PC Gaming is Officially the BEST! - WAN Show November 26, 2021

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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[0:00] Chapters.

[1:29] Intro.

[1:59] Topic #1: PC wins Best Gaming Hardware.

3:32 Comparing PCs with consoles.

7:54 Dark Souls wins Ultimate Game of All Time.

11:55 Other candidates for the award.

17:06 Linus's & Luke's "best" of genres.

[29:34] Topic #2: Tesla records YOU.

31:33 Tesla using non-validated self-driving.

34:15 Inaccurate promises by Tesla.

[39:24] LTTStore Black Friday deals.

[40:42] Sponsors ft technical difficulties.

41:03 Ridge Wallet.

41:42 Secretlab chairs.

43:00 Humio dashboard logging.

[48:50] Topic #3: GPU prices increasing again.

51:00 Samsung's potential 3nm chips.

[53:24] Topic #4: iBuyPower & Gamers Nexus.

57:26 A terrible deal is NOT a lie.

58:54 Linus's experience with rebadged GPUs.

[1:03:05] Topic #5: Qualcomm's exclusivity deal ending in 2022.

1:05:09 Linux topic, Windows is better at gaming than Linux.

1:10:32 SteamOS 3.0 & arch-based distros.

1:14:53 The intended point of the series.

1:19:28 Candy Crush, PUPs in Windows.

[1:20:24] LTTStore leak #1: LTT backpack.

[1:24:46] Ayaneo 2021 Pro.

[1:28:24] Merch Messages.

[1:31:25] LTTStore leak #2: LTT stealth circuit deskpad

[2:01:28] Outro.

Transcript

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0:00.0	And we're live. Welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen, got a fantastic show lined
0:09.0	up for you today. This is going to be the, this is kind of the hobbit approach to WAN
0:16.0	show, because we kind of had, we had WAN show and then now I guess we're having second WAN show.
0:21.0	Well, you are. I'm having second WAN show. But we didn't actually really talk about a ton
0:26.2	of tech news or what's going on in the, in the tech community on the last show. Then again,
0:31.2	half the time we don't talk about that on regular WAN show either. Okay, the point is gamers nexus
0:36.2	bought what I guess is there is called a scam prebuilt from i by power with a 10 year old GPU in it.
0:45.2	So we're going to be talking a little bit about that. Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be determined
0:51.2	to make each other's platforms less appealing. So we're going to kind of jump into that a little bit
0:57.2	later. What else we got here today? It's official. The PC is the ultimate hardware of all time for gaming,
1:05.2	for gaming for gaming. Sure. Yeah. Nice. Nice. Also, Tesla is going to use footage that records of you.
1:15.2	That records of what? It records of you. There's a new update to Tesla's full self driving driver's
1:20.2	assistance program and it's an agreement to accept a Tesla can use footage from both outside and inside the vehicle.
1:27.2	Brilliant. Who could have seen this coming? Let's go ahead and roll that intro.
1:44.2	All right, ladies and gentlemen, obviously, we're going to have to jump right into our first topic of the day.
1:59.2	PC gamer has reported on this surprise, surprise, games radar has supported reported on this.
2:05.2	The winner of the 2021 Golden Joystick award for the best, hold on, where is it?
2:14.2	Best gaming hardware is the PC. So there was some there were some there were some some nominees.
2:25.2	PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox Series S Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Nintendo Switch OLED WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD.
2:37.2	So this was the best gaming hardware 2021 shortlist. And then there was ultimate hardware of all time to celebrate 50 years of gaming and ultimate game of all time.
2:49.2	So the ultimate hardware of all time is the PC, which as much as I'm, you know, as obviously a lover of the PC gaming platform as much as I, you know, I get it.
3:07.2	The best individual plant of all time is trees. Yeah, it feels, it feels just kind of like a puff award.
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