Hi! I stop at 21 seconds to say I'm 80% sure that Nigel's stand is mounted so that the weight of the microphone unscrews its mount. I've been guilty of this for years, until someone pointed that out to me. Yes, there's actually a way to mount that the wrong way :'D If you mount your stuff so that the weight tends to tighten the stand, this "floppy" problem will almost disappear by itself.
I think the problem is this mounting mechanism isn't designed well. The mating surface at the pivot point is smooth and can't really provide enough friction for a relatively large moment arm. I have this same mount and I was able to fix it by sizing up to an M5 bolt and torquing hell out of it. (I never noticed a difference from having the mount in a way that it would self tighten. I think that effect is relatively negligible)
@@Dohzer The smooth surface seems tonot help indeed. I like the style of your solution haha Relatively negligible ? Seems that results depend on the stand, then. When I tried with mine, the difference showed clearly :o
Re: Getting a buttload of straws from McDonald's I used to be in a punk band that had a gimmick of throwing ketchup packets into the crowd. It turns out if you ask a fast foot employee for 500 packets of something that's free, they'll give it to you. They don't care.
This must have been before the "that’ll be 50 cents for each extra honey mustard packet" era. Unless they care more about honey mustard for some reason. I will say though, the "I’m not paid enough to give a shit" vibe is strong in min wage. Though sometimes you get the ones who care _too much_ and want to do everything by the book because they love the corporation so damn much or something.
Once at 3am at a taco bell we asked the employee to give us as much hot sauce as possible. They legitimately gave us an entire paper bag filled to the brim with sauce. We had hot sauce for like 3 years.
@@Hyraethian we had a similar experience, one of us asked for what the cashier likes the most and they just gave us a garbage bag full of mild, fire, and hot sauces with one quesadilla
56:50 I really respect how nicely Nigel handles being interrupted. He was cut off mid-sentence a lot during this podcast, and almost every time it happens he's calm and polite about it. Sure this isn't an incredibly special skill or anything, but it's sort of refreshing to see. This probably happens to everyone else too, but Nigel's the only one with new glasses, so it's almost hard not to compliment him.
I missed the previous podcast where Will said that the Talking over each other thing was because of latency. So now that ive watched the first 10 minutes of it, i'd like to just swap over my point to how Nice Nigel is for understanding lmao
I noticed that too in other videos. Not because they interrupt him a lot or anything, but because I love how he handles it. I usually get pissed off when it happens to me. I'll try to be a bit more like him. And yes he does look cute in those glasses.
Speaking of tedious work; i converted my backyard into a small farm this year, close by kevin's house. A single acre, rectangle shaped. Little did i realize when i started, filling the single arce (209 by 209 feet) might not sound like a lot, but at one plant per square foot it takes over 43,500 plants. I'm 79 days into sowing what i now refer to as "the field". i feel like i evolved into a different person over the last 2 months.
@@goosewithagibus Sold the property and moved since. Made only 9k at the local farmers market, when i had projected 15k profit. Big blow to my ego, even if it's almost all profit, it was a lot of labor. If you count stress and aggravation, i broke even. It was just really hard all around. Florida's environment can be really unforgiving at the drop of a dime. I planted all seasonal fruits and vegetables, a little bit of everything to see what does good. A lot of pumpkins. The community really enjoyed buying from me, because i undercut everyone, even local grocery stores, by at least a 3 dollar margin. And it was all non-gmo organics. If i did it again i would plant based off projected profit margins instead of sticking to seasonal fruits and vegetables. I don't know if they would have sold as good, or where i could have sold them in that case; but other plants like lavender had over double the profit margin than my highest vegetable at the time. And i regret not trusting my gut instinct to plant based on profits. If you have any specific questions let me know.
@@goosewithagibus Also in case you are wondering, total material cost for the year was only 700 dollars. Since a planted with lake muck and had access to terra preta i saved money on soil. I also saved money on some fertilizer. I purchased a 2 inch top dressing (240ish), a 1 inch manure dressing(170ish), and 1 inch of mulch (60 dollars). Later after mulch decay i apply 1 inch of fertile compost top dressing (140 dollars), and another inch of mulch (60 dollars). 60 dollars in irrigation (timer, 2 hose and sprinklers). 30 dollars on barrier plants for pesticide replacement (special cactus).
Your polaroid problem: only send out one person's pics each month and rotate who's on that month. Then all you need to know is if they qualify and they just get put in the cycle.
Doing it this way, they need to make sure that the number of pics wasn't a multiple of 3, or they would get stuck in a loop getting the same pics. Example with 3: Jan: William. Feb: Kevin. Mar: Nigel. Apr: William. May: Kevin. June: Nigel. Jul: William. Aug: Kevin. Sept: Nigel. Oct: William. Nov: Kevin. Dec: Nigel Someone who joined in Jan would only get William pics forever. Edit: Example with 6: Jan: William. Feb: Kevin. Mar: Nigel. Apr: Allen. May: Bernard. June: Jabrils. Jul: William. Aug: Kevin. Sept: Nigel. Oct: Allen. Nov: Bernard. Dec: Jabrils Someone who joined in Feb would only ever get Kevin and Bernard alternating.
As a former McDonalds employee. That manager was deff just a solid dude, seizing the opportunity to take a jab at his tyrannical overlords. He takes the same pleasure in stealing chicken nuggies out of the tray all day.
