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offends you in the meantime today's show I'm just gonna be straightforward here from my half you know we're we're taking it easy it's gonna be kind of relaxed it's gonna be kind of mellow because in a crazy week for both of us it's been a little crazy now crazy week it's it's a relative term we've been partying cat I went on vacation last week I was on vacation so that was nice however coming back from vacation after that you know that oh yeah I'm that has been kind of crazy oh yeah hot that ups back episode right I have a vlog about my vacation that will be going up on my channel later this week as well as other videos going up as soon as Thursday probably gonna have something for you guys on Thursday I might have something for you on Thursday too before we get into them before we get into that though before we get into that a quick thanks Cal okay quick plug for our stories if guys want to buy stuff get yourself some merch check out our stores Paul's over at net it so much we got we 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than I am I'll do my best I'll read something in like five seconds later be like what did I just read forget literally everything and that's easy enough to do you're like a sponge no no all right topic number one for today's show is the radion 7 mm hmm look I have one mm-hmm do you do an unboxing no no didn't do it unboxing okay boxing's are for suckers you get roped in by the companies trying to get more coverage on their products so like here's an unboxing embargo so that you will be suckered into watching no a boxing videos actually usually get more hits than actually do it sucks it's because it's the first video like kill it like it's all the hype is leading up to the first video that everyone posts but once that first video goes out even if it's just an unboxing it kind of kills some of the hype no one's gonna follow up with the second video like a sodden box why would I want to watch video where they test it and do benchmarks and all that stuff anyway so I didn't I didn't get one out of three out of seven as well quite a few people in media have published unboxing videos and otherwise recently I was watching the gamers Nexus video because they also did a teardown you know they're bold like that I appreciate that Steve took it apart given a little bit more context a little bit more information as far as what because you know also there's restrictions on reviewers and why what you're able to talk about so far so on the plus side it was easier to take apart than invidious recent founders edition offerings oh geez here oh that's that's not scary at all comforting sound also there's a graphite thermal pad that's on here it's a specific one if I had notes I would tell you exactly what it is it but I didn't anyway point being it's there to provide some more more better coverage for all the stuff that's going on here which is not just the GPU itself but also the HBM to memory stacks since it gets 16 gigs of HP on to memory in the past there have been height variances between the different different ICS that are on the substrate material there and when you have height differences and you have a heatsink going on top of them that's supposed to provide a universal or a uniform flat contact for those the height difference can lead to issues when it comes to cooling so that might be one reason why this graphite thermal pad has been used it also you know it has conductivity that's about on par with with your thumb with your high quality thermal paste but just an interesting aspect of the actual construction of this particular card you know the the PCB itself also seems to be well designed with with high quality vrm delivery components and and all that kind of good stuff lots of copper there and on the heat sink fan the outside as well you know copper is conductive and there's a closer look at the actual dye or the the package that has the GPU dye in the middle and the 4 4 gig HP m2 memory stacks on the sides beyond that there was a bunch of other unboxings like jay jay did an unboxing hard OCP did an unboxing kit crew did an unboxing there's me l did an unboxing best lemme lemme yeah you're you're shooting it like a gun i was i was happy with that you know I worked at we're dead it matches with the title you know I'm kind of noisy you have two hundred and eighty seven thousand views so you can't complain yeah you know I watched your video doing okay you know probably the worst unboxing I've ever done like I felt like you could easily use Jays title you're my unboxing and it still would have fit it was was better than it was flogged style which was you can get away with a lot when you do the blog style yeah it's very unforgiving the vlog format may need lots of forgiveness February 7th or Thursday is when this actually goes up for sale for six hundred and ninety-nine dollars u.s. there is no official word on when reviews can go live but presumably some repairs up for sale reviews go live that that usually is when you guys know the drill look looking forward Thursday if you want more info on that weird following up Apple did you hear about the FaceTime bug no you have any family room no nope how many family members he use FaceTime bug what's an apple is that a fruit Apple is company iPhones okay any faced him had this kind of crazy bug it was a it'll like if he called someone and then you add on using FaceTime and then you add someone to the call then it would automatically join the person who you attempted to call as well and then you could hear what they were saying without them ever having to click accept we pretty big bug in the actual FaceTime software Apple Apple that you can look at it two ways this started to blow up on social media Apple was quick to go and disable it so people couldn't use it anymore and I don't know if I assume it's been patched by now but also this kid was attempting to report it for a while tried contacting contacting Apple for ten days this was after testing the bug for about 30 minutes and telling his mom about it so on the plus side looking at the silver lining to this thing for anyone who you know uses an Apple device that has FaceTime and his Vollmer was vulnerable to this bug they are giving the teen the reward his name what was his name grant Thompson it's getting it he's getting it doesn't