Apple's Exclusive Game - FROGGER - WAN Show Sept 13, 2019

A Journey Through Star Wars: From Disappointment to Rekindled Passion

As I reflect on my journey through the Star Wars universe, I must admit that it's been a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Growing up, I was initially excited about the prospect of exploring the expanded universe, but as I delved deeper into its vast expanse, I found myself underwhelmed and disappointed. The new movies, in particular, seemed to lack the imagination and creativity that I had hoped for. Instead, they felt like a rehashing of old ideas, lacking the spark that made the original trilogy so iconic.

I tried to get into the expanded universe, but it wasn't until I watched the first of the new movies that I realized my potential interest in Star Wars was still alive and well. While some parts of the movie were enjoyable, others were downright painful. However, this experience sparked a renewed passion for the franchise, and I began to dive headfirst into the expanded universe. I devoured books, watched animated series, and even played games – all with one goal in mind: to become more immersed in the world of Star Wars.

One of the most significant challenges I faced was getting started. The expanded universe is vast and sprawling, making it daunting to know where to begin. I had never read any of the books, nor had I played any of the games – KOTOR being a notable exception. However, with each new discovery, my excitement grew. I began to appreciate the complexity and depth of the Star Wars universe, and my enthusiasm for exploring its many corners was rekindled.

My newfound love for Star Wars also led me to explore other aspects of fandom culture. I discovered the world of fan art, cosplay, and conventions – all of which have become integral parts of my online persona. The Star Wars community is vast and vibrant, with countless fans sharing their passion and creativity with one another.

As a content creator, I've always sought to engage with my audience in meaningful ways. Recently, I've been inspired by the idea of creating home lab-style videos featuring old enterprise gear purchased on eBay. While this project may not be for everyone, I'm excited to explore its potential and potentially secure sponsorships along the way.

In conclusion, my journey through Star Wars has been one of rediscovery and rekindled passion. From disappointment to renewed enthusiasm, I've come to appreciate the complexities and nuances of the franchise. Whether it's exploring the expanded universe, engaging with the fan community, or creating content around niche topics like home lab setups, I'm excited to see where this journey takes me.

A Conversation with the Community

As I continued to explore the Star Wars universe, I began to engage with fellow fans through online forums and social media channels. The response was overwhelming – with thousands of messages, comments, and suggestions pouring in from all corners of the globe.

One such message caught my eye – a kind stranger who wished to remain anonymous offered to help me with a computer repair project. With their guidance, I was able to troubleshoot and resolve several technical issues, including screen burn-in on my gaming console. Their generosity and willingness to share their knowledge warmed my heart, reminding me that the Star Wars community is more than just a fandom – it's a family.

Another message caught my attention from someone named Sebastian, who shared a personal anecdote about his own experience with Quidditch. As a fan of Harry Potter, I was intrigued by this unexpected connection and decided to reach out for more information.

The response was overwhelming – with fans from all over the world sharing their love for Quidditch and the Harry Potter series. Some even offered to play matches or host tournaments, sparking an exciting debate about the feasibility of such events. As a content creator, I couldn't resist exploring this idea further, and our conversation has led to some fascinating discussions.

The Power of Community

One of the most striking aspects of my journey through Star Wars is the power of community that exists within the fandom. Whether it's online forums, social media groups, or in-person meetups, fans from all walks of life come together to share their passion and creativity.

Claytoyo, a self-proclaimed "nerd," shared a heartwarming story about how his friends had helped him build a gaming computer using knowledge he'd gathered from the LTT and Tech Wiki. This anecdote reminded me that even in the digital age, human connections remain vital to our well-being and happiness.

Meanwhile, Robert revealed that he'd picked up a new mic that could capture every sound – from beeps to alarms – with uncanny accuracy. His enthusiasm for this device was infectious, and I couldn't help but wonder what other hidden gems lay waiting in the vast expanse of geek culture.

From Dusty's Scrapyard to Tommy Gun's Water Cooling, our community has become a microcosm of geek culture itself – a place where creativity and imagination know no bounds. As we continue to explore the Star Wars universe, I'm excited to see what other wonders and surprises await us around every corner.

A Final Message

As I close this chapter in my journey through Star Wars, I want to express my deepest gratitude to each and every one of you – our community, our fellow fans, and our incredible content creators. Your enthusiasm, creativity, and generosity have inspired me to new heights, reminding me that the power of fandom lies not just in its popularity but in its ability to bring people together.

May the Force be with us all, as we continue to explore the vast expanse of geek culture – one adventure at a time.

