Microsoft/Activision Deal: We Can't Agree! - WAN Show January 21, 2022 

So proud of Luke for getting his lower body back.

If Microsoft can afford that 68.3 billion deal, they could have added 0.7 billion at little to no cost. BOYCOTT!!1!1 -Timestamps- [0:00] *Chapters.* [1:03] *Intro.* [1:31] *Topic #1: Microsoft's acquisition of Activision.* > 4:44 Luke's take of the positive side. > 8:50 Linus's rebuttal of the negative side. > 10:36 Fears of Microsoft monopoly, effects on multiplayer. > 18:00 Sony VS Xbox duopoly, Xbox Game Pass advantages. > 23:17 Sony's "Spartacus" Game Pass, Nintendo's Back Up service. > 25:35 Sony's memory stick, Xbox series S/X VS PS4/PS5. [26:53] *LTTStore's non-zipper processor hoodie.* [29:05] *Topic #2: Lenovo vendor locks AMD processors via PSB.* > 30:03 CPUs brick once fuse blows, enabled by default. > 31:56 Anticonsumerism or badly implemented? Discussing e-waste. > 35:02 *TRIGGER WARNING* Blizzard's "Cosby Suite". [36:20] *Sponsors.* > 36:28 MechanicalKeyboards culture. > 37:26 Freshbooks accounting. > 38:11 Seasonic PSUs. [Cont.] *Topic #2: Lenovo locking AMD processors via PSB.* > 38:44 Clearing opinions on AMD's PSB, remastered games. [43:34] *Merch Messages #1.* > 43:52 Stopping GPU sag. > 44:50 Linus interpreting American Sign Language. > 48:29 Government reform thoughts for tech industry. > 49:18 AMD's CPU vs GPU innovative roadmap. > 50:35 Not all LMG employees are techies, Linus idea of trolling. > 52:33 Cables signal degradation shielded VS unshielded video idea. > 53:41 Tel Aviv LTT videos, Bill Gates buying lands. > 55:14 Game development & SSD expectations. [56:56] *Topic #3: AMD's Anti-4GB VRAM post deleted after 6500XT.* > 58:32 Better than nothing, functional & in stock. > 1:00:16 Specifications, APU usage explains the lack of decoding. > 1:03:29 Removal of anti 4GB post, graphics card & hardware demand. [1:07:26] *Topic #4: NFT overtakes cryptocurrency after crashing.* > 1:10:08 Twitter NFT profile pictures on iOS. > 1:12:06 NFTs are cosmetics that people value. > 1:18:40 ThinkGeek bought by Gamestop. [1:20:30] *Topic #5: Samsung's Exynos 2200 SoC RDNA2.* [1:21:32] *Topic #6: Valve verifies games that work on Steam Deck.* [1:23:21] *Merch Messages #2.* > 1:23:28 LTTStore's free items, GPU wasteland postcard for labs. > 1:24:55 Linus's take on data science content. > 1:25:55 Linus & Luke regret mining prior to BTC explosion. > 1:27:17 Right to repair laws on Canada follows America's. > 1:28:28 LTTStore CPU pillow dirt smell from alpaca fur. > 1:29:16 Game development for LMG labs, Floatplane notifications. > 1:32:04 4K TV vs monitor for gamers, LTTStore screwdrivers. > 1:33:22 Shirt stretching, Twitch staff leaving & unprofitability. > 1:36:03 LTTStore's RGB diode T-Shirt, labs audio space & roadmap. > 1:39:40 LTTStore's new desk configurator for mousepads. > 1:42:38 Crypto crashing & GPU upgradability, DIY channel idea. > 1:44:16 LTTStore screwdriver price, LTT in Cuba, labs ideas. > 1:49:22 LTTStore screwdriver design. > 1:52:46 U.S. shipping & taxes, variable refresh rate on Sony TVs. > 1:59:56 Front-end early development for Floatplane. > 2:01:34 LTTStore's upcoming waffle shirt, delayed shipments. [2:04:15] *Outro.* > 2:04:49 RU-vid Superchats still not fixed.

1:30 - Microsoft Activision/Blizzard purchase 26:52 - New ltt hoodie 29:04 - Lenovo vendor locking ryzen chips 36:21 - Sponsors 38:45 - Lenovo vendor continuation 39:46 - Video game remasters 43:35 - merch messages 56:57 - AMD 6500xt discussion 1:07:26 - crypto crash / cryptoland 1:10:00 - twitter nft profile pictures 1:18:35 - thinkgeek 1:20:35 - Samsung rdna2 graphics 1:21:31 - valve verifying titles for steamdeck 1:23:18 - merch messages

You know a company has truly gone sour when being acquired by Microsoft feels like a good move.

