NZXT PODCAST - #015 - Denis and Ivan

Episode Date: October 31, 2019

This week, Denis and Ivan are joined by NZXT's resident ghost. There's no guest this week because we had to attend our quarterly town hall meeting. So Denis and Ivan hung out, discussed whatever came to mind, and answered your questions. Sounds like fun! Listen live to the NZXT CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt every Thursday at 10AM PT! Thanks to Texowaste | The GFX Guy#3599 for the artwork.

And welcome to the NST Clubcast episode 15. I am DenzExte with me today. As always, we have, I'm sure I'm muted. Ivan. How do you do, fellow kids? What's going on? So for those of you, so this is the official podcast of the NZXT community. You can always follow us live on Discord.g.g.

slash NZXT. And we are also live on, not live, but we are on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud. There's another one there. Google Podcasts. Always forget about Google Podcasts. I forget that's a thing. This is a live recorded show, so we do record it and respond to people live in the podcast channel of the Discord. So you're always free to join us, and we almost always record 10 p.m., sorry, 10 a.m. every Thursday morning.

But today we're a little bit early because we have a bunch of meetings and stuff to do. Yeah, and since it's Halloween, and we don't have a guest, I thought, you know, it'd be cool if we did Instagram Live and see if people could check out our costumes. Totally. Yeah. What's funny is we actually dress like this every day. Yeah. I mean, there's really no different.

And so live is a bit behind. Well, yeah, that's how it works. It's a live is always going to be behind. So this is the first episode where we don't have a guest and I have no idea what we're going to talk about. It's the do I. It's weird, though, because, yeah, because, like, we've done 15 episodes with at least one other person in the room. Yeah. And not having one person here is kind of weird.

I kind of want to just kick you out so I can do this myself to be honest I mean you're the one who said you're the one who said that you were sick yesterday so I was like if you're sick I'll just do it myself I'll just talk about destiny for like two hours and we'll have the lowest rated podcast that we've ever put out I know but yeah so I think this since there's no guess maybe if anyone in the Discord chat here you know has questions or whatever feel free you spit him out I really don't know what we're going to talk about I can talk about whatever so Evan how many uh so today you dress up as the fellow

kids guy. I'm dressed up as a as a fool. I've been I've been holding on to this costume for about a year now. Every year on Halloween I dress up as the same thing and every year we have a costume contest at work and every year I lose because nobody knows who I am and every year I used to be Marty McFly from back to the future like one of my favorite movies and I walk into work and I'd be like who are you because everyone at the office is like 21 years old And I would have to explain, you know, oh, you know, there's this movie called Back to the Future, blah, blah, blah, and a big old thing. But last Halloween, as soon as the contest was over, I called my wife and it was like, hey, I know what I'm going to be next year. I'm going to be that fellow kid's guy.

So, yeah, I've been holding on to this costume for a whole year. I put this together in like one afternoon. I just went to Goodwill and I bought the shirt or bought the... I guess that yesterday when I saw the shoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So for people who can't see, actually, I am wearing the high socks. Let me show you here on the Instagram. The higher, the socks, the down there of the foo.

So I don't know if you can see it here, but I got the super long, super long socks because no about those complete without a. Should have wore a purple shirt. I couldn't find a purple one. I was trying to find a purple button up in like the same style, but I was about to buy like a brand new one because I'm going to return out. Definitely no one to walk on the street with you. We're both wearing red.

Yeah. Look like about to own his dad or something. Oh, wow. Oh, here we go. Someone dressed up. Yeah. She dressed up as our girl. Oh, yeah, just up as the, as a white.

We got to get her in here. Go get her. Okay. I'll bring her back. I mean myself. We have a really cool costume about to walk in here. Our NZXT wifu just showed up. Dennis is grabbing her right now.

Helen from the creative team. It is Helen. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll take a picture over. Oh, yeah. Speaking of pictures, we took pictures of each other. You should post them in the podcast.

You should post them in the podcast channel. Yeah, so Helen is dressed up as our, as our unofficial, official, official wifu. Shout out to the anime channel on the Discord for, I mean, they actually put up the money for the whole thing and got the, got the wifu on there. So it looks really cute. I like it. Jeffie is asking if Unagi dressed up. Unagi didn't. but Vivian did.

She did. She's dressed up as a Rimbus 6 character. She's not in the podcast right now. She's probably walking around showing off her costume. Rip, rip, right? Yeah.

What you're doing? There you go. There you go. Yeah, it's in there. It's in there. Yeah, I look weird. Yeah, so that's both of us right there. That's Ivan in the podcast channel.

He brought the skateboard too, which is the best part about it. I also bought those lockers. Yeah. You're brought to lockers in just so you can take a photo of it. But yeah, that's great. I think it's cool that, you know, we're allowed to dress up here in the office. I know some people work in some places where they don't allow any kind of celebration of any, like, fun holidays. So it's cool that we can do that. And then after this podcast, we're actually going to have a annual or annual Halloween costume contest right after our quarterly town hall meeting.

Yeah. After saying that, that wifu, I don't think I'm going to win. It's going to come down to her and someone else for sure. Well, there's top three wins. So she's definitely going to be in the top three, I think. It depends on whether any of the webs did like full-on cosplay because they have the majority vote, you know? Well, last year, the biggest weep in the office won. One of our employees here, Jin, he actually was a meme like five years ago. If you go on Reddit and you just search graduation body pillow, it'll pop up.

And this guy, Jin, he walked his graduation ceremony with a body pillow. And it was like all over Reddit and stuff. So last year, Eric, from the build team, he just dressed up as him and he won. Yeah. When we get a, we'll take pictures of everybody and we'll put them on the, on the discord later on. For those who don't want to be like on the podcast like live, but, yeah, there go. That's the article of Katakou. There we go. Man and his animate pug pillow graduate from college. Yeah, so he literally works here with us.

That guy literally works here. Building computers, yeah. It's actually pretty nuts. Some would do that, but I think it's great. Yeah, that's our gin right there. Yeah, so Eric was dressed up with him last year and he won. He's a pretty crazy costume, I think. What's a crazy costume? Crazy's costume we've ever seen? At the office? Yeah. Probably Wesley when he dressed up as puck man So for those who don't know what is puck man Because that's definitely before my time

So one punch man is Johnny our founder's favorite anime And one year for April Fool's We thought it'd be cool if we made one puck man So we made a little Figurine That's supposed to go into your computer and support your GPU Yeah And we made a manga for it

And, yeah, that was it. So Wesley dressed up as him. He just, like, duct tape his head, like a giant puck. He was wearing, like, purple boots. It was pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, there's emotes. There's emotes right there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot. Yeah, we actually got a lot of really cool secret emotes that, like, no one ever uses very often. Like, there's a whole mess of them. Yeah, there's a lot more now. We have, like, 120-something people boosting the server now. Uh-huh. So we're, like, maxed out on emotes.

We have a bunch of emot spaces. Yeah. So if anyone has emmoats, that they want to send us, please do. I want to add all the poochies from the coloring contest on there. We're going to have a lot. So that's actually something that we can talk about too, is so we are currently running a contest on Twitter,

and I guess Facebook too, which is a poochie coloring contest. So we contracted this amazing artist to do a coloring book with a bunch of little different types of poochies with different little costumes on. It's the coolest thing ever. and if you print one of them and you color it or even if you do like digitally with like you know with like a wake-com tablet or something you have a chance of getting a price so yeah you know we just have a lot of um we have a lot of really cool entries sorry for the spam on twitter i mean we've been spying people pretty much pretty much all day yesterday

and we also have a wallpaper if you guys want to download that it's pretty cool yeah we don't we don't normally spam on our feed. So like I think people are like real surprised. It's like 15 notification from us. I think yesterday I did I did 13 13 retweets exactly. So I was like what's a spooky number 13 spooky number? Let's retweet 13 of these guys. See the way I see it though it's good that they complain because that means people have the the notification. Yeah that's all you know sometimes you got to test them. No one complained. That means no one's caring about we tweet right so yeah. Shout out to the notie gang. And then also, like you said, we also have a wallpaper as well, which is very similar.

