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I need a cameraman desperately what's up everybody J's $0.02 here and I'm gonna do something that I haven't done in quite a while and that is I'm going to do an ask me video and a couple days ago I put out on Twitter and Facebook hey ask me your questions they don't have to be tech related they can just be pretty much anything I want to have some fun with this it's literally been over a year since I've done one of these so let's have some fun today built with primo components and cutting-edge technology the asrock extreme series motherboards make content creation easy with support for NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro workstation cards triple m dot 232 gigabit per second sockets and support for ddr4 ECC memory mean you can create your content with confidence learn more about as rocks line of extreme motherboards by clicking the link down in the description one of the things I like most about AskMe videos is the fact that you don't know where the videos gonna go and heck even I don't know where the video is gonna go I've sampled some of these questions but I'm gonna kind of read them and answer them on the fly right here no prepared answers I'm just gonna be like I'm just gonna whatever Harry Potter spell would be to pull it out of my brain and throw it in your face but anyway make sure you watch to the very end because I do have some information about things that are coming up here on the channel especially the end of this week so I want you guys kind of be informed to know what's going on regarding Tech Talk this week and all that stuff so watch until the end of the video alright so starting off on Facebook Nicoll Lodge nikka Lodge and Nikol Lodge Christiansen hope I'm not mutilating your name he says what blowed your Imai most about be getting this big on YouTube I've said it before and I think I said it in the video I put up about me quitting my job a year ago was I had zero expectations for this to ever go anywhere let alone six hundred and one thousand subscribers as of making this video that is an absolutely mind-blowing number that enough people out you want to watch an ugly guy like me talk about computer stuff this one's a pretty good one by the way Eric Huber I think it's Huber says how is balancing family life with social media I see a lot of people tend to post everything about their personal lives to their audiences definitely not saying that you and I wonder sometimes how what their families think about it he says he naturally assumes that there's a general understanding but sometimes I wonder what family members of YouTube celebrities think about the lifestyle well ultimately at the end of the day we're all human at least most of us and the general reaction the friends and family tends to be very similar of that of the viewers of is that a real job it's YouTube really a real job and then they see the potential income and they're like whoa how do how do I do that but ultimately I don't put anything on camera and any my vlogs on the vlog channel or on the tech channel that anyone around me wouldn't want aired so if Little J doesn't want to be on camera or she doesn't want anything shown that day or the wife or whatever I don't show it I respect everyone's privacy as much as I want people to expect respect my privacy I respect everyone's around me I don't go shoving cameras in people's faces which is kind of the nice thing about not being a like a daily vlogger or a lifestyle vlogger I just do the tech stuff and most of the time I'm just shut up in my you know my mom's basement here like you would kind of expect right no I don't really live with my mom in her in her basement it's California we don't even have basements you know cause earthquakes they'll fall in on you I'm starting to think that all of my facebook followers are foreign because this one comes from sandara's gook cows Kaz how much this skunk works pull from the wall while gaming that's a good question in fact I already have my kilowatt out and I plan on doing a video about the amount of power that computers pull from the walls including this big behemoth behind me which by the way that is orange fluid not red it's just the way the camera looks you know whatever Brian Schaeffer says any tips for followers that want to start their own channel or make tech videos the only advice I have quite honestly is do it for fun and expect nothing do not expect to become a famous do not expect to become rich do not expect to get things for free just do it because you love it that's how I started anyone that starts with any of the three intentions I just said to get famous to get rich or get free stuff are doing it for the wrong reasons and you will fail your audience is going to see right through anything that's fake and they're gonna call you out on it regularly in fact they're gonna call you out on things that aren't even there but I digress the fact that if you are trying to do this for personal gain other than the enjoyment of making videos and sharing a passion for don't bother no one will watch Nathan Worland says what got you interested in the Z platform I think it's one of those things that ever since I was a kid seeing like the Datsun 280z I just thought the car was really really neat looking it really came down to the way it looked and then as I got older I cared more about performance and I kind of forgot about the Z platform for a long time and then once I got back into cars I tried out the 350z and you guys all know how that went got rid of the 350 got the 370 in the rest is history there's a lot of cars I would ultimately love to try out because I'm a car enthusiast but the Z platform and when it comes to imports is by far my favorite platform here's a good one Alex Goulet Galit Goulet Goulet maybe it's French he says how much do you actually spend on parts versus what manufacturers give you to review it's actually a good question it's kind of three different things that take place here there are a number of parts that