An LGR Oddware Christmas: The Gift of Tech Nonsense

[@Heidegaff]

It ain't Christmas without the Christmas Clone. Thank you Clint for this precious holiday tradition.

[@ReginaTrans_]

plot twist: the clone is in fact the real Clint

[@anidnmeno]

@@ReginaTrans_ its June: LGR pulls out some weird soviet Apple I clone: "CHRISTMAAAAS!"

[@ScottTrogam]

Clint, as someone who is hard of hearing your closed captions are always much appreciated. I encourage everyone to turn them on so to enjoy some solid jokes as well.

[@TheKyshu]

Seconded, they're really helpful to me, too!

[@oldveryveryoldmanfromthe1900s]

All KZbinrs should use captions

[@seanlavoie2]

It’s even nice if you’re hearing isn’t too bad. Interested in the caption jokes I’m missing. Any in this one? Approximate time or time code?

[@GiselleGauthier]

I'm not hard of hearing, just autistic. Sometimes my auditory processing disorder gets in the way of enjoying things if I can't get subtitles. So they're always welcome.

[@wuachurra]

**printer noise**

[@ubergeeknz]

Somehow, I knew EXACTLY what "fitting, seasonal christmas music" you were gonna play

[@LGR]

It's a guarantee at this point.

[@Maldunn]

I didn’t expect it but I got a big kick out of Spruce Nuke’em

[@iAmCyberwaste]

It was either that or "God Rest Ye Deadly Gentlemen" from Rise of the Triad.

[@brianahoneybee2487]

I love how Clint just put a probably 30lbs monitor on top of a laptop.

[@LGR]

I’ve sat _myself_ on it many times over the years by accident! Those all-metal chassis Pros are built strong.

[@MadameSomnambule]

@@LGR Now THAT is a sign of quality right there… if you can get over the occasional mac that fries the dedicated video card forcing you to brute force it into using the embedded video card instead. Otherwise, those old Macbooks are hardy.

[@barrymandy5521]

" they don't make em like they used to"

[@oo0l4ch0oo2]

Clint, where can i get this supernice green crystal lamp?

[@joseamadorsilva7395]

That laptop had it coming.

[@ReeseRiverson]

Not gonna lie, the sound of the dot matrix printer printing was a blast of nostalgia.

[@lexluthermiester]

Right? That sound took me WAY back in the day!

[@robwebnoid5763]

Do you guys not have one around anymore? I have around 10 or so machines, including my last few stacks of fanfold paper.

[@lexluthermiester]

@@robwebnoid5763 Not here. I've gone colour laser and never looked back.

[@robwebnoid5763]

​@@lexluthermiester ... Well I also have a color laser, but since this is a retro channel I would have thought most viewers here may still have older equipment, such as impact printers, although they are still being used today. But yeah, good times, during its heydays.

[@CptJistuce]

I've genuinely left the real-time hot dog banner clip running just for that good ol' feel.

[@seoulpurpose]

I love this, the Clone as the actual source of the Oddware. Also, Santa ball-gag, and a Big Clive homage

[@fubaralakbar6800]

LGR has the most tasteful dirty jokes on the Internet

[@Cr4z3d]

@@fubaralakbar6800 That's a good way of putting it XD

[@MedivasBerund]

The constant muttering of "Christmussssss" causes my wife and son to chuckle and roll their eyes. Thank you Clint for creating this and inspiring seasonal obnoxious dad moments.

[@pendaco]

"Christmuss!"

[@jamesbernald2850]

@@pendaco Christmus!

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

With that Fisher-Price activity center, I had a sudden and stark realization: Kids toy packaging has _not changed_ in almost 35 years. I seriously thought that thing was made in 2010.

[@ReginaTrans_]

all types of tech reached their pinnacle in the 90's, electronic music, HD video, pictures, cars, fashion, etc, the only thing I think kept evolving are computer software, memory capacities, processors, etc but just being perfected to the point of having slimmer and slimmer gadgets today, but really its been the same since 1999, just better resolution, faster, and smaller, and thats ok, next thing is robotics

[@MadameSomnambule]

Yeah. Only Barbie and Lego packaging seem to have changed over the years. But toys like Little People and others, not so much. It’s pretty interesting. Seems they nailed the little kid toys packaging pretty good by the mid 90s or so.

