tech news arrives here my soul receives it gladly I pass it on words we're not expecting to see Intel's new coconut Lake we're not expecting to see Intel's new comment Lake s processors until April but we do have some more leaked information to share it looks like the top end 10 core 10 900 K will feature a boost clock of 5.3 gigahertz on a single core using a scheme called thermal velocity boost which will activate the higher boost clocks when the CPU is that fewer than 50 degrees Celsius they're also a slew of cheaper processors all of which feature hyper threading but it should be noted that all three of the unlocked models have TTP's of 125 watts so if you want a comment Lake chip in your next build make sure your cooler is up to the challenge make sure it's super cool we're also expecting native Wi-Fi 6 support which we didn't see with the ninth gen no where I'm pricing yet but hopefully it won't be stratospheric yeah well they're not comments aren't in the atmosphere at all how about astronomic they're not an ionosphere they're not in the atmosphere you're talking about mirror cable providers aren't exactly the most popular companies but the US Congress thinks that my even devised a way to reel them in a little bit with the recently passed television viewer Protection Act of 2019 that's that's so 2019 which has just been signed into law the new scheme will force cable companies to tell you the entire package cost before you sign up including fees and you can also not be charged for equipment that you don't actually use and if you have buyer's remorse you now have 24 hours from purchase to get a full refund without any kind of penalty that's not that many hours but today I'll take it it's definitely good news for those of you that use cable boomers but unfortunately it still doesn't prevent providers from charging you out the wazoo for eight channels of MTV but that's on you because why do you have cable yeah if you've got a bleeding edge smartphone you might notice that you're now getting a little 5g icon on your screen if you live in certain cities in the US AT&T has rolled out 5g service in New York and the city not the whole state Washington d.c Baltimore Las Vegas which is the best Vegas Detroit and Philadelphia meaning that there are now internal 25 cities that support the new standard I don't know nah Vegas el Vegas and as being however this launch is primarily for AT&T zlobin standard 5g offering not the millimeter wave version that's expected to bring the fastest speeds but millimeter wave which AT&T is calling 5g plus will be available in pockets of Baltimore and Detroit so while it's not super widespread at lunch it is going to cover plenty of major cities man I'm glad 18d has made labeling 5g so clear cut it not confusing at all there's five GE which is really 4G regular 5g which is obviously like fancy or 4G and five G Plus which of course is the best it's what 5g is supposed to be love it now it's time for the quick bits 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being a modern anime fan can be more than a little overwhelming there are so many shows vying for your views but only a handful of the ones you check out will even begin living up to their potential and only a handful of those will ever totally fulfill it disappointments rack up and with them trepidation toward taking more chances until you're stuck watching the few massive sure things that everyone is talking about and maybe whatever your favorite youtubers recommend what if i were to tell you that there's a way to drastically raise your odds of discovering great new stories for yourself while simultaneously reducing the time you spend on disappointments the answer is to go back to something simpler less commercial more monochromatic reject anime return to manga i understand that this is a rather drastic lifestyle change i'm proposing you're here to watch stuff not read stuff you like the animation part of the anime the sakuga cinematography music and voice acting what could manga possibly offer to make up for all that for starters it's a much more expedient mode of storytelling than anime or at least it can be you can and absolutely should when you have the time mosey through your manga at a luxuriant pace pausing to pore over the finer points of each panel's artwork so that you can fully appreciate all the effort and time that goes into them that's even preferable for epic fantasy like berserk and nausicaa or horror manga like this one but you can also blast through like three volumes or more of your average shonen jump or shoujo beat thing in an afternoon without missing a beat absorbing all those visual subtleties entirely subconsciously the best thing about reading is that you get to do it on your own time however much of that might be available to you at any given time be it a bathroom break a bus ride the moments before class starts or the interminable wait between the bits of a zoom meeting that actually require your specific input you'll be surprised how much of your backlog you can clear just by silently stealing a few minutes here and there now you may think that you just don't want to read at all because that's for nerds but that's almost certainly a lie and not only can i prove it but in the same sentence i'll improve your whole life think about when the last time was you checked twitter and how much time you spent on it now consider how much less stressed out you'd have been if you'd used that time to read a chapter of one piece instead or sakamoto days or spy family or marshall or my hero academia vigilantes or original recipe take your pick it doesn't even have to be a shonen thing all that matters is all the good it'll do for your mental health to remove the cursed bird app from your home screen and replace it with bookwalker or the shonen jump app and if you're a fan of dorohedoro either the manga or the anime then today's sponsor stands to do just as much to improve your living quarters on august 14th figurama collectors 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folded organically into the action they can dump it all in one dense single panel diagram or multi-panel montage in anime an equivalent exposition dump might take a quarter episodes worth of dialogue to deliver and be much more obstructive to the overall story this leaves room for the rest of the chapter to still contain content that's not context and on top of that the fact that diagram pages tend to have simpler art and lots and lots of text also means that more time can be devoted to drawing and polishing all of those other pages improving the manga's storytelling quality overall this approach is so effective that both the jojo and dr stone anime lift it wholesale from their respective source material but in both cases the implementation's kind of janky as the strict run time limits of the medium mean that either viewers have to pause to read everything or the diagrams have to stay on screen for a while thus cutting into the story's content though i must say i still prefer that to the idotin deities approach of simply fast forwarding through all the exposition and still having it take too long but there's no fix-all solution for it because this is something that manga simply does better than anime and there are many other benefits to the medium's loose relationship with time like how having blink and yamism action shots frozen forever in a single panel means you'll never actually have to miss him and on the flip side a skillful manga artist can create a single image that encapsulates an entire scene's worth of events the zombie devil spread that i talked about in my chainsaw man video is a great example of that and like everything else in chainsaw man this aspect just keeps getting better with time because the reader is also an active participant in setting the pace of the story and turning pages to keep it going thriller and horror manga are able to ramp up their tension in a manner that's tuned to the sensibilities of each audience member while still delivering sudden and dramatic surprises at the flip of a page that principle is the foundation of junji ito's entire career of course it's not just the pacing of manga that makes his work sing so hauntingly equally important is his insanely disturbingly detailed art and whether it's a weekly shonen thing a monthly jose thing or something else entirely that's another thing manga will always always have over anime it's just inevitable when comparing a format that demands maybe 80 drawings a week to one that needs thousands in full color manga artists can take time that anime artists simply can't to carefully place shading and highlights perfect their compositions and craft subtle evocative expressions for their characters look at dr stone the difference between the flat stiff anime and the depth and detail of boichi's digital manga art is like night and day i can say the same for one piece and already have at great length and even for black clover the fact that you can't hear osta while you're reading it is honestly just icing on the cake yuki tabata's character illustrations are striking dynamic and endlessly fun to look at while the cross-hatched illustrative style in which the world around them is rendered lends it a distinct dark fantasy texture reminiscent of his biggest inspiration berserk and berserk is of course the best example out there of a manga so intricately painstakingly perfected page after page but no anime production no artist period save for the late great genius who created it could ever hope to replicate its full splendor but it's not just the enhanced detail that makes great manga art so impressive this is a medium defined by its limitations chiefly the uniform page sizes and cheap black and white printing of the magazine