Hey everyone, I cited y’all as an inspiration to become a Biomedical engineer for my final today hopefully my teacher doesn’t tell me to change it haha
"It figures out who they've gotten already and who they need to get" One simpler way would be to just have it set by month. Month 3: William, Month 6: Kevin, Month 9: Nigel, Month 12: Allen, Month 15: Bernard, etc. (The script to do this wouldn't be too hard - even to do it the hard way - I could do it, but so could a lot of other people.) Buuuuuut, the "trading card" aspect of getting them randomly might be something people would be interested - maybe do a poll for patrons? (If you were going to do any randomization, then do it truly random, no stored list of what people have received)
Easier would be: in jan/feb/march, only William sends out pictures. Anyone who's 3/6/9/etc month anniversary comes up during that period gets William. Then do similar for the rest of the year, Nigel can be the next quarter year, etc.
@@kadoban7050 I said "one simpler way", implying that I know it is not the only way and that there are others. Someone has already said what you have said in a different comment.
If you want to make it more complicated and annoying I would suggest letting Michael Reeves buy a goldfish and letting it decide on who's picture they're sending out next. But I would leave out Nigel for at least the first three rotations so you can send out three Nigels in a row later on.
man, the timing couldnt be better. I really like Nigel's glasses btw. Schools still have absolutely terrible systems. I did a lot of the things you guys talked about back in 2016 at my highschool. It has barely improved. My highschool pleaded me to not do the stuff in exchange for unlimited free pc's to mess with. I used localaccnt to log in with free network access and admin permission. I changed the the hdmi signage settings on the tv's around. I performed deauth attacks on their wifi. Used rubber duckies on the teachers pc's. Messed with projectors with remote apps. Created and ran password retrieval malware, logged onto fronter and changed my teachers profile to porn. Gave homework. and changed teachers passwords to lock them out. I also sometimes made a permanent background change that was stuck in the registry. oh and I also gave people admin rights on their own account but secretly set up remote desktop too
You realize you just admitted to a felony, right? This comment is legally admissable in court. Catching a felony will ruin your life. The laws around hacking are super open to interpretation, and I guarantee you don't want that heat. Focus your skills on contributions to open source projects and you'll land a job making 6 figures out of high school without a college degree. Please don't waste your talent.
@@0xbadcafe it's been long enough that the statuette of limitations is up unless there's some specific extended one specific to those things the general federal one is 5 years which woulda been up last year
Sadly my school only has 1 computer room and all the PCs don't connect with each other to make a network, so I can't do any cool (and possibly illegal) tricks.
For the polaroids you could just have a rolling system that cycles through every single member of the podcast and sends it to all valid patrons so it doesn't have to be different for every person.
Former Dave and busters employee here - the way we're directed to load cards is to have a set pattern for the rare cards. That way, they can ensure a regular rate of payouts and chances to win. Each field on a star trek/wizard of oz pusher (same exact machine, just different styling) is assigned two coin hoppers and one card dispenser. Track your dispenser and see what it spits out on each side. This is all memory and it's been years, but I think the way it went was 5 common cards, then a holographic. Repeat that something like 3 more times, then add the rare card on top. Repeat that whole pattern a few times and then on one of the runs it'll be the holographic rare card for the full holo set. Edit: oh yep you guys covered this next section in the podcast. Leaving the rest in here for context though. Progressive jackpots where you beat the machine by N+1 until it's maxxed out, you can absolutely make money. The guy I know had hella spreadsheets, Cashback credit cards, and all the free credit cupons in existence. He was absolutely making more than minimum wage - he CLAIMED to make more hourly than a d&b employee, but that's not a high bar to pass. For the record, there's folks that clip coupons and game the system and stick to only the skill based games, min/maxing every aspect and playing perfectly, coming in for maybe 40 minutes a day to rack up their daily totals then leave. The one guy tended to cash out for an Xbox or similar every week or so. Kinda a loser, but he was dedicated - I'll give him that. There's credit pricing strategy for the pushers, but generally the best strategy is to only start trying to get the set once you've secured the rare one. Having others on either side of you (say you're sitting on station 2, watching 1 and 3 - all connected to the same card hopper) will let you more easily track the current status of cards dispensed, if you want to grind for specific ones. Fishing for it, you're gonna have a bad time.
Personally I was blown away that you guys attempted such a large scale operation... it was amazing to see how you barely made it, crawling half dead across the finish line xD
The part about schools IT department reminds me how I messed with the school computers including - making a batch script to fill the entire drive with photos of squid (I do not remember why) - finding a weird exploit in windows 7 that let you access CMD at system level and using it to change passwords man that was fun
When I was in 7th grade, I emailed my teacher a project I wrote about bats. It turns out the school had an automatic word filter on their emails, which for some reason changed the word "guano" to "****". My teacher thought I had put the term "bat shit" in my presentation. Thanks old school IT.
When I was in seventh grade around 2002, I got introduced to this forum page for a video game I knew nothing about. I was immediately introduced to the “flaming “culture and proceeded to start a flame war with the moderator of this forum. The story gets more interesting. For some reason I wanted to be able to log into this forum at school from a teachers computer, we didn’t even have public computers for students. Somehow I figured out a way to use MSDOS prompt To bypass the website blocker to get to the form. Of course there was horrifically lewd and even violent language in the flame war posts I was making. And the school got really pissed and said I had hacked the system. Lol
I am so happy it no longer sounds like y'all trying to talk over each other anymore! I love to hear what y'all have to say, just not all at once! Thank you!!!!!!!!
