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[148.00 --> 149.00] Um...
[149.00 --> 156.00] But, uh, anyway, sorry, probably better known for Fear, Condemned, Fear 2, and then more
[156.00 --> 157.00] recently...
[157.00 --> 158.00] The Fear series, definitely, yeah.
[158.00 --> 159.00] Yeah.
[159.00 --> 163.00] Um, uh, so Middle-earth, Shadow of Mordor, and Middle-earth, Shadow of War...
[163.00 --> 164.00] Yeah.
[164.00 --> 167.00] ...are probably what they are better known for developing.
[167.00 --> 172.00] Um, and those last two have been done since the Warner Brothers acquisition, so that's how
[172.00 --> 174.00] they managed to get the rights to make...
[174.00 --> 175.00] Yeah.
[175.00 --> 176.00] ...Middle-earth games.
[176.00 --> 177.00] Yeah.
[177.00 --> 181.00] So, anyway, I got to go down there and check these guys out, and I didn't find out that
[181.00 --> 186.00] I was going to be going until, I think, Tuesday... late Tuesday night.
[186.00 --> 195.00] And I left here early Thursday morning, so I actually had to get up at like 6.15 in the
[195.00 --> 201.00] morning, and then meet Pella at the office, and then we had to leave the office by about
[201.00 --> 203.00] 7.30, 7.45.
[203.00 --> 208.00] That got us down there for a little after 10, and then we shot all day.
[208.00 --> 210.00] So we actually shot for...
[210.00 --> 212.00] Because they have a lot of stuff at their studio.
[212.00 --> 217.00] Half hour lunch, so we shot for like 10 hours or so, and then we left late at night.
[217.00 --> 219.00] We got some Five Guys on the way back.
[219.00 --> 220.00] Nice, there you go.
[220.00 --> 221.00] So that was pretty sick.
[221.00 --> 222.00] Yeah.
[222.00 --> 224.00] You can't go down to America without getting some Five Guys burger and fries.
[224.00 --> 225.00] Well, Five Guys is in Canada now.
[225.00 --> 226.00] What?
[226.00 --> 227.00] Yeah.
[227.00 --> 228.00] How did you not know this?
[228.00 --> 229.00] Really?
[229.00 --> 234.00] It's cheaper than it is down there, because two burgers and one medium fries was almost
[234.00 --> 235.00] 30 Canadian dollars.
[235.00 --> 241.00] So there's a Five Guys in North Van and just like...
[241.00 --> 246.00] I'm not going to say whose house that's near, but it's there.
[246.00 --> 247.00] You know whose house that's near.
[247.00 --> 249.00] Oh, wow.
[249.00 --> 250.00] That's crazy.
[250.00 --> 251.00] Yeah.
[251.00 --> 254.00] I don't know if they're like anywhere else.
[254.00 --> 256.00] Yeah, it doesn't look like it.
[256.00 --> 257.00] Oh, cool.
[257.00 --> 258.00] Well, at any rate...
[258.00 --> 260.00] I did specifically say Vancouver.
[260.00 --> 265.00] So we were shooting there for like 10 hours, and man, that place is so cool.
[265.00 --> 266.00] Like, I don't want to give away everything.
[266.00 --> 267.00] It's amazing.
[267.00 --> 268.00] It's great there.
[268.00 --> 269.00] But like...
[269.00 --> 271.00] Oh, dude, there's one in Surrey.
[271.00 --> 272.00] Oh, wow.
[272.00 --> 273.00] Okay.
[273.00 --> 275.00] I'm totally going to go at some point.
[275.00 --> 276.00] Yeah.
[276.00 --> 278.00] But yeah, it was like super amazing.
[278.00 --> 281.00] They were really, really open, which was probably the coolest thing about it.
[281.00 --> 282.00] Yeah.
[282.00 --> 286.00] Like, there was one thing they really wouldn't show us.
[286.00 --> 287.00] Well, they showed me actually.
[287.00 --> 290.00] They let me into the server room, but they wouldn't let us film it.
[290.00 --> 291.00] Oh, yeah.
[291.00 --> 292.00] Yeah, I'm not surprised.
[292.00 --> 293.00] And they were...
[293.00 --> 294.00] You know, there was stuff that I wouldn't have even considered.
[294.00 --> 297.00] So the server room is technically like Warner Brothers property.
[297.00 --> 298.00] Oh.
[298.00 --> 299.00] And...
[299.00 --> 300.00] Yeah, that makes sense.
[300.00 --> 301.00] Makes sense.
[301.00 --> 302.00] Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
[302.00 --> 306.00] And so they couldn't give me details like how fast their internet connection is.
[306.00 --> 309.00] They couldn't tell me what speed their internal networking is running at.
[309.00 --> 311.00] I just thought it was cool that they do that on site.
[311.00 --> 316.00] But they did tell me that their internal networking is way beyond 10 gig.
[316.00 --> 317.00] Oh.
[317.00 --> 318.00] Wow.
[318.00 --> 324.00] Well, you think about what their like animators are working on, like the size of some of the
[324.00 --> 327.00] assets that they must be working with, how responsive it needs to be.
[327.00 --> 330.00] They've got somewhere between 150 and 200 people, according to Glassdoor.
[330.00 --> 334.00] Like, yeah, it would have to be pretty banging infrastructure.
[334.00 --> 335.00] Man, that would have been pretty cool.
[335.00 --> 337.00] I totally understand why.
[337.00 --> 338.00] And it was cool, by the way.
[338.00 --> 339.00] Yeah.
[339.00 --> 340.00] But we couldn't film it.
[340.00 --> 341.00] Yeah.
[341.00 --> 343.00] But they did give us some cool stats.
[343.00 --> 349.00] So they told us they have about 800 terabytes of storage on site, which, man, you should have
[349.00 --> 353.00] seen the guy stiffen when I said, oh, hey, that's almost as much as we have.
[353.00 --> 361.00] Because you know, like, how many hard drives you have is like...
[361.00 --> 362.00] Yeah, yeah.
[362.00 --> 365.00] The IT guy's like dick measuring contest, right?
[365.00 --> 371.00] There's the dick measuring contest on the forum of like who has more storage, basically.
[371.00 --> 372.00] There's a whole thread there.
[372.00 --> 373.00] The 100 terabyte club, I think it's called.
[373.00 --> 374.00] I think so, yeah.
[374.00 --> 375.00] Yeah.
[375.00 --> 376.00] So that is...
[376.00 --> 377.00] That's funny.