After Show: Dick Smith Tour

[@MosoKaiser]

To nitpick (and horribly late as watching now, being a cheapskate non-Patreoni): that joystick's movement very likely has _nothing_ to do micro switches vs. rubber domes. It's clearly an analog stick so gimbal mechanism + potentiometers to read the position. Arcade style digital sticks on the other hand would have switches of some kind and register only on/off inputs for directions.

[@PendragonDaGreat]

Thank you! This was very obviously a flight stick not a fight stick and that line annoyed me to no end. Even calls out trim centering on the box (i.e. shift the origin point so it'll be still when at rest)

[@meganek0597]

Its almost like he always says negative stuff that isnt true or he doesnt understand or smt

[@hudde814]

@@meganek0597 Yeah like anything that has to do with Windows or when he took a look at an Xbox Series X. Love what you do Wade, but this is something I don't really like about you tbh

[@WhitePointerGaming]

Actually good joysticks in the style of that one are analogue and don't have microswitches in them. You find microswitches on arcade cabinet joysticks, but not on those ones that are designed for more precise control. You don't want microswitches when playing flight sims.

[@FokkerBoombass]

Ngl these feel odd to watch, even if only because I can't yell at him for the joystick being floppy because it's actually an analog stick.

[@AchillesJG]

Logged in to say the exact same thing. "Good joysticks have microswitches", that's a bad joystick, but for it's lack of microswitches.

[@yammmit]

@@AchillesJGits

[@samholdsworth420]

I always fast forward the first 10 seconds that way I don't have to hear him saying thank you for supporting

[@samholdsworth420]

Me

[@pavuk357]

Idk, maybe he ment that at the time good ones were with microswitches instead of rubber dome? Afaik, Game port doesn't have good bandwidth and cannot properly handle analogue joysticks.

[@riggles]

It's an analog joystick, it has sliders to readjust the centering. It's not supposed to be clicky, and it's supposed to have that range of motion to it.

[@ffnbbq]

Some notes about Dick Smith: one of his many political positions is being against immigration (apparently on the grounds of overpopulation and infracture issues), to the point of at one time supporting the immigration policies of Australia's most infamous far-right political party. Smith sold off his electronics stores/brand in 1982 to supermarket chain Woolworths, so most of us experienced the store after he had left it.

[@ClocklessHours]

Aint there like 24 million australians? tf is he talking about "overpopulation"

[@lookstothetroon]

​@@ClocklessHoursthe entire country is just one big desert with about 3 square meters of grass

[@ffnbbq]

@@lookstothetroon Honestly, I think he lost a lot of credibility in supporting That Political Party's immigration policy, not to mention if he was really concerned about aging infrastructure that can't handle more people, he should campaign on those grounds, not on advocating that Australia slashes immigration.

[@TheLivingCatastrophe]

Edit: I'm american. I am a sideliner. I don't care for Aussie politics I'm expecting someone to start rambling their right wing beliefs and say "MAKE AUS GREAT AGAIN!"

[@peterchrist1945]

God bless him

[@blackidna]

I love how the logo looks like the guy knows what he's doing, saying "Yeah, that's my brand. Whattyagunnadoboutthathuh?"

[@CuriouserArchive]

Game Port joysticks are analog, not digital. That's why there aren't any microswitches. As for the head cleaner, honestly I wouldn't recommend ever using such a thing if you're ever thinking about it. A lot of these place too much wear on the heads and eventually damage them. You're better off using a chamois swab and isopropyl alcohol. The video processor is an oddity. It won't work as a switcher; it's for taking one signal and distributing it to multiple places. Think of a situation like a bar that has multiple TVs that all need to show the same channel from, say, a cable box. I'm not sure what the knobs on the front (other than the channel selector, which is obviously for an RF modulator output) are supposed to do though. It would be interesting to see what they do. My first thought was a time-base corrector for use with a VCR, but that seems unlikely given the controls. The microphone won't plug directly into a TRRS jack that does both input and output (like the dongle or the iMac) because it isn't wired for that. It's intended for a TRS jack on a PC that is used for a microphone only. You can get adapters for this.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