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arcade service a little bit more and what this means for gaming in general mobile gaming in particular uh what else we got today um there's the the new switch fit game which is important for reasons that we'll get more into later yeah uh and spacex is deploying satellite broadband across the us next year which might mean in the next five years or never or yeah or that uh also i ditched my oled tv at home oh what could have inspired me to do such a thing you'll find out oh my after you sit through this ancient intro it's broken it's good i still own that sweater technically i still own that shirt nice we're extremely fashionable people yeah which is why you should buy merch at lttstore.com yes that stuff is actually everything that i own that's fashionable just gonna say i think fashionable's a strong word this looks fashionable clean yeah that's better than most of my stuff no i meant literally clean oh this is also yeah you just put on what's clean though that's my that's kind of where i was going with it don't worry about it yes i mean that is how my fashion service works aren't you basically down to stuff that fits at all at this point because of the washer dryers yeah yeah why don't you invite you why don't we want to okay you know what we can do one off topic thing then we'll talk about the apple thing i promise my dad is a plumbing instructor and he doesn't understand so just i want to put that out there first because it's really weird your dad also is responsible for uh whole room water cooling the plumbing that's fair that was my spec though yeah he did tell me it was stupid so did he oh yeah okay it's your dad you think he didn't tell me he was stupid he was very clear luke's dad's a badass basically yeah yeah um but i i brought him over to try to figure this out because like my my sink in my bathroom at home if i turn on one tap one day it might be cold the next day it might be warm if i turn on the other one it's the opposite of what but like they rotate randomly and that happens to every tap in the house so luke lives in a condo just yeah yeah not a house yeah um if i have a shower if it's at like three to seven in the morning it is always maximum heat no matter what i do but i have found out that i can trick it a little bit by turning on random taps in the house and then sometimes it will flip to maximum cold only there's no other options later parts a day it's okay but yeah you can put on maximum cold and it's like nope i'm fully hot anyways this becomes a problem when you know all the water sources are affected and you get to the washer dryer because you put it on the dryer is fine yeah the dryer is no problem but you put the washing machine on cold and your clothes come out steaming it's like well that wasn't intended um so you wash some stuff that's the right size and it's no longer the right size or you wash some stuff that's red and and now other things are also kind of red which i've never had to deal with are you sure you're not just an idiot yeah okay the only reason why i'm going to defend this look it just raised some questions i don't know which chapter are you forgetting from day to day i my roommate and my girlfriend have experienced the same thing most of my friends that i've brought over being like look have experienced the same thing okay are you sure you're my roommate all your friends are not my girlfriend's not native because i haven't been there myself and my roommate are maybe maybe sometimes um but also my dad has seen it i've just blown his brain i'm just teasing he he had a theory that the pipes are too close to each other so the hot pipe might heat transfer but that doesn't make sense because you shouldn't end up you shouldn't even be able to be swappable yeah you should be able to have two warm taps that was his initial theory and by the time he left the house he was like i don't know i'm done i'm out something weird's going on um yeah that was that was very odd so a significant amount of my clothes don't don't fit anymore but so let's talk about the apple event did you watch the keynote i watched some of it i was busy that's more than i watched it was during a work shift i have legitimately gotten to the point where my ceonus is so inescapable that i actually assigned underlings more than one underling to watch the apple event for me and then provide me with a note that's awesome that is super legit it's like an hour and a half i i don't have an hour and a half because the thing too is if you're going to watch it you can't really just have it half on or you're going to miss the demos and stuff like if i'm watching an apple event and i do sometimes you can do it half on i i find it tough because okay well hold on a second because i'm not talking about efficiency from like a personal standpoint i'm talking about efficiency from a company-wide standpoint if i'm watching it then i'm gonna watch it everyone else be doing your friggin work because i'm watching the apple event i'll let you know if anything interesting happens if i'm not watching it then someone else needs to be watching it and making notes and filling me in if i am half watching it then i'm gonna miss stuff and so i can't fill in anyone and they can't fill in me because i'm clearly not like making detailed notes as i go so i might as well be filming a completely different video which is exactly what i was doing and someone else can just tell me about it i had a call like midway through it so i couldn't really watch it properly at all and then when it wasn't the call i had it on like a side monitor but i was super focused on other things so like i got some vague stuff i was roughly trying to pay attention to the ipad things because my mom needs an ipad for work so i was like is there an ipad coming yes is it reasonably positive sort of okay actually yes seems great yeah new ipad actually looks great yeah well she it's even more great because she was going to buy one and i was like wait don't because they're probably going to release one and they're probably going to price replace it she's like okay waited like three days and then the announcement came whoa it was awesome so yeah there's a new entry level ipad it has thinner bezels it's 330 bucks the iphone 11 is basically a 10r but like more more better um so they changed the naming scheme which is annoying but they probably improved the naming scheme i think they really did there's a lot of people making fun of them for pro max even we did it sounds like it sounds like a protein supplement or something yes like it sounds like something you can buy in like a bottle that's like this big like it might have a handle that has like six servings in it because you're supposed to eat like so much of it um uh david was showing me this like gigantic bottle of like protein cheesy poofs that he has and i'm like so i ate one i'm like yeah i got some protein or something he's like yeah it's probably not that much and i'm it was literally hey david yeah how much was in each cheesy poof like one gram or something less than a gram so you'd have to eat like handfuls of this stuff in order to actually take in like an appreciable amount of protein um like it sounds like something like that but yeah honestly iphone 11 as the basic now which i guess i don't know if they did that on purpose or by accident i'm not sure but i like it to be honest because the iphone 8 was like the basic one when the iphone 10 launched it was like okay we'll just buy the last gen one then yeah um the max branding has existed for a long time so okay um and and then we've got pro pro made sense like a thousand years ago they probably just should have called the iphone 10 the iphone 8 pro yeah like then we could have just skipped all this crap actually that would have worked perfectly we could have had an iphone 10 pro an iphone 9 pro and an iphone now 11 pro i completely agree but i'm going to jump slightly on the other slightly on the other side it's not actually the other side i'm going to adjust my position on this side i don't know how to call it whoa okay there's mission adjustments yeah um we always hammer on people for terrible naming schemes we do and i feel extremely justified every time yeah because they are terrible they're terrible and they should feel bad intel are you watching yes you should feel bad yes nvidia are you watching yeah you should feel super super bad yeah yeah this time i agree they could have done it better all this other kind of stuff but they did it and i prefer it this way yes so i want to make sure rip the band-aid off yeah do it right yeah and to apple's credit i think the iphone is one of the few things in their lineup that has a naming scheme that i can get behind because the problem that i have with their other stuff where on the surface it makes sense you've got the macbook you've got the macbook pro this one is for people who want to browse facebook and this one is for people who want to browse facebook but look like a baller while they do it so you've got you've got this clear segmentation but the issue is that with the macbook they refuse to differentiate the models year by year so with the iphone they have finally got it down the suffixes make sense the generation of the product is clear yep and i applaud that's not even a slow clap sorry sorry yeah that was probably horrible i'm sorry i applaud i applaud there you go very nice yeah i look like the monkey oh geez so yeah good job um the notch is still here that i applaud less yeah yeah um finally thicker phones with bigger batteries that i have again yeah really weird applause i know right apple's like doing things right no usbc that gets less applause um the watch series 5 hasn't always on display i feel like i covered that in my like coverage of this i want to talk about the apple arcade subscription so there is no shortage of companies that are trying to get into gaming as a service you've got microsoft you've got ubisoft you've got ea you've got every um sort of free-to-play uh battle royale developer so uh you've got you've got epic everyone wants you to subscribe to a season of a game or to subscribe to a package of games that you have access to you've got nvidia with their uh what do they call it uh uh i don't remember game stream is it no i thought game stream was just like um game now geforce now geforce now do they still call it that though yeah geforce now i think whatever it doesn't matter who cares so you've got nvidia's thing um where they're where they're so where all the games and there's all these different ways to tackle it right so you've got individual games where they want you to buy like a season's worth of uh cosmetics or uh or upgrades or dlc or whatever the case may be yeah like borderlands after they said they wouldn't yeah you've got game publishers uh like your ubisofts and your eas of the world that want you to just buy a subscription to their game launcher yes that gives you all the the hottest titles or some of the hottest titles or some pretty hot titles and then well you could buy that other stuff too uh so that you feel like you've got a compelling package of games to play and it's constantly being refreshed this way you are paying for access to the software but you don't necessarily own the software game developers want to get away from that paradigm a dedicated servers patches that you can just like download and install on your own haha disks that have like the software loaded on it so that maybe you could still play it in 10 or 20 years what an idiot you're an idiot um then you've got microsoft where they've got sort of a combination of both they want you to pay for like online access in general so you can like multiplayer game and then you've got also you want they want you to pay for like more much more premium version so that you can have all these games that you can access um then you've got the the services like geforce now where you're paying for just access to games and also access to not have to pay for your own hardware so that's something that google is also targeting with stadia um so yeah so it's like a subscription to hardware that lives in a data center and it streams to you apple's approach is completely different so what they're doing is they're taking some of what's good about other approaches like um this this netflix model where you've got a constant stream of revenue that supports further gaming development so it could be uh refresh titles or added content to the games that are already in the library so you've got this this revenue model that quite frankly makes way more sense for game developers but unlike services like stadia or geforce now where it's streaming from a server it runs on your local device but unlike services like those you'd find from ea or ubisoft it is not like aaa titles that are being sort of bundled into this service it's mobile games so what's your gut reaction to this theirs are going to have a hundred plus games right out of the bat they've worked with third-party developers it's five dollars a month after the first month it's dare i say kind of reasonably priced yeah where's the apple the apple tax here i was going to say honestly if usually if i want a game on my phone it's because i'm stuck somewhere i don't have access to my switch i don't have access to my laptop i don't have access to my desktop so i'm caught waiting for something probably for like a couple hours and there's nothing to do i'm just on my phone and i'm tired of twitter now and i've done all the work i can do on my phone and whatever else and i look through my phone and i go i don't really want to play anything i check the free to play section of the store this all looks like cancer and free to the transactions and all this kind of stuff so being able to just pay five bucks and have a bunch of games and there's no more micro transactions that sounds like a very reasonable solution that's the beauty of it to me is that apple is taking a a sub-genre of gaming that i think a lot of more traditional gamers like you and me are quite dismissive of because i i find the experience really frustrating like what sorry what i can't i can't play the next level until i wait eight hours or buy some like i don't know you know stupid silver i like games where particularly uranium tokens or whatever like i like games where progression is either skill or effort sure i'm down with either of those if it's like oh i just wait or oh i just pay money it's like okay neither of those things are interesting both of those things really pull me out of the experience they're they're they're they're non-immersive they they make me acutely aware that what i'm doing right now is quite literally wasting time yes i am i am actually actively waiting yes i am i'm watching paint dry it's it's not a great experience and apple has clearly identified this problem with the gaming platform that they have identified as their future in gaming apple has made no move to make mac os more of a gaming centric platform so ios is the way forward for them and to their credit ios gets a ton of attention from gaming developers it is generating a ton of revenue for game well game developers and apple themselves like it is by any measure a successful business but what it is is a pretty crappy gaming experience so they've identified this problem and created a solution that now even if game developers aren't leveraging individually they now have to compete with yeah they have to compete with the idea that for five dollars a month with no micro transactions you can just have a library of mobile games to play on your ipad or your ios and your ios on your ipad or your iphone and shared with five family members yeah so it's basically if you can find five family members or five friends even and get one subscription it's a dollar a month yeah that is like not a lot no if you have a modern iphone yeah you can probably afford that i had people saying in the chat here that they're like if it's not free i'm not interested a dollar that's the whole thing that's the whole problem that's the whole reason why mobile games are terrible yes i hate that mentality i actually really hate that mentality every like for a while there when a whole bunch of mmos were coming out yeah like elder scrolls online and all that other kind of stuff every single time when they hadn't announced if it was free to play or not i was like please be subscription based because it's free to play it will be trash and it happens every time i absolutely hate that there is room for some free games league of legends works yup there are other games that work as well yeah but like on a whole i especially with mobile games they're built to manipulate you they're built to be a waiting game where they hit you with dopamine so you just keep waiting but you're not like accomplishing anything there's no skill there's no effort all this kind of stuff it's just oh i uh i set an alarm so that i could wake up exactly when this thing finished building or whatever and then i could press the button twice and then i went back to sleep i was really enjoying this uh tiny tower game until i reached that point in the game where it was yeah yeah they expect me to what what is this like 90s tv like i like i have to schedule