NZXT PODCAST - #063 - Oliver

Episode Date: October 15, 2020

This week on the podcast, we are joined by NZXT CLUB Discord Moderator: Oliver! Oliver and the crew discuss Fortnite, hurricanes, and low registers. Follow Oliver on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mechbtw Listen live to the NZXT 💜 CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt every Thursday at 10AM PT and submit your questions to [e-mail]! Thanks to Neb2020#5960 for the artwork!

episode 63 of the NXT Clubcast The official podcast of the N60 community This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time of the official NXT Discord server and is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. So join up because this podcast comes with a special magnetized ring designed to showcase new accessories

and create a better charging experience. My name is Dennis and with me as always is Ivan. How do you do? Doing great. How about you, man? how you feeling? I'm doing good, man. All right, man. No complaint so far.

It's chilling, right? Just doing a thing. Like, ain't nothing happening right now. There's lots happening, but just trying to, you know, just trying to chill and just take it one day at a time, basically. That's probably the best advice I could give anybody right now is just do your thing, don't worry, and just get it all done, right? Because there's so much right now. There's so much. Speaking of much,

I mean, I would say that this next guest bears no introduction, just based on, like, the quality and, like, vibrations of his voice alone. Today's special guest is NST Club moderator, Mech. Hello. Or Oliver. Hello.

What are you going by these days? You changed your name recently. Either. Either. It's. It's either of them. Either of them. All right, because I know you've seen.

to be like, what was it, like, mech, mech, mechbeard? Yeah, yeah. How was it again? Yeah, it was mechiebeard, and then it was just mech. Now it's just either mech or Oliver, it's either.

Okay, so we're getting a little bit simpler, right? Yeah. I call my, I call my daughter Oliver, drives my wife crazy. Because her name's Olivia. But if my daughter would have been a boy,

I would have named her Oliver. I love that name. and I'm just going to date me but the reason I love that name is because he was my favorite character on the Brady Bunch, cousin Oliver. I always wanted a cousin named Oliver. I thought it was a cool name.

Yeah. Also because I like skateboarding and like obviously Ollie, it's like a cool nickname. So I call my daughter, Oli, but Oliver is like a, you don't know, you don't meet many Oliver's, to be honest.

No, no. You really don't. I can remember last time I met Oliver I think honestly, I think Mech's the only Oliver that I know thinking about it now. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, you're the last one.

A dying great dude. I feel special. You should. So, for those who don't know, Mech, Meg's been around for a while. He was around as like an apprentice back in the day before we even, before he was even a moderator. And there were basically, like, mini-mods.

They were basically what people in the general chat of our Discord server are now, which is just, you know, like, just poking fingers at people, hey, don't do this, don't do that. But without the actual, like, it's a full power of, like, a moderator. Yeah, and then he graduated. He became a big boy. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, based on that base, I feel like you always been like a big boy. but, you know, like, officially, like, on paper, you're a big boy now.

Mm-hmm. I have power now. Yeah. How long have you been a mod? One, in two weeks, it'll be one year. Wait, really? Yeah. No way.

Yeah, October 29th, I think. What? That's crazy. I know for Apprentice, it's been like a year and a half. Because I remember it was the day after my birthday that I, got it. I was in a Zaxby's parking lot on my way to Chicago.

And I got the DM from Ivan. And he was like, yo, do you want to be an apprentice? And I was like, sure. And so... Just like that, sure. And yeah, so it just

happened. Rest is history. The rest, yeah. I think, to be honest, I think that like you're one of the most unenthused people when it comes to like almost a new situation. Because I know we've been in like voice calls and stuff for we'll like announce something really cool and you're like, that's awesome. That's great.

Poggers. Yeah. And you leave it at that. Yeah. My voice is normally pretty monotone. So you were, you said you were a apprentice for about a year or so, right, before you became a mon. Or was that? Probably about half a year.

Okay. Okay, okay. So six months, and then after the six months, you became a, yeah, then you came up with PSU, right? PSU, right? Pseu. Yes. Yeah. I feel like, I feel like he's multiplied like 50 different PSU people since like he's like been around here and there. Like he's like, send his knowledge to everyone and all of a sudden it's like hit the people who now like who really care about rails.

I'm like, oh no, it's too many to handle. What's been like the... So, let me see, you've been an apprentice since before I was here and I remember you became a mod shortly-ish after I started working on the community team. I mean, you must have seen a lot of things changing the server, right? Like, I mean, you must have seen what kinds of stuff happen. Like, what's what, how is the server different now

from like when, you know, just even like a year ago? It's just a lot more community driven, I think, which is a good thing. A lot of the time, it's, oh, yeah, there's my, who is. But yeah, it's a lot more community-driven, more, like, community-hosted events and just stuff like that. Yeah, there's definitely a lot less going on when it was, you know, like, without Dennis, without, without B, without America. with all the all the apprentices,

all the mods. It was a lot, a lot less going on for sure. Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, I feel like,

I feel like I look into the Discord, like at night, USA time, and there's always like one or two games of like among us going on or people playing four guys

or there's like a lot of cool stuff happening or like someone opens up a chat for like an Apple launch or something cool like that, which I think is really great. I like when we can do that kind of stuff in moderation, obviously. But like to me, and I think I was saying this yesterday in the secret Monschat that

I don't mind the way we open channels up for that kind of stuff because it does make the server feel more dynamic, feel more alive, right? Like there's something happening. There's like an event around the corner here and there. So, you know, I hope we can continue to do those things. I hope that, you know, all the mods can, you know, can do that, you know, time permitting, of course, you know, instead of requirement. You know, the base requirement for a mod is really just to help keep the server safe, right? And like anything else is like churry on top, right?

