- It provides a sensation of flight
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- Instead, we're giving you a show-and-tell of sorts,
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- Giving you a story behind each piece
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Today, I brought the Sega Dreamcast.
I feel like it was 199 or 299, I'm not sure which.
We've got four controller ports.
This was popularized by the Nintendo 64,
but around the back, what's this?
It's a modem, a 56K modem.
And it's detachable; just comes right off.
They sort of released a broadband adapter,
which is like a 10 megabit per second ethernet adapter.
They released more of them in Japan but very few in the US.
AV output.
And there's a serial port back here.
Basically, you could have it communicate
between the two games.
You have the Dreamcast,
and you have the NeoGeo pocket version of the game,
and you can transfer data back and forth.
It was actually the way that pirates
first began dumping games.
You could just pipe it out with composites
if you have it on your TV,
but that would look like ass.
Otherwise, you can get a box like this.
This is a Toro.
On the back here, there are switches.
And one of these switches lets you switch
between 480p, which is normal VGA,
and 15 kilohertz RGB, which is basically 4080i
because not all games support 480p.
If the game you're playing does not support 480p,
power off the console, flip the switch,
then power it back on.
It's an enormous pain, yes,
but it's less of a pain that it could be,
which is you don't get to play those games.
This is a open-source scan converter, or OSSC.
What it does is it takes signals,
like VGA or component or SCART,
and upscales them and spits them out via HDMI.
This abomination, it's kind of like
a proto Xbox controller.
This is a bad analog stick,
and it always has been bad and always will be bad,
and there's no rubber or anything like that.
It's just plastic.
This D-pad is also bad.
In the back here, we've got two slots.
Yeah, so this is a memory card.
This is a third-party one that has eight pages,
so I can flip between them with this little button here.
It has staves on it going back as far
as the year 2000, when I bought it,
which is kind of mind-blowing.
This one here though...
This memory card is special.
It is what Sega kind of banked on,
as far as the the Dreamcast's killer app.
It's actually a little console.
You can play...
You can load little games onto it,
like "Chao Adventure" from "Sonic Adventure" here,
and you can also manage your files with it.
And if you wanted to...
You could plug two of them together
and transfer files between them.
It was the most successful video game launch...
Like, console launch in history up until that point.
And then the PS2 happened, and then Sega left the market.
Out if all my consoles,
the Dreamcast has a special place in my heart
because not only was it the first one that I bought
with my own money,
it was also the first one that I modded in any way.
The long story short is that you can run software
on the Dreamcast that was not published
or licensed by Sega.
Emulators, MP3 players...
You could run DivX video players.
And that was the first kind of like spark that I had
that, like, I could tinker with things
that weren't meant to be tinkered with.
And I think that's really special.
Okay.
I don't think I ever took the time to get good
at this level though.
They did a partnership with Soap shoes.
Yeah, there's there's Soap ads.
One thing about Dreamcast games.
Most of them ran at a high resolution,
and most of them ran at a high frame rate.
- I brought you my MacBook Pro
that I got in like eighth grade.
This MacBook is the computer
that I first started streaming on.
It's also what I edited my "Rig Reboot" on.
Introducing my PC, a gateway to the past.
Found in the garage of a repossessed house.
Which kind of, you know,
got me more popularity with streaming, YouTube...
Literally everything I'm doing right now
is sort of because of that video and LTT in general.
- Well, that coupon code is for a discount --
- You say, "Cyu-pon?"
It's coupon!
The U comes after the O!
Love you guys.
This stuff is just random stickers people gave me,
and I was like, "I'm gonna put 'em on my laptop."
These are Egbert.
Egbert is my little egg character.
He wears a bunch of different hats.
This is a little cutout of the bird that Linus drew
on the lens of my "Rig Reboot" monitor.
And I was like, "Okay, I need to sticker that."
So I put it on this bad boy
'cause this is where "Rig Reboot" started.
I have definitely dropped this laptop a lot
and ran into walls with it, and...
- [Colin] But there's literally a sticker saying,
"Do not drop."
Is that at LTTstore.com?
- Yeah, it is, LTC...
(blows raspberry)
But there's a part two coming for those.
Different stickers, new stickers, better stickers.
The ports are a little...
For lack of a better term, (bleep).
(Colin and Madison laughing)
- [Colin] They're not square anymore.
- No, they aren't.