It's not colored just because it take forever to color it. But it's a really cool full wallpaper for you guys. You can put it wherever you like. Color it if you want. It's a lot of cool Easter eggs. Let us know if you find out. That was the original idea we wanted to do for Halloween was we wanted to do like a where's Waldo type of thing where it was like a Halloween setting and a bunch of poochies. Kind of like the wallpaper we have now, but we did want people to actually find the poochie that was.

in there. Yeah. However, as you can see from the wallpaper, it's like really complicated, like intricate. Like he really did a great job with it. And rather than spend the time to colorize all that, which would have took a lot, like a really long time. It took hours and hours and hours. We were like, why don't we just take all these characters that he drew and make a coloring

book? Yeah. Half people color that. And then we'll just release like black and white wallpaper as is. And if people want to color it, they can. Yeah. And also, like I said, there's a lot of, uh, a lot of cool Easter eggs that, you know, if you, if you follow us on social media,

if you follow us on Discord, there's a couple of little secret, secret stuff there that you might not get if you're not, if you're not with the, uh, with the club, you know, so join the NZST club. Is that a commercial? com slash club. Yeah, dude, definitely commercial boys. Let's go. Get you those fallen transitions.

How's, uh, how's, how's Insta live looking? Yeah. You were talking. Uh, you definitely way to people. Hey, what's up? We're here. We definitely see you. We're not.

by yourself. Just like ignoring you. Yeah, fun. It's a Freddy, Minecraft creeper. I mean, that's also the reason

why we didn't want to do like a scavenger hunt is because like once one person finds them, there's going to tell everybody and then it's not really much of like a contest, you know?

So it's just like, let's just put it in there for fun and not worry about it being like a contest or like a, oh, if you find pooch, you will give your price

because like it'll take like 10 minutes right. Like it's not going to, it's going to be the shortest contest we've ever had. Yeah. And if, if anyone,

it wants to accept this challenge. There's seven Easter eggs. There's seven or six? I don't remember. This should be six or seven. I think we wanted to do 13 because the spooky number. Yeah, but then it was too much. I think we said six because it's an evil number. I think they're six.

So something like that. Yeah, Thanos here. He already said two of them. So Five Nets of Freddy, Minecraft Creeper. Apparently the mic is muted on Instagram. Isn't now. I think the audience is dumb on Instagram. Instagram's pretty booty. Huh?

What are they saying? Booty Graham. Yeah, booty gram. Instead of straight booty. Also, like, Instagram just changed a bunch of settings. Anthony that might have broken. It's a prize of free PC. Price is getting banned.

If you get some, if you get some all, you have the prestige of knowing every single secret, but you're no longer worth this anymore. Good luck, guys. Get it. I believe in you. Discord. NG slash NGXT.

Look that. That's awesome. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Money found another. another Easter egg. It's a wumpus.

There's a wumpus in there. So that's three. So Wumpus, Freddie, and who else is Suisse? Is it a third one? Creeper. Creeper. Creeper. That's all you finally have.

Oh, man. What's the scariest, like, do you have any scary stories? Like, I ever encounter, like, a spooky, a spooky thing. Is that really, man? Really? No, well, I'm a Halloween baby. I was born October 28th, so my whole life, I've just loved Halloween. And it's never been scared.

I've always loved scary movies and things like that. But you never, like, encounter something in, like, your life or, like, you look around and, like, what's going on? What's going on? I'm afraid of no ghost. No, I mean, not really. Yeah, so I have no idea what that thing is. I think it's a dog. I think it might be Irene's dog, but no one's told us yet.

So I actually have no idea. One thing I have no idea. Yeah. Like, because I don't, we asked for a bunch of things. We were like, hey, we want this Easter egg, this Easter egg. I don't know why that dog is there. But I'm okay with that. Oh, you know, it might be his dog.

You take him a Mike Cortez? I don't think you fit my Cortez, dude. I have tiny baby feet. I have a small feet for a dude. I think it's all someone else dressed up, but I don't know what they're dressed up as. Basic food shoes. Basic food shoes. Is it a dude skelly?

Yeah, there we go. Yeah, that's another Easter egg right there. There's a dude skeleton. So that's four. So we got two more Yeah, so there's a few more That aren't a peach you Yeah, I don't really have too many

Yeah, I don't really have too many like scary Scary stories, if you honest, bro There's another one, the duck Oh yeah, yeah Oh, the goose, yeah So that's five I'm trying to think, I think the only says So we, the house that we're living in right now

Oh, there's the other one Yep, there's Eddie, Eddie, this is great podcast By the way for people who are like, huh, what? Yeah, so the house that we live, there used to be an old man there named Benzley. And he actually died in that house. So every now and then, like something weird happens, and we just always blame it on Benzley. Like a door open on its own, it's not windy or anything like that. Or like a cabin that's open and I'm like, Benzley's up to it again.

But like honestly, sometimes, like I'll be like... So how'd you know his name and all that? Because you killed him. Dun, done, done. I'll play the music again. Did they tell you when you guys moved in there or what? I don't know, but that's like the story my dad tells. I was like, yeah.

Probably just made that up to scare you, like you eat your dinner. Like if you don't finish your Halloween candy, Benzley's going to come after you. Something like that. Oh, snow's dressed up too. As snow. Yeah, so because we have the town hall today. Yeah.

And also we had a bunch of meetings. So all the, like all the department heads pretty much, like a meeting or two days worth of a meeting just about the company in general it's um it's this meeting we do every year where all the department heads get together um we go to a hotel and we all we all present um you know like the performance from this year for our respective departments um what's doing good what's doing bad how can do better how can we work closer together right um and every department goes up uh so the first day that's i went up at the very end that was the last one. But it was like sales and marketing. And the second day, it was the product team. So they show

us all the products they're working on, all the products they've been working on for the last, you know, year since the last, we had the last meeting. And it's pretty cool because we fly in, you know, pretty much everyone who works remote. And it's a, it's a fun week, you know, because the office is packed people. Yeah, it's, it's, it's really noisy. And like, I wouldn't be the first person to tell you. Sorry. So where we're sitting right now, we're sitting in front of like the office is like two big windows so we see people walking in and out and these people like slowly coming in with like their costumes and stuff like that. I don't know who that is.

That's Raina. Is that Raina? I can't tell because of the shoes. It looks like the shoes that Nicole would wear. But I can't also the purse. There's like a Raina purse. Anyway. So like I wouldn't be the first person to tell you that like I'm not a big fan of like a lot of

a lot of noise. Just like, you know, especially when we're thinking of like a meme or thinking of like something creative. It's hard when it's like a bunch of people talking like all around you. And they're literally people talking all around this. But soon we will have our own, our own meme headquarters. Meme HQ. Yeah, we're going to get a little.

Oh, it is Nicole. See, it's Nicole. I told you because of the shoes. Nicole is wears those little boots. We need a little room just for our memes. Yep. And, but it's actually going to cool that we have so many people because it's not just a lot of people. It's a lot of different people and it's like a lot of different types of people too.

Because the people who work up in SF are different than people who work down here, different than people who work in Taiwan. They're working, you know, like just San Francisco. Yeah, San Francisco remote in general. So it's kind of cool. Like, oh, there's Jeff right next to us. And it feels it feels kind of like a real company almost. You know what's funny though?

So like the first day when I presented, I was literally the last person, right? Right. So all day long from 9 in the morning until 3.30, it was just every sales department presenting, you know, basic sales. where it just honestly it is kind of boring because it's just charts, you know, like numbers, yeah, charts, graphs, numbers, you know, things like that and then I go up and the first thing I show is like just memes and I didn't I didn't really know like okay but what are they going to say like if I just come out with the meme but yeah I think they liked it had a lot of good questions it's basically the same exact stuff yeah we

present weekly but to now we're doing it to like you know, everyone. So it was cool kind of showing them like the progression of the memes. Yeah. So they're getting weirder and weirder. And which ones do good, which is not so good. Yeah. You know, did you actually present.

Like, this meme did really well. And this one did not do well. So I presented, the first meme I showed was the first meme that I consider to go viral for us, which was the summoning circle. Okay. And the reason I consider that the first one to really go viral is because that's the first meme we did that was like on Reddit and stuff. Right.

And then after that, I think I showed the April Fool's joke, which I had been setting up for five years. Free PC, yeah. Free PC retweet. Yeah, for five years, I've been telling people they can't get a free PC. And then on April 1st, that exactly 12 a.m. I tweeted, retweet this for a chance to win a free PC. And no one believe me. And then I showed, oh, I showed the balance meme, the balance of likes and retweets.

Yeah, yeah. That was a really good one. Yeah, that was a... That was huge. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's great that like, we had these meetings where we're talking about products and we're talking about marketing and we're talking about like numbers. And it's like, oh, this now the meme section.

Like we have a department who's like a big part of their job is to make it memes and it's like, have fun, you know, which I think is cool and it says a lot about in 16. Yeah, memes are just part of it. Yeah. Yeah. Like the whole reason you and me are here is, you know, commuting social media for us is not like, well, let's just advertise our products. Which a lot of people do.

