probably summer reasons and stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Factorio genius asks two years. Why with five question marks? Because I had to restart several times and it was very demoralizing. And there was one point where I was like making like really good progress. And then literally my sister died. And like just. It's been one thing after another. Every time I get momentum on this project, something happens. Like I. I ran out of one of the colors and then I like couldn't go back to the shop because they're only open on weekdays. So that. So I had a weekend like set aside to like do it. And then like, I couldn't because I couldn't. I didn't have any the paint I needed because a thing got messed up and I had to blast it again. Sandblasted and just. It was hard.

[Linus Sebastian]

Horrible. You can track my progress based on my save files in Final Fantasy 6. You can see like, oh, it starts. And then I got to a point in the game that like I wasn't interested in and then kind of forgot to keep playing. And then a bunch of time goes by and then like, you probably remind me during wan show or something. So there's like another little spurt. But I can tell based on the save file that I got to a point in the game that again, just didn't interest me very much. Then I sort of forgot about it again. And then like the competition heated up and it's just like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I should have been more stealthy about that. I was working on it again because I think I could have won this maybe.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. If it wasn't for the, the long trip with those like insane boat rides and stuff. And then if it wasn't for getting sick, if I didn't. If I did the whole trip but didn't get sick, you still probably would have won. Yeah, I was just like stuck at home sick for a week. I was like, well, might as well finish the game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right, what do you want to talk about next?

[Linus Sebastian]

How do we get there?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. Who knows? Who cares?

[Linus Sebastian]

Android 16 is also getting a desktop mode.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, it's Samsung, Dex. Oh, apparently they've worked closely with Samsung later this year.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, Google did state what he just said. This will give you the ability to move and resize multiple apps in Windows, just like a desktop. This will also be available to supported phones when connected to a dock or external display, possibly behind a developer option setting. Meanwhile, Graphene OS posted that they received information that aosp, the Android open source project, could be discontinued. Screenshot of the claim is what looks like a discord. Screenshot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. Yeah. So them basically saying that they received said information. Yeah, we'll see if that's true or not. That would probably be bad. Their source stated that the first step would be Android 16 dropping.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But like, that's not dropping the pixel repositories, which appears to be what happened. No driver binaries available past Android 15. The information has also been taken out of context, though, in numerous places. Here's a direct reply from Graphene OS on Reddit. This information doesn't come from Graphene os. If you read the messages which are taken out of context, it states that we are relaying information someone else provided to us.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, cool. Well, not cool, but yeah, this certainly wouldn't help them in their current antitrust lawsuits. Yeah, that's a good, good point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And if Android did go closed source, it would likely make many projects much more difficult, if not impossible for outside companies, such as this Android phone that claims compatibility with the Apple Watch.

[Linus Sebastian]

What?

