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I will now talk about Oculus Rift for 27 minutes

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TotalBiscuit brings you a video essay on the newly released Oculus Rift.

Read the blog post here: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-now-open-first-shipments-march-28/

Eve: Valkyrie footage courtesy of: https://www.youtube.com/user/ObsidianAnt

Oculus footage courtesy of: https://www.youtube.com/user/oculusvr

I will now talk about Valve’s Christmas screw-up for just over 27 minutes

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Update: Valve has now issued an apology and explanation on its official site – http://store.steampowered.com/news/19852/?snr=1_550_552&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

TotalBiscuit brings you a video on Valve’s recent caching issue which led to numerous Steam users being able to see other people’s private information.

Caching explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkSslseq9Y8

SteamDB article: https://steamdb.info/blog/recent-caching-issues-on-steam/

Gamespot article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-issue-allowing-access-to-other-users-account/1100-6433371/

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TotalBiscuit’s Top 10 Games of 2015

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Welcome to the end of the year, here are the Top 10 games that TotalBiscuit enjoyed in 2015.

Credits:
The Search for Ambrosia (NYC Streets) by zircon & Jillian Aversa http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02650
Undertale remixes by LittleVMills https://www.youtube.com/user/LittleVMills
Rainbow Six footage by https://www.youtube.com/user/NukemDukem
Undertale footage by Cryaotic https://www.youtube.com/user/ChaoticMonki

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PSA: Something has gone horribly wrong with Steam (servers now back up)

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As of 6:20pm the Steam login servers seem to be back up, though slow. It is recommended that you only login directly through the client, using a website to do it puts you at risk of making a mistake and accessing a fake page, getting your details phished. Also if you think this is clickbait you are mentally deficient and don’t know what that word means.

This is all we know about the Steam problems as of 5:45pm eastern on the 25th of December. It’s noting that the response from a Volunteer Steam Community Moderator should not be considered an official statement from Valve.

The Co-Optional Podcast Awards Show Part 2 with KiteTales [strong language] – December 24, 2015

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Download the audio version of this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/podcast2412

Support Julian, the podcast animator: http://www.patreon.com/cooptionalanimation

TotalBiscuit, Crendor and Jesse Cox sit down with KiteTales on this episode of the Co-Optional Podcast! Enjoy!

Original air date: December 22nd, 2015

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KiteTales
https://twitter.com/Kite_Tales
https://www.youtube.com/user/KiteTales

WoWCrendor
https://twitter.com/WoWCrendor
https://www.youtube.com/user/WoWCrendor

Jesse Cox
https://twitter.com/JesseCox
https://www.youtube.com/user/OMFGCata
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Thanks for watching The Co-Optional Podcast!

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TotalBiscuit’s Arbitrary Video Game Awards – 2015

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TotalBiscuit brings you the 2015 edition of the most arbitrary of video game award ceremonies.

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:19 Categories
00:04:39 Best soundtrack
00:16:38 Best thing to come out of crowdfunding
00:29:12 The Stop Preordering Videogames award for biggest launch disaster
00:42:30 Graphical Powerhouse award for best visual fidelity
00:50:01 The game that most surpassed my expectations
01:01:23 Most striking aesthetic
01:10:41 The Sharpened Pitchfork award for dodgiest games company of the year
01:24:25 Developer of the year
01:36:04 The game that most needs to see the light of GabeN
01:43:25 The Contrarian award for the game I didn’t like as much as everyone else did
01:51:53 The “It’s Finally Done” Award for the best game to come out of Early Access
01:59:43 Outro and thanks

Probably unnecessary disclosures but I’m gonna make em anyway just to be safe.

In 2015 I engaged with Blizzard Entertainment in sponsored videos for Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void. While LotV is not nominated for any awards, Blizzard Entertainment is.

For part of 2015, my eSports team was sponsored by gog.com which is owned by CD Projekt. CD Projekt Red and its game Witcher 3 both have nominations in this awards show. CD Projekt RED is a subsidiary of CD Projekt, who also owns gog.com. Both the team and sponsorship are no longer in operation.

From 2006-2010, I was part of the same fansite as a former staff member for Squad games, who created Kerbal Space Program. Kerbal Space Program is nominated for an award in this show. Said person was not working for Squad games at the time of the nomination.