Sending a custom LTT Screwdriver to Adam Savage's Tested would be a great channel to send one to. Now, there's someone who would REALLY appreciate the work that went into it.

As someone who works with tech proffesionally on a daily basis, PLEASE make gloves!! having gloves that allow you to use touchscreens, feel comfortable, allow good dexterity, don't come off, and don't degrade incredibly fast is near impossible! usually when I find a glove I like, I buy 20 sets, because by the time I want to buy more they just don't exist anymore. gloves would be an amazing addition to your merch!

"Speaking of money, today's show is brought to you by" Linus getting savage with the recent transitions haha

behind the scene knowledge, Microsoft is already waaaay easier to deal with, get dev kits sent, recieve support and help as a dev than both Sony and Nintendo.

Just imagine the horror if Facebook bought Activision Blizzard...

One thing about GPU sag, Lian-li makes the single best anti-sag bracket (the GB-001) that mounts to two ATX motherboard mounts, and is nearly invisible.

When I worked at best buy we had two store brands for hdmi cables. Insignia is rated in wall, but will fail when near low voltage. Rocket fish worked fine though. We did notify customers, but best buy kept advertising the in wall raiting.

When Luke enabled the rgb feature and everything moved, my heart jumped. I work in software development and having something crash or not work the way it's supposed to while I'm showing it to the client is a very stressful situation to be in...

Luke needs to be boosted in nearly every episode. I have a choice of not hearing him, or letting my neighbors hear Linus.

Missing my timestamps for WAN. DO APPRECIATE THOSE WHO MAKE THE TIMESTAMPS; so please keep it up. Again, do so appreciate you guys/gals🙏🏼👍🏻

Conference Interpreter here (spoken language), thanks for the shout-out! Mental exhaustion is absolutely real, even after years and years and years of doing it. Brain is just not built for doing all the things we need to do at the same time. Pandemic hit us hard too, esp with shitty mics (and all built-in laptops are shitty, even Apple's slightly less shitty ones).

My first “build” was a think center I transplanted info a new case and upgraded (as far as I could, ram and gpu mostly) taught me a lot about maintenance and working with hardware sucks they are doing this

Boop. Boop. Boop. BEEEEEEP. The "intro" reminded me of respawning in Halo. Which I hope is what he was going for! Lol

As a school repair technician having to deal with Lenovo's BS on a daily basis, Lenovo has, at least for the last few years, been absolutely ridiculous with their security detail. One of the most annoying things they put in was chassis sensors, which is basically buttons on the motherboard that tell the computers bios that it's opened or not, making it insanely difficult to work on the computers while they're open since they would fail to turn on. These also had a tendency to trip false positives, as on my laptop, where the computer if held at a wrong angle would just turn off in an instant if not on wall power. It doesn't surprise me a single bit that they decided to try and lock chips down to their computers, that is just so Lenovo.

The Terry loop back fabric you guys use is awesome. I have a Stüssy zip up hoodie from like 2006 I still wear and while it's definitely aged, the inside is decidely still comfortable, unlike a fleeced lining that has to be brushed to regain its nap.

I was positive about this Microsoft deal. Untill today I have tried to install Minecraft on new laptop and It would not even install because It would just say that this Microsoft account doesn't have access to Minecraft even though this account already paid for Minecraft

So microsoft have been doing their gosh darn hardest to sneak candy crush into every single copy of consumer windows operating system now - I can't wait for them to sneak in the 150GB version of COD Warzone.

Oh man, working for Linus when he's in a troll mood when you're in a support role would leave you feeling so off kilter 😂

Why tech gloves are actually interesting, Here are 3 situations I personally found myself on and would find useful to have tech gloves for them: 1 - Full coverage gloves (with a bit of a sleeve to go into the arm) that all finger tips work with smart phones screens when outdoors during winter but that do not break apart in 1 year. 2 - Fingertip free gloves, to use indoors when it is cold in the house (not all countries have house central heating) but you still want to have your hands stretched using a keyboard and mouse for several hours. So you need something that keeps them warm but still able to "feel" the buttons well for typing and playing with proper grip on the mouse as well (instead of sliding out of your hand). 3 - Finger free gloves, when it is hot in the house and you want to play in a x-box controller or so and your hands keep sweating so much that your controller is constantly wet and sliding... you want something that allows breathing of the skin without overheating your hand but preventing the skin to be in direct contact around the controllers. Maybe some kind of big mesh. This is also valid when wanting to share the controller around across players and one of them is having sweaty hands.

