Want Denuvo in Your Game Mods? - WAN Show September 8, 2023 

Maybe I have been in the wrong profession this whole time - brb becoming a modder. -Timestamps- [0:00] *Chapters.* [1:00] *Intro. [1:29] *Topic #1: Mod replaces Starfield's FSR2 with DLSS & XeSS.* > 2:15 Early build included DLSS 3 via Patreon. > 3:10 Login authentication, mod's revenue. > 5:18 Free mod alternative, backlash, debate over "paid mods." > 8:32 Luke on Skyblivion, Linus on net benefits & source of income. > 11:34 Luke on mod projects, who should be paying who? > 15:22 FP Poll: How many mods do you use in a game? > 20:44 Work required for projects ft. MM Dashboard, Floatplane. > 24:52 Starfield's sales & potential mods revenue. > 28:04 Mod camps, NVIDIA's Morrowind demo & Denuvo. > 33:02 Discussing possible approaches, "slider system." > 36:32 Minecraft Marketplace, recalling horse armor. > 38:50 Mod revenue, microtransactions. [40:38] *Topic #2: Nintendo's private demo of Switch 2.* [Cont.] *Topic #1: Starfield's mods.* > 41:15 Luke realizes paid graphical mod is "microtransaction." [Cont.] *Topic #2: Nintendo's private demo of Switch 2.* > 42:54 FPS & resolution demo, Linus called this, "current-gen HD." > 44:04 Dev kits, possible launch date. > 45:24 "Nintendo-exclusives," RTX 40XX, Linus on Xbox. > 48:58 What would your dream console be? > 54:52 Linus on how Steam Deck impacted Nintendo's decisions. [56:56] *Luke Nukem LTTStore T-Shirt.* > 57:10 Dan throws a box at Luke. > 59:17 Series 2 Pins ft. What is Luke Nukem? > 1:02:06 "There is something else coming" - Linus. [Cont.] *Topic #1: Starfield's mods.* > 1:03:22 Interesting line on Starfield's EULA. > 1:06:13 FP's comment on complaints at the start of a trend. [1:07:02] *Merch Messages #1.* > 1:07:34 Traditional forums comeback? > 1:09:37 Smaller LTTStore backpack update. [Cont.] *Topic #1: Starfield's mods.* > 1:10:53 EULA of creation kit for Skyrim. [Cont.] *Merch Messages #1.* > 1:12:40 You say not to pre-order. Do I pre-order the Luke Nukem shirt or not? > 1:13:51 Stupidest tech you bought that you found you had a use for? [1:18:22] *Topic #3: Google's privacy sandbox for cookies & ads.* > 1:19:23 Google's pop-up, RU-vid limits ad controls. > 1:22:05 RU-vid decides when midrolls & ads should be. > 1:23:42 MrBeast's smiles in thumbnails, new trend? > 1:26:04 Possible reflective rain cover graphic. [1:28:38] *Sponsors.* > 1:28:43 The Ridge x Hennessy. > 1:29:56 Secretlab chairs. > 1:30:48 Redmagic 8S Pro. [1:32:02] *Merch Messages #2.* > 1:32:07 Biggest change to our lives with unlimited power? > 1:37:15 Would you live without tech if drivers became a subscription? ft. "Year of the Linux." > 1:40:16 How do you decide what tier of cards to review? > 1:47:48 What part of the RU-vid algorithm surprises you? [1:49:51] *Topic #4: Rockstar selling cracked games on Steam.* > 1:50:22 Rockstar's patch, Manhunt's anti-crack measures. > 1:53:07 Do two wrongs make a right? [1:54:26] *Linus needs help with a passive 3D projector.* [2:00:25] *LTTStore's newsletter.* [2:02:44] *Topic #5: Mozilla's report on car's privacy nightmare.* > 2:03:22 Excessive data collected, 84% share data. > 2:04:08 Tesla failed the test, Luke's car. > 2:04:47 Less security information provided, halting data protection petition. > 2:05:26 What to do when you cannot opt out? ft. Luke's car in LMG videos. [2:10:13] *Topic #6: SAG-AFTRA might lead game VAs to strike.* > 2:11:22 Best way to help VAs? Discussing AI/LLM & motion capture. > 2:18:58 Linus on game captions, Luke on gun-blades. [2:22:35] *Topic #7: Gizmodo replaces a Spanish writer with a machine.* [2:25:45] *Topic #8: Frameworks sells "old" mainboards at a discount.* > 2:27:15 Linus is concerned at how they lost the mainboards. [2:28:12] *Merch Messages #3 ft. WAN Show After Dark, pizza.* > 2:29:18 Linus puts bread on Dan's chair, gym time, pizza sauces, fruits. > 2:36:25 Any advice for working with work paralysis? Biggest "A HA!" moment? [2:39:38] *The Backloggery for game collections.* [Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.* > 2:40:21 Do you like it when people discuss tech with you in the wild? > 2:46:30 How many goats are you worth, and why? > 2:49:12 Process of designing LTTStore pins? > 2:50:12 Noctua screwdriver update? Bundling the Stubby & OG? > 2:53:10 How have the first few weeks of the slower video outputs been? > 2:56:50 Linus's socks preference. > 2:57:22 What happened to the stray cats in Linus's yards? > 2:59:02 What would take any of you to shave your beards? > 3:01:07 When did you guys realize you had PC building expertise? ft. Train. > 3:03:01 What LTTStore products are upcoming? > 3:06:00 Most frustrating example of losing work due to lack of backwards compatibility? > 3:09:07 Dropped the screwdriver from 130ft - any crazy tests on your products? > 3:12:08 Unscripted videos, how long until scripted? ft. "Chess problems," glasses. > 3:25:51 If LMG became a mid-sized corporation, should the WAN Show continue? > 3:27:46 Floatplane merch update? > 3:29:54 Where to go to look for a badminton racket? ft. Linus's FB market history. > 3:33:33 Would the boom in handheld devices cause AR to become popular? > 3:34:20 Linus's challenges with ADHD. > 3:35:04 Have the staff upgraded a product with third party item? > 3:36:22 Suggestions if I don't want to man a million plus projects? > 3:38:01 What videos do you wish to have a do-over? > 3:40:52 Advice to give someone who starts with no experience? Pitfalls to avoid? > 3:41:32 Is there a future where Nintendo bows out of the gaming space? [3:44:12] *Outro.*