Mm-hmm. What do you think is great? What would you say, in your opinion, is the most fun thing about moderation? It's just, I think, it's just being able to interact with the community a lot. The correct answer is catching alt accounts. That's true. Yes. That's true.

But yeah, I'd say for me, it's just being able to help out a lot. Like, I enjoy helping others. So even if it's online, like on Discord, I think that's just the best thing. What's a situation where you've helped somebody? I mean, like, in. In Discord or in real life? In Discord. In Discord.

Okay. I mean, helping people, whether it be with computer issues or just with community, just, I mean, that kind of stuff. Because I know I've helped a lot of people, or I hope I've helped a lot of people with, like, getting into PCs and getting into that kind of stuff, gaming. And so I would say those are probably. the main ones right right what's what's in your opinion the most difficult thing about moderating a community

um there can be tough calls that you have to make uh huh it's just that that'll come with having a position of power anywhere and uh it's

having to make those calls just uh it can be difficult sometimes what advice did you give someone who wants to be a moderator and let's say they they just they just see it as like oh i'm just going to hop on i'm going to you know i'm going to ban people i'm going to tell them about the rules what's like some real advice for some aspiring moderators out there yeah so what i would say is don't have that as your main goal of being a moderator just so you can ban people just or ban people warm people whatever just do it for the

community, don't do it so you can warn people, because we obviously, we don't want to ban mute or warn people. That's only if we have to, but just do it for the community. That's what I'd say. And do it for the lanyards, right?

Yeah, yeah, the three stickers. I'm going to check how many people we've banned on the server. We can actually look at mod stats and see like how many people have done what of what I think I can look it up 3,758 bands

Seriously? Yeah Geez, that's so much Quite a number That's been a long time This server's been around for Like five years now Basically since Discord

Long I think So it's not that bad You know, less than a thousand a year Yeah Yeah And like I would say probably The majority of those are like What do you call it?

what are those people the raiders right like the like alt-account rate people who like will come in there's like a hundred and like

20 minutes and you're just spamming like dumb stuff and we said to get rid of them right I feel like that's like the most most of the people who get removed from the server or that or just like newbies

you just don't understand like hey you can't say that stuff here hey man don't do that and then keep doing it like hey please stop actually I feel like it's the people who are in like a lot of Discord servers because most Discord servers kind of just let you get away with whatever you

want. Like it's just kind of like the Wild West and you know, you end up on our server and I don't think we're actually that strict. The rules are kind of, you know, pretty much common sense rules. Just be nice. Don't be mean. Don't curse. Don't post anything NSW, whatever. But you go into like, most servers and it's just like you go in there and you start dropping F bombs and no one about tonight. So I think it's those people that mostly get banned to be honest. Yeah, a lot of people aren't used to having like the rules of the server like actually be enforced. I know there's a lot of servers out there that don't. So it's just whenever they come in here and the rules are actually enforced, that's a big change. Oh, here we go. I found the mod stats. I don't know if we

want to say these out loud, but what I can say is that, Here, we'll do this. Mutes of all time. This one sounds more of a nice number. Only 58 mutes, like all time, since you've been here. Yeah. That'll be a lot more. Yeah.

Maybe I'll talk about that. I'm kidding. No. I'll have to meet my quota. Just for disclaiming purposes, there's no such thing as a quota. We don't want to do it. The least model work got to do, I think, the better. I don't want to do any work.

I don't want to do any work. I just want to vibe and listen to, to, 90s bangers in the vibes channel all day. People ask me how I'm able to sit through all day and I have a secret so they can be there without having to actually listen to the music

that doesn't make the vibe bot go away. So I keep it open for you guys. I don't do it for myself. I'm actually not listening to that music 99% of the time. Fun fact for all you guys. Den being very selfless. Meck.

If you could change one thing about the server. So you've been a mod for a while, and I'm sure you've seen changes here and there. You've seen, you know, how the community changes. You've seen the moderation team change, obviously. I think you're one of the oldest mods now, no? I think you... I'm the oldest, yeah. Are you the oldest?

Yeah, I'm the most senior, yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, thank you. Most senior moderator, not the oldest person on the mod team. That's definitely not you. Definitely not. Do you guys think I'm the oldest person on the server? No, I doubt it.

Isn't Alan old this person on the server? Who? Alan? Isn't Alan older than you? I don't know how old is Alan. I don't know how old Alan is. You should ask Alan, but I think I'm old. Alan's 37.

I'm older than him. I'm 38. I'll be 39 this month. This is one guy in the hardware channel is a green name, and he talks like a super boomer. He's a cool dude. He talks like a super boomer. Derek, he's 50.

Derek, who's Derek? Next gen. Wait, he's 50. He's not 50. He's not 50. way. Yeah, he's 50. There's no way. He just looks 50. He just looks 50.