[@seacreacherdiet]

Hope the clone's doing well, it's always good to see him again.

[@sstteev]

He's so gleeful!!

[@seacreacherdiet]

@@sstteev how couldn't he be, it's CHRISTMASSSS

[@brianm6337]

I hear he gets shipped off to fight the Trade Federation 11 months out of the year.

[@brianbagnall3029]

Unfortunately after Christmas the clone self destructs.

[@bakakafka4428]

@@brianbagnall3029 Yep, like a Lemming, poof!

[@frigusoris]

"Christmas..." I don't know why, but Clone sure gets me in the spirit haha

[@pendaco]

Christmuss!

[@liampiper9357]

8:20 LGR: Hey Flerbnerp. Clone: Christmas? (Interested) LGR: No not you. Best conversation ever.

[@YoshMaster]

I’m so pissed off at all the stupid junk that cannot work without a damn app! Like why!? Why the obsession with apps?? At the very least put some physical buttons to do the same thing in case the app disappears!!

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

I'm with you on this.

[@riffcrypt8438]

Smaller/low end businesses in particular have fallen for the idea that having some sort of proprietary phone app will make them seem of a higher quality.

[@ZX3000GT1]

Gotta harvest all the data from the users, what else?

[@DoveJS]

​To add on to what Riff Crypt said, it's probably a lot cheaper to invest in just an app. Odds are that usage will deteriorate it faster (the lights for sure if not the music speaker) and a lot of these probably went into the trash when the first bulb sputtered out, even if everything else was fine. Most people who kept them only pulled them out around Christmas, probably forgot they had them, and might've been irked but weren't too put out when they found out the app was gone (and might've tossed it then.) It's not the same as losing a beloved video game or a coveted music album; very few people felt attached since it's more of a novelty than anything else. So, this being what it is, the company was sadly better off not caring about longevity. I agree with you overall though.

[@thrjfi5360]

Most companies that have a separate company that makes the app only allow 1 to 3 years by contract then it must be renewed and at the low low discount bargain bin prices by then the company don't make enough money to wanna renew the contracts

[@nickes6168]

These have gotten me through hard times over the many past Christmas seasons. I'm sure they have helped others as well, Merry Christmas everyone.

[@biebersheenis]

Little People Christmas was one of the first pieces of software I ever used, back when I had to be only 3. It was a shock to the system to see it start up again, and every single sound is etched into my brain. I'll have to go find my original copy, thank you for this pleasant surprise. Oh god, the snow-packing sound effects, they're so perfect.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

It's the most LGR time of the year.

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

Today truly is one of the LGR days of all time

[@bitterlemonboy]

@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire kid named LGR:

[@necrovarius225]

I sang this when I read it....

[@kyleheckman]

With the CRTs glowing and Clint’s clone is a growning with holiday cheer

[@ryouma1717]

its always LGR time

[@leebryantutah]

"Santa ball gag" made me chuckle more than a mature adult should.

[@TeaAndFloppyDisks]

"Play sounds from your own personal library". >.> He's going to play the Duke Nukem theme song. And several minutes later... yup! Ah, man! Thanks for the lols, as usual! I hope you never grow tired of the Duke voice, Christmas clones, silliness and making awesome videos for us. Cheers!

[@CasperTheGhost64]

I am grateful for your wonderful channel that you've maintained so well all these years. Avoiding drama and focusing on having fun, as well as producing phenomenal, ultra-nerdy content for me to enjoy. There are not many people in this space compared to other hobbies. It's nice to have you LGR.

[@chemergency]

Clint's got a lot of faith in that Macbook build quality to just be plopping a big heavy CRT right on-top of it!

[@ObiWattKenobiLive]

They have solid aluminum bodies and can take a beating. I still think Apple products are overpriced but they do make some impressively sturdy hardware sometimes.

