Triforce!

Triforce! Episode 165! We cover EVERYTHING this episode! Board games, wise investments, bitcoin, the Perseverence Mars landing and our old favourite: Dog poop! What an episode!
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[@erikbrenner5138]

This podcast is how I tell a week has gone by.

[@ashton35]

Worst day at work = new triforce upload to look forward to

[@Tarvi]

"There's 4 billion people in the world..." - Lewis Brindley 2021

[@nickdziura7373]

"There's 8 and a half billion people in the world" - Pyrion Flax 2021 being just as wrong

[@matthewoneill2701]

@@nickdziura7373 okay I wouldn't say "just as wrong," Pyrion's answer is much closer to the mark lol

[@markwilson7013]

Wow, Covid had more of toll than I thought 🤔

[@kiwisontoast]

Can’t believe I’ve been living without Sips’ Business Tips my whole life

[@sulanoji]

hey buddy this is the "RETURN of sips' bussiness tips" not brand new sips bussiness tips lol

[@kiwisontoast]

@@sulanoji yeah I know, I was living without those too

[@sulanoji]

@@kiwisontoast Triforce! #42 - Bizz Tips and Sips Strips | in case you missed it XOXO hahahah

[@bepis126]

The part with snakes as currency would make a great short animated.

[@Timphoi]

I imagine Pyrion at the dawn of time shouting at people using wheels to transport goods. "The old way worked just fine you lazy bastards!" Love the old man, but he really is the epitome of old person shouts at clouds.

[@durpanda123]

What are you even talking about? His take on Bit-coin? Which he is 100% right about?

[@alfredhadesworth9253]

7:46 is the best Lewis Laugh I've ever heard!

[@jabanan]

Hihihihihihihi hahahahahahahahahaha ehaha I love that.

[@jun_hakase]

Triforce podcast is great, been listening to all of it when i first find it out a year ago it fills the silence when i draw, music does too but sometimes listening to two dads and a half talking about stuffs is just relaxing

[@Pratalax]

"ya melon" gotta bring that back, love it. Also Flax's Googler voice, fucking spot on.

[@knitterknerd]

People complain about the dubious information in this podcast? That's half of why it's so enjoyable! Just some dudes rambling on about random topics. I'm laughing about Pyrion's ignorance about bitcoins partially because I don't know anything about it, but he still seems to understand it even less than I do. We're all idiots about lots of things, and this is a place for us to be idiots together, right?

[@adamcummings20]

Never thought I'd hear Doddinghurst mentioned anywhere on the internet

[@hawiak]

Pyrion gets angry when people tell him shit on the chat, proceeds to talk out of his ass about bitcoin for the best part of the podcast. never change pflax

[@RoastedWalnutss]

The Ratio of Pyrion being Correct to being Wrong in these podcasts is wild.

[@DeeWiz19XX]

I'm Actually enjoying the awkwardly hilarious ad reads. Hope they take turns at doing them.

[@rpreston5867]

lewis sold me on the manscaped signature scent cologne. its light, approachable, and gentlemanly

[@timmgiles]

Thanks chaps, this weekly pick up is just what we need. Loving PC repair advice you get.

[@madman_mitch4246]

Lewis's laugh at 7:46 is so satisfying for some reason haha

[@patrickleeuwenvan3741]

Let me just say, this podcast is a delight. Listened to every single one. Keep it up please!

[@BeyondTilted]

When pyrion said bitcoins were untraceable I felt mentally wounded that’s literally the exact opposite of what is true

[@MayBeCoughmann]

Yeah Lewis was right. Monero is the more private one

[@BlueXonar]

Pyrion stated something completely incorrect as a fact? Never! 😂

[@chiip90]

@Nightfuryninja I think what he was saying is that there's a remote danger that nations might forget their own currency completely and just use bitcoin. That wouldn't be good.