No, there's this guy in the hardware channel. Forget what his name is. It's, um, oh, man, it's like, it's like a really small short name, but he comes in around and then he talks about like old tech every now and then. And he's like, oh, yeah, I remember back in my day he used to build this or used to build that. He's kind of, he's kind of a boomer too. Mini, mini's a boomer as well.

Mm-hmm. He's like a figure boomer, though. You couldn't tell right away that he's a boomer, but he's a pretty big boomer. I feel like I'm probably the oldest, but not the most boomery. There's definitely people here who are way more boomery than me. Yeah, you keep up with the trend. I guess, yeah. Being a boomer is kind of like a lifestyle, you know?

There's a certain attitude that goes with being like a boomer, you know? Mm-hmm. because you can be old but not have that mentality. And I feel like once you get, like, you know, once you use certain phrases like when I used to or like, you know, this is, you know, better than this, you know, or like you kids, you're pretty much like peak boomer status. You kids have it so easy with your smartphones. I mean, you technically do. I'm not going to lie. I have actually, like, stopped using my phone, like, for coronavirus.

Even like last night, Dennis, Dennis had to do something and he couldn't post something on social. And I told him that I was going to do it and I forgot. And then like middle of the night, like I woke up, you know, like 1030 or something. That's middle of the night, 1030. I woke up and I was like, oh, man, I forgot to tweet that thing. And I messaged Dennis. And he's like, oh, can you do it? I'm still busy.

And I told them, you know what? I don't really want to do this with my phone right now. I don't want to throw my computer because I wake up my wife. But I think that's something boomery I did recently is I basically just quit using my cell phone. I got over it. It's annoying, man, all the notifications. Oh, yeah. And then just like having to type with my thumbs, I don't know.

I'm kind of like over it. I think being quarantined and sitting in my computer all day kind of made me just really hate my phone. I wonder if I could survive without a phone. No. I know. I couldn't. I was saying no. I really haven't used it.

The only thing I use it for is to listen to podcast when I go on walks. It's literally a little time I pick up my phone now. Mm-hmm. Sometimes TikTok. For me, it's been the opposite during quarantine. I've been using my phone a bit more, but I just haven't been using. using my computer, or I very rarely do. I'm mostly just out either cleaning stuff up because of everything going on

or in my house and another room with my family. Yeah, for sure. That's like literally the exact opposite for me because when I was at the office, I was like walk around a lot and I would always be on my phone. And then I would have come home and like never turn on my computer. And now that I'm home all day, like, I just do everything on my computer and when I have to use my phone, I get mad. It's just everything on the phone's harder, especially if we're like wanting to do something on Discord or social media is just really annoying. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, and like especially if I had to do like work on your phone. I don't care what what operating system you're using. I don't care who your favorite phone manufacturer is. There's nothing easy than doing on a computer, right, having like multiple screens. multiple tabs, so on and so forth. Having to swap between app to aftergrap, something you move it around is like the most unknowingly painful process ever.

So, for example, for the extraordinary week's stuff we've been doing, some of these posts are literally impossible on a phone. Like, we did a tweetstorm yesterday where we posted like 50 videos from like all of our influencer roster are our partnered streamers. And there's no way I could have loaded that

on my phone and done it all. Like, I think I would have exploded. I was trying to think, like, I think once it got to, like, the third video that I was uploading in, in, like, that line of tweet replies, my browser was lagging. It wasn't, it wasn't having it, dude. Did not want to continue. Yeah, I did not want to do it. But to go back to the previous question I was going to get to, Mac, you've been around for a while. I've seen a lot of things change.

If it changed one thing about the server and anything at all, doesn't matter. what it is, what would it be? That's a tough question. You're putting me on the spot here with that question. That's the idea. You got to think quick. I guess level 30 reward.

It'll happen when the server goes 30 days without a warning meter ban. True. That's the plan. I said earlier, yeah, that's all you can do. Yeah, I just can't think of anything off the top of my head. All right, fair enough. By the way, folks, for those listening live, if you want to ask our good friend, our good mod mech slash Oliver, a question.

Please drop your questions into the podcast chat, and we'll get to them as soon as we can. All right. Ivan, what do you got? Is it time for my dumb questions now? Yes. Well, technically, you can say all the questions are dumb. That's true.

All right. So I guess my first question for you, Mac, is, can you sing the chocolate ring song right now? Because your voice is very, very soothing, I must say. Probably not right now, but maybe at a future time. Maybe I'll open the voice channel at a future time for a special performance.

Chocolate rain. Dennis, can you sing chocolate rain? I remember the words, chocolate rain. Is that all this? I love that part where he goes, I move away from the mic to breathe in. Yeah, next question, Oliver is like,

What is the secret to getting such a deep voice, man? Like, you're half my age and your voice sounds like very white. How do you do it? Genetics. Really? Yeah. I have no idea. It runs in the family.

Just born with it. Genetics isn't like everyone in your family has a deep voice like your mom, your dad. No. I'm the only one. If you can't do chocolate rank, can you just say, thank you for calling movie phone. Thank you for calling movie phone That's awesome

You could definitely do voiceover work man You have that voice Yeah you can Oh can you do like The intros to like a To like a movie trailer you know Like in a world Um

All right what should I what should I say in it I feel like in a world where Normie is get poned on Discord. Okay. In a world where Normies get poned on Discord, only three server mods can

save the world. I don't know. That's awesome. You should definitely look into doing voiceover work. I'm sure there's like websites out there where you can just like submit clips and get paid for it, man.