I'm going to pick you up on something: Whether a joystick is connected via the game port will have no bearing on whether or not it will have any form of analogue controls. Whilst the port itself is analogue, that's only because it predates the advent of ports that send and receive digitally encoded data. Controllers that output a digital signal through USB or Bluetooth are dramatically more likely to have analogue controls because they came about right as analogue inputs were becoming the standard across all platforms. Each pin of the game port is directly connected to a different part of the controller, whereas USB controllers have no specific pin for each function and send all the information as encoded ones and zeros, cycling through the state of each button and the value of each of the analogue components in cycles (so, each button gets a one or zero one by one and the value of any analogue inputs is split between multiple cycles and then reconstructed from binary after a certain number of rounds, much like how ADSL signals all go down the same wire but don't get mixed up with one another. This takes fractions of a second, but there may also be some optimisations beyond the simplistic way that I explained it that prevent the controller from sending information about buttons that haven't changed state, or maybe different sections of the controller have their states listed on a lookup table and the controller is just sending the number that matches the current state, meaning that you don't have lag caused by constantly telling the computer that none of the face buttons are being pressed) The majority of joysticks from before the introduction of the USB standard have been entirely digital in terms of what they send through the game port, with each cardinal direction being an on/off affair. This is the standard that was used from the 80s through to the early 2000s and for most of that time there were no analogue input devices outside of the world of flight simulators and aerial combat games. That being said, there's a reasonable chance that the joystick he was holding could be intended for flight simulators and may be able to output analogue directional information, but it's also a very cheap product that could just as easily be a shoddy digital stick that's been dressed up to resemble something with analogue control.

[@pixelsquish]

@@casanovafunkenstein5090This is mostly wrong. The IBM PC joystick was specified as an analogue device where each axis used a potentiometer so that continuously varying voltage levels could indicate the precise position of the stick. So, not just “up” or “down” but “very slightly up” and “hard down”. Consequently this specific IBM-compatible joystick would never have been made with microswitches on its movement axese because it would not have worked. Many millions of analogue joysticks were made for PCs in the 80s and 90s. In your comment you are confusing digital signalling vs. digital encoding.

[@jaykoerner]

​​@@casanovafunkenstein5090game ports expect analog joysticks and measure resistance over the pins that directly hook up to the potentiometers for the X and Y axis, while theoretically you could have a small microcontroller emulate analog outputs(or the cheap and dirty way just short pins to ground or positive depending on polarity) this was not done at least in the vast majority of cases and may very well not work with many games since it doesn't follow the specifications the port expects to receive and would certainly not work well for anything expecting analog control such as flight Sims

[@jaykoerner]

​​@@casanovafunkenstein5090also I'm reasonably certain is basically is cheap to put in two potentiometers versus or rubber dome setup for that style of stick, even back in the day analog potentiometers were a couple cent component, the rubber mats with carbon pads would have been basically of the same price, there's a reason controller still use analog potentiometers to this date (joycon drift?) They're dirt cheap

[@Fimbulvinter19]

Ahh, the Dick Smith 'quality' electronics. I bought a powered TV aerial amplifier from one of the Dickies stores way back in the late 90's, and I swear it only made the reception worse. Dick Smith taught be a valuable lesson that day; that sometimes cheap is cheap for a reason, and you'd be better off spending the money on a better product up front, because you're just going to have to spend it anyway later on when the Dickies product craps out on you after a day.

[@Morog2002-gaming]

Bro what 💀💀

[@coteof7055]

As a video head, an explanation: “distribution amplifier” is an older term, it basically means it takes a signal input and copies it to multiple outputs while boosting the signal power back to initial spec, hence it amplified and distributes the signal. This is different from a splitter, which just takes the one signal and splits it across two or more outputs without amplifying it. DAs are useful because they basically reset your useful cable run distance back to maximum, which is important in larger setups

[@YarugumaSou]

Damn you just unlocked a core memory of mine with that vhs cleaner set

[@CocoHutzpah]

If I saw matches in the check out aisle called dickheads, I'd buy a box every trip.

[@crescentfreshsongs]

As a bit of a dicksmith myself, I can say that the jump from dicksmithing to joysticksmithing makes perfect sense. A lot of the same build skills behind both, y'know.

[@dyscotopia]

The original PC joysticks that came out didn't use microswitches because they were analog. They all had that kind of flaccid mushy feel whereas digital joysticks like used on arcade cabinets and the Atari, c64, Amiga sticks could be quite usable if you knew what to buy. They were technically less precise since they only registered 8 directions, but the response time was a lot snappier. It's sad that I'm old enough to remember this

[@wsippel]

Those analog PC sticks were primarily meant for simulators, where you absolutely, positively want analog input.

[@IgniVellex]

@@wsippel Yeah, it looked like an old flight sim stick to me. You absolutely want a smother feel in something like that.

[@WhiteJarrah]

I could never find the Dickhead match sticks in stores, but I remember they made the news.