So sometimes I spit on it and then put it in,
and it works, and I'm like,
"I don't know why, but it works."
So it charged the computer and I was like, "Okay, cool."
I'm pretty sure this is from dropping it down the stairs.
And then also I like...
I was at school holding it, and then I, like,
couldn't see past the screen, and I walked into a pole.
It still works.
You can still shove an ethernet cable in there,
surprisingly.
Some of the keys are sticky too because, at one point,
Sprite got knocked on the computer.
Then there was chocolate milk.
Then there was orange juice.
- [Colin] Well, is there anything else
you wanna tell us about it?
- These are chicken sticks from, like, Costco.
Oh my God, they have, like,
garlic chili pepper seasoning on them.
Oh, they're so good.
- Today. I brought in my YeetMule.
This is a five inch or six inch freestyle quad-copter
that's running a DJI digital transmission system.
Also, it says "YEET" on the bottom.
And it's the first drone that I built from the frame up.
And I put it through hell.
It's seen its fair share of dirt and walls
and power lines and trees and grass.
This one has seen a ditch.
It hit the ground so hard the battery ejected.
I spent just under 700 Canadian dollars on this build.
I enjoy both flying drones,
and I do use the video for some things.
The video that comes out of this is incredible.
If I wanted to add lights or, you know,
have it open a a claw arm and drop something,
it's all something you can do.
Drones are just like building computers.
Once you're you're in the goggles,
it provides a sensation of flight
that you can't get any other way.
It corners and accelerates
like nothing you've ever seen.
I've been to drone races,
but I've never actually done any drone racing.
Over here is actually a grid,
and you can connect to other pilots' channels.
So if you're just a spectator,
you can watch exactly what the other pilot sees.
And you can just change the channel
if someone else is in the lead, right?
It's the ultimate spectator sport.
You just like sit there in your lawn chair,
and you goggle up.
- I'm bringing you my whole life.
It's a Leica MP film camera.
And also paired with that is the Leica Noctilux,
like, 50 millimeter F1 lens
from Leica M-75, which is like super big aperture.
So the apertures control, like, how much,
like, light that's hitting on the sensor or the film.
- [Colin] So you see you get that sweet Boca.
- Yes.
I spent five grand Canadian on this lens.
(Colin laughing)
It's crazy expensive, but never regretted it.
This thing, right now, it probably was, like, 10 grand US.
Probably not ever gonna sell this.
- [Colin] Did you have to justify it to your wife?
- [Andy] That was before I got married.
- [Colin] See, this is the only way.
- I can show you the inside.
There's nothing; there's no sensor.
- [Colin] So it's all mechanical.
- It's all mechanical.
The only electronic part is the light meter.
There's not that much of, like, electronic in this --
- [Colin] Can it run without a battery?
- [Andy] Yes, then you don't have the lyometer,
and that's all.
- [Colin] And that's it?
- And you can still shoot with this camera.
For shooting digital, I don't really care,
but, like, for shooting film, especially on Leica,
I think before I press the shutter.
- [Colin] So you develop your own film?
- Yes.
- [Colin] Is that a sous vide?
- Yeah.
For C41, which is the color negative film,
the temperature has to be staying around 38.5 degree.
Otherwise you're acquiring the, like, more grainy film
or, like, color shifts.
- [Colin] What do you like about Leicas?
- The build quality is super high.
It took me at least like couple of years to track this one.
Actually drove all the way to Seattle
just to pick up this camera.
God this in Japan; too bad they discontinued it.
- [Colin] Yeah, so film is getting rarer, isn't it?
- Yeah, this expires around, like, two years ago,
but it's still...
Like, I put it in the fridge.
I have, like, a half drawer full of film.
- [Colin] So do you know what a segue is?
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- Well, that's it for show-and-tell!
I really hope you guys enjoyed it.
No, seriously, I hope you enjoyed it
because I was on vacation all this weekend.
I haven't seen any of this, and I had nothing to do with it.
If you guys like these types of videos,
you'll probably enjoy our Intel extreme tech upgrade series,
where certain people on staff...
Actually, we're hoping everyone eventually.
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Get $5,000 for an extreme tech make-over from Intel,
and it is...
Man, it is amazing how much you learn about someone
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We've done Colton, Dennis, Riley...
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The guy has a $2,000 webcam as part of his setup.
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