How do we make people have fun today? How do we make gamers smile? How do we make customers happy? How do we make non-customers happy? Yeah. Just, you know, how do we foster community? How do we clown on the haters? You know, sometimes.

It has to happen every once in a while. Yeah, sometimes you have to remind them that, like, I mean, it's just, you know, a hashtag brand, you know, that we will come after you if you try. And those times, you know, just act very nice. keeps kicking you out. I don't know you're talking about, man. So, yeah, so because we don't have a guest today, if you guys are free to ask this questions the entire time out, you know, we'll just interview me.

It's interview you. I'm okay with that. Jeffrey, can I make memes part-time for NXT? Yep, we can start right now. What's he saying? He says, can I make names part-time for NZT? Not if you have to ask. A true mamer would not even question that.

Well, Dan and Ivan be participating in No Shape November. I don't shave. I actually trim today. So I use a, just like a clipper. Oh, you do? Yeah. I hate shaving. Shating sucks.

I have a beard trimmer for like the bottom part for my neck. So I don't have like a neck beard. And then also like the lines up top. And then I just, you know, kind of keep it close. You should just shave that thing. with so you know let's let's grow a mustache for November just mustaches just moustaches just to shave everything and just keep the mustache I'm down your gear down hmm well you actually do it I'll do it yeah I've been before really yeah I did it like uh I can imagine with the mustache I did like six years ago

yeah yeah I think about it uh she hated it yeah yeah what I got creep I have a really thin mustache like I don't know like it's it just looks weird on me oh like uh what's that guy from Adam's family the dad from Anna's family? Gomez? Yeah it's basically like that oh Gomez mustache

they can imagine the mustache because like uh so yesterday Ivan Jeff and like some other guys from the other offices where there was having a chat and I want to talk about how he used to like lift all the time used to be like super swole and at a certain point he had like a long hair and like a long beard and like I can't imagine this guy having like a super long beard or anything like

I mean, I haven't known you for that long, but as long as I've known you. And, like, every photo I've seen you in, you've had, like, pretty short crop, like, facial hair. So the idea with you with, like, a beard is, like, so foreign. You got to remember. I'm, like, twice your age, man. I've, I've had many lives. Yeah. I went through a long hair phase in college.

Mine was in high school. I didn't have a long hair phase in high school. Yeah. I didn't have a long hair phase in high school. But when I was in college, you know, it was a metal head. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Um, I wish I would have known that before I hired you.

Hey, let's go foo. It's funny because, like, uh, I have a couple of cousins who are foods and they're like, oh, what's up, dogs? So you're like a vacato or something, you know, you're just like, you know, just, you know, just like, you know, I just like, yeah, whatever. You know what I mean? Basic food. Basic food.

Yeah, but it's always funny because like, uh, a lot of my family members, family members will look like fun of me because I belong here, black t-shirt, jeans and like, you know, like converse or something. And that was like my outfit for like three years in high school. So they're making fun of you for being a sophisticated vato. You know, dog? Ryan is asking, will there be another NZXT pop-up in 2020? The answer is, we don't know yet.

We want to, but we haven't planned or, you know, officially scheduled one. But we would love to do pop-ups, you know, all over the world. So hopefully we can do another one soon. It was fun. Cuddle wants to know Cuddle money. You guys have to stop changing your freaking damn

to swear to God. Have you guys donated to Team Trees yet? No. I thought about it yesterday. I thought about it for a hot minute and then it's all

that Elon donated a million dollars and I'm like That was awesome. Yeah, no, it was really cool. And then like everyone's donating like a bunch of money and I'm like

Well, the guy from Shopify donated $1 million and $1. Yeah. So to me and this is the way I see it they don't need my money now, right? Like they got Elon money

and in my opinion, right? My dollar is worth a dollar to me is worth a lot more than it is at Elon. Like, I can't imagine what like a dollar is the Elon. He probably sees a dollar and like just wipes his nose to it or something, you know? Yeah. It's like they can handle it.

I'm out here trying to live my life and pay my bills. They can literally do whatever they want because, like, example, Elon Musk is like, oh, I'm going to make flamethrowers and he just does it. Or like, I'm going to put, you know, a rocket in the space. So they can do that. I think I probably will end up donating like 20 bucks or something. Yeah. Because the reason I didn't do it yesterday when I first found out about it is because I wanted

to research the organization first. I just haven't had a chance, but I mean, if... No, it's pretty legit. Like Mr. B, Elon, the guy from Shopify, all these people are donating a lot of money. I feel like it is legit, so I'll donate it on behalf of NZX trees.

Casual Headshot Pro, happy Halloween, how much candy for a free PC? 1,337 candy corns. Count them. Yeah, deliver them by hand. Will you guys be given out candy at the office? We actually, so we've actually had a bucket all month of candy. If you follow us on Instagram, you would see that there is a candy bucket that we have been meaming with lately.

Can you actually buy the NCXT? No, not right now. Because it's very heavy to ship liquids. And if we are going to, we don't want to sell that stuff, you know? It's kind of like the land you're like to shirt. It's also like not safe for consumption probably. Yeah, you probably can't. Yeah.

It's been there forever. Well, what's funny is at the pop-up, I was looking at the label, and I was like, wait, these, like, real nutrition facts? So I had Jin who designed the label. I was like, hey, man, where did you get these nutrition facts? Oh, I just made him up. Okay. I'm pretty sure that's illegal, but. Yeah.

Well, NXT released new products before the end of the year. No comment. No comment whatsoever. Is it safe to dress my S. 340 non-elite as a bed sheet goes for Halloween. Sure. It's not safe, but you should do it. Anyway.

You got long hair right now, Mac? Do it. I want to see it. Will there be an NXT event on the East Coast ever? Hopefully. We want to go everywhere, man. Yeah, that'd be great. If that was like just our job just to travel around and meet the community members, that'd be awesome.

We never had the meme again. Yeah. And we've never had an actual, you know, quote-unquote event team or event department or event manager here. It's always just been, you know, like, it's pretty much every department works together to plan an event. Yeah. But pop up was a lot of work. That was the first event we did on our own, like ourselves without, you know, going to a PACs or BlissCon or anything like that. Yeah, we did it just because.

Yeah, it took, you know, it took a year to plan. And about six months to like just get everything together, like all the materials, all the clothes. all the snacks, all the computer, a lot of stuff. And it took a week to set up, a week to tear down. The influencer is a space. Yeah, it was a lot of work. And I think everyone that worked there was just beat, man. Like, that's probably the most I've worked for the company.

To be honest, like, for real, because we had to be there like 8 in the morning. And we were there, you know, until 10 at night and every day for like a week. It's actually funny. It's like, I was going to brag in a little bit. So I was like, oh, yeah, you know, like, I used to do esports events. And like this, this schedule we're on, it was like nothing. Because like I used to do events or I would be there eight in the morning. And I maybe wouldn't go home to like two.

And you had to be there at eight again because there's so much to do. Yeah. So it was kind of like a throwback to me. And I was like, man, I'm so glad this isn't like my everyday life anymore. It's too much. Yeah. But with that being said, we did agree that if or when we do this again, we're definitely going to hire more help.

Yeah, for sure. Because it's just like. It's a lot. Yeah. And like, like, Ivan was telling me like that if it wasn't for me, Mike being there, enter Mike, that it would have been much harder because every time he's worked in an event, he's never had time to do social media to do Instagram stories, to do, you know. That's the first event we were at where we can post on social media.

Yeah. And we posted a lot too. We posted a lot. And hilariously enough, people complained about the spam, but like we did really well. Like that week where you're posting much stuff did really, really well for us. So hate all you want, guys, Nody Gang. What's up? So for everyone asking about pop-ups here or there, the answer is we would love to do pop-ups

everywhere it's just it's a lot of time a lot of effort a lot of planning uh like the flights are like the the like the like cheapest thing it's everything else finding the space getting it looking the way you want to having creative do all the stuff it's easier instead of a pop-up it's just easier for dennis to roll up his socks right no elbows up side the side but yeah the pop-up was was a cool event. It's also cool because a lot of, not a huge amount of community members went, but like, you know, Captain Nutella drove down with the mom. That was cool. I met a couple other people from the server who brought their parents and stuff. So we got to meet some parents. It's always cool to meet community members, but also like their family and get to know them as well.

So hopefully we do it again soon. Let's see. N60 food van. That'd be cool. I don't know what we would make, though. We would probably make Purple onion. NZX tacos. Serve at NZXT. Yeah. We had fruit trucks with a pop-up. Fry up some NZX tilapia. NZX treats reward October. That'd be kind of cool. That'd be a good idea, I think.