anthologies in which the vast majority of manga get their start because color pages are a commodity manga artists need to master composition and contrast if they want to catch any new reader's eyes and if they want to keep them they also need to carefully consider their layouts placing dialogue bubbles and composing images to guide your eyes through each page panel shapes and spacing sound effects perspective and even style of line art can all drastically alter the overall mood of a scene page or chapter there are as many ways to add subtext to manga as there are angles at which a line can cross a page we find a classic example in the very first world tournament arc of the original dragon ball in the fight between nam and goku note how the top panel of each page slants downward whenever goku is on the defensive and upward when he's winning it's a simple technique but the way it makes your eyes bounce around as you read helps you feel like you're actually following the flow of a fight instead of just scanning a page with a bit of tweaking unconventional paneling like that can also be used to disorient the reader for instance in his next fight against jackie chun the overwhelming impact of the series first ever kamehameha clash is sold with a reaction page that tilts the whole world tournament stage on its side forcing every panel around it to distort at odd angles and by following the last panel of a bug-eyed jackie stumbling to his feet with a smiling goku sitting back up in a near-symmetrical squared off frame the manga additionally informs us that its heroes powers of recovery are superhuman akira toriyama was something of a genius when it came to twisting the format of manga to his own ends and his influence on future works would stretch far beyond establishing the basic shonen battle formula of course manga has come a long way in the three and a half decades since he helped redefine it so it might be helpful to take a look at what a modern genius is doing with the medium more specifically a look back at the transcendent feature-length one-shot manga of that name that tatsuki fujimoto apparently spent the year since chainsaw man wrapped perfecting the storytelling starts as soon as you see the cover page a shot of the heroine fujino's room which will be used as a recurring motif throughout the manga marking the passage of time and her growth as an artist as the story proper begins we follow sheets of paper down the page flowing through a vertical panel that's framed at an unconventional top-down angle each panel that shoots off from it to the left shows how the kids in that row of desks react to the paper efficiently establishing the layout of the scene as the story is already in motion turning the page we get to see what they're laughing at as a manga within the manga with fujino dangling her copy of the newsletter out of her own panel as if to hand it to us accentuating the break in the fourth wall that this framing causes in a show of artistic restraint this panel pop-out effect which fujimoto loves using in chainsaw man won't be used again in this one till its very end another page turn brings us to another clever layout where as our eyes scan the bottom two panels of the right hand page then jump up to the top left it creates a zoom in effect on fujino's face the turn after that delivers a punchline to her comments on amateur artwork while the hilarious close-up reaction face framed opposite that artwork completes that zoom in and gives the effect a narrative purpose on the page after that we see her feeling small and lost in the exact kind of insanely detailed manga background that kyomoto is so dishearteningly good at drawing but within that setting the metaphor of a farmer sowing seeds helps her realize what it'll take to catch up to her rival flipping the page yet again a similarly framed shot of the fields coupled with a large close-up of her running creates the impression that she's suddenly breaking into motion the page after that tells a self-contained story book ended top to bottom with a google question and its answer while a scene within that one page story is bookended horizontally with two exterior shots of the same bookstore then in the four pages that follow that we begin to understand what that cover was setting up as a panel-by-panel montage of fujino's back hunched always drawing as life goes on around her illustrates the dedication effort time and obsession it'll take her to become a great artist and at the same time the deepening shadows in that room reflect the effect this has on her mental state i could keep going for the next 126 pages and honestly i've only scratched the surface of these ones look back is the best movie i've seen all year besides maybe inside and as a manga every bit as much a masterpiece as chainsaw man if not more so so just like read it okay i know it's only been a couple weeks since chainsaw man and odd taxi but it'll change your life again okay i know i've heaped a lot of praise on tatsuki fujimoto lately but he is just one talented artist out of many manga is a fiercely competitive industry and anyone with a regular slot in a big magazine is likely doing something to push the medium in a new direction not to mention learning from all the other creators doing the same which is one of the coolest things about keeping up with manga you get to see that visual language evolving in real time due to production lag it can take years for anime to react to and build upon the cool things other anime do but when a mangaka does something clever with the format or formula other creators can start riffing on it in a matter of weeks and in the space of a few months or a year depending on how long the creator spends developing their concept whole new series can spring up inspired by the accomplishments of still ongoing hits the newly minted shonen jump series trojan axe by suey ishida and the hunter's guild red hood by yuki kawaguchi both seem to have been chugging some of that chainsaw juice if you catch my drift leaning into the horror comedy tinged action bold experimental character designs and even bolder page layouts to incredible effect which is only fair as ishida's last manga tokyo ghoul was likely a huge influence on chainsaw man in turn tokyo ghoul is also of course a premier example of how a bad anime adaptation can ruin a great manga not just through a difference in art quality or plot pacing but a radical shift in focus to episodic action-based storytelling that turns what is definitively a dramatic psychological thriller into an edgy anime wrestling promotion they may as well be completely different series and i cannot overstate how good the tokyo ghoul manga really is not just in comparison to the anime but in general if you take this video's advice make it one of your first binges i'd also suggest reading tokyo revengers because while the anime is pretty decent in comparison to tokyo ghoul the only thing it really does to leverage the strength of its medium is add in voice acting and music while it's stiff ugly animation takes away so much of the visual dynamism that makes the manga as great as it is and sadly that sentence describes the vast majority of manga to anime adaptations from actually i am to zach bell it's just the reality of an industry that makes too many shows too fast for marketing purposes first and foremost that sometimes there just won't be time for the animators to do much with the source material beyond copy pasting manga panels from a vertical page to a widescreen storyboard and reducing dialogue to boring shot reverse shot loops sometimes that'll just be an episode or two in an otherwise good show like attack on titan others it'll be the whole season or a whole series from start to finish but you don't have to waste your time with that stuff you can just watch the only seasons of the promised neverland and one punch man and read the rest or read ahead in my hero academia and one piece and then skip to the parts of the anime where the animators could actually give it their all and the beach episodes the way i've come to see it if an anime or part of an anime isn't taking advantage of the fact that it's an anime then there's no point in watching it over reading the all killer no filler original and that attitude has saved me a lot of time that i'm then able to spend watching more all killer no filler anime some adaptations jiu-jitsu kaizen mob psycho 100 k on akira nausica one punch man ping pong devil man crybaby hori mia kaguyasama love his war b stars and kageki shojos spring to mind off the top of my head tear down the framework the original work built for its original medium and then use its parts to build something new that works as effectively an original anime reimagined from the ground up with every story beat rethought in terms of cinematography not page composition and many of these anime are among the absolute best out there so i can absolutely understand not wanting to risk spoiling yourself on those when they do come around but here's the thing if an anime adaptation of a manga is like that then reading the manga won't ruin your experience of it because it's its own thing something as worth watching as the manga is reading on its own merits which will not be the same merits as the manga you can and should do both for all of the things i just mentioned especially nausicaa the movie's good but the mangas in epic fantasy work on a whole other scale of world building and it's all drawn by miyazaki himself it's absolutely breathtaking now a rare few anime adaptations are actually just straight up better than the manga they're based on togashi's overwork induced health woes and stress resulted in a pretty lackluster ending for the original yuyu hakusho manga for instance while the