If a 3rd party modder was able to add DLSS, including DLSS3, to Starfield within a week, no game developer with a team larger than one person has any excuse to NOT include DLSS in any game from here on out.

As someone who can never make it to the live stream. I watch the vids and I think it's fair to assume that a large portion of your audience can't make it to that exact time either but do want it playing at work (like me) or in the background of another task.

I made mods for skyrim SE, with very open permissions. Someone recently ported my mod to the xbox version, and i was like, heck yeah, great work. I was happy to see my mod get spread around. The mods i make are QoL mods that i make for myself, that i release because i know these things that bug me, bug other people too.. Specifically, NPCs in skyrim always saying "that spell looks dangerous." seriously, it's like every single NPC would comment about my dangerous spells even when i didn't have any spells "equipped." As if every npc and child was some sort of magic expert and could tell how dangerous a spell was.. Drove me nuts.

On the "light bulbs lasting longer in the past" thing - Technology Connections made a really good video on this. In essence: No, they didn't. You can run a lightbulb essentially forever if you want to, it will just produce next to no light and look horrible. Lightbulbs were not engineered to be worse and this is not a good example for planned obsolecense - they cost a few cents or were sometimes even distributed for free and were very much a disposable good.

1:36:25 Fun fact: They can make more reliable LED lightbulbs, and they do them for specific countries, for example on Saudi Arabia, they made an agreement with the government to create a product for them, that you can buy in stores there and it is essentially lightbulbs with more LEDs in them, so they run at a lower current, more at their sweet spot instead of fewer strips carried more to their technical limits causing more stress to the LEDs reducing their lifespan

40:30 the horse armor wasn't the first microtransaction in video games, that honor goes to Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone. Where the arcade game featured a coin shop where the player could buy more lives and powerups by inserting more coins into the machine to make a purchase while on the shop screen.

The biggest issue with 'paid mods' it keeping them updated, quite often the main game will update and the mod dev just gave up on his mod, and if you paid for it then you have a right for a working product!

One of the better WAN shows in a while. You guys covered some interesting topics and the banter was great. Happy to have y'all back.