The thing that makes every NFTs a "scam" is their inherently broken crypto foundation. There just isn't a greyline, even if the original artist has good intentions. Highly recommend checking out Dan Olsons "Line Goes Up" for a proper deep dive on the whole topic.
An NFT is one of those certificates of authenticity on a painting - except you don't own the painting, the artist still owns it and has rights to it. Which honestly is exactly why I'd never buy an NFT as they are now. Like why make an NFT and then not use it for the purpose it's for. It's an attache to ownership, not the other way around, crypto market ruined any way of making NFTs usable tools.
Yaaaaas! The collector card pic idea is funny and awesome and also eases some of the excess database issues you would run into keeping track of who got what when
Just send out a different Polaroid each quarter (eg. Will, then Kevin, then Nigel etc. And each guest you can get hold of). That way everyone gets a Polaroid they don’t have yet, because each time it’s an “exclusive” to that quarter. And then when you eventually start repeating people, wear a disguise 🥸
In mountaineering and rock climbing I have heard people describe the type of painful horrible experiences that you still look back at as a really great time as type 2 fun.
Man I love that you guys talk about stuff that I’m going through. It makes me feel I’m not crazy and you guys also struggle making videos…I find these videos amazing.
When I was in high school my school started distributing Chromebook, they had a lot of content block so me and a handful of other student figured out how to remove these restrictions and factory reset the Chromebooks, I use to do this for other students who where not as tech savvy. I had only got caught a few times, but it was worth it, only the administration was mainly mad, the IT guy who was also my CS teacher was very chill about it mainly gave out a non-threatening warning to not do it again. I tried installing linux, but they new that there would be students who would try that so they blocked the i/o ports like the usb 2.0 on the device, there might have been a way around it, but I did not want to risk getting as much in trouble for something so minor. Also if I broke the device my parents would give me an ass whooping. All in all, it was all worth it for a bit of freedom to do whatever on a school distributed laptop.
I know this is super late, but the Polaroid problem is really not that complicated. Just send out the same one to everyone each month. Everyone doesn't have to receive the pictures in the same order.
At the end of the day you did something amazing. There's something about projects like that where you go through hell and it somehow works that gives you an interesting feeling. It's like pure triumph. There's something about beating the odds that is addicting.
until at least the late 2010s when I graduated highschool, our entire school board has counterstrike source installed through some obscure file directory on every computer.
I worked as a school's IT admin for a couple of years. It's an absolute love/hate job... kids are a pain in the ass, and mean you have to lock every system down to make sure that it just about functions... so when stuff doesn't work, you have to toss up between actually making it work, or letting one of the kids find a backdoor into something. Mind you - "we can track everything you do" - on the internet? Yep, we can. And we did. And using proxies like HMA generally sent us an alert... ;)
I'd like to see more podcasts similar to this. William, Nigel and Kevin but plus a guest and like 3 topics, spelled out at the start, and a guest segment. It would be a little less free-form but that would likely be good for retaining a regular audience and making this podcast something you can predictably/easily pick up and listen to.
I just signed up as a Galaxy brain just for you Nigel! Can't wait to see how these Polaroids shake out 😀. But, I also really appreciate the content you guys put out. This is easily my favorite podcast channel.
All you guys need to do is build a rig to hold 40-50 polaroid cameras, line them up in a little arc, then you can use steel rod through 2x4 on top and bottom to take multiple polaroid pictures at once. I can provide a CAD model if you'd like lol
When I was in high school we had Halo CE on the substitute teacher folder that was never used but on the cloud so that every computer had it and everyone could play together
Yay!! Loving the consistency now! Commenting now for the algorithm but I'm excited to watch it later😁 And I like the glasses Nigel! I mean the black ones are iconic, but I like the new ones too😊
It really was the wiled west back then for school computer security. My highschool had a load of unmapped network drives, you just had to know the \\ComputerName to the drive. There was a software drive the IT staff would use to install things like office, I made a sub directory for games and we all would just play games from it. It stayed there for the entire time I was at that school so I'm sure they knew..
I'm only 21 and I deadass remember doing all the same type of shir on the school computer systems, it all started with them blocking game sites and using a VPN and it escalated so quickly. The funniest part is I'm fairly sure the IT security at most schools has If at all only gotten marginally better since I was in school
13:50 he has just given up on that storyline after two decades of work. He is writing and producing prequel materials that non of his fans want. He even admitted to basically putting in no effort into the main storyline last year. This could not be more different then what you are experiencing. You are actually thinking about how to solve this problem.
The lanyard strap thing could have been mitigated easily with an acrylic clear coat. One of those things known among makers to be way better than it should be at protecting a circuit board. Provides insulation against moisture, abrasion, and limited protection from contact shorts. Great stuff for quick projects that you know you wont be doing any major rework on. Surprised Kevin didn't know that trick given how prone he is to using the good quick and dirty solutions.
I think if the polaroids were anchored to specific events in addition to specific people it might give a bit more legitimacy. I'd love a nile red polaroid of Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction for example.