my life around content yeah excuse me yeah you know like freaking year is it a little mobile game and like there's there's room for that kind of stuff but i hate the mentality of if it isn't free i'm not interested so if you don't have the money i totally get that but there's great games out there like tf2 like league of legends that you can go play that are still that other style but that's not the most popular version of free games i just need to you know especially on a phone so i mean obviously the title of this video i'm making fun of apple a little bit for one of their exclusive titles so the games in in this um apple arcade will be apple exclusive uh one of their exclusive titles being frogger uh it looks like a pretty cool frogger okay konami developed it like it's yeah it's it's frogger but like more better um but in all seriousness i am actually really happy about this because every once in a while you know whether it's pushing the industry towards caring more about color accuracy and displays or pixel density in displays or or whatever else apple will make a move that forces the entire rest of the industry to react and this is the kind of thing that the developer of a game that runs on an android device might look at this and not care but google has to pay attention to this and if google reacts in some way that puts pressure on android developers that will be a net positive for gamers everywhere so i'm a fan yeah speaking of that positive they copied blink oh yeah i saw that um shoot i don't think our screen share to you is uh is working right now so i'm just going to bring up the the thing yeah yeah basically one of the games has link as a character and it's they should be embarrassed there's also like lego brawls looks like it could be really cool actually it's a multiplayer like fighting game yeah that looks pretty sweet yeah here we go this is the site that oh it was link i saw a link for a second there if you scroll down you can find it yeah if i sc uh hold on we'll find the dedicated big picture of link games that redefine games okay there's a few different lego games apparently lego art house is another one i do wonder if tim cook has ever played a game sonic racing okay so maybe some of it's gonna be cringe but there's a good chance that at least some of it will be good yeah i'm gonna try it out yeah for sure yeah all right next topic um actually this is really interesting because we just mentioned that one of the ways that you could get your apple arcade subscription for cheaper is by sharing it with friends i mean that's a paradigm that i'm sure you're well familiar with he piggybacks on my google play music subscription i was actually looking at this and going damn it's only for five i might not be able to be included maybe they're too young maybe i'll get some more years later so luke is technically in my family yeah according to google um because he's in my family plan i'm i may have to i'm at my max now i've got my aunt my sister um my wife my son and you in there i think we're getting dangerously close to the limit oh man and you're the first one on the chopping block oh i understand i fully get so like when if my daughter gets a phone or something and they haven't like increased the limit or something then you might get you might actually have to pay your eight dollars a month or whatever that's horrible i probably won't do it um i'll probably just manually put music on my phone again anyway apparently this same problem with people sharing subscriptions is a problem for spotify that they have decided to stop ignoring uh i mean i'm sure they've been aware of it for a long time but basically here's the summary this was posted by someone on the forum and they're saying as part of an effort to detect fraud and abuse of their premium family program spotify wants to know where you live or to obtain your location data so the premium family program is a 15 a month plan for up to six people with the condition being and this is in the t's and c's even if it's something they haven't enforced uh the condition being that they all live at the same address in august the company updated its terms and conditions for premium family subscribers requiring that they provide location data from time to time to ensure that they are actually all in the same family that's not necessarily how family works yeah like my aunt doesn't live at my house but she is certainly my family so is my sister none of my family live in my house yeah so now with that said the definition of family as someone who actually like has their own family i run into this a fair bit wow the definite well no no i mean you don't have to i don't know what you mean you're not even mad about that no i'm not so the definition of family if you actually start digging into the t's and c's varies a significant amount like the way that google defines family versus the way spotify defines family versus the way that science world defines family yeah everyone has different a different threshold for how immediate family needs to be even and how what the maximum number of family members you're allowed to have is my my family my like my where with my parents that family not with my kids that family okay so my parents had five kids so we were seven we were a fully loaded minivan when we went places and there were a lot of places where my mom bless her heart would um get pushy about how many people should be allowed in when you are a family because most places cap it at either four or five it's the world is designed for four two parents two kids as soon as you have five you don't fit at the table at the food court yeah it right yeah right yeah and two tables really everything or you need two passes or whatever else um you know cars you don't actually fit comfortably anymore no so someone's got that metal um so it doesn't surprise me that they would have this kind of um you know stipulation family with an asterisk now you looked up family yes this is actually very interesting there are two noun definitions for family really and they contradict each other really heavily specifically in this scenario the first one is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household number two is all the descendants of a common ancestor they are actual opposites and they completely counter so like spotify is going with definition one yes and i went with definition two right they are both definitions of the word family okay then so i wanted to like call them out and be like that's not the definition of family and then so that was like you're thinking more like family tree yes all right so when you sign up for the family plan spotify will ask those on the plan to provide the company a home address using google maps every person added to the plan will have to do the same or enable location services for spotify on their devices to come spotify said it doesn't use that home location for advertising and that it doesn't store the data for internal use that's the way you could just say i live here and then you're done because it says or once verification of a family member's home address is completed we do not store their location data or track their location at any time but it also said that they want to require people to provide location data from time to time the policy overlooks families that aren't living together like we discussed this like i mean obviously um adult children and their adult parents i could see companies being like you know what you're all accountable you're all working ass but what if you're why did you go what if you're a boarding school kid yeah exactly but if you're someone who's away at college who legitimate or they're still a dependent even if you don't live at the same address that's that's pretty lame but not even not even college so what if you're like boarding middle school here we go so they could ask for location data to check for fraud from time to time but didn't specify when or how frequently those checks would happen this also poses the problem of spotify inadvertently tracking children and minors who aren't legally able to consent or object you have to be 13 to use or sign up for spotify well that's interesting so my kids are allowed to use google play music i guess it doesn't matter because they don't need to collect location data yeah fascinating speaking of fascinating our sponsor ridge wallet yeah with ridge wallet you can stop carrying pointless items around like receipts old hotel room keys or spent gift 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well yeah it's pretty annoying uh do you want to do the next topic yeah i'm trying to pick one real quick do you want to talk about the virtual way sure or your oled oh okay i don't have enough concentration while i'm logging in okay so virtual boy we've been we've been waiting to film this video for i think at least two years at least two years no over a year for sure over a year at least over a year yeah uh this is not mine actually this is the one that linus media group acquired from someone who's quite amazing and did a bunch of modifications to it that are like really clean that's one thing i want to point out too is it was done very well that is a heavily modded virtual way we actually borrowed it from um i think they have a youtube channel i i just i'm just gonna double check i can basically guarantee you though if you handed this to someone who didn't know it was modded they wouldn't think it was modded yeah uh retro rgb yeah freaking awesome actually i wonder if uh he did a video about it uh retro rgb yeah uh streamed hyper fighting live so here so luke actually already owned a virtual boy and he kind of brought it to work and was like hey do we want to do a video about this thing uh it's like kind of a it's kind of a curiosity at this point because they didn't sell a ton of them it was sort of unanimously agreed on that it was bad yeah but it was also like so many of the things nintendo does so different and so far ahead of its time that it's sort of it's sort of worth um looking back at just to see here we are now where did we come from and like under getting a better understanding of that like it's it's it's almost successful in a way that it is now 2019 and you and i are looking at this thing fascinated and we had a solid amount of fun and i still have a headache but like but it's just it's a very very interesting device so what's really cool about the video we just did is oh sorry i'm eating again this one is really good yeah yep okay all right i'm done so what's really cool about this thing is that oh sorry i bit into a seed that's really hot i'm not sure what direction he's going in so i can't step in yeah it's fine there's a bunch of really interesting there's a bunch of really cool stuff so uh what was really cool about our video is that the virtual boy was launched and then discontinued i think just over a year later so a bunch of the stuff that they promised including apparently a strap that would like keep it against your face so you didn't have to rest it on a table and like lean into it like this um and that also included multiplayer support just never materialized but thanks to homebrew retro gamers you guys are amazing um the game that actually shipped with the console mario's tennis not to be confused with mario tennis which was an n64 game if i recall correctly yeah that was the first one right yeah well yeah mario's tennis um i forget how i started this sentence whatever mario's tennis was actually modded by the community uh actually a particular member i think did the vast majority of the work on it and what they did was they actually took latent code that existed on the cartridge and activated it then flashed that to you can get these uh what's the virtual boy like flash cartridge flash boy okay so there's this flash boy 2 thing that you can use to program homebrew games or flash boy plus or modified games put it in and boom multiplayer works so in the video luke and i get to have what is not just like a decades-old gaming experience but a decades-old gaming experience that actually didn't exist at the time we get to play multiplayer mario's tennis and it's pretty freaking awesome yeah i had a lot of fun i did too i was legitimately very fun had a lot of fun yes but uh like i had a headache i also have a headache i think we did play it a little bit too long because we turned the game off and back on so we didn't get the like warning that you should stop playing 15 minutes should not be too long for a game the experience has some issues i also think uh if we turned the game on and like looked away for a while and then went into it might have been better because when it's like first i'm not going to get necessarily into why because you should watch the video but when it's first starting it's a little bit more jarring i think we can tell them why it's because there's these mirrors vibrating back and forth you can hear them and it takes a little while for the image to kind of like get right so it's kind of jarring it's like um it's kind of like when you're when your vr headset loses tracking for a little bit yeah and you're like looking over here and it's like up there and i was like like okay i was fine now i'm sick thank you for that and it's all black and red images which is just kind of intense it's pretty bad like with that said i was impressed by the stereo 3d effect i i mean i was eventually too honestly i prefer i prefer it took 3ds yeah i think it works better the 3ds gave me nausea like i'd never enjoyed the thing almost immediately what could they possibly have been thinking like i never i never had a 3ds so i had a i had a ds i played a ton of mario kart on that thing until i broke my trigger fingers because that's what happens when you play a ton of mario kart on a ds um and then i just like never like fixed it or any i never got a new one anyway so i had a ds and then i didn't do the 3ds thing because i just like i had a kid or something i forget what the exact timing is but it just i was busy um and then the first time i actually aside from i think i walked past like a display unit in like future shop or something and i was like oh okay that's kind of weird i'm like i looked at it but that was it the first time i really like tried to play a game with it was a couple weeks ago brandon lent me his um his 3ds to play fire emblem awakening because there's a new one out that's apparently really good and i was like oh believe it or not i've like you know casually talking i've never played a fire emblem game he's like what it's like how could you possibly think that a stereo effect that relies on the eyes being in a fixed position is a good idea on a handheld device i mean it kind of helps that you have to like shove your face into the virtual boy yeah because it positions you correctly sorry it's awkward when you have to like play a game like this but it does position you correctly and eat really quietly this is really good go go over here but yeah it was it was really fun actually um it's i think i genuinely think a big part of the fun is playing some weird derpy game on a weird derpy device weird derpy controllers with weird derpy controllers multiplayer yeah they have d-pads on each side yeah there's a d-pad here and here i realize you can't see that that well but there's d-pads on both sides which is odd and then the start and select are the exact same format as the a and b yeah and you can't see the controller because you're in the thing and then there's triggers on the back but they're not labeled oh they are just left and right and they didn't do anything in any of the games we played did they they did in the uh hyper fighter fighter okay yeah yeah so are you actually going to fix your virtual boy yeah are you yeah probably is it going to be like the shelves is it going to take 18 months it might i've got other i've been doing one major project for my house thing apartment whatever every weekend well now you're doing a koi pond is that right yeah why koi pond so my girlfriend went a little uh plant crazy out of nowhere and we now own uh 40 plants what most of them are really small i have a hard time imagining you owning a single plant i don't right they're like hers and i have technically owned exactly one singular plant since around 2013 and is still alive i thought i lost it when i moved but it's in my parents garage and i haven't bothered to pick it up yet but i guarantee you it is still alive because parents garage i have all the lights i have parents garage i have forgotten that thing behind stuff nick knows i've forgotten that thing behind stuff for like a year at a time and it's still alive zeke agrees with me it's a remember the aloe vera plant oh it's an aloe vera plant that part it is still a plant that barely still counts anyways i'm not in charge it's literally a cactus it's a plant it's a plant it's green yeah it's in kingdom whatever kingdom planta or whatever the yeah yeah as long as it's not an aloe vera mixed with alcohol plant yeah oh that yeah that was yeah that was a terrible time but um yes and we have a bajillion plants now and then uh she wanted to do something with the deck she knows you can get fake ones right that you don't have to water apparently she's like against that now and she's like on