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is the Vivo X Fold 5. It's kind of cool. All right. Well, I hope not. Open source is definitely cool when our corporate overlords commit to it and. And contribute to it. And Google has in some ways been not great about it and in other ways been super amazing, awesome, great. And AOSP is one of the super amazing, awesome, great things that Google has done over the years.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you want to talk about the Rog Xbox? Ally X.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes. What a name.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did you watch the video?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes, part of it. There was a.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that's actually a really interesting answer because I'm sure if you were hyped you would have watched the whole thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I want your read on the hype level around this device. Oh wait, you know what, hold on, hold that thought. Let's run through the details for anyone who didn't watch our video earlier this week I went down to Activision HQ to check out the Xbox, sorry, the Rog Xbox Ally X as well as the Rog Xbox ally. There are two models, one with a Z2 extreme which is a Ballin out of control Zen 5, Zen 5C rDNA 3.5 16 CU processor. This thing is incredible. 24 gigs LPDDR 5X memory, huge 80 watt hour battery, 1 terabytes of storage. This thing is looks like it'll be like the king of the handhelds once it comes out in terms of performance. And then also the Ally which has the AMD Z2A processor, which I guess indicates that Asus learned absolutely nothing from their previous strategy of having the one that makes any sense to buy and the one that's almost as expensive but is dog for performance because this one seems to be seems to have about the performance of the Steam deck, but which would be fine if it was $350 or whatever. But it isn't and it probably won't be. Or I shouldn't say it isn't, it probably won't be. And yeah, cool. Good luck with that. Both have a 7 inch 1080p 120Hz IPS display and both favor ergonomics over portability. They're not slim like the Switch 2, but they have like it feels more like having a controller in your hand. A major part of the announcement though, in my opinion the announcement is the changes that the Xbox team has helped make to Windows to make this device tick. They claim to have cut at least 2 gigs of memory usage so far at idle, terminating useless processes and functionalities that aren't needed. They simply will not even render the desktop background if you are in the new Xbox designed interface that it will boot directly to. Very cool stuff, but is going to need a lot more testing once the Xbox team has done a lot more refinement alongside the Windows team to get this software out. And it looks like they're going to launch in tandem with each other. And I think what they're saying is holiday of this year, Microsoft talks a lot about how it's an Xbox. You can stream your Xbox games, you can play game pass games, you can play your PC games. What they haven't really addressed is what this means for the Xbox games that do not come with a PC license. Will this Xbox play an Xbox game unless you stream it from an Xbox? So far I don't think I've seen an indication that it will. So that's a major question mark that people have around it. And of course the other one is the price. So with all of that caught up, your thoughts, sir?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think I was kind of disappointed because Xbox didn't have the cojones to just actually make this an Xbox. They should have just gone Nintendo and made like a sick doc for it and just this is the next Xbox and sure, whatever. We did it in collaboration with Rog.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How would that work though?

[Linus Sebastian]

So that the dock is a disk drive?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I don't mean that. I just mean like the very. The entire game development pipeline is for. For console is just built different and like I don't think Rockstar is going to Pivot and have GTA 6 ready at launch for, for Windows just because Microsoft came out and is like, yeah, it's, it's an Xbox, by the way, it runs Windows. So how does that work then? Because if you came out with a handheld PC that doesn't run Windows games, they would, they would have been crucified. So there's things that make it not an Xbox, like the fact that it isn't an Xbox.

[Linus Sebastian]

It would have been cool if it, if the gaming mode was essentially it being an Xbox. There isn't really hardware differences these days. They're just computers.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, counterpoint, the gaming mode would only be able to be an Xbox gaming mode if they had all the way to a firmware level like drm, lockdowns, locks down, whatever you could like boot.

[Linus Sebastian]

Into it, I guess.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Unless they. Ah, yeah, yeah, but that's. Oh, clunky.

[Linus Sebastian]

That does kind of suck.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is super clunky. And realistically, let me make, let me make the argument for why I think that would be worse because I believe that the Ally Xbox, Rog X. Ally X, whatever, whatever. This device, the device that I was holding is utterly irrelevant from Microsoft's perspective. Yeah, it is. It is simply the launch platform slash, like a showcase vehicle for the changes that Microsoft is making fundamentally to Windows to make it a more efficient gaming platform. And so with that in mind, I think that the Xbox branding is a little curious other than, you know, I can understand why the Xbox team wants some credit for coming in and cleaning up. The Windows team seems mess, but really what launched is Windows getting more efficient.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that part was cool, which is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Super exciting to me. Not because I want to buy an Xbox. Rog. X, Ally, X, Rog, whatever. But because I want every other handhold that exists to be able to access the unfettered game compatibility of Windows on the go.

[Linus Sebastian]

I also think I didn't end up watching the whole thing because I got distracted by some profoundly dumb comments.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, really?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm not gonna single them out because I don't even want to give them the, like, attention, but just like, whoa, genuinely unintelligent. And like, there was people responding to them being like, here are some corrections, which felt a little better.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay. That's funny because I actually read through a lot of the comments and I, like, Shadow banned a bunch of people on that one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, it might be gone.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Because there were a lot.

[Linus Sebastian]

I jumped in early.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. There were a lot that were just like, this is obviously paid and stuff like that. Like, all those people are just perma.

[Dan]

Banned.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, no, it was like, we disclose our paid sponsorships. Yeah. So anything that's just like completely the.