For the 3D Vision topic, NVIDIA may keep the software support for it in their Professional(former Quadro) line of hw/drivers according to PNY who listed "Support via optional 3-pin mini-DIN".

Around 3:18:00 ish talking about losing your place while reading. There's a trick I learned in band (many years ago), our eyes are much better at returning to the same position than our heads so if you look somewhere else with just your eyes it's much easier to find your place again. During concert season we'd have to switch between reading the music and watching the director for cues.

7:30 "people who complain about paid mods but seemingly possess 4080 series cards". For Christmas I bought my 14 year old nephew a gaming computer and a few games. He has literally zero ability to do online purchases by himself. So a non-free mod is a hard barrier for him whether it's 1¢ or $100

I'd honestly rather have a smaller modding community, than having modded content go from what it is now to what'd essentially be third-party micro-DLC. We've already seen that slow but steady slippery slope when it comes to actual DLC, and I see no reason to believe that modding wouldn't go down the same path once some company finds a way to monetize it. So I'd rather take a very hard line on paid modding.

In regards to Luke's view of developers taking a cut out of mods that use their modding tools: what happens if or when paid mods get so lucrative that other smaller developer teams start churning out mods? We're no longer talking about one passionate guy adding some textures or small feature, we're talking other developers making mods for a game released by some other developer. Luke already mentioned it, this is something like using Unreal Engine to develop your own game. I think the moment something is paid, it's no longer modding, it's third party DLC, which I'm not against. The problem with calling it modding is that everyone is super lenient when it comes to product quality. If it's a paid DLC (which cannot be called a mod) it should be help up to much higher quality standards.

Good morning from Denmark. It's nice to have you all back on track, so I can enjoy my Saturday in good company 😊

Paid mods are terrible. Can't even QA their mods for games they don't own IP rights for in the first place and in 99% of cases when you stop paying you stop getting updates. This was never a problem back in the day because modders did it for clout and out of passion. It's almost like this generation of modders saw paywalled GTAV Modmenus and went "yep, this is the way."

Missing key features from games and relying on mods is no better than paying to unlock heated seats even if they're free if mods start getting monetised then the industry is broken.

For the mod topic, I think at the end of the day it's up to the end user to decide how much they value a given mod. Modders can charge money all they want, if people don't think it's worth their money they'll either pirate the mod or just not use it. For DLSS: some people may be willing to pay because the experience improvement is worth it. Some other may refuse to pay because they think both the amount of work that went into the mod or the importance of the feature don't warrant a payment for it ("you're holding performance hostage, it took you a day to implement it, it's like charging for cloud saves")

Todd 'Real Hair DLC' Howard: "We at Bethesda make amazing games." You make solid mod frameworks Todd.

2:07:51 You can drive old cars in Germany and in Europe in general. But the car has to meet standards as in it has to be in good condition and not a rustbucket deathtrap that eats more engine oil than fuel. Maintaining older cars is expensive so people buy newer instead of fixing the older cars. Also fuel is expensive so newer lower MPG cars are preferred.

for the old cars on Germany , the car must be on good condition and pass the inspection (TUV in Germany) .But there are on some Europe cities pollution interdictions , that dont allow old cars (despite if they are working well , and not smoking or leaking) to drive in this /or part of this cities ...

I would love to hear more about the chess problem with the pen, I do design work/CAD as a career and think it would be a fun challenge to mess around with.

the gunblade didn't actually fire bullets, as far as I recall. the gun part made the blade vibrate, AFTER contacting with an enemy's body, which caused the wound to be slightly wider, so it isn't just a matter of bullets penetrating flesh, but more like blades making wider slices.

Great timming because I was on holiday when the wan show video was out. Finishes watching yesterday (i watch in chunchs) and now this is here and my mind is still fresh

Regarding the problem with voice actors in video games, I particularly fall into the two groups, those who prefer to skip the conversation and those who appreciate a good performance. Personally, for me it depends on the game, there are games where voice acting is not completely necessary, but there are games whose attraction is precisely the voice acting, for example The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 where by the way they do stunts, those are games that Without voice acting they wouldn't have the life they have. I hope that the voice actors manage to win this battle, because there are many of them that we need to continue doing their job, credits to Ashley Johnson and Laura Bailey (I hope I spelled their names correctly) from Critical Role who are content creators on RU-vid and twitch; for the amazing work they do as voice actors.