[@seymourskinner4706]

@@chiip90 why would that not be good, get rid of a hyperinflated currency for one that can't inflate it's supply

[@chiip90]

​@@seymourskinner4706 Because inflation can actually be a useful tool for governments/central banks if done carefully. Because scarcity of currency has it's own drawbacks. Because there is literally no upside to losing control of your currency. Zero. It wont make people more productive or better off at all so why would any government do it?

[@SipsNumberOneFan]

Never gets old even after 165 episodes! I look forward to this podcast every week :D

[@ItsRinaldo]

The place Lewis and Sips went to was probably Cafe Mox attached to the shop Card Kingdom in Ballard district, Seattle. They have opened up another in a nearby town. Their primary source of revenue I think is online sales of Magic the Gathering cards.

[@yehankili]

I love how Sips is always like: "I don't invest." That moment when he started nervously giggling when Lewis mentioned people hiding money under their beds; We know Sips. I hope you sleep well on all those Twitch bits in your hemp mattress ;) Also the hiphop-snakes: I lost it, thanks for the laugh!

[@darthvaderyan]

23:35 Tom and chat do this every Wednesday. Tom asked one time "I don't want to print these transfers, where can I get them?" and chat spammed "Just Print them" and he went and banned everybody lol

[@valerieblackwell5765]

Legend

[@orangedongle7813]

Lewis seems to be a comfortable tenor, but he was trying to be a baritone at the time. Safe to say he is a baritenor (This is in response to his singing at the start of the podcast)

[@lowkeyloki9194]

This is just what I needed right now. My dad is dying and I needed to laugh.

[@Mrbeardable]

Hang in there dude x

[@RND_ADV_X]

"Bling... Why is it always Bling?" - Indiana Jonesssssssss

[@TheKevinPodcast]

Triforce podcast is the best, just don’t listen in Budapest... :(

[@lukehayes9834]

Sounds like something a real microscopic-penis haver would say

[@TheKevinPodcast]

@@lukehayes9834 absolutely minuscule

[@capulcinka]

Yes Lewis, it's good to have backup, as the moon quest example taught us - three rockets for the win! Also would the Doddinghurst be abbreviated as DDH? 😁 Call it nomen omen, interestingly I have been there, stayed there during my studies for a weekend with a nice British family over the Easter, went to Chinese restaurant and volunteered in the greyhound shelter. Nice place! 👍

[@pubert_]

its going to be interesting listening to these in like 60 years

[@vegascvpiaaron6807]

If they exist hopefully lol

[@FeDeRaTTay]

Pyrion's description of how bitcoin is not worth anything and the system doesn't work defines how any currency works. Things have the value we give to it. If people accept a currency and belive in it it has value. That's why currencies like ours (Argentinian peso) are worth nothing.

[@Wyattporter]

I don’t think any countries work on the gold standard or anything similar anymore. Most if not all currency is fiat currency

[@tarnyowl6068]

There is more debt in the world than actual currency. It all works on faith. Money is our new god.

[@chiip90]

"people accept a currency and believe in it it has value" - normally because there is a whole apparatus around the currency to keep it relatively stable; if it doesn't the government or central banks have fucked up. Bitcoin has none of that.

[@RealParadoxed]

Last time I was this early Terry was still on his back.

[@kezmsfilms1300]

God, for a section around 20mins the background matched Sips hair so much I thought there wasn't any XD

[@Lyrisius]

"You're the goat in a coal mine" - Lewis Brindley, 2021

[@MrSaucyBeans]

21:00 leaving this for reference to pyrions incredible impression of twitch chat

[@Daren_PNW]

Was the Seattle trip uploaded to YT? I wanna see that one.

[@Wyattporter]

Big one today boys

[@Aurich88]

Crazy that Flax seems to think changing the cooler is some technical operation. It's about as complicated as changing the batteries in a remote.

[@beelzzebub]

Their description of how bitcoin mining works was fucking painful 😂

[@charliecrome207]

Yep hahah

[@branmuffins343]

This was a great episode

[@charliecrome207]

It is possible to track bitcoins, but it's very hard. And there are ways to counter the tracking as well, like bitcoin tumblers.