[Linus Sebastian]

Main one I'm thinking of did. Did say something like that near the end of it. So it might even just be gone now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. I also think you get a bit of a different crowd when we're talking about Xbox or when we're talking about Apple or when we're talking about Nintendo. Like, that's something that I've really had a hard time kind of coming to grips with is that depending on what video we make, there's so much variety across our channel that we can be engaging with a small core audience, but outside of that, got a completely different audience from one video to the next that has no interest in the other in the other topic.

[Linus Sebastian]

And console fanboys are like, absolutely still.

[Luke Lafreniere]

A thing and absolutely brain dead.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, it's, it's. I don't. I'm sorry, I just, I don't have another. I don't have a retraction for you, like, if you're upset by the thing I just said, like, being that emotionally invested in like a game machine to play video games. I'm sorry, I just, I just can't. You can, you can love the art, you know, of the games that you play on it or whatever, but to, to, to be like, like angry about that, people choose the other one.

[Linus Sebastian]

I kind of understood back in, like, especially high school when, like, the console person decisions weren't even so much the, the kids options, when it would be like, frustrating when, like, most of your friends would get one and then it's like, well, I guess we just can't play with so and so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But now there's crossplay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So I guess it's not as big of a thing anymore.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So few exclusives that matter, especially for multiplayer.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Now that they just got to optimize that loot box revenue.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. Anyways, they're so dry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They're so awful that I just wanted something.

[Linus Sebastian]

What else we got here? I should start minimizing topics. Some of these are thick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I've been minimizing the ones we're done. Oh, some. Some benchmarks surfaced for the Nvidia N1X.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nvidia's long rumored arm CPU was a no show at Computex this year. Yeah. But has shown up in a Geekbench 6 benchmark. The Geekbench results provided this information. Nvidia N1X. That's probably a codename. Very unlikely to be the actual brand name. Linux 20 core ARM CPU base frequency of 2.81 GHz boost of 4.05 the test was ran on an unreleased HP workstation running Ubuntu with 120 gigabytes of memory. VideoCardz speculates that this is 128 gigs of memory with 8 reserved for the GPU. They created a helpful table of other CPUs to compare the Geekbench 5 results. So here's our single threaded and multi threaded scores with the Nvidia processor looking pretty solidly. Okay, it's up there. It's. She's. She's up there. She's up there. She's no Apple. She's no Apple M4 Max, but she's. Yeah. Not. Not irrelevant. Video cards also noted that this configuration is very similar to Nvidia's GB10 super chip for their AI mini PC. Yes. Discussion. Question is why is Nvidia investing in ARM instead of something open source like RISC V? Because risk. I'm sure that they are investing heavily in RISC V. It's just. It's not ready yet. Like even just getting Windows running on an ARM chip that isn't like the one that, you know, Qualcomm put all the work into for drivers and compatibility and everything is not a given. RISC V is so far away. And like it or not, Windows is a thing that you just kind of have to contend with. So Nvidia going ARM means that mainstream adoption could be possible for this thing is my theory. EVGA motherboards are having trouble with RTX 50 series GPUs. This there's a basically something something SM bus, communication pins and something something. No official fix from evga. But what you can do to fix it is you can cover the two SM bus pins, pin 5 and 6 of the PCIe connector with some Kapton tape. The mod does not impede the performance of the gpu. So I just wanted to get this out there as a psa. And also a reminder that buying a niche motherboard is almost never a good idea, even from a major brand. I just have been burned time and time again choosing anything other than like that one, you know, that one of the like handful of three or four different models per generation per brand that actually sells a ton of units.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because I, I learned that lesson after working here for a bit because growing up, you know, other words were never the most interesting thing ever. So I got kind of the thing that would work, which was often very popular. And then coming here I had access to really nice fancy motherboards and I got all kind of excited and started using them. And it was kind of a pain.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, just going with the mainstream thing works really well when it comes to motherboards because they're going to have far more customers yelling at them about issues and they're far more likely to get found. Like Edge cases are far more likely to be found, far more likely to be fixed. And finally, Glorious new mouse is out of stock. Sorry. Is out. Is released everywhere except their own country. The US peripheral maker's new lightweight entry level gaming mouse, the Glorious model O Eternal, is now released everywhere except the US due to ongoing global supply chain issues. PC gamers Jeremy Laird speculates that the real reason the mouse isn't available is tariff uncertainty and that Texas based Glorious doesn't want to call out the current administration.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, in. In their defense, tariff uncertainty has created global supply chain issues. So they are kind of just saying the thing further down the line.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That was all. I just thought it was funny. Yeah, we've been dealing with it too and it has sucked and it's not funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

Everyone has.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But commiserating is funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, sure. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right, it's time for After Dark. Let's do it. Yeah. Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

So fast, so swift.