Was the NZXT just rebranded or custom made? Yes. I don't know. It was, I think... I don't know if I heard of lot to tell. Well, if I remember correctly, because I wasn't involved in the actual. making the tea, but I'm 99% sure we just bought real

tea, whatever brand it was, and then we made labels and bottle caps for it, I think. There's another cool costume coming up right now. Hold up. It's a... That's Shin dresses me. Yeah, maybe it is Jerome. Jerome is dressed as a banana.

As a monkey carrying a banana. Get it right. Will Cuddle get a job for NZXT when it becomes a thing? He's already hired as far as I'm concerned. Cuttle's always been a member of NXT. He just doesn't know it yet.

NCD Germany is a thing. I mean, Kat Loves works there, so I don't know. She's a product manager for NZT, Germany. It's a little different, though. It's like she's like, how would you explain, like Kat? Like how she works. She does sales and marketing. Yeah.

But when she got hired, one of the first things I did was put her in touch with Cuddle. I was like, okay, we have someone working sales and marketing in Germany now because we want to do more stuff there. and Cuddle is the first guy I thought of like okay you got to get to talk to Cuddle because Cuddle will help you and yeah he knows a lot he'll do a good job and good community member

he'll be proud to do it exactly hopefully one day when when Cuddle comes to America you know you can you know sit down next to us and work with us closer send down to random events to stream like at TwitchCond going to one this weekend but I don't know who's going to stream I don't think I'm allowed to stream there

no I mean like I guess you could talk about it. I mean, if you want to. Yeah. Well, you're in a Blitzcon. I don't know if you're allowed to or not. Yeah, so, like, yeah, so we got tickets. So, you know, we have ties with everyone, you know,

like we're a gaming company, work a lot of companies. So we ended up getting some free tickets of BlisCon. But I'm not sure if I want to actually post anything from there just because, you know, the situation right now is kind of weird. I mean, you know, I've always been a fan of Blizzard games, you know, like I grew up playing them, so it's kind of weird for me right now. So, I don't know. I mean, I still want to talk about that.

But I don't think we had to post anything from that. there to be honest just because you know there's no reason to I mean at this point it sucks you know but it is what it is are you going I probably won't go tomorrow I might go tomorrow I don't know so it's a lot of work to do you know um to in your hometown it is it's like literally like 10 minutes away from me like I can I can Uber there in 10 minutes and pay a lot of money because it's stupid expensive I'll probably go Saturday for sure but yeah I don't know Alan's still pushing for an NVT PAC South. We actually had a booth there, I think last year.

Yeah. I think so. Last year or the year before. Booths are weird because, like, we don't have a lot of product right now to show at a booth. It's really just going to be like BLD and, like, cases, right? And, like, coolers and stuff. And the type of person that goes to PACs isn't a person who's going to want to look at streaming PCs. I would say TwitchCon.

So, like, it really depends. So like an event like PACs is more like a, it's like for more for video game developers, right? To show up games and like community events. And if we do like if I would want to go to PACs, it would be for like a community event. Yeah. I don't want to show off product. It's boring, you know. Yeah.

And that's actually one of the reasons why we never really did a lot of events was because, you know, prior to two years ago, we were a PC component manufacturer. And we didn't make computers. We didn't sell computers. We made them for ourselves, but we didn't sell computers. We sold parts. And, you know, when you go to a gaming event, you're not really going there with the idea of like, oh, I'm going to buy a case and then walk around this giant box all day, right? Or I'm going to buy fans for my PC or I'm going to buy a water cooler. It's not like that.

So for us, when we did events previously, it was like, let's just get our product in as many places as possible. worked with a lot of different brands that we're still friends with and we're just trying to get our product in their booth and every once in a while we would we would splurge on a booth sometimes you would share booths but but I think it was three years ago when we launched the new H-series we decided you want to do something big yep and we thought well there's nothing bigger than BlissCon so when we launched the H-series that first year you're we sponsored Bliss We had 2,500 computers at Peacecon, yeah.

It's a lot. With crackings, yeah. It was all H-700s. It was awesome. And we had a, you know, big booth and whatnot. And then the next year, Blizzard wanted 500 more computers, I think it was. So we did, you know, 3,000. And we're not sponsoring this year.

But yeah, it's a lot of work. It's expensive, like super expensive. expensive. I think I mentioned this last podcast, but like some of these events, they'll charge you like $15,000 just for internet. Yeah. No. It's just ridiculous. Yeah. Convention on internet is not cheap. And it's like 100% like a markup. It's such a huge markup on it. Like it's ridiculous. But they charge you for every little thing. They charge you like if you want, let's say you have a booth, right? They're going to charge you to ship your booth material there. And you have to ship it a week early because they have to. store it. They're going to charge you for the storage. Yep. And then they have all these union laws where we can't even touch that stuff. So we have to basically have very detailed instructions to the union there. Here's what we want you to do with this. Here's how it goes. And we're not allowed to touch it. You know, I went to stay out

the way. And, you know, sometimes they don't necessarily do do things that we want. So there's a lot of, there might be back and forth. When I was, when I was working for Black Desert, I was at TwitchCon Last year and we had ESL do a stream for us for like a tournament we were doing and because of the union They had to take a they had to take X number of breaks per X number of hours and we cannot do anything Yeah, you can't we couldn't stream because if we streamed then then we'd be violating union Rule so we literally just had a dead stream for like 30 minutes and like if you know anything about streaming If any dead air like you drop in followers hard because people are so quick to click on another stream. So it was it was kind of like I get it.

Like, you know, I get it. Like it makes sense. But it's like, you know, when you're just there trying to do something, it's, it's kind of annoying. It is. You know. So it's like a lot of stuff that goes into doing an event there. It is.

It's not easy. Like, I, you know, I think Dennis would be the first one to, to confirm this. But I'm like probably the only person in this company who hates going to events and hates, like, anytime anyone invites me to go anywhere, like, gaming event type of thing. I'm always like, nah, I'm good. And the reason is not because I don't want to go. is just because I don't want to do that type of work per se. Like I'd rather tweet from the couch than, you know,

spend my week, you know, traveling, setting up an event. That's why you're here. Now you get to go while I sit on my couch. Yep, pretty much. I mean, that's why I went to TwitchCon, you know. So yeah, dark lord. Cool, man. That's a sick name dog.

Watch out for all that edge. Thanks for hopping on, man. Yeah. And also like you go and let's just be honest a lot of these events are very console-centered I mean consoles are still huge right it's still easier to go out and buy an Xbox and is to buy PC set up and start your games on it something like BlisCon actually makes more sense because the majority of BlissCon or Blizzard games are played on PC we were at Lanus Tech Expo so that makes sense you know because I mean Linus is all about buildings all about

PC technology you know like it's a very very focused in that particular way like if there's like a PCMR event, we'll probably go to that, right? But again, like, we're not going to go to, like, you know, E3, right? We're like 99% of the games are showed off on companies. We always go to E3. What we do, but, like, you know, but like we don't have a booth there. No, when we go to E3, what we do is we actually rent a meeting room. You know, there's like a bunch of meetings going on during that convention.

It's a lot of stuff behind the scenes people don't ever see. Yeah, it's basically we just have a meeting room and we invite people into this room and we show them products that are unreleased, you know, can do them a little preview of what's to come. And we also have computers and product in different booths. Like I think last E3 we were in Bessasda's booth. Yeah. Just, you know, a bunch of different random places.

We've been in Twitch's booth. We're at C Gates booth this year at TwitchCon. Yeah. We're at the Farmers Insurance booth, you know, so all the PCs that we're running were NXT with Krakens. And there's always NXT staff. at these events, just walking around and just checking out the scene. Yeah.

I'm usually wearing something purple, so they're easy to find. Yeah. We rep, but we don't rep super hard. No, with the Gamescom. Yeah, I mean, exactly. It's just things with that. You know, it's like, all these events is very, very expensive. But, like, gamescom, it's really funny because, like,

I feel like there's a lot of, a lot of PC players in Europe. Yeah. I don't know if it's more, but, like, it feels very, like, a very PC-centered spot. It is. And last year for Gamescom, We sponsored or we We sponsored Discord's booth with 15 computers and It was not easy getting 15 computers built in Germany like yeah, I was I was talking to people like I was literally making phone calls to people in Germany

Yeah, who don't speak English Telling them, you know can you guys help me build 15 computers and deliver them here and Thankfully it all worked out, but it was kind of Kind of annoying to say that, but. And I think a lot of the reason why PC is very popular in Europe is because, like, the internet. Well, it's the internet, but also it's things with, like, licensing laws and, like, the way that, like, products are shipped. It's literally because I have better internet, man.