I second the video on power lines affecting signal. Especially in house walls, running shielded/unshielded networking and video cables in the same conduit as power transfer cables

AMDs CPU locking is a reaction to the NSA intercepting router and servers shipments to install modified firmwares. Burning the CPU to the manufacturers signing key is the only way to prevent such modifications and enable a chain of trust. Patrick from STH made an interesting proposal: AMD should allow to blow all fuses to reset the CPU for later reusal. It just can’t be burned to another platform anymore.

Love this show and listen to this in my relative noisy car during travelling to my customers. Problem is that the dynamic in Lukes voice between too loud while laughing and not loud enough while talking is sooooo big, that i permanently have to turn the volume up and down. Especially as a non native speaker its sometimes really hard to understand important and interesting statements. Maybe you can fix that in the future. I would really apreciate that :)

Great show this week. Cheers guys!

I think it is a big win from a support standpoint… imagine opening a support call for COD or something and actually getting a response.

After WAN show, I’m heading straight to TechLinked.

AMD knew exactly what they are gonna do with that default "safety" lock - make more demand for CPUs

I wish I remembered who I needed to talk to from LTT about this, or how to get ahold of them, but... I know it's a bit niche, but if you guys could add a split keyboard example to your mousepad confirgurator that would be really helpful, since I use a split ergonomic keyboard and not a regular one. Actually I use the Kinesis Freestyle Pro, similar to the Edge that you guys talked about a while back. Even though it's expensive, it just seemed to make the most sense for me, so I want to thank you for making me aware of it. I'd frequently had issues with pain from my mouse and keyboard setup before, and after replacing both of those with ergo options I'm fine now.

Set and background looks amazing!

16:49 Steam may be better, but Origin is actually terrible. The integrated Voice Chat in their platform is downright a privacy concern. There's no clear push to talk/mute controls or indicator that you are talking, sometimes it's so buggy a player outside of your group can listen in and join your group chat. This is not even something that only happened to me but there are forum entries from others having experienced the same thing in games like Star Wars Battlefront II. Anything Activision Blizzard has to offer in terms of multiplayer/social platforms is way better than that of EA's. I honestly think Battlenet is a good platform.

I run a startup and work all week - your show is always my start of the weekend and I love it. ❤️ whenever you are allowed to be back with LTX I’m surely coming all the way from Austria to Canada 😍🎉

Gloves for techies would actually be pretty useful. I have very sweaty hands, which makes handling electronics really annoying, especially as someone who enjoys handheld gaming. Also my fingertips sometimes have issues with touch screens cause they can get kind of rough. I've never bought anything from LTT, but I would buy multiple pairs of gloves that were well made for handling various tech.

Love that you guys talked about monitors. I bought a new monitor and went with 1080, because I "only" bought a 3060 and that is maxed at 1080 in some titles and I just couldn't afford much more. I really wanted to step up in resolution, but that will have to wait

Hi. Love the show, but can you do something about the volume differences? When i set it so that Linus isn't too loud, i can still barely hear Luke most of the time. I was hoping you can do something about it once you are back from streaming wan show from home.

19:52 Believe me when I say, that Microsoft is good at taking care of employees, when the job has pressure. Its the only company where I have seen managers actually listening to employees problems and correct them at Team level. Managers work for employees here.Not just for that one person, but for the entire Team.

52:49 Digital cables this shouldn't make a difference, but I did notice a very measurable impact on my XLR setup when I moved it away from power cables.

Linus Sign Tips would be amazing. I understand the complete behemoth of the task it would take to do an entire video in ASL, but Maybe a quarterly video short form factor to remind us all to be more inclusive would be amazing. You doing an off the cuff small demonstration was enough to remind me to begin practicing again.

The issue with client side hosting or peer to peer is that ddosing will be a bigger threat to players. If I private match someone and it’s not hosted on a server, they have my IP address and nothing stops them from hitting me offline

For my 1070 I built a LEGO tower to hold up the GPU to prevent sag. It works great because you have different thicknesses of pieces so you can just built it to the appropriate height.

