NZXT PODCAST - #083 - Kraken Clean

Episode Date: April 1, 2021

This week on the podcast, it’s all about NZXTs newest innovation: the Kraken Clean! 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 Shanty#2264 for the artwork!

I'm going to break this. Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 83 of the NZXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10mian Pacific Standard Time. The official NXT Discord server is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. So pick up your broom and get the sweepin, folks,

as we're going to clean up this dirty, dirty world. My name is Dennis, and with me is just me. Ivan's actually on vacation. He's taking a nice little break, which I'm very happy that he's taking a break because the man works super hard. He told me literally the last two times he took a vacation. So he tweeted during his wedding, apparently.

He was tweeting at the altar. And the pastor was like, Mr. Ivan, Mr. Poppy, do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? And he goes, hold up a minute. This tweet's a banger. Let me just throw it up real quick. That's how it worked out for him. That's how it works.

And then he told me he took a break when his kid was born. That was like two and a half years ago or something like that. So he definitely needs a vacation. He needs a good, nice, long break. Happy that he is doing that. So it's just me today. But it's okay because it's a very, very important day. You know, it's not very often that we launch like two products

and like the span of like a week and a half. So I'm really excited that we're, you know, finally able to announce this amazing project that, you know, I've been working on for a long time, you know, here in the community slash social media department. You know, we don't get a lot of options or a lot of chances to really work on products from the very beginning. And, like, one of the first things I did when I started working at N6T was

I told them like, guys like you know the computers the cases right this is all great the coolers this is awesome but what if we made something that gamers could really use something they actually really need right and they're like okay so what do you do you know what's your idea and i told them what if we made a vacuum cleaner but for gamers right that's a nice high resolution uh quad and LED screen on it, right? You know, that will clean your messy cable management, right? They get rid of all that thermal pace that you're accidentally spilling everywhere.

Because, you know, that stuff gets all over the place. You know, that will let you know, you know, when cleaning time is done, right? It will help you with your KD in your games, you know? Like if you're not doing that great, just flip on the crack and clean, you know, and it'll just clear, clear all the cobwebs from your brain and just make you a better player, you know. It'll help you understand subtitled anime better, so you don't have to read. You can just listen, you know, if that's your preferred method. You'll just like instantly know Japanese.

It just happens. It's in your brain, and you can just watch anime even better, you know? it's such an amazing product. I'm so happy that we finally got it out there, you know, that we finally announced it to the world. So that's what we're doing today. Today we're talking about the crack and clean.

You know, we're going to suck up all the bad energy and blow out all the good energy because, you know, all the airs are to go somewhere. And yeah, so ask me any questions, guys, if you want, about this vacuum. it's an amazing product. Like I said, I'm really excited for it to finally be a reality. So, yeah, you know, it's got it going.

Pencil wants to know, what's the price? $1,337 is the going price. And the reason why is because it's a very advanced technology. We didn't just slap on like an LCD screen onto an existing vacuum. We built this thing from the ground up so that it, you know, has the most optimum sucking power to clean up, you know, all the gunk off your floor, you know, and make sure that those cables are perfectly routed, you know, in those N60 cable management channels. Picks, yeah, we have a video.

So we'll have pictures. We have a video on the, on our Twitter. We have a video on our Instagram. I think on the tweet post for this podcast, we also showed off a little bit of it, too. It looks great. It looks awesome. How much RGB? It has 460 addressable LEDs around the bottom. So it gives you a nice little glow so you can see it. Can it clean your dogs? It can. It's not designed for it, you know? It's very much kind of like the Cracken G12, right? Where it's not really designed for every single, you know, GPU PCB. But, you know, with a little bit of finagling, you can make it work, even if it's unofficial. Just a moment, guys. Excuse me there.

Pet issues. You know, we still recording live from home here. Can it be used? It can be used for karaoke podcasts. Okay, you guys had about the Sages feature in Discord. Yeah, it's a great feature. How much does you improve your KD? It'll at least improve it by one.

So just like our, on our BLD website, right, when you purchase a computer, it'll give you a estimate of the FPS you're going to get in your game and then we guarantee around 10% within that margin. Same thing here, right? So we're we're guaranteeing 10% of a 1% increase of your of your of your of your of your KD ratio going up for the crack and clean. Let's see here what else you got here. They did the crack and it in the cracker interface and rebranded the Rumba. See that's not true. See you would think that we would right but we didn't This is actually, like I said, built from the ground up. We used the highest quality materials.