For real. I don't think I have better internet. I heard the inner situation in Europe is really bad. Why do you think from country to country? Why do you think the world's greatest CSGO players all live in one country? That's different. No, but you know why? It's because it snows.

So it snows half the year. I think it's like Sweden, all that area around there where it actually like people don't, people can't go outside for a long time. And these countries actually have really good internet. So that's my theory. It's like they're inside and they have good internet, man. Why not play video games? I think it's more. I think I have it on pretty good authority that the internet varies a lot from country to country.

so it's not that great. In some countries, yeah, it's great. In other countries, it's complete trash. But it's also because, like, getting consoles shipped to other countries is difficult. So, example, you have Nintendo of America and, like, Nintendo of Europe, right? They run very differently. And, like, sometimes the deals that they have for, like, Singh is not good.

Or, like, the import tax or things like that are really crappy, which is why you end up with, like, not as many people playing on a console as opposed to playing on a PC, right? Like, PC is a little bit easier to build when, you know, you can just grab parts from wherever you want. Unless. Unless. Like I know in like Brazil, there's a lot of PC players there because you literally cannot get like a legit Nintendo console legally.

You have to get it imported or illegally because the way that Brazil has their manufacturing laws or like their their their their like tariff laws is if you import something, it's super, super expensive because they want you to build stuff in Brazil. And Nintendo's like, nah. And a lot of the parts, like in Brazil, for example, they sell a lot of cases that have really cheap power supplies built into them. That's something that a lot of people ask us to do, but I mean, I don't think you want to put a cheap power supply in that good. But yeah, it's a little weird. And also some countries, they really flock or gravitate towards like mini ITX really small cases because they don't have a lot of space. They live in smaller homes and things like that. So, yeah, it is interesting to kind of see the differences in gamers all around the world.

Yeah. I'm like, there's like a lot of fantastic question players, you know. But I think, again, same thing. They're all hackers. Yeah, right? They're all the hackers. But same thing. You know, it's like, you know, the 80s.

You have the, you know, the whole USSR thing going. Like, you know, it's probably real difficult for Nintendo to sell a console over there. So PC's a little different. And also, you know, like, they have a lot of companies who are who are actually there's a really good documentary I saw. of the reason why PC games got so big in Europe is because they were literally developing their own computers to compete with American computers because of the arms race. So that whole thing caused the byproduct

who was having a lot of PCs in Russia. That's how we fake the moon landing. Exactly. There you go, guys. We solved it here. Do you remember the name of the documentary? I think the channel was called Ahoi. A-H-O-Y.

I don't know why that's so hard for me to say. But he does, like, a lot of, like, cool gamer-centric videos. But it's something called, like, nuclear space race or something, invented video games, essentially. So, yeah. Look it up, guys. Watch it now. Shout out this podcast and watch it now.

Yeah. I don't know what else to talk about. I'm telling you to interview me. All right. How was your weekend, Ivan? Let's see, my weekend. It was actually cool. It was my birthday weekend. It was.

Actually, Monday was my birthday. But so I had a choice for my birthday weekend, right? I could go to a concert on Saturday to see two of my favorite bands, one which I've never seen. So I could have seen Morrissey, who I've seen a bunch of times, and Interpol, who I've never seen, and I've always wanted to see. Really? Interpol. Yeah, I love Interpol. I'm surprised you're a fan of Interpol.

Why? I don't know. It seemed like a weird indie band to me. Well, not really indie anymore, but I don't know. All right, fool. I mean, say that. Underpole's awesome. So, yeah, that was on Saturday night. And then as I was, like, you know, looking at what other concerts were available or out there, I saw, oh, Raffi's playing on Sunday.

Rafi. And the tickets were exactly like the same price. They're not cheap. Hold up. So for those who don't know who is Rafi. Because I know him, but I know him from like a long time ago. And I don't know if a lot of people hear. Baby Beluga.

That's like his most famous one. Let's say. Didn't you look a really famous song? Baby Beluga. That's his, that's his most famous song. No, no. Banana phone. He's a banana phone.

Yeah. So that one too. So for those who don't know, Rafi is the is a banana phone guy. He made he had bananas on stage and he's making some really funny banana jokes. He picked up the phone and he goes, hello. I thought that was funny. Sure, yeah. Yeah.

You think so. Okay, so for those who don't know, Rafi, this is funny. Actually, we were talking about this in Discord a while back, like, maybe last week or a couple days ago, just like old memes. And this is like one of the first, like, big viral, like, songs to come out. Was he a meme? This song is definitely meme. Banana Fun was a meme.

This is a famous song. Yeah. So I actually did not really listen to him when I was a kid, but my younger, youngest sister listened to it a little bit. And then once I had my daughter I was just like maybe she'll like this and she ended up freaking loving it So

I ended up going to see Rafi on my birthday It was fun, it was cool There was a lot of kids And I think one of them got my daughter sick Who in turn got my wife sick Who in turn got me sick Yeah kids are just always sick

I'm sick too Like you guys can tell like I'm Kind of like stuffed up right now And my throat's really scratchy Yeah, like, so this is what I can only get about guys like Rafi, right? So because I was talking to you about this. Like he's literally a guy on the stage with the guitar singing songs, right? He's singing kids songs.

And there's like a lot of those songs that he does are just like, you know, wheels on the bus. Like songs have been around forever. So like you could be that guy even. Like if you wanted to, you could be up on stage with the guitar singing kid songs and he could be as big as Rafi. So I'm always like intrigued by like how people, how someone like him gets so famous because he's just doing. in kids songs. Anyone can do anything. Anyone can be Rafi.

Anyone can be president of the United States. Anyone can be... That's true now. Me. Anyone can be you. Like, it's not really, you know, like that hard to do anything. You just got to, like, put in the work.

And he put in the work. No, for sure, for sure. Before he was a children's performer, he was a really, you know, like well-known, traveling folk musician in Canada. for like a really long time and from what I know I think someone invited him and is like just performed for like some kindergarten somewhere and he enjoyed seeing any kids so to answer your question I don't think he's just like anyone can do what he does because I do think he actually connects

with the kids and and he also like his whole thing is like you know improving the environment helping the environment you know raising money to help kids who you know who might need home or food and things like that. So it's not like he just goes up there like sings the wheels on the bus. He's also kind of like throwing out a little message out there. And trying to get families closer together. And I thought it was cool.

Alan says weirdly lots of 90-ish bands have put out kids albums in the last few years. It might be Giants. So yes. They might be Giants. It's been doing something like that for a while. There is a music genre called Kindi. Kendi.

Yes. So it's indie music specifically for Kinti. kids. Really? And I play it all the time for my daughter. Really? Yeah. What's her favorite? Her favorite is um the artist is like Lord. The song is called We Are the Dinosaurs. Okay. The artist is called like Lori or Lauren something. Yeah, Lori Burtner. Kindy, huh? So I bought my daughter some, some dinosaur shoes. Dinosaur shoes. And she stomps around to the song. It's pretty cool. I hear this so quick. We are the dinosaurs.

dinosaurs guys I play this on the guitar too oh really yeah does the YouTube kids thing I think I heard this before why do you think of that we are the dinosaurs marching marching we are the dinosaur

make the earth flat that's so weird I love it do you let your daughter watch YouTube kids I do but it's not like she's in front of TV all day there's some weird stuff on there There is.

There's some weird stuff on YouTube kids, man. I know. That's why I keep a really close eye on her. You know, make sure she's not watching anything weird. Like, she's not on there a lot. My friend, who I'm not going to name drop because I always make fun of her for her parenting. Andy? Yeah, Andy.

So she puts on the Netflix kids for her daughter. And it's like the most like low tier garbage, like, CGI stuff with all these kids songs. And like, I'm there for like two hours. You know, we're having dinner. And she's playing this stuff for a kid. And I'm going nuts. I'm like, please like turn this crap off. Like, throw on some snoop, throw on some Dre, whatever.

Like, I don't care what it is. Like, like, I listen to Enya over this stuff. Like, please, it's just, it's, oh, I. Snoop and Dre are classic children's songs. Yeah, they are. It's just, it's nuts. Man, like, I can't, I can't do it. Well, I think it's, like, if you don't have a kid,

it's kind of hard to kind of understand what. is so appealing about this music. I didn't listen to this before I had a daughter, you know? Like, I didn't, I thought this was dumb stuff too. Right. But, like, seeing my daughter actually, like, enjoy it and get into it. Like, it makes me enjoy it. It makes me want to get into it.