The whole "not having a physical presence doesn't require you to remit taxes" thing is a thing of the past in most U.S. states I think. You're required to remit as an online retailer regardless now. This came down as a famous decision from the Colorado supreme court initially if I recall. You can thank Amazon for this change, they refused to have a fulfillment center in some states (Oklahoma) for years so they wouldn't have to remit but it simply isn't a thing anymore. Purposeful availment of a state's commerce, laws and protections is all that's required.

I'm HoH, and legit so glad Linus knows ASL. I typically watch videos with captions. One thing that would be beyond amazing, is if sometime you would have a video on accessibility of games or tech regarding Deaf people

I Love hearing stories of Luke how frugal he is. Great desk stories 😎

36:05 OOF that segue to the sponsors

Cool thing about FFT, the Resonant Arc channel just started their retrospective on the game and it's looking to be really good so far 👍🏻

I've already read about the headliners and formed an opinion except on the Activision acquisition. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say on that.

CFD should be GPU bound I think: the discretised differential operators used in FEM could be done like a convolution, so like a pixel/compute shader I guess.

I would love to see Kurzgesagt style inforgraphic posters on LTT store!

The more notable thing about unshielded cables has been in my experience wireless interference. I had a bad experience with an unshielded displayport wire that blocked my wifi entirely. Also this is apparently not obvious to customer service for a pc shop either. Describing the symptom of wireless dropping if I used the display port cable got them to send me another one, which had the exact same problem because it wasn't a manufacturing error but rather a design error. After that I figured out my self what was going on and got another cable that wasn't just another instance of the same desing.

40:25 That's true, I am now playing Quake 1 remaster from Steam, I am much younger than Quake and I love that the remastered version has modern WSAD + mouse controls versus old with mouse mapped to the keypad and automatic vertical movement. Using that in the modern world is so weird.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD put some dynamic gain on Luke's microphone. No offense to Luke, but when he's speaking multiple sentences/paragraphs uninterrupted he starts getting quieter and quieter. I end up having to turn up my volume a lot just to be able to understand him, then Linus comes blasting in like a verbal Kool-Aid man. That said, love you guys.

I agree with Luke, I see the AB acquisition as a good thing because in their case I simply cant see any way that MS could make them worse, I can only see upside in their specific case even if it isn't all (or even partially) pro consumer 😅

In regards to modems - ISP provided modem/router combo devices (in my experience) are trash. NATs on them are a B to deal with. Buy your own individual router and individual modem - pricier overall but its worth it.

For the dude that asked about a computer for CFD, it is bound by 2 things, CPU and RAM bandwidth, the ideal build is a dual CPU AMD EPYC with all of the RAM slots filled, increase cores and amount of RAM according to budget... Also, some privative / non-FOSS options limit the amount of cores that you can use depending on your license, so if you're using one of those packages, check that too!

“ It’s because they hate you. “ Lmao I love Linus

Honestly would like to hear Luke's thoughts on Battlefield 2042. Never seen a game launch so poorly managed. Would be good to hear thoughts on EAs abandonment of games like Titanfall 1/2, Battlefront 2, Anthem, and how communities have come together to make custom servers (Northstar for TF2 and Kyber for BF2), especially given Linus's love of community servers. Thanks!

Regarding desktop IT in an environment where many of the staff are already technically knowledgeable, I'm in the process of assigning that role to someone on my team. Team. The reason is twofold. The primary job of the team is more than just taking care of their own desktops. So even if this, IT person doesn't have to spend a lot of time dealing with level one issues, the more complex stuff is better dealt with by them, then consuming the time of a resource that could be doing other tasks. Two, a single point of contact means better flow between our team and the organizations that deploy new tools or vendors that we open tickets with. I have done it the other way around where everybody was essentially their own IT staff, and the ability to actually get work done suffered because of it

Speaking of "exclusive content" in video games as DLC or buyable items...There's definitely games out there that do this, even as far back as 2007. Nitto 1320 Legends was an online multiplayer drag racing game from 2007 to 2014. The game had Trophy cars that were 1 of a kind. There were also limited parts for engines and more. People used to constantly buy and sell those exclusive parts and cars for thousands. There was a Christmas SLR McLaren 1 of a kind car that I remember a friend gloating (with proof) he spent over 3000 USD to buy

I haven’t seen anyone mention Microsoft’s relation to EA. EA play is currently a part of gamepass. But ABK is a massive competitor to EA. It will be interesting to see if that relationship changes. Whether they drift apart or MSFT gobbles them up too.