[@adamcummings20]

I've heard that at this point, tumbling bitcoins for illegal purposes is absolutely futile if you're being investigated. The methods of detecting laundering are so much more advanced than the methods of tumbling

[@fugyfruit]

@@adamcummings20 yeah but who's going to investigate? As long as it holds up to basic scrutiny no one has any reason to look into it

[@adamcummings20]

@@fugyfruit yeah for most people it isn't an issue

[@adamlee2550]

@@fugyfruit The fed?

[@fugyfruit]

@@adamlee2550 They're not going to investigate every single person who owns bitcoin so as long as you don't give them some good reason to suspect you

[@Tottytoland]

Did we really not get a tale from Pyrion's wargaming club because Lewis wanted to chat shit about transport...

[@QuietBiscuit]

Isn't hemp from the male plant and weed is from the female which is the only one that flower's?

[@noahcarpenter6996]

Hearing Flax say, "Real Estate just goes up" killed me inside. Has he never heard of Japan's 1991 price crash or the US 2008 housing bubble?

[@knitterknerd]

He did say something like "over time." Long-term, it always goes up. If you've got long enough to wait it out, you'll eventually come out ahead. I mean, there are always extremely improbable exceptions, like if you'd only invested in land that was wiped out by Chernobyl, but it's a remarkably safe category of long-term investments.

[@hybridxtr]

I work in apartment maintenance we have a resident that is an old lady that let's her dog poop on her patio then throws it all over the side into our bushes

[@ashton35]

Step moms flax n lewis at it again

[@tobyriding3231]

finally up to date!

[@VKOp1No3]

last time I was this early the tank was still hungry

[@THECREATOR1099]

Choke restricts air flowing into the carburetor

[@StalkTheHype]

Lmao pyrion hit the Nail on the head with Lewis and Bitcoin lmao. You could basically hear him try and recite the hype article he fell for.

[@Blitzkrieger17]

Omg. I feel the graphics card pain, pyrion. Ff14 killed mine, and it was a struggle to find one i could use... Found one online at microcenter, said there were 16 in stock at 7am.... Get there around 1 pm and they were sold out. Fortunately, i was able to get an upgrade for ohhhh $150 more... Blegh.

[@2DVincent]

I read the title as "sipses business tipses"

[@BrendanGeormer]

The only way to get decent graphics cards right now is buying a pre-built config that was made a while ago

[@icykickflip]

Pyrion is smoked out the drones on Mars weigh tons and carry waaaaaaay more processing power than all of the computers he’s ever had in his life combined times 10

[@LakierosJordy]

Pyrion talking shit about something he doesn't understand in the very same podcast he rails his audience for talking about shit they dont know about. lol. Never change.

[@sp3lllz]

the whole gpu thing isnt just GPUs its all silicon thats why theres not many ps5s or xboxs either rn when they planned to be way more available by now its got so bad my brother works in a car dealership and they where told that production on their cars has been cut down to like 10% of what they would currently make cause even they cant get the calculator grade silicon that they use to controll all the parts in the car and stuff

[@1tsUrDad]

We need to hear Lewis’ gang stories

[@mpbiggame1010]

21:46 man that was so funny xDD

[@sulanoji]

1:10:28 thats why this podcast is awsome :) {and because its my favorite youtubers...... i mean... emm what would you call them content creators, youtubers/streamers, online personalities, big dick crew?)

[@PowersOfDarkness]

57:20 on what lewis is sort of saying, just so people know, the wealthiest 1% of Bitcoin holders own 90% of the overall supply.

[@gametron3210]

Hot Head Pyrion Undecided Lewis and Laid back sips

[@jocking3]

Hearing that a BRITISH guy doesn't know what the Triumph Dolomite is... this somehow makes me feel really sad. To Mr. Pyrion "car mechanic lelvel 999" Flax: The choke limits the amount of AIR going into the engine, thus making the fuel-air mixture richer, which helps when you try to start a cold engine, and the fuel would just condensate on the cold cylinder walls.