anime both improves the art and rewrites the conclusion of its final arc to be more fleshed out and satisfying and plenty of manga to anime conversions about music given beck your lion april chaon and so on are naturally enhanced by the addition of actual music in a way that their original renditions simply can't replicate but these cases are rare most of the time if you like an anime it's probably worth checking out the thing it's based on if it's not just as good it'll probably be significantly better and that is really the point that i'm trying to drive home with this video not that you should actually reject anime i love anime also i've made a lot of videos about anime that i'd very much like for people to keep watching please but we need to break the mindset that sees anime is the default de facto version of any story that gets translated into the medium because if you don't read manga at all you'll miss a chance to experience some of your favorite anime all over again often even better and if you always put anime first then you're gonna spend years missing out on some of the best visual stories being told today but if you actually start trying to discover new manga i promise you're going to find a wealth of wonders cult classics and hidden masterpieces well beyond anything that anime alone could have shown you it's basically passion projects all the way down crafted by artists who've been pushing themselves each other and the medium itself to and past their limits for decades now with this video i have barely scratched the surface i stayed focused mostly on shonen stuff because it's what i've been binging lately and it's what most of you seem to be familiar with but there are just as many masterworks in the shojo cenan and jose spheres and beyond them even in genres animes conditioned us to dismiss out of hand like card game commercials and harem comedies you'll find absolute gold you have no idea how much great manga is out there i barely have an idea but with the likes of bookwalker and the shonen jump app putting more and more manga in your pocket every day it's never been easier to start finding out i'm jeff though professional bag signing out from my mother's basement


sponsored by audible go to audible.com slash vector or text vector to 500 500 to start your 30-day trial I've been using the Apple watch Series 5 since just after its introduction back in September I posted my initial review complete with all the little technical details of how all the new stuff worked just over a week later now I've gotten in a couple more trips but also a lot of regular life just day in day out using the series 5 as I've used every Apple watch going back to the first I've also switched from the Space Gray aluminum review unit to my own personal brush titanium so how has the first held up and titanium just what's up I'm Rene Richie and this is my Apple watch series 5 review one month later every year I swear I'm gonna buy the aluminum Apple watch it's sleek its slim it does everything Apple watch can do for a lot less money than any other Apple watch finish can do it then apples materials team hits me with something completely new in that first year with the series zero it was stainless steel with a black DLC diamond like carbon coating so strong that any time I thought some other metal or rock had scratched it it turned out to be my watch and had taken a bite out of the metal or rock instead like it was Batman's watch by way of Krypton or something the second year was Series 1 it was white ceramic it looked shockingly bright like the original iPod bright but felt like something from a high-end watch II watch company which is exactly what Apple had rapidly become year three and series 3 was gray ceramic I didn't like the look anywhere nearly as much as the white because it wasn't anywhere nearly as distinct less like stormtrooper more like storm clouds but it was new and I was such a sucker for new year 4 and series 4 was gold steal I wasn't sure I could pull it off and ultimately I ended up exchanging the one I bought for Polish Steel but I love the look I just wished Apple made the lugs to go with it all the lugs now was Series 5 I was serious aluminium sticking with aluminum even though Apple brought back the white ceramic and it looked every bit as Imperial as ever but they also went and added something new again titanium both brushed and DLC black and like I said I'm such a sucker for new I had the space black version at first but ended up exchanging it for the brushed metal because I decided I wanted titanium to look like titanium like metal like t800 endoskeleton metal they're both distinctive though and neither really resembles their stainless steel counterparts it's way lower key than the polished stainless steel almost closer to the silver aluminum so it's definitely not for the showy offi more for the confident chill same with the space black it's not the same Batmobile black as a stainless steel closer to the space gray aluminum but with all the benefits of metal the closest analogy I can come up with is stealth just pure stealth they're classified as addition which is the branding Apple is used for the highest end watches since the original 18 carat gold and the subsequent ceramic lines but they're barely more expensive than the stainless steel they also come in Apple's new watch studio packaging so you can choose your case finish and your band separately from a wide assortment of new sports bands sport loops even leather loops the lower price and flexibility does come at a cost though unlike the early years of the addition they no longer come in any extra fancy box or with extra fancy accessories like the charging disk of editions old and I mourn that not this way is better and I'm absolutely loving the low-key quality of the titanium it's so get shorty it owns it just doesn't really care if you know it or not for some people the Apple watch series 5 barely qualifies as an update for others it's transformative count me firmly in the latter camp the biggest thing I've complained about year after year series after series is how the watch's biggest problem was failing at the one function that was actually contained in its name being a watch part of the watches appeal from day one was how glanceable it was you didn't have to go back to your mat didn't even have to reach for your iPhone you could just glance at your watch for everything but just quickly discreetly glancing at the time well series 5 marked down asterisk finally fixes that with style with aplomb more specifically with an always-on display if you really want to be all casual and crafty about it it works best with one of the really big watch faces like large or numerals because they're really easy to see even with the dimmed out power saving mode I'll always make it a point to switch to X large if I'm I are L and need to be able to check the time on the DL on the flip side when you're in an important meeting or out at a fancy dinner other people can now see your watch face all the time as well so I tend to go with something fancier like California or the new Meridian yeah it's totally shallow but only in the most superficial way possible I thought I wouldn't keep changing faces that I'd get too lazy that I just keep it on infograph modular which is my work add a dashboard face but I've been changing them up much more than previously and I'd forgotten how much fun doing that really is I haven't flipped the switch to blank out private health complications in always-on mode mostly because I don't use any of those complications beyond activity rings and I don't care if anyone sees that but I still love that it's a switch that can be flipped so yeah again always on smartwatches aren't new by any means but Apple as is often the case really nailed the implementation it's so good I sometimes still forget when it's in always-on mode and I need to turn or tap to return it to normal before I can check notifications it's that well integrated maybe too well I'd love something like Mac OS is pass-through where a swipe would both wake it up and trigger the usual interaction in rapid succession battery life has been controversial with series 5 to say the least I know some people were getting much worse battery life than they did on previous Apple watches especially in the first week or two much much worse a lot of different theories got floated as to the cause from the new cellular modem to the new noise app to the obvious the always-on display I personally did have some trouble with the connection between my Apple watch and iPhone in the first day or two which resulted in it draining quickly especially while I was traveling but repairing cleared it right up and yes that is the mass driver reinstall windows of the Apple watch world earlier this week I asked on Twitter to see how people were doing now and it seems like recent iOS updates of which there have been a few have fixed a lot of the issues both on the aluminum at first are the titanium now I'm getting a little less with always-on on then I got with no always-on at all on the series 4 I typically finished the day with between 20 and 40 percent depend how intense my usage is that's down from between 30 and 50% on the series 4 I expect Apple will get it back up too similar if not the same levels but even if they don't it's not much of a battery price to pay for always-on at least not for me slowly but surely Apple has been scratching off almost everything on my watch wishlist performance cellular edge to edge display always-on display everything almost the only big thing remaining is independence from the iPhone same way the iPhone eventually gained independence from iTunes it hasn't happened yet but watch OS 6 has taken a big step in that direction with the on