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jiae's to sentencing so it's been a long time since I've done one of these Q&A videos and normally I'll go in and and pre select the questions and I decided today I'm gonna let Phil pre-selected questions I have no idea what's coming my way so yeah sure you get DIY anything but why do this when you could have this available in both 120 and 140 millimeter sizes the new Prisma fans from fractal design features six individually addressable hub mounted RGB LEDs that are compatible with most motherboard addressable RGB headers to learn more click the link in the description below Franz's je asks pineapple on pizza question mark duh now says I like myself a good Hawaiian pizza I like Hawaiian barbecue pizza I also like people making up their own mind for what they like and not giving a what other people think Nermin patel 0 0 3 4 asks describe your YouTube journey in one word abrasive [Laughter] that's the first word that came in behind nakri who or what were your influence to do YouTube videos and when did you actually start talking to a camera I wanted to make movies as a kid and I've said this a million times I wanted to be a director of photography I don't want to be a director director photography I wanted to work with the camera man oh the camera ops I wanted to work with all that so I would take black paper mache or construction paper and poke different size holes in it and tape it up it to my window to make space and then I had models that I built like Millennium Falcon and x-wings and stuff and I had them on streams and I made battle scenes and I even had green pipe cleaners that we had that we'd throw to make the lasers and all that sort of stuff so my friends and I like we would make these stupid little videos which I wish I still had but I don't unfortunately so talking in front of the camera was the camera never scared me in terms of influence to making videos I never really had a tech influence I didn't even know people made you're living doing this on YouTube until I was in my 30s already and it was just one of those things where I think my biggest influence in that this could work was was Linus and what I mean by that is just like I said at the roast which I meant 100% is if a guy like him with a voice like him and a face like his could make a living doing this so can I do you consider yourself a car guy first or a PC guy first I consider myself and whatever floats my boat guy first I share an equal passion for both but I probably have a bigger passion for cars at the moment only because it's not work that's why the car channel died a slow agonizing death I let it on purpose because it was becoming work it was becoming like I gotta upload something to this channel and I didn't like that feeling so I just said screw it so Jays two cents is not about computers Jays two cents was about whatever I wanted it to be about and if you go and you watch the early videos on this channel the first six months was really eclectic I ranted about Apple I ranted about Google I ranted about Xbox I went I'm more than a one-trick pony I don't only care about computers I care about all things technology and so the genre or the audience really tried to keep me in this genre box which I refused to stay in but yeah I would consider myself equal on both but I currently enjoy cars more only because I get to spend a lot less time with it there's that like overused phrase that's just like do what you love and like you'll never work a day in your life and it's like it still is well like it's doing well I love what I do but man this yeah it's so work like I think that's an important distinction is that like it's still work but you like working as opposed to hating working that just that sucks mmm what type of genre of movies do you prefer when you're relaxing away from computer in cars this might surprise a lot of people but I don't watch a lot of movies I don't really watch any sort of mainstream TV I spend a lot of my time watching documentaries online the world war one world war two vietnam a lot of like DIY type stuff I really like watching how-to videos how to build stuff I mean this I had to learn how to do this on my own as I went I enjoyed that sort of stuff I don't feel like TV rots your brain like some people do it's just my brain and TV are not on the same wavelength I guess and so I just sort of don't watch anything like obviously I've enjoyed like the MCU I watched all of Game of Thrones I watched all the sons of anarchy all of Breaking Bad these these real heavies heavily stitched pop culture things sometimes I get sucked in sucked into them but fortunately those are usually one at a time and years apart I've also been watching a lot of goon squad and I have an urge not to by erect super guard I don't want to but I wanna what was your most frustrating build you've done post Malone I think everyone knows that answer there this that was the only build that I had so many different people involved in it and everyone kind of like the next piece couldn't happen until the previous piece was done it all started with the custom case that I loved seeing Larry computers but they quoted me four to six weeks it took them three months actually took more than three months but that's besides the point by the time