[@kneebon5]

I needed to hear that anger about chat comments today

[@GhostOfSparta]

Had to give the car a bump

[@MrEaking]

Put it in Huge Tracts of Land!

[@misty2063]

Lewis is more a baritone, Pyrion would probably be a mid tenor and Sips is definitely a bass. Purley going from a chorally trained singer's perspective.

[@adamcummings20]

In which Pflax gets hardcore educated on Bitcoin by Lewis

[@TheVelvetiron]

There is something about helping folks out by pushing their car.

[@kirasmith1147]

It's painful how right lewis is

[@lukehayes9834]

Alternate title: Sips tips, bits and shits

[@valerieblackwell5765]

That series of podcast titles was the best imo

[@threemoo]

If only Sips knew that literally every Currency is traded exactly the same as Bitcoin. He'd probably have an 'eart attack :P Also there isn't any real difference between digital currency and those things in your pocket that are not actual money, they're just promises from the bank to pay you said amount of money. Digital currency is legitimately more secure in it's value than that.

[@chiip90]

"they're just promises from the bank to pay you said amount of money" - a promise that has been backed up, in most cases, by hundreds of years of use with a central bank and government effectively guaranteeing it's value and stability. Bitcoin has none of that. Investment groups know this; they are just riding the bubble as far as they dare and it will be normal suckers who are left hoarding worthless chunks of code in the end.

[@TheFlamingTrain]

Nice

[@elijahlucas3574]

I’m gunna out and say it. I almost always agree with pflax but I agree with Lewis on the bitcoin thing over both pflax and sips. Flax is terrified of change and sips doesn’t care enough to understand it.

[@ItsRinaldo]

Bitcoin's rapid devaluation then extreme boost in the last 18 months deserves some skepticism due to volatility.

[@EvileDik]

Just to correct Pyrion, the olds now _were_ the hippy generation, my dad 76, can literally smoke me under the table. Listening further on I'm wondering exactly when he became the intolerant daily mail reader....

[@Chick3nluvver]

"currency doesn't move as quickly as bitcoin does, and that's a good thing" -Flax Arguably bitcoin and other cryptos move as fast as stocks, or indeed faster as there is 24/7 trading. If Flax means efficiency is a bad thing, how did his graphics card break?

[@chiip90]

He doesn't mean how fast they can be sold; he means how fast they change in value.

[@darrenfleming7901]

He means that there's a reason every functional economy uses fiat money rather than basing itself on a stock or a cypto, the efficiency comes at the cost of stability. In an economic cycle the money velocity generally increases which is one of many things that fragilizes the economy until it collapses, so the main reason fiat money is preferred to crypto is that you can use policies to control the supply and the velocity, the main argument against a crypto based economy like some want is that the velocity would be ridiculous and, more important, uncontrollable.

[@Gregrs400]

11:22 Pyrion dated the recording

[@alfredhadesworth9253]

They always record a week prior, so it's not really a big thing

[@Gregrs400]

@@alfredhadesworth9253 That’s fair

[@maxisbac]

Pyrion, about bitcoin: you get the gist of it but there is so much more. 1. 'Untracability' - we need this for human rights activists. Imagine trying to pay for web hosting for Free HK or Free Myanmar movement, safely so that your government cannot put a bullet through your head. We, average citizens, _need_ untracable money, even if it is a double edged sword. Imagine UK has gone full CCP and you are trying to spread the word to everyone around the world and accept donations so that you can pay for food. .... more in replies

[@maxisbac]

