WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.680 Good evening, Drew. 00:00:01.680 --> 00:00:02.480 Hi, Paul. 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:03.520 How are you feeling? 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:03.840 I'm 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:04.400 I'm alright. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:05.120 I'm growing okay. 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.680 I'm doing alright. 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:06.160 Yeah. 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:07.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:08.480 How you been? 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:09.280 How you been? 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:11.040 You were a little under the weather, huh? 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:11.680 I'm 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:13.200 uh 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:19.160 I'm getting used to some new medications and I have days that aren't as good as other days. 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:19.960 I see. 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:20.840 I see. 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:22.440 Say no more. 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:23.140 Uh 00:00:23.300 --> 00:00:24.180 I'm okay. 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:24.820 It's um 00:00:24.980 --> 00:00:26.980 it's been a busy couple weeks for me. 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:27.140 Um 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:32.980 we were originally, I think, supposed to record last week, but I had to go to Chicago for the entire week. 00:00:32.980 --> 00:00:33.540 And then 00:00:33.860 --> 00:00:36.580 I had to go back to Chicago yesterday. 00:00:36.580 --> 00:00:36.900 Oh 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:37.780 no. 00:00:38.100 --> 00:00:38.660 Yes. 00:00:38.660 --> 00:00:39.620 Yes, I got to 00:00:39.860 --> 00:00:44.660 I got to fly twice in one day to and from Chicago to attend a three-hour meeting. 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:47.720 That seems worth it. 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:53.560 I'll let you be the judge of how useful that is. 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.040 But it was 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:55.960 it's it's it's it's fine. 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:56.600 It's fine. 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:58.520 It's very, very short flight. 00:00:58.160 --> 00:00:58.480 Okay. 00:00:58.480 --> 00:00:59.680 Yeah, yeah, that is true. 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:00.320 That is true. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.000 It's a very, very short flight. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:02.800 Oh. 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:04.400 I am 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:09.160 I'm angry. 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:10.120 You're angry? 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:10.760 You're angry. 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:10.840 But 00:01:11.720 --> 00:01:12.200 we'll save it. 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:13.800 We'll save it for the end of the podcast. 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:14.200 Okay. 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:15.160 Okay. 00:01:15.220 --> 00:01:15.460 Um 00:01:15.780 --> 00:01:18.260 I'm very curious about your topics. 00:01:18.260 --> 00:01:18.740 Okay. 00:01:18.740 --> 00:01:19.060 So 00:01:19.460 --> 00:01:22.740 Drew, we've been doing this podcast for a very long time. 00:01:22.740 --> 00:01:23.380 We have. 00:01:23.380 --> 00:01:25.140 And I think that makes you know, we 00:01:25.300 --> 00:01:26.580 we don't have a lot of listeners. 00:01:26.580 --> 00:01:26.740 We have 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:29.860 we have a loyal base of listeners. 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:30.220 About seven. 00:01:30.220 --> 00:01:31.100 Yeah, yeah. 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:31.580 And uh 00:01:31.740 --> 00:01:35.100 I think that makes us one of the more successful podcasts out there. 00:01:35.100 --> 00:01:35.500 You know, not 00:01:35.659 --> 00:01:40.940 I'm not we're not like, you know, top tier, but I have to imagine there's a lot more failed podcasts. 00:01:40.940 --> 00:01:41.659 I mean 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:41.720 that 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:46.280 that never get to episode, you know, ten, let alone three hundred in some. 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:46.520 Uh 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.160 so obviously we have 00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:49.880 associate 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:56.360 you know, if you go to our podcast page or our website, we have an email address, because you have to have an email address. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.360 To have a podcast on all the major feeds, and that's contact at doingtheirbest. 00:01:59.360 --> 00:01:59.520 com. 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:01.360 Feel free to shoot us an email. 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:04.880 And uh, we've been getting a steady, steady stream of 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.080 people trying to sell services to us. 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:11.020 for as long as the podcast has existed. 00:02:11.020 --> 00:02:12.620 But now that we're on 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:13.580 also on most 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:16.060 most of them were, hey, you need a YouTube 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:17.020 channel. 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:18.280 Well we did that. 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:18.600 We're on you 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:20.200 we're on the YouTubes now. 00:02:20.200 --> 00:02:24.040 But now that we're on YouTube, things have gotten strange. 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:24.840 And uh 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:25.640 Okay 00:02:26.820 --> 00:02:27.060 I have 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:32.820 I've never really considered reading any of these podcasts on on the air, but I think I'm going to start. 00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:34.180 I'm not gonna oust anybody. 00:02:34.180 --> 00:02:35.540 You can have your side hustle. 00:02:35.540 --> 00:02:36.180 It's fine. 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:38.020 Keep sending the emails. 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:38.400 But I have 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.040 I've I've picked three that I would like to share with you today. 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:43.360 Now 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:44.240 these are 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.120 these are companies pitching to us. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:47.440 Yes. 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:47.840 Yes. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:47.920 Or 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:48.640 individuals 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:50.320 or someone trying to sell us a 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:51.280 a service. 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.560 Okay. 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:52.340 Okay. 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:53.940 And I will leave most of that part out. 00:02:53.940 --> 00:02:55.860 I'm just gonna read the the weird part. 00:02:55.860 --> 00:02:56.420 Okay. 00:02:56.420 --> 00:02:56.980 Okay. 00:02:56.980 --> 00:02:57.300 Uh 00:02:57.459 --> 00:02:58.420 this one it read 00:02:58.580 --> 00:02:59.220 this is this I 00:02:59.459 --> 00:03:00.340 entitled this one 00:03:00.580 --> 00:03:01.860 Weird Places. 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:02.180 Okay 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:08.700 It reads, Hi, hello, how's it going? 00:03:08.700 --> 00:03:10.220 Hope all is well. 00:03:10.220 --> 00:03:13.820 I have some cool information that might interest you. 00:03:14.140 --> 00:03:17.260 Your podcast, I'm sure they're doing their 00:03:17.579 --> 00:03:18.939 best, has good 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:21.579 performance and Apple podcast 00:03:21.739 --> 00:03:24.299 rankings in the last 30 days. 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:25.760 We are position 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:31.120 100 in the category personal journals in Albania. 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:33.280 I mean, that's up 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:34.560 there. 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:34.880 And 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.760 position 127 in the personal 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:41.520 In the category personal journals in Turkey. 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:48.080 And then it proceeds to tell me how I got this information and how I could pay for it, which I am not. 00:03:47.820 --> 00:03:48.380 Okay. 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:50.060 So 00:03:50.380 --> 00:03:52.220 what but what were they what were they trying to sell us? 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:52.700 Uh 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:53.340 it there's 00:03:53.500 --> 00:03:57.980 it's a data aggregator that aggregates data and we could it's yeah, yeah. 00:03:57.880 --> 00:03:59.160 I'm not gonna read the website. 00:03:59.160 --> 00:04:01.720 I don't need to give them thing, but they're basically trying to say, like, hey, I 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.600 if I want to see this kind of information, I can sign up for this thing. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:05.240 Okay, there 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:06.280 it's just statistics. 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:07.240 Yeah, statistics. 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:07.960 Yep, yep. 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:08.920 Okay. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.840 This one is very similar, trying to sell us like 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.000 a statistics tool. 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.040 This one I I call search terms. 00:04:22.740 --> 00:04:24.340 It's one's pathway. 00:04:24.340 --> 00:04:24.580 Okay, 00:04:24.820 --> 00:04:25.940 I'm ready. 00:04:25.940 --> 00:04:26.980 Hi! 00:04:26.980 --> 00:04:30.020 While checking small screen layout 00:04:30.340 --> 00:04:34.820 on Apple Podcast, we found I'm sure they're doing their best 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:35.520 in 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:36.479 position 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:37.360 number 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.080 one. 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:40.639 I'm 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.080 blah blah blah. 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:42.639 Okay, uh 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.159 we record where shows appear in podcast search results. 00:04:45.940 --> 00:04:46.020 B 00:04:46.180 --> 00:04:47.620 below are your show 00:04:47.780 --> 00:04:47.940 's 00:04:48.180 --> 00:04:50.660 best recorded positions from our keyword 00:04:50.820 --> 00:04:54.980 database over the past 30 days, up to three per platform. 00:04:54.980 --> 00:04:55.540 Okay? 00:04:55.540 --> 00:04:55.700 So 00:04:55.860 --> 00:04:56.580 obviously 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:58.879 Small screen layout. 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.000 We were ranked number one in the United States. 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.080 Small screen layout. 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:05.599 What do you think that means? 00:05:05.599 --> 00:05:06.400 I have no idea. 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:07.680 We have never talked about 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:08.479 okay. 00:05:08.479 --> 00:05:09.599 Anywho, it gets weird. 00:05:09.599 --> 00:05:10.400 It gets weirder. 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:11.759 Hold on to your butts. 00:05:12.140 --> 00:05:12.620 We are 00:05:12.780 --> 00:05:13.420 number two 00:05:13.660 --> 00:05:18.140 when you search for color changing playhouse lamps. 00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:20.380 This is AI. 00:05:20.380 --> 00:05:21.180 This is AI. 00:05:21.180 --> 00:05:22.540 This is an AI this is an AI 00:05:22.780 --> 00:05:23.660 generated email. 00:05:23.660 --> 00:05:24.300 This is this is 00:05:24.460 --> 00:05:26.380 this is the future Sam Altman wants. 00:05:26.380 --> 00:05:28.460 This is why I can't have RAM. 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:28.800 Uh 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:29.200 and 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:33.680 we are number five when searching for engineering certification exhibits. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:34.320 Okay, hold on. 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:34.480 I 00:05:34.640 --> 00:05:35.040 I I 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:35.760 I does it 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:37.600 I does is have to know. 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.280 What was the search term? 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.200 Small screen layout 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:44.280 Small screen layout podcast. 00:05:44.280 --> 00:05:45.080 Just go to Apple 00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:47.720 but this is the searching on Apple Podcasts. 00:05:48.280 --> 00:05:50.360 Okay, so I'm gonna go to Apple Podcasts. 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:51.160 Okay. 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:52.280 I didn't try any of these. 00:05:52.280 --> 00:05:53.240 I just I just was like 00:05:53.400 --> 00:05:54.280 sure, buddy. 00:05:54.280 --> 00:05:54.840 And I'm also 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:55.960 trying to think. 00:05:56.340 --> 00:05:56.980 How? 00:05:56.980 --> 00:05:57.460 How? 00:05:57.460 --> 00:06:00.340 We've never talked about small screen layout, but that's okay. 00:06:00.340 --> 00:06:00.980 Okay. 00:06:00.980 --> 00:06:01.620 I am 00:06:02.500 --> 00:06:03.860 trying to search. 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:04.340 Okay. 00:06:04.340 --> 00:06:05.300 Okay. 00:06:05.300 --> 00:06:05.620 So 00:06:05.940 --> 00:06:07.060 small screen 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:08.820 screen layout. 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:11.560 Top results. 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:12.680 What what were we? 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.039 We're number one apparently. 00:06:14.039 --> 00:06:14.680 We're not. 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:15.960 Oh no, wait, there we are. 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:16.520 Shows. 00:06:16.520 --> 00:06:17.960 I'm sure they're doing their best. 00:06:17.960 --> 00:06:18.680 Oh shit! 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:20.599 Really? 00:06:20.599 --> 00:06:21.400 Yeah. 00:06:21.820 --> 00:06:22.300 But we're n 00:06:22.460 --> 00:06:22.940 we're not 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:23.340 so 00:06:23.820 --> 00:06:24.140 it it 00:06:24.380 --> 00:06:26.140 yeah, like when when I go there, 00:06:26.460 --> 00:06:27.100 there's like 00:06:27.260 --> 00:06:28.300 top results 00:06:29.580 --> 00:06:30.940 and then there's like 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:33.820 episodes, but then there's also shows. 00:06:33.820 --> 00:06:34.460 Okay. 00:06:36.700 --> 00:06:38.300 I'm sure they're doing their best. 00:06:38.300 --> 00:06:39.180 Design for change 00:06:39.340 --> 00:06:41.500 with Jagadish. 