It makes me want to, like, sing along with her and dance with her and stuff like that. But I feel like this, like, weird dinosaurs is like, it's like, you know, there's, like, some effort put in, you know? Like, the stuff that's, like, on YouTube kids or stuff that's on, like, Netflix kids or whatever is, seems like just super. just like low low effort right and like that's because you're not a kid that's true right but like in that and i guess it's you know coming for someone who doesn't have a kid like if if i had a kid i would think maybe i want something you know i don't care if it's a kid's song but like this looks

like crap you know it's like you know i guarantee you everything that you like as a kid probably sucks oh it probably did suck dude oh for sure and b a big eight makes the best kid's music Like when I was a kid, like the big thing when I was a kid, the very first big thing I remember was Heeman. Like I was obsessed with He Man. I had like every toy watched it all the time. There's a question. Was it bad for its time? I don't know because that's like all I watched back then.

I was like a little kid. I don't know what else was really out there. I mean, G.I. Joe, whatever. But now when I watch Heeman, I'm like, this sucks. Like, how did I ever like this? It's just like so dumb. But I was super into it when I was a kid. Right.

So I don't know. I think it's just when you're a kid or when you have kids, you kind of see the kid stuff a little differently, I think. No, right, right. But I mean, like, what I'm saying to is like, example, stuff that's for kids, right? Anything on PBS, right? But typically stuff on PBS is a little bit higher quality, right?

Like to put effort into it and like just like, it's like real old meat and like lessons to it, right? I feel like just watching. Sesame Street. Wheels on the bus. Yeah, exactly. right Sesame Street like just you know watching like uh well see your thing about two frame rate per second wheels on the bus is weird to wheels on the bus yes it's a stupid simple song however not the song

i'm talking about the actual content of the video in the song that's what i'm saying like well i don't know about the videos but right i do know the point of those types of song are to teach kids rhythm and so what a bus is like my daughter now every time she sees a bus she'll go bus right or she'll see me driving and she'll go she'll go like this so i think it's just they're just to teach kids right And okay, I'm asking is my daughter loves this one. This one? The cocoa melon, yeah. The cocoa melon.

I think it's actually, I might be a little higher, but like, I'm just looking at other stuff here. But like, okay, example, right? Like, let's in here. What was this called? Treehouse something. This is a live stream. The heck. This is so weird, dude.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I can't show this on stream. But what I'm saying is it like, some of these, some of these videos are like some weird, creepy CG, like, like Pixar 20 years ago kind of stuff and it weirds me out and I don't know why why kids are watching this stuff but again you know again like I don't have a kid he's weird to me you know I don't know it's weird to me you could be the first

children's foo singer ooh the foo's on the bus who's gone wow boo's gone wild um what other so this is separate topic what other social accounts do you like admire like that you like there aren't like in our space Like other accounts. Social account. Like people, brands that I like? Brands, you know, like example, food's gone wild, right? Oh, yeah.

I love food's gone wild. So Fuzgoon Wild is like, like L.A. Latino culture account. And it's like just making fun of Fuz and like, you know, this Hispanic Cholos and stuff like that. And it's, it's a brilliant account. It's really, really funny. I mean, I haven't always looking each other stuff from this account all the time. But it's funny because like they like, so like, for example, they like built their own like culture. around this other culture.

They also had a pop-up. Yeah, yeah, that was hilarious that they had a pop-up right after art. Yeah, I like Fuzgawn Wild. It's really funny. I also like the reminding you to drink water accounts. Yeah, the drink water person account. That's really cool.

For the longest time, Dennis thought I was actually running one of those. I'm pretty sure you still are running the drink water account. It could be. I wouldn't tell you if I was. Yeah, you definitely wouldn't. I also like

Find out on mouse Twitter yeah Find them else Twitter's pretty good yeah it keeps me entertained they have a good like a good they have a good thing going you I mean

like they definitely know what they're doing with it yeah they'll love the trigger people you can tell but to be honest I don't really I don't really like

spend that much time like looking at other like social media that much like other people's pages that much right not because I don't want to it's just

Just because... You got no time. It's not that. It's not even that. It's just... I'd rather focus on our own. That's what it is. Like, I do look at other accounts, obviously, you know.

But I don't really... I can't really say, oh, I have a favorite or I admire this one so much. But, you know, I like a few. Could I ask what your favorite G-fuel flavor is? Grape. Purple. Purple's a good flavor. Want to play some Call of Duty and listen to old-school phase songs about drinking G-fuel.

I don't even know when an old-school phase song is phase makes music there's a video for that search search old old school phase old school phase song phase phase song let's see which one let's see phase oh right and high i think maybe cuddle can link one he linked one to me last night i never understood the whole thing with phase like another old school you don't understand anything do you i don't understand a lot of stuff i just like i don't know man it seems like a bunch of bros playing video games i guess people like that stuff that's literally what we are already a bunch of bros i think you're a bunch of fools playing video games it's different it's a different culture yeah um i'm seeing this ad on facebook

the entire time this is this guyco it's happy guycoean i can't we can't do until we can start producing like cool videos like that never yeah bring someone else in for that stuff have i ever tried the new call duty yet not yet um and i don't think i am i don't play call the duty i end up with a free copy and the campaign's pretty good like a lot it's pretty good oh yeah actually it feels like call duty you know it doesn't feel like it's is like it's like anything crazy we're gonna get some keys for it though oh yeah yeah nice like i will say it looks amazing it looks super good Yeah. Every Call of Duty game I played has been fun.

It's just I quit FPS for a reason. Did you get too angry? No, it's just I feel like an FPS. You really need to grind. Like, you get to play a lot. Until I get good? To get good. It's like a good game, right?

Well, yes and no, because with FPS, I feel like you also need a good teammates. So you got to rely on a lot of people. Depends on the game. Well, CSGO is my favorite. Yeah, so I mean, you can definitely care and CSGO. But yeah, I guess, I don't know, I just got tired of not having, like, a solid team, you know, people just trolling and things like that. So, plus all the hours you got to put into it, because I feel like to get really good at the game like that, you can't take a day off because your aim's going to just, you know, it's going to change for sure. And the longer time you take off, it's going to change even more.

So it's just a lot of hours, you know. Yeah, I would say I mostly use play shooters. So, like, my skills kind of transfer a little bit here. here and there to the game's like I'm not great but I would say I'm fairly competent you know like I do all right uh live video ended nice suit I love Instagram live yeah I don't think we'll ever do that again yeah everyone in the Instagram live chat which is asking for free PCs this I mean Instagram is a bunch of kids this to be real all y'all children on Instagram can we stream on this channel we can't

but we can't stream what we're looking we can't stream our video oh we uh no we'd have to do like a like a private call because in this channel we can only stream like what's on our what's on our uh it's on our desktop so stream with the phone i'm good uh do i share this to a story we want to get twitch i think i think twitch is like for us is probably the next step and like what the podcast will be um we just need to have a space for it that's just the thing and we do have a space we just haven't set it up yet so is it official that we did it's official so we had official how We had a shared space with the entire marketing team where we were going to set up a podcast studio. However, it became storage because we just have so much stuff.

So last week we spoke with human resources and people ops and asked them, yeah, you know, there's this little basically like a broom closet that no one's using. Can we take this over for the podcast? And they said, yeah, so now we just got to set it up and get internet in there. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, so example of this stuff. you should like unpinned because it's no reason to have it there. Dang it. Mech,

I asked you to unpin stuff. Sorry, if we missed questions, go ahead. What about Watch Dogs Legion? I don't really. I haven't played a single Watch Dogs game. There's someone in the chat that mentioned

NCXT hasn't uploaded anything on Twitch and Christmas 2019. There's a very good reason for that. Why is that? Because no one cares. That's true. We're not streamers, man. We're not,

we're not ninja. We're not Tim the Tatman. Why would you watch us over Tim or over Ninja or over Shroud or over Pokey? We're not streaming personalities. Over Valkyrie, over courage. And it's also very time consuming. Video is the most time consuming thing. Yes, it is.

Those videos that have put up on Instagram, you know, those come out of nowhere. You know, we got to shoot them, you got to edit them. We got to make sure the quality is right. You got to make sure the audio is and sound like butt. And when I first started working here, one of the first things I did was I started our Twitch channel because I was like well you know gamers are on Twitch we should be on Twitch yeah and I would stream every single day

you know barely getting any viewers and after like six months right Johnny was just like I think we gotta stop doing this man it's not like you're right man it's just not we're just not weird to figure something else and it's like that we don't want to do it is just I think if we do it we want to do it

right like I know there's other companies out there that stream on Twitch and I don't really watch the streams that much. But when I have, it's like they're all the same, really. You know, it's like this, like two guys in a room with the computer building or whatever. Nothing wrong with that. It's just, I think if we were to do it. I think it's boring.