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Footage credits
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http://youtube.com/user/ChaoticMonki
http://youtube.com/user/ParadoxExtra
http://youtube.com/user/55danutz
http://youtube.com/user/unclefestorable
http://youtube.com/user/OMFGcata
http://youtube.com/user/BereghostGames
http://youtube.com/user/YogscastSjin
http://youtube.com/user/hdtouchplay
http://youtube.com/user/unitlosttube
http://youtube.com/user/JimSterling
http://youtube.com/user/szyzyg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7M_ulLquWwKVUM2GmkiyXw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyHO13nGi3pHDyRhjEFzmw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUxoapwoGN9cKN5SPKGVh7A

Background music by OCRemix: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01711

All footage used under US Fair Use doctrine.

The Hot-Wire “Styro-Slicer”

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This homemade, hot-wire foam slicer will make all your cosplay dreams come true. But wait, there’s more! …

It traces out styrofoam shapes with an incredible amount of precision an control, makes 3D puzzles, foam swords, guns, and anything else you can imagine. It cuts at any angle, has adjustable power settings, works off the grid, and even snaps together easily for quick, and clutter-free storage.

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N64 Rocket Controller: http://bit.ly/N64RocketController
Magic Mud: http://bit.ly/MagicMud
Matchbox Rockets: http://bit.ly/MatchboxRockets

Music by Scott & Brendo “Somewhere” Instrumental
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Project Inspired By:

The need to cut clean styrofoam models, for “backyard” metal casting projects.

WARNING: The electrified wire of the “Styro-Slicer” can reach temperatures well above 1,000ºF, which can cause burns, and potentially start fires. This project should only be attempted with adequate knowledge and training, and under constant adult supervision. Have fun, but always think ahead, and remember that any project you try is at YOUR OWN RISK.

Project History & More Info:

Big thanks to Crunchyroll (http://www.crunchyroll.com/thekingofr…) for choosing to sponsor this video! It helps a lot. 🙂

When I started casting aluminum, well over a year ago, I learned about a technique called “lost foam casting” from watching an online episode of a show called “Stuck with Hackett”.

Hackett made a foundry to melt aluminum, then buried a piece of styrofoam in the sand to make a custom part for a project he was working on. I didn’t quite understand how it worked, and it blew my mind!

I wanted to try some experiments of my own, but working with styrofoam was more than frustrating.

Scissors couldn’t cut it properly. Knives broke it into sticky styrofoam balls that clung to everything. And I couldn’t make anything useful, that looked very good at all.

In my moment of frustration, I somehow remembered back to an experience I had back in pre-school, or kindergarten, where there was some kind of machine we got to use a couple of times to cut styrofoam shapes.

I could only remember that it had a hot wire that sliced through styrofoam no problem, and left really clean cuts.

Inspired by that thought, I got on the internet and searched around for “hot wire foam cutting”, and found a lot of commercial devices from about $100 and up.

I also found a couple videos on YouTube of some DIYers showing their own variations using wood, PVC, or other miscellaneous items.

The common theme amongst all versions was that they were all basically just a thin piece of wire connected to electricity, that gets hot, and cuts foam. Everything else is just details.

I got some scrap wood, a piece of picture hanging wire, and in just over 15 minutes I had a crude wire-cutter of my own, powered by a transformer I ripped out of an old stereo.

Unfortunately the prototype was really crude and I didn’t have time to make a nice version for my metal casting videos, so I never did mention it. But it was the device I used to craft the styrofoam handgun in my styrofoam casting video. (http://bit.ly/StyrofoamCasting)

I’ve loved the wire foam cutter ever since, and used it so much and wanted to share it with the world, but I couldn’t do it until it was developed “King of Random” style.

My goals were to make it function like a commercial foam factory, take up as little storage space as practical, and do it for as close to $10 as possible.

It’s taken this long because I’ve been so busy with other projects, (mainly rockets), that it just sat on the shelf for over a year.

But I finally devoted a couple of days to prototyping, and came up with this!

The build is fairly easy, but also very technical, and the video is very long.

So I broke it up into segments. One video shows it’s features. The other video shows how to build it.

As a side note, my 6 year old can’t get enough foam slicing. He uses my old prototype to make anything and everything, and it’s become one of his favorite hobbies.