00:06:43.340 --> 00:06:44.620 Talaseive Tech 00:06:44.780 --> 00:06:46.060 Streams. 00:06:46.900 --> 00:06:47.940 ACB 00:06:48.260 --> 00:06:49.780 ACB radio. 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:50.500 There we are. 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:51.940 There we are. 00:06:51.940 --> 00:06:52.740 Shows. 00:06:53.140 --> 00:06:56.020 And then there's an episode about HTML5 00:06:56.180 --> 00:06:57.300 and CSS. 00:06:57.300 --> 00:06:57.940 Yeah. 00:06:57.940 --> 00:06:58.740 Yeah. 00:06:58.660 --> 00:06:59.140 Yeah. 00:06:59.140 --> 00:07:02.660 Well, I guess this person wasn't blowing smoke up our ass. 00:07:02.660 --> 00:07:02.980 Though 00:07:03.140 --> 00:07:08.100 I want to know what we talked about to be number one in small screen layout. 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:09.140 But what was the second one? 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:13.460 Color changing playhouse lamps. 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:17.360 Power changing playhouse lamps. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.240 We are number one, two, three, four, five, six. 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:20.479 Okay. 00:07:20.479 --> 00:07:21.360 We're number seven. 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:21.599 Okay. 00:07:21.599 --> 00:07:24.560 Okay, we've dropped we've dropped five in that crucial category. 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.680 Maybe this will be the one that gets us back up to the top. 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.720 Okay, so I've got I've got one more to share with you. 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:32.760 Alright, I'm ready. 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:33.480 I'm not 00:07:33.640 --> 00:07:36.680 gonna I that guy didn't even give you this one a title. 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.840 I came across 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:42.680 I'm sure they're doing their best 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.240 because you publish it as a podcast. 00:07:45.880 --> 00:07:45.960 No 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:46.520 shit. 00:07:46.520 --> 00:07:48.680 No shit. 00:07:52.340 --> 00:07:52.980 You may 00:07:53.140 --> 00:07:54.020 simply think 00:07:54.340 --> 00:07:56.580 of the bat catalogue as past 00:07:56.740 --> 00:07:57.860 episodes 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:02.160 but it also means you already have something rather valuable. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:02.320 A 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:08.400 substantial body of stories, ideas, arguments, and conversations. 00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:08.660 that 00:08:08.980 --> 00:08:10.260 could potentially 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:12.020 be shaped into 00:08:12.980 --> 00:08:14.340 a book. 00:08:17.320 --> 00:08:19.320 Okay, go on. 00:08:19.320 --> 00:08:22.600 Those episodes might already contain the material for a memo 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.560 memoir, business book, practical guide, 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.640 leadership book, or expert-led 00:08:27.880 --> 00:08:28.600 nonfiction 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:29.480 book. 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.360 Without you having to start again from a bank 00:08:32.520 --> 00:08:33.880 blank page. 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:34.840 And then it goes on 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:35.320 basically 00:08:35.479 --> 00:08:36.919 pay me and I'll I'll send you 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:40.440 I'll I'll let you know what your book looks like based off your podcast archive. 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:40.520 Okay 00:08:40.680 --> 00:08:40.760 now 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:42.039 hold on. 00:08:42.220 --> 00:08:43.660 No, hold on. 00:08:43.660 --> 00:08:44.860 Hold on a second. 00:08:44.860 --> 00:08:45.340 Mm-hmm. 00:08:45.580 --> 00:08:46.700 Let's just let's just 00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:47.580 let's just let's just 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:48.860 let's just think about this. 00:08:48.860 --> 00:08:50.220 Let's just think about this for a minute. 00:08:50.220 --> 00:08:51.740 Okay, okay. 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:53.120 Are we ready? 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:53.600 Are we 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:53.920 are 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.720 we ready to enter the world of publishing? 00:08:57.040 --> 00:08:58.160 Is it time? 00:08:58.160 --> 00:08:58.800 Maybe. 00:08:58.800 --> 00:08:59.840 I don't know. 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:00.940 What does 00:09:01.260 --> 00:09:01.340 what 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:03.500 would the book be about? 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:04.620 I don't care. 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:05.020 What 00:09:05.420 --> 00:09:05.740 what 00:09:05.980 --> 00:09:06.220 what 00:09:06.620 --> 00:09:08.300 what's the price tag? 00:09:08.300 --> 00:09:08.380 I 00:09:08.540 --> 00:09:09.900 it I d it does not say. 00:09:09.900 --> 00:09:10.460 I just have to 00:09:10.620 --> 00:09:11.020 should I ever 00:09:11.260 --> 00:09:11.660 should I respond 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:13.660 should I respond to this one and go 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:15.600 Huh, we're interested. 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:17.440 Tell me more. 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:18.079 Okay. 00:09:22.180 --> 00:09:27.780 If the goal of this segment is just to highlight the sketchy shit we get said on YouTube, great. 00:09:27.780 --> 00:09:29.700 But we could turn this into like a Brewster 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:31.620 's Million situation. 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.240 Where we we we get pitched ideas and we just decide 00:09:35.400 --> 00:09:38.680 as long as the price tag isn't like thousands of dollars, 00:09:39.160 --> 00:09:41.720 just to see what these weirdos are up to with all this. 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:44.399 Alright. 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:45.279 Okay. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:45.440 Well 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:47.360 I'll take that as it's to do. 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:51.680 I will I will email this guy and go, a bookie, say? 00:09:52.780 --> 00:09:53.820 Tell me more. 00:09:53.820 --> 00:09:54.700 Tell me more. 00:09:54.700 --> 00:09:55.420 Okay. 00:09:55.420 --> 00:09:55.740 And 00:09:56.060 --> 00:09:56.620 it it ha 00:09:56.860 --> 00:09:58.460 okay, so here's the rules. 00:09:58.460 --> 00:09:59.180 Here's the rules. 00:09:59.180 --> 00:09:59.900 Okay. 00:10:00.779 --> 00:10:02.380 Number one, we're gonna reply to that. 00:10:02.380 --> 00:10:03.500 We're gonna reply to this person. 00:10:03.660 --> 00:10:05.580 We're gonna say that we'd like to learn more. 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:10.620 No, we will not attempt a Zoom call. 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:12.019 This should all be done via email. 00:10:12.019 --> 00:10:13.699 Unless we're allowed to record the Zoom call 00:10:14.180 --> 00:10:14.579 on the air. 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:15.139 For content. 00:10:15.139 --> 00:10:15.540 Okay. 00:10:15.540 --> 00:10:16.019 For content. 00:10:16.019 --> 00:10:18.100 If we can do that, then then I'm fine. 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:18.339 Okay. 00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:20.980 Number two, it has to be a real book. 00:10:21.180 --> 00:10:23.500 It has to be a physical book that I can touch. 00:10:23.500 --> 00:10:24.620 I don't want an ebook. 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:24.860 Okay. 00:10:24.860 --> 00:10:27.340 Well, you can self-publish your own book for the Amazon now. 00:10:27.740 --> 00:10:27.980 No, 00:10:28.140 --> 00:10:28.620 no, no. 00:10:28.620 --> 00:10:29.020 I will I 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:30.860 No, you can make a physical book through Amazon. 00:10:31.340 --> 00:10:32.540 I have rules for life. 00:10:32.540 --> 00:10:34.220 I have rules for life. 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:36.860 Number one rule for life, I will never own a Corvette. 00:10:36.860 --> 00:10:37.180 Number two 00:10:37.340 --> 00:10:40.220 rule for life, I will never stoop to self-publishing a book. 00:10:40.220 --> 00:10:40.780 Okay. 00:10:40.780 --> 00:10:41.100 Okay 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:42.440 So 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.240 those the I have other rules, but we don't need to go 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:46.680 right now. 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:48.279 Okay, I I'm interested. 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:48.600 Okay. 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:48.920 So how 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:50.839 like how often do we get these kind of emails? 00:10:50.839 --> 00:10:51.399 Like every day? 00:10:51.640 --> 00:10:51.720 Oh 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.000 we get at least like two or three a week. 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:54.880 Okay. 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:55.440 And most 00:10:55.760 --> 00:10:58.000 most of them, most of them now are 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.680 pay me and I'll increase your visibility on YouTube. 00:11:01.680 --> 00:11:02.000 That's 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:02.960 that's the most. 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:03.680 Yes, exactly. 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:05.120 They see our account. 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:06.620 With an email, they send us an email. 00:11:06.620 --> 00:11:08.380 And like I said, b before we had the YouTube 00:11:08.540 --> 00:11:09.980 account, it was mostly bot 00:11:10.140 --> 00:11:13.340 saying, I can put you on YouTube. 00:11:13.339 --> 00:11:13.500 Or 00:11:13.660 --> 00:11:15.420 you should be on YouTube, and now they're 00:11:15.579 --> 00:11:15.740 let 00:11:15.899 --> 00:11:17.180 me help you on YouTube. 00:11:17.819 --> 00:11:18.220 Whatever. 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:19.019 It's fine. 00:11:19.579 --> 00:11:20.220 Uh 00:11:20.540 --> 00:11:21.500 all right. 00:11:21.500 --> 00:11:22.380 Okay. 00:11:22.380 --> 00:11:22.860 Uh 00:11:23.100 --> 00:11:23.660 oh. 00:11:23.660 --> 00:11:23.899 Uh 00:11:24.139 --> 00:11:25.019 okay. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:25.680 Surprise 00:11:25.839 --> 00:11:27.600 surprise mini topic. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:27.680 So 00:11:27.920 --> 00:11:32.959 I'm gonna hold the the content for most of this until next time we record. 00:11:32.959 --> 00:11:33.440 Okay. 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.920 But I I got something today, Drew. 00:11:35.920 --> 00:11:37.680 You got something today 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.560 Okay, okay. 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:42.880 Oh 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:44.320 buddy. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:44.640 Oh 00:11:44.800 --> 00:11:45.920 buddy, I'm 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.800 dying to talk to you about this. 00:11:48.920 --> 00:11:50.440 So I won't say it out loud. 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:51.079 No, no, no. 00:11:51.079 --> 00:11:51.959 I won't say it out loud. 00:11:51.959 --> 00:11:53.639 We'll make people go we'll make people go to the YouTube 00:11:53.800 --> 00:11:55.959 channel to show what you just flashed on the screen. 00:11:55.959 --> 00:11:56.759 Okay. 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:58.600 If if we have time. 00:11:58.600 --> 00:11:59.560 Okay, okay. 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:01.160 I would love to hear initial impressions. 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.079 Okay, okay, okay, okay. 00:12:03.079 --> 00:12:03.560 All right. 00:12:03.560 --> 00:12:03.800 Should we 00:12:04.040 --> 00:12:04.839 I can do it rolling? 00:12:04.839 --> 00:12:05.720 I can do it now. 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:05.800 Uh 00:12:05.959 --> 00:12:06.040 because 00:12:06.199 --> 00:12:07.160 I had I have initial 00:12:07.319 --> 00:12:09.000 initial impressions. 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:09.880 Alright, let's do it. 00:12:10.040 --> 00:12:10.360 All right. 00:12:11.560 --> 00:12:12.360 I'm holding an iPhone 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:13.319 duo. 00:12:13.319 --> 00:12:13.880 Okay. 00:12:13.880 --> 00:12:15.240 So let's talk about it 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:15.639 because 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:17.880 I have seen. 00:12:17.880 --> 00:12:18.759 Mm-hmm. 00:12:19.180 --> 00:12:19.420 Uh 00:12:19.580 --> 00:12:21.580 we'll call this a mini review. 00:12:21.660 --> 00:12:21.980 Um 00:12:22.220 --> 00:12:23.740 I have seen people 00:12:23.980 --> 00:12:24.300 are 00:12:24.460 --> 00:12:26.140 breaking these things. 00:12:26.140 --> 00:12:26.860 Crack gate. 00:12:26.860 --> 00:12:27.500 Yes, apparently that 00:12:28.380 --> 00:12:29.580 a small number of 00:12:29.740 --> 00:12:30.060 uh 00:12:30.459 --> 00:12:30.860 iPhone 00:12:31.019 --> 00:12:34.620 duos are having issues with the hinge, which is causing the screen to break. 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:35.180 Okay. 00:12:35.180 --> 00:12:36.940 I literally got this at like 00:12:37.260 --> 00:12:37.820 1. 00:12:37.820 --> 00:12:39.260 30 today. 00:12:39.060 --> 00:12:39.540 So like 00:12:39.700 --> 00:12:40.260 in and then 00:12:40.420 --> 00:12:43.060 and then I was at work, so I really didn't use a whole lot of it. 00:12:43.060 --> 00:12:46.340 And then I spent most of it just setting it up and signing into all the things. 00:12:46.340 --> 00:12:48.580 So I really haven't used it a whole lot. 00:12:48.580 --> 00:12:49.140 Okay. 00:12:49.140 --> 00:12:49.300 So 00:12:49.460 --> 00:12:50.660 initial impressions. 00:12:50.660 --> 00:12:51.540 Okay. 00:12:51.540 --> 00:12:52.180 Uh 00:12:52.620 --> 00:12:54.540 I do not mind the size of the sm 00:12:54.860 --> 00:12:56.779 the outer screen, the small screen. 00:12:56.779 --> 00:12:57.260 Okay. 00:12:57.260 --> 00:12:58.459 It's fine. 00:12:58.459 --> 00:13:01.420 But boy, is she thick when she is folded. 00:13:01.420 --> 00:13:02.300 Okay, let me see. 00:13:02.300 --> 00:13:02.860 Fold it. 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:05.019 Fold it and hold it next to your other phone. 00:13:05.220 --> 00:13:05.780 Boy 00:13:05.940 --> 00:13:06.100 she 00:13:06.340 --> 00:13:09.140 thick. 00:13:09.140 --> 00:13:09.780 Uh 00:13:10.260 --> 00:13:11.620 it doesn't look 00:13:13.400 --> 00:13:14.760 It doesn't I don't know. 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:16.760 I'm having a hard time being a judge. 00:13:16.760 --> 00:13:19.640 I I can see how it is thicker, but it doesn't look that much thicker. 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:21.000 It's thick and it's heavy. 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:21.160 Oh 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:21.640 heavy. 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:22.440 Heavy. 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:22.520 It's 00:13:22.680 --> 00:13:23.080 it's heavy. 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:23.960 It's the these are these 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:26.680 heavier than the max size phones. 00:13:26.680 --> 00:13:27.880 Okay. 00:13:27.660 --> 00:13:32.460 So I don't like the size of the small screen, fine. 00:13:32.780 --> 00:13:33.340 Thick. 00:13:33.580 --> 00:13:34.380 Thick. 00:13:34.540 --> 00:13:35.340 Starchad 00:13:35.500 --> 00:13:35.980 dealing d 00:13:36.140 --> 00:13:37.980 just figuring that out. 00:13:38.180 --> 00:13:40.740 Uh, inner screen, gorgeous. 00:13:40.740 --> 00:13:41.300 The nano 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:43.460 the nanotexture display 00:13:43.700 --> 00:13:44.820 works great. 