As far as work culture at Microsoft being all so inclusive and absolutely none toxic goes... ask Barnacules Nerdgasm about that, he will set you straight.

A LOT of ISP modems don't cover whole houses with wifi, and as soon as 4+ devices hops on (which isn't much in a household with 2 people and 1 TV and 1 laptop or tablet, it can get slow.

Would you consider an in-house collab between The Lab, Creator Warehouse and the 'shop, on making a proper ESD benchtop mat? I've been trying out GNs modmat, it's great for what it is, but it isn't that. Need something that doesn't soak up spills, tolerates grease and solvents, can take 200-300°C for short exposure time (hot air rework etc) without bulging (expanding), and isn't cloth top - that wears rough with daily heavy use, and snags tiny components. It's also less than ideal for tiny parts and components, if a dark one moves off the light area meant for screws, good luck finding it. You can get good quality mats from almost any electronics lab supply store, but its just all the same dull monocolor roll. It would be *really* cool with something different. Maybe greenscreen green, neon pink, eggshell'ish white or very light gray with little LTT logos all over in a slightly darker tone. So it's almost like watermarks, adding a little pizazz without getting super noisy so it's difficult to find a small screw or component when you drop one. Could do larger logos too, but I think many small ones all over or at top and bottom edges, would look better if the mats are made on rolls and cut to order size. Having them manufactured as individual mats, I think would be rather cost prohibitive vs continous 10-30 meter rolls.

What Microsoft really needs to do is to remaster and release the old Rare games on PC - like they did with Halo MCC. I would really love to play games like Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie with today's resolutions and texture quality; I would totally pay full price for that.

Regarding displays, I bought a 144hz 27-in 1080p gaming display late 2019. That is most likely what I will be gaming on for the next foreseeable three to five years. The only display upgrades I may make our more standardization on my secondary monitors, which were both cheap or free, and frankly don't look as nice

Every time I get to hear Linus geek out about an old school JRPG, my day gets a little brighter.

Completely disagree with Linus on his take of the Acti Blizz buyout. On the Activision side, they were killing all their IPs just to support CoD. Almost every studio was either a main series CoD machine or a support studio. Every other project was sidelined of deprioritized. And on the Blizzard side, its even worse. Declining WoW subs and very few OW players. Developers flip flopping between OW2 and OW1. Lead directors, developers leaving the Diablo teams. If anything MS has given them the resources and peace of mind to reverse course and focus on what they want. Not the money maker CoD or crappy WoW expansions. Is it the best outcome, the way they were headed a big YES! And no company would have bet 70 billion, not google or facebook or amazon, maybe Apple.

nintendo didnt lock backups to cloud servers so you would have to buy their online (even with it you cant backup on like 95% of games), they did it to prevent piracy as on previous consoles many exploits were found using patched save files on sd cards. this is also why there is no web browser on switch as that was another common method used.

DeFi: As an engineer, I'm pretty confused about how Ethereum smart contracts scale. It seems like they would have to run on every single computer on the network. I bet I'm not the only one who struggles to understand this, and I'd love to see a video on what I'm missing!

Re: deskpad configurator - how about adding screen sizes to visualise the monitor setup?

Honestly why are people complaining about the acquisition and nobody is looking at Tencent? Tencent is the single biggest gaming company at the moment and nobody seems to care if they acquire things. I'm glad Microsoft did this because it will hopefully breathe life into dieing Blizzard IPS that are FAR from their prime like Starcraft.

What people forget is that gaming companies are mostly about the people, without them its just a dead IP. Many of the devs and artist will eventually leave and start new companies that will complete with old IP.

if you could boost the audio a bit on these, it will be brilliant. Other than that just keep up the good work!

i have Spectrum and recently upgraded my single package (modem/router) to the newer separate modem and separate router and the thing i hate they did with the new router is that they don't let you get into the router settings like you normally do with typing the ip address of the router. they only give you access to a few settings when you log into their website or using their app. i can't even assign ip address if i want to certain components. i've seen the manual for the router they're using, but they lock you out of all that and only give you access to a few tools :(

I understand Azure has an excellent record for staying up. Russinovich, their top manager is among the strongest tech people I have ever heard of. That said, nothing is perfect, but neither would it be perfect developed by others or using other resources. Who knows what the future holds on this?

I don't get this, people in gaming always have this weird haltered for always online DRM but mad respect and love for Valve, literally the creators of always online DRM.

