NZXT PODCAST - #022 - Denis and Ivan

Episode Date: December 26, 2019

This week on the podcast Denis and Ivan are joined by you and your questions! The crew discuss: destroying NZXT cases, the best and worst of 2019, and rabbids. Listen live to the NZXT CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt every Thursday at 10AM PT! Thanks to Truecrafting#6892 for the artwork!

and welcome to EPSO 22 of the NXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on the official NZXT Discord server and is available to stream wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. My name is Denison with me as always is Ivan. Jingle bells, the rule smells, the moderators ate an egg. Is there any more to that?

I can probably write more, but that's all I wrote right now. You probably should. Someone should write us a whole song and then I can sing. The rest of it later. Today's very special guest is you guys, because we don't have a guest because it's right after Christmas and we don't want to bug people to come into the office on the Thursday right after Christmas, you know?

Also because we forgot to plan this podcast. Now, we actually didn't even think we would do one today, but we figure, you know what? We just come in, yeah. Might as well. I mean, I didn't decide to come in. I haven't told me, hey, we're coming on Thursday. Okay, so then it came in on Thursday,

and now we're recording a podcast. So now we're here. Yeah, so what we're going to do today is a little different. We're going to give you guys a present, which is you get to ask us all the questions you want for the entirety of however long going to make this podcast. We can end it now, too. Yeah, we could. All right, guys, thanks for joining.

Peace. Have a good one. Merry day after Christmas. That's a great song, by the way. It is really, really funny. It's funny how many remixes there are of the We Shop channel. theme. There were a ridiculous amount. Like, I was looking for reggae ones.

And then I was like, oh, I bet you someone's done a ukulele cover. We have enough intro songs probably to last us till eternity or until we get sued by Nintendo. Whatever comes first. Yeah, or just sprinkle some new ones in and then don't want to really ever know the difference. Yeah. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. By the way, do I sound extra nasally today? I don't know. Are you still sick? I feel like I got more sick yesterday on Christmas.

I think I'm the most healthiest I've been for the podcast in the past like two months. Like for some reason, like I keep getting sick. And like everyone I know keeps getting sick. Like you're sick for like a week and they're fine. And then like the week right after that they're starting to get sick again. It's just like really annoying. Super bad. Even when you're not sick, you sound more nasier, naslier than me.

Thanks, man. I really appreciate that. All right, guys. So N16 podcast, we're going to be doing your questions live and then whatever comes, whatever comes in mind. So let's see. What do we got first? What am I getting Nibbler's? Nibler wants to know.

Oh, great question, Nibbler. Wow. Well, we just got them made and delivered, as you know. I believe they arrived here. Tuesday. Like they arrived before Christmas Eve, right? Yeah, yeah. Christmas Eve, so the office was closed yesterday.

We just got back today. And I actually gave Dennis the option today. I said, all right, here's the plan. Here's the plan. We can either, A, do a podcast and just freestyle it and let the community ask the questions, or B, you can help me ship all these nibbler stickers out, and he's like, oh, for sure.

Actually, I just showed Dennis how to use our shipping system over here. I try to put it off as long as I could, but I'm at the point where, okay, now we both need to do this because there's too many things to ship. It is as annoying as he explained it. Like, it's not hard. It's just like, it's just a lot of steps and a lot of things you got to remember

and a lot of redundant things. to ship out one thing or one thing for one person. It's kind of big dumb. Yeah. It's not fun. I already don't like Acumenica. And now when you have access to like a small portion of it, I can imagine what like...

I have messed up so many times, you have no idea. What's the worst thing you've done with Acomatica? Messing up wise? Yeah. Nothing really bad, honestly. It's just... Shipped out a whole pallet of crackens to New Egg. No, nothing like that.

But it's just, you know, like, Like any little tiny mistake you make on there is going to mean someone's not going to get their package. So I've definitely, you know, done that. I guess the most annoying thing, though, I think maybe like three or four years ago, we made a limited edition custom PCMR case to celebrate their anniversary. And the winner was in India. And I think I must have spent like a thousand dollars shipping this thing, Trying to get this case to this guy, man.

But he ended up getting it and it was cool getting it to him. But it was just a mission, you know, going through the shipping software. Now you guys know why so many of our giveaways are not global because the shipping costs are ridiculous. Like it's nuts, right? I mean, especially for something in like a country where like the customs like import piece or so much, like it's really like not worth it. Also the countries where it's like, you know, their address is like down the street. Yeah. Pucci Tower.

number four and you're like first floor I hope down the street yeah there there are some places where like the or like the addresses are really really funky and it's not like a number like here we have number the name of the street and then maybe there's like an apartment or like a unit number and then city state country postal code some places literally like first floor on the left it's like oh okay and somehow the male person in that country is like yeah I know that place yeah first floor on the left right behind the pharmacy. The guys lived there for five years. Yeah.

One of my best friends. Like every, every country, every postal service is different. Yeah, it's funky. Yeah. But they,

I feel like we've, for the most part, I guess, figure that out. But yeah. Anyway, that's like it's a long, long answer for Nibbler,

but we're either going to mail them out today or tomorrow. So every answer is going to be a long answer today because we have no person to question. So that's how it's going to work. Okay.

I'll, I'll extend my answer. A. Actually, so you were talking about PSMR, PC. We had a conversation the other day about modding PCs. We saw someone who took, I think it was a 700, and they literally cut a giant hole in the front of it. And I told you, this is the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

Why would somebody ever just take a dremel to whatever cases and break it apart? And then you had an opinion about that. Yeah, I just, I'm not against. I mean, I love case mods, computer mods. Yeah. I just don't really You know I don't get the point

I get the point I guess But I don't get the point I think it's dumb I don't really I don't know like if it were me for example Like if I had a case that Regardless of the brand If I didn't like

You know a part about it I wouldn't Buy it Well apart from buying it I wouldn't like buy it and then like Chop it up and make it my own. I would just try to find a case that was more like what you want what I wanted, but I'm also very lazy. So maybe I'm not the right person who asked about that. But like for example, like people bug us all the time like on social media, especially DMs. When are you guys going to make mesh? And we're like we're not going to do mesh. And then they cut up one of our cases and add match to it. And I'm like, you know there are five other cases that are probably cheaper and have that already included. Why would you just like chop one of ours up? Because then you can't get the NZXT cloud, man. Yeah.

That's an unacceptable answer. It looks really ugly. I've never seen one of those mods. I'm like, hey, actually, that looks better than how our industrial designer would make it, who went to school to do this stuff and has been designing our cases forever. But what do I know? Yeah. Like, people do message and ask questions like, can you give me, you know, this $200 case you guys make

so I can make it totally different than what you designed it to look like? Yeah. And I always think. Um, I don't think so. Like, why would we then make this case if you're just going to make it different? Yeah. But, you know, with that being said, I do think it's cool. It is cool seeing, like, for example, like, I think the artistry is cool.

If someone takes a case and it makes it like, you know, this crazy transformer thing. Yeah, yeah. That's really awesome. But if you take a case, then you literally just cut a hole in the front of it because you want five more degrees of airflow. And I'm sorry, but I don't like that mod. Yeah. It takes like an old sock and stretches out in front. There we go, guys, there's my mesh.

Also built in air filter, let's do it. Like, I saw the, do you see the Jay's Two Sense video where he, yes, I have. Where he made the, he made the destiny PC for his friend or whatever. No, I haven't seen that one. It was really, really cool. Like, like, I always forget the Jay is so good at, like, modding PCs and, like doing, like, like, like, the artificial distressing and stuff like that.

If you're doing that, that's cool. If you're just going to literally cut a hole in the front of it, then, like, despite, you see the, spying the, the case. The Post Malone Bud Light Beer he made. That was one of the other cases I've ever seen. But it's very on brand for Post Malone because that guy is not very attractive. He's just like, I'm going to put tattoos everywhere. How dare you? How dare you? Do not disgrace Post Malone. My favorite rapper. All right. Special wants to know. What was the first, the worst gift you ever gotten and how did you deal with it?

The worst gift? Yeah. That looks ugly. Guru. Throw that away. Well, I don't know. I can't really say I've gotten a worst gift. I appreciate any gift I've received, to be honest. You know, like people have given me gifts that, like, for example, this Christmas I got a gift that someone drew. It's a fellow coworker who drew a Christmas card for me. And I'm sure it costs absolutely nothing for them to make it other than time. But, you know, I wouldn't say that's like, oh, that's a bad gift because, you know, Dennis gave me. gift cards for the Nintendo e-shop,

even though that costs more money, you know. And I've already been playing Mario Rabbits non-stop. It's a good good. Rabbits is a surprisingly good game. Like, I bought it on a whim, and I didn't realize how much fun I would have with it. Yeah. It's a really good game.

Yeah, when you gave me those gift cards, I was looking through the shop, like, all right, what can I get for this much? And then I saw that Rabbids was on sale for, I think it was like 20 bucks. That's not bad. It's really good. Yeah, because the game's $60, right?

Yeah, I bought it brand new. So I got that and all the DLC for like $30. And I had no expectations. I just love Mario. So I was like, I screwed. I'll buy a Mario game. How far you got in it? I just beat the first boss.

So World, what is it, 1-9, 110. Yeah. Got to the Donkey Kong ones yet? Yeah, I got, I unlocked the, I just beat the Donkey Kong boss. Some of those, some of those enemies are really annoying. Like, it's not easy. Like it's actually not a easy game. It's kind of challenging.

It's getting hard and harder for sure. But it's fun. You know, I love those type of games. And the fact that's, you know, Mario and these really funny rabbits. The rabbits are hilarious. I remember when I think they announced it at E3

and like the guy who was like working at Ubisoft is like, you know, we got to work with Mario. I'm so exciting. He's totally so excited to work with like this franchise. He'd probably never thought he'd ever get a chance. Because like, I mean, I'm pretty sure unless you're Japanese,

you're probably not working on a Nintendo game. Right? Like, I mean, they probably have their own. group of people in Japan who all they want to do is for Nintendo and they just hire those developers. So the fact that like Ubisoft of all people have the chance to make a Mario game and made it really good. I never thought we'd have the chance to have Nintendo write our podcast intro music. That's true.