device App Store now I can go around with just my Apple watch and if I need an app for something anything I can get it right on my Apple watch it hasn't been perfect at least not for me not yet first day I grabbed the first app in the list and while it installed and set up just fine when I later added it to my iPhone as well it couldn't pull any data back from the watch app reversing the process worked just fine but I shouldn't have to especially because the idea of going Apple watch only for periods of time is so compelling there's been a lot of talk over the last couple of years about us all of us over using our phones some companies have marketed smaller less useful phones as an answer which i think is just silly some people have taken to installing social media apps only on old phones they keep in the bottom of bags or drawers which seems like just too much work for me Apple and other companies have shipped screen time and similar monitoring systems as well but I've started to just use my Apple watch it lets me stay up to date on anything important anything critical which lets me also stay relaxed but it's also damn near possible to get dragged into social on that tiny little wrist screen I have sound turned off all the time and most notifications set to deliver quietly as well so I get them on my terms not theirs plus you get all the health and fitness benefits only the Apple watch can really provide speaking of which there are some health and fitness features new and old I still haven't explored enough to really review I love the new life saving feature international emergency calling any Apple watch with a cellular modem can now call for help in most places in the world even without a cellular plan but I've also just started exploring the quality of life saving features hydration leap tracking fitness trends a while back I tore a bunch of ligaments in my ankle and it really slowed me down that plus a hectic schedule really got me down last week I downloaded a bunch of apps and set up a bunch of stats and I'm gonna see what I can do with them and what they can do for me over the next couple of months I'll do a what's on my Apple watch and why if anyone really wants to see it but I'll also report back when I do the three-month review in early December I like the compass on Apple watch series five more than I thought I would I don't use the app but I have put the complication on my regular walking watch face to glance that when I'm in a park and want to make triple sure I'm going in the right direction which is something I often need to do and I just plain love how much better it makes the watch at walking directions there are some other new apps as well that will not unique to Apple watch series five really round out the experience I haven't used the new calculator app much yet but I'm glad it's there the nerdkit in me still wants a calculator watch face though for fun voice memos are great I've used third-party apps a ton and while this is basic by comparison it's always important to have the basics built in the Noize app is both cool to look at just to see the complication bounce around so much and empowering because I never realized how or where loud noise was impacting me especially the door alarms at airports that seem to go off so always so everywhere and some of the music levels in restaurants as well the cycle app I asked my colleague Laurie Gill about and here's what she told me it's a it's a really great program it's a really great feature to be added to the health app I think more companies should be paying more attention to women's health I love that Apple has included this if I'm keeping track of when my cycle is happening every month if something is different if I have symptoms that I don't usually have or if I miss a period or something like that this this allows me to keep track of that information so I can bring that to my doctor if I do start to think that there's something wrong with me I think the one thing that's a missing feature from the cycle tracking is women who aren't trying to have a baby so it's very much geared toward that for there's two aspects to it that you can just track your cycle and that's that and then there's all these great features that are intended for people who are trying to have a baby I'd love to be have a more robust set of features that help you track those other symptoms that you have even though you're not having your period just a way to sort of change the interface so that it you can you can even have the app show you all the great features you can use if you're trying to have a baby and all of the great features you can use if you're not trying to have a baby then there's the audiobooks app which honestly I don't use because I've subscribed to audible since practically forever more than ten years forever you can listen anywhere thanks to the audible app even on your Apple watch while at the gym shopping in the car traveling anytime you can't read you can listen with audible right now I've just started listening to the ride of a lifetime Robert Iger is lessons learned from 15 years as a CEO of Disney not only did he inherit the Magic Kingdom he bought Pixar and Marvel and Lucasfilm and Fox and was on apple's board of directors until very recently and that just puts him at the confluence the 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for the sum total of recent upgrades especially rolling up connectivity from series 3 and design from series 4 with always-on from series 5 and I can see even more people getting into Apple watch for the first time with series 5 because of always-on and the way it shows time meanwhile I'd love to know what you think hit like if you do subscribe if you have it already always on that Bell gizmo so you don't miss the next show and then hit up the comments and let me know Apple watch series 5 got it want it or skipping it and why thank you so much for watching see you next


toys plastic play things designed for the sole purpose of getting parents to spend money on something to keep their kids occupied while they do more important adult things at least that's the old definition of toys and that definition has been in a constant state of evolution for many years now with more and more adults becoming collectors of these little plastic people and the hobby going more and more mainstream toys are no longer made just for children but when did this start exactly there's probably no one answer to that question as no doubt many adult collectors are now still very interested in a lot of the things that they loved as kids but there is one man who knew that he had characters that would make great toys and he knew that those toys should be made for his fans specifically for the collector we're gonna take a trip back to 1994 to talk about todd mcfarlane and the launch of the spawn line of action figures today on toy splosion welcome to my world from [Music] while the wave from the 1980s certainly lasted into the early 90s by 1994 it was clear that the landscape was changing the ninja turtles were still around but they were nowhere near the level of popularity as the new kings of the boys toy isles the mighty morphin power rangers and by this point children had already been heavily entrenched in the 16-bit video game wars between the super nintendo and the sega genesis and they were on the verge of a new generation of gaming consoles with the impending launch of the sega saturn 90s tude was in full swing two of which you could certainly see across the covers of your favorite comic books ooh shiny just two years earlier the comics industry had quite the shake up a group of eight creators all banded together todd mcfarlane jim lee rob liefeld mark silvestri eric larson jim valentino wills potassium and chris claremont were looking for a venue for creator-owned properties which could be published without having to give up copyrights it was dubbed the exodus since many of these creators were known for their work on the x-men books and in 1992 image comics was founded in may of that same year todd mcfarlane introduced the world to spawn todd was already well liked by comics fans for his work on spider-man before helping to start image comics with image he now had the opportunity to tell stories with his own characters spawn was a character that he created when he was just 16 years old and with the first issue released in 1992 the character found immediate success with that first issue selling 1.7 million copies with this success todd was ready to do more with his character many sources cite that at this time todd had begun collaborating with mattel on a line of action figures based on the spawn comic books but this quickly fell apart as the two parties could not agree on how to produce the toys to mcfarland's satisfaction leading to todd reclaiming those rights however i had the opportunity to go straight to the source and talk to todd mcfarlane himself about this and his version of the story is a bit different so people have a tendency to look at charts and they just go hey this thing called spawn this new thing's at the top of the chart so once that happened then the phone started ringing and and and some of the people that were phoning were the were the toy companies right so the toy company started phoning so it was it was i got a phone call pretty much from all the big players right uh some of them were a little more aggressive and and somebody like mattel actually came in and did a whole presentation and showed me sculpts and packaging and everything else uh and it was like okay so it wasn't like they were had an inside track or they were the favorite they just were one of many uh that made their presentation that confirmed to me that what i thought that i needed which was in simple