the system was pretty much done and we could show it to him he was on a world tour and he was gone for months so so many things lined up to where the build itself probably only took a week and a half of actual build time but it it took so much more than that between all the pieces to line up to where we could present it to him and then I guess it's also just frustrating because I didn't feel like a real appreciation towards that build like Terry Crews was so beside himself to receive the the PC we built for him it felt like so many strings were pulled and so many people came together to build something like that that you can not recreate you cannot build this anywhere else because of the custom work that was done for the grill and the guitar head and all that sort of stuff I felt like it was just kind of like oh yeah man that's cool bro yeah and so that's what also made it frustrating was I took a huge beating on the timeline and then I took I feel like an appreciation beating when the project was over what made you want to become a tech guy or how did you become a tech guy I never wanted to become a tech guy like why does why does the mechanic become mechanic or the pilot become the pilot it's I don't think it's cuz they went you know that guy looks like he's having fun we'll go do that I think it's just the way your brain is wired and you just you just wake up one day and you go you know that's just the things I like it's it's you and people can't explain their tastes they just know that that's the way they are and that's what kind of makes everyone unique which is kind of neat I've been sitting on computers as far back as I can remember I've got pictures of my dad holding me when I was a baby while he's on the computer so it's just always been that way in terms of cars though no one in my family pretty much had that sort of passion just me do you digress daily can I just hate when I digress when I want to go to the bathroom again so the reason why I digress and this is the short condensed version of so this before a million times I worked for a company that we did software development every single day we had what's called a scrum meeting we had this one gentleman that was in a power struggle with a part owner of the company a new guy that came in and then this particular gentleman and I'll leave his name out unfortunately he's passed away so it's it's kind of an homage to him he would fill a bust every scrum and at the end of his little filibuster he would go but I digress Paul you may have the floor and so it just became like a thing where every time I heard it every day every day every day every day every day to where it just got stuck in my head and now every time I say it it's kind of like a little like good to him I think I just had a stroke it's like how do you dab is it like this what's the point of extreme overclocking when you're not even gonna use it as your workstation or gaming machine with the point of making a comment when no one really cares what you think no it goes back to the thing we talked about earlier with the passion of doing something why do people race cars why people with race airplanes boats it's just a it's just a desire of taking something beyond its limits and seeing how far you can go with it before there's any sort of a failure and then you start naturally racing at it I mean overclocking when it comes to like the ln2 and the XOC guys its cpu drag racing it's what it is and it's no different than any other sport there's no point why I take this stupid orange ball against those five guys and try and put it in that hole you could say anything to waste the time if you don't agree with it but that good kind of circles back to my thing I said earlier to is is the pineapple on pizza thing how about you just let people enjoy what they enjoy and if you don't like it you just kind of keep your mouth shut about it is ripped Gian over I'd like to see more ln2 videos time and work and life got in the way we've had we've had parts to compete with that for a long time and and kudos to Steve who who took that that series and then just ran with it I mean he did a really good job it's bringing in the XOC community getting getting him with kingpin getting in with beer did I forgot his name's real name oh man I feel bad but anyway it's like he did a really good job of bringing in a lot of awareness to a group that I feel like they don't get nearly as much exposure or awareness as they deserve we are gonna be doing more with Steve next month I don't want to give away any details we will be working actually I believe together on something against someone yeah without giving out too much more information but it's it should be interesting you should be exciting and it will be live-streamed so stay tuned for that what is the next car that you want I practical wise I don't know that I have a next car that I want I've got my my RAM rebel and I have my 370z which of my track car blasts drive and then I have my stupid midlife crisis zl1 one ally that I ripped the engine apart at five thousand miles and increase the output by over by almost 200 horsepower it's kind of hard to say what I would want next I think I think a demon or a red-eye it would be fun my Camaro doesn't have that same presence even as a red-eye even though it's it's