[@soupcan_97]

@@ObiWattKenobiLive Indeed... I foolishy dropped my M2 MacBook Air twice and it still both works and looks like new; not a single scratch on it. Apple build quality is pretty decent (butterfly keyboards aside).

[@MattGamesYT]

$478 for a christmas tree with some lights and a speaker on it?! The true meaning of christmas right there 😅

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

Its not christmas until your wallet is empty.

[@MattGamesYT]

​@@ImpetuouslyInsane I should leave the tree up all year round then 😅

[@Anticommunism99]

Christmas is about Christ but in the west its only about consumerism

[@Petertronic]

On the 26th they will be selling them for $40 and still making a profit

[@SirDinielFortesque]

The one I bought in 2017 was around that much and its been a good one no needles and none of the built LED lights have gone out and it changes to all kinds of colors.

[@monkeyman767]

Clicked into this video, got about 10 seconds in and thought you were going to do a reveal that it was the clone at the desk, then I saw him in the corner and promptly had the life scared out of me. Well done

[@belava82]

Thanks for all your interesting videos!

[@starbucksmocha88]

I love these LGR Christmas videos :) 2022 has been a tough year for me, and December has been pretty grim so far so it's been nice having these videos to cheer me up and give me some laughs. Thanks Clint (& thanks to the Christmas Clone for giving Clint these gifts hehe) that Christmas tree and the Eldritch snow man were horrifying works of art lol

[@Brian_Rogers]

The Christmas videos and the Christmas Clone are an absolute delight, I'm sure that they're an absolute pain to put together but I look forward to them every year.

[@thejackal007]

That CD looks very Knowledge Adventure to me. The Eldritch Snowman will stick with me for a little while, I think... And hope you have a good Christmas as well, Clint!

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

It does say Knowledge Adventure on the box. You'll have to pause the video to see it though because it's in the corner of the box.

[@thejackal007]

@@thelaughingmanofficial Oh yes, I saw that. I just mean that in the grand scheme, this feels like a VERY Knowledge Adventure kind of product.

[@NostalgiaChan]

I like that we both had the same thought about Big Clive seeing those Christmas lights. I was fully expecting a nasty meltdown like the charger lights.

[@Matthewjph]

Great production values on this one, and a highly entertaining video. Thanks for your hard work LGR.

[@LGR]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fensoxx]

My god the sound of that printer brings me back to teenage years with my Amiga 500 printing random risqué photos off GEnie and Compuserve. And one of my favorite clone Christmas episodes in many years thanks man!

[@RenaissanceRoadTrips]

Thanks as always, LGR. I look forward to your Christmas videos every year.

[@pigmilkmusicfarm]

Dude..... Watching your videos are just such a wholesome nostalgic escape and I appreciate what you do

[@Boris945471]

Big Clive Vibes is my fav phase now. I see allot of things at at work that give me 'Big Clive Vibes'

[@221b]

I'm glad that you and the clone are still able to keep your schedules aligned to make these episodes every year. Christmas just wouldn't be the same without them.

[@snarkylive]

The fact that those shitty poorly made lights can fail spectacularly is what makes them so alluring, and you could hear it in your voice mentioning potential destruction that it would've been cool if they had.

[@ThommyofThenn]

Crappy** no need for gutter mouth

[@Gary_Hun]

I luv these man, don't feel hesitated from doing it twice. I was heartbroken a year or two earlier when you skipped the festive shenanigans!

[@LGR]

I’ve never skipped a year, not sure what you mean!

[@Gary_Hun]

@@LGR I donno somehow a December of the past couple years registered in my mind as LGR X-mas-ness not really happening due to illness or something... maybe i am just too spoiled to consider two vids a full festive marathon or something :D

[@GageBrown]

Nice to bring back the classic logo. Brings the nostagla again.

[@alexander-prime]

you would hope that companies would at least have a way to download their old apps off a website to future proof this stuff. but they assuredly do not care that much. ahh well. great video! that kids' software at the end seemed surprisingly high quality for what it was.

[@paulnash9851]

Without wanting to sound weird, I so want an LGR Xmas clone. I think he’s sweet + wholesome.