terms they say non-traditional toys being sold in non-traditional places so what i was sort of asking for was what i was hoping for uh wasn't just that's not how they sell toys they're in the six-year-old for the most part six-year-old selling to mom and dad in traditional places uh so i i just decided that i'll just give it a whirl myself like how how hard can it be to sell plastic goods so with that todd's toys had formed this new company kicked things off with a line of six action figures based on the spawn series of comic books now that he had his own company he could make the toys the way he wanted the first six spawn figures were unlike anything else on the market at the time they were highly detailed with a lot more paint applications than you saw on a typical action figure each figure came sealed in a plastic case instead of the traditional cardboard blister cards and also came packaged with an exclusive comic book the amazing grotesque details of the characters coupled with the higher price point of the action figures meant one thing these were not made for kids no these toys were made for collectors the first wave of figures wasn't too different from other toys at the time as far as the overall builds go spawn stands around the 5 inch mark and features basic articulation at the neck shoulders hips and knees where these figures truly stand out are with the highly detailed sculpts and paint deco spawn of course includes his signature oversized cape as an accessory it attaches to the figure in a unique fashion there's an extra l-shaped peg that connects to the figure's back and then plugs into the inside of the cape you can then fasten that cape around spawn's neck with the removable skull clasp the cape can also fold open or closed a crease in the plastic is flexible enough to allow for this though it's tricky to get it to stay in any position other than the way it comes out of the packaging this was the first of many many figures based on the title character it's certainly something special as you can see the dna of what was to come from the company in the following years here's where we start to see that more grotesque creep factor that you just wouldn't find in action figures geared towards a younger audience clown is short round and ugly he has real feel hair sprouting off of his balding head which actually makes him feel even nastier somehow the figure only has articulation in his arms which is also very hollow that's because he has an action feature by turning his right arm the clown head will fold into the body and reveal an ugly demon head in its place also includes this giant chicken leg accessory which is a bit odd as it has a handle under the bone in order for clown to hold onto it but it doesn't quite fit into the figure's hand very well one thing you can see with this line is that the figures were not stuck to all being just one size mcfarlane attempted to make these guys in scale with each other the best that he could which resulted in figures of many different sizes in this first wave tremor begins to give us some of that larger heftier figure in the line he's much bulkier than spawn he has an action feature as well by pressing the button on his left shoulder his fist springs forward for a punch attack revealing circuitry on his arm within so as i was saying the scale between characters is one of the standouts of this new collector line format overkill is massive he's tall bulky and is very heavy when compared to the other figures in this first wave he is quite an impressive action figure he's another one in this first wave that includes an action feature which unfortunately has not aged very well a spring in his body and a button on his back would allow his head to launch off like a missile unfortunately the head will no longer click down and this is a figure that i just opened straight out of the packaging [Music] violator is a bit interesting because he's more like a bendy toy than he is an action figure the entire body is made of that soft wire frame body that allows you to bend and pose the figure all around this does of course create a bit of a challenge when trying to get him standing on a shelf for display he does still come with his own action feature by moving the horn on top of his head the jaw can open and close the sculpt is still really well done and quite grotesque but i can see a bendy figure being a tad disappointing to collectors luckily this would not be the last time macfarlane would release a violator action figure the final figure of the first wave was also a variation of the title character but one that would go on to become a fan favorite of the line medieval spawn has a different look than that main version his cape isn't quite as big and attaches a bit different just plugging into the back of his oversized shoulder pads he comes with this excellent shield that can be held in his right hand or can slide over the wrist on his left arm the latter is likely preferred as that also leaves his right hand open to hold on to the included sword to fully arm up the character this first wave of figures were quite action feature heavy something that you would eventually see phase out as the company began to focus even more on the high details spawn figures became less like action figures and more like little sculptures in the years to come but along with those more detailed sculpts and collector packaging these new toys also would start something else that would become a staple of action figure collecting variance that's right not only did we have these six new figures to collect but there were variations to hunt down some of these were simple packaging variations maybe the card back changed colors or as in the case of the clown here you might find him packaged with either the clown face or the demon head you might find a color variation like with the original release of tremor being orange but then changing to green or there could be another variation of a character altogether like the popular unmasked version of spawn lovingly called hamburger head by the fans even kb toy stores got an exclusive all gold series of the first wave of action figures ah those pesky variants sure it gives you more to hunt down and collect but could also be the nightmare of a completionist the first wave of figures was capped off with two vehicles the spawn mobile and the violator monster rig and we even got a spawn alley playset spawn stole the show at that year's new york toy fair and toys r us signed a large contract to carry the toys they soon became a massive success just one year later in 1995 trouble popped up with mattel you see mattel was unhappy with the company being called todd's toys because they felt that it would cause confusion in the marketplace with their barbie brand because they had a character named todd seriously that was their reasoning never mind that todd was todd mcfarlane's actual name does anyone even remember this barbie character now did this cause you confusion oh wait never mind yeah i'm actually pretty confused right now but the company was unfazed the name would quickly be changed to mcfarland toys and the company would go on to essentially revolutionize toy making the company would continue their spawn line of course but would also find success with many other lines such as tortured souls movie maniacs dragons and sports figures in 2020 mcfarland launched a crowdfunding campaign through kickstarter to pay tribute to the launch of his company by releasing a brand new updated action figure of the very first spawn the campaign met its funding goal within minutes going on to bring in over 2 million dollars and become the most successful action figure campaign on kickstarter it's clear that spawn and mcfarland toys are still quite important to action figure collectors todd mcfarlane launching his own toy company in 1994 inspired other artists to follow suit the genre of the designer toy was born and more importantly than that this was arguably the birth of the collectible action figure just one year after the first wave of spawn figures hit store shelves star wars made its return to toy isles with the power of the force ii line of action figures it of course also had a huge collector market going for it and soon many toy companies would follow up with their very own collector marketed lines but mcfarland toys was one of the very first toy companies to proudly exclaim that toys weren't just for kids and that is why spawn deserves its place in toy history hey guys thank you so much for joining me for another episode this ended up being a topic that was a lot of fun to research i was inspired to look into it uh once the spawn kickstarter began and it ended up being a total blast i have to start by giving a very special thanks to the todd father himself todd mcfarlane who spent an hour and a half chatting with me and uh it was awesome because he was happy to answer questions for this specific episode about the start of the company uh and that actually helped me out a lot because his information his first hand information um was different than everything that i had researched so that was that was really awesome if you haven't already seen my full interview with todd it's mostly about the kickstarter and modern day stuff but make sure you guys do that as well it was awesome that he took the time to do that of course i have to give a shout out to our sponsor over at megalopolis city of collectibles the link is in the video description and of course all of you on patreon whose names have been scrolling across the screen thank you guys so much for your continued support i me mean that i really really mean that i could not be doing this without you guys thank you all so much for watching for your comments for liking and stay tuned we got more of these on the way until next time my


