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Chapter 1: What humorous references are made at the start?
Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, bureaucratic Bob sleuths a screen situation, then forces his friends to guess the worth of the worthless. Wanking Wade, louse penthouse, has power problems, but knows his toast. Marvelling Mark has heat-related performance issues, then snaps up a scrutum strap, scarlet snot, and a ridden rubber.
From porking pigs to Annie's huge helmet. It's time for The Cost is Correct. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Distractible. And I promise this is the only time during this entire episode that we're going to mention hate orgasms. I am your host. My name is Bob and I'm joined as ever by my two competitors for today and pro maybe host of next time. One of them, I guess, is how that works. Wade and Mark are here.
i'm not saying the beginnings of these episodes have been off-putting but i feel slightly off-put it's a one and only time so everyone keep that in mind dear penthouse your penthouse forum i can't believe it happened to me i'm shocked people even understand that reference because i don't even know i it's not even like my generation that that's from no
that was like a joke my dad and like his age make gen x i guess is the generation that that is almost gen older gen x is penthouse even still around anymore i know a lot of magazines are basically on the way out so no idea i'm not gonna google that just like i'm not gonna google ashley madison because i don't want that on my search history who's looking at your search history the government Yes.
Penthouse magazine still exists and is available in both print and digital formats apparently. So it does still exist. I don't know if you guys remember back in the torrenting days, but I had a program called Kazaa. Oh, I've never heard of this. There's a radio station.
I think, I don't know that these dudes are still on it, but if you heard of Bob and Tom, you guys have probably heard of Bob and Tom, right? Yes. Okay. Well, on top of their Mr. Obvious skits, which I liked, there was a song called Dear Penthouse that was on Bob and Tom. And I listened to that in like the early 2000s.
And every time I hear you guys say Dear Penthouse, like during that episode, I just thought of that song the whole time. I know the whole song still after 25 years or whatever. I don't know anything about Penthouse magazine. I only knew about it because of that song. That's fair.
I think I only know about it from like weird 80s and 90s movie references where characters would make jokes about writing the Penthouse for him.
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Chapter 2: What are the main issues discussed with technology?
And I just got a bad seat. Just had a bad time. I'm sorry, man. I always regret that there's not a video of that. Oh, well. No one will ever know how good it was. Or wasn't. Anyway, uh... Excuse you? There was dust on it.
There was a hair on it, so I blew it off while I was putting it away.
I thought you were about to then take that and slide it into the world's largest NES console.
i miss tech like that but it's actually cake it's actually it turns on mario starts playing and then you cut the tv and the nes into pieces okay like whoa what the fuck i bet i can get an ai to render that video yeah except it'll have like nine arms cakes don't even have arms you take the good with the bad oh man sugar-free red bull is not the same it really hits you right in the right in the area
Anyway, you guys got small talk? How you doing? How you been? How's it going? I have a disaster.
Oh. Go on. So, you know, on the last episode, I was saying that my render farm is working.
I don't want to ruin the illusion for people, but you mean like 40 minutes ago? Yeah, well... When you bragged about how your render farm was working.
Oh, boy.
Oh, no. Go on.
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Chapter 3: What celebrity memorabilia is mentioned?
Okay, maybe it is power. But LG, I went through all these questions with them. They didn't ask about power of all things. They were like, they probably assumed this guy's probably got the power necessary for it. Are they plugged into electricity? Check.
yeah well i talked to the person they were like this is more than i usually deal with let me get my manager so i talked to the manager and whoever else too and they were like you know what you need to do who makes your graphics card and i was like well it says republic of gamers so you know who that means mark's favorite company right now and they were like you should reach out to them they can solve our monitors not working and i was like uh uh the classic must be their problem
So I reached out and I actually never heard back from their tech support team ever. The number one customer service solution followed closely there by the number two customer service solution of don't return that one. They're working. They're working right now. They work great when they work. But man, once a week, unplug everything, sit here fucking myself for 20 minutes, plug them back in.
That middle part doesn't seem like it's necessary. I'll see you past the time. That would also make sense why two does work, because that probably means that two but not three of them tucks right under the power, potentially. I don't know. Would it pop the breaker, though? Or would you just have weird malfunctioning stuff because you'd be starving something for power?
I don't know how that works with electricity. I don't know. Anyway, Mark's probably white. Mark's probably white, Wade. What? Excuse me? Mark's probably white. I knew it. You should plug your monitors in somewhere else. I will try that. The power's been mentioned.
Have you ever happened to notice, does it happen when they're like, there's a lot of shit happening, so the monitors might be operating at peak something?
no the first time it happened i literally launched a game from steam i launched i launched once human and then one of them went off and never came back on after that no it's just literally i'll turn my computer on and then only two of the monitors will work or if the monitors go to sleep shake my little mouse and then only two come back on and i'll go into like nvidia control or display it's like only two monitors detected well there's a third one plugged in to identify nope that doesn't exist sounds like you might not have enough power
this is unrelated to anything but i really want someone to make a computer mouse that makes the noises that the rat from rat shaker makes every time you move it you could just have it in the background as you do anything in there I can't believe you voiced that character without even telling us you were going to be in the game, Mark.