00:13:44.820 --> 00:13:50.260 Yes, if you go snooping for the crease, you can see it, and I do know that it will be more visible as I use it. 00:13:50.260 --> 00:13:51.140 I get that 00:13:51.500 --> 00:13:51.819 Uh 00:13:52.060 --> 00:13:52.380 touch 00:13:52.540 --> 00:13:55.579 ID is kind of a pain in the ass, though in my defense, I did 00:13:55.740 --> 00:14:01.180 spend a lot of time using it to unlock one password to copy passwords and put it into things today. 00:14:01.180 --> 00:14:03.019 So it was especially annoying. 00:14:03.019 --> 00:14:03.100 I 00:14:03.259 --> 00:14:04.060 imagine that will 00:14:04.300 --> 00:14:06.060 go away over time. 00:14:05.700 --> 00:14:07.780 I also just turned on the unlock with 00:14:07.940 --> 00:14:10.100 Apple watch, which seems to just work. 00:14:10.100 --> 00:14:14.980 You just unlock it and he goes, I unlocked for you your watch, and it taps you on the wrist and it's all good. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:15.279 Outer 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:15.519 sc 00:14:15.839 --> 00:14:17.760 inner screen, beautiful. 00:14:17.760 --> 00:14:18.399 Uh 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.360 apps that don't resize 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:25.279 or haven't been updated, like open my mindsweeper app. 00:14:25.520 --> 00:14:26.880 Look like ass. 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:28.480 Uh 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:29.040 but 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:29.840 you could 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:30.160 uh 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.280 the multitasking, I could run it side by side with another app. 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:35.040 That does work really well. 00:14:35.400 --> 00:14:36.760 So far, I 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:37.640 like it 00:14:37.800 --> 00:14:38.600 so far. 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:39.160 Okay. 00:14:39.160 --> 00:14:40.040 I like it. 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:44.760 So when we when we last discussed this topic, the question was going to be, will 00:14:44.920 --> 00:14:46.280 Jennifer like this? 00:14:46.660 --> 00:14:46.980 Uh 00:14:47.139 --> 00:14:47.300 she 00:14:47.540 --> 00:14:51.940 I showed it to her when she got home and she was like, nope, nope, nope, don't like it. 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:52.740 Do not like it. 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:53.779 So this is yours. 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:54.180 That was 00:14:54.819 --> 00:14:55.300 that was the 00:14:55.459 --> 00:14:56.180 that was the thing. 00:14:56.180 --> 00:14:59.300 I have 14 days to decide whether I'm keeping it or not 00:14:59.339 --> 00:14:59.740 Okay. 00:14:59.740 --> 00:15:02.860 So uh. 00:15:02.860 --> 00:15:03.899 Yep, yep. 00:15:03.899 --> 00:15:04.540 Uh 00:15:05.819 --> 00:15:06.139 I 00:15:06.300 --> 00:15:06.940 I do 00:15:07.180 --> 00:15:08.220 hold my breath 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.200 Still when I close it. 00:15:10.760 --> 00:15:11.400 Like is this 00:15:11.560 --> 00:15:12.680 is this the time? 00:15:12.680 --> 00:15:16.520 But I'm trying to get past that, so I just I don't think about it. 00:15:16.520 --> 00:15:19.960 Chances are my phone will be fine and I have Apple Care on it and 00:15:19.959 --> 00:15:22.200 I can go to a store and get a new one and in 00:15:22.680 --> 00:15:23.640 but yeah. 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:24.279 Now 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.120 you got the white one. 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:26.920 I did. 00:15:26.920 --> 00:15:27.480 Okay. 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.640 Because when you were holding it before it looked grey from a s 00:15:29.800 --> 00:15:30.440 from a tigar. 00:15:33.660 --> 00:15:38.540 Apple, Apple's little, it's a little folio case, so it covers the screen. 00:15:38.540 --> 00:15:41.740 You can open it like this, and then and then this is this watch 00:15:43.259 --> 00:15:43.899 boop 00:15:44.500 --> 00:15:45.300 A stand. 00:15:45.300 --> 00:15:46.500 A little kickstand. 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:47.060 Boop. 00:15:47.060 --> 00:15:50.500 And the hinges are like on the inside, so they they they disappear. 00:15:50.500 --> 00:15:51.540 Those are metal hinges. 00:15:51.540 --> 00:15:51.940 Uh-huh. 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:52.180 Yeah. 00:15:52.180 --> 00:15:53.779 It's metal hinges on the inside. 00:15:53.779 --> 00:15:55.139 We love a good metal hinge. 00:15:55.139 --> 00:15:55.540 Uh-huh. 00:15:55.540 --> 00:15:55.940 Yeah. 00:15:55.940 --> 00:15:56.660 Yeah. 00:15:56.540 --> 00:15:56.860 But like 00:15:57.019 --> 00:15:58.940 they're designed in a way that it kinda like 00:15:59.100 --> 00:16:00.300 folds back up 00:16:00.459 --> 00:16:02.060 so they're not like always like 00:16:02.300 --> 00:16:04.220 it's not too much of a bump 00:16:04.160 --> 00:16:05.040 Yeah, it's it's 00:16:05.280 --> 00:16:05.440 it's 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.160 it's nice. 00:16:06.160 --> 00:16:10.000 I do have another case coming tomorrow from Amazon, and I may 00:16:10.160 --> 00:16:13.520 buy another one just to kind of see what I like, though. 00:16:14.180 --> 00:16:16.820 It's already thick, cases add additional bulk. 00:16:16.820 --> 00:16:17.780 So I like this one because 00:16:17.940 --> 00:16:18.980 it's just magnetic. 00:16:18.980 --> 00:16:19.940 I can take it off. 00:16:19.940 --> 00:16:25.540 And a lot of I've learned that a lot of uh cases for folding phones require adhesive 00:16:26.700 --> 00:16:28.860 Because they're so thin. 00:16:28.860 --> 00:16:36.940 So like if you get a case that goes on like this outer display here, most of them have adhesive on the inside of the case 00:16:37.180 --> 00:16:37.820 to keep the 00:16:37.980 --> 00:16:39.740 keep the the case from coming up. 00:16:39.740 --> 00:16:40.700 Apparently it's 00:16:40.740 --> 00:16:41.140 Bray po 00:16:41.380 --> 00:16:41.460 very 00:16:41.620 --> 00:16:44.740 common in all folding phones for cases to have adhesive. 00:16:44.740 --> 00:16:46.900 But I'm sure it's like removable adhesive, 00:16:47.060 --> 00:16:47.300 right? 00:16:47.540 --> 00:16:47.860 Okay. 00:16:47.860 --> 00:16:48.500 So it's just temp 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:48.980 okay. 00:16:49.140 --> 00:16:49.300 Yeah. 00:16:49.540 --> 00:16:49.700 But I 00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:51.620 think it's gonna like damage your phone longer. 00:16:52.339 --> 00:16:53.300 I mean Apple's own 00:16:53.620 --> 00:16:55.459 the the other case that Apple sells 00:16:55.779 --> 00:16:56.019 uh 00:16:56.180 --> 00:16:57.940 has adhesive as well. 00:16:57.940 --> 00:16:58.180 So 00:16:58.339 --> 00:16:58.420 th 00:16:58.579 --> 00:17:01.060 I imagine they wouldn't sell something that, you know 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.000 Yep. 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:02.240 So 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:03.360 again, just got it. 00:17:03.520 --> 00:17:04.959 Only had it for a few hours. 00:17:04.959 --> 00:17:06.720 Only haven't really consumed. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.160 I haven't watched any videos. 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.280 I haven't done 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:10.320 I did read 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.240 Reddit for a little bit. 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:20.679 Some of the apps I really wanted to to try on it are haven't been updated yet and look like ass, like the app I use for reading books and reading comics. 00:17:20.679 --> 00:17:24.919 I hope they get updated at some point because I think reading comics on this thing would be killer. 00:17:24.919 --> 00:17:26.199 I think that would be killer. 00:17:27.040 --> 00:17:27.200 So 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:29.280 interesting. 00:17:29.280 --> 00:17:31.280 It's it's a little bit bigger than I imagine. 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:33.440 I have not had a chance to see one up close yet. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:33.920 Yeah. 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:34.320 Yeah. 00:17:34.320 --> 00:17:34.960 It's 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:36.779 It's it's really is the inner screen 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:38.380 really is a nice size. 00:17:38.380 --> 00:17:39.260 It's it's good. 00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:42.380 Running two apps side by side is nice. 00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:43.019 Uh 00:17:44.020 --> 00:17:44.340 But 00:17:45.140 --> 00:17:45.460 that 00:17:45.620 --> 00:17:50.100 yeah, and uh I was really worried about the size of the outer screen being too small. 00:17:50.100 --> 00:17:51.060 That's not the problem. 00:17:51.060 --> 00:17:51.860 It's just sh she 00:17:52.180 --> 00:17:52.420 she 00:17:52.580 --> 00:17:53.140 thick. 00:17:53.140 --> 00:17:53.380 She 00:17:53.620 --> 00:17:53.860 thick 00:17:54.020 --> 00:17:54.740 boy. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.360 I mean I have smaller hands, so I would wonder how comfortable that would be. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:02.160 No. 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:02.800 I am 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:04.900 Trying this as well. 00:18:04.900 --> 00:18:05.140 A pop 00:18:05.300 --> 00:18:05.780 socket. 00:18:05.780 --> 00:18:06.340 Pop socket 00:18:06.580 --> 00:18:07.860 to see if that helps. 00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:08.180 So 00:18:08.660 --> 00:18:09.540 Okay. 00:18:10.020 --> 00:18:10.740 Yeah. 00:18:10.740 --> 00:18:11.220 Okay. 00:18:11.220 --> 00:18:11.780 You're a big pop 00:18:11.940 --> 00:18:12.260 socket 00:18:12.420 --> 00:18:12.820 boy. 00:18:12.820 --> 00:18:13.700 Mm-hmm. 00:18:13.700 --> 00:18:14.260 Okay. 00:18:14.620 --> 00:18:15.020 All right. 00:18:15.020 --> 00:18:17.020 I'm I'm very curious to hear more. 00:18:17.020 --> 00:18:18.220 Very curious to hear more as 00:18:18.380 --> 00:18:19.980 as your experience with it grows. 00:18:19.980 --> 00:18:20.460 But uh 00:18:20.940 --> 00:18:21.180 I re 00:18:21.340 --> 00:18:21.740 I I 00:18:21.900 --> 00:18:23.500 I wondered if you had gotten it 00:18:23.660 --> 00:18:25.100 because we had talked about it. 00:18:25.100 --> 00:18:25.980 You said you were gonna 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:27.120 potentially order one. 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:28.320 It didn't sound like you were 100% 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:29.280 committed. 00:18:29.360 --> 00:18:30.000 I did 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.320 pre-order one, obviously, on 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:34.320 whenever the date came out, or 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:35.920 the pre-order date was. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:36.400 Uh 00:18:37.460 --> 00:18:39.460 I made the mistake 00:18:39.780 --> 00:18:40.100 of 00:18:40.260 --> 00:18:47.780 trying to get get like a pickup time at a store, and every time I picked a time, by the time I hit the next button, they were gone. 00:18:47.540 --> 00:18:47.860 So 00:18:48.020 --> 00:18:48.420 but but 00:18:48.580 --> 00:18:49.460 by the time I said 00:18:49.700 --> 00:18:50.260 fuck it just 00:18:50.420 --> 00:18:52.980 deliver it to me it was out to November second 00:18:53.140 --> 00:18:54.260 to November ninth. 00:18:54.260 --> 00:18:54.500 Today 00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:57.380 is November fifth, right in the middle of that time. 00:18:57.380 --> 00:18:57.620 Uh 00:18:58.020 --> 00:19:00.660 I got it today, this afternoon. 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:01.060 Uh 00:19:01.300 --> 00:19:01.620 so 00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:02.700 Yeah. 00:19:02.700 --> 00:19:03.260 Okay. 00:19:03.260 --> 00:19:03.740 All right. 00:19:03.740 --> 00:19:05.340 Well let's put a pin in that. 00:19:05.340 --> 00:19:06.140 Mm-hmm. 00:19:06.140 --> 00:19:06.780 And um 00:19:07.020 --> 00:19:08.380 let's spend the next twenty 00:19:08.540 --> 00:19:12.060 or so minutes mourning the loss of stuff that we love. 00:19:12.140 --> 00:19:12.700 Yes. 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:13.340 Yes. 00:19:13.340 --> 00:19:13.980 The first 00:19:14.300 --> 00:19:14.620 one 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:17.680 EA 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:18.320 is 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:20.160 shuttering 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:21.600 Bioware 00:19:23.360 --> 00:19:24.640 Game Studio 00:19:24.760 --> 00:19:27.160 Yeah, now for those of you that don't know, Bioware 00:19:27.320 --> 00:19:28.600 makes phenomenal games. 00:19:28.600 --> 00:19:28.760 Um 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:32.360 did make phenomenal games and then they made Anthem. 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:34.760 Right. 00:19:34.760 --> 00:19:35.720 Right. 00:19:36.700 --> 00:19:44.140 But Bioware makes one of my game series that I think I would probably put in my top five if not if not my top three, and that is the Mass Effect trilogy. 00:19:44.540 --> 00:19:45.660 Mass Effect maybe 00:19:45.980 --> 00:19:46.620 I remember if 00:19:46.940 --> 00:19:48.620 you really want to go deep in the back 00:19:48.780 --> 00:19:50.540 catalog, there was a series 00:19:50.660 --> 00:19:52.180 Uh probably in the low hundreds, 00:19:52.660 --> 00:19:55.140 where I had convinced you to play the trilogy 00:19:55.540 --> 00:19:56.980 and you were experiencing it for the first time. 00:19:58.900 --> 00:19:59.220 Um 00:20:00.120 --> 00:20:03.400 Yeah, I mean look that is one of those games in that entire trilogy 00:20:03.560 --> 00:20:05.960 and the storytelling and the characters and how 00:20:06.360 --> 00:20:06.760 you know 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:08.760 some of the missions and some of the care 00:20:09.080 --> 00:20:11.800 and some of the things you go through in that game are just amazing. 00:20:11.800 --> 00:20:14.760 I know you also played Dragon Origins. 00:20:13.980 --> 00:20:14.860 Dragon Age Orange. 00:20:14.940 --> 00:20:15.660 Dragon Age Orange. 00:20:15.660 --> 00:20:15.900 Yeah, and 00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:18.780 I really enjoyed the Vale Guard, the last game that came out. 00:20:18.780 --> 00:20:19.420 It was 00:20:20.060 --> 00:20:20.380 very 00:20:20.540 --> 00:20:22.300 kind of action-y. 00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:26.220 Less more action-y, less role play, but it was still really good. 00:20:26.220 --> 00:20:26.620 Yeah. 00:20:26.620 --> 00:20:27.100 Yeah. 00:20:27.100 --> 00:20:27.980 Yeah. 00:20:28.300 --> 00:20:28.460 So 00:20:29.820 --> 00:20:31.420 EA's gonna EA. 00:20:31.420 --> 00:20:34.060 They just want to make football games and shooty games. 00:20:34.060 --> 00:20:35.420 Apparently. 00:20:35.860 --> 00:20:36.020 Uh 00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:36.900 this sucks. 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:37.300 This really 00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:37.700 sucks 00:20:37.860 --> 00:20:38.500 because I they I 00:20:38.820 --> 00:20:40.500 apparently they were working on a new Mass 00:20:40.660 --> 00:20:41.940 Effect game. 00:20:41.940 --> 00:20:43.140 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:45.140 And they were getting close to 00:20:45.460 --> 00:20:45.620 w 00:20:45.860 --> 00:20:46.580 finishing it 00:20:46.740 --> 00:20:48.740 and now they're done. 00:20:48.740 --> 00:20:49.060 And 00:20:50.140 --> 00:20:55.420 I'm sure that somebody like it's m uh I'm sure EA owns the rights maybe to the Mass Effect name. 00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:56.860 I'm sure they're holding on to. 00:20:56.860 --> 00:20:58.380 Yeah, I'm sure 00:20:58.700 --> 00:20:58.940 they 00:20:59.260 --> 00:20:59.740 do. 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:00.300 Yeah. 00:21:02.060 --> 00:21:02.940 It just it sucks. 00:21:02.940 --> 00:21:06.940 I mean it's it's a bad time to be a video game developer in general, but 00:21:07.100 --> 00:21:07.820 to see us 00:21:08.060 --> 00:21:08.300 like 00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:09.500 a studio that 00:21:09.660 --> 00:21:11.180 I mean granted, yeah, Anthem 00:21:11.420 --> 00:21:12.700 did stink. 