Until the Devs took a stance on Paid Mods for Valhiem, there was DRM'd mods that charged a fee to use and continue to use them, the DRM itself was also user made (Key Manager). So this really is not a new thing. I also find it scummy, forcing users to pay x for y mod, donations are fine, just my 2 cents. Theres 1000's of mods for this game, imagine paying $5 for every one....(some users have 100's of mods at a time (can you see ppl paying $500-$1000 a month for mods?), and yes I am a Mod Dev and make mods for this game (I even buy assets worth 100's of $$$)

1:36:21 - Light bulbs weren't engineered to be worse, they were engineered to a standard for luminosity. You can have a brighter bulb that burns out faster or a dim one that lasts forever. You don't get both.

Depending on the game when I run a game with mods it might be a few interesting ones, or it might be like Minecraft where a good mod pack will have a few HUNDRED mods. When I was looking to play the early Elder Scrolls games (no surprise there being Bethesda games) I think it was also in the hundreds to get them to work well and look decent now. I'm also a bit split on this, I don't feel its horrible to "tip" modders for what they do... BUT I also really love the fact that the modding community is another one where people are doing something they love just for the sake of doing so with no expectations of getting rich off them. People constantly pretend that the only thing that pushes innovation and progress is $$$, but its just wrong, people will always work to improve something regardless of the profit just because they want to because humans are creative. Most artists don't get paid a single cent, yet they still keep doing it because its a passion for them, people who like playing with their cars SPEND many thousands on their cars with no thought that they are going to make money from it. And yes the modding community has historically done the same thing because they are just passionate about the games they are modding for and love that others also enjoy the same thing. Flip that around and look at anything where profit is the main goal and you'll see almost everything where that is the case the product has gradually gone down hill in one way or another, be it quality, worse support, much slower innovation intentionally, trying to block others from being creative (patents, copyright, etc.), knockoff garbage, subscription services for things you own, micro transactions, etc.

3 hour VoDs from streams rock! I love having background noise (similar to radio) while I work on any kind of project. Work-related or just while I do other things at home, like hobby's or chores. I bet that is a big percentage of those VoD watchers.

I like the slider idea if modding shifts towards paid. Id comfortably do 10-15% towards the creation kit always

I often watch the WAN show after the fact, mainly due to the time difference to the UK (and previously the Middle East). Although it depends how busy I am, if I don't have the time to watch/listen to the whole show I often get the topics I'm particularly interested in on the LMG clips channel.

I just want to say for the record, I often actually look for full length videos of streams when I see a short edited version, because I never know what was cut, or how much I could be missing from the whole story.

RU-vid's new ad policy is another reminder that adblock is a must to enjoy the site. If it stops creators from turning specific ads off, then it's a negative feature. Never place trust in RU-vid to do the right thing

I like the idea that games and its mods are in a symbiotic relationship and no one owes anyone else

1:36:00 - Leds are rated for 15,000 + hours of operation, but they require a power supply. Both of those require adequate thermal management which costs money. See the problem here? CFLs suffered the same fate - I've had a good name brand CFL (Osram) lasted 8 years at 10 hours a day. My new Osram LED downlights have so far done nearly 8 years at 14 hours a day.