Here we are. Thanks. All right. Next question is from special again. Wait, are you going to answer these two or just me? Oh, yeah. Worst gift ever gotten, I don't remember. The tamales I gave you this morning.

I'm actually excited to try them out. how they taste. Some of them are good. Some of them are not so good. Yeah, that's how I usually works at tomorrow's. Worst gift I've forgotten. I can't, I'm trying to think. Where's skip ever gotten?

I've gotten, like, shirts that are too tight. And, like, I've gotten a gift that I thought was really bad and ended up really liking, which was when I was, like, 13, 11. I got an N-64, and I got 1080 for it, which is a snowboarding game. And it's, like, the most generic-looking game, in the world like it's just like 1080 snowboarding and then there's just like a box of like a dude on it like this game sucks mom it looked like Christmas is ruined I mean I didn't say that but I was

like oh thanks I got a game and like it it looks super generic and like it looked like shovelware and then I actually started playing it it was super fun and then apparently like a lot of people have that same experience where like they didn't think the game would be really good and it was like no it's actually a really fun snowboarding game I can't think of anything else I thought it was bad Yeah, I usually You get pretty good gifts Like people just buy me video games Because I don't know what else to get me

I don't care about receiving gifts anymore Like I used to when I was a kid You know obviously like every kid wants stuff But the older you get The less I think you care Like honestly like I really care more about getting people Better gifts than like

Than like what I get Like if I get nothing that's cool But like I want to make sure the person I'm giving a gift to is happy with it Yeah That's the greatest gift happiness Yeah We have a we have a game

at my house with me and my sister and we're like who can make mom cry with our Christmas with a Christmas gift because one year because like she she grew up in Mexico she was like really poor right so now she's well she's living here and whatnot and me and my sister I think it's like six seven years ago at least we pulled her money together and we got her a coach bag she's never had like a nice handbag before she literally cried when she got it and I took a video of it because it wasn't Louis Vuitton yeah I want a Gucci Um, yes, like now we try to, now we try to wet up each other.

And like, my mom's really bad at hiding her excitement. So I got her like a pair really nice like boots like riding boots and my sister got or something else. I forgot. But my dad got her a Bluetooth speaker. She's even more excited about the Bluetooth speaker than anything else. So that's in your podcast now, miho. I don't know what you're talking about, but I like it.

Um, all right. Uh, special wants to know. Can you make a fallen order case please? Talk to Disney. Well, I can't, but I can't ask or I can't pass it. I can't ask the product team your question and see what they think. It would be cool to make Star Wars stuff. I think if we made a case for Star Wars, it wouldn't have to be one specific game.

Because like you want to make it like a franchise, right? Like for example, the World Warcraft case that we just announced, right? Like a few a week or two go. Like that makes sense because why I was not going to go anymore. anywhere, right? And it's like, it's, it's, a game's gonna last. Yeah, Star Wars isn't gonna last. Yeah. It's such a fad. But I mean, like, fall in order though, you know, like, like, there's something like, I guess that you put like BD1 on it or something. If anything, we should just make a Baby Yoda product. There we go. That's it. Like Baby Yoda headset or something. Just like. Giant ears in the side. Can't move anywhere. You smack stuff. We could try to walk through a door. That'd be awesome. But yeah, um, we included goggles. People ask us, you know, can you guys do this? Can you guys do this? Can you? Can you do that for all sorts of different products? And the answer is, yeah, we can, but can we do it legally?

That's another thing, you know, there's licensing involved, all that stuff. And it takes a while, like, you know, the Warcraft cases we just released two weeks ago. Took forever. Yeah, I mean, they take sometimes years to just, you know, get, like, all different approvals and whatnot, paperwork. Yeah. I've been done, yeah. I think I've known about that wow case for at least like four months. I think since you started here, right?

No, I think it was a little bit afterwards. It was like some of them are on the pop-up in like July, January, but like I, July, June, July, like you guys were talking about releasing a wow case, and now it's December. We just barely put it out, you know? So there's like a lot of things that, like, go into it. And also every company that you work with is different, right? Like working with Bethesda is different than working with Blizzard,

than working with, you know, whoever owns Star Wars IP, that would be EA, I guess. Yeah. I have the licensing rights for it or Disney. So, like, you know, imagine working with Disney and, like, how long that process is going to be just to get, like, simple things approved, you know? Let me text George Lucas right now and ask him how you can do it. Well, he doesn't own it anymore, so. Oh, let me text Michael Eisner. There you go.

Yo, Eisner, what's good? What about that Star Wars case, though? Was Poochie. Meck, what did y'all get for Christmas? What did you get for Christmas, Ivan? I got gift cards for the Nintendo E-shop from Dennis. Oh, cool. And that's literally it.

For real? Really? Yeah. Damn, dude, I'm sorry. I'm not. Dude, honestly, like, I've never, my family, like, we give each other gifts, I guess. But this Christmas is a little different because my sister, who lives in Tennessee, had a baby. So everyone but my dad was over there for the holidays.

My dad came back a couple days ago. So we invited him to come over to my wife's family. It's been Christmas with us. How was that? It's cool because it's just for the kids, you know? Yeah. Like when I first started dating my wife, there were no kids. It was just like the boyfriends and the sisters.

My wife only has sisters. And now it's just the sisters and the husbands and just a bunch of kids. Right. Which is cool because when I was a kid, that's what I remember from Christmas is spending time with my cousins. And then we would just get the gifts. And the adults never got gifts, you know? And to me, Christmas gifts, at least, for me, that's like...

They just sat around drinking and talking all day. Yeah, that's what I do now. Mine is a drinking and I just eat tamales. Playing loud of music. It's funny because I have some neighbors who are, like, they're like big partiers. And it's for like every, every week there's like a party going on. I don't care because it's cool. But like, you can tell the progression of like a Mexican party, right?

Where it's like really exciting bandam music and then they play some cumbias. And they're like near the end, it's like sad, like mariachi music. And he's like, everyone's sitting down. They're half drunk. telling stories and stuff. I remember that time being a kid. What did I get? I got a good number of stuff.

My family over gifts a lot. They gave a lot of stuff. I got pants. I got new sneakers. Two pairs of sneakers, actually. My dad got me a blue Yeti nano, which is awesome. So it's like literally the same thing

as a blue jetty, but it's just smaller. How does your dad even know to buy that? So what we do is we make a Christmas list. It's like, hey, what do you guys want? And then you just buy something off the list. And that way, like, you don't get something in this. That's cool. Yeah.

That way you don't get something like you don't want. Pretty much. That's why I don't get gifts I don't like. I mean, like, yeah. Or you just get a gift card. Even though I don't give gifts now as a grown-up, when I was a kid, I used to get some really cool gifts. I remember, well, my, the earliest Christmas gift I remember was when I was five. Yeah.

And my parents got me an Atari, you know. Oh, nice. I think it was Atari 2,600. And they gave me a Miss Pac-Man and pulled three. position too and that was literally the first time I've ever played video games and that's because of my parents you know my parents also got me my first computer for Christmas hey let's go yeah but now you know as an adult it's like come on you're you're almost 40 like I'm not going to buy you like something by yourself so yeah like I don't know like I

think there's there's always something that like you wouldn't buy yourself like for example my dad he doesn't wear very fashionable clothing so I try to grab something a little bit more like Like father like son. Yeah, he's right. Runs in the family. So I usually get him something a little bit more hip. So like this year I got him this really cool Nike pullover hoodie. And like my mom was like, oh, you know, like actually looks pretty good on you.

Because like usually where, you know, he goes like the Macy's and buys like a regular coat, right? He doesn't like look at brands or anything like that. So it's kind of cool to get him something that's like a little bit nicer. Like now he's wearing chuka boots now, you know? Because like we bought him. We bought them. We bought them for him once like a year ago or two. And like now he's like, oh, I want these boots.

like he knows, like, kind of what he wants now. Get him some Supreme. How do you know he would have that Supreme bag? Slinging it, slinging that bag. Okay, let's see here. Long-lost son. Why do you think so many parody accounts have gotten unactive on Twitter? I have a theory.

So my theory is when the parody accounts first started popping up, it was probably like a year ago. And the first one was Nd-X-Gy-J-Gunier. Yeah. And I used to interact with them a lot. And back then, I was the only one, you know, or I was the one, like, replaying on Twitter. And I would just mess around with them a lot. And then halfway through the year, I handed the keys over to Dennis on Twitter.

And Dennis was like, these period accounts are really annoying. I'm just going to stop responding to them. And I'm like, go for it. You know, it's up to you, man. I want to leave the choice up to you. I don't want to tell you, like, exactly, like, you know, what to do or what to say or whatever, like to people, like, I kind of want to make it, you know, like your thing, not just, you know, whatever I say. So, yeah, you kind of did stop interacting with a lot of them.

And I think a lot of them were like, well, they're not interacting with me anymore. Might as well stop. I'm not getting the clown anymore. Yeah. And which is, you know, to be honest, like, I think it is cool that people want to be a parody account. But at the same time, I really don't care. Yeah, same here. Like, I think I'm the parody account, you know.

But it's cool that people want to do it, but if no one wanted to do it, like, okay, I would still, you know, try to come up with funny memes and try to, like, you know, make people laugh and stuff. There was all of them, too, but, like, every now and then I'll go through some of the parody accounts and see, like, what they're liking and what they're posting and what's retweeting and some stuff, some stuff is really bad. Yeah, and sometimes they also do stuff that kind of bugs me, like, I forget which account, but there was one account. I forget which one, probably like NTC's toilet or something. They use the same, like, logo as us, and then they'll reply to, like, some brand with, like, a curse word or something or just something totally crazy. And then that brand will reply to them thinking, I think they think that it might be like NST. I'm like, great. Now, you know, Microsoft thinks that NZXT replied with a poop emoji or something.