We actually created our own motor for this. Motor for this. We went to the drawing board, right? And we thought, how could we make a vacuum better? And how can we have it solve problems for gamers out there? Because there are a lot of gamers out there, right? And, you know, there's a lot of problems when it comes to keeping anything neat and tidy. You know, my desk in general is always a mess.

to have a bunch of, you know, like soda cans and, you know, like all slips of paper from the mail and stuff like that. So it's always always nice to be able to do that. Can you see here. Is cracking clean in April Fool's joke? No, no. It's just very, very hilarious timing that it would be announced on April 1st. But no, it's 100% real. We're going to launch it super soon.

But, you know, and like I said, it's not inexpensive, right? It's very fairly priced, I believe. and I think it's going to be, you know, I think it's going to be a game changer. It's going to be a game changer. N60 Coasters, when? Don't be leaking stuff, right? Listen, don't be leaking stuff. Does it suck? Yes, it sucks very, very well. It is, it is a very sucky vacuum.

I mean, how else would you make it, right? How else could it be? Let's see here. Let's see here, what else you got? Any of the questions you guys got? Can I use it for crypto mining? So we were kind of toying back and forth with the idea of crypto mining. You know, my official stance on crypto is that I think it's a very interesting technology.

I think it can be very useful one day. But right now, it's something that we want to make sure that we can get this in the hands of gamers first. So obviously, the crack and clean cannot be used without N60 CAM. You had to have the CAM software. It's powered directly by CAM. and one of the things that we're adding in is a little bit of code that if it detects that you are mining for anything, right? Whether you're using it to mine for diamonds, you know, mine for iron or copper or mine Bitcoin, it will actually shut it off after five minutes so that you can't just let it

sit there and just suck up all the energy. So we want to make sure that, you know, the gamers can get at this product first before the miners are able to, you know, basically mess with the market as they seem to do in so many instances. Is there a charging dock? So there is a charging dock that we're looking into right now. That technology is a little bit difficult, but you can charge it with a cable and it will take a firewire cable. So you'll plug it into the back of your computer and it'll charge like that. With a color in purple, no, it'll come in black or white, just like most of our products. We might do a black and red version, but we'll see. Can a crack and clean be used inside your PC? Yes, it can because this also designed to clean up your cable management. Let's see.

Higher margin product. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Do you believe the E is the best letter in the alphabet? No, I believe that Z is the best letter in the alphabet. It's going to be wired or wireless. So for the moment being, we're looking at wireless. We're looking at wireless. We, so it's wireless-ish. So you can use it without a cable, but for it to be able to communicate with your cam and your computer, you have to use a included FM tuner inside of it. You got to tune it to channel 13.37, and it'll connect that way. like I said

very you know very very advanced high tech stuff here right does it have tempered glass

it does so there's a little bit of temper glass right at the top of the of the cracking clean if you if you look at the video that we that we showed

right with that screen is you know there's some glass so don't step on it you know don't drop it or anything and we'll you know we'll be good but you know

just like a in classic N60 fashion. If you do happen to crack that thing, you know, contact our customer service team. They'll be more than happy to help you with that and get your replacement. Does it have adjustable RGB that can be controlled from 100 miles away? Yes, yes, it does. Can you overclock it? You can, but we don't recommend it because overclocking does break the warranty. When would the Claymore add-on be released? We're actually looking into less than lethal. So instead of like a Claymore, it's going to throw packing peanuts at people. You know, just scare them off.

Nothing too crazy, you know. We don't want to get any, you know, we don't want to get in trouble for anything, you know. Trying to be nice with people. Does the server boost make you champion or something else? No, but if you buy the crack and clean, you'll instantly get legend status. We'll give you a full ride to the very top of the server.

It should be enough for most people I believe, right? It should be enough. Can you show gifts on display, like with the crack in Z? Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Mm-hmm. You can. And also, it also supports MOVs, PNGs, dot TIFFs, GIFs and GIFs.

Both of those also work as well. So, you know, that's, I think, a very important feature to note, right, that the Crack and Clean does do this. What add-ons will be able to the Clean? No add-ons currently announced. but I've been proposing, and this is me, that we maybe create a mop type attachment to this thing, so you can also mop your floors at the same time. And I also wanted to be able to not just clean, but also dispense thermal paste. I think that'll be like the app killer, right?