some i don't know she's she's super into it whatever whatever she doesn't watch when show you can speak freely here no i am okay for her she's into something and i think that's cool okay and it makes the house look better and like plants and water and stuff smells good so like the house the house looks and smells good okay so sweet was she sending you a message i don't i genuinely don't think so but maybe finding out what that beeping is sounds like a ups it's probably annoying to the wan show peeps that's that's nick by the way which means he's probably here so that i will tell you guys about lttstore.com yeah yeah basically it's good stuff uh ltt stealth hoodie is back in stock we have all sizes in stock i have personally confirmed that the phone pocket fits the uh galaxy note 10 plus oh it's a little tight it fits but that's not bad because it's that phone pack is designed to like hold your phone in place anyways a little tight but dang it it fits uh we've also got the very popular ram t-shirt this one has been a smash hit thanks to david's excellent modeling of course this is my favorite yeah i saw that i was like wow okay hard drive shirt 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out of context okay um is that even a real like are you actually even holding that laptop oh yeah okay it's not like photoshopped in yeah so i love photoshop i told alex we need to do uh we need to do a picture like one of the things we're trying to do is we're trying to have a little a few more like we're trying to have more fun moments in the videos uh sorry i'll make you i won't make you keep looking at that okay we're trying to have more fun moments in the videos like things that are kind of difficult you know and so there's a line in the video about the the new alienware m15 where we talk about how it's sexy and i was like yo it's like a jiffable moment we should just do like a sexy dance with the m15 and i had intended i had intended to wear the underwear that was my intent the tie in the hat is his doing okay um so if you guys don't want to experience that i can't say that i recommend our alienware m15 video but um hey you can never say that i wasn't honest with you yeah yeah so i ditched my oled yeah why okay i'll explain why because i don't yeah one of the main reasons that i have been such an advocate of oled is that i can't stand the the black glow the glo the gray glow when it when the screen is supposed to be black yeah it drives me nuts i find it very immersion breaking okay now obviously i can live with it i haven't i haven't gone so so 2019 soft that i i am simply too triggered by a black screen on an lcd that i must leave that i have to leave the like it's not like that um but if i don't have to have that i will certainly choose something that doesn't have it okay perfect blacks amazing yeah so one of the things that bugs me so you're not like ditching your current oled for a new oled no okay i have ditched oled in my living room for the first time in years now okay okay so one of the things that drives me most crazy is the black bars in letterboxed content when they're gray yeah so that instead of just seeing the content and nothing else you've got the content with a gray buffer with a black wall behind it because presumably you are not a monster and you have turned out the lights in your living room in order to properly enjoy a film um so it drives me absolutely crazy so i took home asus pg65u bfgd big format gaming display which is like a year and a half late now i i i don't know i've been like waiting for this thing it feels like forever they seem to be pretty late with displays a lot yeah just just putting that out there it seems to be the ones they're partnered with nvidia on that's fair because other than that that's accurate they kind of launch things when they say they're going to that's accurate um anyway so i took it home and i have to say they have done a great job of the full array local dimming i can find scenarios where it is noticeable okay i can create snare i like that i can create a scenario where it's noticeable move a mouse cursor around on anything dark and you can see the halo following around the cursor but i have to give them credit one of the things that i didn't do properly when we evaluated the hp omen x imperium or whatever it was called uh was view it from a more realistic angle i was always looking at it flat like a monitor or even like standing above it because it was just like sitting on a desk in the office and they actually tuned it to be viewed from slightly below because that's where most people position their tvs whether they're someone who puts it on their console and then sits on a couch or whether they put it up on a wall yeah or if they're one of those complete monsters who puts it like above their fireplace it's wrong it's wrong and you're wrong i might be mounting mine to my standing desk above my monitors so like that's different lower my standing desk as much as possible so when you sit on the couch you can watch it more better because i don't have space you know you might be a legitimate use case for an 8k tv you could just create virtual monitors on your 8k tv and then when you want to watch tv you just watch tv yeah so microsoft actually okay i'm completely changing topics here um power toys microsoft just brought back power toys which i am personally very excited about um and two of the ones that they have just announced are dang it where can i where is this here whatever here's an article from the verge um so one of them actually they're they're both really cool fancy zones this is sick so you it's like it's like arrow snapping on like steroids so here's a whole bunch of different options for dividing up your desktop and then if you go further in you can actually customize it no no where's the custom one no i mean this is already very cool but there's a customization option later that they show where you can yeah there you go where you can create like whatever the heck zones you want pretty freaking sick if you ask me that's i think they're showing it right there i think he was just setting up the zone oh no no they never actually do a very good demo of it okay it's more of an instructional video okay um and then what was the other really cool one they're both cool um blah blah blah oh yeah you can hold down the windows key and discover keyboard shortcuts so it'll just like show keyboard shortcuts on the screen and tell you what you can do with them that is freaking awesome that's really cool yay power toys yeah um anyway so it's like make my own monitor because i have found an 8k tv like a 65 inch 8k tv the pixel density is high enough that i can i can just sit right in front of it and like as long as you're not expecting a retina experience as long as you're expecting something similar to like a 1440p 27 inch or something like that actually all i want at that distance anyway like reasonable yeah you could create so you could just man if you got an oled then you could just black out the parts you don't use so you could be like okay i want to be in triple monitor mode okay you know what i want another monitor up here that seems like the kind of thing that someone out there is probably working on like a weird like like github friggin tiny program that like does this it's like i designed this for all the people who um use aktvs as their monitors i figure there's at least dozens of us you know what would be super cool is if you opened a specific application if it knew the zone that it wanted it in and it like enabled that and put it there right away so that like okay if i open uh like this one desktop link that i have for like the status page for floatplane it's gonna open it but it's gonna put it up there in the corner because i don't need to stare at this thing well if it was an oled you wouldn't even need virtual desktops because anything that doesn't have content on it would just be black yeah but i'm saying like it would it would know to put it up there away from everything else you know what i mean windows does a reasonably good job of that doesn't it just putting stuff back where you left it it's okay uh this this would be because it would be like another chrome window or whatever well fancy zones gonna take care of that that's what i'm saying yeah it'd be very nice if i could do that properly that would be sick okay on the subject of oled though yeah so the advantage of the bfgd is obviously the high refresh rate you can do hdr content up to 1080p and i don't think you can do hdr at 144 because you're oh yeah i don't know you might be able to but you're dealing with chromosomes whatever chromosome something sucks because the argument that gets made by nvidia and their their display partners is that like well it's only really a factor when you're on the desktop because it like makes text look bad i'm like lots of games have text guys so yeah um so 144 doesn't make a ton of sense to me on it but um you can do 98 hertz with 10-bit color or you can do 8-bit color at 120 hertz and get the full hdr experience on both of those i don't know it it's it's got high refresh rate it uses displayport it's got super low input lag it's like it's basically having a gaming monitor in my living room so i was playing some super meat boy and i was like oh yeah like it just feels great and when i was watching hdr content because it's bright enough it hits a thousand its peak brightness even in the dark i could definitely find halos but not with normal content on the screen so like i wouldn't like i probably wouldn't i probably want to turn it off i probably want to turn off the full array local dimming if i was playing something like anno like a mouse-based game but while watching movies basically the whole screen is going to be lit the whole time yeah kind of the ocean's pretty dark is it i found it kind of distracting okay yeah i was going to say like if you played like a horror game or like say you were playing like halo and you were going through one of the um the uh the flood missions when it gets really dark sometimes your like aimer and stuff is probably gonna be pretty annoying because it's gonna glow just around it's gonna almost feel like you have a flashlight on so it basically it finally got to the point where i'm willing to make that trade off right in exchange for higher refresh rate now with that said oled could be back in my living room sooner rather than later um wait oh i don't know if i can say this for now i'll be running the bfd oh okay here's the thing i can say so adele actually showed off an alienware 55-inch gaming oled back at ces so if that or something like that were to come along soon that could be a compelling option as well especially now that freesync displays can run g-sync yeah so you're not if you're if you want to actually you know drive a 4k display you're not stuck with uh you know screen tearing or ponying up for a g-sync display i will be very curious to see what their pricing looks like on that yeah super chats yeah why don't we do some super chats let's have a look here ladies and gentlemen isaac said mousepad news the one in the video looked cool um no news yet we're doing a mousepad oh cool it's gonna be awesome is it a desk pad oh yeah nice is there something else that exists oh just making sure because if there is that's stupid hey uh power play is awesome power play power play oh yeah that's pretty awesome yeah um joshua says can you create a way that floatplane subscribers can watch via their plex server i don't think there's official integration but i think didn't someone in the community like set something up there's unofficial integration yeah we might do something official at some point we just have so many like hyper high priority tasks right now and we have for a while but yeah we might do it eventually i do want to give them an update like you guys have got kind of a crunch coming up for the 30th i recall correctly we do i wasn't going to announce it publicly but we do might as well yeah we're we're trying to um get 4k support although that has to be enabled by the creators and plans have to be set up for that and like there's once it's done on our side it's not it's going to probably be a while before creators actually start using it um but 4k support yearly subscriptions i know you guys have been asking for them for freaking ever they are finally coming um some back end improvements that we need uh just for our own reasons and uh some other fun stuff as well the the app continually gets better um if if you've had frustrations with the app in the past i recommend you use it again the chromecast support has gotten way better you can now pull videos down and keep navigating the rest of the app there's like a bunch of other cool features the biggest update that the app has ever gotten launched this week um so go check that out and there was slicker there was a a quick little problem with it i don't remember what it was with the auto rotation and that's already been patched so yeah are we ever going to have an ios app we will eventually have an ios app um we still actively developing it in parallel yes okay yeah so when it comes out it should be basically pretty close to feature parity so the issues that apple had one of them was that if you went to go register for an account it you couldn't register register for the account in the app and they were like no no we don't like that okay um and the other one was they were running it's not trivial to fix uh it's not as hard as you think okay um so that's coming but we didn't think it was important to be in this update so whatever um and then the other one was uh that it wasn't like working properly for them but it's because they ran it in dev mode we like didn't expect them to do that so or debug mode um so i don't i don't know it's by the time we fix that stuff on our end it's going to be as far as i can tell even though they say on an average maximum of one day every single time we've done anything with them it's taken at least two weeks so it will probably be quite a while uh thanks to everyone who last week um gave me leads on how to get in touch with apple's pr uh none of them panned out to be clear don't send me any more i have definitely reached the right people they know they know yeah they have just decided that it is not worthwhile to engage in this they knew last week and they knew before last week yes it's just it's such a bizarre thing to me because their whole shtick is controlling the narrative you can't control a narrative that you don't ever even deliver yeah i don't know it's just it's bizarre they're taking away their opportunity to get their voice in there um yeah boy thanks thanks home automation x um unusual user says index set active what thanks doggo can i eat now maybe that can be the new rule uh rob says watching from the netherlands at two in the morning uh what happened with not showing the kids on the channel anymore um it's not that i'm formally not showing the kids on the channel i'm just not going out of my way to show them much or i'm i'm going out of my way to not show them much i mean my son in particular really really wants to make videos with dad um i still have misgivings about it i may come around on that i'm really not sure where i stand at this point thanks avian thanks unusual user free desktop okay i don't even know what you're talking about uh vlad any tips on a mobile for a 1066 gig and an 8700k i don't know whatever one has like the features you need they don't affect performance much anymore just you know asus gigabyte msi does it look cool yuri ge i don't know how to pronounce that so i finally subscribed to ltt on floatplane i have much feedback on ux is it better to unsubscribe or ignore ltt videos on youtube what is better for the youtube algorithm and ltp prosperity um wow i don't really think i don't really think any individual's behavior is going to have a large enough impact to affect us algorithmically the best thing is obviously to just watch them watch the videos twice um yeah it's impossible for me to say whether it's better to unsubscribe and then ignore it or stay subscribed and then ignore it i think it treats you exactly the same way regardless so should be fine um when will you do another house inspection maybe you mean tour uts are you to see or whatever that is uh we are gonna do some more stuff at my house so i'm gonna do a video on the bfgd upgrade i have to upgrade my htpc now that i have a 4k um 120 hertz gaming display in there i'm just going to need a little bit more horsepower i was running a 980 ti so um yeah that'll that'll happen soon we'll do a video about that uh not sure what that is i don't know what usual user is talking about but they keep sending super chats haiti says do you think geforce now will ever get out of beta yeah probably they seem committed enough to it at this point sam says can lmg sponsor my high school robotics team um probably not it never hurts to send an email though um minus tech tips at gmail.com actually does get monitored please don't waste their time guys uh corey just want to spend more money to support ltt also the merge store is the best ltdstore.com thanks cory heck yeah uh ilya says previously cheap iphones always had something in their name showing