Yeah, we at least want to do something different. They're at like maybe 10 concurrent viewers at a time. Like, if you're like a big, big company like that and like you can't get more than like 100 people watching a stream, like what's the point, you know? Well, yeah. And when when I was doing it, like, I think the most I ever got was like 100 or something. Yeah. Like it was not a lot. Yeah, and like, I mean, like we're a social media community, right?

So our idea is to engage the most people as possible, which is why we do things like the podcast. We have, you know, how often you ever going to see like 20 people in one channel listening to one person talk, you know? Like, it's pretty cool that we're able to do this. Every Thursday. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. At 10 a.m. I prefer podcast because, well, first of all, I think it's easier to set up and do, like just audio than to worry about.

It's easier to consume, too, because you can listen to it whenever you want. Just to it while playing a game, while driving on the train, on the bus. Go around and around. We will stream it. We'll record this on video somehow once we get the room set up. So, yeah. Chill, homies. Exactly.

Just calm down. Calamete. Okay. Yeah, like, I mean, like, and if you want to see somebody stream, I mean, we have people in the company who stream like Andy streams, I stream. You all stream for ice streams. Yeah. I'm going to say, I mean, you still was Jimmy, you know?

Jimmy streams. You watch him, say hi. I see, he's asking how he's doing. You know, I mean, and I think that's more interesting than watching an NXT stream, right?

Because then, like, you can get that person's personality as opposed to we're a company streaming. It's weird, you know? Dennis and I have no personality. Exactly. It's calm and listen to you guys.

Yeah. I mean, you know, I got my deep podcast voice going. It's, well, it's funny because, like, someone told me the day's,

like, you sound different on your stream than you do on a podcast. Well, yeah, this is a podcast. Like, This is a conversation as opposed to I'm playing a game and yelling about it or yelling at you to stop requesting stupid music in my stream

And also this is a much better quality mic and a better setup that we have to Every time I hear the podcast, I always do the same thing I'm like, do I really sound like that? I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. It's the worst. It's the worst.

It's mine, right? My voice sucks. You definitely sound different to me. But I don't think it's worse. I actually think so on the mixer we have, you know, knobs for like. like trouble in the mids and the base. So I turn, I turn my base a little bit down.

I turn Ivan's base a little bit up because he has not a lot of bass in his voice. Talk like this. Yeah. And normally I talk like this. So, you know, I just, I just have the base up super low.

But like on this, we can, we can fine tune it. And also I do a lot of post editing on the podcast. So to make sure that everything sounds nice and equal, doesn't sound too bad. And also I'm sick right now. Like,

whenever it gets sick, I just turn into like Barry White. Like my voice gets really deep. So, you know, like doing a podcast is different. But I think I think a podcast is the best way for us to showcase the company, to showcase the people in the company. Because like, once you start putting someone on camera, they get really self-conscious about the way they look and like, I'm looking at the camera too much. Like, am I playing this game right? It's like you're saying, like we, I don't watch a lot of other company streams, but when I do, it's just like someone sitting in a room.

playing overwatch. And they're not very good. They're not pro-gamer. So, like, what's the reason to watch them? There is any. Exactly. That's why we don't do it. Unless there's free PCs involved.

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, yeah. That's probably the only way we're going to break, like, 400 viewers, right? Is it as if we, like, start giving away something. You know, we're going to give away at 2080TI. If soon as we hit a thousand viewers, right? Like, that's...

Do you think I should give away my old dirty mouse bed? I think you should give away your old 3D mouse pad. So Ivan has his old purple N60 mouse pad that's like literally disgusting. I think is so gross. And I was like you should give it away. Giveaway streams die quickly. Exactly. Yeah.

Exactly. It's not real engagement, right? It's not real views because people are there for the giveaway and then they leave. So like what's the point? Like if you're going to give something away, you must have something away to the server, right? People who are actually here with us every single day hanging out and engaging in making the community a very nice place. Speaking of making the community nice place, we opened up application.

So actually two things. First off, no more apprentices, right? So hold up. Here, we're going to make this official. News, news, news, newscaster song. I don't know. I see if this works. Background music for, okay, see what this works.

Time for NZXT News. WNZXT. With your hosts, Ivan Zee. Xx and Denz Yxte. It's actually really cool. I'm glad to pull this up quickly. Okay, so first news. This just in.

This just in. This just in. The apprentices are all gone. Where do they go? But I should probably, or we should probably explain a little bit why. So the, the whole idea of the apprentices was to have a group, you know, a role on the server for people to help others. so they don't get banned. So the moderators don't have to issue warnings

and things like that to meet them. However, it didn't really work out its plans, and I think it's just because... We noticed a couple things. It's like so many people, and they never really respected the apprentices for what they were.

They would call them micro-mods and all this stuff. It's like, oh, you can't ban me, you're just an apprentice, you can't do anything. And they were kind of like, you know, start arguments and things like. like that so yeah we were like okay well that if that's going on and we need help with the moderating staff and we've never had moderator applications yeah you know why not let's just do it to just promote the apprentices and gets get some more mods in here and yep you know

improve the server that way so right if you guys want to apply tennis where did they go they go to the announcements and the nzx t server which is discord.g.g slash nzxti uh not going to tell you exactly you what we're looking for. We just want you to apply and sell yourself, you know, and then we'll decide off of that. Looking for micro mods. Micromods in your area. Cuddle Money is asking, how many people have applied? Last time I checked you had at least 10 applications, which is a good number, you know. How long are they open for when we find the people that we need pretty much? How many do you think we should get? I don't know. I definitely want more variance in time zones for sure you know that's going to help but also it's not just to

have more people in different areas it's also just to have uh more eyes and also give the current mods a break you know because realize we didn't ask that question on the form what time is on then i mean the people who are going to send up with is asking you know so like so it's going to be the application right you apply and then we read it over and we decide who we who we like and then we'll have like a little bit more of like a one-on-one or just kind of small conversation it's kind of the way I'm going to do it. So, you know, just to see, because it's really easy to type that you're cool, but it's kind of hard sometimes to, like, say that in person.

And, you know, it's not going to, it's not going to, like, make a break. It doesn't work just for me to know because I've experienced in building a moderation team with my work in BDO. So, you know, it's just for me to get to another person pretty much. Or, well, for us to get to another person, essentially. No. So nothing too crazy. You got to prove it.

Exactly. I think it's crazy that we've never had moderator applications. Yeah. Like the way the original mods were selected, it was literally the original members of the server. And when it came to time, we needed mods. Like at first, when the server started, you know, like three, I think three years ago, it was like 100 people. Yeah. And but out of that 100, there was like 10 that really stood out.

You know, that's cuddle, sweet. you know, Tiger or Tigi TIGI Mandy you know like the original

Guardians is what we call them Right So when it came time to get We needed mods I think we had like maybe I think we decided to get moderators when we had like a thousand people Right in there

And instead rather than have applications I just thought you know Who better than just the people Who have been here since the beginning Helping me like already So that's what we did and it's been working you know sometimes get something not so good up until now but I think we're at the point where we really do need more help yeah my view yeah and like um you know

it's always good to have fresh eyes too you know and like people who are newer and um definitely it's not going to I would apply it but I don't know what to write then you don't need you can't be a moderator then like if you can't answer the question yeah it's answer the question it's not hard but like so for me like it really doesn't like it it It can literally be a newbie, you know, who comes in. It's like, oh, I've moderated before. I love the community so far. You know, like, to me, it doesn't, it's not all about who's been here the longest.

It's just, like, who I think will be a good fit with our team. And I think that the, the, quote, unquote, new team, you know, like, just like the team that we're going to eventually have when we're done with this, I think it would be really, really good. And, like, we're definitely looking for, like, if you literally are, like, I want to ban everyone because that's what a moderator there is. And obviously, you don't know what a moderator. does right my job yeah exactly um like the idea is to look at the core values and it's like how can

i apply this core value in every aspect of me dealing with the community multi the server guy saying there are a lot of server favorites and that's fine first to tell you i hate each and every one of you the same there's no favorites here i treat everyone the same you also i don't care if you're dennis or a newbie like if you say a bad word in the server i will tell you something that It doesn't matter to me honestly it doesn't matter who it is and even me like if I were to do something I would expect Dennis to correct me because it's that's what fostering community is It's not playing favorites. It's not you know saying like okay this person is ranked higher than this person's I'm gonna treat him differently It's like literally not like that at all

I mean we literally got rid of people who are like red ranked right who were the highest ranked possible so it's like I've banned staff yeah like it doesn't matter to me like if you break a rule in the nzac tuesday Discord server, I or Dennis will do something about it or the moderates will do something about it. And like to be honest, I think if you're someone who's like a champion rank, right, like you should know better. And I think we should be more strict on those people because they've been here longer. And like how do you not know after all this time you got to this high of a rank, this is not acceptable in server, right? Yeah. And I know our server has quote unquote strict rules.