2. Regarding 'untracability' - as soon as you buy bitcoin with your bank account, it is _eventually_ tracable. As soon as you buy anything with Bitcoin that is tied to you (ex. Steam, Amazon, etc), it is also _eventually_ traceable (becomes harder depending on what you have done). Total untracability comes when you have mined your own (using some sort of VPN) or someone has given it to you, then spent it on a platform that accepts Bitcoin and the platform's account is not tied to you. 3. "WTF is bitcoin worth" - you can also ask "WTF is paper money worth". "WTF is the numbers in your bank account worth?". "Money" in the end is an agreement of value, Bitcoin made this agreement easier by introducing 'mining' - actual compute power that can be mapped to existing 'money' that has value. We already digitized our money. We already pay using bank issued cards and trust the numbers in your bank account. Bitcoin essentially makes that better, for every average citizens (ie. exclude banks, govs, etc). .. more in replies

[@maxisbac]

4. "invest in real estate" - have you seen the average wage that millennials and zoomers are making? In most developed countries, you need to work for decades (yes, plural) to even afford to get a house loan for some mega-suburb shithole. Be thankful for your thoughtful parents who allowed you to build on top of their fortune. There are people who weren't fortunate enough. 5. "why you trust in everybody" - why do you trust banks? How can you trust their security? There are laws around bank regulations and guarantees but in most countries, there is a hard limit on how much is guaranteed. Plus, in some countries, we cannot trust the gov either. How about we actually trust concrete science behind Bitcoin (ie. essentially trust the majority of the planet)? .. more in replies

[@maxisbac]

6. "I hope it does not become global currency" - some form of crypto currency will. May not be Bitcoin, but something will replace cash because current banking and credit system is fucked and we will run out of engineers who understand and fix issues in 10k lines of COBOL. There is also a reason why we cannot replace them with some system built with modern programming language. "it has got us this far" - can you confidentally say bank has become more reliable (ie. no payment or transfer issues) in the past two decades? I can confidentally say, reliability has gotten significantly worse as we demanded faster and more secure transactions (not that the system got worse, but our standards got higher). This need will only grow and current system will not hold. 7. "tricking everyone to buying" - imagine this, you can buy food with bitcoin and food price adjusts according to bitcoin up and down (ie. your value of bitcoin is constant - ex a litre of milk). This is not possible right now because there is hard tie between Bitcoin and cash. If we can somehow untie them, your exploits will no longer be a thing. I am glad to hear you are wiling to admit knowledge gaps and accept new. We could all learn from your attitude. end

[@nickdziura7373]

Pyrion "Put it in real estate, it only ever goes up" Flax needs to learn how we ended up where we are with the economy

[@nate.draws.things]

It's funny Pyrion made fun of chat for just googling the issue he was having. I have friends in IT, and guess what, that's ALL they do. When you send something off to be fixed, they either know the issue or they google it.

[@Efebur]

There's a difference between informed guessing / googling (what IT does) and random twitch chat guessing / googling. The latter is annoying because chat will most often just guess but make it seem like they know, then a thousand other people will repeat that guess, or they will not pay attention whatsoever and just repeat the same shit that's already been tried and didn't work. And then when there's that one guy that actually knows the answer he will be drowned among all the guessers and will never be seen. It's infuriating to even watch such interactions, I don't blame sips or pyrion at all when they rage about this.

[@nate.draws.things]

@@Efebur Ye that's true. Didn't think about the fact twitch chat is spammy af.

[@The1Floyd]

Listening to Lewis talk about Bitcoin was like a 70 year old car with no engine being pulled up a hill by two paraplegics. It's just going nowhere mate.

[@doolittle8888]

My big issue with Bitcoin is the energy cost. Bitcoin systems use more electricity than Argentina by now, and most of that is using fossil fuels and natural gas. The average Bitcoin transaction uses as much electricity as 100,000 credit card transactions. It's just totally incompatible with responsible handling of the environment as the technology currently exists. This isn't to say it can't improve in the future, but there has to be some kind of change. Edit: Also there's some news lately about crypto art being made, which is also a huge disaster. One crypto art piece can use as much energy as the average European will in several decades.

