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You Chose Poorly S02E06 – Pro Wrestling

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Mikey and Sawyer discuss being lifelong pro wrestling fans, being open and social about their fandoms, off seasons, being forced to watch WCW in 2000, buying into WWE’s ethos, and having AEW change the conversation.. Links: Don’t Try This at Home – TV Tropes New World Order (professional wrestling) – Wikipedia WCW Monday Nitro –…
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You Chose Poorly S02E05 – Typing and Teaching

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Sawyer and Mikey talk about keyboards, life being easy, Guess Who, teaching online and during the pandemic, and new retro portable video game consoles. Links: ROYAL KLUDGE RK71 71 Keys Wireless 70% RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – RKgaming (rkgamingstore.com) Keychron K4 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard for Mac and Windows Keychron K2 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard for Mac…
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You Chose Poorly S02E04 – Trash Cans and Recycling Bins

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Mikey and Sawyer talk about tech keynotes, Windows, The Mac, wanting to be sold an iPad, and whether or not caring about these things is a good idea. Links: Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid – itch.io Windows XP Music Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 2.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 5400 RPM 128MB Cache…
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Death Stranding Review Essay Video

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Some notes: If you’d rather just read the script (with some pretty screenshots), you can do that here. This is the first time I’ve edited a video like this. I did it in Davinci Resolve. It took forever. Here are some links about Death Stranding that inspired my experience: How Death Stranding’s Revolutionary Online Mode Cured…
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You Chose Poorly S02E03 – Cheating

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Mikey and Sawyer talk about messing with Apple Watch data. It leads into a larger topic of cheating in video games. Links: Some Canadians may see display of colourful vapour clouds from NASA rocket launch Saturday How to Have a Recovery Day With the Apple Watch – Shawn Blanc How to cheat your way to…
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You Chose Poorly S02E02 – Follow Up

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Date: April 8, 2021 Mikey and Sawyer follow up the debut episode with some more insights on their new machines, old habits and muscle memory, audio fetishization, and text files. Remember: the real fetish object is the time alone. Links: You Chose Poorly S02E01 – Put More Lights in Me! Mechanical Keyboard Switches Keychron K2…
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You Chose Poorly S02E01 – Put More Lights in Me!

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Mikey and Sawyer discuss new computers, if they deserve to be happy, iPhones, filling the bars, AMD & M1 vs Intel, Da Vinci Resolve, and more in the first episode of You Chose Poorly Season 2! Apologies for the audio quality in this episode. Did we mention we got new computers and haven’t quite figured…
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Sawyer’s Media Log, 2020

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I’ve been keeping better track of the things I consume this year. I couldn’t have done it without Notion and this blog. Here’s my top lists for every category. If I remember to, I’ll expand each section with reasons for each. If I don’t, assume each one of things gave me some joy and got…
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Photo Management 2020

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I still take photos with my iphone and camera, and those automatically upload into a Onedrive folder using the Onedrive iPhone app. Once a month, I cull it. I delete photos that aren’t great, and I either delete or move screenshots. You’d be surprised how many things end up in your camera roll just from using…
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iPhone XR, 1 year in as it is made obsolete by the iPhone SE2

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I bought the phone Marques Brownlee said not to panic about, Nilay Patel said was better than good enough, and that Sara Dietschy said was a solid upgrade. Of course, that was way back in November 2018, and nobody’s said a word about the XR since then. I got my XR in March 2019, just a few months…
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