[Dan]

Sometimes I see it coming. No. Okay, merch messages. Hey Elinus, how are the LTT cables coming along? I recently had to purchase a lot of cables for my level 1 Tex KVM switch and was annoyed that many cables are low quality and I don't have proper labeling.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They are coming along very well. I believe our first order is in production. I want to say in our second order we are working on. Even though we haven't actually gotten Our first order yet because I'm pretty bullish on this product. But transit times are tough and go to market is complicated by the tariff situation. The company we're engaging with to get them made is and like, like work on the quality and design side of it is not Chinese based, but the production is in China. So yeah, tbd, I guess.

[Linus Sebastian]

Automatic tbd.

[Dan]

Linus, will you be watching the new Train your Dragon movie in theaters or will you prefer to stay home?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I usually do not not like read reviews of a movie that I like know I'm gonna see and how to Train youn Dragon. Given that the first one is quite literally in my like top three of beloved movies. I wouldn't even say favorite, you know, but like beloved, very beloved. For me it seems like a no brainer that I would go, but I kind of wanted to know how badly they massacred my boy before I go. Apparently they brought back the original composer, which matters a lot to me because John Powell is goaded. They brought back Gerard Butler as stoic, which is pretty cool. So literally the voice actor from the animated movies is. He's back. So far what I've read seems to be that it is a fairly faithful adaptation, but is not. Doesn't have a lot of soul.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is it a live action?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's a live action remake of a movie from only 15 years ago.

[Linus Sebastian]

I personally believe that about all live action remakes, honestly. Automatically.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Honestly. What I would have been more likely to go see is a remaster. That's interesting is that really because the first one was. It wasn't quite cgi. Hadn't gotten or not CGI rather. Computer animation in this case I guess hadn't really gotten like good yet. The lighting, lighting sucks and the textures are noticeably low quality and stuff. Whereas by the second and especially the third, like they're beautiful films. Whereas the first one is pretty ugly by modern standards. I, I would have been way more likely to just go see a, a reanimation of the first one. But the problem with that strategy, you know, money making wise for Dreamworks, is that then there'd have been no reason to remake to like to remaster two and three because they're already like good enough. I mean the standards I guess will change or whatever, but I, I don't know. Like you go back and watch Toy Story 1 and it's like yikes. Then you watch Toy Story 2 and it's like, yeah, that could be better. But you know, it's like fine, I guess. You know, there was, there was a There was a threshold that was crossed. Like, I can watch Monsters, Inc. And I'm like, that's okay. Wait, no, no. Not Monsters, Inc. Like, Monsters. You. Monsters. You still looks great. That was, I believe, the first animated film that had, like, a really solid solution for global illumination. Is that right, Dan? Seems like the kind of thing you wouldn't know.

[Dan]

Sorry, I was reading something else.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Monster. Monsters.

[Linus Sebastian]

You.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Was that the first global illumination animated film? I forget.

[Dan]

Don't know. Don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right, never mind. See you later. But yeah. Yeah, I would have. I would watched how to Train youn Dragon with rts.

[Linus Sebastian]

Despicable Me.

[Dan]

Isn't Monsters you Dreamworks?

[Linus Sebastian]

Nope. No, Never mind. Animated feature film to use global illumination was Shrek 2.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Shrek 2? Really? Oh, shows you what. It shows you what I mean.

[Linus Sebastian]

Today. I summary. So who knows?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Top Gear says, yikes. What do you mean? Toy Story 1 looks amazing in 4K. The detail is wild. You're. No, you know what? No, no, no.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Pixar's first was Monsters University.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If I go. Excuse me. Sorry. If I go see it in the theater, it'll be because my daughters want to go. They love dragons. I think I would probably. I'd probably. Man, you can wait a long time for a 4K Blu Ray these days.

