- Today we're looking
for gaming tech on Etsy. Last time around I did
not have a lot of luck, so let's see if I can find some better gaming tech this time. I'm just gonna type in "Tech". What could go wrong? Ooh. Oh wait. Yo, yo, yo.
Oh, I found cool things. I found cool things. So basically people are just grabbing like junk old boards and putting a little mini
CD and adding a clock to it. That's really neat. This is the kinda stuff that I hoped I would find on Etsy, unique, cool techy items. But I need to find something that's a little bit more practical. What will happen when I look up "gaming"? Wait, what? Oh no. Hold on. This seems sus. 200 plus STEAM games in one for $14. You're purchasing a collection
of STEAM shared accounts for 200 plus games. Are you, (stutters) Hold on. Are they just sharing their STEAM account or are there a bunch of
different STEAM accounts that they will sell you? I mean, I guess I gotta find out. For 14 bucks? That's just weird, man. That's just weird. Oh, I'm about to, oh no, I'm
going down the rabbit hole now. The custom built ODROID XU4 with an LCD display, an Exynos 5422 processor, two gigabytes of RAM. But I guess what's unique about it is that not only can you
play using the system, but you also, it has a screen on it. So you can actually just
play directly on the screen. Which version do I want? I want with a Xbox 360
controller, obviously. Adulting game cartridge for
Game Boy Home Brew game. Is it all about adulting? - [Kinsey] You're not a game boy anymore. You're a game man now. And you gotta do stuff
like pay your taxes. - No! This is actually really
cool. 26 bucks, man. I want it with the box
game manual or box upgrade. What's the box upgrade?
Yeah, I want a box upgrade. Nah, that's a no-brainer. That's so cool. With that, my friends, I think
I've got everything I need to take a closer look at
some of the wild, wacky, and weird tech that Etsy has in store. Okay, so we're gonna take a closer look at the fineries of Etsy. This is probably a good point to mention. Actually, you can see
right here on the box. This was shipped October 13th, 2023. I'm not sure when you were
watching this video, but it's been a while. It took us quite a long time
to get all of our items in. So let's see what we got here, shall we? - [Matt] Did it take a
long time to get items in or did you just forget
that you ordered them and they sat in the shelf for a while? - I don't think there's any
evidence of that whatsoever. As you can see, Matt and Ken are joining
us for the shoot today, so, - Woo. - we've got that scruggly energy. - [Matt] What? You're scruggly. - Well, y'all are scruggly. What is... Oh snap. Speaking of Pokemon. - [Ken] Oh, oh, Jesus Christ. This is our Pokemon 35
millimeter film camera. - [Ken] Oh God. - So yeah, boy. Actually y'all haven't been
over to my house in a bit. I now have a Pokemon closet as well. - [Ken] A Pokemon
- [Matt] As well? - [Ken] Is that where
you keep the kids or? - You tempt kids to
sleep out in the garage. (Ken and Matt laugh) - It's okay. He likes
Charmander too. It's fine. He'll understand. I don't know how they listed this. It looks like it's still sealed 'cause it's got the original
piece of tape on there, which doesn't look like it's been moved. So Ken just pull up one that's on eBay right now for 333 bucks. We pay 200 for it, right? - [Alex] 217. - $217. So maybe we got a deal, but let's actually open
it up very carefully. - Oh ho ho. (chuckles) Look at that. It's the old scuffed looking Pokemon. So it's like Charmander,
who's dead inside, Bulbasaur who's tired of your bull (bleep) Squirtle, who is gray instead of blue and Pikachu, who's holding
hands with Squirtle, but doing it in a very sad manner. This thing is dope. Wow, this is so weird. Yeah, so these look like the
actual, maybe like the inserts. That's about 35 mil film size, right? - [Matt] Oh, the, yeah. - So maybe you actually
insert this into the camera, and then it will overlay your Pokemon on the actual photos. - [Ken] It's actually kind of cool. - This is actually kind of neat. So I need to put this in. Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you. I have never loaded film in my life. - [Matt] What?
- My dad used to do it all the time. No. You think anyone trusted
me with a film camera? My first camera was a
digital camera in 2004. - [Matt] Okay.