I got all the spongebob coin pusher cards at a local arcade in a mall after months of checking every time I was at the mall itself. It was almost all searching for the very last card. In the end with the bonus the cards give you, I got enough to buy a zombie themed nerf gun, which cost $12 at walmart. But I still got the feeling of acomplishment and knowing I beat it. I also made friends with a guy who always walked by and kept a notepad of how much he spent, how much he could gain at any given time, and what was worth him doing it. It's crazy.
I got in a bunch of trouble in highschool for writing a worm that would trigger a video to play at full volume on a loop. The video was a clip from an old porn (no nudity) of a guy yelling "I'm looking at gay porn!" And it triggered in the middle of all three lunch waves, when the most library computers were in use. It shut down the library for like 3 days while they scrubbed the network.
If you do the disney code thing, be sure to bring a pen and check or cross out the code so people know it's redeemed. They aren't just for rewards points, they also redeem the digital copy of the movie...but the codes do expire eventually.
As someone who worked as an Arcade Manager, I can tell you that there are "rare" cards when it comes to the coin pushers. For Wizard of Oz, we normally ran 4 Toto's in a whole box, so we can adjust and maintain a certain payout. Would love to give more information about the arcade systems if you guys want it!
You just need to make the Polaroid a set send-out date and be quarterly. If you join this tier by xx date you'll get this quarter's Polaroid. After that date, you'll start with the next quarter's Polaroid. Good Mythical Morning does this with merch at their highest tier and it works perfectly. Theirs is just one object though, not a unique picture for every person.
I had the same experience with the wizard of Oz machine, apparently it's a known fact that the Toto card is like supremely rare across the entire nation, ive got duplicates of them all but I've never even seen a toto in a machine
20:00 this is the best project management advice. Decision making based off of risk factors. Sometimes the situation calls to Not take a risk. Also making that judgement call, especially when the opposing opinion is logical, is extremely difficult.
The Beast video sounds like type 2 fun (type 1 = fun in the moment; type 2 not fun in the moment, fun in retrospect; type 3 fun = not fun in the moment or in retrospect)
those ignition resistors are exactly what is used for special effects, but also self destruction devices. at 4$---id just overload a regular resistor, but sure those are totally reliable
I was able to put Halo on 16 school computers due to some flaw in admin security. After we got found out the teacher let it slide for a whole day under the condition that I removed it from all of the computers. Best LAN party ever!
I've assembled a lot of lanyards for conventions. The worst is when the badge is thin and tries to give you paper cuts on top of all the other issue with the clips.
Lmao, I have some good memories messing with school IT, from installing games in the server directory to getting access to the teacher's folders and their lists with grades and even installing a different operating system on a Computer to escalate my privileges. Never got in trouble, instead got promoted to help with IT lol.
everyone's shirts match their respective backgrounds really nicely
Damn you’re right
Ohh wow that's cool
Cool
✨aesthetic✨
@@doubtful_seer You need this: æ
Imagine opening up your patron rewards and it's just "kevin's left arm" and now you have to collect an entire kevin.
honestly, this would be kinda fun
@@vladbpootin3122 imagine there being an ebay market for Nigel's right leg 🦵
Kevin is exodia confirmed
I would totally fill my freezer with Nile (polaroids)
Hi! I stop at 21 seconds to say I'm 80% sure that Nigel's stand is mounted so that the weight of the microphone unscrews its mount. I've been guilty of this for years, until someone pointed that out to me. Yes, there's actually a way to mount that the wrong way :'D
If you mount your stuff so that the weight tends to tighten the stand, this "floppy" problem will almost disappear by itself.
I think the problem is this mounting mechanism isn't designed well.
The mating surface at the pivot point is smooth and can't really provide enough friction for a relatively large moment arm.
I have this same mount and I was able to fix it by sizing up to an M5 bolt and torquing hell out of it.
(I never noticed a difference from having the mount in a way that it would self tighten. I think that effect is relatively negligible)
@@Dohzer The smooth surface seems tonot help indeed. I like the style of your solution haha
Relatively negligible ? Seems that results depend on the stand, then. When I tried with mine, the difference showed clearly :o
typical chemist
@@Mortarman0341 Hahaha I totally forgot about this, hope it helped someone :'D
Re: Getting a buttload of straws from McDonald's
I used to be in a punk band that had a gimmick of throwing ketchup packets into the crowd. It turns out if you ask a fast foot employee for 500 packets of something that's free, they'll give it to you. They don't care.
When was that? Because I am sure nowadays they have to account for every slice of cheese...
@@AllisterCaine 2013
This must have been before the "that’ll be 50 cents for each extra honey mustard packet" era. Unless they care more about honey mustard for some reason.
I will say though, the "I’m not paid enough to give a shit" vibe is strong in min wage. Though sometimes you get the ones who care _too much_ and want to do everything by the book because they love the corporation so damn much or something.
Once at 3am at a taco bell we asked the employee to give us as much hot sauce as possible. They legitimately gave us an entire paper bag filled to the brim with sauce. We had hot sauce for like 3 years.
@@Hyraethian we had a similar experience, one of us asked for what the cashier likes the most and they just gave us a garbage bag full of mild, fire, and hot sauces with one quesadilla
56:50 I really respect how nicely Nigel handles being interrupted. He was cut off mid-sentence a lot during this podcast, and almost every time it happens he's calm and polite about it.
Sure this isn't an incredibly special skill or anything, but it's sort of refreshing to see. This probably happens to everyone else too, but Nigel's the only one with new glasses, so it's almost hard not to compliment him.