You have a very unique voice for sure. Yeah, I'll definitely. have to look into it. All right. Next question for you is, why did you quit Fortnite? Oh, yeah. So I just didn't like playing it anymore. I don't really like playing many games anymore, to be honest.

Why come? I don't know. It's just gotten kind of, I don't know, like dull maybe. So I just don't enjoy playing games. I guess through quarantine, since there's nothing else that I can go out and do, like with friends or just anything in general, I can't travel.

So, I mean, I guess all I've been able to do is be on my computer and game. And so it's just kind of like burnt me out, I guess. Yeah, I feel like every gamer kind of goes through this phase where it's like you just need to take a break from video games. I think it's healthy to just not play for like a little while. but you'll be back. They always come back. Mm-hmm.

So I know I've actually had the same thing too real quick. Or like if I'm playing way too many video games like continually over X amount of time, I just don't want to play anymore. But like if I actually have like real things to do in life or like I don't have time to play, like the only thing I'm thinking about is like, oh man, like when can I play next time, right? It's one of those things were like, we're like, if you have too much of it, you don't want it. But like, you know, if you're going to pull the way and you can't, don't really have the opportunity to do it when you. you want to, you kind of want to do it a little bit more. Yeah, for sure. Before I was married and had a kid, I mean, I would put in, you know, it wouldn't be weird

for me to play 50 hours a week of video games. And it's easy to get burned out that way. But now, like, the older I am, like, I'm lucky I play one hour a week. So for me, it's like I don't really feel like I need those breaks anymore. But I think if you're like a hardcore gamer, you know, in your early 20s or whatever, you're going to have to take those breaks. I know you quit Fortnite, but are you still, are you willing to sell that Fortnite hat? Oh, yeah.

So I still have to claim that, but I'm thinking about selling it on eBay because there's very few of them. How much is that at worth? I don't know. I don't know how much I could sell it for. According to Epic Games, it is worth $15. So I don't know. but it's very limited. So I don't know.

Can you tell us the story behind that hat? Like, how'd you get it? What do you have it? Yeah, so there was, uh, whenever Fortnite and Apple were having the little debacle between them where, uh, the Apple took them off the app store. They made a whole tournament with the free Fortnite tournament. And, uh, this was all right when I had quit. I just played this, uh, for a joke.

because my brother was playing it and I just wanted to see how like how I could place in it and so I placed pretty well and I placed well enough to get the hat for free and so just I think it was yesterday or two days ago I got an email saying that my hat was ready to be claimed

and so I have to make a tax profile and then I can for a hat for a hat yeah because it's it's just the tax profile for every winning from the game. Right, right, right. And so once I make that, I'm able to claim the hat.

It's a clever hat, I guess I've got to say. Yeah. What should take on the whole Fortnite versus Apple thing? I side with Apple on it pretty much. Really? Yeah, it's their app store. they're allowed to do what they want over it and so Epic knowingly broke their terms

so I mean I think it's fair to take it off if they knowingly broke the terms Yeah that's kind of where I go with it too I think like you don't have to have your game on the app store right I mean obviously it's a huge market so you're kind of dumb if you don't right But if you do then you kind of have to abide by their rules So they would like Steam like I think I think Steam's cut for games is about the same thing it's like 30% off of any revenue made from the game. So like, I don't know how it's different.

I would say that the only difference is that on the PC you can use any platform you want, right? You know, Epic Game Store, Origin, you know, good old games, whatever, whatever, right? But like at the same time, like, you know, you don't also need to have a computer that is a Windows machine, right? It can be like Linux. It can be whatever. So, like, for me, it's like you obviously knew what the rules were. You didn't like them. So you found a way around them.

And then you're surprised that, like, the company that owns the platform isn't happy with you. I think stuff that happened after was, like, a little petty. Yeah. Yeah, but it was like, you know, they had, like, this, like, campaign set up. And then they had this, like, video that they, like, put out. And, like, they were, they had definitely been planning it. And, like, they knew what they were doing because you weren't going to make that whole campaign and that whole video in a single day. Like, it doesn't matter how big your team is.

Like, just something. of that scale isn't going to be made in a day. Yeah, and the part that was funny for me, it's like, they're trying to, like, get people to, like, get on their side of my bro, you're, like, a giant company with, like, a ridiculous amount of money. Like, you're not on my side. You don't care of me. Yeah.

What? You just want my money. I swear what it is. You just want my money, and you want to pay less to get my money from the platform owner, like, the heck. Give me a help. Yeah, they want to get more of your money from Apple or from, from, playing on iOS.

So it's not really about the players. You're not limited to buying a game on Steam. As long as it's not exclusive, you can buy the game on any platform. It's available on an Apple. You'll force to use the app store to download stuff. Well, that's true.

You're not forced to use an Apple phone, right? So that's the thing. Like, you can hop off that platform in the whole ecosystem if you want. It's unimperative that you do. And as far as I know, there's nothing that you need to have, that's on an Apple that's important for you to keep, right?