[Music] so this is gonna be a different kind of video today it's like the old days before that guy where'd that guy for that guy worked for me all right Phil's got work to do on a different edit so we are doing things Jenna so we're gonna we're gonna do things old style here using my old Sony Handycam where I am going to be doing some of them in win98 stuff you know what guys I got new merch it's available now karma calm /jc sense we got zip up hoodies we got tri-blend we got a new logo I digress since 2012 but the rest logo you guys been asking for that anyway well guys we all kinda stuff zip up hoodies beanies polos don't take my word for it cuz obviously I can't do this edie so just look in the description below and you guys will find the link Thanks so as you can see right here we've got the in win nine to eight I'm sorry about the audio guys it's gonna sound kind of crappy but this is literally how I used to do it back in the day so we've got the in win nine to eight completely disassembled we've got the motherboard tray back here get all the fans and stuff out because we're gonna be painting all these parts we're how I said the finish on here is terrible how that's just fingernail right there how the finish is so rough that just handling it look like that these are the skins I mean I mean that's just gross in when you make amazing stuff please fire whoever's doing all the coding for your stuff anyway I digress we are going to be putting the CPU block and the CPU in the motherboard I was thinking about kind of marking where some of the pass-through fittings are gonna go a I'm gonna be passing fittings through the motherboard tray like I did with skunkworks the problem is I'm not entirely ready to do that yet so I'm gonna probably have to do it after the fact which means I could take a chance of chipping and nicking the paint and then having to touch it up but that's just a chance I think we're gonna have to take the reason why I'm not doing it today when I don't have my step bit fitting with me actually yes I do but - I don't have the pass through bulkheads at least not all the ones that I need and until it's all reassembled I'm not sure exactly where everything's gonna have to go so that's what we're gonna do today I could take the motherboard out because I can put to us EQ and stuff in there without it inside the case but I do think that we're gonna have at least two tubes coming through top right here and then into the CPU block I kind of want it all to be separate I think but drilling anything before I know where I want the loop to be is just a bad idea I'm telling you right now one of the best things you can do if you have a build like this has lots of parts you need to set aside get yourself a big Tupperware tub like this so that you can set your parts in there not go looking for them because you can lost them later on I've done this very thing any times knuckle tub but losing them but I've lost so many small parts especially screws and stuff which is also why I have these magnetic tins when I'm working on things so that I don't lose the screws and make sure they're all nice and flat in there so they don't fall out so these are all the screws from the teardown the last thing I want to do is be losing these so those are also going in there but I take the motherboard out and prep this because we are gonna be painting it painting I've said a million times is the simplest way to mod it's one of the cheapest things you can do for modding we painted those tubes in that last build and I said before that I don't like the idea of painting tubes and stuff it turned out so good clearly I was wrong about that the other thing I did in preparation for this is I cut out all of the fan filters because these are on the exhausts I'm good the air is coming up through this so I don't want to block off the airflow for air to come out of the radiators and through the top so I did that for both actually that's about one didn't have pictures this one had filters so I did that for both of the actual tops of the earlier videos go you can see here is no perfect prime example of why I'm doing this paint you see just how gross that's gets in fact if you go and look at in one's own website like their own video about the anyway nine to eight there's grease all over it there's fingerprints there's fingernails scratches because literally I'm never gonna stop harping on this until they decide to upgrade their anodizing quality it is the worst on the market so in the best design cases in terms of aesthetics and just being different but the worst finish when it comes to the actual aluminum parts not the out the outside it's amazing the brushed aluminum but the the curler that the core the main parts of the build terrible now you can also see here on the motherboard tray how I've got multiple pieces still attached that's because I don't want to necessarily take some of these pieces apart and get paint build up and then where they won't go back together nearly as tight or as flush as they fit now so because this piece the bottom piece and all that are gonna be staying together we're gonna get a nice even coat on all of it and I can't get the stand up it is gonna cover up like the paint is gonna cover up some of the screws and stuff but I don't plan on taking this apart like this particular piece so I'm okay with that so to prep it we're just gonna be going through some kind of scotch brite I guess I'll take it out of the package but we're just gonna be going through and scotch writing all of the surface to get off I needed like the fingernail gunk and stuff that might actually be on there and just give me better promotion for adhesion when it comes to the paint that's gonna be going on here but once you do that though you have to wipe it down because there's going to be it's not gonna be able pick it up on camera but there are little fibers and stuff to sort of see it on my fingers right there left behind and for that we're gonna be using that high pressure PC blower thing that I've had for a while and if we need to wipe it down I've got these painting white cloths that are designed to sort of pick up all of that debris and loosen up the circus see now I don't feel anything there so that's what we have to do now to all these parts okay so all the parts are prepped they've been scotch-brite in they've been wiped down and degrease and all that sort of stuff so that they're ready for payment I love these gloves these are the venom steel rip resistant gloves I use them we're working on computers we're like finger oils and stuff like that if you're gonna be painting or working with tubes and all that sort of stuff you don't want to get finger grease everywhere use these there's no talcum powder or anything they are amazing and since I'm gonna be painting I want to get all over my hands and stuff I'm using these obviously for that very reason but you can kind of see by looking at the finish it looks a lot more matte now I guess the best way to put it but now it's extremely smooth to the to the touch now if I rub my fingernail on it it still transfers but not nearly as bad as it used to but it's still rough enough to where it's gonna give us a good promotion a promotion of adhesion adhesion promotion yeah that's it so I've kind of I got some stuff on Amazon too that I'm gonna use for making a painting rack because the last thing I want to do is be painting this stuff and then putting it down like flat on a table or whatever because then anything that paint touches obviously it's gonna stick to the table or cardboard box or whatever and because I want this paint job to be as good as possible it means that we need to make sure that we are doing it right so I bought a couple of cheap like $17 rolling close racks like you would hang like shirts and jackets and stuff on from Amazon I went to Lowe's and I bought some of this this is just solid 14 gauge wire it's about 15 bucks to the roll it's 50 feet worth and I can use this wire to hang it yeah this cheaper wire you could find but I didn't have anywhere nearby where I could go and get like just single strands of wire that were thinner than this but this will fit through the screw holes so I can hang this from the rack so I'm going to put that together and if you guys want to know links this up I'll put it down below if you guys want to do something similar for your own painting setups and then we're gonna be painting it outside like we've been painting everything else so we basically just created like these little hooks and things sending an automotive shop with our painting pieces because you can get to it from all angles and you want to spray vertical rather than horizontal spraying down doesn't work as well you can get big drops will come out of the can this is the color that I'm going with right here this is the Krylon fusion all-in-one paint and primer but I was gonna consider using the engine enamel that I used before although this is more of a gunmetal color than the black and it turned out well just not exactly like I liked all right so here's the way that they look with about three coats of paint on their very metallic finish it's still got a lot of overspray on it a lot of dust that has to be taken off you can kind of hear the texture there on how rough it is but I've already started wiping like down here off you guys you can see the way it looks this much see how it's not making that noise now because I've already sort of started smoothing it out okay so slight change of plans I've decided to go ahead and scotch-brite all of the parts because there was just too much of that metallic flake sitting on the surface it's not like paint particles that you can sort of buff off these are far too heavy