that status now the hobo iphone is just iphone 11 which is kind of weird yes but it also makes sense you'll get used to it it's iphone vanilla it's the normal one the hobo one it's a good name cause like sc could be special edition you know r like gt versus a gtr r sounds cooler type r there you go so no the iphone should just be like the iphone yep excuse me it should just be iphone apple never says the have you noticed that it's not the iphone it's not the facebook yeah everybody got rid of the while ago lord who hi sage i'm on tv all right morgan says i swear i saw linus holding a zenfone 6. is there a review coming no i ended up not doing a review of it because my first unit had some issues with the camera mechanism um so esu sent me another one and then by that time it was kind of old news and so i didn't end up reviewing it honestly i wasn't a huge fan the camera's not great um i think there are the cameras not great yeah the camera's not great i think their their flip around mechanism is not amazing um yeah i wasn't a huge fan it's it's a good value if you're just looking for a high performance phone at like a reasonable price but there's a lot of options for that samuel says jono's awesome one of the unsung heroes of lmg give this to him that's not really how super chats work but i'll tell him he's awesome all right here i'll send that message now uh tech x are either of you two interested in visiting the star wars land that opened at disney or has disney killed star wars for you wow go i uh i've wanted to go really badly but i think i kind of want to go with someone and coordinating schedules with adults to fly somewhere is like nearly impossible so i don't know if i'll end up ever actually going disney has not ruined star wars for me you just have to adopt a new mentality called head canon where you just kind of decide what's real and if you head cannon out all of the recent movies everything's just better i'm also legitimately pretty excited about the mandalorian and i'm legitimately pretty excited about the uh new obi-wan kenobi show because it has even mcgregor that's cheating what do you mean you can't just ignore the content all right i think i can i've been doing it quite actively and it's been pretty good okay are you watching the third from the latest trilogy are you gonna go see it probably and then you're gonna ignore it yeah so i need to know why i don't care ah something i care enough about it if that makes sense no it doesn't or i'll wait to watch it on like a plane or something i won't necessarily go see it in theater i'm going to watch it at some point but it doesn't matter to you that it just has no soul what do you mean it does matter to me that has no soul that's why i don't like it but it's not dead to you because you choose to ignore the soul spirit but people want to talk to me about it all the time because i talk about star wars stuff way too much so i need to understand the context of why i don't like it i can explain all the other recent movies so i might as well be able to explain that one as well i do have a lot of hope for the mandalorian and the new obi-wan kenobi show yeah but isn't that exactly the definition of like a blind fanboy based on all evidence that points to the contrary you keep having hope and you keep being let down i'm not i have no hope for the movie i only have hope for the shows really and the uh star wars animated series is probably my favorite digital production star wars ever made okay um so mostly the later episodes and the episodes focused on the clones but regardless all right it's dead to me that's totally fine i was always i don't blame you at all by the way more of uh like the main movies and expanded universe guy and then i like started a business and had kids and didn't really keep up for a long time so i was really hoping that the new movies were going to be like really imaginative and suck me right back in yeah and they had so much opportunity there they sucked yep but not me right back in they just sucked yeah yeah so i was never really into expanding university i tried to like them by the way so you'll be able to find rancho clips of me talking about the merits of them but the cold hard truth is i have not been i have not experienced any temptation whatsoever to go back and rewatch them it doesn't feel and this is kind of funny because it's true but it doesn't feel like it was made by someone who likes star wars it feels like it was made by someone who has a really popular series that they know people are going to watch and they're trying to do something with it instead of just liking star wars you know what i mean yeah and like that vibe comes across really heavily i was never really that into expanded universe not because i didn't like it because i had no exposure to it i didn't have any of the books right uh i didn't have uh kotor i didn't even know kotor was a thing i never played kotor i have played it a little bit on stream i tried to get into it but it was like a very last gen gaming experience yeah like i tried to play kotor after i had already played dragon age origins i tried to start playing kotor like a year and a half ago which was a little painful but yeah i had never got into eu and then i watched the first of the new movies and i was like okay there's only a few parts that i viciously hated but some of it was okay but they just like recreated an old movie and then everything else since then was just way worse so i was i've started getting more like i like the idea i want to be more into star wars i started diving into eu and i'm like super aggressively into star wars but just the stuff that i want to be into and i think you have to take that approach with eu because there's some there's some not great stuff in eu but there's also some pure gold uh brandon says friends can be family gordon if spotify requires location i'm canceling pick up title everyone wow that's strong yeah dustin scrapyard wars idea budget used unraid server computer that's tough because most of what makes up the cost of a storage server is hard drives which are commodity which are hard to find a deal on and if you're buying them use their kind of sketch tommy gun says was just watching whole room water cooling again you need more of those crazy projects um do you guys do a lot of crazy projects these days matter of time you'll see crazy projects alex is actively working on the red camera water cooling right now and i have a concept for whole home water cooling oh god that would be different from the other one and probably not corrode this time oh there you go yeah so i'm pretty excited about that uh clay toyo says here's 50 bucks just got a computer technician dropped straight out of high school using my knowledge which i can almost credit everything to ltt and tech wiki wow did you guys deserve some of my first paycheck well thank you very much glad to help andrew says i got screen burn in from tiny tower left it on overnight for days to get more coins yeah i hear that sebastian says omg first time live hello from romania um hey milker fish new 3ds has eye tracking that moves the 3d sweet spot interesting um nope says was on pornhub the other day there's ltt videos there good to know um robert says the mic really does pick up everything beep beep goes the alarm system kraken skull says love your content would love to see a home lab type video where you buy old enterprise gear on ebay oh i might have a sponsor for the crackinator oh really yeah we might be able to actually do that project that's kind of fun i haven't i don't think i've told anyone at full point about it but that's fun blake says with channel super fun you should definitely play quidditch with one of the local teams i think i think if we bring it back it should be more about toys again yeah that's my personal opinion i think with that suggestion we're done i don't know we might who knows we might so thanks for watching guys see you again next week same bad time channel quidditch oh boy have you like watched the youtube videos of people playing quidditch what amazing still do it that's some dedication yeah that's yeah cuz like harry potter hasn't been cool for quite a while now wait not just well okay hamburgeroh it's when show time all right and we're not even that late today we are nine minutes late well sort of yeah eight minutes eight minutes we actually had a pretty fun day today we did um we spent the last hour and a half gaming together in multiplayer yes on the nintendo virtual boy yeah so that's going to be a video we're going to talk about a little bit later because um i don't know about you but my headache is actually getting worse uh oh i don't think mine's getting worse but i'm still extremely aware of it yeah it uh it is not a great experience no except for the parts of it that are absolutely outstanding yes it's ah man i don't know what to say about it other than um if you're here for the news about apple's event this week then uh we'll get right into that haven't you had enough and you should you should yeah so we'll talk about some of the iphone stuff and also there's new ipad and blah blah blah but really i want to talk about the apple arcade service a little bit more and what this means for gaming in general mobile gaming in particular uh what else we got today um there's the the new switch fit game which is important for reasons that we'll get more into later yeah uh and spacex is deploying satellite broadband across the us next year which might mean in the next five years or never or yeah or that uh also i ditched my oled tv at home oh what could have inspired me to do such a thing you'll find out oh my after you sit through this ancient intro it's broken it's good i still own that sweater technically i still own that shirt nice we're extremely fashionable people yeah which is why you should buy merch at lttstore.com yes that stuff is actually everything that i own that's fashionable just gonna say i think fashionable's a strong word this looks fashionable clean yeah that's better than most of my stuff no i meant literally clean oh this is also yeah you just put on what's clean though that's my that's kind of where i was going with it don't worry about it yes i mean that is how my fashion service works aren't you basically down to stuff that fits at all at this point because of the washer dryers yeah yeah why don't you invite you why don't we want to okay you know what we can do one off topic thing then we'll talk about the apple thing i promise my dad is a plumbing instructor and he doesn't understand so just i want to put that out there first because it's really weird your dad also is responsible for uh whole room water cooling the plumbing that's fair that was my spec though yeah he did tell me it was stupid so did he oh yeah okay it's your dad you think he didn't tell me he was stupid he was very clear luke's dad's a badass basically yeah yeah um but i i brought him over to try to figure this out because like my my sink in my bathroom at home if i turn on one tap one day it might be cold the next day it might be warm if i turn on the other one it's the opposite of what but like they rotate randomly and that happens to every tap in the house so luke lives in a condo just yeah yeah not a house yeah um if i have a shower if it's at like three to seven in the morning it is always maximum heat no matter what i do but i have found out that i can trick it a little bit by turning on random taps in the house and then sometimes it will flip to maximum cold only there's no other options later parts a day it's okay but yeah you can put on maximum cold and it's like nope i'm fully hot anyways this becomes a problem when you know all the water sources are affected and you get to the washer dryer because you put it on the dryer is fine yeah the dryer is no problem but you put the washing machine on cold and your clothes come out steaming it's like well that wasn't intended um so you wash some stuff that's the right size and it's no longer the right size or you wash some stuff that's red and and now other things are also kind of red which i've never had to deal with are you sure you're not just an idiot yeah okay the only reason why i'm going to defend this look it just raised some questions i don't know which chapter are you forgetting from day to day i my roommate and my girlfriend have experienced the same thing most of my friends that i've brought over being like look have experienced the same thing okay are you sure you're my roommate all your friends are not my girlfriend's not native because i haven't been there myself and my roommate are maybe maybe sometimes um but also my dad has seen it i've just blown his brain i'm just teasing he he had a theory that the pipes are too close to each other so the hot pipe might heat transfer but that doesn't make sense because you shouldn't end up you shouldn't even be able to be swappable yeah you should be able to have two warm taps that was his initial theory and by the time he left the house he was like i don't know i'm done i'm out something weird's going on um yeah that was that was very odd so a significant amount of my clothes don't don't fit anymore but so let's talk about the apple event did you watch the keynote i watched some of it i was busy that's more than i watched it was during a work shift i have legitimately gotten to the point where my ceonus is so inescapable that i actually assigned underlings more than one underling to watch the apple event for me and then provide me with a note that's awesome that is super legit it's like an hour and a half i i don't have an hour and a half because the thing too is if you're going to watch it you can't really just have it half on or you're going to miss the demos and stuff like if i'm watching an apple event and i do sometimes you can do it half on i i find it tough because okay well hold on a second because i'm not talking about efficiency from like a personal standpoint i'm talking about efficiency from a company-wide standpoint if i'm watching it then i'm gonna watch it everyone else be doing your friggin work because i'm watching the apple event i'll let you know if anything interesting happens if i'm not watching it then someone else needs to be watching it and making notes and filling me in if i am half watching it then i'm gonna miss stuff and so i can't fill in anyone and they can't fill in me because i'm clearly not like making detailed notes as i go so i might as well be filming a completely different video which is exactly what i was doing and someone else can just tell me about it i had a call like midway through it so i couldn't really watch it properly at all and then when it wasn't the call i had it on like a side monitor but i was super focused on other things so like i got some vague stuff i was roughly trying to pay attention to the ipad things because my mom needs an ipad for work so i was like is there an ipad coming yes is it reasonably positive sort of okay actually yes seems great yeah new ipad actually looks great yeah well she it's even more great because she was going to buy one and i was like wait don't because they're probably going to release one and they're probably going to price replace it she's like okay waited like three days and then the announcement came whoa it was awesome so yeah there's a new entry level ipad it has thinner bezels it's 330 bucks the iphone 11 is basically a 10r but like more more better um so they changed the naming scheme which is annoying but they probably improved the naming scheme i think they really did there's a lot of people making fun of them for pro max even we did it sounds like it sounds like a protein supplement or something yes like it sounds like something you can buy in like a bottle that's like this big like it might have a handle that has like six servings in it because you're supposed to eat like so much of it um uh david was showing me this like gigantic bottle of like protein cheesy poofs that he has and i'm like so i ate one i'm like yeah i got some protein or something he's like yeah it's probably not that much and i'm it was literally hey david yeah how much was in each cheesy poof like one gram or something less than a gram so you'd have to eat like handfuls of this stuff in order to actually take in like an appreciable amount of protein um like it sounds like something like that but yeah honestly iphone 11 as the basic now which i guess i don't know if they did that on purpose or by accident i'm not sure but i like it to be honest because the iphone 8 was like the basic one when the iphone 10 launched it was like okay we'll just buy the last gen one then yeah um the max branding has existed for a long time so okay um and and then we've got pro pro made sense like a thousand years ago they probably just should have called the iphone 10 the iphone 8 pro yeah like then we could have just skipped all this crap actually that would have worked perfectly we could have had an iphone 10 pro an iphone 9 pro and an iphone now 11 pro i completely agree but i'm going to jump slightly on the other slightly on the other side it's not actually the other side i'm going to adjust my position on this side i don't know how to call it whoa okay there's mission adjustments yeah um we always hammer on people