[@Laurastar2009]

This whole video was a delight from start to finish. Merry Christmas

[@King-Julien]

The one at 8:11 shit me up so much, I looked at my door as someone was knocking, then it says "Christmas" in my left ear and I jumped form my chair! ahah!

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

the clones are escaping, and breaking into our homes

[@adamkierstein4895]

Happy holidays Clint!

[@frozenbean]

One of the first jobs in games I ever had was as in QA on Fisher Price and Mattel activity center modules, the ones that were associated with various licensed properties (like Sesame Street and Super Why) and used the Fisher Price Cool School keyboards. It's interesting (but not surprising) that the one in this video uses the EXACT same framework and layout for activities. It even has the same style of narration about how to use it.

[@pauledwards2817]

Ahhh, the genuine inkjet printer experience. Dried up inks on Christmas day and screaming 3 year old. Somewhere may be open in the 200mile radius that says it has them but really does not.

[@airysquared]

Your description of that cheap plastic smell was so spot-on that it's my favorite line in the video. Threw me right back to my childhood.

[@curvingfyre6810]

I love the lights lol. Fitting the wires over both sides of the corners looks like it works perfectly, and honestly, id say its well worth it for the christmas ambiance. Im having a very high spirits christmas this year around lol.

[@Bucking_Fastard]

That is some very impressive sound design and production quality on the kids' activity CD.

[@hsnell1222]

Those Christmas carols were actually genuinely good.

[@chhunter]

The modern app obsession sucks because like you said, 30 year old windows software still works just fine, but something made 7 years ago is useless because the app developer or Apple/Google decided to remove the app from the app store. Planned Obsolescence 2.0 for a new and improved bottom line!

[@ZX3000GT1]

Moreso Apple. It's at least possible to get APKs of said app.

[@eXtremeLink859]

I knew right when I saw the Christmas bluetooth lights that we'd be hearing either the Doom soundtrack or the Duke 3D one. LGR never disappoints

[@kittymae335]

When you showed the jewel case for the activity center I got a huge shot of nostalgia even though I've never seen it before

[@frankowalker4662]

That was fun. Merry Christmas, Clint. :)

[@jollyrice5654]

holy crap!! i played the activity center game as a kid, and that start up music and voice acting gave me a huge nostalgia overload. Loved screwing around with the tree and snowman games

[@DaveF.]

Honestly, those USB monitor lights absolutely were designed for CRT monitors. They're just still being sold two decade too late.. Merry Christmas to you and your clone.

[@elijah5573]

25:52 i was watching this eating dinner and from a different room my dad says "is that a dot matrix printer?"

[@Wolfburns]

I'm here for the seasonal silly fun! Good to see the Clone is still doing well. Fun lil video that I'm glad I watched. I hope you are doing well and thank you for all the videos!

[@gerald8573]

Exactly the video I needed today. Thank you. Your videos never fail to put a smile on my grumpy face.

[@cypresscustoms]

25:40 That sound took me instantly back to being a teenager. I swear I could smell the ink ribbon.

[@Isaacfess]

Thanks for another amazing episode of Christmas LGR Clint + Clone!

[@---sx2lh]

One of the finest Holiday Traditions on the internet. Love the bit. Love the edits. Keep up the good work. Merry Xmas :D

[@davidhays2913]

Clint, thank you so much for this episode! It was great fun!

[@ezrapowell6309]

The sound of that printer took me back. You had to do a quick prayer and hope the printing gods were on your side

[@Lukandrus]

The LGR Xmas video became a Christmas Tradicion for me! I hope you keep doing this for every year! Thanks! Merry Christmas 🎄!

[@SparksNZeros]

LGR Snowman be like: "Be Not Afraid!'

[@curvingfyre6810]

Those tree lights are proof of why every rgb device needs built in buttons to be any good. The older led strip controllers with the huge wall bricks and big clunky buttons will last for 100 years and be more or less useable forever, app or no, remote or no.

[@Lishtenbird]

But then you won't buy them anew every year, when the next app disappears from the store!