I purchased simply because I don't just write emails and be like hey I need this send it to me so if I need something that I don't have I'll just buy it for the most part sometimes I'll ask a sponsor to get involved like from memory or something like that but if I need hard drives that I don't have I I don't even have a hard drive supplier I have some SSD suppliers but I will just order it from Amazon or I'll go out to Fry's or Micro Center or something like that processors though and all the time I've been doing this channel I've only received one processor for free a technically - one AMD 8350 which was in the in AMD giveaway build and then the z170 the 6700 K the 59 60 X - 59 30 K the 5820k all that stuff I bought I bought a whole debt that's out of pocket Carlo London LAN pata young tata says of all the things people ask you to give them for free was there an odd request that surprised you yeah someone wanted like a used pair of my bike shorts I mean it Gerry I'm not giving you my bike shorts stop asking Nathan Bingman s what was the most off-the-wall weirdest thing you were asked to review I put this on Twitter actually and I think it went to Facebook as well I was actually asked to review condoms I thought it was an April Fool's joke it happened on April's April 1st but the company was lid gently asking me to take their condoms which apparently are made from some synthetic material that's supposed to be super plentiful or whatever and and talked about safe sex and STDs and stuff to my audience and be creative with visuals about a condom yeah they were they were serious about that how to use a condom Benjamin Harlow says what do you think about use PC parts I think if you trust where they're coming from there's some sort of a measurable history of what the card has gone through or the CPU or motherboard or whatever it may be I think use parts are definitely a good way to save some money and get something better especially if the seller is like on a forum like hard forms or overclocked botnet and they have good buyer feedback and seller feedback then I would definitely recommend doing that you can save some money and get better hardware I've done it in the past lots of my builds had used hardware that kept going and going for years I see nothing wrong with it as long as you trust the seller and they have good feedback kärpät sultan epic name man is it true that jerry AKA barnak Lee's worked at Microsoft alright I'm gonna blow your minds here no no so hope you're sitting down all of you Jerry aka Barclays did in fact work at the Microsoft food court that's to borrow for 15 years it is it is absolutely true confirmed today Klaus Bello says if he could change things you did in the past what would you do you know I am of the mindset that changing our past can dramatically alter our future and we don't know if that's gonna be for the better say for instance I didn't finish college if I'd gone back to college what I've gotten a different job and it would have put me necessarily on a different path to where I never would have ended up where I am today so I tend to take all of the mistakes that I've made in the past try and learn from them and make a better future out of our failures if we always succeeded and went back and changed the things that we failed at I don't believe we'd ever succeed so I wouldn't change a damn thing quite honestly Daniel Hernandez says how do you balance it all what's your driving force and why YouTube videos I have covered this in the past I'm not going to go into this story again in fact I recently talked about it in my one-year self-employed video it all started on a dare and my driving force is you guys you guys there I feel like quitting all the time I'm humans naturally become complacent no no like yeah this is boring I don't do this anymore and you start to kind of want to give up but every time I read your guys's comments I say you're doing an awesome job I love what you're doing I love your videos I can't wait for your next upload that drives me to keep going and make great uploads for you guys and on the flip side the haters out there going you're ugly you're fat you're terrible at this kill yourself why do you keep doing this I keep doing this - because it pisses them the off and pissing off haters is probably one of my favorite pastimes and if that's you right now and I just triggered you good spikey Mikey on Twitter says when I get my Mustang finished do you want to run them lol you mean run them over like the crowds and oh so here's one from at Michael G Powell and this kind of goes with a little bit like the one we talked about earlier on Facebook it says prior to YouTube going full-time how did you find fitting and tech and gaming into a schedule with a job family time chores etc I'll be honest I have less time to gain now than I did when I was working full time well working full time without YouTube I should say you know you go to work you get off at a certain time you come home you sit down you relax you kick off your shoes you kids jump up in your lap if you have kids anyway you spend some time with that I mean do dinner they go to bed maybe get in some games for a few hours go to bed 10 11 12 at night get up in the morning you get six seven hours of sleep and then do it all over again however now being self-employed you know there are or maybe you don't know there are no regular hours in this it's all hours of the day you're dealing with working and evening work in the daytime and as much as you try and set yourself a set schedule you have to work until the work is done you can't just be like oh it's four o'clock I'm done I'm out and clocking out gone it doesn't work that way so I have less time now at the end of the day because I'm an editor I am a on screen personality I have to do the research I have to do my bookkeeping my billing I'm gonna do my invoices what I can own this video I've got to write some invoices I'm gonna prepare for a trip that I'm leaving on tomorrow at the end of all this video I haven't even started