You know, that if you're looking for these types of vacuums, even if you're not a gamer, you might want to consider grabbing the crack and clean because of that reason. So yeah, you know, keep the questions coming, guys. You know, I'm more than happy to talk about this product. I've, you know, been working this for, you know, about a year and a half now. I'm pretty excited to get it out there. Will it be water cooled? So at the moment, it is not water cooled.

It uses a combination of steam to kind of cool down the components. through the process of evaporation, right? Kind of like how when you sweat, you know, you'll like feel a little bit cooler, right? So where dogs be scared of this crack and clean, they better be because it's a pretty beefy vacuum. Well, Pucci have a seat on top so I can strap them on top for the right. Nope, but that's a great idea,

and I'm going to steal that idea. Thank you for the extra money, because I'm going to bring that over to Johnny, and he's going to make me CEO of, NZ-XT. Could it be built into the custom water cooling of the PC later? Currently, we're trying to keep it separate from the computer. We don't want it to be dependent on having a NXT PC.

I think that's a cool feature, but you also want this product to kind of work as a standalone device, right, so that you don't need to have a computer, you know, because maybe you want to use cam from your phone, maybe you want to use cam from like a cloud-based software, you know, maybe you want to build, you know, cam within Minecraft using Redstone. I mean, you know, that's also a possibility. You know, you don't have to be limited to having a computer to use a crack and clean.

What was the greatest challenge in the development of this fantastic product? It was sourcing the RGB, you know. Right now, we're living in a pretty while time when it comes to what's going on in the world. And, you know, the supply chain has been pretty, pretty like strained, you know, like across the board. I mean, since last January. And the RGB mines have been pretty hard to kind of get a hold of and to source parts

from them. So I would say securing the resources for the RGB is probably been the most difficult on this thing. Is Johnny cool? Johnny, Johnny's pretty cool. Yeah, he's pretty happy with the product. will it be able to put my H210 on top of the clean? Maybe, maybe, you know? I know people have used it to skateboard. Could you install fans to clean the air? No, so that's actually going to be a separate product. This isn't just for the floor, for the floor and for your computer.

We'll work with or sync. Currently it will not. This will come with the built-in RTX 3090. No, so the internals of the cracking clean are as such. and let me go and let you know here. So it is not use a traditional GPU or CPU like the rest of the stuff that we have, right?

The Cracking Clean uses a proprietary chip that we've created and we're calling it purple silicone. So this should hopefully, you know, alleviate some of the stresses of sourcing their resources to create this product. And I know you guys are going to ask about RAM. It has a 13.37 gigabytes of RAM, but you could always download more for free

off the internet. It's pretty easy. you know? Can it run crisis? Yes, it can. We'll work on carpet. Not right now. But we're looking to,

former update to get that going super soon. Can it run a Hunter-Mundered Rise, most important selling point? So it also can double as a switch dock. So you can dock your switch into it and then use it as a pass-through for an HTML. So it doesn't really run Monster Hunter-Rise on your switch, but it can pass through.

We did toy with some extra processing capabilities, but we figured we want to keep it simple for the first launch. Does that wireless charging like birds do? No, it is not wireless to charge. It uses firewire cables. Can you also buy more virtual power that it absorbs more coolants? Sure.

Will it be powered via renewable sources? Yes, so it's actually, so as opposed to plugging it, in you can also power it with salt so if you want to you know give a quick charge to your crack and clean you know load up some apex love some fortnight rainbow six you know lose a couple games and then you'll be charged right back up again does it clean up when I run out of lew paper no it is not it's not can I do a flip yes and you can also do cartwheels what if what if you're tired of your wires being on fire then use a use a

water fire wire use water wire that's the like the next version of that of that cable um just for anything on fossil fuels no you know we we want to be sustainable uh and we think that uh salty gamer tiers are pretty are pretty sustainable resource you know there's like enough to go around um you know it's pretty uh inexpensive uh to produce uh gamer salt um the only you got to do is just really balance update to your favorite game and then it's right there good to go yeah you know pretty pretty excited guys pretty excited about this stuff um well firewire cable be water cooled not yet but we're looking to the technology it's going to be a little tough then be a little tough to get that stuff going how much salt per mile does it use uh so we don't really we don't really do it per miles that's not the usually

it's not the unit of measurement that we want to be using um that's actually really there you're Yeah, yeah. So H2 just showed up a photo here, and this is the prototype. Yeah, he got a, he got a photo of the cracking clean prototype. What's on top of there is actually a modified Nintendo DS. We figured, we discovered that running Picta chat makes it run a little bit quicker. Okay, this thing amplifying my Wi-Fi does not. Does not work as a Wi-Fi amplifier, but it can boost your AMFM radio signals. if you know what those are. So yeah. Some of the questions that people are going to ask, where can I buy the crack and clean?