[Linus Sebastian]

Who sells Blu Rays?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'd probably wait.

[Linus Sebastian]

Willow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice.

[Dan]

Seem pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Been around forever.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I think I bought my favorite game from there when I was a child.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

By the way, Snack man, how hungry are you?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Me?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. We get dinner after that.

[Dan]

Hungry.

[Linus Sebastian]

We can go get food after the show. Nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But you can't watch a movie. What is wrong with you?

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe not the whole duration of movies. Like. Like for twice as long as getting food.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, it depends.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm realizing I have some time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Takes you a pretty long time to eat.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's. That's fair.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is the world's slowest eater. I don't know how he stays as big as he is.

[Dan]

It's always. He has to be always eating.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The runtime of last Action here is 2 hours and 10 minutes. We could totally just go watch it.

[Linus Sebastian]

That might be too long.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I never heard you say those words before. I really haven't.

[Linus Sebastian]

I can. I can check after the show.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He might have said them, just not to me.

[Dan]

Hi, lld. What's it like living in Canada? What do you like about it? And what do you dislike or with change?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Generally feel pretty safe as long as you don't go to certain places or.

[Dan]

Outside or city or.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We're in a really temperate part of Canada, so we don't really have to deal with the like harsh, super cold Canadian winter. But we also don't get sunlight for like six months out of the year. So that's. That's a whole thing. This time of year is beautiful though.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's like actually perfect. And I use that word very sparingly. But the, the spring and fall in Vancouver is like legitimately perfect when it's not raining.

[Linus Sebastian]

Our housing situation is despicable. We had an incredibly long time to fix it. Did nothing about it at all.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that's. That's number two on my list of things that I'm upset with Professor Justin Trudeau over.

[Linus Sebastian]

Professor.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. He taught.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. I like it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That and not fixing our stupid first past the post voting system like he said he would. Like he said he would that he got elected on Butthead.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, Canada was like actually gonna do it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I was excited.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then he was like, forget it. Yeah, forget it. Remember that thing I promised? Well, I don't.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Loser. Anyway, yeah. Our housing situation is, is. Is horrible and contributes heavily to a cost of living that is already higher than other like g. Whatever. However many there are nations, there are issues with it in general. I've been very pleased to have socialized health care in my life.

[Linus Sebastian]

There are issues with it, though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There are issues with it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Personally know someone who had their cancer progressive stage because it took them so long to get treatment. Treatment. They're okay, which is nice. But there are examples where the people have not been okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

But I also don't know anyone in Canada who sought out healthcare in Canada that went bankrupt because of it. So.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know anyone who's like, you know, arm is, you know, at a mangled angle because they just like go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Get it set properly.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Didn't have health insurance and couldn't get it set. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all right. Our money's plastic.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Smells like maple syrup.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It does to me too. I. They say they didn't do it on purpose, but I swear to God, it has to be on purpose.

[Linus Sebastian]

Somebody.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you smell it?

[Linus Sebastian]

Snuck it in the mix. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Yeah, I totally smells like maple syrup.

[Dan]

Hey, Longus, do you have any thoughts on Samsung's latest One UI update forcing an iOS experience on users? I absolutely hate it and I'm looking at switching phones over it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Haven't daily driven it so dry.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just stop snacking.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, I'm Hungry?

[Dan]

Do you want a brownie?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I want a snack that's not as dry as dog food. They're pretty goofy. I haven't daily driven it and what I was told in my edge, in the comments under the edge, unboxing over on short circuit, is that the, the, the drag down from the top. You can actually change that in the settings. You can make it so it just works the old way and you don't have to drag from the corner. But I'll probably end up dailying it pretty soon just because I kind of want to give a fold another shot now that I'm not that satisfied with the Pixel 9a. I don't know, I feel like I'm just never going to settle on a phone again. Now I just want. Okay, Samsung. If you work at Samsung, you know anyone who works at Samsung, like, whatever, help me get this message to them because they don't listen to me myself. Okay, send them this timestamp. I'm gonna leave a little bit of a gap here so you can have like a. You see, you can grab the timestamp pretty easily. Samsung, the Galaxy Note 9 was the finest device that you ever made. It had no hole in the screen. It had all of the key features that enthusiasts miss these days like expandable storage, dual sim. That's an either or. But still a headphone jack. Both hands free and fast. Not under screen fingerprint unlocking. It managed to be slim and yet still have decent battery life. Make the Samsung Galaxy Note 92 boom sales. You'll be amazed. I don't even mind if you compromise on a couple of those little things. Like if it's not so slim, make it a little, you know, a little thicker. Do away with the, you know, the curved glass at the edge. Not everyone was a fan of that. I liked it. It felt good in the hand, you know, whatever. But not everyone was into it.