I'm hosting a large (for my circles) social event next year. I'm a hobbyist sound guy and tech nerd, so I decided to approach this "music vs. socializing" problem in my own way. I'm in the process of building my own micro-PA system to handle background music. I've run sound for a few different things, and have big-boy rackmount Crown amps, Yamaha stage monitor / PA cabs, subs, etc... Great for events where music is the focus, but it's too much firepower for something more like a dinner party or cocktail hour. So this is my solution: 1) I designed my own powered subs, from scratch, which use a long-throw 6.5" woofer in a vented pillar-style cabinet. I'll building 8 of them. They're small, unobtrusive, and can power a stereo pair of mains (tops) as well. The (16) tops use a 4" mid/woofer and a horn tweeter, also in a vented cabinet, but designed to cross over to the sub at 85Hz. They mount either by a 1/4" (photo-style) screw mount on the back, or a 5/8" (mic stand style) mount on the bottom, so you can hang them or stick them on stands anywhere. The goal here is to use a lot more speakers, all being run at a lower volume. This prevents the typical PA sound system problem where some people close to the speakers are getting blasted in the face, while other people can't even make out announcements. 2) The built-in plate amps on the powered subs have a three-band EQ. The low and high EQ is just there for tailoring the sound to the space, but the mid EQ offers 0 to -6dB of cut over a wide bandwidth centered at ~1kHz. You can use it as a light "smiley-face EQ", _but,_ if you dial the mids down by a little more aggressive 4 to 6dB, you take out a lot of energy in the range of frequencies occupied by the human voice. Then, it can be a little bit louder w/o inhibiting conversation. IMO, there's no point trying to socialize if the music is too loud, but there's also no reason to have music if you can't have it loud enough to hear, so this is my compromise. I'm curious to see how this works.

i think what linus and luke are missing on the whole puredark discussion is that while this guy DID put quite a bit of work into the project, he didn't really do much more than combine Game + Reshade + Streamline SDK from Nvidia, the work that he's done on this is far under 1% of the whole thing (basically like an asset flip, although there is skill required to do this one). If this isn't available easily it's just a matter of time until someone creates and open source variant of this. P.s. i paid for the mod (for elden ring)

Luke is awesome. You keep Linus in check and keep this channel nerd friendly

1:32:00 The way I remote to my desktop is a smartplug which turns on an arduino+servo, which presses the button of my computer, then I open anydesk, one of your sponsors btw, and I can introduce my computer’s password (so even if it turns off because the lights went off or something I can do it) ALWAYS VERY RELIABLY. You can do this yourself very easily and never worry about If your computer is on. Obviously you need to 3d print something to hold the servo properly in position.

Things I want from the Switch 2.0: hardware that can run its own launch title at more than 20 fps.

the lightbulbs being engineered to be worse thing is actually (kind of) a myth - technology connections did a great video on it.

The only problem is if everyone charges $1-5 per mod and alot of old games like skyrim are running about 100-300 mods at a time suddenly it's not in pocket change territory any more. Imagine having to fork over $300 to run a wabbajack mod list. On the whole I think mods will mostly remain free. There will always be that one guy that wants to charge but someone else will match or surpass their mods for free.

@linus 3:10:40, you mentioned that you had to change your packaging, I assume you went with some form of foam, have you look at mycelium-based packaging? i have no idea if its economically viable but it is a green alterative to plastics and should work for your keycap statue.

I'm glad LMG is doing a reflective rain cover for the backpack. Ideally there would also been an update on older outdoor item designs to add a bit of reflective material. Some of the reflective materials out there today can be integrated into designs fairly seemlessly.

I'm convinced that not getting DLSS is simpler than secret deals (under or above the table). I believe there's contracts that stipulate getting FSR, and that there's just not enough motivation to have both. Implementing either probably isn't interesting to most developers, and the suits see that FSR works on hardware from all vendors, so they don't see the point in spending resources on a second, similar technology. Of course it's not that black and white, but in the end, dlss probably gets cut under time pressure and/or opportunity cost considerations, and returning to it after a successful launch may be hard to justify...

22:20 Seems like Linus, and even Luke, don't ever think about the open source model. If your merch messages software was FOSS, the community could build upon it and do all the work of maintaining it for you. You could still use the same version that has only been touched by your employees if you trust it more that way, but there's no doubt in my mind the community could already be forking it and benefiting from it if the code was open.

went to sleep watching a technology connections video on the latent heat of vaporization(his favorite subject) with a bad migraine, woke up about 3 hours later with the WAN:GO episode playing. now this one is playing. and yeah i get the i love building computers stream a bunch, and also the selling computer for a dollar one too. and sometimes the super indepth build guide thing y'all did also.