So currently, it's not available to buy. It's just an announcement, but we'll be releasing it shortly on nzacc.com, and you can see the crack and clean in all its glory. And then alternatively, we'll also be launching it on Wish. This will be the first time we'll be selling something on Wish.com. So, you know, you have different methods of purchasing this. We think that, you know, having it be readily available for, you know, a lot of people, I think is very important.

Yeah, does it send out 5G signals? It does not. We couldn't get the license for 5G, so right now it's just an edge. It's just an edge network. We're trying, though. We're trying, right? It's, you know, it's going to heart. Let's see, any other questions?

And also for some things that you guys might want to know, it also supports both Linux and Mac OS out of the box. So you don't need to do anything special. It just hooks right up. It works. It's pretty much plug and play to get it like started up. But to, you know, change the settings, set your routes, you know, to do all the other stuff, you got to use N60 cam. So you can't use cam on Linux or a Mac OS. but you can turn it on with Linux and Mac OS,

but you still got to have a computer that has cam running on it, so you ultimately still need Windows. What justifies the grand price point when the average vacuum cleaner is $80 to $150. So the reason why the crack and clean is priced the way it is, is one, like I was saying earlier, it uses the revolutionary firewire technology to charge up. It also has that really nice LCD, a high-resolution screen and let you know when it's

time to clean, you know, what like the cleaning status of your room is, stuff like that. You know, it's pretty, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty advanced. And it also uses cam, right? So we think that the, that the inclusion of you needing to use cam on this, on this vacuum cleaner, justifies the increased price, right? That's about a 700% or so increase, and we think it's worth it. You know, Cam, Cam is a great program. I love using it.

I use it all the time. You know, I use it to monitor, you know, my computer, and change the RGB on my, you know, X62, and my air fans and all my strips and stuff on my H510 elite. So, you know, I think that people are really going to enjoy using cam even more now that we have the option to control your crack and clean directly from the software will clean the ceiling as well as my walls no will not can the crack and clean swim on land it does swim on land yes yes

if it put it on the sea will it clean the surface of the sea or it cleaned the sea floor listen the FBI might want to know your location just hold on a second don't move don't move okay don't move Yeah, so yeah, you know, I'm pretty excited. This is a super cool. I think that we're, we're really changing the game here, you know. We're really changing the game. This is, this is, like I said, next level technology. It's this crazy, crazy stuff that we got going here.

I think that people are really going to enjoy it. I'm ready for you guys to use it and to clean up all those messes that you have. does it have a ability to connect to my AirPods. It does not. It uses Raycon. It uses Raycon technology. Yeah, we're still working on the licensing for the other stuff. I go have a sip a coffee real quick. A quick second, guys.

Okay. Does it include plutonium? It does not. It does not. That stuff is not a you to get. CSO GameState Integrations is broken with cam and beta.

have we installed everything with no luck. That will tell you, man, but you can contact our support team. It'll be more than happy to help you. Does it include, does it come included with the manscape to lawnmower 3.0? It does not. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. You get a little suss here, homie.

You got to calm down. Are you developing any other household gamer appliances? Nothing to really announce yet, you know. Just like when people ask, you know, if we're working on this, working on that, you know, the answer always is that we're looking into everything, right? We're always considering what the next great innovation in gamer technology could be. You know, maybe it could be a fridge, you know, maybe it could be a toaster, a toaster oven, a waffle iron, right, like all kinds of stuff.

You know, let's, you know, we're really thinking hard here, you know, maybe like a Bluetooth speaker that's powered by cam, all kind of stuff, right? Anything that we can throw cam on, we want to do it. You know, I think that cam is like the next greatest, like, listen, right? When I build a new computer, you know, I install a couple things first, always, right? I install WinRarr because they just never charge you for anything, which is great, right? I'm always installing, you know, lime wire because I got to get my music, you know, I got to get ShareBar on there.

I install Steam. And then I install Cam, right? Cam was like, top of the list of things that I always load up right when I build the new computer just to make sure that it works, you know. Bonzi Buddy is one of them too, right? I'm always on there. You know, it's got a, you know, it's, I believe it's necessary. I think if you don't use Cam, you're probably not a real gamer anyway, you know.