Like, you can go on an Android and then you're perfectly fine and, you know, side of all your apps if you want. But yeah, you know, I'm not, like, I'm of the mind that if a giant corporation whose sole purpose is to get money is doing something, they're probably doing it for themselves, not for other people, right? I'm sure there's, like, probably some nice side benefit for, like, other developers and side benefit for, like, people who, you know,

who are on that platform as well. but I think overall the main point is really for them to benefit themselves and like anything else is like a cherry on top, right? Mm-hmm. Imagine a corporation making money. I know, right? Imagine a corporation abiding by rules. Couldn't be my corporation. And that's like the thing too, right?

Like I'm sure there's probably like a situation where the close like called up Steve Apple, but like, hey, dude, like, you know, we like kind of like cut a special deal. Is that cool? Like, I don't see any reason why they like they can. couldn't have had like those conversations, right? And done it in like a more, I don't know, you know, like a friendly way, but what do I know, right? I just record a podcast on Thursdays. Yeah, I'm not a lawyer. It deals with all this stuff.

I don't know. Yeah. Speaking of deals. Oh. I heard that you were selling your battle station, Mac. Is that true? I was thinking about it. If you do, can I get commission since there's something in there that's mine?

Yes Yes, you'll get You'll get a 30% commission So what were you What were you thinking Are you seriously considering Selling your battle station? Yeah, since I don't game anymore

And I use my MacBook for most Like productivity stuff And for schoolwork I was thinking about selling my whole setup And I don't know if I'm going to do it anymore But You could just play Fortnite on your MacBook Yeah

I used to have it installed on there for just as a joke while I was at school like I played it in class and I won a couple of games in class that was fun but I would still get like really good FPS on it because it has like a dedicated graphics card and everything.

What was your FPS? I was getting like 150. Dang. Yeah. It's more than I get on my PC. I expected all my MacBook like pretty high. pretty high spec so it could play pretty well. So I guess my next question is kind of related to your battle station a little bit, but I know you live in like hurricane country.

So like what do you do? You're like recently you've been posting in like the match, you know, I'm evacuating. I'm going here, I'm going there. Like, what happens to all your stuff? Like, your computers, your whatever, your clothes? Like, do you bring that with you when you're evacuating? So normally when I'm evacuating, I don't bring my setup because that's just too much stuff to bring. And I just bring my MacBook and my chargers, my phone, wallet, keys, stuff like that.

And then a couple pairs of clothes, like a packable, like a carry-on suitcase. And so I'll bring that. and that's pretty much it. Because everything else, if it gets destroyed, which I mean, thankfully, we didn't have anything destroyed. We got lucky, like, barely new damage. But if it does get destroyed, we have good insurance, so it'll reimburse us for everything.

So how many hurricanes have you been through? I've been through quite a few. I don't know the exact number. but like just this year I've had to evacuate for two which I mean I haven't had to evacuate for one in a long long while but this year was really bad and I know your your family has multiple homes correct yeah we do have a second house in California and when you evacuate do you go to California or where do you go

We normally go to my grandparents' house. They live in northern Mississippi, but for this one, we evacuated to my grandparents' house for a week. Then we went out to California for a week. And we went back to Mississippi, and then we went back home. And then we had to evacuate again. And we're in California. It's like Lake Tahoe area. Oh, cool.

The next time you come to California, you should visit. I would love to. I was hoping that I could come in like February or something. But timing didn't work out and then coronavirus. And I would have loved to come this trip, but I was only there for a week. And like a lot of that time, we were helping move my sister in for college stuff and all that. All right. My last question for you, Mac, is the most important.

Yeah. Why do they call you jaw liver? Okay, yeah. So we just made that picture in Photoshop like probably a year and a half ago. And it's just stuck ever since. I don't know why, but. But why jaw liver? I don't know.

I tell you the truth. I have no idea. That's a good answer then, because it makes no sense to me either, but I like it. All right, Dennis, the floor is yours. Those are all my dumb questions. That's it?

Yeah, I don't have that many. I only had like six or seven questions. Mac, actually, a question for you because I can't believe I never asked, like, what do you want to do when you grow up, dude? Like, do you want to be a pro gamer? Like, are you looking to do something different? Like, I have no idea like what you're looking to study

because you're kind of at that age on where you get to start thinking about college and stuff. If you want to do that. For college, I plan on going into business and finance. Oh, Seth, you can work with Long. Yeah, I mean, eventually, maybe I'll work at NCXU. And then, like, eventually. In the last, in the last, like, three months,

we've hired three moderators for NGXP. Yeah. I guess it's a good way to come in, you know? It's like we always put in a good word for the mods. Like when they apply, they always say, yeah, like, you know, they're definitely good members of the community. So that's, you know, that's definitely like a good way to get hired is to become a, be a good, be a good, first of all, be a good server member,

community member. And then, you know, maybe if you're a mod or whatever, you don't have to be a mod, necessarily get hired. We've also hired just regular community members, but I think just setting a good example in the community is definitely something that we look for when we're hiring people. Because we, you know, everyone at NTXT is basically part of the community, you know, like, we're all gamers and involved and stuff like that. So keep it up. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I would say it's like a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, communities and games are like that, right?