[@carlos_did_a_thing]

is he uploading the after shows individually now? cause that's actually pretty nice.

[@J-M784]

Yes, actually!

[@J-M784]

I thought this guy made 100 billion videos in one day, somehow. Sadly, he didn’t. But thank god the physics of time still holds correct.

[@ExpandDong420]

It only looks that way because they were all privated for patrons until now

[@Gentlendy]

So a wild part about that Dick Smith desktop mic is that I bought that exact same mic but grey back in like 2016 or 17 by a cheapo brand called "Trust" who are still around (tho I haven't seen them anywhere else but here in Finland) Now it did work unlike the one in the video but the quality on it was absolutely putrid

[@markusoliverasagtg9704]

Trust also exists in Turkey they sell cheap shit that is a tad above the worst

[@orokanamame]

Trust also exists in the Baltic states. They're the "less shit for the same price" things.

[@Yhaenger]

I do believe they are all over Europe. I have seen them in Germany, Austria and Netherlands

[@markusoliverasagtg9704]

@@Yhaenger They are a Dutch company IIRC so that is not surprising

[@krizalllid]

Seen that brand in the UK as well. It’s about the same quality as garbage from Amazon and eBay that’s shipped straight out of China

[@BBC600]

1:46 That looks like there's actual content on the tape whereas the ones I remember just had cloth stuff. You should run that through a VCR and capture it if you can. 🙂

[@MrRidged]

dude thats a good stick its a analogy not a clicky one that how its suppose to be for flight sims and stuff

[@kepakpl]

This video processor was designed mostly for bypass macrovision copyprotection.

[@brentmcdowall1469]

That not-working DSE microphone looked familiar to me. I might have had one like that with my Sound Blaster 16-bit kit for my PC in the mid 90s? Ah fond memories of the old 486 DX2-66...

[@philgoodinc2]

when dickies was closing down at the end, I would go in to my local one every week during the grocery run. Got a few good steals, like a logitech harmony remote for $20, but they were selling the leftover uniform polo shirts. I actually bought some, i think they were a couple of bucks each. ahh memories

[@facebag666]

that desktop mic was my gaming mic from 2008 to 2014. I got it at a yardsale and never knew the brand, but im in the US so idk how it got here.

[@Sanglyon]

No,no,no, that's an analog joystick using 2 potentiometers for X and Y axis, like the thumbsticks on modern controllers, to send values proportional to how much you twist it. Microswitches are used in digital ones, like arcade stick, which are just glorified D-Pad limited to up-down-left-right. Back in the day, even that low end joystick was way better than using a keyboard for car or flight sims.

[@nerd20fromdiscord]

Btw only analog sticks have the clicky micro switches and the ones with the switches are worse (in like the scenarios that sticks are used for these days such as flight sims etc)

[@theboywhoisnot7926]

HOW MANY MORE AFTER SHOWS ARE YOU GONNA POST

[@tbnrtate6129]

All of them

[@craftman_yt]

Yes

[@unnamed715]

Dick Smith missed the opportunity to name the joystick the "DickStick"

[@dmo848]

Funny how I ran into pkcell batteries this morning and I laughed way 2 hard for no reason.

[@solophiesoterica]

That’s an analogue joystick, micro switched are digital. The benefits of that joystick is on flight sims, where the more you push in a direction the more its responds.

[@ClayDress]

"Designed for Australia" is pretty hilarious

[@kieranambrose3613]

I love the way you can tell around when these were recorded by what trinkets are on the desk. And how not perfectly aligned the ipad is 😅

[@mibnsharpals]

1:10 no, the control stick is built exactly as it is intended for a PC. It is an analog stick. Hence the two trim slides. Most games expect a stick like this. That's different than with the C64, because you need digital ones. By the way, the Apple][ also has analog inputs.

[@chutas]

4:39 I'm just glad Dank has more Lego

[@Hello-sw3ct]

Love the videos man❤

[@coding01]

holy shit an upload fresh out of the oven

[@tenkikun]

that exact mic was sold in Sweden at Biltema

[@dezhocob]

Jag är inte förvånad!

[@LorchVHS]

I've had several of those DS microphones over the years and none of them functioned.

[@Streetw1s3r]

The Anko of the 90s and early 00s

[@pokehybridtrainer]

Does this store still exist? Or is it online only like Radio Shack? Curious.

[@Runningthesteadyrace]

I don't think that microphone was used as a microphone before it got neatly packaged. You can tell from the description of the smell you got from it lol.