So this product might not be for you. Does it automatically send me the best memes? It does not. It does not. What it will do, though, is you can send messages to it, and it'll leave you on red so that you know that at least it's looking at your memes. How much does it suck before you have to empty it? Quite a bit. It could take about five whole tubes of, what's that called, of grizzly cryonaut before it even gets halfway full.

Yeah. You have your cam open right now? exactly let look at you go real gamers on that can so it's up twitch chat you guys doing right here so yeah pretty excited i think uh you know like i said i think we're doing great things with this i think we're really changing the game um you know it's going to clean up a lot of gamer setups it's going to clean up a lot of that cable management you know if you think your cable management is good now wait until you get this crack and clean it's going to be sick it's going to be it's going to be nasty it's going to be super good can't wait for it will this change my

game. No, but it will change the game. The entire game is being changed. Does it work in space? It does not yet. We're working into space technology and faster than light travel. It's coming, though. It's coming. Don't worry about that. Look at that. I love it everyone like literally just has cam open. On the real talk, though, I actually do like cam. I think it works perfectly fine. I don't really have too many problems with it. It's like any software, right? Anything that blends software and harder together, you're bound to have issues, right? Because it's really rough to get those, you know, both of those things, you know, like perfect, right? But I think we do a good job in it.

And I think that we, you know, we do a pretty good job here with the cracking clean, you know. Can you get your groceries? It cannot. Does it get stuck on the Suez Canal? No. So actually, so we actually employed a army of NXT crack and cleans to the ZUES can't. to the Zua Canal to kind of clean it up there and fix it. It's been estimated that if we didn't, you know, gift basically all these vacuum cleaners,

that that boat might have never made it out as early as it did, which I think is pretty awesome, you know. But, you know, we didn't talk about it. We didn't make a big old thing, you know, we did it for the love of games. We did it for the love of the community. You know, we really just want to serve everybody. as often as we can. Does it have Xbox connect built in?

It does not. It does not. Can it outpeze to the hut? No, nothing can outpeze to the hut. Let's just be honest. Just be honest here, you know. Of course, it doesn't do that. When are we making a Mr. Fusion home energy reactor

that converts household waste into using nuclear fusion? That's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Yeah, we're not really looking, we're not really looking into, you know, doing anything with nuclear power just yet, you know, but you might need it, right? Maybe the, you know, the new series of video cards and, you know, in a GPUs, CPUs, APUs might need a lot more energy, right? You like to do set up for the podcast? Yeah, no. The, the stages feature on Discord is super awesome, super great.

For April Fools, can you bring back champions, then forget to delete it again afterwards? No, you know, I think we're fine without champions, you know. I think it's nice to have all the community in one spot, right, where people can't hide and just sit there and, you know, not really do anything. You know, I think we want to kind of encourage people to, you know, interact with everybody, you know. I'm always of the opinion that, you know, that if we're all hanging together, and we're all having fun. Great things will happen. And, you know, I think when you have a private channel like that,

it doesn't really, it doesn't really, it's not conducive to that kind of thinking, in my opinion. Boosters do be kind of did. It do be exactly, right? I mean, you know, we do have a chat for the, for the homies, and, you know, that's not really popping either. Does that face recognition will agree when you get home because no one else will?

I think you need to talk to someone, my friend. We're going to get my hands with that NXT cleaner. So as I stated earlier, you can get it on n60.com when it releases, and then we'll also be launching it shortly after on wish.com. So you can grab it from both those sources, I believe. That should cover most people in most regions. You should be good to go with that. And we're looking into adding the crack and clean into PC building simulator, you know, just to kind of clean things around when you're working on your contracts there. I think we're pretty cool. I think we're pretty great. All right, cool guys.

Well, I hope that answers most of your questions about the crack and clean. I'm pretty excited about it. Will this be revolutionary? Yes, it will. The revolution is already happening. It's just the beginning. You know, can change your blink, your fluid.

So, yeah, you know, I hope you guys are excited about it. I'm ready. I'm ready to get it. the cleaning, you know, to set this thing down and just have a giveaway. Yeah, no, we're definitely going to, you know, when this he launches, we're going to go super, super hard, right? We're going to do, you know, influencers and we're going to do tear downs. We're going to send one to Linus. We were to send one to Steve from Gambers Nexus. He says it's the greatest product he's ever seen. And he told me personally, he told me personally that it is, it is the single most

impressive gaming innovation we've ever created and that it has completely changed his mind around around cam and he says he's going to be using cam and all of his benchmarking videos from now on which i'm super excited about you know i can't wait it's going to be great you know it's going to be awesome props to him you know always doing diligent work you know providing people with like the most concise you know detailed information uh known to known to man and you know i'm i'm You know, I'm glad that he's, you know, taking an interest in our little cleaner, you know, to kind of clean up all the messes that, you know, results from PCs and PC building and stuff. It's pretty great.