00:21:12.660 --> 00:21:13.060 Anthem. 00:21:13.380 --> 00:21:13.940 Whatever. 00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:14.180 But 00:21:15.140 --> 00:21:15.860 it was uh 00:21:16.100 --> 00:21:17.540 such a beloved studio 00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:18.260 with beloved 00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:20.420 IP, and it's really sad. 00:21:20.420 --> 00:21:25.220 I mean, maybe EA will give it to another studio to build something, but at this point 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:26.200 I 00:21:26.360 --> 00:21:29.320 I have a hard time believing that's gonna happen anytime soon 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:30.360 because it's 00:21:30.600 --> 00:21:31.800 I don't know, it's video 00:21:32.520 --> 00:21:34.040 games be tough. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:35.280 Yeah, I mean they did 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:35.919 they did 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:36.640 Boulders 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:40.240 Gate, they did Jade Empire, Knights of the Old Republic, which again, 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:41.280 if you ever 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:43.840 played those games, fucking phenomenal. 00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:47.380 MDK2, which is a weird ass game. 00:21:47.380 --> 00:21:48.260 Did you ever play that? 00:21:48.260 --> 00:21:49.140 I never did, no. 00:21:49.380 --> 00:21:52.180 With the dog with the guns and the guy with the needle nose. 00:21:52.180 --> 00:21:52.660 Okay. 00:21:52.660 --> 00:21:53.060 Yeah. 00:21:53.060 --> 00:21:54.260 Never mind. 00:21:54.260 --> 00:21:54.580 Uh 00:21:54.740 --> 00:21:55.380 yeah. 00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:55.780 Knights 00:21:55.940 --> 00:21:57.860 yeah, Knights of the Old Republic. 00:21:57.860 --> 00:21:58.180 Um 00:21:58.740 --> 00:22:00.420 Was another good one, but I mean ma 00:22:00.660 --> 00:22:01.220 for me, Mass 00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:01.940 Effect was 00:22:02.180 --> 00:22:03.460 Mass Effect. 00:22:03.540 --> 00:22:03.940 Boulder's 00:22:04.100 --> 00:22:06.020 Boulder's Gate 2 was a banger. 00:22:06.340 --> 00:22:07.780 Bouldersgate two was a banger. 00:22:07.780 --> 00:22:10.900 I know everybody's like super hype for Boulder's Gate 3 these days, but 00:22:11.060 --> 00:22:13.700 Real OGs in the late nineties, early two thousands 00:22:13.860 --> 00:22:14.100 remembers 00:22:14.260 --> 00:22:14.980 Boulder Gate 00:22:15.140 --> 00:22:15.540 II 00:22:15.860 --> 00:22:18.420 and what a great game that was. 00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:18.740 Um 00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:25.279 And of course, as we mourn the passing of Mass Effect, there's been a lot of digital ink spilled 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:25.760 about 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:26.159 here 00:22:26.320 --> 00:22:30.159 were the top ten, you know, 00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:29.900 moments 00:22:30.059 --> 00:22:31.340 in the Mass Effect series. 00:22:31.340 --> 00:22:32.940 Number six will make you fuck your dad. 00:22:32.940 --> 00:22:33.740 It was just like 00:22:34.940 --> 00:22:35.580 but uh 00:22:36.059 --> 00:22:36.460 but there 00:22:36.700 --> 00:22:37.740 but there were like 00:22:38.460 --> 00:22:39.260 I don't know. 00:22:39.860 --> 00:22:42.419 Just some of the characters from that game just still stick with me. 00:22:42.419 --> 00:22:42.820 Mordon 00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:44.100 Solace and Thane 00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:44.740 and 00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:45.299 Yeah 00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:45.620 uh 00:22:45.860 --> 00:22:46.260 Tally 00:22:46.419 --> 00:22:46.820 and all those 00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:48.659 Meaningful Decisions. 00:22:48.820 --> 00:22:49.780 Very meaningful. 00:22:51.300 --> 00:22:53.940 Story elements crossed across games 00:22:54.340 --> 00:22:54.660 and 00:22:55.060 --> 00:22:55.780 yeah. 00:22:55.780 --> 00:22:55.940 I 00:22:56.100 --> 00:22:57.300 okay, so here 00:22:57.540 --> 00:23:00.580 this is this is a super obscure bit of trivia. 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:00.560 Okay. 00:23:00.560 --> 00:23:03.760 Have you ever heard of the name of of the game 00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:06.080 Frog Fractions? 00:23:06.560 --> 00:23:07.200 I think 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:07.920 so. 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:08.480 Yeah. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:08.720 It's 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:09.440 it's uh 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:13.640 Let's see, hold on. 00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:14.520 Frog 00:23:15.080 --> 00:23:16.360 fractions. 00:23:16.360 --> 00:23:17.240 Okay. 00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:18.240 There 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:18.960 spoil 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:20.480 spoil we we need a spoiler horn. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:21.440 We need a spoiler horn right now. 00:23:21.600 --> 00:23:22.240 Okay, okay, I'll put 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:23.120 I'll put a spoiler 00:23:23.600 --> 00:23:26.080 spoiler horn for frog fractions 00:23:26.320 --> 00:23:26.880 the video 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:28.080 game 00:23:30.419 --> 00:23:30.820 Hey 00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:36.100 nerds, there's gonna be spoilers. 00:23:36.100 --> 00:23:37.220 Okay, so so 00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:38.820 first and foremost, um 00:23:38.980 --> 00:23:39.539 if you stick 00:23:39.860 --> 00:23:44.659 if you stayed through the spoiler horn, you should go play Frog Fractions, first of all. 00:23:44.780 --> 00:23:46.380 It is an entertainment 00:23:46.620 --> 00:23:47.100 game 00:23:48.540 --> 00:23:49.420 that is not 00:23:49.580 --> 00:23:50.860 it is not what it seems. 00:23:50.860 --> 00:23:51.420 Okay. 00:23:54.340 --> 00:23:57.539 and turn it into different genres of games. 00:23:57.539 --> 00:23:57.860 Like 00:23:58.020 --> 00:23:58.419 like a ro 00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:01.380 like a like a romance simulator, a a shoot 'em 00:24:01.539 --> 00:24:02.020 up, like 00:24:02.980 --> 00:24:03.700 you you yeah. 00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:04.179 Do you play 00:24:04.340 --> 00:24:05.380 you play as hop 00:24:05.820 --> 00:24:06.460 And uh 00:24:06.620 --> 00:24:07.260 then you get on 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:08.620 you get put on trial for kill 00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:13.020 for your crimes against the bugs that you eat as part of frog fractions. 00:24:13.020 --> 00:24:13.420 There's 00:24:13.580 --> 00:24:13.980 there's a ser 00:24:14.300 --> 00:24:17.420 there's there's a section where it asks you to import your Mass Effect 2 00:24:17.580 --> 00:24:18.380 save. 00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:21.040 It does nothing. 00:24:21.280 --> 00:24:22.080 Okay, we just once 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:22.400 it's 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:23.120 yeah. 00:24:23.120 --> 00:24:26.640 But that that's the kind of cultural impact that Mass Effect has. 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:26.960 Like there 00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:29.920 there is a game that lets you import your Mass Effects 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:30.400 into 00:24:30.800 --> 00:24:31.280 data 00:24:31.520 --> 00:24:32.960 that does nothing. 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.880 But go play Frog Fractions. 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:35.440 Yeah. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:36.240 Okay. 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:36.720 Um 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:36.960 what 00:24:37.120 --> 00:24:42.080 was what was your like if you had to think of like the best moment in a bioware game that you can think of, like 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:43.920 what are you thinking? 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:45.280 I mean 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:48.320 S 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.040 I I 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:49.520 t 00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:49.920 two 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:50.400 two 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:52.720 uh was it Bio War II that had the space 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:53.680 hamster? 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:53.920 Uh 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:54.800 or is that Bio 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:55.040 War 00:24:55.360 --> 00:24:55.440 or 00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:56.080 I mean uh 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:56.560 uh 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.120 no which 00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:57.840 what it's 00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:58.080 the 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:00.160 the it was it Neverwinter Nights that had the space 00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:01.360 hamster or was that 00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:01.820 Uh 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:03.100 Baldur's Gate. 00:25:03.100 --> 00:25:03.500 The character 00:25:04.220 --> 00:25:07.420 the g the one like the warrior that had a little hamster. 00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:07.740 Oh 00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:09.500 that was Baldur's Gate too, I think. 00:25:09.580 --> 00:25:10.060 Okay, Border Gate 00:25:10.380 --> 00:25:11.580 I think it was Baldur Gates too. 00:25:11.580 --> 00:25:11.740 Yeah. 00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:16.559 Th the first time 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:22.320 you had a crew member die in Mass Effect, Mass Effect one, right, like 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:25.519 that first decision, you you have to pick like who you go with 00:25:25.760 --> 00:25:28.240 and then the other party member dies 00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:31.100 And by the way, 00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:32.700 there is a correct answer. 00:25:33.100 --> 00:25:34.059 There's a correct answer. 00:25:34.059 --> 00:25:35.020 Always let Ashley die. 00:25:35.020 --> 00:25:35.820 Ashley's the space 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:36.620 Nazi. 00:25:36.620 --> 00:25:37.340 Ashley's a space 00:25:37.500 --> 00:25:37.980 Nazi. 00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:39.260 Always let Ashley die. 00:25:40.140 --> 00:25:40.620 Yeah. 00:25:41.100 --> 00:25:42.380 Yeah. 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:42.840 Or maybe the 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:45.320 the first the first sex scene you unlock. 00:25:45.320 --> 00:25:46.680 That that's yeah. 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:47.960 Yeah. 00:25:48.360 --> 00:25:49.240 Yep. 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:49.560 Um 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:50.920 yeah. 00:25:50.860 --> 00:25:51.179 Yeah. 00:25:56.940 --> 00:25:57.260 And 00:25:57.419 --> 00:25:57.659 how 00:25:57.820 --> 00:25:59.899 if you don't take the time to actually learn 00:26:00.260 --> 00:26:01.220 who your crew is, they 00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:02.500 just all get wiped out. 00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:02.900 Yeah. 00:26:02.900 --> 00:26:03.220 Right. 00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:03.620 Yeah. 00:26:03.780 --> 00:26:11.140 If you do if you do everything right and get the quote unquote good ending for Mass Effect 2 and everybody survives if you make all the right choices. 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:11.740 Um 00:26:11.900 --> 00:26:14.539 I remember the first time I did it, I think I lost half my crew. 00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:14.620 Uh 00:26:14.780 --> 00:26:15.179 just because I 00:26:15.419 --> 00:26:16.620 I sent the wrong people. 00:26:16.620 --> 00:26:18.299 I think I lost someone 00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:18.780 uh 00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:19.380 The fur 00:26:19.540 --> 00:26:20.580 yeah, that time too. 00:26:20.580 --> 00:26:24.900 And I I was just yeah, I was just rolling with it, no spoilers, just playing, just doing my thing. 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:31.760 Some of the choices 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:32.880 make really good sense. 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:34.800 Some of the choices make no sense. 00:26:34.800 --> 00:26:36.880 So you really are just kind of at the mercy of 00:26:37.040 --> 00:26:37.360 did you 00:26:37.520 --> 00:26:39.040 did you choose the right thing? 00:26:39.419 --> 00:26:40.140 Yeah. 00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:41.419 Just great games. 00:26:41.419 --> 00:26:43.419 I'm really sad that they canceled everything. 00:26:43.419 --> 00:26:43.980 Yeah, it's 00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:45.820 it's a it's a bummer. 00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:50.620 But I bet you you're probably more upset about the next thing. 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:55.480 Oh, Drew, Drew, Drew, my 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:56.280 beloved 00:26:56.600 --> 00:26:56.840 web 00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:58.919 browser, Ark. 00:26:59.300 --> 00:27:02.260 is being sunset, which 00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:03.060 means 00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:03.460 I'm 00:27:03.620 --> 00:27:05.700 ready to pour one out for arc. 00:27:07.940 --> 00:27:10.340 As of, let's see, here's the dates. 00:27:10.340 --> 00:27:10.500 Uh 00:27:10.660 --> 00:27:10.740 they 00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:14.340 announced it on October 22nd. 00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:14.580 Uh 00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:19.860 starting November 23rd, Arc Search for iOS and Android keep working as a browser. 00:27:19.840 --> 00:27:23.679 But the AI features get turned off and sync gets turned off. 00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:26.480 December 15th is the last day to request a personal 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.880 copy of personal data related to your ARC account or ask us to delete it. 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:31.679 And on December 00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:32.720 22nd 00:27:33.320 --> 00:27:36.120 Arc will no longer work. 00:27:36.120 --> 00:27:37.960 Period. 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:39.560 Wow. 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.520 Oh, it hurts, Drew. 00:27:42.520 --> 00:27:43.160 It hurts. 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:43.480 Okay. 00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:43.560 But 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:44.120 but 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:45.160 but 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:48.440 I've 00:27:48.600 --> 00:27:49.720 I've already moved 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:51.960 I've moved on. 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:52.760 Oh? 00:27:53.080 --> 00:27:54.120 Tadia? 00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:54.919 No, no, not to 00:27:55.080 --> 00:27:55.559 Dia. 00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.160 Because fuck the browser company. 