- I never owned a camera before that. Oh look, my family did. - [Ken] The privileged
Austin Evans over here. - [Matt] I have my man
servant load it for me. (all chuckle) - Man servant.
(Matt chuckles) - [Matt] God dammit. (all laugh) - [Austin] You literally set
yourself up for that one. (Austin whoops) (speaking in a high voice) It was so easy. You're so silly, Austin. You don't know how to use film. (speaking normally) Who's laughing now? - No one after that voice. So this is what you gotta do, when you take a photo, - Yeah.
- this will unlock. - Yeah.
- It's gonna let you spin the exact distance to do another 35 millimeter print. - Copy. So.
(Pokemon camera thuds) - [Matt] Okay. - So we feel confident
that I can now take... - [Matt] Everything you
take now should be decent. - It's not. - Did you wind it all the way? - Yes.
- [Matt] Okay. - Not working. - Okay. - We'll be right back, after a word from our
sponsor, YouTube AdSense. So we got the film developed and it turned out that
nothing was on the film. So I know that the shutter was open. Maybe it was a matter of
it wasn't functioning. But I guess (camera shutter clicks) time for the next item. Before we continue on, let me tell you a little about the sponsor of
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very much to Eight Sleep for sponsoring this video, and for sponsoring my dreams, and oh, the world is so, ugh. I'm going back to bed. This is way more... (exhales) - [Matt] Wait. No, that one is Fra-gile. - It does say "Fragile" on it. - [Ken] Oh, sorry. - All right. What is this? Thank you for shopping at Game Cosmos. Okay. Oh. Okay. All right. This is a custom Xbox One controller made from authentic projectiles from a, - [Matt] Wait. What? - Device. - [Matt] What? So then would
you say this is perfect for first person shooters? - [Ken] Is this no rus-.
- Yes. - [Ken] It's "No Russian" themed? (Matt and Ken laugh) - It, I will say, is incredibly well done. I mean, yeah, if you look really close, you can see a little bit of
like the white from the inside and the seams and whatnot. But they clearly took
apart an Xbox controller swapped out all the buttons
for these metal buttons. It's not like...
- [Ken] It's the nicest controller that I've seen
north of the Mississippi. - What accent was that? - When I have my six shooter in one pocket and my black,
(Ken imitates gun draw) - my controller in the other one, (Ken imitates gunshot sound) - Wait, how much did we pay for it? - [Alex] Ooh, well, we paid $170. - Pfft. (all laugh) - Okay, wait, wait, wait
now, let's be real here. When I think about
buying cool tech on Etsy, this is the kind of thing I think about, something which has been hydro dipped to look like a wood controller, even though it's not real wood, and projectile casings for my buttons. Honestly, while I'm not
a huge fan of the look, the only thing I can really
kind of ding it for is just that it looks nice
with this wood pattern, but when I see wood, I assume it's gonna
actually have wood grain, and it doesn't. But beyond that, the buttons, the sticks, it is really, really well done. So Etsy, you know what? Not bad. I'm actually... This is the kind of stuff
I hoped that we would find when we decided to do Etsy Tech. Go ahead. No you don't. No you whoa. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. (crew laughing) - [Alex] And you almost stepped on it. - Okay, well let's see what we got here. Let's see what we got here. Oh, it's time for Adulting. Okay, so this is a custom Game Boy game. So we've got ourselves a sticker. Oh, so we can put a...
(music stops) There's a sticker. Why is the sticker not on the...? Did we just buy the box and not the game? There's nothing. There's an instruction booklet
and nothing else in here. I bought the box only. How did I buy the box only? (crew laughs) Yeah, I want a box upgrade. Nah, that's a no brainer. That's so cool. This is not... - [Ken] He's gonna call customer service. - I paid $20
- [Matt] "You sent me exactly" - for the box.