[@georgeyreynolds]

I have a set of lights with no smartness but just a controller in a small green box. The controller box failed so now the lights are stuck on that lovely cycle effect mode which includes the crazy flashing one. Apparently can be fixed with a soldering iron quite easily but still, I don't think these things are any better made to fail in such a way (they should fail all ON imo).

[@curvingfyre6810]

@@georgeyreynolds agreed, better to be stuck with white than rainbow puke

[@vladv5126]

The LGR lore is reaching Filthy Frank levels at this point.

[@joefil1991]

b0ss

[@DeadPollo]

"Welcome to the Woograin fields, motherf*cker!"

[@spyrothehuman]

Ay b0ss

[@Boemel]

i laughed my stocking off

[@Tipsukka]

The Eldritch horror snowperson had me genuinely laughing out loud. Great job!

[@gregoryschaiberger3573]

A new LGR video? Now that’s the greatest Christmas gift.

[@NatesGamez]

Hey LGR! I am so happy to still see you out there making content, I absolutely enjoy the amount of effort that goes into these amazing videos, I personally wasn't around in the 1990's-1980's, but am so interested in older Technology and just how homely it looked. I also have a question regarding older monitors. When did CRT monitors have the ability to run videogames at 1024x 768? and was this around in the 90's?

[@Dm.my..telgrm.Freddygives]

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[@bf0189]

I loved that cut you did going from the testing medicore Bluetooth speaker to opening the Bluetooth speaker using the same music and around the same position. Clever !

[@karlramberg]

Thanks for the genuine printer experience. Just how I remember printers

[@GoetiaTV]

Christmas Clone has a real talent for gift-wrapping.

[@ronindebeatrice]

Those are some nice papers.

[@NineteenInFrench]

He really embodied Christmas

[@rkhale02]

Clint, your christmas stuff always puts a smile on my face. Thank you.

[@sixscales2639]

"How long have you been holding onto this?" "Christmas"

[@RaccoonHenry]

I'm curious about Christmas Clone's shopping habits. does he go thrifting? browse ebay? is he even allowed a credit card? these questions are KILLING me!!!

[@TheMrBuer]

The struggle to get the printer working was all too real. We have AI, quantum computing, technological wonders developing everywhere, but somehow can’t print to a piece of paper reliably.

[@GiselleGauthier]

I love that they say "snowperson" over two decades before most people would even think to be that inclusive. But given that this is supposed to be aimed towards children of all genders, nice consideration to begin with.

[@cfdeers]

I absolutely adore the battletech poster behind your tree nothing says the holiday spirit like the Mad Cat

[@WindowsOnWindows]

9:55 POV: You just booted up Windows 3 with Multimedia Extensions.

[@davebeat]

The best printer mishap you had is still that t-shirt design software that printed out the preview picture of the t-shirt including the t-shirt graphic. I still laugh when I remember that.

[@woodykrummenacher5847]

Man I just love the Christmas episodes. Has become a beloved holiday tradition.

[@carlosquijano1461]

This was great. I love the laptop lights and the Christmas lights with the speaker

[@NautilusGuitars]

Clint, I just have to let you know that you're incredibly good at this. I've seen comments alluding to the notion that you've grown a lot as a presenter, but you strike me as a natural at this. You have the best presentation style I've ever seen. Your candor, affect, tone, etc are incredibly good. Your style of speaking is soothing but engaging, and so comfortingly smooth that I put previously watched videos of yours on to fall asleep to, which is a huge compliment. You have the best narrating voice I've ever heard. Not only that, but your personality and humor are top notch. It's just the perfect balance between dry and spicy. I just want you to know that you're incredibly good at this. You've become my favorite creator in less than a month. Keep it up! And Merry Christmas!

[@sotkajarvi]

At "Santas Ballgag" I thought I might have had enough of internet for today.

[@thejabberwalker]

Thanks L! You too brotha. Your vids bring much cheer each year!

[@patprop74]

the first gift reminds me of a little program for windows95 that ran in the background, it would have little Xmas lights around the desktop screen and windows that you had open

[@MrDuncl]

I remember that, And Christmas Screen Savers. There was one which was a picture of a cozy room in which a new item appeared each day, snow built up on the windows etc. A letter came through the letter box if an email arrived. An amusing Easter egg was that all the needles fell off the tree on the 26th December. Another one was a great animation of Santa, his Reindeer, and an Elf and delivering presents by throwing them from the back of the sleigh down chimneys. Very simple 3D graphics but that added to the charm. I will have to check out what Windows 10 makes of them.