00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:57.559 Fuck you. 00:27:57.559 --> 00:27:57.880 You hurt 00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.320 broke my heart. 00:27:59.780 --> 00:28:00.020 Wow. 00:28:00.260 --> 00:28:00.580 This is the 00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:02.580 I did not expect this heel turn. 00:28:02.580 --> 00:28:08.260 Atlassian owns them now, and it's only a matter of time before they fuck it up somehow. 00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:09.300 Okay. 00:28:09.540 --> 00:28:09.780 Or 00:28:10.020 --> 00:28:10.500 make it 00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:11.540 I don't know. 00:28:11.540 --> 00:28:11.620 Or 00:28:11.780 --> 00:28:13.220 do you have you have to have an Atlantea 00:28:13.460 --> 00:28:14.900 subscription to use Dia? 00:28:14.900 --> 00:28:18.100 It's definitely going to be a more of a work product because they own it. 00:28:18.100 --> 00:28:21.620 I'm just not interested in that or or mismanagement. 00:28:21.900 --> 00:28:22.540 Uh 00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:23.740 there 00:28:24.060 --> 00:28:24.700 have been 00:28:25.260 --> 00:28:28.220 ARC has inspired a lot of people, Drew. 00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:29.340 A lot of small 00:28:29.580 --> 00:28:29.980 indie 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:31.420 developers. 00:28:31.600 --> 00:28:32.240 Uh 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:33.039 there's 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:34.080 obviously there's other 00:28:34.320 --> 00:28:37.760 there's other there's bigger players in the space like Zen. 00:28:37.760 --> 00:28:38.080 Uh 00:28:38.320 --> 00:28:40.159 there's uh what there's one called I think 00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:41.600 Vivaldi. 00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:41.760 Uh 00:28:41.919 --> 00:28:42.960 on the more indie 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:46.000 space, there is yet another browser. 00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:46.520 And 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:49.080 the one that I am currently test 00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:50.360 driving now 00:28:50.600 --> 00:28:53.000 is a browser called Crest. 00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:53.880 Crest. 00:28:54.280 --> 00:28:54.520 Crest. 00:28:54.760 --> 00:28:56.600 I've been linked to it there in the show notes. 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:03.280 It's kind of hidden because it's so that that first link is so big, but yes, Crest Browser. 00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:03.919 com. 00:29:03.919 --> 00:29:04.240 Uh 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.440 it looks very R 00:29:05.980 --> 00:29:06.460 It does. 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:07.740 It's basically the the 00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:08.780 the developer 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:09.500 you go 00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:11.500 on the website, it's like the browser for life 00:29:11.740 --> 00:29:13.340 life after arc. 00:29:14.320 --> 00:29:19.520 It's not exactly like ARC, but it has so far been close enough. 00:29:19.520 --> 00:29:19.760 Uh 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:21.360 it is an indie 00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:27.120 development team, so it's a really small group of developers who are working on this. 00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:29.220 It's not even that version 1. 00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:29.460 0 00:29:29.780 --> 00:29:30.580 yet. 00:29:30.580 --> 00:29:31.220 Uh 00:29:31.620 --> 00:29:31.940 but 00:29:32.340 --> 00:29:33.220 I mean 00:29:34.580 --> 00:29:35.220 I see 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:36.900 potential in Crest. 00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:37.780 It does 00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:39.799 have 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:42.039 a lot of the same features. 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.240 It's got the sidebar, it's got split view, it's very 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:45.480 can 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:47.320 be very keyboard driven 00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:50.100 There are some things I think they're tweaking in the next. 00:29:50.100 --> 00:29:51.140 I think if I got on the dev 00:29:51.300 --> 00:29:54.660 channel, some of the stuff that I don't like is already starting to be tweaked. 00:29:54.660 --> 00:29:54.820 Uh 00:29:54.980 --> 00:29:55.380 he's very 00:29:55.620 --> 00:29:57.060 he's got a very active, apparently 00:29:57.220 --> 00:29:58.980 Discord, and he's active on 00:29:59.460 --> 00:30:05.060 There's a Crest subreddit, so uh the main developer is very active there. 00:30:05.060 --> 00:30:06.900 So that is what I am trying now. 00:30:06.900 --> 00:30:07.380 And it's got 00:30:07.540 --> 00:30:11.700 the reason one of the reasons I like it, it has an iOS version as well. 00:30:11.560 --> 00:30:12.920 So I can sync all my bookmarks. 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:16.040 No, I think the iOS version needs a lot of work, but 00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:17.000 uh 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.560 it's yeah, I've I've uh 00:30:19.940 --> 00:30:21.539 I did not hesitate. 00:30:21.539 --> 00:30:25.620 I picked a browser, imported stuff, and just leaned into it. 00:30:25.620 --> 00:30:27.860 And I I don't even think I have ARC. 00:30:28.040 --> 00:30:28.440 I still 00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:29.960 actually I do still have ARC 00:30:30.120 --> 00:30:31.160 installed on 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:31.640 uh 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:33.560 my computer, but uh 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:34.440 not for long. 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:34.680 It's uh 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:36.120 in fact, you know what? 00:30:36.120 --> 00:30:38.120 I'm gonna uninstall it right 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:39.400 now. 00:30:39.620 --> 00:30:42.100 Why is ARK being sunset? 00:30:42.100 --> 00:30:42.660 Answer. 00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:52.100 Keeping a browser safe and secure has become harder and harder in the age of AI, and we can no longer keep ARC as safe and secure as it needs to be. 00:30:53.080 --> 00:30:53.800 Strong 00:30:54.040 --> 00:30:54.360 strong 00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:56.520 choice of reasons. 00:30:56.520 --> 00:31:03.480 Our security team is focusing on Dia, which we built from the ground up to protect against modern-day security attacks. 00:31:03.140 --> 00:31:12.420 Many of ARC's best ideas already live in Dia, including spaces, as profiles you can swipe between and choose whether you want them to share data or not, folders, pin tabs, and tabs which 00:31:12.580 --> 00:31:12.660 are 00:31:12.820 --> 00:31:13.060 so 00:31:13.460 --> 00:31:18.260 They're leaning into, hey, AI's making it hard to make stuff secure. 00:31:19.140 --> 00:31:20.420 That's fine. 00:31:20.420 --> 00:31:21.540 It's fine. 00:31:21.540 --> 00:31:22.180 It's gone. 00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:22.900 I uninstalled it. 00:31:24.620 --> 00:31:26.540 Yeah, and it it hasn't been getting 00:31:26.700 --> 00:31:30.780 the only updates it's been getting for a long time is basically Chromium updates. 00:31:30.780 --> 00:31:33.180 Like, cause it's based on Chromium. 00:31:33.180 --> 00:31:33.660 Uh 00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:36.480 Speaking of, that's that's one 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.080 that is one weird quirk about the Crest browser. 00:31:40.080 --> 00:31:41.120 Okay. 00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:41.760 The Crest 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.840 Crest browser is a multi-engine browser. 00:31:46.340 --> 00:31:46.740 Okay. 00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:51.380 You can load pages in either Chromium or WebKit. 00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:52.179 Okay. 00:31:52.179 --> 00:31:53.700 And the reason is 00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:56.500 unless you jump through a lot of hoops 00:31:56.919 --> 00:31:57.160 You 00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.840 cannot play 00:31:59.080 --> 00:31:59.720 DRM 00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:00.600 content 00:32:00.840 --> 00:32:02.919 in Chromium. 00:32:02.919 --> 00:32:03.960 Oh, I see. 00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:04.919 Okay. 00:32:06.100 --> 00:32:06.420 So 00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:07.940 by default 00:32:08.100 --> 00:32:12.740 it uses Chromium for everything, but when it detects DRM 00:32:12.900 --> 00:32:13.140 video 00:32:13.300 --> 00:32:16.260 or audio or any kind of DRM content of any kind. 00:32:16.540 --> 00:32:18.220 It makes a note of it and then sends 00:32:18.380 --> 00:32:19.580 launching that page in 00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:20.700 using WebKit 00:32:21.020 --> 00:32:22.620 so you can watch that stuff. 00:32:23.020 --> 00:32:25.580 It's a pretty clever workaround. 00:32:25.800 --> 00:32:36.520 Uh, but it is weird, especially like the first time you go to like Netflix with it, you sign in and you go to watch something and it goes, oh my god, no, launching with WebKit, and then you have to sign it again. 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:39.840 And yeah, but 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:40.720 it's 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.000 it's it's a little rough around the edges, but I see 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.400 I see the potential of Crest. 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:47.680 I see the potential. 00:32:47.919 --> 00:32:48.160 So 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:51.840 why do they call it crest? 00:32:51.840 --> 00:32:53.120 I see a lot of crest 00:32:53.360 --> 00:32:54.400 like flags. 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:54.960 I'm guessing 00:32:55.760 --> 00:32:56.320 arc 00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:58.440 You know, it's a crest 00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:01.159 of a wave, an arc, you know. 00:33:01.159 --> 00:33:03.880 I'm guessing it's a play on the shape 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:04.960 Oh neat. 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:05.280 When I click 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:08.880 when I click these different crests on the website, it changes the background color. 00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:09.680 Yeah, 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:10.480 you can 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:14.880 those are the themes that are built in by default for your different spaces in your tabs. 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.800 You can customize all of them because of course 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:17.600 you can 00:33:17.740 --> 00:33:17.900 Uh 00:33:18.060 --> 00:33:20.380 it was actually the import from Arc was really good. 00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:30.780 It pulled in all of my spaces, all the extensions for those spaces, the icons I used, the colors I've used, though by default some of the stuff was a little unreadable. 00:33:30.380 --> 00:33:32.300 So I had to tweak some things, but 00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:33.580 yeah, yeah. 00:33:33.580 --> 00:33:37.420 But like, yeah, it's got, you know, like if you look across the bottom there, like 00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:39.500 spaces I use, sidebur 00:33:39.660 --> 00:33:40.220 sidebar 00:33:40.460 --> 00:33:42.700 I use, split view I use. 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:46.320 Peak, I use, quick windows, I use, uh 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:50.800 the command palette, I that's the what I fell in love with Arc in the first place. 00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:52.320 You can do everything via 00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:53.680 keyboard, just 00:33:53.840 --> 00:33:56.640 hit Command T and just start typing commands 00:33:56.600 --> 00:33:57.240 Uh 00:33:58.039 --> 00:33:58.519 yes 00:33:58.840 --> 00:33:58.919 it 00:33:59.080 --> 00:34:00.120 so far it is 00:34:00.360 --> 00:34:01.799 so far it has been 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:04.519 a perfectly chromulate web browser. 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:04.760 So 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:05.480 Okay. 00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:06.120 Mm-hmm. 00:34:06.120 --> 00:34:06.840 Okay. 00:34:06.760 --> 00:34:07.720 Well, I'm really sad. 00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:07.960 I know 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:09.639 what a big proponent of Arc you were. 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:11.720 It seems like you're finally breaking up with your favorite 00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:13.080 with your favorite browser. 00:34:13.080 --> 00:34:13.480 Uh if 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:15.480 they would continue to ship Chromium 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:18.440 updates, I would continue to use Arc. 00:34:19.279 --> 00:34:21.679 It's not something I was looking to do. 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:23.119 I was happy with Arc. 00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:24.879 It was great. 00:34:24.879 --> 00:34:26.639 But I'm just, yeah, I just 00:34:26.799 --> 00:34:27.359 when they 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:29.079 Then that information came out. 00:34:29.079 --> 00:34:30.440 I, you know, got the email. 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.200 I was like, well, it's time to pick one of these alternatives and just lean into it. 00:34:34.200 --> 00:34:35.960 And I did try I tried Zen. 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.000 I tried some of the other ones. 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:37.960 I just I did the 00:34:38.340 --> 00:34:39.620 Zen is too much. 00:34:39.620 --> 00:34:40.660 It's too much people. 00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:44.420 Also, it's based on the Firefox, the Gecko engine, and 00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.260 it just doesn't 00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:47.060 it doesn't 00:34:48.020 --> 00:34:48.500 no. 00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:50.740 No, I'm sorry Firefox fanboys. 00:34:50.740 --> 00:34:53.940 But your browser's bad and you should feel bad. 00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:55.460 Yeah. 00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:56.260 Hey, plenty of 00:34:56.419 --> 00:34:57.380 plenty of room on the opera 00:34:57.540 --> 00:34:58.740 bandwagon. 00:34:58.740 --> 00:35:00.100 Yeah, no, thank you. 00:35:02.020 --> 00:35:02.900 Well, Paul, 00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:04.340 I am going 00:35:04.660 --> 00:35:05.220 I I have 00:35:05.380 --> 00:35:07.620 I have balm to soothe you. 00:35:07.620 --> 00:35:08.180 Okay. 00:35:08.180 --> 00:35:08.820 Please come 00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:09.620 please come. 00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:09.860 I I 00:35:10.020 --> 00:35:11.540 I have sucker. 00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:12.920 That can help you make your problem 00:35:13.160 --> 00:35:15.400 seem small in comparison. 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:15.880 Okay. 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.840 Because we're gonna go to everybody's other favorite segment on the show, and that's Drew's Computer Corner. 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.160 Oh 00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:23.700 Okay. 00:35:24.180 --> 00:35:25.540 What happened, Drew? 00:35:26.340 --> 00:35:27.220 I'm gonna do a little setup. 