She's like, no, that was not me or us. That was, you know, some 13-year-old kid. At the same time, though, if you're running one of those accounts and you can't tell, like, what's a real account? What's a parody account that's kind of on you? Yeah. I mean, if we really wanted to, we could just get them all banned and block everyone or whatever, but. Yeah, we should. They don't really.

Don't do anything. They don't bother me. But the same time, it's like, I, no, I just, I don't want them to do anything bad, you know. Yeah. For the most part, they're well-behaved. Yeah. There's a lot, though, man. I think one time, like, one time someone.

made a family tree. Yeah. And there was like 20 people and there was like NXC's mom. Well it was NXT's Anccestor was like the top one. NXT's great great granddad

and it just kept going and going and there was like NXC's mom NZCC's dog, NGCC's cat NZXC's toilet NXC's baby NGC's baby NXC's boxes The account was trying to be funny

for a bit and like your jokes are Oh yeah the NGXT's boxes NXT's what is it NZT's irrelevant son NZXT's abandoned child All irrelevant to me Just like man there's just

There's too many And they were all one person believe it or not Really? I don't know I have no idea who runs these accounts But what's funny is Another funny thing about these accounts is when they first started Popping up and they started getting like kind of You know kind of popular like you know

People making like family trees and stuff there were people in the company that thought it was me. They're like, dude, that's hilarious that you're doing that, man. And like, so cool. I'm like, you really think I have the time to manage 20 parity accounts? No, it's not me. Yeah, for what reason? No idea who these people are.

For what? Like, if you have something funny to say, do it on the main account. Like, that's what's the reason you get the most visibility? Like, what's the point? I do think sometimes it could be funny. Oh, yeah, for sure. I know that, I mean, Ivan will, like, we'll, like, brainstorm, like, a lot of tweets that We'll just never, whatever put out for, like, it's not funny enough or, like, it's not

doesn't align with the company core values or whatever, like, things that we would never say under company account. And then we're just like, let's just make a parody account. Like, man, yeah, we should. We're going to kill it. There's like a lot of times, like, you know, something will happen, you know, like. It's like a little controversial. In the news or in the gaming community.

And then we'll make, like, this is really spicy meme. And then either I will say, or Dennis will say, like, man, that's so freaking good. but then we'll look at each other and be like we can't post it. We will never post it too bad. It's going to live in the ether forever in the void. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty great. You should make a parody account,

kind of like a cool name for it. Should it be for? NZXT backup account. I don't know. NXXT's secret thoughts. NZX thoughts. Ooh, that's a good one. NZX tornado warning.

in Southern California. Did you get that on your phone? No, I did. I turn off. I never get any notification on my phone whatsoever. I get no amber alerts, no weather warnings, no nothing, no phone calls. It was crazy. It was like 12, 12 at night or 12 in the morning technically.

And we get a tornado warning for Southern California. And I'm like, I don't, I'm pretty sure those don't exist here. But apparently there was like a storm that was bad enough and like they thought there might been a tornado. Yeah, it was really bad. And I was looking through Twitter. I was looking at the responses on Twitter to it. It was so great, dude.

If you were like, well, guess I'm going to die because, like, the warning was like, get to, get to a basement or get to, like, the first level form. We don't have basements here because we don't have tornadoes. Like, we're not designed. Yeah. We can take an earthquake or two. There's also nine pretty big earthquakes yesterday, apparently. Really?

California, yeah. I didn't feel it. I didn't feel it. Yeah. Too busy eating tamales. Too busy playing Slime Rancher for 10 hours. Let's see here. What's Christmas like at the N-D-X-D office?

Okay. Well, let's see. Someone puts lights up. It's a magical elf in the office. Probably Ed the elf. Yeah. Well, every year we have a holiday party. Yep.

And every year that I've been here, it keeps getting a little bit better and better. This last year, it was, at first of that, it was weird, but it was actually pretty cool. It was at a racetrack. I still think it's kind of weird. It is weird, but I love, you know me, I love, the weirder, the better for me. Yeah, yeah.

I think it's cool to do weird stuff. And so, yeah, when they said it's going to be at a racetrack and then you guys can gamble and we're going to play some really, you know, weird Christmas music and have good food, I was like, that's awesome. Yeah, the music was very odd. I don't know if you talked about it last time, but it was like half like Christmas music. Someone put on Britney Spears and then there was video game music. Yeah.

So I don't think whoever was running the music had like an idea what they wanted to put on. I would say she just put on like a Christmas mix. He was left it on there. The weird, the better, man. He was like, oh man, back to your boys. The food was great. I think we talked about that already. The food was amazing.

I hope it just wasn't horse. You were a horse race. Unless. So yeah, the Christmas at the office is that. You know, we have a holiday party. And then everyone, this is my first year actually giving a speech up there. And I was totally unprepared. It was like literally right before, every year Johnny gives a speech.

And like maybe five minutes before his speech, he comes up to too many. He goes, hey, I want you to speak at the end. And I was like, okay. I had no idea what to say. But I think it went pretty cool. I got a lot of compliments, actually. I just, I didn't want to tell, you know, I didn't want to really say thank you to people. But I was like, let me just tell like a story of what I love about NZXT.

Yeah. And people liked it. You know, a lot of people were like, that's a really. cool story. So yeah. Besides that, it's a lot of a lot of people taking vacations, you know.

I think today on our row and he's on vacation too. And he's on vacation too. Yeah, that's it. But everyone else is pretty much on vacation. Johnny's here. Yeah. Rob's here.

But yeah. Is it up here? Yeah, Tom. You just got here. Oh, got you. We also donate toys. You know. Last week. We put some photos on our Instagram story.

Dennis and Vivian and a few others went to the fire department to drop us some toys. We collected it around the office. Actually, I'll post that photo because I have it here on my phone still. Every year we also get an Amazon gift card. Yes. Did you buy anything with yours yet? I did. I bought some shoes that my wife hated.

And then she made me return them. So I returned them. I picked up. I need a new boom arm for my, for my stream mic setup because the regular Blue Yeti is very heavy and it bent it because it was a, it was a $20 boom arm. But I've had it for like, I think almost two years now. So I would say money well spent 10 bucks, 10 bucks per year. It's not too bad. Find this photo here of us.

I'm going to post it. There we go. We also have Christmas lights around the office. We have a Christmas tree that has like NSGT decorations. We used to put like RGB like, you know, like. NXT LED lights and like RGP fans on them and stuff, but it's not that easy because you have to like have a power supply connected all that. So you have to run a computer. So this year they just hung up like pucks all over the tree, which is pretty cool.

Yeah, Nibbler saw it. There you go, Mac. Yep, those are exactly the shoes that I haven't bought. There were a few sizes too big. So he hasn't returned them. None. They were too. They were not squeaky enough.

Actually, I'll tell you the shoes like, I got some new balances, and I got him because the N had a purple outline. And I like the shoe. When I tried him on, my wife goes, those are really, like, ugly and belong to on the feet of an old man. So I just returned them. Dand, dude. Yeah. She's keeping you in check.

Yeah, someone has to. All right, let's see here. Next, we got Nibler. Is there Christmas-themed pinball? I'm sure there is, right? Some Christmas pinball machines there somewhere. I don't care about pinball anymore. I'm playing Mario Rabbits.

Long on the Sun, what was your most favorite Christmas ever? My most famous or favorite Christmas ever. Most famous? Do you say famous or Christmas ever? Most favorite Christmas ever. Most favorite Christmas ever. He doesn't know how to English. What was your most favorite Christmas ever?

Question Mark. Probably last Christmas because it was. my first Christmas with my daughter. So that was cool. Very wholesome. Yeah. I mean, for me,

Christmas is, you know, about kids, is not, like, yeah, about really, like,

you know, I really don't care of people buying, if no one ever bought me a Christmas present for the rest of my life, I really would not care. Right.

But I know every year I'm going to try to make Christmas special for my daughter. So yeah, probably last year with my favorite one. I would say this year, just because it was just me and my family

and anyone else to worry about. Because, Every Christmas I've had, there's always been someone that I've, like, been dating or something. And, like, this time it's just, like, me and my family, and there was, like, no stress or worrying about what are we doing plan-wise. What are they up to? What am I? It's just, like, it's family stuff. So it was really fun.

We play battleship. Oh, cool. Yeah, got my mom and dad to play battleship for the first time. That's a good game. They're not very good at it. Like, I kept noticing, like, you guys are putting your little markers in the wrong spot, so you don't know where you're supposed to shoot. But it was fun. And, uh, they didn't want to play, uh, the drinking version of Battleston.

ship which is every time you take a hit like your ship takes it you take a shot because we probably would have been all done but uh podcast probably not be on right now that's true yeah you'd be done um yeah pretty much you know it was nice uh i got a wing stop gift card so i'm excited about that to be honest the thing what most excited about is wing stop gift card because i love me some wings i'm a big wing fan it's on a side note um Nibbler, what do you look forward to in the new year? Let's see. I guess what I look forward to the most is the, you know, continuing to try and make the club,

the NZXT club a better place for everyone. More fun and more special for you guys listening. You know, it's been like a little over a year. So October was exactly one year since the NZXT club officially launched. and the first year was really hard, you know, because there's a lot of moving pieces involved that people might not realize. So, you know, like just, for example, just the shipping alone, that's like a very complicated thing because, you know, I don't want to get into the details, but it took a while to really get that set up in a way where, like, I didn't have to worry

about it. And now that it's set up, you know, it makes, makes it easier to do more fun stuff, like, you know, sticker contest, for example. So, uh, we've been, you know, working on, uh, even that takes like a long time to do though. It does. Like, um, like the, but I'd rather focus on that. Right. No, for sure.