for terrible naming schemes we do and i feel extremely justified every time yeah because they are terrible they're terrible and they should feel bad intel are you watching yes you should feel bad yes nvidia are you watching yeah you should feel super super bad yeah yeah this time i agree they could have done it better all this other kind of stuff but they did it and i prefer it this way yes so i want to make sure rip the band-aid off yeah do it right yeah and to apple's credit i think the iphone is one of the few things in their lineup that has a naming scheme that i can get behind because the problem that i have with their other stuff where on the surface it makes sense you've got the macbook you've got the macbook pro this one is for people who want to browse facebook and this one is for people who want to browse facebook but look like a baller while they do it so you've got you've got this clear segmentation but the issue is that with the macbook they refuse to differentiate the models year by year so with the iphone they have finally got it down the suffixes make sense the generation of the product is clear yep and i applaud that's not even a slow clap sorry sorry yeah that was probably horrible i'm sorry i applaud i applaud there you go very nice yeah i look like the monkey oh geez so yeah good job um the notch is still here that i applaud less yeah yeah um finally thicker phones with bigger batteries that i have again yeah really weird applause i know right apple's like doing things right no usbc that gets less applause um the watch series 5 hasn't always on display i feel like i covered that in my like coverage of this i want to talk about the apple arcade subscription so there is no shortage of companies that are trying to get into gaming as a service you've got microsoft you've got ubisoft you've got ea you've got every um sort of free-to-play uh battle royale developer so uh you've got you've got epic everyone wants you to subscribe to a season of a game or to subscribe to a package of games that you have access to you've got nvidia with their uh what do they call it uh uh i don't remember game stream is it no i thought game stream was just like um game now geforce now geforce now do they still call it that though yeah geforce now i think whatever it doesn't matter who cares so you've got nvidia's thing um where they're where they're so where all the games and there's all these different ways to tackle it right so you've got individual games where they want you to buy like a season's worth of uh cosmetics or uh or upgrades or dlc or whatever the case may be yeah like borderlands after they said they wouldn't yeah you've got game publishers uh like your ubisofts and your eas of the world that want you to just buy a subscription to their game launcher yes that gives you all the the hottest titles or some of the hottest titles or some pretty hot titles and then well you could buy that other stuff too uh so that you feel like you've got a compelling package of games to play and it's constantly being refreshed this way you are paying for access to the software but you don't necessarily own the software game developers want to get away from that paradigm a dedicated servers patches that you can just like download and install on your own haha disks that have like the software loaded on it so that maybe you could still play it in 10 or 20 years what an idiot you're an idiot um then you've got microsoft where they've got sort of a combination of both they want you to pay for like online access in general so you can like multiplayer game and then you've got also you want they want you to pay for like more much more premium version so that you can have all these games that you can access um then you've got the the services like geforce now where you're paying for just access to games and also access to not have to pay for your own hardware so that's something that google is also targeting with stadia um so yeah so it's like a subscription to hardware that lives in a data center and it streams to you apple's approach is completely different so what they're doing is they're taking some of what's good about other approaches like um this this netflix model where you've got a constant stream of revenue that supports further gaming development so it could be uh refresh titles or added content to the games that are already in the library so you've got this this revenue model that quite frankly makes way more sense for game developers but unlike services like stadia or geforce now where it's streaming from a server it runs on your local device but unlike services like those you'd find from ea or ubisoft it is not like aaa titles that are being sort of bundled into this service it's mobile games so what's your gut reaction to this theirs are going to have a hundred plus games right out of the bat they've worked with third-party developers it's five dollars a month after the first month it's dare i say kind of reasonably priced yeah where's the apple the apple tax here i was going to say honestly if usually if i want a game on my phone it's because i'm stuck somewhere i don't have access to my switch i don't have access to my laptop i don't have access to my desktop so i'm caught waiting for something probably for like a couple hours and there's nothing to do i'm just on my phone and i'm tired of twitter now and i've done all the work i can do on my phone and whatever else and i look through my phone and i go i don't really want to play anything i check the free to play section of the store this all looks like cancer and free to the transactions and all this kind of stuff so being able to just pay five bucks and have a bunch of games and there's no more micro transactions that sounds like a very reasonable solution that's the beauty of it to me is that apple is taking a a sub-genre of gaming that i think a lot of more traditional gamers like you and me are quite dismissive of because i i find the experience really frustrating like what sorry what i can't i can't play the next level until i wait eight hours or buy some like i don't know you know stupid silver i like games where particularly uranium tokens or whatever like i like games where progression is either skill or effort sure i'm down with either of those if it's like oh i just wait or oh i just pay money it's like okay neither of those things are interesting both of those things really pull me out of the experience they're they're they're they're non-immersive they they make me acutely aware that what i'm doing right now is quite literally wasting time yes i am i am actually actively waiting yes i am i'm watching paint dry it's it's not a great experience and apple has clearly identified this problem with the gaming platform that they have identified as their future in gaming apple has made no move to make mac os more of a gaming centric platform so ios is the way forward for them and to their credit ios gets a ton of attention from gaming developers it is generating a ton of revenue for game well game developers and apple themselves like it is by any measure a successful business but what it is is a pretty crappy gaming experience so they've identified this problem and created a solution that now even if game developers aren't leveraging individually they now have to compete with yeah they have to compete with the idea that for five dollars a month with no micro transactions you can just have a library of mobile games to play on your ipad or your ios and your ios on your ipad or your iphone and shared with five family members yeah so it's basically if you can find five family members or five friends even and get one subscription it's a dollar a month yeah that is like not a lot no if you have a modern iphone yeah you can probably afford that i had people saying in the chat here that they're like if it's not free i'm not interested a dollar that's the whole thing that's the whole problem that's the whole reason why mobile games are terrible yes i hate that mentality i actually really hate that mentality every like for a while there when a whole bunch of mmos were coming out yeah like elder scrolls online and all that other kind of stuff every single time when they hadn't announced if it was free to play or not i was like please be subscription based because it's free to play it will be trash and it happens every time i absolutely hate that there is room for some free games league of legends works yup there are other games that work as well yeah but like on a whole i especially with mobile games they're built to manipulate you they're built to be a waiting game where they hit you with dopamine so you just keep waiting but you're not like accomplishing anything there's no skill there's no effort all this kind of stuff it's just oh i uh i set an alarm so that i could wake up exactly when this thing finished building or whatever and then i could press the button twice and then i went back to sleep i was really enjoying this uh tiny tower game until i reached that point in the game where it was yeah yeah they expect me to what what is this like 90s tv like i like i have to schedule my life around content yeah excuse me yeah you know like freaking year is it a little mobile game and like there's there's room for that kind of stuff but i hate the mentality of if it isn't free i'm not interested so if you don't have the money i totally get that but there's great games out there like tf2 like league of legends that you can go play that are still that other style but that's not the most popular version of free games i just need to you know especially on a phone so i mean obviously the title of this video i'm making fun of apple a little bit for one of their exclusive titles so the games in in this um apple arcade will be apple exclusive uh one of their exclusive titles being frogger uh it looks like a pretty cool frogger okay konami developed it like it's yeah it's it's frogger but like more better um but in all seriousness i am actually really happy about this because every once in a while you know whether it's pushing the industry towards caring more about color accuracy and displays or pixel density in displays or or whatever else apple will make a move that forces the entire rest of the industry to react and this is the kind of thing that the developer of a game that runs on an android device might look at this and not care but google has to pay attention to this and if google reacts in some way that puts pressure on android developers that will be a net positive for gamers everywhere so i'm a fan yeah speaking of that positive they copied blink oh yeah i saw that um shoot i don't think our screen share to you is uh is working right now so i'm just going to bring up the the thing yeah yeah basically one of the games has link as a character and it's they should be embarrassed there's also like lego brawls looks like it could be really cool actually it's a multiplayer like fighting game yeah that looks pretty sweet yeah here we go this is the site that oh it was link i saw a link for a second there if you scroll down you can find it yeah if i sc uh hold on we'll find the dedicated big picture of link games that redefine games okay there's a few different lego games apparently lego art house is another one i do wonder if tim cook has ever played a game sonic racing okay so maybe some of it's gonna be cringe but there's a good chance that at least some of it will be good yeah i'm gonna try it out yeah for sure yeah all right next topic um actually this is really interesting because we just mentioned that one of the ways that you could get your apple arcade subscription for cheaper is by sharing it with friends i mean that's a paradigm that i'm sure you're well familiar with he piggybacks on my google play music subscription i was actually looking at this and going damn it's only for five i might not be able to be included maybe they're too young maybe i'll get some more years later so luke is technically in my family yeah according to google um because he's in my family plan i'm i may have to i'm at my max now i've got my aunt my sister um my wife my son and you in there i think we're getting dangerously close to the limit oh man and you're the first one on the chopping block oh i understand i fully get so like when if my daughter gets a phone or something and they haven't like increased the limit or something then you might get you might actually have to pay your eight dollars a month or whatever that's horrible i probably won't do it um i'll probably just manually put music on my phone again anyway apparently this same problem with people sharing subscriptions is a problem for spotify that they have decided to stop ignoring uh i mean i'm sure they've been aware of it for a long time but basically here's the summary this was posted by someone on the forum and they're saying as part of an effort to detect fraud and abuse of their premium family program spotify wants to know where you live or to obtain your location data so the premium family program is a 15 a month plan for up to six people with the condition being and this is in the t's and c's even if it's something they haven't enforced uh the condition being that they all live at the same address in august the company updated its terms and conditions for premium family subscribers requiring that they provide location data from time to time to ensure that they are actually all in the same family that's not necessarily how family works yeah like my aunt doesn't live at my house but she is certainly my family so is my sister none of my family live in my house yeah so now with that said the definition of family as someone who actually like has their own family i run into this a fair bit wow the definite well no no i mean you don't have to i don't know what you mean you're not even mad about that no i'm not so the definition of family if you actually start digging into the t's and c's varies a significant amount like the way that google defines family versus the way spotify defines family versus the way that science world defines family yeah everyone has different a different threshold for how immediate family needs to be even and how what the maximum number of family members you're allowed to have is my my family my like my where with my parents that family not with my kids that family okay so my parents had five kids so we were seven we were a fully loaded minivan when we went places and there were a lot of places where my mom bless her heart would um get pushy about how many people should be allowed in when you are a family because most places cap it at either four or five it's the world is designed for four two parents two kids as soon as you have five you don't fit at the table at the food court yeah it right yeah right yeah and two tables really everything or you need two passes or whatever else um you know cars you don't actually fit comfortably anymore no so someone's got that metal um so it doesn't surprise me that they would have this kind of um you know stipulation family with an asterisk now you looked up family yes this is actually very interesting there are two noun definitions for family really and they contradict each other really heavily specifically in this scenario the first one is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household number two is all the descendants of a common ancestor they are actual opposites and they completely counter so like spotify is going with definition one yes and i went with definition two right they are both definitions of the word family okay then so i wanted to like call them out and be like that's not the definition of family and then so that was like you're thinking more like family tree yes all right so when you sign up for the family plan spotify will ask those on the plan to provide the company a home address using google maps every person added to the plan will have to do the same or enable location services for spotify on their devices to come spotify said it doesn't use that home location for advertising and that it doesn't store the data for internal use that's the way you could just say i live here and then you're done because it says or once verification of a family member's home address is completed we do not store their location data or track their location at any time but it also said that they want to require people to provide location data from time to time the policy overlooks families that aren't living together like we discussed this like i mean obviously um adult children and their adult parents i could see companies being like you know what you're all accountable you're all working ass but what if you're why did you go what if you're a boarding school kid yeah exactly but if you're someone who's away at college who legitimate or they're still a dependent even if you don't live at the same address that's that's pretty lame but not even not even college so what if you're like boarding middle school here we go so they could ask for location data to check for fraud from time to time but didn't specify when or how frequently those checks would happen this also poses the problem of spotify inadvertently tracking 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that are like really clean that's one thing i want to point out too is it