[@danielmorency790]

Thank you for an overwhelming nostalgia trip, totally had that game growing up..loved the tree and snowman

[@Mathias-RetroFutureTech]

Man that video truly is a gift

[@adamm6051]

Dude your videos are my favorite way of unwinding after a tough day at work. Thanks!

[@Dm.my..telgrm.Freddygives]

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[@samdogygaming918]

LMAO "Clone how long are you holding onto these?" "Christmas!"

[@aramil200]

Merry Christmas Clint and Clone! Always enjoy your videos!

[@Dm.my..telgrm.Freddygives]

Hurry 🎊you just got yourself something from me Send me a message above to claim your prize ..

[@MichaelEilers]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, Clint! I’m sure I’m not the only one here that associates Christmas with the most memorable tech acquisitions of my early years, such as my Atari VCS, the first family home computer, boxed PC games, and probably my biggest score (for a 11 year old) - that full size Millennium Falcon…

[@MrDuncl]

A full size Millennium would be really neat. It must be about the same size as a Boeing 737 🙂

[@MichaelEilers]

@@MrDuncl hah that’s about the size of the one at the Star Wars land at Disney World! I meant to type full scale, as in scale with the action figures, but clearly it’s funnier this way so I am leaving it.

[@otaking3582]

This is part of why I hate stuff that's controlled exclusively via a smartphone app, besides the fact that connecting devices to your smartphone is usually a pain, and I shouldn't have to waste precious storage space on my phone just because the manufacturers were too cheap to include an actual remote control.

[@JaredConnell]

I swear, with everything becoming 'connected', there'll soon come a time when you can't flush your toilet without updating it, then one day the app will no longer connect to the server and it will stop working forever.

[@SimonCallahan]

When I was a kid, Little People toys were a part of my life, but not in the way you think. There were a series of short films based on the toys that I watched a whole lot when I was a kid, each one with a different story or theme. The series followed the lives of a "Little People" family, but they didn't look like the toys so much as they looked like people with the heads and faces of the toys (not as creepy as it sounds). It's also interesting in that it was one of the first acting roles for Scott Menville, who voiced Robin in Teen Titans Go. The tapes were, themselves, self contained stories about the characters doing different things. There was a Christmas tape, for example, which had the story of the little girl (I believe her name was Penny) trying to buy her brother a Christmas present but not having enough money to do so. In the end, she finds an old sled owned by her grandfather and, with help from her parents and grandparents, restores it to its former glory with new paint and newly built parts and gives that to her brother. That said, I hope you do the other Little People disc in that package, I'd love to see exactly what that is, and more importantly your commentary on it.

[@zachswy]

We have this old motorized rotating Christmas tree stand that was my grandparents' when my mom was little and it has a little music box in it that plays a medley of jolly tunes. Mid-century Christmas oddware!

[@wesleylantz9491]

10:05 Called the Duke Nukem music before you even finished that sentence. You’re a classic, Clint. Thanks for the holiday cheer!

[@Merylstreep1949]

I'd use that speaker to fill my house with the sounds of Motorhead and Iron Maiden

[@Dred-yn5pc]

Thanks for a wonderful Christmas video LGR, have a merry one.

[@ViewpointProd]

So if you've got a clone, would he be considered an LGR Compatible?

[@LGR]

Compatible with most LGR software despite the slightly different XMAS-86 processor.

[@IamNotANumber]

Love your Christmas content. Merry Christmas to you and Clone.

[@jeremyhutchings9541]

LGR is a staple with these yearly Christmas goodies we are blessed with every year so cuddle up and enjoy 😂 I will

[@MCMcommunications]

17:45 What a shame that Dudley the elf said "join my friends and I" in such highly-polished kids' software. YAY, let's teach the kids bad grammar for Christmas (and for the rest of their lives)!