[Linus Sebastian]

It.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fine, fine. I can, I can deal with that. I believe you can do this. Oh, it had no camera bump. That was huge. Let's not have a camera bump. Okay. There you go. You're welcome.

[Dan]

Next one's for you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What?

[Dan]

Next merch message.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, you're supposed to read it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Chandler. T spent $69 and sent in Borat voice. My wife. Terrible.

[Dan]

Hi, Linus, Luke and Ledan. One of my favorite little known gaming facts is that the song Baba Yi 2 from Civ 4 is actually the prayer Our Father in Swahili.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

You guys know any known gaming facts? Any little known gaming facts rather.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got a good One. I'm going first.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Let me. Let me find this. Oh boy, here we go. Okay, I've actually talked about this on wan show before, but. Oh no, this is a download Zip. For crying out loud. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Now that song stuck in my head. I love Baba yet too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, never mind your first, Luke.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, I don't know if I even have any little known gaming facts. Ah.

[Dan]

Ubisoft is a terrible company.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's a little known gaming fact. Yeah. Nice. The logo for Assassin's Creed is the bottom of an eagle skull.

[Dan]

I didn't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is that a little known gaming fact? Let me make sure this is true.

[Dan]

Thank you. AI summary, Luke.

[Linus Sebastian]

At least my AI. My mental AI summary tries to verify itself.

[Dan]

At least when people lie, they mean it. That's another.

[Linus Sebastian]

Could be a desktop background. Yeah, no, I didn't make it up. I didn't make it up.

[Dan]

Oh, look at that. Yeah, that's cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because the original games, the like eagle was a big thing and then all this like a looking thing that isn't actually for Assassin's Creed. It's the eagle skull there. That's my. That's my fun fact. We'll go with that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dang it. I am. I'm working on this. I don't have audio from my computer.

[Dan]

Should I. Yeah, it's playing right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It is playing. Wait, on the stream. I can't hear it.

[Dan]

No, but there is audio playing. Do you want to hear it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes, I need to hear it.

[Dan]

Do you want to hear it? Do you want to go to stream.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What I. I want? Yes.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What I want? Yes. Oh, no. What am I hearing now?

[Dan]

You're hearing yourself. You said that you wanted to hear what you were playing on your computer.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, that's fair.

[Dan]

And it's no longer playing now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, okay, I'm. I'm working on. Okay, you know what? The sat. The fight sound effect in civilization 2 for the pre Gunpowder fights uses the same sound effects library as the fight scene between Sir Arthur or King Arthur and the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that's pretty sick. I like that. That's a great.

[Dan]

That's a great fact.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's a high quality fact.

[Dan]

This is why you should hire audio people to do custom stuff for your games.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm trying to find a fight. Is there no. Is there no fight audio in this?

[Linus Sebastian]

This is a great fact.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait, did you.

[Dan]

Do you want to hear it again?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to hear. Why is this so fast? Is this set to like a Higher playback speed or what? What is happening? They're fast forwarding the game.

[Dan]

Why can't we hear it? Oh, it's this one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Amazing music.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I need to hear a fight. I give up. Why don't you do one? In the meantime, while I search for this sound effect, I do have some.

[Dan]

Here for Luke, actually. Question for Luke. You mentioned that you played Titanfall 2 a few times. Have you heard about R1 Delta? It's a new community launcher. Slash. Servers for Titanfall 1. Like North Star for Team Fortress 2. Titanfall 2. There's so many TF2s. Big W for game preservation.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I haven't heard of that until now. Thank you for telling me. That's super cool. Agreed. Big W for game preservation. That's. That's awesome.