and far too thick to do that so I went ahead and used scotch brite and made it nice and smooth which means that now we are gonna have to prep this for clear coat I wasn't planning on doing a clear coat but now I'm gonna have to because clear is how you're gonna make the scratches and stuff like if you look in there you can kind of see how those marks and stuff the scotch brite also evens out the paint you've got high spots and what this will do is it will allow you to more easily make the paint even which is what is gonna make the paint look terrible if you've got high spots low spots high spots tend to be shinier because there's thicker paint so it's more like wet looking so yeah alright so it's actually the next day and the reason for that is a couple of things have happened in between turning off the camera last I told you guys I was gonna have to do the clear coat on there because of just keeping it nice and even it's turned into a much bigger project than I think I ever wanted it to not to mention one of the wrecks did fall over when I had all the parts on it because I wasn't thinking I didn't put my sandbag on it and the afternoon winds picked up and I heard a crash fortunately the scuffs and chips and stuff on there for the most part are masked by the metallics but there is some damage to some of the pieces you can kind of sort of see there so you can see some damage along the edges right there you can see some right there on that edge so I'm not too happy about that but that's just what happens when you start rushing things and of course that is a lessened a lesson to be learned for everyone so please guys were paying attention in class right there cheers we're gonna do today because this is obviously like I said the next day this paint needed time to dry and to cure I've got about three coats of clear on it gloss clear which means now I've taken on the responsibility of having to wet sand and smooth that out otherwise it just looks like an orange peel mess fortunately Phil will be able to help today with the filming so at least you guys will be able to see some of that process all right so what I got to do now is I've got it basically wet sand all this stuff and I've got some sanding blocks for that I've got 1500 and 2000 grit now here's the thing I'm not using automotive grade paint this is never gonna be as good as a car the orange peel is always going to be there to some degree but here's one of the top plates I did right now in between takes I think this is freaking smooth there's a little bit orange peel but there's a reflection I can see phil cars are so much easier because you have big flat surfaces even a curved surface as a flat surface compared to say this and the problem is you take a sanding block to anywhere near these edges you're gonna burn through the edges you can see this one's actually already burned through slightly so I don't know what I'm gonna do I might to put another coat on this and start over I don't know but anyway here's we're gonna do we're still gonna move forward if half we do I don't like the way it's turning out let's sand it all down again and start over that's the cool thing about this project there's no timeline I can just take all the time in the world I want on it and I'm not on anyone's schedule but mine so that said let's start Tom's tell me Phil off-camera - part of the problem is this paint that we're using this is super thick pair - automotive paint so that's why I'm going 1,500 and 2,000 grits of 2000 and 2500 and 3000 like you went on a car now metallics in here also super big versus what you find in a car so that's why it's always gonna have that like that slight bumpy Ridge because the metallics and this are huge which is why I'm not 100% certain that I like the way this is turning out so I'm gonna just do a few pieces if I don't like the way it's turning out then I'm just gonna guess I sand it down start over it's the motherboard tray that matters most the thing I have to remember here most of this metal is not gonna be visible once the loop is in and the radiators are in and all the fittings and the motherboard is covering that tray and then the reservoir and the pump you're not gonna see a whole lot of this grade this part I'm standing is on the back this party's even visible at all I also know that I'm doing long streaks like this like people would get mad at anyone that does proper wet sanding you want crosshatch so you go out one direction you go all the 90 or 180 the other direction or 90 the other direction but this is not a car so it's a computer it keeps me forgotten you wouldn't download a computer but you can still see all the metallics and metallics cause like those little ridges almost looks like dirt in the paint so here's it you can get a good idea the size of the particles right here I mean look these are just all the metallics and listen my fingers it's rougher than the sanding block feel the block look up feel that oh yeah that's like 120 grit [Music] Phil and I can't unsee the emoji in there now it's like the power cord all over again God focus oh my god so I've decided to do the large piece right now because if I can't get this to look like I want there's no point in continuing with the other pieces I'm actually starting with 600 does this really thick and built upon here like there's actually a friction well duh it's a knee pad but what I mean is like it's not gliding I don't need to be too crazy with it cuz the motherboards gonna block most of this it's here that's most important and here that you can see hey perfect but it's mine not bad for a hand job let's see my reflective it is outside oh my god it's really not bad dudes this router can jump and I was like it looks so much better outside because we're getting even light whereas in there we're shining a light directly at it so if you can make it look good with the light shining at it and you get it out here with even light so this is roughly how the inside is going to end up looking this turnout god I need to do some RC you're facing it it's a little it's a little rough right there I need to fix right there but yeah man this is this is good actually think polish was the right move well it's not perfect but I've got over seven hours worth of wet sanding and polishing here it's good enough for me anyway so now I'm gonna take all these parts and do the true challenge can I put it back together without scratching it real bad [Music] all right so I'm showing you guys what it looks like before I actually show Phil I think it turned out pretty damn good and with some of the accents and they're already like the waterblock and the rim that's you could kind of see my theme coming together here as far as you can see that back panel looks so good same thing with the bottom down there but obviously I'm going with a very blinged out theme and that looks just phenomenal I'm just so happy with the way this turned out but Phil hasn't seen it yet because he's actually been busy editing this video while we're making it which is something we've never done before I've never worked on an edit while we were still working on an edit yes is this for another video it sucks he'll tell me it sucks I don't think he's gonna kiss ass cuz I'm his boss I'm intentionally looking that way so I don't look at it like about here okay dude so our theme here is just because of this polished chamfered edge on this guy metal this brush guy metal exterior so I went with the polished gunmetal metallic flake interior and then we're gonna be doing small black accents like with the motherboard and stuff like that and the blocks down here and then chrome everything but in terms of material that was used to get this effect like I showed earlier this is the Krylon fusion all the one paint and primer very heavy paint that's because it's got primer in it as well as the metal flake plus the base coat so that's why we couldn't get this completely orange peel free but honestly the texture doesn't really show off that much and then in terms of clear coat I would real paint it's like I just stacked this job to be as hard as possible the BHT wheel paint clear is a very thick and also again very orange peel II but I want the thick stuff because I had to overcome the flake and when I polished it out I just used the Meguiar's ultimate compound this is a cutting compound so it also did some sanding while it was also buffing and then you saw I was using my power buffer with a yellow pad which is the coarsest pad but the most correction to get out deep scratches and stuff which is why I was able to make this not look terrible now this this guy right here this sli bridge is a serious point of contention because it's the only non shiny thing in here that's of that color spectrum or the solar stay tuned in my next video where we've actually got a fun plan for this thanks to once again one of my very smart followers who sent me a suggestion that we're going with so you guys want to see that make sure you're subscribed so that you can see our next video or two or three I don't know where it's gonna be in the lineup but yeah this this is gonna turn out really really good skunk works is down jump works and I don't have a name for this one yet so guys help me name it not jump words