I missed the previous podcast where Will said that the Talking over each other thing was because of latency. So now that ive watched the first 10 minutes of it, i'd like to just swap over my point to how Nice Nigel is for understanding lmao
Nigel is the best
I noticed that too in other videos. Not because they interrupt him a lot or anything, but because I love how he handles it. I usually get pissed off when it happens to me. I'll try to be a bit more like him. And yes he does look cute in those glasses.
Speaking of tedious work; i converted my backyard into a small farm this year, close by kevin's house. A single acre, rectangle shaped. Little did i realize when i started, filling the single arce (209 by 209 feet) might not sound like a lot, but at one plant per square foot it takes over 43,500 plants.
I'm 79 days into sowing what i now refer to as "the field". i feel like i evolved into a different person over the last 2 months.
multiplication moment
Guess you should have played more Stardew Valley before you started for practice before you started. lol
Give us an update. How'd it go?
@@goosewithagibus Sold the property and moved since. Made only 9k at the local farmers market, when i had projected 15k profit. Big blow to my ego, even if it's almost all profit, it was a lot of labor. If you count stress and aggravation, i broke even. It was just really hard all around. Florida's environment can be really unforgiving at the drop of a dime.
I planted all seasonal fruits and vegetables, a little bit of everything to see what does good. A lot of pumpkins. The community really enjoyed buying from me, because i undercut everyone, even local grocery stores, by at least a 3 dollar margin. And it was all non-gmo organics.
If i did it again i would plant based off projected profit margins instead of sticking to seasonal fruits and vegetables. I don't know if they would have sold as good, or where i could have sold them in that case; but other plants like lavender had over double the profit margin than my highest vegetable at the time. And i regret not trusting my gut instinct to plant based on profits.
If you have any specific questions let me know.
@@goosewithagibus Also in case you are wondering, total material cost for the year was only 700 dollars. Since a planted with lake muck and had access to terra preta i saved money on soil. I also saved money on some fertilizer. I purchased a 2 inch top dressing (240ish), a 1 inch manure dressing(170ish), and 1 inch of mulch (60 dollars). Later after mulch decay i apply 1 inch of fertile compost top dressing (140 dollars), and another inch of mulch (60 dollars). 60 dollars in irrigation (timer, 2 hose and sprinklers). 30 dollars on barrier plants for pesticide replacement (special cactus).
Your polaroid problem: only send out one person's pics each month and rotate who's on that month. Then all you need to know is if they qualify and they just get put in the cycle.
theres always a simple solution :P
Yeah as soon as he said sending random ones after the three this became the obvious solution.
Doing it this way, they need to make sure that the number of pics wasn't a multiple of 3, or they would get stuck in a loop getting the same pics.
Example with 3:
Jan: William. Feb: Kevin. Mar: Nigel. Apr: William. May: Kevin. June: Nigel. Jul: William. Aug: Kevin. Sept: Nigel. Oct: William. Nov: Kevin. Dec: Nigel
Someone who joined in Jan would only get William pics forever.
Edit: Example with 6:
Jan: William. Feb: Kevin. Mar: Nigel. Apr: Allen. May: Bernard. June: Jabrils. Jul: William. Aug: Kevin. Sept: Nigel. Oct: Allen. Nov: Bernard. Dec: Jabrils
Someone who joined in Feb would only ever get Kevin and Bernard alternating.
@@_comment better idea is do William ones for the first 3 months, then nigel for 3 months, etc.
@@jacobv_ Not sure why you're addressing this comment to me. It's not my idea.
As a former McDonalds employee. That manager was deff just a solid dude, seizing the opportunity to take a jab at his tyrannical overlords. He takes the same pleasure in stealing chicken nuggies out of the tray all day.
Finally, Safety Third back to consistency.
don’t get used to it.. 😳
Hey everyone, I cited y’all as an inspiration to become a Biomedical engineer for my final today hopefully my teacher doesn’t tell me to change it haha
that'd be a terrible teacher if they did
Biomedical is a great field, if you’re passionate about the work don’t let others dissuade you
Good Luck
Just give the Polaroids as nfts
Why would a teacher try to tell you what can or cannot inspire you? Lol, do you live in North Korea?
The McDonald's manager is Nigel from the future to save the Mr beast squid games video. He was just too awkward to talk to his younger self.
I would love to see the patreon polaroid's become a gacha game. "I pulled the Nigel Summer edition"
New Safety Third always makes my day :) Also Nigel looks very good w his new glasses 🥺
"It figures out who they've gotten already and who they need to get"
One simpler way would be to just have it set by month. Month 3: William, Month 6: Kevin, Month 9: Nigel, Month 12: Allen, Month 15: Bernard, etc.
(The script to do this wouldn't be too hard - even to do it the hard way - I could do it, but so could a lot of other people.)
Buuuuuut, the "trading card" aspect of getting them randomly might be something people would be interested - maybe do a poll for patrons?
(If you were going to do any randomization, then do it truly random, no stored list of what people have received)
This!
Yeah I was gonna say, just don’t make it random and it’s super easy.
Easier would be: in jan/feb/march, only William sends out pictures. Anyone who's 3/6/9/etc month anniversary comes up during that period gets William. Then do similar for the rest of the year, Nigel can be the next quarter year, etc.
@@kadoban7050 I said "one simpler way", implying that I know it is not the only way and that there are others.