was done very well that is a heavily modded virtual way we actually borrowed it from um i think they have a youtube channel i i just i'm just gonna double check i can basically guarantee you though if you handed this to someone who didn't know it was modded they wouldn't think it was modded yeah uh retro rgb yeah freaking awesome actually i wonder if uh he did a video about it uh retro rgb yeah uh streamed hyper fighting live so here so luke actually already owned a virtual boy and he kind of brought it to work and was like hey do we want to do a video about this thing uh it's like kind of a it's kind of a curiosity at this point because they didn't sell a ton of them it was sort of unanimously agreed on that it was bad yeah but it was also like so many of the things nintendo does so different and so far ahead of its time that it's sort of it's sort of worth um looking back at just to see here we are now where did we come from and like under getting a better understanding of that like it's it's it's almost successful in a way that it is now 2019 and you and i are looking at this thing fascinated and we had a solid amount of fun and i still have a headache but like but it's just it's a very very interesting device so what's really cool about the video we just did is oh sorry i'm eating again this one is really good yeah yep okay all right i'm done so what's really cool about this thing is that oh sorry i bit into a seed that's really hot i'm not sure what direction he's going in so i can't step in yeah it's fine there's a bunch of really interesting there's a bunch of really cool stuff so uh what was really cool about our video is that the virtual boy was launched and then discontinued i think just over a year later so a bunch of the stuff that they promised including apparently a strap that would like keep it against your face so you didn't have to rest it on a table and like lean into it like this um and that also included multiplayer support just never materialized but thanks to homebrew retro gamers you guys are amazing um the game that actually shipped with the console mario's tennis not to be confused with mario tennis which was an n64 game if i recall correctly yeah that was the first one right yeah well yeah mario's tennis um i forget how i started this sentence whatever mario's tennis was actually modded by the community uh actually a particular member i think did the vast majority of the work on it and what they did was they actually took latent code that existed on the cartridge and activated it then flashed that to you can get these uh what's the virtual boy like flash cartridge flash boy okay so there's this flash boy 2 thing that you can use to program homebrew games or flash boy plus or modified games put it in and boom multiplayer works so in the video luke and i get to have what is not just like a decades-old gaming experience but a decades-old gaming experience that actually didn't exist at the time we get to play multiplayer mario's tennis and it's pretty freaking awesome yeah i had a lot of fun i did too i was legitimately very fun had a lot of fun yes but uh like i had a headache i also have a headache i think we did play it a little bit too long because we turned the game off and back on so we didn't get the like warning that you should stop playing 15 minutes should not be too long for a game the experience has some issues i also think uh if we turned the game on and like looked away for a while and then went into it might have been better because when it's like first i'm not going to get necessarily into why because you should watch the video but when it's first starting it's a little bit more jarring i think we can tell them why it's because there's these mirrors vibrating back and forth you can hear them and it takes a little while for the image to kind of like get right so it's kind of jarring it's like um it's kind of like when you're when your vr headset loses tracking for a little bit yeah and you're like looking over here and it's like up there and i was like like okay i was fine now i'm sick thank you for that and it's all black and red images which is just kind of intense it's pretty bad like with that said i was impressed by the stereo 3d effect i i mean i was eventually too honestly i prefer i prefer it took 3ds yeah i think it works better the 3ds gave me nausea like i'd never enjoyed the thing almost immediately what could they possibly have been thinking like i never i never had a 3ds so i had a i had a ds i played a ton of mario kart on that thing until i broke my trigger fingers because that's what happens when you play a ton of mario kart on a ds um and then i just like never like fixed it or any i never got a new one anyway so i had a ds and then i didn't do the 3ds thing because i just like i had a kid or something i forget what the exact timing is but it just i was busy um and then the first time i actually aside from i think i walked past like a display unit in like future shop or something and i was like oh okay that's kind of weird i'm like i looked at it but that was it the first time i really like tried to play a game with it was a couple weeks ago brandon lent me his um his 3ds to play fire emblem awakening because there's a new one out that's apparently really good and i was like oh believe it or not i've like you know casually talking i've never played a fire emblem game he's like what it's like how could you possibly think that a stereo effect that relies on the eyes being in a fixed position is a good idea on a handheld device i mean it kind of helps that you have to like shove your face into the virtual boy yeah because it positions you correctly sorry it's awkward when you have to like play a game like this but it does position you correctly and eat really quietly this is really good go go over here but yeah it was it was really fun actually um it's i think i genuinely think a big part of the fun is playing some weird derpy game on a weird derpy device weird derpy controllers with weird derpy controllers multiplayer yeah they have d-pads on each side yeah there's a d-pad here and here i realize you can't see that that well but there's d-pads on both sides which is odd and then the start and select are the exact same format as the a and b yeah and you can't see the controller because you're in the thing and then there's triggers on the back but they're not labeled oh they are just left and right and they didn't do anything in any of the games we played did they they did in the uh hyper fighter fighter okay yeah yeah so are you actually going to fix your virtual boy yeah are you yeah probably is it going to be like the shelves is it going to take 18 months it might i've got other i've been doing one major project for my house thing apartment whatever every weekend well now you're doing a koi pond is that right yeah why koi pond so my girlfriend went a little uh plant crazy out of nowhere and we now own uh 40 plants what most of them are really small i have a hard time imagining you owning a single plant i don't right they're like hers and i have technically owned exactly one singular plant since around 2013 and is still alive i thought i lost it when i moved but it's in my parents garage and i haven't bothered to pick it up yet but i guarantee you it is still alive because parents garage i have all the lights i have parents garage i have forgotten that thing behind stuff nick knows i've forgotten that thing behind stuff for like a year at a time and it's still alive zeke agrees with me it's a remember the aloe vera plant oh it's an aloe vera plant that part it is still a plant that barely still counts anyways i'm not in charge it's literally a cactus it's a plant it's a plant it's green yeah it's in kingdom whatever kingdom planta or whatever the yeah yeah as long as it's not an aloe vera mixed with alcohol plant yeah oh that yeah that was yeah that was a terrible time but um yes and we have a bajillion plants now and then uh she wanted to do something with the deck she knows you can get fake ones right that you don't have to water apparently she's like against that now and she's like on some i don't know she's she's super into it whatever whatever she doesn't watch when show you can speak freely here no i am okay for her she's into something and i think that's cool okay and it makes the house look better and like plants and water and stuff smells good so like the house the house looks and smells good okay so sweet was she sending you a message i don't i genuinely don't think so but maybe finding out what that beeping is sounds like a ups it's probably annoying to the wan show peeps that's that's nick by the way which means he's probably here so that i will tell you guys about lttstore.com yeah yeah basically it's good stuff uh ltt stealth hoodie is back in stock we have all sizes in stock i have personally confirmed that the phone pocket fits the uh galaxy note 10 plus oh it's a little tight it fits but that's not bad because it's that phone pack is designed to like hold your phone in place anyways a little tight but dang it it fits uh we've also got the very popular ram t-shirt this one has been a smash hit thanks to david's excellent modeling of course this is my favorite yeah i saw that i was like wow okay hard drive shirt is now one of our uh well one of our top sellers remember if your friends aren't nerdy they'll think you have a cool record player shirt or dj shirt if you're not 80 years old yeah dj shirt processor also a good one i love the processor one sorry for this sorry sorry also here's dennis naked sorry sorry they're amazing i'm sorry you should check out our twitter right now they're super comfortable no i'm not that sorry i saw that there's a really disturbing picture on our twitter right now uh the water bottle is awesome the new picture uh i saw that one too okay the dennis one yeah what there's another picture of you and your underwear dude what okay i'm not going to subject you guys to this if it's really awful but i do have to go on our twitter right now and find out what my team is tweeting no the best thing to do is plug it into the wall well it's plugged in but it's on casa i think okay you just press the button on the castle module okay so you guys i don't want you to take this out of context okay um is that even a real like are you actually even holding that laptop oh yeah okay it's not like photoshopped in yeah so i love photoshop i told alex we need to do uh we need to do a picture like one of the things we're trying to do is we're trying to have a little a few more like we're trying to have more fun moments in the videos uh sorry i'll make you i won't make you keep looking at that okay we're trying to have more fun moments in the videos like things that are kind of difficult you know and so there's a line in the video about the the new alienware m15 where we talk about how it's sexy and i was like yo it's like a jiffable moment we should just do like a sexy dance with the m15 and i had intended i had intended to wear the underwear that was my intent the tie in the hat is his doing okay um so if you guys don't want to experience that i can't say that i recommend our alienware m15 video but um hey you can never say that i wasn't honest with you yeah yeah so i ditched my oled yeah why okay i'll explain why because i don't yeah one of the main reasons that i have been such an advocate of oled is that i can't stand the the black glow the glo the gray glow when it when the screen is supposed to be black yeah it drives me nuts i find it very immersion breaking okay now obviously i can live with it i haven't i haven't gone so so 2019 soft that i i am simply too triggered by a black screen on an lcd that i must leave that i have to leave the like it's not like that um but if i don't have to have that i will certainly choose something that doesn't have it okay perfect blacks amazing yeah so one of the things that bugs me so you're not like ditching your current oled for a new oled no okay i have ditched oled in my living room for the first time in years now okay okay so one of the things that drives me most crazy is the black bars in letterboxed content when they're gray yeah so that instead of just seeing the content and nothing else you've got the content with a gray buffer with a black wall behind it because presumably you are not a monster and you have turned out the lights in your living room in order to properly enjoy a film um so it drives me absolutely crazy so i took home asus pg65u bfgd big format gaming display which is like a year and a half late now i i i don't know i've been like waiting for this thing it feels like forever they seem to be pretty late with displays a lot yeah just just putting that out there it seems to be the ones they're partnered with nvidia on that's fair because other than that that's accurate they kind of launch things when they say they're going to that's accurate um anyway so i took it home and i have to say they have done a great job of the full array local dimming i can find scenarios where it is noticeable okay i can create snare i like that i can create a scenario where it's noticeable move a mouse cursor around on anything dark and you can see the halo following around the cursor but i have to give them credit one of the things that i didn't do properly when we evaluated the hp omen x imperium or whatever it was called uh was view it from a more realistic angle i was always looking at it flat like a monitor or even like standing above it because it was just like sitting on a desk in the office and they actually tuned it to be viewed from slightly below because that's where most people position their tvs whether they're someone who puts it on their console and then sits on a couch or whether they put it up on a wall yeah or if they're one of those complete monsters who puts it like above their fireplace it's wrong it's wrong and you're wrong i might be mounting mine to my standing desk above my monitors so like that's different lower my standing desk as much as possible so when you sit on the couch you can watch it more better because i don't have space you know you might be a legitimate use case for an 8k tv you could just create virtual monitors on your 8k tv and then when you want to watch tv you just watch tv yeah so microsoft actually okay i'm completely changing topics here um power toys microsoft just brought back power toys which i am personally very excited about um and two of the ones that they have just announced are dang it where can i where is this here whatever here's an article from the verge um so one of them actually they're they're both really cool fancy zones this is sick so you it's like it's like arrow snapping on like steroids so here's a whole bunch of different options for dividing up your desktop and then if you go further in you can actually customize it no no where's the custom one no i mean this is already very cool but there's a customization option later that they show where you can yeah there you go where you can create like whatever the heck zones you want pretty freaking sick if you ask me that's i think they're showing it right there i think he was just setting up the zone oh no no they never actually do a very good demo of it okay it's more of an instructional video okay um and then what was the other really cool one they're both cool um blah blah blah oh yeah you can hold down the windows key and discover keyboard shortcuts so it'll just like show keyboard shortcuts on the screen and tell you what you can do with them that is freaking awesome that's really cool yay power toys yeah um anyway so it's like make my own monitor because i have found an 8k tv like a 65 inch 8k tv the pixel density is high enough that i can i can just sit right in front of it and like as long as you're not expecting a retina experience as long as you're expecting something similar to like a 1440p 27 inch or something like that actually all i want at that distance anyway like reasonable yeah you could create so you could just man if you got an oled then you could just black out the parts you don't use so you could be like okay i want to be in triple monitor mode okay you know what i want another monitor up here that seems like the kind of thing that someone out there is probably working on like a weird like like github friggin tiny program that like does this it's like i designed this for all the people who um use aktvs as their monitors i figure there's at least dozens of us you know what would be super cool is if you opened a specific application if it knew the zone that it wanted it in and it like enabled that and put it there right away so that like okay if i open uh like this one desktop link that i have for like the status page for floatplane it's gonna open it but it's gonna put it up there in the corner because i don't need to stare at this thing well if it was an oled you wouldn't even need virtual desktops because anything that doesn't have content on it would just be black yeah but i'm saying like it would it would know to put it up there away from everything else you know what i mean windows does a reasonably good job of that doesn't it just putting stuff back where you left it it's okay uh this this would be because it would be like another chrome window or