1:36:00 the og filament light bulb was engineered to "not last as long" to get a better efficiency standard. the dimmer they are, the longer they hold but also use up a lot more energy compared to brightness. My first E27 LED lamps lasted for only 1.5 years. their transformers are too small and run way too hot. the LEDs it self are fine it's just the transformer that dies early. but current gen E27 and GU20 LED lamps last a lot longer, I think the last ones I installed are there for over 10 years now, just a bit dimmer than fresh ones.

just like mods you could open source merch messages and people can use it at their own risk. Maybe they can even customize it for themselves and rerelease it if they have someone on their team that can code

The modding community has a big pool of tools that help or essentially become a part of a new mod. It's very likely that the groundwork done to enable this modder was done by someone else. That's why licensing exists that you can descirbe how your tool can be used and monetized. I would assume that most mods are not licensed or have a public license

In Denmark when the car becomes 35 years old it can get a Veteran registration and be exempt from some of the MOT/TUV, as it will also be limited to only drive X amount of kilometers a year. :) So would be perfect for a show car, or summer car.

1:35:49 there are quality LED bulbs that last forever. I bought my first one about 12 years ago and it was a GE 100 watt replacement but the base was a huge heat sink that extended down around the diffuser. That single bulb was around $20 and has been on for 16 hours a day for the past 12 years on a timer.

On the premise of donating to modders, I would be willing to donate to timestamp guy. Dude saved me hours and the fastest and most detailed I have ever seen on YT. 😂

54:30 Lukes idea is actually pretty good. They could put a beefy DLSS engine in the dock that can do more better upscaling and frame interpretation.

I wouldn't mind something like a patreon for mods. Like how artist do commissions, or modders get financial support for a mod. Yet each release would have to be free and publicly accessible. I think that is fair and a win win for everyone.

Technology Connections did a great video on the incandescent light bulb design. The bulbs made that could last for a long time were too dim to actually be beneficial for consumers. The bulbs we had were a compromise for lifespan, light emitted, heat generated, and energy consumed. But it does sound like LED bulbs have been designed for obsolescence.

One day i will get burn-in on my screen and be remembered of all these wonderfully long wan-shows

I can't(and should not) control what other people value, inevitably paid mods are rising and I do find it disgusting. All I can do is continue donating to creators who keeps the modding ethos in check, and not touch anything from modders delving in paid mods, especially with DRM.

A comment about planned obsolescence in OG filament lightbulbs: Yessssss, and actually no. I believe Technology Connections did a video on it. That "longest burning bulb in the world" is actually just burning really really dimly. A filament bulb's lifespan is dictated mainly by the power you run through it, the material of the filament, and the integrity of the glass. As you push more power the bulb gets hotter and burns brighter which decreases it's lifespan. As you reduce power the bulb gets cooler and burns dimmer which increases lifespan.They're already using tungsten which is the material that has the highest known melting point and filling the glass with noble gasses to prevent oxidation. TLDR: As you push more power through filament bulbs they glow more brightly but burn out more quickly so manufacturers had to strike a balance between luminescence and bulb life.

My work includes looking at greyscale images with black small dark spots on. We have a monitor with a dead pixel on it, so there's an arrow on the bezel pointing at it, to make sure nobody thinks it's a real datapoint in the image.

LED bulbs are often designed to have a fixed lifetime. Many people have modded them to slightly reduce light output allowing them to run for 10x longer. It's a trade off they could've made from the beginning, but it does use more power to make the same amount of light.

Modders should be able to take donations. Should not be able to charge

About live vods it's just easier for me to listen to it when I am at work since I have it play via Bluetooth for my listening pleasure

Regarding the TÜV (road safety & emissions test): A car is taken off the road if basic safety standards are not met (brakes, suspension, rust, electrical systems, safety systems, etc.). There are plenty of older cars on the road that will remain on the road of the owner takes care of them. I regularly see cars older than 30-40 years driving around. There are less than 5-10 years ago however. If a car is older than 30 years you can apply for an H licence plate and then you will pay a combined fee for tax and insurance. Requirement is that the car is safe (TÜV) and in an acceptable condition (on scale from 1-6, at least a 3).

Paywalled mods are an absolute no-go, but by all means ask for voluntary donations. The shareware DooM model.

For the glow in the dark shirt idea: Just use Radium-laced ink! Will fit the nuclear theme too. What could go wrong?

