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what's up guys so with it being the turn of the new year and all I guess it's really no surprise that I'd be doing a year and recap and this is always a fun kind of video to make because it lets me reflect on all that's happened with the channel since january first 2014 and at first i was like well not much has really happened since then but after digging into the awesomesauce archives it was fascinating to see how much actually has happened and how much things have changed for me since then and many of you have been with me every step of the way so so here it is join me now as I take a trip down memory lane with my year-end recap of 2014 I started the year off pretty strong at the time I was only posting about one video a week because I was still working full-time for newegg but somehow I was still able to produce episode 2 of system config with Jenny and shooting that video was admittedly more fun than building in the in win 90 for that case was a piece of work in march i co-hosted the sexy four-way give away with paul from pulse hardware dimitri from hardware Canucks and jay from JS two cents and that was a lot of fun as well I love doing collab videos whether it's just giving away free stuff or getting straight up dusted by Austin Evans yeah that video was pretty hilarious I remember Paul calling me and being like hey man I got Austin Evans inside my house you want to come over and look at him with me so I cruised over and got the idea to do a video basically making Austin out to be a scary get a white guy he was basically mmm just having him make death threats and use ebonics I thought was hilarious because he's such a nice and educated guy we'd be filming and he'd be like I'm a smoke you fool you best watch your back and then we'd yell cut it he'd be like do you guys have any iced tea but yeah I mean for being such an impulsive video it was a lot of fun to shoot and he was obviously really great to work with a week or two after that I attended Coachella which is an annual music festival it was a fun filled weekend of camping watching musical performances and lots of beer pong that's probably why my next video did an air till about three weeks later and I was episode 3 of system config with Jacob who was a professional producer in the film industry in need of an editing workstation like really badly needed one I was really happy with how that one turned out it felt the most cohesive out of the three it seemed to flow a bit better than the others and I think seeing such a huge performance gain from his old Mac Pro really added to the excitement of the show about a month later I was on a plane to Asia to shoot some videos for a new egg we had stayed in Shenzhen China for a few days and then headed over to Taiwan for computex this was actually my second computex except this year I was basically there as an editor so I didn't even get to see the show floor instead I was in the hotel room all day every day stitching together footage that the shooting team would drop off at random intervals but despite being in a room all day I still got to enjoy Taipei a bunch of us actually hit up the guanghua digital district which is a massive six floor building filled with kiosks selling all tech things from CPUs two video cards that's where Paul and I picked up a bunch of LED strips for about a quarter of the price you'd find them here in the US I also got to revisit some of the nightlife there that i had been missing since my last trip to taipei it was a really great experience but about halfway into the trip we've got a call informing us that one of our close friends and industry had passed away she was actually exhibiting at CES and I had plans to shoot a video with her the day after she passed so it was just a devastating blow to the team and there was a somber feeling in the air for the rest of the trip but we all miss in love her dearly Elaine you're the best upon returning home I needed a fun project to keep me distracted from the grievous incident back east so I took to upgrading my trusty sandy bridge system most notably the cable management was quite a Bismil my first time around so i redid that whole mess and made a few other upgrades like swapping out the liquid cooler installing a fan controller LEDs and reorganizing my drive layout the system also got a much needed cleaning in the process so that was good the fun continued once I got the idea for nature tech a stupid parody where I talked about the gtx 780ti as if I were narrating some kind of nature documentary if you haven't seen it don't it's ridiculous when we get into July I wasn't really doing much except oh yeah breaking a world record yeah highlander was so much fun all of us tech tubers met in colorado and climbed a fourteen thousand foot mountain played OG doom at the top and got accepted into the Guinness World Book of freaking records for the highest elevated land party quite an accomplishment for a bunch of nerds who just spend most of their time at a computer but I mean yeah hiking that mountain was by far and away the most physically demanding thing I've ever done and at the same time probably the most gratifying one to have accomplished me Linus and edzel were the first ones down the mountain so we kind of just killed in the car while the rest of the crew unbeknownst to us was dodging lightning bolts and fearing for their lives so the trip could have really turned out very differently had someone been fatally overvoltage but fortunately everyone made it out safely so it was a fun trip overall shortly after Highlander i started a recurring Q&A segment called answer me damn it as a new way to interact with you guys and answer frequently asked questions that warranted more than just an explanation in a simple comment reply so I've only done about to amd's since then but the third one is already in the pipeline and I'm going to try to make this a monthly thing for 2015 August marked a brand refresh for the channel when I made the decision to change the channel name from awesomesauce news to awesomesauce network because you know the channel name wasn't already long enough I was on the fence about the name change for a long time so I finally reached out to you guys and that really helped me make what I think was the right decision for the channel so thank you the long-awaited haswell-e yes that was a big one I spent a lot of time at Paul's house prepping my three-part build series for the big launch we stayed up pretty late getting our video shot Paul made spaghetti and I could taste the intelligence by the end of it I we both produced a lot of successful content for both of our channels which was quickly followed by yet another huge launch in the industry the gtx 980 and and for that i remember not having any time to shoot a proper review that week so i didn't did another parody video that made some people laugh and pissed off everyone else who was expecting a legitimate review but i still liked that video it's awesome the end of September brought about a huge life change for me when I quit my day job at newegg and moved in with my grandparents to pursue a future dedicated to this channel it was easily one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made and honestly there are still days where I second-guess myself about it but you guys are always so quick to remind me with your likes and your comments that what I'm doing is right and that with a lot of hard work I'll eventually get to where I want to be although apparently one life-changing event per year just isn't drastic enough for me so about a month later I got engaged me my friends and my girlfriend at the time went to Hawaii to celebrate mine and another friend's birthday and while we were there staying in Oahu I popped the question and thankfully she said yes or else the rest of the trip would have been really awkward we laughed we cried we've logged it was a delightful experience I'll remember for a lifetime honey I love you more than anything in the world and I look forward to spending every day with you unless there's a big product launch coming up then you know I got to work but afterwards we can regroup and I love you finally for the last few months of 2014 I've made an effort to post at least two videos a week consistently just to keep the content flowing and I've also just begun to really nail down the style of my reviews getting all the crucial information in leaving the trivial bits out and adding in some comedic flare when I can these last few months have also shown me that I'm showing me what I'm capable of now that I'm able to focus entirely on the channel and still I tend to set very high standards for myself and I'm not anywhere close to where I'd like to be but seeing how far I've come in one year since january first 2015 looks like it's going to be filled with many more achievements for awesomesauce network and that my friends I think wraps up this year and recap so leave me a comment letting me know what your favorite awesomesauce video or moment was of 2014 have yourselves a fun and safe new years everybody don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you guys next year that's like it's tomorrow it's not like a whole year that's like a few hours pretty close