[Dan]

R1 Delta. That's kind of cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool name. Yeah. And I also liked North Star especially because it's a, you know, internal game reference and stuff. But yeah, that's awesome.

[Dan]

Transport fever too. Thank you. World travel. Yeah. Let's see. Hey, lld. No, wait. I think I've got another one for Luke. How's the birds?

[Linus Sebastian]

I feel like the timing of when people ask this is always horrible. They were. They were doing fine forever and now two of them are back at the vet. Of course, the one that we rescued from the wild is always in perfect health because that's how that works. But Wally, the green and yellow one that has had. Has been having for a long time now, liver issues. He was on one medicine a day. He was on two. Two medicine a day for a while. Then it went down to one medicine a day. Then it went up to seven. We're currently on seven. And he was. He was puking.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dad, I need to hear my audio.

[Dan]

Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, it'll go to stream.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think it was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hey, we got it. Thank you. Mind sill from Floatplane Chat that. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Okay, not this one. Okay, ready? Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

So what is that from?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, hold on.

[Linus Sebastian]

But anyways. Yeah, Wally's. Wally's back at the. At the vet. The vet actually said that he looks like he's in really good health and they think it was just like a one time thing. Maybe he ate something weird. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on. Okay, you don't have to play this part for them, but I'll find the right spot.

[Dan]

Okay, mute it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, go ahead. You're good. Well, no, I need to hear it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dan, I don't think he can do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What? Really?

[Dan]

It's done through a loop back okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm just gonna find it live, then.

[Dan]

Hold on. No, I can do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It will do it live.

[Dan]

No, I can do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That.

[Dan]

I can do that. I forgot that I could do that. There. Yeah, that works.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You can do your thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Huh? What?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, no, I. I'm gonna. I gotta find the right spot. But you can do a thing?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, but it's coming. Are they not here?

[Dan]

Oh, only you guys can hear that glitter.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Okay, I got you. So I'm going to tell you about.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Three submixes with loud.

[Linus Sebastian]

Fight me here, Luke.

[Dan]

I might be able to fix that.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's fine.

[Dan]

I got two headphone mixes. So many mixes.

[Linus Sebastian]

But, yeah, the vet. The vet said that he's doing well, but has decided to keep him for like 48 hours just to make sure that's actually true. He had not lost weight, which is often a sign of things going poorly. And he's looking good, has good energy, all that kind of stuff. The night that he was puking, it did not look good at all. I kind of thought it was the end, to be completely honest. But he held through and then was fine the next day. So things seem to be okay. That does not mean we're getting away from the seven things of medicine a day. So that's rough. But, yeah, it is what it is. Budgies, you know, they don't live forever, so see how it goes. But he's. He's hanging in there right now. That seems like a lot. It is a lot. There's. It also has to be spaced out. So there's one that has to be given every 12 hours, and no other thing of medicine can be given within an hour of it. So he has to receive this thing of medicine and then wait hour, and then he receives. I think it's three right then. Pretty sure. And then you have to wait 11 hours and then give him the one. And then wait one hour and then give two, and then constant scoop. I hate to ask, but a scoop. Don't. Okay. Scoop is doing fine. Scooby's doing all good. And Nixie. Nixie is the name that we've given to the foundling bird, the rescued bird. And Nixie is also doing totally fine.

[Dan]

What? Headphone.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are you okay? Here we go. Okay.

[Dan]

Ready?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on. Here we go. Ready?

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. So that's just part of it.

[Dan]

Watch your content. Id.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on. Okay. So you can. No, dang it. Dang it. So they've used that same with some horses bit. Yeah. And it's. It's just cut off there. So they're. They're using the same sound effects library. Almost certainly. There's a couple of other spots in the Civ 2 battle noises and in the battle noises for this fight that use the same bits of tracks. So they've obviously mixed them in their own way. But it's. It's definitely the same library, which I thought was.

[Dan]

I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It stood out to me as someone who had played hours and hours and hours of Civ 2 when I watched this film, and I was like.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, hold on a minute.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait a second. World travel says that was definitely worth the wait.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, I had to tell the whole bird story with that sound in my headphones the entire.

[Dan]

I was working on it. I was about to. I was about to cut it out. No, I got a. I got a sub next with it. With it as a minus.

