Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Linus and Luke Talk About Their Fans”.
Is photography allowed during the lab and office tours? Yes? Oh, that’s. Okay! That’S going to take a bunch of work, but that’s probably smart because they were going to do it. Anyways yeah. What’S the point of pretending that people are not going to take pictures? Absolutely I’m not going to pose with you at every stupid. You know place.
We stop to talk about things yeah. I saw you doing tours yeah, I’m doing tours. Why? Why not I like doing tours? Oh okay, yeah, fair enough, then I I don’t think we’re guaranteeing who you get for your tour host, though yeah that’d be a bad idea. That would be a really bad idea, because you look look, look I don’t think I’m doing tours.
Are you not I’m down, but I don’t think I’m slotted for doing I know Dennis is oh yeah, I’m down yeah yeah, I told Colton and Steph. I was like just put me for whatever I don’t care, you’ll be a coach yeah. I didn’t worry about uh. The the consent here or anything I’m down to do whatever yeah.
No, I mean I’m I’m always down it’s always it’s always fun just to like. Ah I I I don’t really get to interact with you. People like that yeah there’s that there’s the chat and there’s comments, but no offense to any of the chats offense to Twitch chat, hate twitch chat, no offense to the chats.
It’S not the same, the way people it’s so oh well, yeah! I know it’s so funny. Based on the average comment section, you would think that a sizable portion of the community, like actually hates me or, if you you know, hung out on Reddit, maybe read it yeah but anytime. I talk to someone in person you and your darn shipping they’re, just the nicest people ever and it’s awesome, because when you strip away the anonymity of the internet, people are actually not horrible for the most part um and so yeah.
It’S pretty accurate. Usually it’s fun. Getting to actually like see people and have two-way communication right and a tour gives you a bit of an extended period of time with them and gives essential activity, so it doesn’t have to be like weird yeah. It’S not awkward, yeah, it’s good, no offense! Some of you, while nice are awkward. Oh yeah, you learn like social engineering skills to have a conversation with the fans. I’Ve told you about that right.
The whole step to the side thing step to the side. So it’s I um when you have a conversation with someone you meet at a show um, if there’s, if they’re, if you can tell they’re like getting you know like speech jammered, because they’re feeling really awkward and Unsure how to proceed with the conversation yeah. One of the many tools that you can use is just kind of like take a half step to the side and kind of lean over to the side a little bit so that they would have to turn a very odd amount to face you that will make Them re-stance, which gets their mind off of what they were just thinking about, because they’re like wait.
What and then they turn and move. And then you hit them with a question and it completely debases where they were at. So you step to the side and go like: what’s your favorite thing of the show and they’re they immediately just start talking what their favorite thing at the show is they lose the awkwardness and it actually works like very consistently.
Okay yeah. I use it like a lot, so that explains all of our conversations that we’ve ever had. I do that with Dan every single time. I talk like it’s very difficult, I’m kidding, but yeah me too. Okay, um get out of my head yeah. I don’t know whatever.
I’M just like I don’t I don’t. If someone comes up and is like excited to meet me, I don’t want the takeaway to be like. Oh I like I wish I wasn’t so awkward or whatever. I think I do that subconsciously. I’M trying to think as soon as you said. What’S your favorite thing at the show I was like yeah.
I always say that yeah I don’t know if I do the shift thing, but I definitely I told you the shift thing like many years ago. I give it like two or three steamboats and then I just like start talking to them. Yeah um, yeah, interesting.
This Josie says Luke psychologically, manipulating people for their own good. Nine. Before before I did any of this stuff, I met day nine down at a Pax event, uh that was outside of pax, called Red Bull land yeah, where there was this really really cool, custom, Starcraft tournament, whatever yeah, and he had like a meet and greet afterwards And it was super positive and everyone had a really great time, and but we we had started working together, but this was still when I was like behind camera, and I remember thinking at that event like man, if I ever end up being in a situation like Him where people want to meet me, I want them to come away from it feeling like that was actually like kind of cool, because I’ve met people like when I was like 14 or something I met Todd Howard.
I remember walking away from it being like that was just a dumb interaction like I had no idea what to say, I didn’t expect he was going to be. He was just like walking around packs. I didn’t expect it was going to happen and it was like he was cool. He was fine and everything, but just like I was very in my head about it, and so I had that event. I had meeting day nine and I was just like man. I want the the people that meet me to Exit with good feelings right and then, when people started recognizing me again, it packs. I noticed that there was this Loop of like Speech Jammer.
This is awkward right, don’t know what to say so. It’S like, I need a way to fix this and then yeah. I had a terrible interaction with a celebrity recently and it was completely my fault okay story time or I guess um. I really hope there’s no video of this online, but uh Victor axelson, who is the world number one men’s badminton singles player um current um current world champion um yeah kind of a big deal in the badminton space anyway uh he came to do an exhibition and I was drawn to play two points with him and there’s, like maybe 150 people. So, on the first point, I actually played a really good shot right out of the gate and he had to lift it to the front Court, which meant that all I had to do was just pound it down anywhere, and I would actually get a point which Would have been pretty cool because very few of the like 10 or 15 people that went up actually did score points on him he’s like god-like, basically, but I just I kind of got lucky he just I wasn’t like dressed for it or anything, and so I Think I kind of Blindsided him a little bit by actually playing a decent shot, and so he was like.
Oh I mean like got it obviously, because he’s a badminton God, but whatever the point is I completely whiffed it? Oh, no, so the the ceiling in the Richmond oval is so high and I had never played there before my depth. Perception was completely off and you probably are sitting there thinking uh excuses. It does make a difference and it didn’t only happen to me. People who don’t play there find it a little bit easy to kind of lose where the shuttle is as it’s falling down, so I missed it completely.
Obviously I was flustered. My next point I just completely screwed up, but none of this was the really bad part. The really bad part is that it’s customary in badminton to meet at the net and thank your opponent now pre-covered the normal way to do. It was a high five and now you but then covet okay. So now you touch rackets. My group flips our rackets around and touches our handles so that we’re not whacking the frames against each other. They weigh like 85 grams for an entire racket. It’S like hitting your frames.
It just seems unnecessary. Why chip the paint right? Probably it won’t, but that’s just what my group does: okay well, apparently, his doesn’t and he’s never seen that before, because when I walked up and tried to touch rackets, he like took the handle of it for a second was like and then gave it back and Then I just like moved away and then I don’t think we even ended up doing anything and then I just awkwardly walked off. It was the worst thing ever. Oh man, that’s funny.
He thought I was handing in my racket because I gave it to him handle for anyway um, so I I yeah so that was awful um anyway, I uh. I never want to see him again, yeah yeah, and it was completely not his fault yeah and like it was actually great. My interaction with Todd was was similar in that way like he did completely fine. I just like I met him and just immediately started rambling about computers, because it was like the only thing I did ever and if I remember correctly, I started like talking about mineral oil, because that was also all I did at that time and my dad eventually Just like shuffled me away, I was like uh that sucked amazing it’s okay, okay, thankfully nobody has uploaded video of This. I Know It exists because I had some friends in the audience and they were like and like sent me highlights of the failure. Oh man, brutal .