I'm super excited. Hit the button, accent, my bad. Third-party cam integration from Twitch Chess from SuperBet 05. So we are currently working on some third-party integration. I believe right now we have some support for Orsync. that's a that's but that's a very beta like very early version so um you know it doesn't cover everything and as for razor synapse i don't to be honest i don't know if that'll be happening anytime soon or like probably at all um you know the everybody wants to have their own standard

for for rgb right you know when you make your own products um you know and i think just in general it's it's hard getting like just people in general to agree and i think getting you know multiple companies to agree to have their APIs be like super open like that might be pretty difficult but you never know right you know I'm not a I'm not a fortune teller right you know maybe one day we'll be working with Razor again and you know all over stuff work perfectly with theirs and all of their stuff will be perfectly with that so pretty pretty cool all right cool let's see here uh do you think NASA invented thunderstorms to cover up the sound of space battles probably too fast probably all right

Right. Any other questions about the crack and clean folks? Any other questions? Can change your name to be a peach? No, I would never do that. I would never do that. Let's see here. Any of the questions you guys have? I think it's pretty much. I think it's pretty pretty much it. I don't think there are any other questions people might have about this thing. Why is B not on the podcast? Because she's busy. She's busy making the server a better place. by doing cool events and stuff. Yeah, she's a busy bee. Does it have RGB?

It does have RGB. If you watch the video, you'll see that the Crack and Clean has, you know, 460 addressable LED lights, all controlled through N60 cam. Pretty impressive. Do you manage to do that? I'm excited.

I'm excited. All right. I think it's really pretty much it. I'm not sure there's anything else we can really talk about regarding this thing. thing. Oh, what I can say is the little arms are kind of grab up all the stuff, to like suck up all the gunk.

They're actually made from air RGB2 fan blades. So you know that they're, you know, that they're really good at moving around air. That they provide really great cooling. And it's really good at grabbing all that, all that dirt off your desk and cleaning stuff up. It's pretty great. So yeah, it's pretty, pretty excited for it. Pretty excited to have this thing come out. And for those asking if it's a joke, I'll tell you, I'll turn this back on you.

Clean setups, my friends, are no joke. All right. Having a nice, clean cable managed setup is not a joke. Nothing to make fun of. Super serious. Make sure everybody understands that. Okay. I think it's really pretty much it.

I mean, I'm not sure, not sure what else. Last question for me, will you all have a nice month? Yeah, I will. Awesome. Yeah. Of course, of course, of course. All right. So other than that, guys, you know, like I said,

keep your eye out for that crack and clean vacuum cleaner to come out. I'm guessing the NXXENSA had a hard falling out with the partnership they once had. Not really. It's just more of, you know, like, For example, so like, okay, so like, how would I say this without like, I was really nothing to leak

because nothing really coming out. Okay, so, okay, here's a really good example. So you know how we're working on a line of audio products, right? Or we were, and it's on hold right now because they're making it better, blah, blah, blah. So let's say five years ago, we made a collaboration headset with like Steel Series, right? I'm a big fan of Steel Series.

I think their products are great. I love their mice. I love the keyboards. I think they're awesome, right? we made a NXT branded steel series headset people loved it and it was great right but then five years after that we're like hey let's think about making our own headset right well it wouldn't really make sense for us to collaborate with the companies making competing product right i mean they'd be nice right in like a perfect world where you merge you merge two brands right but i would say the the like

the goal of any company that creates a product is to get people to buy their product over other companies as products, right? So it's not really like a falling out, it's more like, you know, for obvious business reasons, you know, we have to sell our stuff, right? We want to sell our things and make our money because, you know, collaborations, you have things like royalties and licensing stuff and, you know, it's money and legal stuff moves around and, you know, it's not easy as you think it is, right? And also like, you know, some brands and all of them are very protective of their intellectual properties, they're very protective of trademarks and stuff like that. and, you know, it's a lot of work to kind of hammer those things out

and for what might be a very big gain, you know. So, you know, I think, you know, I think there's always room for us to collaborate with other companies, you know, whether it be Razor, Steel Series, so on and so forth. But, you know, since we kind of make almost like a, you know, not so for one-for-one competing product, but since we make a lot of competing products, it kind of makes sense to kind of keep things in a house, you know. That's why we do partnership. with, you know, groups like, you know, we have giveaways with, like, Seagate, right?