00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:31.620 I'm gonna explain why we're about to discuss all the things that we're gonna do. 00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:32.340 I still see your sim 00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:33.780 ring in the corner, so 00:35:35.140 --> 00:35:35.940 Yep. 00:35:36.500 --> 00:35:37.859 Everything everything's fine there. 00:35:37.859 --> 00:35:38.180 Okay. 00:35:38.180 --> 00:35:38.980 Everything's fine there. 00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:39.380 In fact, that 00:35:39.619 --> 00:35:41.540 that has been so fun, by the way. 00:35:42.080 --> 00:35:42.400 Good. 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.000 I look like such a fucking dork 00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:45.520 when I'm in that thing. 00:35:45.520 --> 00:35:50.960 Um, but I'm already thinking about the other stuff that I want to add to that without it being totally obnoxious. 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.800 But that's that's a subject for a different day. 00:35:52.740 --> 00:35:53.300 Okay. 00:35:53.300 --> 00:35:53.860 Alright. 00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:56.180 So we're approaching wintertime 00:35:56.500 --> 00:35:56.820 where 00:35:57.140 --> 00:36:05.860 I have a little less responsibility on the weekends because I'm not doing as much yard work, although I'm gonna have to do leaves and stuff over the next few weeks, but whatever. 00:36:05.680 --> 00:36:09.359 Days are getting shorter, nights are getting longer, it's darker outside. 00:36:09.359 --> 00:36:10.720 I am getting into 00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:11.359 now 00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:19.200 I'm ready to go back and play some video games that maybe I didn't get to play over the summer, finish some games that I started that I didn't get to play. 00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:19.859 So uh 00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:21.140 what I did is 00:36:21.299 --> 00:36:25.539 over the last couple weeks I've been downloading some backlog games on my computer. 00:36:25.539 --> 00:36:26.020 Okay. 00:36:26.020 --> 00:36:29.859 There's two games that I started earlier this year that I haven't. 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:29.120 finish 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:30.800 that I really want to get back to. 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:32.640 One of those games is Metal Gear Solid 00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.720 Metal Gear Solid Delta, which I have talked about on this show. 00:36:36.720 --> 00:36:37.040 You have 00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:40.320 so a remake in the Unreal Engine 5. 00:36:40.580 --> 00:36:40.740 uh 00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:47.460 of the Metal Gear Solid 3 game, which is the best Metal Gear Solid game, and it's not even close. 00:36:47.460 --> 00:36:49.940 I was really looking forward to playing through that game 00:36:50.100 --> 00:36:51.140 and Robocop 00:36:51.300 --> 00:36:55.060 Rogue City, which I had started and got pretty far through. 00:36:55.120 --> 00:36:56.640 Very, very fun game. 00:36:56.640 --> 00:36:57.760 Very campy. 00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:58.720 I love the 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:02.720 side missions and and all the things that you could do in it and everything. 00:37:02.720 --> 00:37:02.880 Was 00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:05.120 really looking forward to finishing that game. 00:37:06.940 --> 00:37:11.260 Now, what I've noticed, or what I started noticing, is 00:37:11.580 --> 00:37:17.900 when I play certain games on my computer, what was happening is my monitor would lose signal. 00:37:19.980 --> 00:37:24.060 Computer would not crash, game would not crash, monitor would go blank, would say 00:37:24.220 --> 00:37:27.339 no signal, I would still hear audio in my headset 00:37:28.180 --> 00:37:30.260 So I thought, that's weird. 00:37:30.260 --> 00:37:30.820 It's weird. 00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:32.660 I wonder what that's about. 00:37:33.140 --> 00:37:33.380 So 00:37:33.540 --> 00:37:37.780 I started doing some investigating, and what I have come to discover 00:37:38.140 --> 00:37:45.980 is that my computer, apparently, when I play any game that is Unreal Engine 4 or 5. 00:37:46.740 --> 00:37:51.620 Especially if the game has a cutscene, my computer just 00:37:51.860 --> 00:37:52.340 conks 00:37:52.580 --> 00:37:52.980 out. 00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:56.980 The only way I can get it to recover is to reboot the machine. 00:37:57.560 --> 00:37:59.640 This does not happen in every game. 00:37:59.640 --> 00:38:01.400 It does not happen in every workload. 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:03.720 In fact, I play very demanding 00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:05.960 GPU-based games in VR. 00:38:06.680 --> 00:38:08.040 And I do not have this problem. 00:38:08.040 --> 00:38:08.440 Okay. 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:09.960 So I thought, okay. 00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:10.480 Let's 00:38:10.720 --> 00:38:12.800 let's approach this logically. 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.040 This is happening with certain game engines. 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:17.440 It is also only happening with my monitor. 00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:23.120 None of that makes sense. 00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:26.240 And by the way, both VR headsets, the Steam Frame, which I go 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:29.360 which goes wirelessly, and my PyMax, which uses DisplayPort. 00:38:29.620 --> 00:38:33.060 Not losing anything on that when I played DCS. 00:38:33.060 --> 00:38:33.620 Okay. 00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:36.420 So I started looking into it, started browsing it. 00:38:36.420 --> 00:38:39.940 You know, there was some troubleshooting steps and I went through all those things. 00:38:39.940 --> 00:38:41.540 I did a clean driver install. 00:38:41.540 --> 00:38:43.140 Didn't resolve the issue 00:38:43.220 --> 00:38:43.380 Uh 00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:44.980 the issue was intermittent. 00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:46.020 It wasn't consistent. 00:38:46.020 --> 00:38:46.740 Although 00:38:46.980 --> 00:38:49.460 there's one cutscene on Robocop Robe City. 00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:50.339 Doesn't matter. 00:38:50.339 --> 00:38:50.740 Just because 00:38:51.059 --> 00:38:51.140 it 00:38:51.299 --> 00:38:52.020 does it every time. 00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:54.099 As soon as that cutscene starts playing, like 00:38:54.260 --> 00:38:55.220 boom. 00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:56.360 And just freaks 00:38:56.600 --> 00:38:57.080 out. 00:38:57.080 --> 00:38:58.040 So I was like, this 00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:59.000 is no good. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.480 So I spent an entire weekend 00:39:01.640 --> 00:39:03.720 tearing my computer apart. 00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:03.720 Okay. 00:39:10.680 --> 00:39:12.760 I have, you know, originally 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:14.920 and you can't see it on camera. 00:39:15.020 --> 00:39:16.940 I had those rack mount 00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:17.820 cases 00:39:18.460 --> 00:39:19.260 with stuff in it. 00:39:19.260 --> 00:39:21.420 Plenty of fans, plenty of cooling. 00:39:21.420 --> 00:39:23.020 I was watching temperatures. 00:39:23.020 --> 00:39:24.619 I was watching all this stuff. 00:39:24.260 --> 00:39:25.300 But I thought, hey, you know what? 00:39:25.300 --> 00:39:26.180 I'll bite the bullet. 00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:30.580 I ripped everything out of those cases, put them in my original cases with fans. 00:39:30.580 --> 00:39:32.100 Did not solve the problem. 00:39:32.100 --> 00:39:36.340 Clean Windows reboot did not or reinstall did not fix the problem. 00:39:36.839 --> 00:39:37.160 And 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:39.800 I did some more testing, did some RAM 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:41.560 testing, and what I 00:39:41.720 --> 00:39:46.280 what I basically narrowed it down to, I was like, look, there's obviously something wrong with my computer. 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.000 I cannot properly diagnose what it is. 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:51.480 I tried turning off the overclock that I had. 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.480 I tried resetting my RAM speed. 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:55.720 I tried resetting my GPU. 00:39:55.720 --> 00:39:56.840 I checked for all the 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:57.400 BIOS 00:39:57.560 --> 00:39:58.520 updates. 00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.119 did 00:39:59.359 --> 00:40:02.880 everything that I've done for troubleshooting with computers since time 00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:03.920 immemorium. 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:04.480 Right. 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:05.920 Immemorial. 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:06.240 So 00:40:06.720 --> 00:40:08.640 what this basically came down to was 00:40:08.799 --> 00:40:10.079 there's obviously a problem here. 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:10.880 It's either my video 00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:13.359 card, my motherboard, or my RAM. 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:14.920 Or my CPU. 00:40:15.160 --> 00:40:17.080 So basically it could be anything. 00:40:17.080 --> 00:40:18.760 I disconnected peripherals. 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:20.120 I went down to one monitor. 00:40:20.120 --> 00:40:21.720 I got rid of my KVM switch. 00:40:21.720 --> 00:40:24.840 I disconnected every single USB except my keyboard and mouse. 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:25.240 Like 00:40:25.580 --> 00:40:26.140 Could not 00:40:26.380 --> 00:40:26.620 could 00:40:26.780 --> 00:40:30.220 not isolate this problem, could not figure it out. 00:40:30.220 --> 00:40:30.460 Now 00:40:30.620 --> 00:40:33.420 I have extra GPUs in my other 00:40:33.660 --> 00:40:34.620 computer. 00:40:34.700 --> 00:40:35.260 The problem is 00:40:35.580 --> 00:40:37.180 they're AMD GPUs. 00:40:37.839 --> 00:40:45.040 It does have a 50-90 in it, but my power supply in my other computer is not powerful enough to run that GPU. 00:40:45.240 --> 00:40:45.800 Okay. 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.840 So what did I do? 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:47.880 I went to Micro Center 00:40:48.040 --> 00:40:50.120 and I thought maybe my PSU is going bad. 00:40:50.120 --> 00:40:54.920 I bought a new thousand watt PSU, slapped that in there, tried it, same problem. 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:55.240 Okay 00:40:56.580 --> 00:41:01.540 And I thought to myself, I was like, okay, how are we going to fix this problem? 00:41:01.540 --> 00:41:09.700 If it's the GPU, first of all, they don't make 4090s anymore, which is what I'm currently running, and you can't buy a 5090 00:41:10.180 --> 00:41:11.060 You can't buy 00:41:11.300 --> 00:41:11.859 and and 00:41:12.579 --> 00:41:12.740 they 00:41:12.900 --> 00:41:14.180 they're not in stock. 00:41:14.420 --> 00:41:17.300 And the ones that are in stock are sold by third parties. 00:41:17.300 --> 00:41:19.700 Your chances of getting scammed are astronomical. 00:41:19.700 --> 00:41:20.740 They are going for six 00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:22.579 to seven thousand dollars. 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:23.380 That's 00:41:23.540 --> 00:41:23.940 okay. 00:41:23.940 --> 00:41:25.380 Yep, I get it. 00:41:25.700 --> 00:41:25.940 So 00:41:26.180 --> 00:41:28.180 probably not the best choice. 00:41:28.180 --> 00:41:34.820 But at the same time, if I'm gonna go buy a motherboard, I might as well just bite the bullet, buy a CPU, buy some RAM 00:41:35.140 --> 00:41:37.779 Because, you know, number one, I don't know if the CPU's bad. 00:41:37.779 --> 00:41:38.339 And second of all 00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:40.420 new computer. 00:41:41.380 --> 00:41:41.779 Don't 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:42.500 don't 00:41:42.859 --> 00:41:43.980 Don't spoil this. 00:41:43.980 --> 00:41:45.099 Don't spoil this. 00:41:48.140 --> 00:41:49.099 I think all the listeners 00:41:49.260 --> 00:41:53.420 at this point are like, he just built a whole new goddamn gaming PC, didn't he? 00:41:53.620 --> 00:41:55.060 You're half right. 00:41:55.060 --> 00:41:56.580 Okay. 00:41:56.580 --> 00:41:57.300 I didn't 00:41:57.460 --> 00:42:00.020 I didn't build a whole new computer. 00:42:00.020 --> 00:42:01.860 Did you buy? 00:42:04.100 --> 00:42:04.420 Oh 00:42:05.700 --> 00:42:05.940 look 00:42:06.100 --> 00:42:06.740 at you 00:42:07.340 --> 00:42:08.220 Okay, here we're going 00:42:08.380 --> 00:42:09.100 to the Micro Center 00:42:09.340 --> 00:42:10.940 webpage here. 00:42:10.940 --> 00:42:13.100 Oh, I am looking at 00:42:13.980 --> 00:42:14.300 Oh 00:42:14.460 --> 00:42:16.300 shit, Drew. 00:42:16.780 --> 00:42:17.500 Okay. 00:42:19.660 --> 00:42:20.060 Hey 00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:23.160 I'm sorry. 00:42:23.160 --> 00:42:23.560 Let me 00:42:23.720 --> 00:42:24.200 let me uh 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:24.520 mm 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:25.080 I'm 00:42:25.640 --> 00:42:25.720 now 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:26.440 take your time. 00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:27.080 I'm a please. 00:42:27.080 --> 00:42:29.080 I'm I'm a professional podcaster. 00:42:29.080 --> 00:42:29.960 Hold on. 00:42:31.620 --> 00:42:33.380 I am looking at a 00:42:33.700 --> 00:42:34.580 PowerSpec 00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:37.220 AI 90 workstation. 00:42:37.220 --> 00:42:39.940 Its key features include an AMD Ryzen 00:42:40.180 --> 00:42:42.820 9, 9950X 4. 00:42:42.820 --> 00:42:43.700 3 GHz 00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:45.060 processor. 00:42:44.859 --> 00:42:45.579 A Asus 00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:46.380 ProArt 00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:46.859 X 00:42:48.460 --> 00:42:49.740 8070E 00:42:49.900 --> 00:42:50.220 creator 00:42:50.380 --> 00:42:52.380 Wi-Fi motherboard, 64GB 00:42:52.859 --> 00:42:53.900 of DDR5 00:42:54.220 --> 00:42:55.500 600 RAM. 00:42:55.500 --> 00:42:55.579 Well 00:42:55.740 --> 00:42:57.500 better, that was a pricey part of it 00:42:57.720 --> 00:42:58.119 Two 00:42:58.279 --> 00:43:01.000 terabyte SSDs, uh 00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:01.240 some 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:03.319 connectivity stuff, Windows Pro 00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:04.599 11, yeah, and it 00:43:05.799 --> 00:43:07.160 's a gforce RTX 00:43:07.319 --> 00:43:08.200 5090 00:43:08.359 --> 00:43:08.760 FE 00:43:09.520 --> 00:43:11.599 Graphics cards the founded 00:43:11.839 --> 00:43:12.320 edition. 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:13.760 Yep. 00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:14.079 The 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.079 current price on 00:43:17.240 --> 00:43:18.600 Microcenter. 00:43:18.600 --> 00:43:18.920 com 00:43:19.240 --> 00:43:19.560 is 00:43:20.120 --> 00:43:22.440 $9,299. 00:43:22.600 --> 00:43:23.960 99. 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:25.160 That is not what I paid. 00:43:25.160 --> 00:43:25.880 Okay, good. 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:26.360 Okay. 00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:27.720 I paid I paid $300 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:28.440 less than that. 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:28.760 Okay, good. 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:30.840 The price has already gone up since I bought it. 00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:31.960 Okay. 00:43:31.540 --> 00:43:33.540 Did it solve your problem? 00:43:33.540 --> 00:43:34.500 So far. 00:43:37.700 --> 00:43:38.420 That's a 00:43:38.580 --> 00:43:40.100 that's a pricey machine. 00:43:40.100 --> 00:43:41.860 Did you keep it in that same case or did you 00:43:42.260 --> 00:43:43.620 I did keep it in the same case. 00:43:43.620 --> 00:43:43.860 Okay. 00:43:43.860 --> 00:43:44.260 Okay. 00:43:44.260 --> 00:43:46.260 Alright, so let me let me explain. 