just as fast if not faster in a straight line than a red-eye and it could still pull you know well over one and a half G's in a turn it's uh it's just something about the presence of a red-eyed I think would be fun in terms of impractical car I think a Ferrari 12 would be kind of fun I'm not an I'm not an exotic sports car kind of guy I'll never own a Lamborghini how I'll never own a Ferrari 812 either but I think that's a car that would be fun because again rear-wheel drive front engine which if you can't tell it's kind of a theme of mine so it's just something about having all that horsepower sent to the rear wheels in trying to keep it all in check as it's what I think is fun if you were to replace your Camaro what car would it be in life uh hell why not a Tesla Roadster the new one the new one if you like to work you can get plenty of it like your internal organs range is whatever you want yeah right I mean and and the fact that it makes no noise when it's doing it well that's crazy but I mean if we're just going by pure performance I mean you can't deny the car right you just can't what's the weirdest thing you've done with computer hardware I heard you guys like dark things I don't think anything we've done yet really compares to some things I want to do if you had a dollar for every time someone asks you for free PC parts would you be able to retire today I mean realistically no but it is a little annoying that we get those messages daily on every single place you've it all right a little bit more serious from coalition gaming how do you deal with situations of slow channel growth and producing high effort content that gets lackluster viewing performance results so I've learned over the years I guess I've been doing this now seven years or going on almost seven years there are multiple times a year where the slowdowns are consistent usually is right around the start of summer Christmas time is another slow down right before Christmas usually before Thanksgiving so what I've learned is that when I know the slow times are coming like we're in one right now we are we are we're down like twenty or thirty percent on subscriber growth converses the last period but I mean what gets me through it like I already said it's just the fact that I have seen year on year on year the slow time is always followed by a rise right after that what is the worst regret you have in life so my biggest regret is that I've never graduated anything I graduated late from high school which was gonna surprise a lot of people because I got senioritis my sophomore year so I got very far behind by the time senior rolled around so I graduated in summer school which means I never got to wear a cap and gown I never got to walk and hear my name called and people cheer or whatever so my graduation for high school consisted of congratulations you passed summer school go to the window on your way out and get your diploma and that was it and then I'm a college dropout so I've never like officially graduated something with any sort of ceremony or anything like that so I think that's probably my biggest regret it's just at the time I told people like my parents were like you're gonna regret it you're gonna regret it you need to want to graduate on time like whatever I don't care I don't care and I didn't care for years and I but I think now as I'm older and I've got kids and I see their excitement when they had their little promotion ceremonies and stuff moving to the next grade I kind of look at that and I go you know they didn't do that promotion crap when I was a kid and then I see I see their excitement for that and I think well it would have been nice maybe to wear a cap and gown at least once so that's probably my biggest regret little video game would you like to see remade using new technologies like quake 2 or TX how about Duke Nukem that way you can just see you have the old game but with the new lighting and oh yeah the reason why I want to see you even more piss off the easily pissed off let's do it I was thinking I was thinking Stars episode racer but that might just be X mean vs. TIE fighter boy yeah what has been your favorite part of building the new sets doing it myself honestly it's going a lot slower this would have been done already if I'd Contractors come in but the amount of money that I've saved on just having contractors build the framework have allowed me to buy the furniture and the tools and the tool boxes and stuff we need for the new shop I'm really looking forward to building the new computer build space and that's gonna be a fun series like I mean I'm sure most people would dream of having a space dedicated to just building computers and you're not even doing it as like a business to sell the computers to people because that's about volume get it in get it out the more computers you move the more money you make this is just about sharing that build passion and I can't wait to start the build set which should hopefully start next week all right last question is to jay-z or RB 2602 jay-z of course I'll be 26 is legendary but so is the to jay-z and if you truly want to go with power and reliability the two jay-z or the RB 26 any day and I say that as someone who knows people who own both that are modified Oh chocolate or vanilla chocolate vanilla swirl