And like, like, okay, figuring out how to ship something in India, you know. Yeah. Like, for example, the NX team channels, like, it took us forever to set those up. And like, I felt bad for manic is like, we're like, yeah, you know, we'll get it done. We'll get it done. Then we have like a meeting. And then, you know, oh, yeah, we'll do it now. Then we have, you know, we'll go on to lunch.

because like there's there's it's it's a huge server because there's so many things that are a part of the server doing like one thing takes forever because if we do it wrong then we break everything yeah and then it doesn't work so yeah the other thing I'm looking forward to is more poochie stuff this was the first year we ever had poochie puci's only been alive since june so half a year and you know like if you go on our on our Twitter and just look at the tweet from yesterday. It did really well. Yeah, it did really well, but it's just cool

like doing more fun stuff like that, you know? Just having fun with Pucci and doing more just, you know, fun stuff like that for the community as opposed to like, I gotta figure out the logistics of of setting up a channel on the Discord server. Something, you know, just more fun stuff, basically. Yeah.

Can you get a free Pucci now? What are you looking forward to, Dan? Just more parody accounts Just working with you more you know and just getting better at the job You know and uh Working with the community more you know it's kind of you know What I enjoy doing like I've always wanted to work with the with a big community like this and and and for me it's been like a like a like Like a big blessing and like pretty much like pretty much my Jim country to be honest

It's my nightmare I know right Yesterday was a mess dude I don't know why people decide to start to start to start drama on the server on Christmas Day. I'm like, just, just, just, just on the mods, but just start banning people. It's Christmas. Merry Christmas. Don't come back.

But no, but like, it's really cool because like, I mean, you have a really big server. You have a lot of people in here and, you know, almost all of them are, are amazing. And like, it's just great to work with them and to like think of things for them, you know, like, hey, you know, let's do this sticker contest. All right. Let's do, you know, like, you know, a, a Google forum. survey like and even though it seems like a really boring thing to me like I'm excited to get like the community's opinion you know so I think I think what we learned from the sticker contest

is going to go into doing more cool stuff I hope so and yeah it's great it's a nice little community we got here except when people decide to get spicy and get banned then I don't like you um okay um special what would be your new year's resolution my new year's resolution is to be a better poppy to everyone. I thought you were gonna say that. Yeah, that's always, my resolution's always, like, to just be better. You know, there's always like, you know,

a list of things that I can do better improve on. So not just, you know, online, but in real life, like, you know, I'm a real, I'm a real poppy. So it's like I do, I do have, you know, Not necessarily like, just like long-term goals. Like, for example, like, where do I see myself in five years at this company? Or how much should I do for my daughter before she turns 18? Not like that.

It's more like, okay, where are the little things I can do every day to be better, you better poppy for the community and better poppy for my daughter? So, for example, for my daughter, one of my favorite things to do is to wake her up every morning and, you know, make her breakfast and stuff. So maybe, I don't know, I can do something a little bit better. Maybe I can make the server breakfast. Well, no, with my daughter, I can maybe, you know, teach her how to make breakfast. That could be a thing.

I don't know, whatever it is, just little things like that. Or maybe for the server, I could maybe try to answer DMs faster. I get a lot of DMs and then people kind of think I'm ignoring him or something, but I'm really not. It's just, you know, it's just. there's a lot, dude. Not just DMs on Discord, but you got to think, like, you know, there's also, like, tons of other ways people can get in contact with me. So, like, Discord is one of them.

And that's why my notifications are always off. Because if I had my notifications on my phone, I would literally never be able to do anything but reply to people. And it sucks to, you know, be slow sometimes. But I do try to reply to everyone. And I might be slow, but I promise you, I'm not ignoring you. I'm just really, really slow. Merry Christmas. Mm-hmm.

I think my resolution is really used to be better to myself in a sense of like taking care of myself better, eating better, exercising more. Just like being a better person because like... I like how you say that as you take a giant vape hit. Dude, I mean, you know, it's trying to be better for myself, bro, take care of my body. Yeah, you know, but just like a, you know, it's like, like, first and foremost, like, there was like a month where, like, I had a really good sleeping. schedule and like I feel like I was like really on it and like now my sleeping schedule is but again

because like all like all these weird holiday days off so I just I just been like staying staying awake all the time and like not sleeping um like right now like I'm tired as hell I'm super tired um but but like I think if I if I do that and take care of myself better I can take care of the community better and be better to everyone else around me because I don't feel like but so you know like it's it's like that um it's like that saying that uh that uh hurt people hurt other people right it's like it's like if you're not feeling good then how can you be good to other people right so it's like one of the things i want to do which is be better to myself and in turn uh be better to the community and ban less people some of y'all be acting up yeah but yeah it's true um and i think

as you as time goes on you do you do kind of become nicer to people like in that regard because at first it's like what the heck like it's super annoying like to deal with you know drama and trolls and whatnot and you know like you've been at it for for half a year so you're probably still kind of maybe like fresh in that regard where it's like you know you like zero tolerance for example but I think you know I say five years from now you're probably going to treat trolls a little different because you're going to know or understand like this like just not worth of your time like that's why when I see a troll I'm just like okay I don't care but if they do it again I will clap on them right it's

whereas before you know five years ago someone tried to troll me I'm like super excited to just pown them right away you're saying pown them yeah yeah another question from same person special. What was your most successful New Year's resolution? Save it for the New Year's episode. I'm kidding. Let's see. Looking back. It's next week. It's actually Wednesday. 2020 starts in less than a week. I think my resolution last year, even though I didn't stick with it for 100%. I would say maybe I stuck with it like maybe like 50%, but it actually in a way did change

my life was last year I promised myself I was going to walk 10,000 steps every day. That's really hard to do. It's real hard. It's not as easy as it seems. But I probably did it like half the days and I lost a lot of weight. I lost 20 pounds this year. Thank you. Thank you.

So it's probably the most successful one to be honest is that. I was just trying to like Dennis just said, try to be take better care of himself. I try to do that this year. and I lost 20 pounds, you know. But I think I probably would have lost 40 pounds maybe if I walked every day, right? Unless. Yeah, but 10,000 steps is not that easy. No, that's a lot of walking.

I wonder how many miles is? Well, it's crazy because I kind of, I don't know the miles, but for me, in order for me to walk 10,000 steps a day on a regular, you know, work day, like Monday to Friday, I have to go on a walk in the morning around my block, which is, You know, or I guess it's like two blocks I walk in the morning. I have to go on a walk at lunch here at work to at least where the Starbucks is in back or domestic or something. And then I have to walk. So you're saying we got to go domestic every day so we can get the 10,000 steps in.

And then walk again a couple blocks at night and that's 10,000 steps. But the rest of the day, I'm just literally sitting in a chair. Right. So I just Googled it. An average person has a stride of approximately 2.1 to 2.5 feet. That means that it takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile And that 10,000 steps would be almost five miles So you got to walk five miles every day

Approximately for you to get your 10,000 steps in That's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah, no, yeah. I remember walking the mile in high school Because I don't know how it is in the other states or the countries But we have to do like, you know, like physical education stuff And one of them is I think every week we had to run a mile And like 90% of the time I would just walk it

And that felt like it took forever. Like the entire class period was just me walking around this stupid campus to get the smile in to satisfy whatever dumb thing they made me do at school. So like if that's like an hour, right? Like you'd have to walk like about five hours or so if you're not even walking that fast.

If you're hustling, maybe you can do it a little more. I probably walk like 10,000 steps is probably like an hour of walking for me. Just like straight walking? Yeah. It's like a brisk walk. I try to go like on a brisk walk. Okay.

Power walk. It was silly. You do a power walk You're like, you're swinging your arms. You know, like if you, I think, I think One of the things about a power walk is that you can't lift both your feet at the same time. Like, like your foot, like one foot has to be on the floor or it has to be on the ground. That's called walking fitness.

Right, but, but I mean like, you know, because like you can easily transition from like a walk to a power walk into a run. Not me. I can't easily transition into that. I hate running. That's why walk. Because my wife wanted me to run and I was like, I'm not going to run, but I will walk.

I'm going to walk this runway. Why run when you can walk? Why walk where you can sit? This is kind of a similar question, but what PC Guru wants to know, or B-S-U-Guru, what are some of the goals for N-Z-T going for in 2020? Let's see. Well, I guess similar to...

Mesh. What I said earlier about personal goals, just trying to get better is the same thing as a company. We're always trying to get better. You know, right now I know Johnny is really, like, adamant about, like, refining our core values and making sure that everyone in the companies, like, on the same page when it comes to understanding what our mission is here and what our goals and objectives are. So it's a lot of change.

And it's really changed. You think it's just, like, cleaning up, you know? Yeah, yeah. You know, this is the, you know, this is the, the, biggest our company has ever been. And, you know, like, yeah, obviously stuff has to change, but I don't see it as changed. I see it as, like, really, just fine-tuning, improving, streamlining, cutting up the fat.

Refinement. Yeah. So I think that's probably one big thing we're working on as a company is, is, you know, trimming the fat and just getting more focused, dialed in, and understanding exactly what what we're supposed to be doing here. Be more efficient, right? Yeah. What else?

I know, like, we're always trying to, um, trying to, like, speed up the, the product process sometimes, because it does take a long time for a lot of stuff, a lot of, you know, it takes years for some stuff. Yeah.

Stuff gets delayed sometimes and, you know, so that's, I know that's, as a company as well, that's also something that, that we're always trying to improve. And honestly, it has been getting better every year. Hopefully this year gets even more better. Even more better. You hear it here first, folks.

I can't talk today. NZXT Amanda, aka NXT mom, wants to know, what's the best and worst gift you've given someone? So I think the best gift I've gotten someone is getting that bag for my mom because we made her cry. so that was like an achievement. Worst gift I've ever gotten somebody. I don't know.

I try not to give bad gifts. Well, they wouldn't tell you maybe. That's true. How would you know? Yeah. You wouldn't know, maybe. Let me think for me. Worst gift.

My best gift. That you ever give me. Recent, I got my wife some boots. What kind of boots? I have no idea. Ug boots? No, definitely not ug boots. She just said she wanted these boots.