I thought a lot of people were like, oh, this sounds just like you. I was like, that's Takahata. I swore. He even DM'd me afterwards. I was like, I thought it was me too, and I forgot that I did something.
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Chapter 4: How does the game of guessing prices work?
Chapter 5: What are the challenges faced with the render farm?
And so Gigabyte makes an equivalent product that has also the hyperdense four unit thing. but I have to undo all the water cooling. I literally have to unbuild everything I've built to pull it out of the computers, box those back up, return these giant hundred pound gigantic boxes, and then get new ones and rebuild all the bullshit all over again, which took me hours, days, weeks.
This sounds like the kind of server I wouldn't leave a tip, and I always leave a tip. Give him a point. Alright, alright, alright. Mark said so. Have you thought about talking to the server's manager? I am the manager. That sucks, though. That really sucks.
It's a big pain in the ass because as far as I know, it should work. They read fine. When they're working, the performance is exactly where it should be. All is lining up.
It's not overheating. I even thought that it might have been one of the peripheral components in the server overheating. At one point I had a graphics card in there, a very small compact one.
I took that out because I thought it was overheating. Apparently it was not the problem either. And no other peripheral in there because the fans are very loud. I do the water cooling also to try to quiet it down a bit. They're running at full bore and it's still just crashing. I think it's just because the chipset is not updated to run with those processors.
There's some kind of paging file system memory system error that's building up over time that's causing like consecutive errors that run into each other and then eventually it freezes.
That one's a little, hey, sus. Nope, nope, no. I give myself one for whatever that's worth. But anyway, so that's the latest. It's not all Sunshine Roses.
But half of the other Rent-A-Farm is still working. It's just those hyper-dense ones that are not working, which are the most recent edition. And it's something I can return. It's just like, that's hours I don't have. Not devastating, but it's unfortunate. Just means I got to undo a lot of work and redo it.
But it'll probably be fine once you redo it. It'll probably work then. Yeah, it probably will, maybe. But I do know that the Gigabyte servers do have a more recent BIOS update than ASUS did.
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Chapter 6: What are the tech problems with monitors?
Chapter 7: What funny anecdotes are shared about past experiences?
So ideally that should work, because the processors are fine. Probably. Great small talk. Thanks for suffering. I believe in you, buddy. Your agony has provided a lot of content over the years, Mark.
Thank you. Can't wait to provide more whenever I get into 3D printing deeper because that probably is my next hyper fixation. And oh boy, I can't wait. I've already had problems with this one here and it works great. And there's still been a lot of problems.
I myself am also having tech problems. And I'm not the tech guy. You guys are the tech guys.
I really wanted to do a spit take with my Red Bull there, but then I realized I would just be spraying it all over my monitor.
And you could have some more tech problems. You would have at least gotten a bonus point for that, maybe.
You're right. I probably would have, but I'll make it up on the back half.
Guys, these monitors, they all three are on and they're working. And only once a week do I have to turn my computer off, unplug everything for 20 minutes, plug it back in and turn it on for them all three to work. It's normal. Yeah, I don't.
understand it's normal i reached out to lg and i was like why is this happening to me and they went through all these questions they're like do you have three of this model yep they all work yep they worked at the same time yep these two work together those two work together these two work together but they don't all three always work together yep that's it wait a minute do you have enough power i assume so because right now they're all three working
But that might be the thing, because those monitors do require a lot of power. I think about this a lot because the power draw in my server is actually a big concern, which is why I overkilled it. But even now with 240 volt circuits and stuff like that, I have to be very cognizant of the power.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts feel about their celebrity knowledge?
And they ended up together after all.
It was true love, I think, didn't they? It's okay, guys. This next one is something that, yes, it's memorabilia, but also it's really useful. In 2008, Scarlett Johansson appeared on The Tonight Show. At some point during her time on the show, she needed to blow her nose. After leaving behind some lipstick and also some nose boogers, she signed the tissue and sealed it in a bag, Where'd it go?
Oh, and took it with her. She claimed that Samuel L. Jackson had given her the cold, thus making the tissue even more valuable. She'd go on to put it on eBay to sell it and donate the proceeds to charity. Oh, she did this? She did this. She signed it. There's a picture of her on the show. She signs it. She puts it in a bag on TV, takes it, puts sales on eBay, donates to charity.
How much money did Scarlett Johansson slash Samuel L. Jackson's germs get to donate to charity in 2008? Wade gets to go first on this one.
all right 2008 that was like the housing financial crisis money was tight scarlett johansson charity ups the value just because people be like i'll spend more because it's for a good cause the french toast was a thousand they didn't even touch it a tissue with her snot and lipstick and samuel jackson disease that's gotta be like eight thousand seven hundred thirty four dollars
lower financial crisis financial crisis in 2008 so i'm thinking like she wasn't the first iron man i believe that was like the second one wasn't it where she fights happy at the in the intro of the whole thing that's this that's the start of the second one where the shield guys are are trying she wasn't even mcu okay so yeah but she was in several movies so i mean she was already famous she the mcu didn't make scarlett johansson i don't think i'm gonna go with my previous guess 1384 dollars i love that guess higher damn
$6,712.
$59.49.
$54.49.
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