say exactly up to two hundred thousand dollars Wow up to I don't know I don't know what they're actually giving him but um but there you go Apple following through this keep being the first one to report this pretty substantial bug in FaceTime damn sweet look a gun Huawei Huawei Huawei has there's an interesting story about hallway they've been under the microscope a bit from the US perspective for breaches of security right um there's a lot of like US government organizations don't allow you to use Huawei phones and everything like that this is sort of a side to that but Dimond glass is is a is a material that's being developed to be used in smartphones scratch-proof according according to what they say here looks like an ordinary piece of glass minutes and it's transparent but it's actually scratch proof the company that's developing this and they've representative is named Adam Khan who they talk to is called a con a con a con semiconductor Incorporated basically what way heard about this like hey why don't you send us over a sample of that and they were supposed to get the sample and have it for a brief period of time and then return it to the makan they didn't they kept it for like five months they apparently shipped it back to China and they'll select broke it so they were they were pretty clearly at something to like reverse-engineer right this diamond glass technology schedule which is which is pretty sketchy and in order to follow up on this they actually the the US Department of Justice I believe worked with them to negotiate us there to set up a sting at CES what yeah her as I froze at a burger joint and a burger joint no way yeah so the FBI I'm sorry the FBI did a sting on hallway at a burger joint no one was actually arrested but the CEO I believe the CEO of the akan company was like wore a wire and stuff like that were they expecting to go down like like they they were just they were just they were gathering information they were gathering information aha and it was enough that you know hallway has now been wait wait now I thought there was a charge of a nut or something like that maybe not directly so it was just Kwame employees at the at the burger place they weren't talking with anyone else they were just like there was like a spy in there listening to a huawei employee conversation about the diamond glass so you're asking me for more details if I had probably it doesn't really matter honestly but it's always been under a lot of heat for other things too yeah lately right like this is just tip the iceberg for them yeah so they like their CFO was arrested recently for stealing trade secrets they've been accused for stealing remember she was in Canada CFO was recently in Canada and then got arrested in Canada and now she wants to get like near the US wants to extradite her to the United States here he is you know I did but but since we're broadcasting to people and we're being recorded right now I hesitate to dive into details of that without without them being confirmed like in text in front of me so we'll leave it to the viewers at home if you'd like to click on the links in the description with the articles that have more information on this I do feel free to do so I did read the article this morning but I just I purposely didn't talk about it because a little like this looks like a shitstorm I don't want to get into like there was just so much information like money laundering something in that right you'd rather not discuss without having fully investigated so you can you know view all sides and give a thorough explanation of what's going on right I just want to play Apex okay all right let's move that's right okay let's play Apex legends let's talk about that give it to me apex legends we already talked about this briefly and cows half of the show and just to be clear here we're not being paid for this or anything like that this was just something I kind of woke up to today was that apex legends had launched one thing I like about this that's been pointed out by a few people they didn't do like some open beta alpha pretest thing or something like that they just launched it it's like I don't know where it's free-to-play it's based on some existing an existing engine as far as I know it's set in the titanfall universe so they they have existing IP you know it's something that's been in development but they just sort of dropped it on everyone this weekend and said alright here it is it's free-to-play it's open go ahead and start playing he dropped it on it and good titanfall pun exactly and like it has been pretty stable from what I've read people haven't had a lot of issues with it so that at least is well done I think from a development standpoint and also kind of refreshing as sort of a different means of launching a product to like they're like here's the beta whatever and the limited thing and then all right now we're launching the game but it's like there's five different ways you can buy it so like if you bought it this way you can play it this week we've bought it this way you can play it later this week but only for five hours and if you bought it this way you'd never actually get to play the game you just get a stuffed animal stuff like that you know anyway apex legends available now send the titanfall universe it is a battle royale style game but it's it's sort of team-based you you drop in and a team of three there are twenty teams of three so with 60 60 people total right in each game and there are eight different sort of main character main characters like heroes glasses and legends I believe as they're called in the game that you can play and they're gonna add more I think in the future yeah each one has three individual abilities one is passive one is sort of a regular ability that you can use normally that's not a cool-down and one is like an ultimate ability so I think kind of like like a hero configuration like you might have an overwatch it yeah sounds very kind of the idea I get there at the same time if you want to look at the dark raincloud to the silver lining of the launch titanfall and titanfall 2 or both games that have that exist and titanfall 3 had been in the works for a while titanfall 3 more recently has been said they stopped development on potentially for this yes it's that we're not really sure of that because we don't know the inner workings of the