packing or preparing for that yet I've got to make sure that every single cog in this gear system is smooth greased and running and it's when you're doing this by yourself unfortunately gaming takes a huge backseat and I just don't get to game anymore like I would want to so I find balancing my time now is harder than it ever was before at res no says how did you meet coconut monkey we actually played on the same semi-pro paintball team we played air ball over at ASG in Southern California and we were friends ever since basically he looks at me kind of like a mentor I think I'm 10 years older than the guy every time he comes over I feel a little creeped out by the age difference at go to tech reviews on Twitter says will you be sub updating to Bridewell eat out of the gate he's thin he says even though I think I know the answer I don't know the answer so I don't know how you know the answer but I don't know if I want to update immediately 10 cores 20 threads that sounds freaking amazing it's a lot of work to get to the CPU in here and again like I said earlier I don't get supplied CPUs I mean I do have a somewhat of a working relationship with Intel I don't know if I'm gonna get one they haven't approached me about anything so I have no idea and if it's you know $1,000 or more that's a lot of money to drop for two cores and four threads on something that's already exceeding what I need my computer to do so I really don't know the enthusiasts in me wants it the practical guy inside of me basically just says you know at 68 Hemi dart says what are your future goals for your channel and just life I'll be honest with you I feel like I'm lacking some long-term goals right now and I'm trying to figure all of that out I do think expanding this into a little bit more of some sort of an empire more than just myself would be amazing but I'm a micromanager I don't think people like working with me because I'm a micromanager I tend to be a little bit of a hard-ass when it comes to work ethic and I don't I think I would have to be very very selective over who could work with me not to mention the person who works with me has to be able to deal with me because I'm not necessarily the easiest guy to work with when it comes to actual work ethic yeah hanging out with me having fun making videos that's one thing but when it comes to business I'm a bit of a hard-ass it was one of the reasons why at my old company I tend to work my way up through the ranks pretty quick I wouldn't say pretty quickly but pretty steadily because I was known as the kind of guy that was like kick-ass don't take names and just get done and that's my ethic and sometimes people don't mix very well with that I think that that leads to like a bigger problem in the world right now when it comes to people wanting things and having to work for it I tend to be the opposite Myron's fear Moran's fear sir I know I'm wrecking your name I apologize buddy he says have you ever been tired of YouTube to a point you thought of quitting yes just like I said earlier to the other question that sometimes you know you guys are the drive that keeps me going sometimes the audience is what makes me want to quit to know that to tell you the truth and yeah I think we've all reached a point to where we've considered quitting YouTube but I'm not I try not to be a quitter I've quit many things in life YouTube has been one of the most successful things I've ever done and I just don't I don't want this to end I want to enjoy it I want to adapt with it I want to evolve the ever-changing landscape of being a youtuber because that keeps things pretty exciting I just hope that I can prepare for my future enough to where if I everything just falls out at the bottom of the floor to where I can just change gears and do something different but I think I've created a name for myself now to where I can I can experiment outside of you to move YouTube a bit you just kind of see what happens at my own rule says why EVGA over a soos well I've used EVGA for years and years and I've used Asus products in the past as well but when it comes to sponsored bills and things I would like to sample other brands than just EVGA they are arguably one of my favorite to be honest Asus will not send me anything Asus will not even respond to emails anymore I've had some conversations with them in the past asus basically just will not send anything it goes a little bit deeper than that but yeah if you guys are wondering why I don't do Asus on this channel because they refuse to work with me pretty much what that said guys it is time to get out of here thanks for participating in this ask me maybe I'll do one of these a month or something I don't know anytime I've ever said I'll do something once a month I never do but it's time to go I have to prepare for a trip I'm heading to an Nvidia event tomorrow from the time you guys are seeing this tomorrow morning I'm getting on a plane and I'm gonna be gone till Sunday so I'll be doing some vlogs there hopefully you guys will enjoy that there's gonna be some other tech youtubers there so it should be interesting but yeah that's why I'm doing this kind of a quick easy video because quite honestly I've got a lot to get done so I hope you guys bear with me but anyway yes that also means because I'm going to be gone tomorrow it's very unlikely that I'm gonna be doing Tech Talk I have no idea what the hotel Wi-Fi is gonna be like so I I don't think Tech Talk is gonna be happening this week I am sorry for that I know we do that a lot we miss Tech Talk quite often but remember Tech Talk for us is about kind of just hanging out the end of the week it's not a revenue generator or anything for us so it's unfortunately sometimes when time runs out Tech Talk has to take a backseat anyway I am gonna go guys thanks for watching hope you guys enjoyed this Q&A keep asking your questions and maybe I'll make it into the next episode with that I'm gonna reach always bored here because again I still have absolutely no camera man see you next time