I got them for, I don't know. I don't know anything about, like, not just shoes, but just fashion. Like, I don't know. They weren't expensive or anything. They were like $50 boots or something like that, but she really liked them. On that note, actually, there's a question that's kind of related I saw earlier from R.C. Marcy. If N-Zix-T can make a trainer slash suit company, what type of shoe would you focus on high heels, winter boots, etc?

If we can make a what? Basically, if n60 can make shoes, what will we focus on? RGB? Clown shoes. How can we make these shoes light up? Have you seen those shoes for kids that have the squeakers in them? No. So they sell these kids.

They sell these shoes for children. And there's like a little squeaker in them so that when they run around, you know where they're at. Yeah. And I remember I used to, when I used to work retail, there would be like some kids who have these shoes on. And he was here. and they just like start going straight down the hallways and like I know they're running and their parents know they're running because they hear these steeper shoes and they're not making them do anything and now your shoes speak for different

reasons graduateer clown you shout out to clown state honker class of 2020 how how what would like you know like some how like some shoes have like a chance or something what would clown use be like doing like a football game I have no idea, man. What's their, what's your athletic program look like? Just resports, probably. Pire throwing. But Adidas made ninja shoes and Puma made gamer socks.

So maybe NZT will make some gamer underwear. Actually, our April Fool's joke a couple years ago was the shoe plus. The shoe plus. Oh, that's good. And there's a, I could probably find it. I know there's like a clip somewhere of that shoe, like, like hovering over the ground. It's pretty funny.

NSX shoe plus. Let's see here. NXC releases NXT shoe plus advanced footwear. There's a video in there. You can drop it in the... Yeah, I'm trying to find it here. The video has an audio. It doesn't audio because they...

That makes sense. Numerous lighting modes and countless stepping options. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. Is someone reading a review of it? No. Oh, here we go. Actually, I found the product page.

It's still active. The shoe plus is still locked it. Hold up. I'm looking right here. Here guys go. This is the shoe plus. Dual soul illumination with support for up to one shoe per foot. Numerous lighting modes and countless stepping options. Digally controlled with cam software. Yikes. Simple and versatile installation with slip on design.

Smart lighting mode enables lights to react to changes in your mood. Experience gaming like never before with a shoe plus VR soul feature. I think this might have been the first. There's a video too. I can't believe we made it. This was I think the first April Fool's joke I worked on. on. Yeah?

I think it was. It's like a really short video, but it's just funny. And it's still on our YouTube page as well, so. Happy April's N16. Get 10% off any N60 order today about using the cold fold 16. I think my original idea for that joke, John didn't think was funny. And we had just launched the Hube Plus,

and I thought it'd be funny if the April fool's joke was the Hugh minus and it was and it was like they just literally the same product but like no nothing it just did nothing it's just like a Hugh minus you know and then he's like doesn't work he just said what's the joke and I said that is the joke and then it's not funny I'm like I'll think again and then I came up with the shoe plus I think that's a good one that shoe plus came up or the He minus is I think it's good too yeah it's actually like like a really funny Thoughts like the opposite of what we do.

Yeah, Hugh Minus, man. Yeah, Hugh Minus. Just like nothing. There's nothing. It probably does nothing. Yeah, he minus. I mean, like, Cards Against Humanity literally sold people bull poop. Yeah?

Yeah. Like, they literally sold a box of BS and then you could buy it. And then they literally sent you a box with some dried horse poop, dried cow poop in it. Like, it was a real thing. People, like, took videos like, oh, hey, look. My sister gave me a notepad me out of, cow poop. That's kind of gross.

It works. I still write on it. Imagine you can writing stuff on that. You make it look at meme, man. This meme really stinks. This meme sucks. I had to do it. What's the best thing that happened this year from Longlock Sun? Thanks for the unpins, by the way, mods. Appreciate it. You guys are always the help.

The best thing that happened this year, probably just announcing audio. I mean, took a long time. Audio when? Well, I mean, you know, we've been working on audio stuff for like a really, really long time.

And now that it's finally here, it's just cool, you know, to see it. Like, I'm wearing, like, I've never in a million years thought we'd have NZXT audio products, and I'm now doing a podcast

wearing NZXT headsets. So to me that's really, really cool. That's dope. Even though I had absolutely no, like, had nothing to do with the actual making of the headset

I'm still very proud that that we were able to do it because I know it wasn't easy did I tell you that I fixed the problem with my headset that I had at home so the headset the headsets that we have in the office

it worked fine right like I put them on and listen to everything sounds great and then I got the whole I got a purple headset for my home I've been using it and then I also ended up winning a mixer in a stand at the Christmas party. So I've been using the whole ecosystem. Yes or no.

There's a caveat. The headset is not the official product. Well, yeah. Yeah, it's the purple one, right? Well, it's a pre-production sample. So it's not like a finished product. It's not 100% done. But anyway, I have technically the whole ecosystem.

And when I put the headset on on my computer, I would get a lot of weird noise in it. And it's something like a lot of like, fuzzy static stuff and I was really annoyed and I brought it to Pat who's a product manager for audio and I said dude like I can't figure out what the problem is and it turns out that I'm using an inline adapter the weird noise was Andy's Twitch stream

it was Andy sings it was just always open in the background and I couldn't shirt off but I found out that I was using a Ethernet inline adapter because we had a hundred foot cable going from the back of our house to my room so I had like wired internet because if you're on Wi-Fi you're kind of a clown. And that cable broke. So I was like, I'm too lazy.

How did you put Ethernet cable? Yeah, dude. It worked. It got some good speeds. But the cable is like just when they stopped working. So I had to figure out a solution. I didn't want to route into the 100 foot cables. I was really lazy.

It was like months ago. And I got an inline adapter that used to use for my Steam link. And it turns out that the noise, the Ethernet signal coming in from that port where I had all my stuff plugged into was giving me feedback in the headset. Once I plug it into another outlet, we're perfectly fine. That's cool. I'm going to tell Pat, and he's going to be like, you are literally the only person having this issue. Yeah, I don't think many people have 100-foot Ethernet cable.

Yeah, it was a annoying for a bit. PC guru, out of all the products released in 2019, which are you most proud of slash is your favorite? That's a good one. I think I just said for me, it was audio for sure. I mean, it's just like, every day people tell us, you guys should make this, you guys should do that, you guys should do this, you guys should do that. And like headsets, headsets has always been one of those things.

And, you know, we've been working on them for a long time. And now that they're finally here to me, I'm really proud that we were able to do that. It's always cool to do stuff that the community is asking for, even though, I'm sorry, it does take a long time, but it is something to be proud of because it's not easy. What is easy is just putting our logo on it, right?

Like all these things people ask for, you know, people ask for headsets, keyboards, mice, whatever, whatever it is, a graphics card. Yeah, we could very easily just outsource that design and just put our logo on it, but then it would literally be nothing special. It wouldn't be NZXT. It would just be like, you know, everything else you can get out there, but with our logo, and we just charge you more for it.

And to me, that's the easy way out. So I am very proud of that, that we design everything ourselves, and it does take us a long time, you know, because we could take the easy way out, but we won't unless. Unless. I would say second actually is the audio ecosystem stuff, because I do love it. It's actually awesome a little of using it. But I would say actually my favorite is the is the 510 elite The reason why is because it's literally just for the flex Like it's a really nice looking case. It looks super super cool that people just wanted because they've been bugging about tempered front glass forever

But it doesn't really solve like a problem, you know It's like the audio The audio stuff solves a problem like for me I definitely like it actually helps me with my setup Which is why I love it It solves the problem having an ugly computer Yeah, but I mean like you know I mean I already had a you know H440 before so I mean you know it's it's already a beautiful case but like I just love that we like hey let's just make something that looks super awesome and isn't like you know it isn't like

a improvement from the 510 because it's literally the same case other than the front glass and it just make it look cool and then throw it out there and I'm like yes I want something that just looks awesome right I don't care about thermals I don't care about quote unquote airflow I just wanted to look dope and it looks dope and it has Christmas lights in my room and you know sits it sits on the floor and you put on the floor and yeah Never see it. Love it so much. It's on the floor.

Great flex. Biggest flex, man. Imagine if you had like a, you know, like a, I don't know, a supreme hat and you gave it to your dog or something, right? It's like that. It's like, this is how much flex I can, I can do. No, like, it's, to me, putting your computer on the floor is the equivalent of like, it's like buying, buying a sports car. I knew you're going to say that for some reason. I knew you're going to say sports car.

And then putting one of those car bras on it because you don't want to chip the paint. It's like something that makes no sense, right? Or like even like, okay, I might probably get some flack for this, but even like putting a case on your phone, to me that's like pointless, right? Because it's different though because you can break a phone. You can really break a car. You could break a phone, but for $5 a month, you get this thing called insurance that if your phone breaks,

they send you a new one. And to me, like, I don't care. But if you break it, then you got to pay money for the phone. It's not free. I've dropped my phone so many times. It's never broke, but I just don't care. I don't care if it gets scratched or anything. That's all messed up.

So it's the same thing. Like, why would you like spend all this time building, all this money, building, and then... Why would you make a PC that is designed in such a way just for you to cut a hole inside of it and add ugly mesh? That's what you're saying. It's called the desktop, not a desk bottom. Got them. bars. Jump a hot 16.

Yeah, it's like, or the people like that, you know, buy a couch and then wrap it in plastic because they don't want people to spill juice on it. Well, if that's the case, then just don't get a couch, you know? My buddy got a Tesla Model 3 and he put a wrap on it, like a clear film, like wrap, almost like what you would put on your phone because he doesn't want the paint the chip or something.

Yeah. That's the kind of person that puts a computer on their floor. Like if you're going to spend time and money on something, that is intended to be a flex, flex with it. Otherwise, you're not flexing. What's a bigger flex than literally putting it on the floor? It's like wepping your butt with like dollar bills, right?

But it's not flexing at that point is just like... I think it's a flex. At that point it's just a waste. I have so much money, right? Theoretically, I have so much money. I don't care what happens to this case. I'm going to put it on the floor, right? I have so much money.