Someone has already said what you have said in a different comment.
If you want to make it more complicated and annoying I would suggest letting Michael Reeves buy a goldfish and letting it decide on who's picture they're sending out next. But I would leave out Nigel for at least the first three rotations so you can send out three Nigels in a row later on.
man, the timing couldnt be better. I really like Nigel's glasses btw. Schools still have absolutely terrible systems. I did a lot of the things you guys talked about back in 2016 at my highschool. It has barely improved. My highschool pleaded me to not do the stuff in exchange for unlimited free pc's to mess with. I used localaccnt to log in with free network access and admin permission. I changed the the hdmi signage settings on the tv's around. I performed deauth attacks on their wifi. Used rubber duckies on the teachers pc's. Messed with projectors with remote apps. Created and ran password retrieval malware, logged onto fronter and changed my teachers profile to porn. Gave homework. and changed teachers passwords to lock them out. I also sometimes made a permanent background change that was stuck in the registry. oh and I also gave people admin rights on their own account but secretly set up remote desktop too
You realize you just admitted to a felony, right? This comment is legally admissable in court. Catching a felony will ruin your life. The laws around hacking are super open to interpretation, and I guarantee you don't want that heat. Focus your skills on contributions to open source projects and you'll land a job making 6 figures out of high school without a college degree. Please don't waste your talent.
2022 and it's all still horrible, just as easy to do stuff to
@@0xbadcafe it's been long enough that the statuette of limitations is up unless there's some specific extended one specific to those things the general federal one is 5 years which woulda been up last year
Sadly my school only has 1 computer room and all the PCs don't connect with each other to make a network, so I can't do any cool (and possibly illegal) tricks.
For the polaroids you could just have a rolling system that cycles through every single member of the podcast and sends it to all valid patrons so it doesn't have to be different for every person.
Former Dave and busters employee here - the way we're directed to load cards is to have a set pattern for the rare cards. That way, they can ensure a regular rate of payouts and chances to win. Each field on a star trek/wizard of oz pusher (same exact machine, just different styling) is assigned two coin hoppers and one card dispenser. Track your dispenser and see what it spits out on each side.
This is all memory and it's been years, but I think the way it went was 5 common cards, then a holographic. Repeat that something like 3 more times, then add the rare card on top. Repeat that whole pattern a few times and then on one of the runs it'll be the holographic rare card for the full holo set.
Edit: oh yep you guys covered this next section in the podcast. Leaving the rest in here for context though. Progressive jackpots where you beat the machine by N+1 until it's maxxed out, you can absolutely make money. The guy I know had hella spreadsheets, Cashback credit cards, and all the free credit cupons in existence. He was absolutely making more than minimum wage - he CLAIMED to make more hourly than a d&b employee, but that's not a high bar to pass.
For the record, there's folks that clip coupons and game the system and stick to only the skill based games, min/maxing every aspect and playing perfectly, coming in for maybe 40 minutes a day to rack up their daily totals then leave. The one guy tended to cash out for an Xbox or similar every week or so. Kinda a loser, but he was dedicated - I'll give him that. There's credit pricing strategy for the pushers, but generally the best strategy is to only start trying to get the set once you've secured the rare one. Having others on either side of you (say you're sitting on station 2, watching 1 and 3 - all connected to the same card hopper) will let you more easily track the current status of cards dispensed, if you want to grind for specific ones. Fishing for it, you're gonna have a bad time.
On one hand this Podcast motivates me to continue studying and on the other hand it calls me dumm in so many ways :)
The 3 hosts we all wanted
Safety third just doesn't have that je ne sais quoi when William isn't there. Welcome back!
This is a certified safety third classic
I miss William so f-ing much, I wish he came back to making RUclips vids. Miss u man 🧡
Personally I was blown away that you guys attempted such a large scale operation... it was amazing to see how you barely made it, crawling half dead across the finish line xD
The part about schools IT department reminds me how I messed with the school computers including
- making a batch script to fill the entire drive with photos of squid (I do not remember why)
- finding a weird exploit in windows 7 that let you access CMD at system level and using it to change passwords
man that was fun
When I was in 7th grade, I emailed my teacher a project I wrote about bats. It turns out the school had an automatic word filter on their emails, which for some reason changed the word "guano" to "****". My teacher thought I had put the term "bat shit" in my presentation. Thanks old school IT.
Good to see the crew back again :)
I just started to watch old ones again and this pops up
I love how when Kevin yells he sounds like Tina Belcher from Bob's Burgers.
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When I was in seventh grade around 2002, I got introduced to this forum page for a video game I knew nothing about. I was immediately introduced to the “flaming “culture and proceeded to start a flame war with the moderator of this forum. The story gets more interesting. For some reason I wanted to be able to log into this forum at school from a teachers computer, we didn’t even have public computers for students. Somehow I figured out a way to use MSDOS prompt To bypass the website blocker to get to the form. Of course there was horrifically lewd and even violent language in the flame war posts I was making. And the school got really pissed and said I had hacked the system. Lol
I am so happy it no longer sounds like y'all trying to talk over each other anymore! I love to hear what y'all have to say, just not all at once! Thank you!!!!!!!!
Great to see another quality upload from the Science Team. Thanks for enriching my Thursday.
This is the first time I have been glad to see an Ad segment!! Glad you guys are finally getting paid for this outside of Patreon
21:12 “Your just playing a game”
YES! A *SQUIB* GAME
these are the highlight of my week, loving the consistent uploads!