company but just prior to this there was news that titanfall 3 wasn't being worked on but now that this has launched we have news from IGN that a premium titanfall experience is coming later this year so if you had heard that titanfall 3 was somehow cancelled or something like that they're not specifically saying titanfall 3 but a premium titanfall experience means probably a standalone not like a free-to-play game like the Battle Royale version that they just launched right it's sort of on the horizon for that so later this year that's obviously very vague and everything so we're not absolutely sure but it makes me think that this was supposed to be titanfall 3 but then they wanted to hop on the battle royale craze so they Eurogamer reported that respawn is not currently working on titanfall 3 this was from yesterday it's crazy to me that like the highest-grossing game in the world right now which is fortnight is a free-to-play game and that like everything's micro transaction based well if you can make a game like it's a game of style that a lot of people are interested in yeah if you make that make it free so you can have the cast as wide a net as possible to get as many players as possible right and then you know you put in little ways for people you spend 3 bucks on this there's been you know five bucks on this no one's like oh I want that cape or whatever right to do it and it's it seems to be a lucrative business model for for the time being so yeah yeah it's nuts uh yeah and then as Kyle kind of mentioned on his half which I forgot to click on the link for here but yeah apex apex legends as well that's where they broke they broke a million unique players in under eight within eight hours of launch which is pretty impressive given again that it's a game that they didn't really have any early access to or open beta for or anything like that like it was only kind of rumored to be in development and they're just kind of like here it's crazy he'll play who's Vince Zampella me lead I believe he's one of the careers he's a CEO of respawn okay okay make sense he looks very young to be CEO of yeah he's doing well for himself this picture imagine where he'll be it bit well probably lightyears oh yes alright so Kyle yes I have the gaming PC losing has you have that game so guys as I've already alluded to a few times as we've started today's show minimal preparation which means the second half of my show before we even get to the after party is going to be gameplay yes we've loaded up apex legends that's right you if you have origin it does use the origin launcher you can you can just download it and play it for free we have like zero experience with this so this is gonna be is gonna be very raw in your face apex where's my first impressions right yeah yeah right you see it's totally dominate you have a headset back you have a headset there's also something an apex legend that's called a ping system which is used for 2.2 like you can use it to point to yeah you know something that a teammate should pick up but you can also use it to point out like a enemy I guess something like that okay throw these on there's there's no way I can look at chat at the same time is there yeah you know I'll just look at it on your screen or something all right legends play legends ooh bloodhound Gibraltar lifeline paths these are the various characters you can play Oh two of them are locked so how do I get those got a play for a while probably let's try let's try Wraith Wraith looks cool oh wait I can hear myself talking shit but I can hear myself echoing through somewhere so ah shut up also when you show your desktop everyone see everything okay me yeah like right now it's not a big deal but oh uh hi desktop items just porn everywhere all right here we go play play play I can't this just go fullscreen geez puppies oh boy your wife's home probably probably are you doing I did nothing the game crash it did what system is this is the dynamic I'm loading it up I didn't do anything you just crashed out of nowhere game crash dog barking if this if this crash once again then I'll I'll just go home and play Resident Evil yeah I thought I was just keeping accolades on this game is it's like very stable and everything oh my gosh dogs dogs dogs dogs doggone it dog damn it dog damn it starting server maybe you're maybe it wasn't your wife isn't there yeah they probably just thought it was her why can't oh okay yeah actually joining a game now are exciting okay here we go select legend okay I thought I already selected it I see you can see who else is on there gotcha awesome and you know like I really hope that the people on my team have already been playing this like is the moment it came out and they're like you know legendary and it'll carry me to victory probably cuz I that's what I would assume because I'm going to die so quick so fast introducing new champion introducing I'm really glad that it's a battle royale game that doesn't involve building that building but there is still the drop in you drop in oh yeah you start with nothing and everything I'm fine with looting I just I never liked the building element okay the building aspect of fortnight always that's why you have to hotkey everything yeah it's true would you mind grabbing me one I'll take a knife be a horse you don't mind thank you loot loot loot loot the loot loot loot loot loot okay play the video games oh no oh no I think it crashed the game crashed yeah I was running and then it stopped no no everything stopped no I was like I was so hyped up I got so amped to like do some looting that sucks what's going on here what's is that a new PC this it could be the game very well be the game yeah I mean I don't think I don't think it's a PC it's a 9900 K&A oh they both need to be open but that's the IP oh yeah so now you KN an RT X 2080 in there right now so yeah that doesn't sound like the issue what oh hi Creason up like that like the whole system just locked up a driver is up to date as of like 8 hours ago yeah 8 or 9 hours ago was when I downloaded and update the driver in this one is anything overclocked or is everything bone stock uh no I don't think anything's overclocked if anything is overclock the CPU might be a little bit but it wouldn't I think that was like mild 4.8 gigahertz maybe well that's disappointing well geez this games broken no one no one player that's