I don't care what happens to my phone. I'm going to not put a case on it. It's not about the money. What is it about? The flex. You're not flexing if you're, I think it's clutching this on the floor. You're not flexing if you're covering up the muscle.

Covering up the muscle. Yeah. It's like, for example, let's say you go to the gym because you want to have biceps. Right. When you take your shirt off at the beach, right, and show off. Oh, yeah. And then you work out. Bicep boy.

And you get all swole. And then you go to the to the beach with the hoodie. It's like all that effort you put in is just pointless. And you're not flexing, you know, because it's just like you did all that work for nothing. Same thing with a print of computer on the floor. You did all that work, spent all that money, all that for nothing. But it's different. But it's different because it's still, you can still see it.

I'm not hiding it. You see it. Right. What do I know? I have no flex. Yeah, exactly. All you have is a S340 with a bunch of stickers on it. Yeah.

But it's on my desk. But wouldn't the bigger flex be, you don't have to show it off? I was like, I know how much flex I have. I'm not going to show you. That's the thing. That's the thing. You don't have the right to see this flex. If you have it on your desk, you don't have to show it off because it shows off itself.

It does the work for you. It's doing work on the floor. But if you get on the floor, then you have to go, hey, man, look at my PC, man. Isn't it cool? Check it out. Why don't you squat down there and take a closer look? Yeah. Get down the floor.

Look at that. It's like, uh, no. Get down on your knees if you want to see this PC. No. There you go. That's a rhyme. Someone put that in a meme image macro format. All right.

Best thing that happened this year, Ivan, from Longwell Sun again. the best thing that happened this year well a lot of best things you know here's a new one then i won't say headsets again no i think the podcast is actually one of the best things that happened this year because it's something that i've always wanted to do and i've never had the opportunity to do until dennis came along hey that's me yeah and you know like just like everything else it took a long time to set up it wasn't just like let's just do a podcast you know download an app on our phone and you know hit record and do it it was like okay i've been literally was telling me we can just do it on our phone like i'm not going to record well that was no no no that was i i brought that up as

an option like okay look we're going to do a podcast the bare minimum we could possibly do is download an app and record our phone that's like bare minimum but you know you actually could with like with like with like iPhones you can buy apps and you can plug things into the phone yeah there's apps to do it but it's like at that point like just you're already spending so much money just Mixer and stuff. Exactly. So exactly. So, you know, we spent a lot of time getting the gear.

We got, you know, great mics, great headsets, great mixer. Great computer. We got a podcast room. We got some soundproofing in here. Or not soundproofing, but noise dampening, whatever. It's not, yeah, it's not soundproofing. It's just to reduce the echo. I don't know what it's called.

What are the audio guys can call? But I know is that you put stuff on the wall and audio doesn't echo as much. We got a cool frame picture. Yeah. Yeah, like just setting up this podcast room. And we're still not done. You know, the podcast, I feel like, is just getting started.

The next step will be to add video in here. We'll do that 2020. That's a goal. And it is cool seeing the listens go up every month. This month of December was our best month. Yeah, every month keeps getting bigger and better. As people find out about it, yeah. Yeah.

I just hope the podcast keeps growing. and you guys keep listening and enjoying it. It is fun to do. Believe it or not, it is, I do think it's a lot of work. After this podcast, I have to take a two-hour break from work or longer. Because I cannot think. I feel like my brain is just like fried. If someone asks me a question, I'm just like, oh, really have to talk again.

So after the podcast, I need to unwind. It's a lot of work talking. No, it is, yeah, especially when you're trying to also be somewhat, like, entertaining in tone, it definitely takes something out of you. Best thing for me ever to happen this year is getting fired from the old job and getting hired here to NZXT. Because that literally was this year. It's crazy. Like, I feel like I've been here forever already.

Like you feel like like like I've always been here. I feel like I've always been here. But that's a funny thing. It's like I went in for the interview. Then like that day, within like an hour or two, like I got the offer for the job. And I'm like, oh, snap. I knew. I was like, they want me.

They really want me. No, like, it's really changed a lot in my life and just how I function and, like, just a lot of aspects of like how I do things now, which to me I'm like super grateful for. So thank you for that, Ivan. Any time, man. All right, no worries. Anytime, as long as it's just that one time. Right. Yeah, that's probably it.

Also, and New Destiny came out. So, yeah, that's probably one second best thing that happened this year, TBH. Are you still playing that? Yeah, dude. I played last night. Like, I'm, like, right now the game's, like, been out or the new expansion has been out for a little bit. It's just, like, a lot of small little things here to do. So now it's kind of like, you know, all right, you know, I got a couple hours what I'm going to do. I'm going to play some destiny, you know.

Oh, the homies aren't on to play whatever game they want to play. Uh, hop on to some destiny. So it's like a nice, a nice casual way to play now. I'm not going hard on it anymore. No need to. I'm already a game. Um, piece of guru wants to know, can I ban someone? Only if they break the rules.

There you go. Just like everyone. Todi wants to know how many Crackens going to get for a Lego Millennium Falcon. Falcon. I think the Falcon is $100. Let's see. I think I just saw it at Target. I've always wanted one because I want to build one.

I think it was 100 bucks. Here's a question. Is this Lego Millennium Falcon built or unbuilt? $799 in an incense for the expert building kit and Starship model. Jesus. You can get 7,541 pieces. You can get three Cracken X-72s for that. Let me see.

I think there's smaller versions of it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw one at Target for $99. Yeah, there's a Star Wars solo, a Star Wars story, Kessel Run Millennium Falcon is a different color. There's one for $2.99. Why are there so many versions of the Millennium Falcon and why they all so expensive? What's a difference in pricing? Someone tell me.

Someone tell me in the server. George Lucas, if you're listening to the podcast, please connect to the channel and let us know. What was he got here? Would Ivan wear a long lost son hoodie? No, because I'm not long or lost. I am a son. Hey, me too. Pickle, if NXC can make any product, what would you make?

Clown shoes. Any product. Destiny Skin. Actually, I think it would be cool if we made a controller. Yeah, I'm a big controller fan. As much as I make fun of controllers, I still love, I collect controllers. I have, like, I don't know,

I got to count them. I probably have like 50 or more, and I love playing with controllers, as much as I love playing a keyboard and mouse. The one thing I will not play in a controller, though, is an FPS game. I'm not a normie. That's gross.

But yeah, like I, who does that? My favorite types of game, though, you know, they're platformers. And for that, you know, you play that on a keyboard and a mouse. This feels weird. You're normie. So it just depends what kind of games you like. And for me, I love platformers. I like puzzle games.

So controllers make the most sense. And be cool. We got a purple N-Z-60 controller one day. I think I'm exciting with you because I don't really know what else. Actually, no, no, no. Yeah, I was going to say, well, I mean, I guess it goes with the controller part. Yeah. If we could make anything.

I think we should make, I would like to make an N60 fight stick for fighting games. But I don't know what it would look like or what it would do different because, I mean, it would look like a poochie. The design of fights stick doesn't really change into forever other than the hitbox. See, what do you make it look like a poochie? So instead of a rectangle, it's a square. That seems like it would cramp your hands so bad.

You need space for your wrists and stuff to rest. Instead of having six buttons, you just have one button that just randomly mashes whatever. And boom. That sounds terrible. Unless you play. smash bros. It'll probably work great for that. Yep.

Game for Normies. We asked that one. Could slash would N6T ever make laptops? Could we? Yes. Would we? Yes. Will we?

I don't know. Yeah. We a long time ago made a laptop cooler. So we're not like, you know, anti-laptop or anything like that. But with that. being said, we are, we still think playing on a computer is the best way to play a video game. You make products for gamers.

Yeah, but we'll, you know, I think maybe we can figure out how to do a laptop, the NXT way. Right. I mean, like, just, just think about it, right? Like, I'm sure Razor didn't think they'd be making a laptop, right? But now they make laptops, right? Now they make monitors, you know, so it's like, you know, like, sure, once we figure out what we can do to make it better and to make it not a crappy experience for people and to solve problems and, you know, we'll probably do it and take a million years to get it, get it out because that's, I can't imagine what it takes to make a laptop. When will audio start shipping?

Soon TM. I believe, I believe it's next month, to be honest. I don't know the exact official date, but I'm fairly certain it is within the next month. But as soon as we find out the exact official date or whatever. Everyone will know, yeah. Everyone will know. Yeah, we'll tell them. In the meantime, you just go to the website and just sign up for those alerts.

And you'll be the first to know. Who's Joe from people? He works on the camp team. He does. It's a cool good, cool, cool dude. B wants to know, Peach wants to know. What kind of coffee did you guys drink this morning? Same coffee I drink every morning.

I make an Americano at home and then I pick an Americano up on the way to work. Two cups of coffee and then I'm a coffee. morning one at home and then this one right here and that's all the coffee maybe but i do two cups and i really feel like i'm like i like did something wrong like this is all the coffee i drink though like um all day yeah like if someone invites me to coffee just get water i'm like no no thank you it's or decaf if that but yeah i just drink one coffee like right when i wake up i make myself four shots of espresso and just add with hot water and then i drink my um americano from I think that has two shots.

Six shots of espresso total all day. We make coffee with cinnamon at our house. So we have a pot that's always ready to go in the morning. Yeah, and you just put a couple sticks of cinnamon inside the pot and you make the coffee and then the coffee absorbs a little bit of cinnamon

so you get a nice little taste. My dad makes that. Toddy, could you guys make whitecrackens? Didn't we talk about this last time with Jim's podcast? Yeah, we could, but it's not... Popular. It's not really like a priority, I guess. But also it's not as easy or as feasible as it may seem.

It has to do a lot also with the liquid that we use to cool the CPU or GPU. As far as I know, like the white tubing and white radiators will fade or kind of change color over time because of that fluid. Oh, interesting. That's my understanding at least. I'm not on the product team, but I heard rumors, I guess, that that does happen. Yeah. That's, I know. Well, we, maybe one day we will, but I don't know if that will happen.