[@Warrandpeace]

Sips you buy and sell bitcoins almost like stocks... you can even buy and sell them on stock apps like robinhood... buying and selling works identical to stocks pretty much I think the idea of bitcoin is that it could become an international currency so i think it could succeed, but i dont like it either because you could never base anything on a currency thats price fluctuates so wildly

[@wonglik95]

Well well well, old man pyrion is scared of crypto, what a surprise. Love the banter tho.

[@elahem6940]

PFlax gonna be sad when he realizes most currencies are just fiat that has nothing behind it

[@iamzid]

well the volatility of national currencies is really dependant on the strength of trade and stability of the government.

[@elahem6940]

@@iamzid yeah and we all know those things never change

[@chiip90]

"they're just promises from the bank to pay you said amount of money" It has the understanding that the government backs it and has an interest in keeping it stable. What does bitcoin have?

[@elahem6940]

@@chiip90 The fact that people will pay a lot of other currency to own it.

[@chiip90]

@@elahem6940 You are misunderstanding my point. I'm asking what forces are there to stabilise Bitcoin to make it a viable real-world currency (as it is supposed to be) rather than an investment (which is how everyone treats it)? Unless you want to live in a world where you have no idea what things will cost day to day?

[@Daren_PNW]

Thumbs me up for all you manual transmission drivers/riders out there. xD

[@frankgriffioen6572]

A GTX1080ti should slightly outperform a RTX2080 on Pixel & Texel Rate and should have more memory bandwith too, if its a GTX1080 it would only be slightly below a RTX2080, with good optimisation all 3 cards should be reasonably comparable, gess it shows what bad optimisation does for a game

[@Skelldr]

Listening to the triforce try to navigate what cryptocurrency is, was the most dick ripping and at the same time funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

[@strategystuff5080]

Bit coin is not worth what it is currently valued at, its madness.

[@codyharris2588]

No more mid roll ads. Please

[@webb2800]

Pflax saying untraceable money is a bad thing just blows my mind. Privacy isn't a bad thing

[@Tofuey]

9 months late but Lewis CBD is made form hemp

[@RisingDivinity]

This was entertaining than last week when all they talked about was tv shows. At least there's a good variety this time around. Not that they can't talk about tv and movies, it's just not as interesting to me as games and technology.

[@Mechanisttm]

God pyrion tasks such shite sometimes. Old man pyrion, I don't know what it is but I sure as hell have an opinion about it.

[@JehRehMyUh]

Oh btw, lewis is a baritone. Infact all of yas are baritones, just different types.

[@DirkVomEck]

We covered it all...in dogshit!

[@adamlee2550]

Love these guys, but they're almost completely wrong about Bitcoin aha

[@kirasmith1147]

"having to learn how to play competitive shooters make them all suck" "yeah I enjoy board games that take a while to learn"

[@MrAllallalla]

You're just lowering your larynx lewis. The opposite of it would sound really thin

[@McQuiznos]

Someone keeps letting there dog, shit in my yard. I can never tell who it is, and I live in a neighborhood full of dog owners. Best believe though. When I find out. Every day I find it. It’s being placed in there fucking yard. Sick of finding piles of dog shit scattered around my yard.

[@bugadam0]

Gotta treat bitcoin like gold vs a currency pyrion. Bitcoin cant be a proper monetary system as you say due to its fluctuations and expensive transfers. However there are stable coins liked to USD and GBP which the banks are looking at using. Bitcoin will be like hoarding goal, ethereum and other tokens are like computers or monetary systems.

[@coopawesome]

Pyrion is soooooo wrong about bitcoin

[@StalkTheHype]

Nah. He is right. Bitcoin is entirely unreliable and super easy for single actors to manipulate, which is why we have already seen several pump n dumps including it. Anyone with more than a highschool understanding of economics gets why a currency that someone like Musk can manipulate by tweeting is a garbage resource. Its a modern day stupid tax the rich use to give clueless people hope while taking their money. Best part for them is that all the idiots are gonna angrily defend putting their money into Bitcoin as a good idea - because otherwise they'd have to admit being gullible.

[@Viperishcoin43]

Does lewis blaze?