Like, especially if they're tied into, to, like, a bigger, a bigger organization or, or, like, a bigger company. Like, the best way to kind of get, and not just see, like, if you can do the job, but also, like, a culture fit, right? Because that's a big thing here for us is, like, are you the kind of person that we would enjoy working with

a day-to-day basis, right? Like, hanging out with, you know, having meetings with, you know, after-work events, stuff like that. it's a really good way to see if like the person who is applying already kind of understands what the company's about like their belief system

and things like that it makes it really easy so if you guys have any particular organization or company you want to work with you know start at the community level like that's how a lot of that stuff works especially in gaming

because in gaming and especially for like lines of work like this obviously if you want to be like an engineer right and like build product you have to have knowledge on like building product and like, you know, mechanics and so and so forth. But for things like community work, things for like social media, working in the gaming industry, a lot of the times it's really just who you know

where you've been, the things that you've, you know, you've done, the people you've spoken to and people who can vouch for you. But fun fact, the very first person ever hired at NST is Robb, who's actually the owner of our subreddit to this day. He doesn't work at NSXT anymore. But the first, he was only 15 years old. And the reason Johnny hired him back in like, I think, 2006 or seven, he was literally the first employee because this guy created, this guy, this guy Rob created the subreddit. And he literally on his own was just a fan of NZXT and created this subreddit and started managing the community.

not by himself. And Johnny noticed and he's like, you know what? I should, I should pay you for this. And he was only 15 years old. Then he hired him. And like to this day, like, you know, I think that's still the same philosophy here is like, we look for people like that, right? Like people that genuinely care.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's really interesting. Just creating the Reddit eventually. It leads you to a position in the company. Wasn't the, uh, isn't the, the guy who runs N60 Japan's Twitter, like a community person as well. Am I wrong on that? I remember here.

No, he actually is, he started off as one of our authorized retailers in Japan. And he was just like a huge fan of NZXT and he ended up getting hired as the community manager over there. There you go guys. Yeah.

You can also do that. Yeah, you mean, you just got to care, you know, that's not basically it. Like, you know, it's like, just care and you'll get noticed. It's not about like, you know, your, your resume per se. Even though that stuff is important, you know, you obviously have to show like,

you know, you care about not just the company, but, you know, the people behind it, like, that you give a crap right. Because the people behind are just, you know, everyone listening to the podcast right now, you know? Like, you care about these people. Yeah, the whole community. I mean, like, that's how you got hired, right? Like, you literally told Johnny, hey, a lot of things you do suck. I can make him better.

And I was like, okay. I bought a case and I was like not very happy with the experience. And told Johnny about it. And he's like, all right, man, come fix it then. I'm like, right. I was my best. And that was like over five years ago now. All right.

Community questions here. A Greek Discord user wants to know. Thoughts on razor peripherals. I like them. I think they're nice. Yeah, they got nice RGB. That's how we should always start. That's how we should always start.

Nice RGB for like any product description. Nice RGB. Yeah. I still, I still, the death adder mouse is still one of the most comfortable mice I've ever owned in my life. Oh, for sure. The death adder,

the shape of it is really nice. It's impeccable, to be honest. What's that? I said it's impeccable. It's a really good feel. Yeah. I used a lieutenant death at her for like, I think, five years or something before I finally broke down. Yeah, my eyes said a while, too.

The only reason I don't have one now is because I wanted a white mouse to match my keyboard. Ooh, fancy. Coyote wants to know. Well, Coyote effect Ollie. So another of the Ollie crew. Mek, what are you wearing? Okay, right now I have, so I'm just sitting in my house, so I don't have shoes on her. but I have some gray shorts on and my purple NCX T-shirt.

All right, let's go. Yeah. Neb wants to say, if you can give advice to your younger self, what would you say? Say it, say if like you could time travel or something, Lamow. Um, well, since I'm still fairly young right now, I just say, enjoy life. Enjoy life to the fullest. Yeah, just. enjoy life, have fun, worry about responsibilities when you get older.

That's what I do. I'm so waiting on responsibilities, to be honest. Yeah. Ivan, what would you give yourself advice on? Probably listen to my parents, like for real. I should sit here. When I was a teenager, my parents would, you know, tell me things and try to guide me. and I thought I was smarter than them and that they were stupid.

You know, I thought I was just like, I could do whatever I want, like not suffer consequences from it, I guess. But now that I'm like old and I have a kid, I actually get it now. Like parents, your parents are not always going to be right for sure, but, you know, I think when they try to tell you things, like they have the best intentions in mind and trying,

they're trying to help you, right? And when I was younger, I didn't really see it that way. I just thought, like, they're trying to control me, trying to tell me what to do, what I can't do, and all that. But, you know, that's not true. And now it's like, I look back at everything they told me and I realized they were right, you know. Oh, yeah. I was a stupid one. I was a little bit like who didn't know what I was talking about.

Parents know Beth Smith at the time. Like, yeah. It's a lot of the time whenever you're young, like I still think it's too. And I'm talking like a boomer right now. I'm in my 40s or something saying like, oh yeah, my parents knew best for me, but like still right now even. Like they just know what's best and everything like that. Especially like for me with like my dad.

Like when I was a kid, my dad was my best friend, right? Like I loved my dad when I was a kid. You know, he'd take me to baseball games, you know, buying me ice cream after work, bring me baseball cards and stuff like that. And then when I became a teenager, all of a sudden, my dad was a big dummy because, you know, I was the smart kid. I wanted to be cool. I wanted to be like my friends, all this stuff.