And for sure, you know, I don't think that's something that we're actively trying to figure out. It's like how to make this white. Agreed. I mean, pretty much that. Nibler will N6T be making wireless headsets. I think I'm going to give you the answer that Ivan gave about the other thing. Could we, yes, would we? Maybe.

Will we? Who knows? I said, could we, yes, would we yes? Will we? I don't know. Whatever. Same thing. I said the same thing.

Dark Destiny, how was all of your Christmas? All of it was pretty good. It's still going on. I'm still in the Christmas spirit. The entire Christmas was pretty good. Yeah, it is. The entire Christmas was pretty good. Not one bit of it was sucky.

I played Slime Rancher for like 10 hours yesterday. That game's addicting, dude. Long Island, son, will you ever ban Long Long's son again? Yes. If he breaks the rule, yeah. Yeah, stop breaking rules, dude. You should know better. Of all people, you should know better.

Santa Eater, during the entire year, what was your least favorite thing that happened other than me joining? I love you. Who are you again? The least favorite thing? Hmm. My least favorite thing was getting fired from my old job and getting hired at MZXT. That's your least favorite?

Because now I have no life. Probably, I would say my least favorite thing was all the work that went into the pop-up. The pop-up was fun, but man, that was so much work. Like, I don't think I've ever been tired, that tired, that much, so tired in my life, like that it was that, not just that week, but, you know, the week. and months leading up to it. And then the time afterwards, even like the time after it, just cleaning up and all that stuff.

It's a lot of work. It was a lot of work. But it was fun, you know. It was a really cool experience. I'm sure Vivian did enjoy the pop-up. Especially the cleaning park. Almost lost a limb. Yeah, that was a lot of work.

Um, someone already, what, what do you think it will ever be possible to make a n6t only PC some similar GPU CPU stuff like that is it possible yes anything is possible um whatever you set your mind to is possible but yeah it'll it'll be really challenging for us to to to even consider wanting to make a CPU or GPU, I think. I think a CPU.

Like, I don't, like, I don't think it literally is a way for us to make a CPU. Like, we would have to either slap our logo on an Intel processor, which doesn't make any sense for the way that we do things, or we'd have to literally make a whole brand new processor, make a whole new motherboard to go with it, basically start a new standard. Which is make it compatible with NZT thermal paste. Yeah. Purple paste. Yeah.

That's something actually that I think they'd be really cool to, like, make. It could be like purple purple thermal paste. You don't need thermal paste. It's overrated. Just rub the metal together. It'll eventually melt and morphin the one. iPhone or Android from special.

Pixel Gang. I like my iPhone. It works great. Santa Eater. What staff member or admin slash mod do you hate the most? Power supply guy. I do. Kidding.

No one likes that guy. I love messing with power supply guy the most because he is the most passionate about something that's like the most boring. For real. That's true. No. It is. Like I'm not saying that to tease him. It's just like, you know, everyone thinks power supplies are like really boring.

And then he's like, he just made it his mission in life to be the most passionate about it. Yeah. And I love, I love that about him. But then I also love that that just makes it super easy to just tease them about it all the time. So, yeah. And I also, I guess I like teasing a lot of people, but I also like messing with cuddle a lot, you know, because he's just always, cuddle just being cuddle all the time. I can't help with mess with cuddle, dude.

Like, I think like my day is complete unless, like, I give some grief to cuddle. Like, if I'm not messing with him, like, it's not a good day. Last you know, having a good day, it's because I get to miss a cuddle. And I also love messing with Andy because he just sets me up, like, nonstop. Every time he opened his mouth, it's like a setup for a joke. There are certain people in the server who just don't understand that they're just like constantly giving us like the opportunity to mess with them all the time. I don't think they get it.

And I don't think they ever will get it. Yeah. I don't hate anyone. I just, I love messing with people, but I do it out of love. Trust me. Lola, son. Did you ever go through with using that small closet room as a podcast room or did you choose a different room?

We're actually in that room. Yeah. Yeah, this was. We're here right now. This was actually, not a closet, but it was just like an extra little storage space next to our big. Had nothing in it. Storage space. A couple lamps in and like some like building material.

So we're just like, let's just think this podcast room. We're in it. It's funny because like when we first went into the room and we're like looking it, we're looking at it. It didn't look as big as it does. Like it actually looks bigger now. I feel like because of the stuff we added to the walls and like what we're doing to like make the room our own. And also the drawing that that neighbor put up for us.

Also the tables we stole. Yeah. So when we were having a really hard time trying to figure out like how we wanted to set their room up. And we were walking by I forget, we had one table that we saw. We were rocking by the printer. Uh?

Walking by the printer. Yeah, yeah. We were walking by the printer. And we saw this table. We're like, oh, this is a really nice white table to match this other white table that we have. we should probably take it and replace it with this ugly brown table that we have and that we don't want to keep. And that was a bad influence.

I said, all right, man, let's just take this stuff off. Let's steal it and put it in the podcast room. And then we'll replace it with this other table before anyone notices. No one's going to know. As we're doing that, Ed, the facility's manager, like, what are you guys doing? We're just making sure this table fits Ed. No, we just want to test it out and we'll put it right back. And he just gave us like a dirty look.

And then he was cool with it. After we told him we wanted to keep it, he was like, that's fine, guys. You can tell he felt really bad too. He was like, wait, where's my white table? I felt so bad. I think that if we just took it and he didn't know, I wouldn't feel as bad. But the fact that he literally saw us, like, lift it up and, like, pull it out of the room. He was like, what are he doing with this table that I so lovingly put here?

Yeah. And then we had to fish out the other one from the market room. That took me a long time. It did, too. And then I had to rewire everything again, but it was worth it. Man. What else I got here? What do you guys think of the new HQ?

How is it coming along? It's coming along. Coming along. We moved in here in June. And like this building, like before we moved in, what we did was we knocked out some walls and put up some walls that kind of sectioned off how we want to have, you know, the conference rooms and offices. and like desk areas and stuff. And now that that's all set up, now we're actually working on decorating.

So yeah, it's like just last week, actually, speaking of Ed, speaking of Ed. He invited me to a meeting just so he can ask me, like, what do you want in your section of the office? And the first thing I told them was, you know that giant TV that's right next to me? I want you to flip it vertical

and just put up our general chat. from the Discord server on there. So it's like, it's always up. It's always up. So 24-7 at the NZT office, you'll be able to see a feed of our general chat, just going the good and the bad,

you know, you'll see people getting banned. Getting banned. See people posting memes. You'll see people having fun. Yeah. All that stuff. But I think it's cool because that's, you know,

that's part of the community. It'd just be cool to have that feed. And then the other thing I told them was to have another section that's just quark for us to pin like all the artwork people send us and stuff like that, because people mail this stuff a lot, actually. It's pretty cool.

People write his letters and things like that. So it'd be cool to kind of put that up. Also, another wall so we can print and display all the artwork people make. Like, for example, it'd be cool to frame a lot of the sticker art entries and just have them on display. So I know we're now working on decorating the office,

so I think next year we'll have a really fun environment around here. Yeah, I was going to look much more like a home. This house would be a home. More like our old office. Yeah. Our old office was easy though. It was just four walls.

Yeah. It was like literally four walls and we're all in one room. And you guys have been there forever. So like eventually things just get put up, you know, and like just they just stay there. It's like every square inch of that office was just like home. And here it's, you know, we have four walls just in this room. Yeah. And now it's like, oh crap.

Now I have a podcast video. Okay. No. It's a marketing room. Yeah, exactly. So now we have a bunch of rooms to decorate. I did just start sticker bombing this door while you were gone last week. Yeah, I know this looks really good.

We have the Discord Snow's, Snow giving wrap up there right now, which looks really cool. Looks really nice. I have a bunch of stickers. They'll get filled up soon. All right. What does next? Do you play Battlefield 5? I did for like a day with NZX team mom

And then she's like, I hate this game So I installed them like, okay, I guess I'm never playing again I can't stand playing battlefield by myself So those games like you have zero impact unless you're with like a group And like it's really rough Even two people, it's hard I don't play it Do you pick anything up from the Steam sale?

I looked Actually, what did you get? I got a, was it Remnant from the Ashes? It's like a Dark Souls with Guns game It's pretty cool. Cool. It's fun. Yeah, I didn't get anything.

I looked, but there was really nothing I wanted. Did you get any other games during the holidays? I guess you got Rabbits. We got Mario Rabbits. That's it. You know, nothing else. Yeah, I think I bought anything else. I bought some games for some people, you know, like I go through the wish list and

is, hey, here's a gift, you know, he's a video game you're not going to play. Nice. Favorite product that a non-N-ZXT PC company put out this year. Oh, interesting. Mine would be the, the, the, Purple-ish pixel 3A that Google made my phone. I just love that. First of all, I love pixels.

He said non-NZXT PC company. Oh, well, that's a non-NZT PC company. They make computers. You're right. Ooh, got them. Yeah, just the name, you know, purple-ish. It's cool. And it does look purple.

It's purple-ish, right? It's like purple-ish is purple, but not really purple. Looks like someone spilled some purple into a cup of water. But I also love it because it's the cheapest pixel phone of it. around. It's only $300 and every other pixel phone I've had was like a thousand. And this, it's cheaper because it's made out of plastic. And I love that because I've dropped this so many freaking times and there's like not a scratch on it. Whereas my other pixel phones, I also dropped them a bunch of times, but then they would always chip, you know, because there's metal and glass

and this is just plastic so it just bounces off the floor like nothing happens. Yeah, my phone's all metal and glass and there's all because chips and scratches on it, but I don't care because it works. I don't know if I have one I can't think of because I really care about too many things like who also makes computers and stuff like that I'll say like if it's a gaming company

while you think of that can I go to the bathroom? Go for it. Sorry. I drank a lot of coffee. Yeah, I know. You said you had two cups at least. All right guys, just me and you.