[@meh3619]

He got to go for that third whiff of the binful of old seafood

[@alexanderevanska4274]

Editing room? Sounded like in the bathroom and you demonstrated it whilst drowning in the bath.

[@nukecity4382]

well rip that one channel that split the videos

[@jessica23claire]

good! i'd rather give the dankman the views anyway

[@Bandikoot_818]

HAPPY NUGGY NEW YEARS

[@mtsarkful]

Ah yes... The microphone everyone had in the 2000's

[@V1VISECT6]

Bummer about you canning the after show. But its understanable. I use to run something similar on myspace (the good days) back when be and my band were active. It was lazy. We just ripped our DV tapes without editing them to youtube or dailymotion (is that still a thing?). Christ sometimes we were to broke to aford DV tapes once so after 2 or 3 shows we just filmed from our camrea straight trough Firewire my aluminum Powerbook G4 and later my 07 or 08 Macbook Pro into iMovie or Final Cut. Those were two of the nicest laptops I owned. Windows took over all my music production and recording duties. I still keep an old clamshell iBook for when i wanna screw with old VSTs and edit patches on old BOSS floorboarss and DAWs llike Cubase and Cubasis 2. I forgot how arcaic that is compared to what we have now. When I first used Cubasis on a iMac it was like something from Futurama. Back then I used Steinberg 3 or 4 on a S/T. Cubasis 2 was a new beast which i used for years. I'm sure all my old tracks are somewhere.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

I love that Frank sleeps and poos in an old speaker enclosure!! 🤣

[@AH6man]

4:49 a rug and using footwear to attack it 🤔 congrats you're part middle eastern now

[@TimCook-zh3kw]

I’m pretty sure the chair took more abuse than the microphone.

[@taikomotionanimations1089]

The Aussie version of RadioShack

[@Variella]

O o f. Weirdly that controller reminds me of how -TOO- smooth modern controllers are for old games. I've been playing some Gamecube favorites on my pc and...ooooohhhhh boooy did it make me suddenly and very vividly remember that Gamecube controllers had directional and half-directional NOTCHES-- and that actually matters for how the games for it were programmed. Floaty controls baddddde.

[@liorgamingking8874]

1:53 best quate ever

[@H3rry118]

Smooth out the edges of Franks hole. Wait that didn't sound right. His entry circle looks sharp, probably fine but id feel better if it was more rounded out

[@Joshtheweatherman]

0:49 looks like an OBDII connector ;D

Good old Apple 3.5mm socket that doesn't have the same pinout as the rest of the industry, so it doesn't support any PC microphone...

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Richard Smith himself.

[@clark778]

There's dick smith products at the liquidation store near my place in Canada

[@jamesbrown145]

Wade my first mp3 was s dick smith. It was black and sort of an oblong shape with the buttons on the long side. Hopefully you have one of these nugs

[@theredlegend365]

i’m sure THE funny matches were interesting to find on eBay

[@dezhocob]

1:53 me on a Friday night out!

[@yaziyo]

I worked at a dick smith circa 2011/12, in its dying days, just before Woolies offloaded it. It was a shitty store and my store was a particularly shitty example.

[@rayan.alquraan69]

3:10 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SuperPerry1000]

Must be honest, I never like it when a brand prides itself on shitting on the competition. Boasting is one thing, but if it's done without really backing up the claims with your own quality...well, it just says that you have nothing to offer, really. As this video demonstrates,

[@lanecolvin95]

Cute dog

[@truck-you420]

You remind me of sassy from sassy the sasquatch

[@kirara4953]

One Boot?

[@HXRDWIREDGaming]

People used to smoke the cleaner. (fun fact)

[@darijoy2010]

Richard Smith

[@ElijahMiniBikes]

1:53

[@AmyStrikesBack]

What kinder eggs are yall having on autralia with cheap plastic? Kinder egg/kinder surprise toys have a really good plastic

[@simonpacer1594]

Dick smith is an amazing australian ....shame ...u dont get ask to bbqs

[@simonpacer1594]

my first mp3 player was iriver 256 mb that cost me 400 AUD back in the day ...my old tech beats urs

[@BlueXonar]

Dropped the ball on this one a bit old maaate, thats obviously a flight stick not a fight stick, so your assessment of how it feels was a but stupid 😂

[@DougTheFresh]

4:51 😳😳😳

[@dautisticguy]

Pior Frank😂

[@filipeisabelinho3425]

what a rip off, it promises at least 1.5m of cables and then there's just one cable =(

[@Astronaut662]

:o

[@cuttinchops]

Moist

[@GeneralNickles]

1:53 replay button. Thank me later.