If you charge the modders a fee it kinda should be like unreal, where you have a percentage of sales (maybe even with a free area up to a specific revenue), but if you're doing something for free with it, you don't pay anything. It's only really bad if they try to charge the free mods or try to limit what modders can do without their kit. Also in Germany you can easily drive old cars (except in some cities with zones that require a certain emission standard, except if you get a specific (more expensive) license plate for historical cars (30y+)), but it's expensive to keep them up to code, even with the exemptions (for example they might not need to obey the new emission standards or even have a seatbelt or airbags depending on age). They still need to go to inspections and be reasonably safe and with old parts getting super expensive and repairs skyrocketing at some point it's (or rather has been...) just cheaper to buy a new used car for like a grand or two or so than to spend a couple of grand on fixing your car every 2 years or so (you also have to add fuel price on top, it's so expensive here, 1.80€ per liter and that's E10 that old cars can't use, they need E5 which is like 1.88€). That's why it's usually collectors driving them and even they often don't use it as their primary car. It'll be interesting how it does now that the used market just doesn't exist anymore and new cars are very expensive as well, maybe the current "old" cars will stay around much longer.

58:05 Luke genuinely looks humbled that people would wear his likeness on themselves..kinda sweet ☺️

It always bugs me, but for the incandescent lightbulb story it is always told wrong. Incandescent light bulbs can last a lot longer if you pump less power into them, but at the same time you get less light and less white of a light (ie red like hot wires normally are). The industry came to a deal where they set the minimum brightness level so that they weren't in a race to make a product that lasted a long time but was useless.

A note regarding the voice actors "physical activity" clause one example that comes to mind was the voices of soldiers in either battlefield 1 or 5 (I forget which) they had the actors lift weights and do pushups to make them sound out of breath when they were shouting their lines. Which isn't too extreme but I understand an actor would want to know what they're getting themselves into beforehand.

I dont want to say LED bulbs are a scam perse, but we were sold on the idea that even though they cost MUCH more to buy, they draw very little power and last essentially forever, which in theory they do, but they're all manufactured like crap (not to mention the light emitted from them is harsh and straneous), so I end up replacing them way more often than incandescent bulbs. And yes, i do still buy incandescent bulbs. In my experience, they are more reliable and last much longer. Also they look and behave better with dimmer switches.

#1 on my nintendo wishlist, would be 40fps@120Hz if stable 60fps is not achievable #2 additional option, to play games in lower res or details, which would extend battery play time in significant way #3 More LukeNukem style tshirts :D it's awesome!

In my opinion the mods that should be paid are the large packs, like scenarios, locations, complete overhauls, etc. I dont think stuff like small QoL changes like adding a slot to the UI should be considered big and/or impactful enough to qualify as paid mods. Also, I'm pretty sure that there are already plenty of modders selling texture packs over patreon by now.

The issue with paid mods is typically not that someone wants some form of recompense for their work in my opinion. As I see it, many mods that would, are, and do get, monetized, are essentially violating copyright, or just aren't things that have any warrant to be monetized (by the person monetizing it). A good example of this is many of the texture mods on the Nexus site right now that openly and frankly do little more work than painting pre-purchased/prepared material assets onto the UV maps of Bethesda assets. None of the work is original, and so my paying them I see as paying the wrong people. There is also a similar issue where much of the valued part of the work is actually not what the modder did, but rather what they used. In Puredark's case, people are paying for the DLSS frame generation. But Puredark didn't make that. All he did was get it working with Starfield. So should he really be getting any money from this? Isn't it really just NVidia's work. Whether your thoughts on that are that it is Puredark's rightfully earned money or not, it's a clear conflict. To say nothing of the fundamental question of if anyone even actually has a right to their modded content. Is it derivative for example. I think, better we not kick the wasp nest, and keep the happy medium.

Yeah, the math involved to go from liters to gallons from Canadian to American $ is intense. I think it worked out (during LTX 23) to about $5.20 per gallon? Luckily I only needed to get gas once (go hybrid woo!). In WA its more like $4.50. So it wasn't as jaw dropping to me but still. Yeah it's a lot.

The best LEDs split the driver from the LED. Screw in LEDs combine them in the same bulb. The LED itself wants to be cold and produces almost no heat, while the driver gets hot.

I really want to see a new unique console from Nintendo, the Switch has done so well that I assume they'll just stick with it though. Also that Luke Nukem shirt is insane and I love it.

Cathedral and parlour views in wan show. What a time to be alive.