totally not our fault that's unfortunate white screen white screen of death Wow my entire plan for my second half of the shows just could you down the toilet could you try it on oh it's not inside I never downloaded it on this computer it's only on that one right so all right cool is it is it worth trying to reboot while we're here yeah give it a shot even shot that's still shutting down for us that's okay I just got the the razor edition of that case yeah not too long ago I've already done way too much coverage on it so and I yeah I mean that's really the exact same case with the Razer logo I know I know I know but it you know it makes me want to do the Razer logo and kind of special because it's like eh but it's etched like inside the glass right yeah that's pretty fancy looking yeah I do like green builds a lot I'm gonna call it the green machine original I know chock full of ideas Paul's exciting you'd have most of them for free let's reopen origin all right what's what's good okay hey-oh we could read off some of the donation comments or Johnston's well we could normally we do that we're recently we have been doing that during the after party but oh yeah true this is supposed to be a pre after pray you're right oops who don't stick around for the after pray and aren't used to the immense amount of excitement that goes along with it oh really why would it want that I've done that already because he rebooted maybe possibly it's not still capturing this is it no no I have that switched off for now is it your oh my dog's is it this this account for you yeah I'm not sure actually work never see it we'll see Dukey I wonder why it crashed or why it's crashing yeah that's like that sucks hey I spent time downloading this and getting this prepared before the show started that I feel like nothing's been working right this week yeah one of those one of those weeks I can't say Simon case in point it's like the origin login is literally so we're not functioning nothing works so broken the rest of the stream will be troubleshooting trying to get one game to run covered up I got you I've got you back cover me that looked like it did something there hey okay success you know and we're calling logging into origin of success then it's gonna be a rocky road ahead impacts legends super exciting uh morale is low morale is low right now I just just it's the calm before the storm just chillin like villains oh yeah did I ever get a reply for that I did that play damn you what settings are we at right now can I see me now you what wait time can they see my screen right now is okay you want me well I mean that yeah they can there's nothing sensitive at this point I was just looking at some of my settings resolutions at 7:20 can I talk can these people hear me is my mic plugged in hey slobby Rob I like your name you can't hear me can't hear me at all futile you are picking third Oh interesting it lets you pick it it randomizes the order that you can pick your character so I picked last so you're limited to like a tank of healer in a teepee yes like all around I just see that we have three different icons here so that's good but let's support shielding okay so this is leaving my teammates one has three kills already in the US 15 promising champion squad the hell are these people it's gonna kick your ass I'm jumpmaster I don't know what that means but look the two people you're with have vlg in front of the name that means they're waiting know each other I'm just suggesting all the locations but they're not let's just line here see and the jumpmaster he launched happens right and we're to one and then we're done you guide everywhere one person decides okay yeah that could go really well or keeping other people live what is this guy saying I think I led us into dangerous waters other teams are diving in very dangerous waters unfortunately you don't have a mic because it's a way that the audio had to be right now that's fine we'll see what we can do okay can you like open these doors oh yes the people diving with you can break off and yeah was this connait cool I got again this again sir useful young gun gun who's got the gun okay jeez grenade guys the game we're playing right now we're the Kyle's playing his apex legends which just launched over the weekend it's free-to-play battle royale style game you join in teams of three and Kyle is always about playing with this team I know this from playing many video games with kind of the pattern never runs off by himself always about that team synergy I'm trying to catch up with them assholes that's a friend yeah oh yeah but behind him it was no friendly fire okay alright you were shooting through your friends head to kill the other person like a true teammate look he's sliding on the grandpa figure out what your special ability is that oh Jesus oh no I died you can be revived nope not when we're both we're both down there's a way to revive while you're bleeding out no hide oh you're like you should run towards your other teammates you can revive you and I'm trying to hide so that he can heal me in in hiding come on BL dull oh no oh no they killed my friend dang they're gonna come for me that rudl you just trapped compliment waiting to be executed we're gonna draw your teammate out no that's there is nowhere I could go you did your best for stressful I have a few questions about the call of duty black ops for PC the winner for that has been drawn shit but I do not believe the notification email has gone out yet there's just some communication with ASUS towards the end of the day today not quite ready to announce it yet but the email for the winner should be going out probably probably tomorrow alright good Kyle hey we're not crashing anymore we're not crashing so that's positive I think that's a win all right everyone that metaphor you join another game okay let's let's do this let's mute that let's go here all right what are we doing I'm going to end my half of Awesome part oh cool sounds good guys thank you so much for watching my half of Awesome hardware I hope you've enjoyed it we'll be back very soon with the after party so if you're watching live after party link is down in the description we're gonna play some more of these video games we're gonna response people who have made a donation comment comment chats and also other Q&A fun stuff thank you guys for watching bye be back soon