The thing that makes every NFTs a "scam" is their inherently broken crypto foundation. There just isn't a greyline, even if the original artist has good intentions. Highly recommend checking out Dan Olsons "Line Goes Up" for a proper deep dive on the whole topic.
An NFT is one of those certificates of authenticity on a painting - except you don't own the painting, the artist still owns it and has rights to it. Which honestly is exactly why I'd never buy an NFT as they are now. Like why make an NFT and then not use it for the purpose it's for. It's an attache to ownership, not the other way around, crypto market ruined any way of making NFTs usable tools.
That mrbeast squib video is probably the most impressive video I’ve ever seen
Yaaaaas! The collector card pic idea is funny and awesome and also eases some of the excess database issues you would run into keeping track of who got what when
I love Nigel's face during any of the programming conversations. I've seen that same look on my friend's faces for _years_ now.
Big love from Australia this podcast is incredibly under-rated and you guys are all wizards
Just send out a different Polaroid each quarter (eg. Will, then Kevin, then Nigel etc. And each guest you can get hold of).
That way everyone gets a Polaroid they don’t have yet, because each time it’s an “exclusive” to that quarter. And then when you eventually start repeating people, wear a disguise 🥸
Or you can get other people they have brought into the channel
I LOVE THIS PODCAST!!! THANK YOU FOR RELEASING MORE EPISODES!! ❤
22:30 the word you're looking for is "second hand fun". Not fun in the moment, but where you can enjoy having had the experience.
The McDonald's in North Carolina that served Nigel almost certainly thought he was having an 80's robocop coca extract party
i love how the most replayed area is just the end of the sponsored section
In mountaineering and rock climbing I have heard people describe the type of painful horrible experiences that you still look back at as a really great time as type 2 fun.
33:44 Nigel uses a Jedi mind trick on a McDonalds Manager
Man I love that you guys talk about stuff that I’m going through. It makes me feel I’m not crazy and you guys also struggle making videos…I find these videos amazing.
"you need five cards just for that" is VERY funny, thank you for the entertainment
When I was in high school my school started distributing Chromebook, they had a lot of content block so me and a handful of other student figured out how to remove these restrictions and factory reset the Chromebooks, I use to do this for other students who where not as tech savvy. I had only got caught a few times, but it was worth it, only the administration was mainly mad, the IT guy who was also my CS teacher was very chill about it mainly gave out a non-threatening warning to not do it again. I tried installing linux, but they new that there would be students who would try that so they blocked the i/o ports like the usb 2.0 on the device, there might have been a way around it, but I did not want to risk getting as much in trouble for something so minor. Also if I broke the device my parents would give me an ass whooping. All in all, it was all worth it for a bit of freedom to do whatever on a school distributed laptop.
I know this is super late, but the Polaroid problem is really not that complicated. Just send out the same one to everyone each month. Everyone doesn't have to receive the pictures in the same order.
I always just pick up the phone and wait in silence.
We need a tour of the new lab Nigel!
At the end of the day you did something amazing. There's something about projects like that where you go through hell and it somehow works that gives you an interesting feeling. It's like pure triumph. There's something about beating the odds that is addicting.
until at least the late 2010s when I graduated highschool, our entire school board has counterstrike source installed through some obscure file directory on every computer.
as someone whos worked at mcdonalds for 2 years, if nile red came in and asked for 100 straws it still wouldnt be the weirdest thing Ive seen lol
yooo love you guys! you 3 are some of my favorite youtubers!
I worked as a school's IT admin for a couple of years. It's an absolute love/hate job... kids are a pain in the ass, and mean you have to lock every system down to make sure that it just about functions... so when stuff doesn't work, you have to toss up between actually making it work, or letting one of the kids find a backdoor into something.
Mind you - "we can track everything you do" - on the internet? Yep, we can. And we did. And using proxies like HMA generally sent us an alert... ;)
Spam caller: hello
Me: THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE BY THE US GOVERNMENT
"500 clips must be brutal on your fingers"
String instruments: am I a joke to you?
I freakin knew there was a way to get around that internet filter... I never searched hard enough for an answer
I'd like to see more podcasts similar to this. William, Nigel and Kevin but plus a guest and like 3 topics, spelled out at the start, and a guest segment. It would be a little less free-form but that would likely be good for retaining a regular audience and making this podcast something you can predictably/easily pick up and listen to.
I just signed up as a Galaxy brain just for you Nigel! Can't wait to see how these Polaroids shake out 😀. But, I also really appreciate the content you guys put out. This is easily my favorite podcast channel.
All you guys need to do is build a rig to hold 40-50 polaroid cameras, line them up in a little arc, then you can use steel rod through 2x4 on top and bottom to take multiple polaroid pictures at once. I can provide a CAD model if you'd like lol
When I was in high school we had Halo CE on the substitute teacher folder that was never used but on the cloud so that every computer had it and everyone could play together
Yay!! Loving the consistency now! Commenting now for the algorithm but I'm excited to watch it later😁
And I like the glasses Nigel! I mean the black ones are iconic, but I like the new ones too😊
their navy blue not black :)
@@nilnileer how do you figure? Have you seen them up close in person? I'm pretty sure his old glasses were black🤷🏻♀️
@@westie430if you look closely
It really was the wiled west back then for school computer security. My highschool had a load of unmapped network drives, you just had to know the \\ComputerName to the drive. There was a software drive the IT staff would use to install things like office, I made a sub directory for games and we all would just play games from it. It stayed there for the entire time I was at that school so I'm sure they knew..