And giveaways with 2K, you know, we don't make video games. We don't make storage, you know, so obviously it makes sense for us to do like a, to do like a collaboration with them. You know, we've done stuff with Nvidia, right? We don't make video cards there. So obviously there's no, like, conflict of interest in terms of, like, you know, who's buying what and where. Same thing with RAM, right, you know, but, you know, but there would be no reason for us to do

like a branded cooler with, you know, Gigabyte when they're, you know, make one, right? Or like a branded, you know, deal with, you know, I don't know, who else makes cases? Cooler master, right? We both make cases and it doesn't really make much sense, right? Because I think like, you know, I think if you like combine the two, it probably might not be very good. I think that, you know, every company makes the products that they make based on what they feel is like the best product for them and their audience and their customers, right? So I think that, you know, merging companies like that doesn't always necessarily make sense, you know. But again, right, I'm just on the social media team and just on the community team.

This is me kind of talking out, talking from a position of like experience within the industry, but not actually with authority on what's happening or what we're actually working on. Because for all I know, right, Johnny could be meeting with like, you know, Razor CEO right now and having to chat. And I'm just here talking up my butt, right? But, you know, it's just like, you know, it's just like a common sense-ish, uh, industry stuff, you know. Chevy is not going to make a collaboration car with Ford, right?

It doesn't make any sense. Johnny and Razor and CEO are one-v-winning on Rust. Yeah, exactly. Okay. All right. So other than that, I think that's pretty much it. I don't want to take out too much of you guys.

I'm also pretty busy and I'm tired at a very long night working on this announcement. We got a couple announcements. We got our Poochie stuff, our community roundup. We'll have support for the Packard Bell line APC's Packard Bell. Oh my God, dude, that name. Overwhelmed we're doing six up at the same time. Dude, you're telling me, man. You're telling me. Streaming this to like Twitch and then also Discord and watching five different chats. It's not easy. Hello, I just got here. Very interesting. Hey, what's up, Jesse? Uh, hope you're excited for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, of, of cleaning, cleaning, uh, cleaning, uh, cleaning related centered products. It's gonna make your life better as to make my life better. Okay. Um, um, um, um, um, uh, so, so, so just for it for you guys know, uh, we do, we do slash art giving away gift cards, uh, via gleam, um, for our, uh, uh, uh, uh, for our podcast.

We will not be announcing the winners, though, because not, we used to do it through Discord, but since we started opening it up to people on Twitch, not everybody is joining through Discord. So we can't, you know, we don't want to do like an incomplete announcement without like four people and then one, you know, one random person because they don't want to give on any personally identifiable,

uh, info. So we will be emailing all the winners. Uh, if you want to announce it yourself in general chat, you can be like, Okay, guys, I won the $105 Steam gift card. I'm super excited. It's $25. I don't know what it is.

Steam gift card. I want a Steam gift card. I want to say the wrong name or the wrong number than have you guys be mad at me. But yeah. But for all intents of purposes, I won. I win every week. I'm rich on Steam, buying all the CSGO skins, opening all the boxes, haven't got a knife yet.

$10,000 in the hole, let's go. Okay. First order of business here. Let me do something interesting here. Let me hear me type real quick on my nice keyboard. This is the right song? It's not the right song. I'm going to get the wrong one here.

This is not especially flea. Is it flea? Hold on. I think this is the song. Okay, here we go. Okay. Here we go. Community rent-up time.

So the winner of the emote contest was announced yesterday on our server. It's really, really exciting. It's the first time we've done, it's actually really distracting me. It's the first time we've ever done like an emote contest, specifically for remotes, which I'm super excited. So, no, I'm going to get this. Okay. So we ran a contest on our community Discord.

Discord.org. So, please join. Super awesome. Everyone there is super nice. where we tasked the community with designing a emote contest for the server. You know, we've taken things from the community and turned them into emotes, but never specifically asked people. So your top five in ascending order is fifth place is a bag or I play Fortnite every day,

who wins the $5 team gift card. Fourth place is Merv, who wins a $10 team gift card. third place is Lipsy congratulations of them for and they win a $25 steam gift card second place is I lost my window here second place is a trod I think it's pronounced it troed triad and they get a $50 team gift card and the number one winner big time smart boy of all time is Ben or Beven and they get a $100 steam gift card for their awesome moat design and it is little poochie way little bongo cat.