You guys, here's some cool secrets. I'm about to tell you what we're working on. Oh, we can do some ASMR. It's like a stream now. Okay. So, ASMR. This is 10 CXT and today we're doing so busy. It's a Discord's not picking anything up right now. I know people who are like listening to the podcast, like, why is this getting progressively louder and louder? See, any questions that I can answer? Oh, wait, I saw how I answer my non-PC company thing. I have no idea. I literally have no idea. I, don't pay attention to a lot of other companies.

If I want something, then I'll buy it. It has really pretty much shit. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what you guys want for me. Sanua or Simitsu, Sanwa's always my friend. Come on. Come on.

Or, if you're like my homie, Chris Winn, then we use gamer finger buttons on our fight sticks. You know what's up. And square gate only. We don't do circle gates because those are garbage. We don't teach diamond gates or what do you call them? Octagonal gates because those suck too. What did I miss?

Oh, fight sticks. I did some ASMR but nobody could hear it because Discord wasn't picking it up because it was too quiet. But the podcast, it doesn't sound really, really weird in the podcast. Yeah, I don't know. I can't think of anything else computer company wise. Next question. No, no, no. The coolest thing a computer put out, computer company that's not NXC put out this year was the Apple Stand.

because it is hilarious that they're going to sell you a stand for $1,000. You know someone's going to buy that thing. Andy pre-ordered it. You got two of them, one for each of his MacBook pros. One to use, one to collect. Its favorite product released from Coursier, I don't think they put anything on you this year, did they? My favorite Coursier product this year has to be the Algado Stream deck,

the origin computer and the scuff gaming controller. Yeah, this is the best Coursier products ever. What thing would you change from this year? Nothing. What would I change from this year? I don't change anything. I would change... I guess, like, I would...

I wish I could go back in time and work on stuff more. Like, for example, our Christmas... post yesterday on social. We were still working on the copy on that like five minutes before we posted it. And Dennis said, you know, like, we should have this ready, like way ahead of time. And I'm like, yeah, exactly.

We worked on it a long time, but we literally finished, or not us, but the creative team finished the art, like on Christmas Eve, like late, like 10 o'clock at night. Yeah. And there are things that like, anything that thought you, like, there are things that like I want to change on it but also didn't want to like bug them like on Christmas Eve.

They worked hard on it. They were really hard. And we appreciate all that hard work. Of course you. Yeah. We did a great job. But, you know, everything always seems to come down like last minute. Last minute a lot of times.

And, you know, I just wish I can go back and get like a just like an extra day. Just so we can make it a little bit better. Yeah, because like some days like you try to think of something interesting or something good to post and you just don't have it. So like the next thing you come back to and you like, oh, I got a great idea. This is going to make up like the two days where we had a really bad post. Granted, we had a really good week last week, so I'm okay with that. But yeah, it's one of the things that was like, it's like, I want to give it more time. And then I told Ivan, I thought Ivan, like, I don't care about this one.

And he's like, oh, you should tell Johnny that you don't care. And I'm like, it's not that I don't care about the post. I don't care about this little thing I'm nitpicking because if you have zero time, then I'm not going to waste my time working on this thing is work on the bigger part of the post, which is the actual joke of it. I was getting into semantics. And I'm like, I'm not going to waste time with semantics. It's Christmas.

I'll place some slime rancher. That's funny. Let's see here. What else he got? Who's the most savage on the team? Savage. Savage. We actually got to rain him in most of the time.

Who's Andy and do you ever call PSUGP Slug? Andy is our PR and marketing specialist. You should know this if you listen to you all the podcasts. He also has an emote in the server. I'm posting it right now. It's cheesy. That cheesy. He is my muse, my inspiration.

You're the reason in my life. Yeah. Like he's just a, he's a coworker who like always makes me laugh, always puts a smile on my face. And he does so without even trying. And he's a really, really, really nice guy. But he's also, like, I never know if he's, If he's just in character and playing everyone or what, because he says some really weird stuff.

He does some weird things. And that's Andy in a nutshell. Yeah. And no, we don't call PCGP slug. That's a weird name. Andy's probably the only person in this company who could ever like overtake Dennis and I's jobs. Easily. Just without question, he would just do it.

Special. Will we be able to the NZXT ever again? I don't know, but there's no plans on making more. Yeah. We just made it for the pop-up, and that was it, you know, like we weren't really planning to go into the tea business. Unless, Annie loves tea. I'm sure Andy could think of.

We should Andy be part of our tea division. Anty. Got him. Ivan, who's your boss? Sometimes I think you're the CEO, but you isn't. I am not the CEO, but my boss is a CEO. Yeah, Johnny's my boss. That's it.

That's last question. Oh. So more. Good job, guys. You got us all the way to an hour and a half mark. Look at that. Perfect. So what's next for us today, Ivan?

What's the plan? Let's see. I have to drive to the water company to pay my bill in person or else they shut off my water yesterday. Wait, they did? Well, they'll shut off my water tomorrow. if I don't go pay today. You're that guys. Buy more N60 PCs.

Ivan's falling on hard times. He can't even pay his water bill. Yeah. No, it's because I, by the most expensive PC you can't. It's because my address is kind of confusing. And then with all the rains we had recently,

my, apparently my water bill somehow just got damaged and, like, ripped apart in the rain or something. And, yeah, like, I never got it.

And then on Christmas Eve, I get a notice saying, like, urgent notice. Water bill got water. If you don't pay your, yeah, if you don't pay your bill by this date, you know, we're going to shut off your water. Why she's like auto bill payer? No, I do.

But whenever like it's a late payment, you cannot mail it in. You have to actually go to the water company office and pay it in person or else they will shut off your water. That's how it works. I don't know. I don't make the rules, man. People chat saying just use the, just use the juice and the crackin to wash your dishes with. Should it work fine. Yeah.

that's funny what else are you doing let me think just retweeting stuff I think getting all the addresses together for the stickers yeah

so we can I think we should ship them out tomorrow yeah I will do today like today at least get all the addresses and just everything I think we have all them now

Keo finally responded to me from Monday with his with his address if you guys want to know it here it is it's there was someone who lived in a figure what country they lived on Martin Luther King Street in like some random country that's not the US and I was

like why does this country have a Martin Luther King Street I mean it's cool global yeah it's it's awesome but like what like there's no one else from your country of origin that's famous enough or popular enough to you know it's really weird what we oh what we did send though actually is we sent the boomer giveaway prizes. So those are going out or have gone out. And actually, Mac got one. He said that the key on the Half-Life game box still worked.

So he redeemed Half-Life. So hopefully he's never actually played it so you can enjoy it. I still disagree with what Jim said. I think Half-Life is a freaking masterpiece. And I don't know why he would try to start crap like that. Well, I mean, if that game came out today, well, yeah. I don't think it would be considered a masterpiece.

But for the time, I agree with you. I mean, that's really what a, it's really like how those things work, though. Like, if we release Pong today, be like, yo, this game's lame as hell. Where's the, where's the battle pass in my Pong? You know, like, I need some EDM or it's not going to be, not going to be as good. Yeah. But I do think that half-life mods are better than Half-Life. Oh, dude, Half-Ly Mods like saved me when I was a kid because, like, I didn't have money to buy games.

I'm like. That's what I like Half-Life for. It's not necessarily Half-Life, but it's like the other stuff. It was awesome. Like, I think my favorite mod for Half-Life was two of them. One was, how was it called? It was like an action game. And you could do like bullet time and like you could like dive and like do like basically like pretend like you're in the Matrix.

I forget what's called. It's a really old game. And then natural selections like my favorite Half-Life mod ever. I played so many hours of Natural Selection. My favorite mod is probably Counter-Strike. Got them. Day defeat. My dad still plays DoD.

games dying though so where your dad plays games yeah it is kind of weird because like I forget they can plays games and I'll walk into the one room he's playing FIFA he's like he's like his tongue sticking out and like he's moving the controller is it like it moves the characters or whatever but it's it's it's uh it's really funny this is what happens when your dad's a gamer you end up like Dennis yep and when your dad's not a gamer you end up like like puppies what's your opinion on the CSCO battle pass don't know there's a battle pass CSGO yeah um the Roblox battle box yeah um the Roblox battle pass honestly my opinion is if that's what gamers want to or how gamers want to play then I think

it's cool you know like there's a reason why those battle passes exist and that's because gamers for some reason they work they want to use them so they they added a battle pass destiny is it's just part of like the seasonal content so like it's not like anything extra that you got to pay for but it's like oh level 100 let me play a little more so get those levels to get that XP yeah I think uh I don't think it's a bad idea um Muna car here Ivan just move on with their day are you gonna spend some more time i don't know i don't what's really asking any questions i guess we can we can kind of call it and get on with their day yeah unless someone has any more questions ask the question next 30 seconds or i'm shutting everything

down three two that's not 30 seconds one i guess that's it rip how's your day better now that you ask me thanks do you love me no Ivan, why did you send pictures of my dad? That was actually me. I've been teaching me how to use Acumaticus so I can send out prices to you guys. And sometimes you guys send addresses that are funky, so we just look them up on Google Maps real quick.

And I was like, who's this guy waving at the Google Maps cars? I took a screenshot and sent it. All right. So I think with that, we should probably just end it here. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you. Thank you for listening to the podcast. podcast in 2019.

Yeah. This is the last one of the year, right? It is. It is, yeah, because Wednesday is the first. So we will be gone the first, back to second. I think we should have some special outro music. Yeah, what do you? How about some, some Wii shop, like, reggae or ska?

Something to dance to. Something to dance to. Yeah, something to celebrate the end of the year, man. All right. Alright, I got you. Give me a second here. We're going to pull this up. All right, guys.

That's not it. Is this? I'll think it is. Sounds cool, though. That's not the right one. What is it playing? Oh, weird. The YouTube broke on me.

Like, it wasn't the right video. Like, it said the name of the video on bottom and it wasn't the right video. They were actually loaded up. That's really, really weird. Anyway, all right, guys. It's like a whole video of someone produced, so I let it watch it.

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