Problem with the vendor lock is you can't patch your own bios. Attackers can downgrade to an earlier version, but without the private key you can't defend yourself.

i can almost guarantee that what happened with the amd blog post, is some employee working on the launch remembered that post at the last possible second (exactly when i seem to remember things lol), mentioned it to their boss, who panicked and called his buddy in the blog dept to have it hidden because optics, and then it just backfired completely

@15.45 I know Linus isn't going to read this, but the problem with Activision Blizzard just sinking as "gamers" is because some of us (the ones happy about the buyout) love the IP that the company has. I'd love to see what 343 or relic could do with the StarCraft IP . Bethesda sharing lore building techniques with the wow guys, like there tonnes here and this buyout means that there's a chance, just hope really that our favorite IP's aren't going to just die.

Dell has been using component locking for 20 years. It is a business security feature in the AMD case that is being taken too far. Lenovo should only be enabling it at the request of the customer and not using it to brick systems and sell more computers.

during the AMD's PSB and remastered games segment, Luke is probably referring to a different game but Mega Man X5's bosses were named after guns n roses band members. The re-release of the game on modern systems changed this though.

The 6500 xt is probably an external rdna2 iGPU.The 64 bit memory bus,small number CU's,gen4 x4 link makes sense for a iGPU

MS has few Dev Studios, Embracer Group, has more Actively making games Dev Studios than MS/Sony/Nintendo combined, with 76 Studios, and 8 publishing arms. THQ Nordic, Koch Media (Deep Silver), Gearbox, Saber Interactive, Darkhorse Media, and franchises, here's just a few, hundreds more, they have the rights to as well. Borderlands, Brothers in Arms, Darksiders, Dead Island, Homeworld, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Kingdoms of Amalur, Metro, SpellForce, Gothic, Elex, … The studios may be smaller, but the sheer amount adds up to a lot more active games being worked on in total.

Bungie: leaves Microsoft for Activision Microsoft: Buys Activision

I found the conversation about community multiplayer servers really interesting. Have you guys considered covering what's been happening with Titanfall 2?

I'm sure that someone already mentioned this Anyway, about in-game cosmetics, and NFat analogy: Valve has been doing that for years. You can purchase items for characters in DOTA or different gun skins in CS:go that has been signed by, say, a talent or a pro-player, and there's either a limited amount of these items or short time window when you can purchase it. And later you can trade it on Steam Market. There are some ridiculously priced skins, and the main reason is that there are only a few individual copies exist :)

You can see the bolts and seams barely being held together on Linus' face as Luke shares his take on Activision haha

This Lenovo thing could really hurt school systems and small businesses that recoup the cost of hardware upgrades by selling the old ThinkPads and think desks that they have

Banana for scale on desk pad configurator? It would be pretty cool and useful

The one point of failure server problem reminds me recently of Starwars Battlefront II 2017 being saved with custom servers. The game became almost unplayable in multilayer with EA until fans decided to fix it themselves

"I should just mint NFTs". Luke immediately: "noooooooo...."

Of course, monopolies are bad. My only point is that Microsoft is far from a monopoly in gaming. Linus keeps talking about how bad things could be if Microsoft dominates the market but Playstation still sells more than Xbox, and the game space is filled with big, well capitalized companies that compete like crazy. Why doesn't Linus complain about Steam's dominance of PC digital distribution, for example?

There is some benefit to running BOINC if you are living where it got below zero Fahrenheit last night and this morning. I run both BOINC and NiceHash overnight as if my computer were a gentle heater. It kept things at 60F even though it got to -10F outside before I got up this morning. No guessing what my landlord's thermostats will keep things at required. If I run the computer all night it will be 60 or more and if I shutdown before I go to bed, it may be as low as 53 in the Upstate NY winter.

Great video! Thanks for sharing it! I've got some suggestions to make it better though if you're open to them.

I'm with luke. This is one of the few times where I'm glad for the acquisition. I didn't think that with Bethesda for example. But here, I definitely think they can run Activision can be better managed by Microsoft.

Honestly the best part of gamepass for me has been the random indie games i find on it.

I would be so excited to upgrade Linus's desk PC hell I'd build a whole new one for fun if I had the tools and materials

LTT fingerless gloves would be nice for gamers in colder climates. keeps the hands warm and nimble

ABK getting acquired by Microsoft will hopefully revitalize the Blizzard side. They've let all their Blizzard IPs die and its incredibly sad and frustrating to watch. The consolidation of the gaming industry is a concern but hopefully they'll be able to bring ABK back