00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:46.720 Mm-hmm. 00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:47.360 So 00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:48.320 I had 00:43:48.640 --> 00:43:49.200 a one 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:53.280 in four chance to fix the component that was wrong with my computer. 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:54.240 Right. 00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:57.039 If it was truly the video card, 00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:59.920 it really came down to 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:03.599 can I get by with just a 50-80? 00:44:03.700 --> 00:44:04.740 Okay. 00:44:04.740 --> 00:44:08.260 Or should I just buy should I just man up and get the 5090? 00:44:08.260 --> 00:44:11.620 The only way to get a 5090 right now is on a pre-build. 00:44:11.980 --> 00:44:13.020 Got it. 00:44:13.020 --> 00:44:13.980 Okay. 00:44:13.980 --> 00:44:15.100 So I like Power 00:44:15.260 --> 00:44:15.980 Spec. 00:44:15.980 --> 00:44:17.260 That is, for those of you that 00:44:17.420 --> 00:44:20.700 don't know, it is the only pre-built I will ever recommend to anybody. 00:44:20.700 --> 00:44:23.660 It is Micro Center's house brand of computers. 00:44:23.839 --> 00:44:25.680 They are built with off the 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:27.680 off-the-shelf parts. 00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:31.440 So every motherboard, every stick of RAM, every cooler. 00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:33.599 You could build this PC yourself. 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:34.240 You could build this 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:38.160 the cases are all cases that they sell at Micro Center. 00:44:39.460 --> 00:44:42.420 It's all good components, okay now. 00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:46.260 When I decided that I was going to do this, I figured I was gonna be in 00:44:46.420 --> 00:44:48.660 I was gonna be in it to win it. 00:44:48.620 --> 00:44:48.780 from 00:44:49.100 --> 00:44:50.380 anywhere from three 00:44:50.620 --> 00:44:54.060 to seven thousand dollars to really fix my problem. 00:44:54.060 --> 00:44:54.620 Okay. 00:44:54.620 --> 00:44:56.780 Unless I was willing to not 00:44:58.300 --> 00:44:59.900 Buy top-end stuff. 00:44:59.900 --> 00:45:02.300 If I if I wasn't going for the true Halo 00:45:02.540 --> 00:45:04.460 products here, I 00:45:04.700 --> 00:45:08.460 I was gonna be in for several thousand dollars to fix my computer. 00:45:08.680 --> 00:45:09.160 Right. 00:45:09.160 --> 00:45:12.040 Not to mention the time already served 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:14.200 doing the troubleshooting 00:45:14.520 --> 00:45:14.839 and 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:18.359 ripping everything out and doing all the testing. 00:45:18.420 --> 00:45:25.700 Not to mention the fact that even if I could take the 5090 out of my AI machine, I still want that in my AI machine. 00:45:25.700 --> 00:45:26.900 I'm not willing 00:45:27.060 --> 00:45:29.780 to rob Peter to pay Paul. 00:45:29.820 --> 00:45:31.260 For this particular use case. 00:45:31.260 --> 00:45:32.780 I want to like the the 00:45:32.940 --> 00:45:34.860 the AMD cards and the NVIDIA 00:45:35.020 --> 00:45:35.500 cards that are 00:45:35.740 --> 00:45:36.860 in my AI machine are 00:45:37.020 --> 00:45:37.660 there for a reason. 00:45:37.660 --> 00:45:39.580 I do not want to compromise on that. 00:45:41.020 --> 00:45:41.340 So 00:45:42.380 --> 00:45:44.779 Long story short, Micro Center 00:45:45.020 --> 00:45:45.180 here 00:45:45.339 --> 00:45:46.619 in Columbus has two 00:45:46.779 --> 00:45:48.059 has two models that sh 00:45:48.220 --> 00:45:49.980 that come with a 5090 00:45:49.940 --> 00:45:52.180 The second model is the other link that I 00:45:52.339 --> 00:45:55.140 that I just put in there as a as a sub bullet. 00:45:55.140 --> 00:45:56.020 Okay. 00:45:56.020 --> 00:45:56.820 Okay. 00:45:56.820 --> 00:45:58.420 Now this is the power spec 00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.040 G916. 00:46:00.040 --> 00:46:02.920 This is definitely more of a gaming focused field. 00:46:03.080 --> 00:46:04.920 It's got it's got all the RGBiz. 00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:05.480 All the RGB 00:46:05.640 --> 00:46:05.720 is 00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:08.600 there's one big difference, actually 00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:09.960 two big differences 00:46:10.200 --> 00:46:11.160 between this 00:46:11.359 --> 00:46:12.560 And the AI90. 00:46:12.560 --> 00:46:13.359 It's got a different motor. 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:14.960 The AI90 that I got 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:16.000 has the Ryzen 00:46:16.160 --> 00:46:16.400 9 00:46:16.560 --> 00:46:18.320 9950X. 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:19.359 Mm-hmm. 00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:20.079 The 00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:20.960 other 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:22.560 one has the Ryzen 00:46:22.720 --> 00:46:22.960 9 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:25.440 9950 X3D. 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:26.079 Okay. 00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:29.040 Yes, Virginia, there is 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:33.040 a big enough difference between the non-X3D 00:46:33.260 --> 00:46:35.740 And the X3D for it to matter for gaming. 00:46:35.740 --> 00:46:36.380 Okay. 00:46:36.380 --> 00:46:37.260 Okay. 00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:37.580 So 00:46:38.060 --> 00:46:38.460 check 00:46:38.700 --> 00:46:44.380 mark in the box for the G916 because that's what I would be primarily using this for. 00:46:45.260 --> 00:46:45.580 But 00:46:46.220 --> 00:46:46.540 I 00:46:46.860 --> 00:46:47.500 hate 00:46:48.140 --> 00:46:50.300 I hate that case. 00:46:50.300 --> 00:46:50.780 Yeah. 00:46:50.780 --> 00:46:52.700 And I hate that motherboard. 00:46:53.180 --> 00:46:56.620 I have never had a good experience with MSI components. 00:46:56.620 --> 00:46:57.740 Got it. 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:02.840 The other thing that really sucks is that because of my brave new world of my sim 00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:05.400 rig, I need USB ports. 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.800 That MSI, that MSI motherboard has like four USB ports on it. 00:47:10.839 --> 00:47:15.880 Meanwhile the AI 90, which is more marketed as a workstation computer, has the Pro 00:47:16.040 --> 00:47:17.720 Art X870 00:47:18.140 --> 00:47:23.500 Brother, it's got all the USB and it even has like 10 gig Ethernet on it. 00:47:23.500 --> 00:47:24.059 Okay. 00:47:24.059 --> 00:47:24.380 Okay. 00:47:24.380 --> 00:47:28.140 So it's more of a workstation focused build. 00:47:29.099 --> 00:47:33.500 I'm telling you this because I just didn't buy this computer. 00:47:33.500 --> 00:47:36.859 I also bought a 9950 X3D to put in it. 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:41.920 Which definitely tips the scales 00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:43.440 on what I spent. 00:47:46.099 --> 00:47:46.339 So 00:47:46.500 --> 00:47:52.820 when I got it home, I basically had to take the cooler off, clean it, repaste it, put it back together. 00:47:52.820 --> 00:47:56.500 I have been able to finish Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater. 00:47:56.260 --> 00:47:58.020 Or Delta, I should say, Snake Eater. 00:47:58.020 --> 00:47:58.260 I'm work 00:47:58.500 --> 00:47:59.460 I'm gonna try Robocop 00:47:59.700 --> 00:48:00.900 Rogue Sissy for Rogue City. 00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:01.620 Rogue Sissy. 00:48:01.620 --> 00:48:02.580 Rogue City to make sure. 00:48:02.820 --> 00:48:04.180 I'd play that, Rogue Sissy. 00:48:04.180 --> 00:48:04.580 Absolutely. 00:48:04.580 --> 00:48:04.740 I would 00:48:04.900 --> 00:48:05.060 play. 00:48:05.060 --> 00:48:05.300 Yeah. 00:48:05.540 --> 00:48:07.300 I would absolutely play that too. 00:48:07.059 --> 00:48:09.859 Uh, but everything so far seems to be working. 00:48:09.859 --> 00:48:10.339 Now, 00:48:11.299 --> 00:48:14.579 I'm not ready to give up on that other computer yet. 00:48:14.579 --> 00:48:15.140 I do 00:48:15.380 --> 00:48:15.460 Uh 00:48:15.620 --> 00:48:15.700 because 00:48:15.860 --> 00:48:18.660 that's got sixty four gigs of RAM, it's got a decent Ryzen 00:48:18.820 --> 00:48:22.340 7 on it, it has a 4090, it has a good motherboard. 00:48:22.340 --> 00:48:24.020 If I could definitively 00:48:24.340 --> 00:48:29.460 figure out what's wrong with that and I've rolled out the power supply obviously but if I could definitively figure out what's wrong with that 00:48:29.620 --> 00:48:32.100 I would either repurpose it or I would sell it 00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:33.140 probably for 00:48:33.380 --> 00:48:33.620 two 00:48:33.860 --> 00:48:34.100 grand 00:48:34.740 --> 00:48:36.260 for those components to recoup 00:48:36.420 --> 00:48:37.300 some of the cost. 00:48:37.460 --> 00:48:40.420 I I really think that's what I could conceivably get for that. 00:48:40.420 --> 00:48:44.260 If I could definitively identify what the problem is, but I'm not the kind of person 00:48:44.460 --> 00:48:46.860 That's just gonna put that up on Facebook marketplace and be like, 00:48:47.100 --> 00:48:47.420 go feel 00:48:47.900 --> 00:48:48.140 right. 00:48:48.220 --> 00:48:48.940 I I would 00:48:49.100 --> 00:48:54.540 I would not feel I could sleep at night if I was selling something to somebody that I thought had a defect. 00:48:54.540 --> 00:48:57.580 So if I could definitively figure out what's wrong with that 00:48:57.820 --> 00:49:00.060 I would absolutely consider selling it. 00:49:00.060 --> 00:49:02.380 But this computer is is pretty rad. 00:49:02.380 --> 00:49:02.540 Um 00:49:02.700 --> 00:49:04.220 I do like the case. 00:49:04.220 --> 00:49:06.620 It is it is a nice fractal design case. 00:49:06.620 --> 00:49:06.700 Um 00:49:07.420 --> 00:49:07.500 I 00:49:07.859 --> 00:49:08.020 Uh 00:49:08.180 --> 00:49:09.140 I have no issue. 00:49:09.140 --> 00:49:11.859 And you know how I feel about RGB and gaming PCs. 00:49:11.859 --> 00:49:13.300 Yeah, that was the other thing too. 00:49:13.619 --> 00:49:13.940 That's good. 00:49:14.420 --> 00:49:15.220 Yeah, it does. 00:49:15.220 --> 00:49:16.500 And the case itself 00:49:17.099 --> 00:49:21.500 That fractal case, I wish it was the one that had the more natural wood grain. 00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:24.460 As it stands, this has like the black wood grain on the front, but it's fine. 00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:28.300 But so far 00:49:28.460 --> 00:49:29.100 so good. 00:49:29.340 --> 00:49:32.460 I even dropped some of my other SSD drives in it. 00:49:32.460 --> 00:49:34.540 Those haven't been a problem yet 00:49:35.200 --> 00:49:36.880 But that is what I had to do. 00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:38.080 Now, let me tell you about 00:49:38.720 --> 00:49:39.440 expensive true. 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:41.040 Jesus Christ, that's expensive. 00:49:41.040 --> 00:49:41.840 I know, Paul. 00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:42.160 I know. 00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:44.600 F fun 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:45.000 fun 00:49:45.160 --> 00:49:45.960 diversion. 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:47.080 At work today, 00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:48.920 we still have an on-prem data center. 00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:51.400 We still buy servers. 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:53.800 Servers that we had previously bought 00:49:54.040 --> 00:49:54.280 For 00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:56.520 twenty-five thousand dollars 00:49:57.560 --> 00:49:58.920 with a terabyte of RAM 00:49:59.080 --> 00:50:01.240 in them, the exact same server. 00:50:01.240 --> 00:50:02.920 Do you know how much they cost today? 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:04.440 They were twenty-five before? 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:05.000 Mm-hmm. 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:06.360 They're probably pushing a hundred. 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:08.560 Okay. 00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:12.480 Yeah. 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:13.839 Yeah. 00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:14.079 Well 00:50:14.240 --> 00:50:16.480 terabytes of data center RAM, right? 00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:17.520 Like it's it's but 00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:19.440 ECC, like 00:50:19.839 --> 00:50:20.880 high speed, 00:50:21.200 --> 00:50:22.000 yep. 00:50:21.580 --> 00:50:22.620 I'm right there with you. 00:50:22.620 --> 00:50:28.140 Now again, Paul, look, when I determined that there was something wrong here, a minimum 00:50:28.300 --> 00:50:29.980 with current prices, for g 00:50:30.300 --> 00:50:33.020 forget the GPU aspect of this for the for a moment now. 00:50:33.020 --> 00:50:33.580 Yeah. 00:50:33.580 --> 00:50:35.980 A motherboard, a processor, and RAM 00:50:36.040 --> 00:50:38.200 For what I would want it for, I'm thinking twenty 00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:39.560 five hundred to three grand. 00:50:41.640 --> 00:50:42.360 I'm below it. 00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:42.840 Yeah. 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:43.720 But 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:45.080 Still, yeah, expensive. 00:50:45.080 --> 00:50:45.560 Yeah. 00:50:45.560 --> 00:50:46.360 And and I had 00:50:46.520 --> 00:50:48.920 I had plenty of time to upgrade to a fifty ninety. 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:49.960 It never made sense. 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:50.360 My forty 00:50:50.520 --> 00:50:50.680 ninety 00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:51.160 was great. 00:50:51.160 --> 00:50:52.520 I'm able to game at 4K. 00:50:52.520 --> 00:50:53.880 It was able to run my VR. 00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:56.280 I never saw a reason to upgrade. 00:50:56.220 --> 00:51:00.619 This is definitely one of those times where I'm kicking myself, you know, had I bought that then, would I 00:51:00.779 --> 00:51:02.299 would I still be having a problem 00:51:02.619 --> 00:51:02.779 back 00:51:03.020 --> 00:51:03.900 when they were three 00:51:04.059 --> 00:51:05.260 or four thousand dollars? 00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:06.460 Now they've doubled in price. 00:51:06.460 --> 00:51:06.859 In fact 00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:11.040 The 5080s have also gone up in price over the past two weeks because 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:12.560 basically 00:51:12.720 --> 00:51:13.280 NVIDIA 00:51:13.520 --> 00:51:15.440 has delisted it. 00:51:16.940 --> 00:51:18.780 So they might not even be making fifty 00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:19.180 eighties 00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:19.820 anymore. 00:51:19.820 --> 00:51:20.140 Fifty 00:51:20.300 --> 00:51:21.980 nineties are completely out of stock. 00:51:21.980 --> 00:51:23.180 No one has them. 00:51:23.180 --> 00:51:23.660 NVIDIA 00:51:23.820 --> 00:51:28.380 is not making them, even though NVIDIA has not come out and said we've discontinued these cards. 00:51:28.580 --> 00:51:28.900 So 00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:31.940 supply is drying up. 00:51:31.940 --> 00:51:33.700 You may not be able to own these things. 00:51:33.700 --> 00:51:36.900 Sam Altman uh doesn't think we should have RAM at home anymore. 00:51:36.900 --> 00:51:38.100 I don't know if you saw all those. 00:51:38.100 --> 00:51:38.500 I did. 00:51:38.500 --> 00:51:38.820 I did. 00:51:38.820 --> 00:51:39.140 Yeah. 00:51:39.140 --> 00:51:41.380 He's basically like, give it to me. 00:51:41.180 --> 00:51:41.340 Like 00:51:41.500 --> 00:51:41.900 you can you 00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:43.340 I'll use it. 00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:43.660 You should 00:51:43.820 --> 00:51:44.060 just 00:51:44.220 --> 00:51:45.260 yeah. 00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:45.820 I mean 00:51:45.980 --> 00:51:56.060 I really do feel like the market is pushing us to where we already don't own our games, so we might as well just stream our games from a data center instead of installing them locally. 