We would talk about this a million times. I'm not talking about this again. You know, they're not strict guys. It's not hard. It's just. It's not hard. It's just being nice to your fellow gamers, fellow kids out there. It's really not hard.

It's really not hard. And like, there's also people, so I do want to point this out too. There are people who are like, oh, like, what about this loophole? If you need a loophole to stay in the server, you don't need to be here. Yeah. If you're finding loopholes to break rules, eventually you're going to get banned. They guarantee you. Yeah, exactly.

It's not hard. Yeah. It's really not hard. But I think the reason it might. seem hard is because you go on every you can go on any other discord server and say almost whatever you want and I'm not going to name names but I guarantee you go in there you can break a rule and no one's going to do anything about it yeah that's the reason we do it is because we actually want to have you know a real strong community not just people who are here like to cause you know drama

or whatever it's like we want people who are going to get along and help each other and grow and you know make each other better and that's what it's all about can we can we can we talk about that DM you sent me because you told me to look into the screenshots that you sent me. I'm not going to name names, but I'm not going to. Okay, so you sent me a DM saying this person from another server. Oh, yeah. Okay, so, so, so it was a moderator from another server who sent Ivan and DMs that, hey, I think there are some people from your server who are causing a ruckus in our server.

And first thing I saw is the screenshot. I'm like, okay, first off, doesn't look like it's that bad. I had no idea what's going on in that screenshot. Exactly. Second of all, if you're a moderator, the server and you feel like these people are causing a ruckers, just ban them. Like, I don't care. It's not my server, right?

But, you know, at the same time, though, you know, it's like, it's like, you know, it's because you guys don't moderate, you know? Like, if you had better moderation, then they wouldn't, they would know not to act like that in your server. So don't put that on me. They know how to act in our server. But, yes. And what that being said, though.

Right. Don't be a, we do expect. To be a butthole and go other servers and start being mean. Yeah, we do expect everyone who really, you know, believes an NZXX. and our core values. If you really do believe that, you're not going to do dumb stuff in other servers because...

And to be honest, it wasn't even the big of a deal. Like, like, whatever they sent us, I was like, I don't know why you're sending us DMs about this. Like,

who cares. I don't understand what's going on that DM. Yeah, because, like, I haven't sent this to me and it's like, hey, can you look into this? And I'm like,

I don't get what's... Like, I look at it. I'm like, okay, like, they're not doing anything. So, like... I see, like, Lambda saying that NGXC server taught him how to quit swearing and... It's hard.

It's super hard. Yeah, it's super hard. I curse all the time. Trust me. RRL. You do. And everyone curses. Even I curse.

Everyone curses. No way. I try my hardest to not curse. You know. But it's easy to slip, you know, it's not an easy thing to do. But all, all I ask is everyone just try their best, you know. And, you know, like if someone, if someone says a bad word, you're not going to get banned for saying a bad word,

but you will get it talking to. You will get like initially the first time you'll probably get like an unofficial verbal warning like hey man, you know, please read the rules. Like don't cuss. Do it again. You probably will get a warning. Keep doing it. Keep doing it.

Keep doing it. What do you think is going to happen eventually? Yeah, you will get banned. Pretty much, yeah. So it's not hard. I think what else are going to talk about here? No guess today. So it's a little weird for us.

And I have someone just to constantly be asking questions. to interview me man you in class for Halloween do anything with the kid taking her out the daughter trick-or-treating right now they're at the the glendora trick-or treat-or-treat festival with her with my wife's sister was like a mall or something or like no it's like a little downtown area oh really huh yeah I've been noticing a lot of that too a lot of like daytime Halloween stuff which kind of sucks because my neighborhood there's like almost no kids there anymore like I know there are kids somewhere in the neighborhood but I know where they're at Like the past like four or five years, it's been like no trigger cheaters.

And it's really bummy because like we always try to do like really cool stuff with our house and have music. And, you know, like we always going to slowly build up on it. And it's kind of sad because like, you know, like you don't really see, you know, trigger shooters anymore. It feels like going away. It is. I think just people don't like be on outside. I think also it's because like Halloween always falls on like a different day. Wednesday.

Like today, what's Thursday? Yeah, Thursday. Like who's going to go trick or Tuesday on Thursday? Honestly, Halloween should be on the last day. Sorry, the last Friday of the month. It's like, it's like, every holiday should be able to. last Friday of the month. Yeah.

This makes sense, right? I mean, that way, everyone gets like a nice, long weekend and you can actually enjoy the holiday. You guys don't go trick-or-treating? I don't go trick-treating anymore. Scroll up a little bit?

No. Dom's asking, what did my daughter dress up as? She's dressed up as a gorilla. Seriously? Yeah. Is it a gorilla? Was that her choice?

No, it was my daughter's cousin, Ben. He's been a gorilla for the last two years and he finally outgrew his costume. So she's wearing his old costume. That's funny. That's how I do it, right?

Can I talk to you after the podcast about some rather important stuff? You can always talk to me, my friend. I might be a little slow to reply, but I do reply to every single message I get. Who is your favorite TM&T? That would be Raphael, because that's my first name. When did we start calling them TM&T and not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? It's when Zoomers got the... You know, reboot treatment.

Teenage mutant. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Is Mutant one or two syllables? Mutant? It's two, right? If you pronounce it correctly. Yeah. It's like two less syllables.

It's not that big video, guys. Just say the whole name, please. Just say the whole name. It's just, yeah, there we go. Yeah, there's all the ones. Teenage Mutantia. Which is the one with the stick? Donatello.

Donatello? I think it's the coolest one. Because he's the only one who has a weapon that you can't stab somebody with. No, it's because he has the purple headband. Well, that too. But also, like, if you want to beat someone with, like, a stick, you have to, like, really, you know, get him good with that. You can't just stab someone.

They're done. I would say, Raphael, it's harder to use a sigh because you have to get close. That's true. With a stick, you can just, like, you know, be far away. Right, but, like, I would say, like, all things equal. It's probably hard. I mean, you can't stem one with a stick, right? If you're using a sigh, you get them one side to throw it, and you're good, right?

It's just is a one, right? But if you're using, you know, like, a full. you know like a full staff you know you gotta be it'd be crazy with that thing i saw someone walking with swords is someone cosplaying with swords or or it keeps in cosplay has a costume it's basically a cosplay at this point right like what's the difference between just thing up as Halloween uh for Halloween and doing cosplay um typically cosplaying as a fool right now one's annoying and one is it which ones which guys figure it out the one that's associated with anime cosplay is

Hello Yeah we have like 10 more minutes We're at to bounce out of here guys We have our A town hall For town hall So you guys have any questions Please drop them in the chat

Also any feedback You guys have on the podcast I know it's a little weird today Because we went earlier And No guess So it's probably boring I mean or maybe not right

Like I don't know I would say like some of my favorite podcast For people just talking about whatever for like, you know, example, using the Joe Rogan podcast, right? 90% of the time they just talk about whatever. It's like, yeah. Did I barely slept last night? I didn't sleep at all two nights ago.

I'm like really, really tired too. I like zero energy right now. So hopefully the next one I'll get, uh, I'm so tired. I fell asleep on Ivan last night. Yeah. Like we were working on what we're going to post with the Pucci wallpaper and like, I'm in there and I have my phone in my hand. And the next thing I know, I'm like, wake up.

Oh, hey, it's morning. Did we post anything? I have no idea what happened. And you had like 50 messages from me. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, you'll wake, you wake. What about this one? What about this one? How about this for the ending? What do you think? Yeah. Or I like the here I'll type it.

Yeah, type it up. I'm trying to think of what else you can talk about here for the next 10 minutes. Yeah, so Tom Hall. Town Hall is really cool. I think we talked about this once before. Yeah, where we basically, all the department heads is talking. about what's going on in the company. We're going to get a little snapshot. And then we also have a employee's satisfaction survey

where people are allowed to ask questions directly to Johnny and Johnny answers all the questions. So it's like, you know, what do you like or don't like? You could get a webcam and stream that in this channel next time then maybe. Yeah. You can't. If you stream in a Discord channel, it has to be a game.

If you wanted to stream a webcam, that would have to be through a practical. you can't show cam anyway unless because the Discord streaming doesn't work with that they separate it and they're knocking on the door now they're calling us all right guys so sent for us to go this has been NXT

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