hey guys what is up and welcome back to the channel so over the past few videos I have been asking you guys what games you would like to see tested on the brand new Vulcan back end in a seemed you were one point 16.0 a work in progress in this video I'm going to be taking a look at the most popular games that all of you guys have requested including a Xenoblade Chronicles X The Legend of Zelda breath the wild Wind Waker Twilight Princess splatoon Mario Kart 8 and many more if I haven't covered any of your favorite games in this video please let me know down below in a comment and as I've done in this video I will test those games out for you absolutely no problem that is of course once we get a brand new CMU or work-in-progress Vulcan version before we get started I want to give a massive thank you to the sponsor of this video Amino as I announced in a previous video of mine I am now creating my very own stories over on the amino platform just like this one where I showcased me of 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first up we have a Xenoblade Chronicles X and while we have seen a dramatic improvements in the rendering of this game and it's stability is a much better than we've seen on Vulcan before it still unfortunately has these weird vertex explosions as you move around the game world on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs well I wouldn't call it a game breaking book or a book that makes it on a playable it is rather annoying and is going to have to be fixed before I can test or play this game any further next up we have a Super Smash Bros 4 and on both my AMD rx 580 and my GTX 1060 this game was able to attain a maximum performance on a de volcán back-end with minimal a graphical issues smash is a one of those tricky titles to test on Vulcan especially so agita fact that we do not currently have a shader caches so to properly test the game for performance it requires you to play the game quite extensively in order to accurately gauge how it's working having tested this with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs I can say that it works absolutely flawlessly at full speed on every single arena unfortunately I wasn't able to test any Intel GPUs in at this game because their Windows driver is still missing at the extension for a transform of feedbacks once that gets added tutor driver and it should be any day now or once these CMU devs are able to implement some kind of workaround to get this going I will be able to properly test games on a GPUs on a tee Valken back-end for same you our next game is a Bayonetta 2 and thanks to all of the improvements moving from a work-in-progress 5 to work in progress at Vulcanus 7 this game now goes in game renders almost perfectly without any flickering at all and also is running at a full 60 frames per second on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs one thing I would like to note is the fact that this game and a few others seem to actually have some kind of weird of VRAM leak which after playing for about an hour or so will cause your game to crash this issue has been reported to the seamy developers so hopefully it will be fixed in a future or work-in-progress release regardless it's pretty damn cool to have a Bayonetta 2 and now working at at least a semi functional on the Vulcan back-end and it can only get better from here our next title for testing is a Mario Kart 8 and the gameplay footage you are currently watching right now is of it running on nnv GPU my GTX 1060 unfortunately a very similar bug happens on AMD GPUs instead of the color being a pink or purple however it's just going to be a white or a red there are a few tracks that are rendered of very well without this weird pink white or red hue but unfortunately in all of the tracks they are going to be suffering from the exact same weird square shadow issues you can see happening in gameplay right now several games are in fact affected by this same strange square shadow issue like The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild Super Smash Bros and obviously a Mario Kart so hopefully once they fix it in one of those titles it will be fixed for all of them performance wise on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs it ran at full speed at all times regardless of the game or I played and regardless of how many players were in that game mode so that is definitely a great news for all CMU users moving on to our next game for testing let's take a look at a splatoon where we have seen a significant rendering improvements as well as fixes to the swimming in paint which now is fully functional and evolving back end now there are some rendering issues with the ink in pretty much all of the levels like you can see it just here in front of my inkling it is a not properly rendered it's kind of smeared instead of being a fully solid alike it's a meant to be and similarly to Mario Kart 8 you can see this game also suffers from that strange square shadow issue another thing that happens in splatoon is if you transition between two areas your graphics are going to get really distorted and really overexposed just like this and regardless of how many times I swapped back and forth between two zones it didn't fix my graphics it only got worse if anything hopefully this issue is going to be fixed in a future release next up we have the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess and similarly to what we saw on our bells this game is now also a fully functional and rendered very well on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs however in this latest release there have been as several fixes to some texture corruptions and in the time I was testing on Nvidia and AMD I didn't get any stability based crashes like I was in Bayonetta 2 now there are still some rendering issues that like you can a very obviously see in the bottom left-hand corner on the mini-map so hopefully these can be ironed out in a future Vulcan releases next up we're gonna take a look at a game that a lot of you actually requested in my past few videos fatal frame and maiden of the Blackwater well this game does indeed boot on the new of Vulcan bells it unfortunately crashes it just before it actually goes in game or renders any graphics this same crash happened to me on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs so at this point in time and there is a not too much point in looking at this game further since its unbootable into gameplay next up we're gonna take a look at the Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD and thanks to the optimizations and improvements we saw between a work-in-progress 5 and the current work-in-progress 7 the majority of the graphical issues including the weird banding shadows are now completely fixed on both Intel AMD and NVIDIA GPUs since wind waker is quite an expansive and large game i haven't had too much time to test for it maybe about three or four hours across all GPU vendors but i didn't encounter any stability or performance issues in any of my time testing so this game seems like it's in a very good shape on Vulcan our second last game for testing in this video is another very highly requested game taken at Tag Tournament 2 this is yet another title on a DC Mew of Vulcan backend that functions really really well on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs even though oddly enough when I booted it for the first time on my rx 580 I had this weird abloom issue in practically all of levels put upon subsequent loadings it didn't happen anymore so to be honest I'm not really too sure what was happening there performance wise on both GPU vendors it maintained a practically lucked 60 frames per second at all times when not caching shaders unfortunately in this game similarly to Bayonetta 2 had some fairly significant stability issues meaning I was only able to do about 5 or 6 fights in a row before the game crashed on a both a and E and hopefully this title will be fixed sooner rather than later especially so considering at the amount of people at that request met for testing in this video let's now move on to our final game and The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild again in the transition from work-in-progress five to a work-in-progress seven breath of the world has seen a small performance uplift on both Nvidia and AMD GPUs and thankfully the crashing issues that AMD GPU users were experiencing when cutting down trees doing a sword smash with any weapon or destroying any of these small ancient Guardians inside of shrines have now been completely fixed for both AMD and NVIDIA users they have also completely solved the issue where your game would just flat-out crash or fail to boot if you had these setting GX to draw done disabled many people leave this option disabled as it drastically improves their performance in this and many games or the emulator so thankfully this is now completely solved in respect to a rendering and a graphical issues there are still quite a few especially in reference to shadowing but from a version to version that you can see that it is gradually getting better so hopefully these shadow issues will be solved in a work-in-progress releases soon on top of this I also hope that they implement a graphics back support since playing games at 720p when your a computer is capable of much higher resolutions is a bit of a pain in the ass but I can completely understand why they want to get a Vulcan stable and working a first and foremost and then at the end of its development or its stable development at least they can then implement things like a resolution graphics packs and share caches now regardless of any of the issues we have seen I don't think anyone expected a Vulcan to be this stable or rendering at this well at this early in its development so a massive praise should really be given to simi's developers great job on Vulcan so far guys that's pretty much it for all of the testing I did for this video as I said at the start if there are any games that you would like to see me a further test please let me know down below and a comment and as always if I have access to that game or if I can buy it for cheap I will test it for you absolutely no problem at all 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