00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:56.680 This has trickled down 00:51:56.839 --> 00:51:59.880 economics to the consoles of the world and all this other stuff too. 00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:04.200 It's a it's a really shitty time to be a gamer, especially a PC gamer. 00:52:04.200 --> 00:52:04.440 I 00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:07.880 I am not proud of the fact that I spent this much money. 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:08.320 Um 00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:17.920 but after spending multiple weekends trying to diagnose this stuff and just saying, basically decl saying, fuck it, I am gonna replace this. 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:20.240 What should I go replace it with? 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:22.720 Buy once, cry once 00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:23.119 , 00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:24.400 here we are. 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:25.039 Right. 00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:27.200 And and for the record, okay, for 00:52:27.359 --> 00:52:27.599 for be 00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:29.359 I I already hear you at home 00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:30.880 laughing at me, but 00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.359 even if you look at some of the power specs that they that they sell. 00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:36.280 Um 00:52:37.240 --> 00:52:37.560 and 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:41.480 you sort by highest price, which I'm doing right now. 00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:44.920 The 5080 machines are pushing four to five grand. 00:52:46.740 --> 00:52:47.300 Right. 00:52:48.099 --> 00:52:48.420 So 00:52:48.900 --> 00:52:49.540 a power 00:52:49.700 --> 00:52:50.020 spec 00:52:50.180 --> 00:52:52.260 G seven six two, which has a fifty 00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:55.780 eighty, and sixteen gigs of RAM. 00:52:55.820 --> 00:52:57.900 Or I'm sorry, 64 gigs of RAM. 00:52:58.540 --> 00:52:59.340 Basically 00:52:59.580 --> 00:53:05.980 the exact same computer, but it doesn't have a 5090 in it is $3,500. 00:53:08.060 --> 00:53:15.420 Now, that's still a pretty good deal, and it's considerably less than I paid, but that is roughly the difference between a 58 00:53:15.580 --> 00:53:16.540 and a 5090 in 00:53:16.940 --> 00:53:17.420 cost. 00:53:17.420 --> 00:53:18.380 It really is. 00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:19.420 Whew. 00:53:19.420 --> 00:53:20.460 Expensive. 00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:20.780 So 00:53:22.359 --> 00:53:23.000 But I 00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:23.799 I gotta 00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:24.200 say 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:24.680 Is it 00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:25.799 is it good? 00:53:25.799 --> 00:53:27.240 It's pretty fucking fast. 00:53:29.240 --> 00:53:31.080 in in VR especially over the over 00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:36.680 with this with with this more powerful processor and the and the more powerful GPU I definitely notice a difference. 00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:36.920 So 00:53:37.720 --> 00:53:38.840 I am thankful for that. 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:39.400 Now 00:53:40.080 --> 00:53:41.680 I want to talk about 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:44.400 the process of buying this computer. 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:44.800 Okay. 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:46.240 Because if you have you heard about this? 00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:48.480 Okay, so I did notice that like 00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:52.380 There's purchase eligibility requirements. 00:53:52.380 --> 00:53:53.180 Correct. 00:53:53.180 --> 00:53:54.140 Yes. 00:53:54.140 --> 00:53:54.940 Okay. 00:53:54.940 --> 00:53:56.060 So I roll into 00:53:56.220 --> 00:53:57.420 Micro Center. 00:53:58.400 --> 00:53:58.720 And 00:53:59.040 --> 00:54:03.760 there is a particular gentleman in the computer section that recognizes me. 00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:05.040 Not a flex. 00:54:05.120 --> 00:54:06.720 Advanced computing product 00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:08.720 purchaser declaration. 00:54:08.720 --> 00:54:09.280 Correct. 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:10.240 You're on it. 00:54:10.240 --> 00:54:10.640 Okay. 00:54:10.640 --> 00:54:11.040 So here 00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:12.160 is that true? 00:54:12.160 --> 00:54:12.400 So 00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:13.200 So when I said 00:54:13.359 --> 00:54:16.559 this is what I want, he said, Do you know the new process? 00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:19.839 And I said, I've heard about it, but I don't know how it works. 00:54:19.839 --> 00:54:20.000 So 00:54:20.160 --> 00:54:23.039 I'm gonna give you the high level detail because it took probably forty 00:54:23.200 --> 00:54:25.119 five minutes for this to process. 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:26.960 So the first thing they do is they take your ID 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.480 and they validate that you are who you say you are. 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:30.720 Okay. 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:33.360 That you have a valid state-issued ID. 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:33.760 Okay. 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:34.480 Okay. 00:54:34.720 --> 00:54:37.680 They also look you up in a database. 00:54:37.900 --> 00:54:38.940 Now I don't know what this 00:54:39.340 --> 00:54:40.380 database is. 00:54:40.380 --> 00:54:40.780 Right. 00:54:40.780 --> 00:54:42.620 Well, I think that might be part of it. 00:54:42.620 --> 00:54:43.180 Okay. 00:54:43.420 --> 00:54:49.260 But they look you up in a database to make sure that you're not using a name of somebody who is a reseller 00:54:49.500 --> 00:54:52.460 or someone who's gonna try to export this. 00:54:51.859 --> 00:54:52.020 Okay. 00:54:52.339 --> 00:54:54.740 Because that I think that is what they're trying to curb 00:54:54.900 --> 00:54:57.140 is they don't want people buying these 00:54:57.380 --> 00:54:57.540 and 00:54:57.859 --> 00:54:58.180 just 00:54:58.660 --> 00:55:00.820 FedExing it overseas. 00:55:01.579 --> 00:55:02.140 Because 00:55:02.300 --> 00:55:03.980 these are scarce parts. 00:55:03.980 --> 00:55:04.380 Yeah. 00:55:04.380 --> 00:55:06.140 So you have to sign that declaration. 00:55:06.140 --> 00:55:10.300 So I basically had to sign a little piece of paper stating, yes, I am who I say I am. 00:55:10.300 --> 00:55:12.619 I'm going to use it for home use. 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:14.680 I'm not gonna export it. 00:55:14.680 --> 00:55:16.840 I'm not gonna strip it for parts. 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:18.440 I had to sign all that stuff. 00:55:18.440 --> 00:55:19.320 They had to get 00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:20.120 the sellers 00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:21.640 they had to get the the salesperson 00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:23.880 's signature, they had to get a manager to sign off. 00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:27.560 When I took it to the register, another manager had to sign off. 00:55:28.220 --> 00:55:28.700 I don't 00:55:28.860 --> 00:55:28.940 uh 00:55:29.100 --> 00:55:31.900 and like they had to take a picture of my ID. 00:55:31.900 --> 00:55:34.460 I don't know if that means that I can't go buy another one. 00:55:34.460 --> 00:55:34.940 Not that I w 00:55:35.100 --> 00:55:36.220 not that I'm going to, please. 00:55:36.220 --> 00:55:37.740 No, I'm not going to, but like 00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:44.160 If I roll in there tomorrow and be like, hey, let me get another one of them good good AI 90s, are 00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:45.440 they going to be like 00:55:45.799 --> 00:55:47.720 Yeah, you just borrow one of these. 00:55:47.720 --> 00:55:48.680 Yeah. 00:55:48.760 --> 00:55:54.839 I don't I don't know what that means, but it was a whole thing that I had to declare like this is for me. 00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:56.000 It's for my use. 00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:56.960 It's not going anywhere. 00:55:57.040 --> 00:55:57.600 That's crazy. 00:55:57.600 --> 00:55:58.400 That's crazy. 00:55:58.400 --> 00:55:58.960 I mean I get 00:55:59.200 --> 00:56:00.240 I get it, but 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:03.200 yeah, those are the times we are in. 00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:04.240 Yes. 00:56:04.240 --> 00:56:05.360 Yes. 00:56:05.599 --> 00:56:10.640 So, but everybody was very happy to shake my hand and thank me for my purchase. 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:14.079 Now I don't now now as 00:56:14.240 --> 00:56:16.880 as as a little bit of a of a of a footnote. 00:56:17.980 --> 00:56:18.220 The 00:56:18.460 --> 00:56:18.940 AI 00:56:19.100 --> 00:56:21.020 110 workstation. 00:56:21.020 --> 00:56:21.740 Okay. 00:56:22.300 --> 00:56:23.100 Which is 00:56:24.460 --> 00:56:24.780 um 00:56:25.180 --> 00:56:25.420 not 00:56:25.660 --> 00:56:26.300 the one 00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:29.000 Let's see. 00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:29.160 Uh 00:56:29.319 --> 00:56:30.520 AI-100. 00:56:30.520 --> 00:56:31.160 Okay. 00:56:31.160 --> 00:56:35.799 So the AI-100 workstation, which was the previous workstation I bought. 00:56:35.799 --> 00:56:37.160 I bought that. 00:56:37.340 --> 00:56:40.380 for what I paid for this computer. 00:56:40.380 --> 00:56:43.900 The AI 100 right now is $14,000. 00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:45.980 So the price of that has gone up $4,000 00:56:46.220 --> 00:56:47.420 since I bought it. 00:56:47.780 --> 00:56:48.020 So 00:56:48.180 --> 00:56:50.020 a little bit of a makeup call, right? 00:56:50.020 --> 00:56:52.420 I'm glad I got in when I did with that, because 00:56:52.580 --> 00:56:53.380 this was just at 00:56:53.540 --> 00:56:56.740 sort of the start of the climb of the prices. 00:56:57.020 --> 00:56:59.579 So getting in on that computer when I did, I mean 00:56:59.740 --> 00:57:00.060 I 00:57:00.300 --> 00:57:02.540 can't say I really saved that money because 00:57:03.020 --> 00:57:03.339 you know 00:57:03.500 --> 00:57:04.700 it is what it is, but 00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:06.200 Yeah. 00:57:06.200 --> 00:57:06.520 So 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:09.240 it is it is a very difficult time. 00:57:09.240 --> 00:57:13.800 Now, after the elections of this week and some of the tech stock 00:57:14.040 --> 00:57:16.760 bubble fears that happened over the past few days. 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:23.680 The fact that a lot of states basically put data centers on the ballot and said, like, whoa, we need to slow the fuck down 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:24.240 with 00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:26.240 electricity costs and land 00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:26.800 and 00:57:27.420 --> 00:57:31.020 People just getting rich off of this stuff that aren't normal everyday people. 00:57:31.020 --> 00:57:33.900 Maybe this will help drive some of that stuff down. 00:57:33.900 --> 00:57:35.180 It's not gonna happen overnight. 00:57:36.540 --> 00:57:37.260 But maybe. 00:57:37.260 --> 00:57:38.380 Maybe, yeah. 00:57:38.380 --> 00:57:40.780 But everything you read online, everybody says 00:57:40.940 --> 00:57:42.700 all the capacity for 2027 00:57:42.860 --> 00:57:43.500 in these fab 00:57:44.140 --> 00:57:45.660 places is booked. 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.079 It's all going to the big 00:57:48.640 --> 00:57:51.200 data center providers, the hyperscalers. 00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:51.760 Yeah. 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:53.920 We're not gonna see this stuff. 00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:56.400 It's I know that it's already affected people and their switch 00:57:56.560 --> 00:57:56.800 twos 00:57:56.960 --> 00:57:58.560 and the price increases and all that other stuff. 00:57:58.560 --> 00:57:59.840 By the way, are you playing Ocarina 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:00.880 of Time? 00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:02.240 No, I 00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:04.320 I'm not a fan. 00:58:04.540 --> 00:58:04.620 Can 00:58:05.020 --> 00:58:05.580 you know what can I 00:58:05.740 --> 00:58:06.700 can I be honest with you? 00:58:06.700 --> 00:58:07.420 I'm not either. 00:58:07.420 --> 00:58:08.780 I don't think that game's all that. 00:58:08.780 --> 00:58:10.140 No, I don't either. 00:58:10.140 --> 00:58:10.620 Sorry? 00:58:10.620 --> 00:58:11.020 No. 00:58:11.020 --> 00:58:12.220 Sorry, not sorry? 00:58:12.220 --> 00:58:13.020 No. 00:58:13.020 --> 00:58:13.340 No 00:58:14.640 --> 00:58:16.240 So yeah, that was 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:17.600 that's where I 00:58:18.160 --> 00:58:21.360 that was the level of hell I went into over the past couple weekends. 00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:27.040 Well, I'm glad that at least the money has solved the problem. 00:58:27.120 --> 00:58:28.480 It is nice when that is the no 00:58:28.720 --> 00:58:30.080 that isn't an option. 00:58:30.080 --> 00:58:31.120 And I'm glad that you 00:58:31.520 --> 00:58:31.600 I 00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:36.000 I am definitely at a phase of my life where I have more money than time, but only just 00:58:36.260 --> 00:58:37.380 when it comes to this stuff. 00:58:37.380 --> 00:58:37.540 Now 00:58:37.860 --> 00:58:38.820 it's just it's still real 00:58:39.140 --> 00:58:40.900 it's still prices are are dumb. 00:58:40.900 --> 00:58:41.380 Yeah. 00:58:41.380 --> 00:58:44.420 I get I get a nice one year warranty directly from Micro Center. 00:58:44.420 --> 00:58:46.260 I can just drive it over there. 00:58:46.059 --> 00:58:47.900 Drive it over there if I have a problem. 00:58:47.900 --> 00:58:51.819 I'm covered for at least the next year to kind of hopefully weather the storm 00:58:52.059 --> 00:58:54.140 in case anything else bad happens. 00:58:54.140 --> 00:58:57.819 You know, the other things were probably either RMA cases or 00:58:58.599 --> 00:58:59.079 Yeah. 00:58:59.079 --> 00:58:59.560 Whatever. 00:58:59.560 --> 00:59:03.160 Because that computer I think is probably four years old at this point. 00:59:03.160 --> 00:59:03.960 Oh, okay. 00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:04.359 Yeah. 00:59:04.359 --> 00:59:05.880 But it but it it held up. 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:05.960 Like 00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:08.599 I was able to I was able to I I have a 4K monitor. 00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:09.640 I I game in 4K. 00:59:09.640 --> 00:59:11.880 The 4D90 was fantastic for that 00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:14.880 I really hope it's not the GPU, if I'm honest. 00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:17.360 Because I I could really sell that and recoup 00:59:17.520 --> 00:59:18.480 some of this cost. 00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:19.680 I really, really could. 00:59:19.680 --> 00:59:21.120 I don't know if I would. 00:59:21.120 --> 00:59:21.760 Right. 00:59:22.080 --> 00:59:22.400 But 00:59:22.940 --> 00:59:25.660 Yeah, I I just need to do some more troubleshooting. 00:59:25.660 --> 00:59:27.579 Well, I hope you figure it out. 00:59:27.579 --> 00:59:28.619 Thanks, buddy. 00:59:28.619 --> 00:59:31.500 Anyway, that's a show. 00:59:31.500 --> 00:59:32.700 That's a show 00:59:33.640 --> 00:59:40.520 As you know, you can find all of the links we talked about in your podcast player or on doingtheirbest. 00:59:40.520 --> 00:59:41.080 com. 00:59:41.080 --> 00:59:44.040 Anyway, thanks for listening.