[Linus Sebastian]

L is still watching it.

[Dan]

Okay, I'm just going to mute that for everybody.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I was still listening. Fine. I'm over it.

[Linus Sebastian]

You can turn it back on.

[Dan]

I can turn it back.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I'm good.

[Dan]

I gotta remove him from our headphones too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't even want it. Fine, I'll turn you off.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, that's unfortunate.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're making me sad.

[Dan]

Don't do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Come on. We're just getting into it.

[Dan]

Hey, lld, how does this swimsuit compare to the previous swimsuit? Looking at the photos, it appears to have a finer mesh, is a bit heavier in material, and you use zipper pockets.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, in here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Those are definitely some things. It also has less stretchy draw cords because the previous one was super stretchy. You had to, like. You had to, like, stretch in. Ate it in order to tie it in such a way that it felt really secure. I believe the waistband is a little bit thicker. There was a. There was an area where sand could accumulate in the liner somewhere that wasn't, like, in a pocket on the old one. So we. We patched that. And yes, the zipper pockets are huge. That was. Or the zipper pocket. So it has a zipper pocket on the back. That was. And also a zipper pocket. Yep. Hidden zipper pocket inside the regular pocket bag.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's a very sizable secret pocket.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's a. It's look. I know it's a. It's a $70 swimsuit or whatever, but we don't. We're not charging money for nothing. We tried to make a really nice swimsuit.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whoa.

[Luke Lafreniere]

With the fact in mind that a lot of the time when you wear a swimsuit, it's not just for swimming. Like, that's what you're wearing that day.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, I can fit my phone and my wallet in that secret zipper pocket. Yeah, that's crazy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that. That was. That was the idea.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm both in there. I'm gonna take those out of there before I completely forget where they are.

[Dan]

And last one I've got for you today. You said that Short Circuit videos were unboxing plus, not review minus. What exactly does that mean? Given that so many viewers view them as reviews? Would you mind clearing this up?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Basically what it means is that rather than intending to be comprehensive, we are intending for them to be first impressions of the host, but with the benefit of testing that's been done to clarify any points that the manufacturer may have been deceptive about. So with an unboxing that's not plus, you're basically just relying on whatever the manufacturer said and whatever you can observe in that moment with a review, I expect the host or a proxy to have extensively used the product and evaluated it in between. That is unboxing plus, where it's based on your initial impressions and you do rely on materials from the manufacturer. But in cases where you are able to, you have information that has been independently validated. That's all I have to say about that.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, it ties into. You use this reference and it. It helped. It click for me because I was kind of trying to figure out what short circuit was. But you were talking about how back in the. Back in the day when we would do more unboxings on the LTT channel, you. If a product wasn't brand new, you would often use other review sites and show the other review sites in the video. I don't know if saying often is fair, but this is a thing that would happen where we would reference review site and their performance graphs. It was an unboxing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, but we'd be like. Yeah, and according to this, you know, review on Tweaktown, it really does. It really does match up with what the manufacturer says about how fast it is.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So now we're just doing that, but with our own data.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, but it's not everything. We don't have the capacity or capability to test every element of every product we unbox.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So they're unboxings plus.

[Dan]

And then I lied. There is one more. Hello, Linus, Luke and Dan. I just wanted to shout out my husband who is working his butt off for the company we are starting together.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice.

[Dan]

Do you have any advice? Advice for a husband, wife, entrepreneur, teams?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Listen. Yeah, that's it. That's the advice. Listen. Be ready to be ready to try a bad idea. Prepare yourself for it now. Because even if your spouse or, you know, your business partner, not even necessarily just for husband wives or husband, husband, husband, wife, wife, whatever, you know, your your business partner, even if they're the smartest person in the world, occasionally they're going to have a bad idea. And there's no room for inflexibility in a relationship like that. You both have to be ready to try each other's bad ideas and you both have to have the humility to back down when it didn't work. Sorry, what? Which of my bad ideas are you remembering?

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Raxis in floatplane chat said prepare for a bad idea with a brand new sexy towel from lttstore.com which was just.

[Dan]

I'm messaging Artie that it was great. Good advertising. Thank you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, a hexi towel. Oh, I get it. Wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye. Sa.