And my dad would tell me advice and I would just think he was, you know, dumb or whatever. And I didn't listen to him. And then, you know, now that I'm older, my dad's my best friend again because now, like, I realize, you know, he actually he's always been there for me right so yeah that would be my advice is just like you know you're you're not always going to like what your parents tell you for sure but it's they're probably right you know they're they they're probably are smarter than you all right um i would say my advice would be just to learn Spanish and to stick with stuff so like I remember when I was a kid I told my parents said I wanted to take piano lessons I've always

want to learn piano because I thought piano was like super dope right and I think it still is and my parents would always let me quit on stuff right number one they would just say they would just always let me like not do something if they don't want to which is totally fine but the same time it's like sometimes you kind of need to tell your kid hey do this thing is going to benefit you right so I tell my parents say I want to take piano lessons and they're like okay great so we go to this place and I think it was like in fountain valley I want to give them the location because just give I've been some context on the air that I'm in and we walk into this like music school and all we hear is a bunch of like whiny, creaky,

I don't know how to pronounce it. I could I explain the sound. It was a place that we were teaching piano accordion. And like literally the exact opposite of what I think is cool, piano accordion. What the heck's wrong with you guys, right? And I woke up to the guy and he's like, oh, so you want to learn this accordion. I'm like, no, because I think it's really lame. Like, I want to learn how to do piano.

And this fool grabs my hands. And it's like, nah, I see these fingers are such and such. They're not long enough or they're too skinny or something. And I'm like, man, you suck. Your piano accordion sucks. I'm getting out of here. So we left. It never took any lessons.

But not to this day. I'm thinking, honestly, recordings kind of lit. And it kind of wished I learned. I kind of wish I learned an accordion because I feel like you can, you can hit some bangers with that thing. Mm-hmm. It is like overall just like sticking with stuff more often. Like, um, just, uh, I, I, I was my parents going to push me to. stick with one or two things so I can actually learn something and get like proficient at it.

So now I know a little bit about a lot of things, but I'm not like an expert in like really anything, to be honest. So stick with stuff, folks. Next question from Coyote Oliging again. Meck, I know you're not a vocalist, but what's the lowest you can go? Oh, that's a good question. Let me try it. Okay, I don't know. Hell this sound.

Yeah, it's probably not that low, but I don't know. It's pretty low for me. I don't know. Yeah, it probably sounds the same. I don't know. Fair enough. As we move on. Ogee Beards wants to know.

Meck, have you ever been in a fight slash disagreement with other mods? I've been in so many channels, I think he means Discord servers, and I've seen many dramas like that. If so, how did you deal with such a situation? might be useful for us in the future. Sure, of course. So, like, you're obviously going to have disagreements. Everyone has their own opinion.

Like, no server is exempt from having disagreements between even the staff and everything, but you just have to handle it civilly instead of just mindlessly arguing about it. You have to, like, genuinely just talk it out and just have a civil conversation about it because you'll eventually come to a consistent, consensus if you do that.

I just civilly ban someone in the podcast channel right now. Those guys just spamming like crazy. And I told them nicely, can you please stop? And he kept going. And I just civilly banned him. Yeah. Sometimes you have to do that. He wasn't saying anything bad.

Like, I don't care if you don't like our stuff. Like, I don't really do. Yeah. I don't know. Like, yeah. Just don't spam. I said it once. Fine.

Then you said it like 20 times later after we told him stop. So. Yeah. And then now he will make an alt account And try to come back in He will DM me like bro I got banned for no reason On the Discord Twitter It's like

It's not that complicated It's never anybody's fault It's always our fault Um Meck Cam wants to know What is your favorite rule? My favorite rule

Um That's a good question Rule 11 No pinging Ivan I agree. That's a good rule. I don't get that many Pings anymore. I like it. Zappi wants to know,

how is N60 different from other companies? Why should someone choose NXT over a company like Coursair? I can answer that. I think the biggest difference between us and other companies, I feel like we are definitely, like I can't speak for other companies,

but I think we do our best to really involve ourselves with the community and just be there for them. People reach out to us all the time on Discord, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, email, customer service, whatever. And like, we always try to reply. Like, we get a ton of messages, so it's not physically possible to just reply to every single ping we get on social media. but if we see it, we're going to reply.

So I think, you know, that's one thing. Like, I don't know. Like I said, I can't speak for other companies, but I know people ping other companies and don't hear back from them. And, you know, if you ping NZT, you're probably going to hear something back. For sure. Down, away, down. Probably people dropping off mail or something.

I was going to just not dock for a second. This is great radio. I think another thing that really separates us, too, from other companies, is that we always do the right thing, even if it costs us money, especially with customer service. Like, it's not unusual for someone, you know, to, you know, break their side panel. We just send them a new one or, you know, no matter where they live.

Like, you can live in the middle of nowhere and we'll send you a free side panel if you break it. It's not even about the money. It's just about helping people. Yeah, I would say for myself, from like a product standpoint, I would say that part of what sets us apart is just having like a ubiquitous sign language. A ubiquitous design language, right?