I can't get enough of this
I'm only 21 and I deadass remember doing all the same type of shir on the school computer systems, it all started with them blocking game sites and using a VPN and it escalated so quickly. The funniest part is I'm fairly sure the IT security at most schools has If at all only gotten marginally better since I was in school
I for one am excited to see Nigel look dejected and regretting his decisions in the Polaroid.
13:50 he has just given up on that storyline after two decades of work. He is writing and producing prequel materials that non of his fans want. He even admitted to basically putting in no effort into the main storyline last year. This could not be more different then what you are experiencing. You are actually thinking about how to solve this problem.
I am the only one how re-watches all of the podcast episode just to wait for the next one.
The lanyard strap thing could have been mitigated easily with an acrylic clear coat. One of those things known among makers to be way better than it should be at protecting a circuit board. Provides insulation against moisture, abrasion, and limited protection from contact shorts. Great stuff for quick projects that you know you wont be doing any major rework on. Surprised Kevin didn't know that trick given how prone he is to using the good quick and dirty solutions.
Polaroid offers an adapter to allow you to use your smartphone screen to generate the photo. All you need is one of those and a bunch of film packs
Watching Cdawg spend 100's to get like a 20$ toy in arcades is all i need as proof that arcade games are gray area legality
I think if the polaroids were anchored to specific events in addition to specific people it might give a bit more legitimacy. I'd love a nile red polaroid of Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction for example.
Those clips are made out of spring steel, that’s why they don’t require springs. They’re honestly more reliable than a standard carabiner
Hello, thank god you are back!
Thank you guys so much for making this podcast.
I got all the spongebob coin pusher cards at a local arcade in a mall after months of checking every time I was at the mall itself. It was almost all searching for the very last card. In the end with the bonus the cards give you, I got enough to buy a zombie themed nerf gun, which cost $12 at walmart. But I still got the feeling of acomplishment and knowing I beat it. I also made friends with a guy who always walked by and kept a notepad of how much he spent, how much he could gain at any given time, and what was worth him doing it. It's crazy.
Glad that William is back.
Excellent podcast from the dream team. Thoroughly riveting
Oh man, I love you guys. Long live Safety Turd!
I got in a bunch of trouble in highschool for writing a worm that would trigger a video to play at full volume on a loop. The video was a clip from an old porn (no nudity) of a guy yelling "I'm looking at gay porn!" And it triggered in the middle of all three lunch waves, when the most library computers were in use. It shut down the library for like 3 days while they scrubbed the network.
Yooo, my calculus classes were expensive and horrible. Wish Brilliant was available when I went to college
If you do the disney code thing, be sure to bring a pen and check or cross out the code so people know it's redeemed. They aren't just for rewards points, they also redeem the digital copy of the movie...but the codes do expire eventually.
Yo congrats on the first sponsored podcast episode!!!!
You can get a polaroid printer that’ll print pics from your phone! But the signature part would probably throw a wrench in that
One day sweatshop experience
But i still love you, you are an inspiration for me
Hope y'all bring back the clips channel. Such a good podcast!
As someone who worked as an Arcade Manager, I can tell you that there are "rare" cards when it comes to the coin pushers. For Wizard of Oz, we normally ran 4 Toto's in a whole box, so we can adjust and maintain a certain payout. Would love to give more information about the arcade systems if you guys want it!
Worked in the business for about 6 years and would love to shed some light on the shady processes and legality to the games and how they work
Customer:”Uh can I have like 100 straws”?
Employee: I’m not even gonna ask
You just need to make the Polaroid a set send-out date and be quarterly. If you join this tier by xx date you'll get this quarter's Polaroid. After that date, you'll start with the next quarter's Polaroid. Good Mythical Morning does this with merch at their highest tier and it works perfectly. Theirs is just one object though, not a unique picture for every person.
I had the same experience with the wizard of Oz machine, apparently it's a known fact that the Toto card is like supremely rare across the entire nation, ive got duplicates of them all but I've never even seen a toto in a machine
20:00 this is the best project management advice.
Decision making based off of risk factors.
Sometimes the situation calls to Not take a risk.
Also making that judgement call, especially when the opposing opinion is logical, is extremely difficult.
The Beast video sounds like type 2 fun (type 1 = fun in the moment; type 2 not fun in the moment, fun in retrospect; type 3 fun = not fun in the moment or in retrospect)
those ignition resistors are exactly what is used for special effects, but also self destruction devices. at 4$---id just overload a regular resistor, but sure those are totally reliable
55:00 I remember playing/running og DOTA and CS 1.6 at the school lab.
I was able to put Halo on 16 school computers due to some flaw in admin security. After we got found out the teacher let it slide for a whole day under the condition that I removed it from all of the computers. Best LAN party ever!
I've assembled a lot of lanyards for conventions. The worst is when the badge is thin and tries to give you paper cuts on top of all the other issue with the clips.
Lmao, I have some good memories messing with school IT, from installing games in the server directory to getting access to the teacher's folders and their lists with grades and even installing a different operating system on a Computer to escalate my privileges. Never got in trouble, instead got promoted to help with IT lol.