Get that Discord Netro, so you can use it. You probably should have put that in the rules, but, you know, it is what it is. Okay. Next to me announcement is Pucci's Pick will be announced soon. It is the first at April, so we'll be announcing that super soon. Keep your eye out. We'll also be posting our wallpaper announcement, our April wallpaper contest on Twitter. So keep an eye on that.

And you see. com slash Twitter. no, Twitter.com slash n16. We own Twitter now. And then, you know, as always, you guys better be on this. We are always looking for new moderators. Please.

There we go, yeah. Yeah, we are looking for new moderators, always on our on our Discord server. If you have some experience, let us know. Then apply. It is in the podcast channel on Discord. And, you know, if you don't know, if you can't find it,

ask someone they'll look up to you. Pugis Pouji's Pals. Pugis Pals is still taking applications. If you want to be a pal and help foster community and welcome people to the community, can do that as well. Pugge's professors is still going on. If you want to be one of our community members

who helps teach people about hardware and helps them kind of understand some of the intricacies, you know, please apply. Remember, this is not a who is the best of the best knows the most. It's a who can provide, you know, friendly advice and help regarding hardware in a manner that's like just super friendly you know because it's hard right like

getting in the hardware is not easy um like just yesterday i kind of goofed up and someone asked me about the uh nbdia recital bar stuff and i gave him the wrong information uh on twitter right which is not it's not good i definitely did not do my due diligence it did not give the correct answer so i asked me hey guys am i right on this because i feel like this isn't the wrong answer got back to her from our uh from our motherboard guy kevin and he's like no this is actually wrong tell our Twitter customer person this so I did and they're happy with that and so there you go right so that's that sad goes okay so we also have two two giveaways that we're doing on Twitter so one is I believe one is global someone who has to tell me because I don't know

but the first one is a collaboration with Seagate Seagate gaming we're giving away a cyberpunk themed wrapped PC, which is really, really cool. Chumbas only, right, with cool engraving and, you call it a engraved glass and a nice wrap on it, post that on book, Twitter, and on, sorry, on Discord and also on Twitch. And then we are also doing another giveaway collaboration with 2K, 2K, UK. So 2K games of the UK, give me some BK, I'm hungry. But this is limited only to people in... It's limited to people only on the UK.

Only in the UK. So if you're not in UK, you cannot win this computer, unfortunately. The reason why is because computers are very expensive to ship. And since this is one of a kind, again, the DM on Slack here. here we go yeah uh Australia Canada can China France Germany Germany Republic John the United States Kingdom United Kingdom which is actually interesting other than that I think it's really pretty much I probably forgot something I know I forgot something here I'll do this so last week's winners for the

wallpaper and set up contest actually we better do go go one week back oh actually actually no no another another cool thing so Over the weekend last weekend, we did our gamers for giving charity events with gamers outreach. Hopefully you guys listened to that last podcast. It was great. We ended up raising $36,691 and $6.691. A little bit short of a $45,000 goal, but it's super crazy because I think we set our initial goal at like $15,000. and we bumped it up like the first hour that we started the event.

So super excited for that. I was really happy that we got a bunch of money. Every what do, do this cast announcement thing on here? What? I'm going to do what you're asking me. I'm sorry. That sentence was just like,

it broke my brain. If you're asking if we do this podcast, every week we do this podcast every single week at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time in the official N6S. Discord server and Twitch. I think that's it. I feel like I miss something there.

I am tired. He has my question, those are answering, no worries. Okay, other than that, Canada is America's top hat. This is more like a bowler hat. Canada is America's fedora. It keeps us cringy.

Okay, other than that, I think that's pretty much it. Folks, let's cut this out here. Um, yeah, I think that's it. Okay, so thanks for listening. Really appreciate it. You know, you guys hanging out, uh, listening about this, uh, this, uh, this, uh,

a crack and clean gamer vacuum, super excited for it to be a reality now. Uh, when will the winners be emailed? Every time you ask about the emails or ask about announcements for the winners, we delay it by another hour. All right. With that, folks, thank you very much. Thank you for joining us, Dennis. Appreciate it, Dennis. Thank you very much. Thank you to everybody who tuned in.

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