We're like, you get something from NZXT, whether it's a case cool or whatever, it all kind of feels like it's coming from the same place, right? Like the design look and feel to me is similar. And I'm going to, I'm kind of reaching here, right? So like take this with like a giant bag of salt. But I feel like we're the closest to like an Apple type company in our design, right? In a sense of like you buy an iPhone, a Apple watch, a MacBook,

they all kind of feel like this is what a Apple product should look like, right? And so they feel like how a lot of our products are, right? It just works. Yeah, exactly, right? Not really, but it's all about every, every, if you look at the history of just our cases, like every single new case has made the building process simpler. It's all about making stuff simpler to use, not necessarily, you know, how do we add one degree, of attempts in here

or increase the airflow by 1%. It's literally just how do you make this simpler for people to use? That's number one. It's just making things simpler. And I think we do a really good job at that because if you build in an NZXT case, a lot of the work is done for you already.

That's why you can look at an NZXT case and it doesn't matter what hardware is in there. It could be, you know, $100 with the hardware or $1,000 with the hardware and it's still going to look nice. And I think that goes into just the fact that it's really simple to build in and also simple to, you know, make it look pretty. You don't have to be like an expert cable management guru to build a nice looking computer with our stuff. And I think that's another, like just product wise, that's, in my opinion, what makes us different is the

simplicity of things. And also quality, you know, know, like we don't make plastic cases. Our cases are all steel. Things like that. We definitely put a lot of care and time and thinking into our products. We don't have a lot of products. You go into a lot of our competitors' web page, and they have like 50 computer cases. When you go on ours, and it's just like four, right?

Small medium, large. Small medium, large. Yeah, it's smaller. Small media, large and tiny now. Yeah, it's all about just making things simpler. You know, even something like the website, right? Like, instead of offering 100 cases, like, we're just going to give you a handful of options. Even when we build a computer, when we sell a computer, rather than, you know, making it complicated about, like, you know, specs, we just ask you how much money do you want to spend and what games do you are you playing?

And then we tell you what parts you need and what FPS you get. You know, it's just about making things simpler. Yeah. Yep. And I mean, I can vouch for that with my experience building in NCXG cases. Like, I've built in, you know, quite a few cases from multiple different companies. And by far, just the easiest and the simplest to build in have been NXT cases. Like, just cable management-wise and placement of everything.

Yep. Yes, sir. Okay, so we've got to cut off the questions there, but don't forget, guys, you can submit questions off the air at Clubcast at nz-X-C-D-com. That's at CLU-B-C-A-S-T at N-Z-T.com. Stick around. We're still doing the natural giveaway, so if you're listening, you know, hang out for a second. A couple of news items before we round it off here. Number one, we are celebrating our Extraordinary Week celebration on social media and our website. and that's a kind of event in two parts. One is a sale on BLD, Canada, U.S. and Doc, which is, I think, Germany and Austria.

And also a cool community content that we're highlighting on mostly Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, where if you retweet some over stuff, we'll send you some steam cash if you win. So check it out at Twitter.com. For full details, and I think I will link it there if he wants. Pucci professors, you can still apply if you want. We'll throw the link up in a minute if you guys are interested in that, but Poogey Professors is our hardware, peripheral, software, all-related channels, program that highlights top community members who are helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable.

So check that out. Ask us to the show if you want questions. Set up of the week contest, that was yesterday, and the winner was Death Rage. A little bit of news about that. So we are no longer doing the purple shirts for the time being. People who have won purple shirts in the past should have been contacted to either get the lanyard slash sticker pack or continue waiting for the shirts whenever that'll be. So that's up to you guys. If you haven't, please DM me, Yoshoki slash Den, slash whatever my name is in the server so I can coordinate on what to send you or if you want to wait or not.

Wallpapers, TB announced, standby for that, and we'll get a winner for that one. And mods, guys, we're still looking for mods. We're particularly looking for people from the EU-European-Slas Asia region, basically like non-US, non-North America, non-South America, because they're like, you know, in that same time zone. Take the applications, both the Poogee professors and the Mod one seriously. Think of it's like a job interview.

If you guys have questions, you know, feel free to let us know if you have any questions about it. We're more than happy to kind of let you know what we're looking for. Better to ask than to not ask and then submit an application that might not be what we're looking for, right? And also, follow Macaroni and cheese on Twitter. Mac, what's your Twitter? Because I feel like you might have changed your app, no? Yes, so right now it is just Mech BTW. Wait, what?

Yeah, like mech, by the way. Meck by the way? There you go. Yeah. Tesla fanboy, moderation, NXT, PC and car enthusiast. Oh, man. Next time we get you on, we get to ask you more about cars. Sure.

Do some more car stuff. Mac, do you have any parting words for the community before we go ahead and finish this off? I'd say, stay safe, follow the rules, and have fun. I think having fun is the most important part, right? Like if you're not having fun,

you're probably in the server for the wrong reason, I would say. It should be fun, it should be stressful. Don't worry, you know. Let us know if you have any questions. We're always here to help and guide you. You know, send me DMs about important stuff or even not important stuff. Answers might vary.

All right, and with that, thank you very much for joining us, MEC. Really appreciate it, bud. Yeah, thank you for having me. No problem. And thank you to everyone else who tuned in. Remember to tune in next week at 10 a.m. Pacific Center Time and the official NZXC Discord server

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