5:05 I could also imagine the situation being "FSR works on every platform, why add support for tech which only works on some? It just costs money!".

about cars in germany, the german "tüv" system does not really care about how old a car is but if it is up to given security standards, like do the brakes work, is the lightoutput ok etc. however, for very old cars the is the so called "h" plate which is for historic/oldtimer, which will help the owner to pass certain tests even if their cars do not have certain features like emission filters or seatbelts. because to get this plate the car must be in an original state, so if the card doenst have a emission filter, it cant have that in order to get the h plate

Data plans for gpu's or any computer component would suck.

When Luke gets into the chats WAN becomes Linus monologue

Fun fact about low emission zones in Germany. To be permitted into one you need a green plaque (you can get those when registering your car, costs €25 [if they didn't increase prices]). The only cars exemt are gas guzzling oldtimers, which are highlighted by the letter H on their numberplate. EVs have an E on their numberplate and don't have any emissions other than sound and tire rubber. Why are they not exempt? Blame Plug-in hybrids. Those also get the E...

One of the main reasons I got a PC fr. Mods are incredible

41:09 - One step deeper Luke Nvidia/AMD can charge you for enabling these AI upscaling features in the GPU driver in the first place, then the game companies can charge you for the ability to use it as a micro-transcation on top. Everyone get their pound of flesh.

You don't save enough money to buy a 4090 and the $70 games you want to play by spending $5 on every mod you want to use...

Your time is valuable and if a creator makes a mod that has value, the creator should decide what value their time has to maintain that mod and make it available to the community. Equally though, if a creator is using a developers game or creation to make money to bolt things onto it, the creator/developer should get some kind of cut if they so desire.

Linus: "if you have a gun why do you need a blade on it?" Bayonets: "am I a joke to you?"

If paid mods with DRM become a thing, than we can be sure that the devs and/or publishers will charge us for every single bugfix ever. Horrible idea...

It really doesn't matter if the developer of the DLSS mod with frame gen for Starfield and RDR2 thinks they deserve money for their work, they don't have the rights to resell DLSS, which isn't an open source project. It is 100% trademarked by Nvidia, and eventually the dev of the mod will have their neck under nvidias boot.

1:36:00 Lightbulbs were engineered for more efficient light output rather than longevity. It wasn't just to sell more lightbulbs.

2:32:25 Quick tip!: if someone asks you to eat something you don't like but don't want to explain the phrase "I can't tolerate that" usually works great. That way you aboid getting called out for eating similar things that you can "tolerate" love the show btw.

If you start paying game companys for mods theyll just start releasing even more unfinished games. Your gunna pay a subscription to run a mod just so the game dosnt crash

I have been subscribed to PureDark's patreon prior to the recent authentication thing he's put in. The guy helps troubleshoot and respond to most discord message even if some of those question, to an experienced modder, is clear unrelated to his mod. It's all about the mod quality and the level of support the modder provides. If it's just some generic texture mod behind a pay wall, chances are it's never going to take off.

When I play games with mods (Civ4, M&B and CK2 for me) I generally play with one big total conversion mod that changes the setting like CK2AGOT. I don't use tiny mods that give you a couple of cosmetics, just some music or whatever.

I don't think you're allowed to steal pirated code but you might be able to parley for it

If you're not running 30+ mods on Skyrim then just stop modding Skyrim.

There's a lot of oldtimers (older than 30 years) in Germany. They still need to pass technical checkup though (TÜV). They are more lose for old tech too. Even the first car model ever is still driving on german roads from time to time. Also youngtimers (older than 20 years, but people rarely use them as everyday cars. They're collectibles and cars you drive for special occasions.

German here, on old cars: We have those ;) Only problem is it has to be safe to drive, inspection by the non-government organization TÜV is mandatory every 2 years. If something safety relevant is broken e.g. brakes, it´s your choice to fix it or dump the car. The rules on "safe" change rarely, even very old oldtimers with no safety belts can be considered roadworthy.

If a game mod is made using modding tools that the developers provide for free, then if the mod maker chooses to charge for that mod, 50% of the charge should go to the developer of the modding tools. If the mod is offered free, nobody gets any funds. If the mod is made from scratch by the mod maker without tools from the game developers, then the mod maker deserves to charge for the purchase and usage of the mod they created.