whatever well fancy zones gonna take care of that that's what i'm saying yeah it'd be very nice if i could do that properly that would be sick okay on the subject of oled though yeah so the advantage of the bfgd is obviously the high refresh rate you can do hdr content up to 1080p and i don't think you can do hdr at 144 because you're oh yeah i don't know you might be able to but you're dealing with chromosomes whatever chromosome something sucks because the argument that gets made by nvidia and their their display partners is that like well it's only really a factor when you're on the desktop because it like makes text look bad i'm like lots of games have text guys so yeah um so 144 doesn't make a ton of sense to me on it but um you can do 98 hertz with 10-bit color or you can do 8-bit color at 120 hertz and get the full hdr experience on both of those i don't know it it's it's got high refresh rate it uses displayport it's got super low input lag it's like it's basically having a gaming monitor in my living room so i was playing some super meat boy and i was like oh yeah like it just feels great and when i was watching hdr content because it's bright enough it hits a thousand its peak brightness even in the dark i could definitely find halos but not with normal content on the screen so like i wouldn't like i probably wouldn't i probably want to turn it off i probably want to turn off the full array local dimming if i was playing something like anno like a mouse-based game but while watching movies basically the whole screen is going to be lit the whole time yeah kind of the ocean's pretty dark is it i found it kind of distracting okay yeah i was going to say like if you played like a horror game or like say you were playing like halo and you were going through one of the um the uh the flood missions when it gets really dark sometimes your like aimer and stuff is probably gonna be pretty annoying because it's gonna glow just around it's gonna almost feel like you have a flashlight on so it basically it finally got to the point where i'm willing to make that trade off right in exchange for higher refresh rate now with that said oled could be back in my living room sooner rather than later um wait oh i don't know if i can say this for now i'll be running the bfd oh okay here's the thing i can say so adele actually showed off an alienware 55-inch gaming oled back at ces so if that or something like that were to come along soon that could be a compelling option as well especially now that freesync displays can run g-sync yeah so you're not if you're if you want to actually you know drive a 4k display you're not stuck with uh you know screen tearing or ponying up for a g-sync display i will be very curious to see what their pricing looks like on that yeah super chats yeah why don't we do some super chats let's have a look here ladies and gentlemen isaac said mousepad news the one in the video looked cool um no news yet we're doing a mousepad oh cool it's gonna be awesome is it a desk pad oh yeah nice is there something else that exists oh just making sure because if there is that's stupid hey uh power play is awesome power play power play oh yeah that's pretty awesome yeah um joshua says can you create a way that floatplane subscribers can watch via their plex server i don't think there's official integration but i think didn't someone in the community like set something up there's unofficial integration yeah we might do something official at some point we just have so many like hyper high priority tasks right now and we have for a while but yeah we might do it eventually i do want to give them an update like you guys have got kind of a crunch coming up for the 30th i recall correctly we do i wasn't going to announce it publicly but we do might as well yeah we're we're trying to um get 4k support although that has to be enabled by the creators and plans have to be set up for that and like there's once it's done on our side it's not it's going to probably be a while before creators actually start using it um but 4k support yearly subscriptions i know you guys have been asking for them for freaking ever they are finally coming um some back end improvements that we need uh just for our own reasons and uh some other fun stuff as well the the app continually gets better um if if you've had frustrations with the app in the past i recommend you use it again the chromecast support has gotten way better you can now pull videos down and keep navigating the rest of the app there's like a bunch of other cool features the biggest update that the app has ever gotten launched this week um so go check that out and there was slicker there was a a quick little problem with it i don't remember what it was with the auto rotation and that's already been patched so yeah are we ever going to have an ios app we will eventually have an ios app um we still actively developing it in parallel yes okay yeah so when it comes out it should be basically pretty close to feature parity so the issues that apple had one of them was that if you went to go register for an account it you couldn't register register for the account in the app and they were like no no we don't like that okay um and the other one was they were running it's not trivial to fix uh it's not as hard as you think okay um so that's coming but we didn't think it was important to be in this update so whatever um and then the other one was uh that it wasn't like working properly for them but it's because they ran it in dev mode we like didn't expect them to do that so or debug mode um so i don't i don't know it's by the time we fix that stuff on our end it's going to be as far as i can tell even though they say on an average maximum of one day every single time we've done anything with them it's taken at least two weeks so it will probably be quite a while uh thanks to everyone who last week um gave me leads on how to get in touch with apple's pr uh none of them panned out to be clear don't send me any more i have definitely reached the right people they know they know yeah they have just decided that it is not worthwhile to engage in this they knew last week and they knew before last week yes it's just it's such a bizarre thing to me because their whole shtick is controlling the narrative you can't control a narrative that you don't ever even deliver yeah i don't know it's just it's bizarre they're taking away their opportunity to get their voice in there um yeah boy thanks thanks home automation x um unusual user says index set active what thanks doggo can i eat now maybe that can be the new rule uh rob says watching from the netherlands at two in the morning uh what happened with not showing the kids on the channel anymore um it's not that i'm formally not showing the kids on the channel i'm just not going out of my way to show them much or i'm i'm going out of my way to not show them much i mean my son in particular really really wants to make videos with dad um i still have misgivings about it i may come around on that i'm really not sure where i stand at this point thanks avian thanks unusual user free desktop okay i don't even know what you're talking about uh vlad any tips on a mobile for a 1066 gig and an 8700k i don't know whatever one has like the features you need they don't affect performance much anymore just you know asus gigabyte msi does it look cool yuri ge i don't know how to pronounce that so i finally subscribed to ltt on floatplane i have much feedback on ux is it better to unsubscribe or ignore ltt videos on youtube what is better for the youtube algorithm and ltp prosperity um wow i don't really think i don't really think any individual's behavior is going to have a large enough impact to affect us algorithmically the best thing is obviously to just watch them watch the videos twice um yeah it's impossible for me to say whether it's better to unsubscribe and then ignore it or stay subscribed and then ignore it i think it treats you exactly the same way regardless so should be fine um when will you do another house inspection maybe you mean tour uts are you to see or whatever that is uh we are gonna do some more stuff at my house so i'm gonna do a video on the bfgd upgrade i have to upgrade my htpc now that i have a 4k um 120 hertz gaming display in there i'm just going to need a little bit more horsepower i was running a 980 ti so um yeah that'll that'll happen soon we'll do a video about that uh not sure what that is i don't know what usual user is talking about but they keep sending super chats haiti says do you think geforce now will ever get out of beta yeah probably they seem committed enough to it at this point sam says can lmg sponsor my high school robotics team um probably not it never hurts to send an email though um minus tech tips at gmail.com actually does get monitored please don't waste their time guys uh corey just want to spend more money to support ltt also the merge store is the best ltdstore.com thanks cory heck yeah uh ilya says previously cheap iphones always had something in their name showing that status now the hobo iphone is just iphone 11 which is kind of weird yes but it also makes sense you'll get used to it it's iphone vanilla it's the normal one the hobo one it's a good name cause like sc could be special edition you know r like gt versus a gtr r sounds cooler type r there you go so no the iphone should just be like the iphone yep excuse me it should just be iphone apple never says the have you noticed that it's not the iphone it's not the facebook yeah everybody got rid of the while ago lord who hi sage i'm on tv all right morgan says i swear i saw linus holding a zenfone 6. is there a review coming no i ended up not doing a review of it because my first unit had some issues with the camera mechanism um so esu sent me another one and then by that time it was kind of old news and so i didn't end up reviewing it honestly i wasn't a huge fan the camera's not great um i think there are the cameras not great yeah the camera's not great i think their their flip around mechanism is not amazing um yeah i wasn't a huge fan it's it's a good value if you're just looking for a high performance phone at like a reasonable price but there's a lot of options for that samuel says jono's awesome one of the unsung heroes of lmg give this to him that's not really how super chats work but i'll tell him he's awesome all right here i'll send that message now uh tech x are either of you two interested in visiting the star wars land that opened at disney or has disney killed star wars for you wow go i uh i've wanted to go really badly but i think i kind of want to go with someone and coordinating schedules with adults to fly somewhere is like nearly impossible so i don't know if i'll end up ever actually going disney has not ruined star wars for me you just have to adopt a new mentality called head canon where you just kind of decide what's real and if you head cannon out all of the recent movies everything's just better i'm also legitimately pretty excited about the mandalorian and i'm legitimately pretty excited about the uh new obi-wan kenobi show because it has even mcgregor that's cheating what do you mean you can't just ignore the content all right i think i can i've been doing it quite actively and it's been pretty good okay are you watching the third from the latest trilogy are you gonna go see it probably and then you're gonna ignore it yeah so i need to know why i don't care ah something i care enough about it if that makes sense no it doesn't or i'll wait to watch it on like a plane or something i won't necessarily go see it in theater i'm going to watch it at some point but it doesn't matter to you that it just has no soul what do you mean it does matter to me that has no soul that's why i don't like it but it's not dead to you because you choose to ignore the soul spirit but people want to talk to me about it all the time because i talk about star wars stuff way too much so i need to understand the context of why i don't like it i can explain all the other recent movies so i might as well be able to explain that one as well i do have a lot of hope for the mandalorian and the new obi-wan kenobi show yeah but isn't that exactly the definition of like a blind fanboy based on all evidence that points to the contrary you keep having hope and you keep being let down i'm not i have no hope for the movie i only have hope for the shows really and the uh star wars animated series is probably my favorite digital production star wars ever made okay um so mostly the later episodes and the episodes focused on the clones but regardless all right it's dead to me that's totally fine i was always i don't blame you at all by the way more of uh like the main movies and expanded universe guy and then i like started a business and had kids and didn't really keep up for a long time so i was really hoping that the new movies were going to be like really imaginative and suck me right back in yeah and they had so much opportunity there they sucked yep but not me right back in they just sucked yeah yeah so i was never really into expanding university i tried to like them by the way so you'll be able to find rancho clips of me talking about the merits of them but the cold hard truth is i have not been i have not experienced any temptation whatsoever to go back and rewatch them it doesn't feel and this is kind of funny because it's true but it doesn't feel like it was made by someone who likes star wars it feels like it was made by someone who has a really popular series that they know people are going to watch and they're trying to do something with it instead of just liking star wars you know what i mean yeah and like that vibe comes across really heavily i was never really that into expanded universe not because i didn't like it because i had no exposure to it i didn't have any of the books right uh i didn't have uh kotor i didn't even know kotor was a thing i never played kotor i have played it a little bit on stream i tried to get into it but it was like a very last gen gaming experience yeah like i tried to play kotor after i had already played dragon age origins i tried to start playing kotor like a year and a half ago which was a little painful but yeah i had never got into eu and then i watched the first of the new movies and i was like okay there's only a few parts that i viciously hated but some of it was okay but they just like recreated an old movie and then everything else since then was just way worse so i was i've started getting more like i like the idea i want to be more into star wars i started diving into eu and i'm like super aggressively into star wars but just the stuff that i want to be into and i think you have to take that approach with eu because there's some there's some not great stuff in eu but there's also some pure gold uh brandon says friends can be family gordon if spotify requires location i'm canceling pick up title everyone wow that's strong yeah dustin scrapyard wars idea budget used unraid server computer that's tough because most of what makes up the cost of a storage server is hard drives which are commodity which are hard to find a deal on and if you're buying them use their kind of sketch tommy gun says was just watching whole room water cooling again you need more of those crazy projects um do you guys do a lot of crazy projects these days matter of time you'll see crazy projects alex is actively working on the red camera water cooling right now and i have a concept for whole home water cooling oh god that would be different from the other one and probably not corrode this time oh there you go yeah so i'm pretty excited about that uh clay toyo says here's 50 bucks just got a computer technician dropped straight out of high school using my knowledge which i can almost credit everything to ltt and tech wiki wow did you guys deserve some of my first paycheck well thank you very much glad to help andrew says i got screen burn in from tiny tower left it on overnight for days to get more coins yeah i hear that sebastian says omg first time live hello from romania um hey milker fish new 3ds has eye tracking that moves the 3d sweet spot interesting um nope says was on pornhub the other day there's ltt videos there good to know um robert says the mic really does pick up everything beep beep goes the alarm system kraken skull says love your content would love to see a home lab type video where you buy old enterprise gear on ebay oh i might have a sponsor for the crackinator oh really yeah we might be able to actually do that project that's kind of fun i haven't i don't think i've told anyone at full point about it but that's fun blake says with channel super fun you should definitely play quidditch with one of the local teams i think i think if we bring it back it should be more about toys again yeah that's my personal opinion i think with that suggestion we're done i don't know we might who knows we might so thanks for watching guys see you again next week same bad time channel quidditch oh boy have you like watched the youtube videos of people playing quidditch what amazing still do it that's some dedication yeah that's yeah cuz like harry potter hasn't been cool for quite a while now wait not just well okay hamburger\n"