- [Matt] "what I ordered. I want a refund." - [Ken] "Lemme talk to your manager. Do you know who I am?" - That is ambiguous wording. That's ambiguous wording. Okay? God dammit. I'm gonna order the game right now. Okay, I'm gonna now pick cartridge only. And I'm gonna buy it now. You'll soon see, depending
on whether or not it shows up before this video goes live, what Adulting is all about. If it is, it's right here, and if it's not, (bleeped) (all chuckle) So it's been almost a month since I shot that last
part of the segment, and it took a little while for the game to show up
from the Netherlands. But now let's do this
one more time, shall we? A hard lesson in Adulting
is to check the listing before you hit the big red order button. There we go. An actual game. Oh, "Press A to interact." Yeah. B button if you need to cuss.
Oh, I can press the B button. (Austin chuckles) I can just decide to cuss
at any point. That's great. "What are you doing with my phone?" Oh, oh, I accidentally
touched my roommate's phone. Yikes. Sorry, roomie. That's my bad. What's that? "Don't reset the wifi". Why not? "I'm watching a show." Boy, this game, real,
real Adulting. Boy oh boy. Okay, so here's the thing,
I get the idea here, and the idea here is that I'm
gonna be spending a long time trying to get to the
bottom of filing my taxes, doing my laundry, homework
and all the other stuff. This is neat. Considering that I have
spent something like $90, on the game, the box,
the two sets of shipping, I'm happy to support indie developers, and I'm also happy to read listings more carefully next time. That's a real lesson in adulting. (box thuds) I have to throw my own items now. Ken and Matt have abandoned me. Also, it's kind of better. It's quieter in here. You know, there's lots of
quips, there's lots of, (talking in wobbly voice) At the general store. (long beep) Oh, it's an N64 mod of some variety. So we have a big old
chunker of a power brick, the Xbox 360 controller, which I think I had to pay extra for. And then we have our ODROID. So I guess the first thing we'll do is just try to load this up without a display, and see what it looks like, and then we'll go from there. How much did I pay for the ODROID? - [Alex] This was our most expensive item, - [Austin] I don't like that. - [Alex] at $234. - I paid $234 for this. - [Alex] You sure did. - Do we have video evidence
of me doing such a thing? That doesn't sound like, I would never do something
like that for this. I went with an Xbox 360
controller, obviously. All right, well let's get
a try. Let's be fair to it. I'm not seeing that kind of
money in quality right now, but whatever. Okay. "Plug in the power spot to turn it on. But also the button on the left front side below the USB ports is a button which can be held for two, three seconds." So this is a button. Hmm. Well it's on, but the fan is not spun down and it's not doing anything. Do I need to use this
with an external display? Because a big reason why I bought this is 'cause I thought you could run it with this internal display. - [Alex] It honestly doesn't. - You know what? I did a lot of reading between
the lines for this video that I am starting to regret. Let me just grab a little
monitor, and try it and see. Oh, oh, oh wait. Oh, monitor's doing something. - [All] Ay. - The Recalbox. So I guess this little display is like your second monitor perhaps. - I think maybe it only displays the art or something of the game
that you're playing. So I don't think you actually play on the tiny little screen. - Aw. Okay. Open bar video pack. Wow,
there's a lot of things on here. Alright, well we gotta
start with N64, right? I mean clearly. What are we gonna play on N64? Blues Brothers 2000 is a move. That would be quite the move. Oh no. Cruisin Exotica. Yeah. I will say that screen is so tiny. It looks cool in the photos,
but in person it is dim, and really, really hard to read. So my left trigger is my throttle on this, but look how bad the emulation is. You see how the cars are
like glitching in and out and the tires keep popping through, like this feels like quite
low quality N64 emulation. Yeah man, that's not it for 200 bucks. If it can't emulate N64 and it is quite literally in
a little N64 style enclosure. (Austin grunts) Ah, so this next item comes
in a plain white envelope. I detect shenanigans. - [Alex] No, nothing
suspicious about that. - "Dear customer, we hope
this message finds you well." Blah, blah blah blah, blah, "Our digital product," blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, it's a STEAM. Okay, can you refresh me? How much did I pay for
access to the STEAM account? - It was quite reasonable
for access to over 200 games. - It's all game. - [Alex] 14 bucks. - $14. Okay, so I guess what I need to do now is go to this Google Drive link and follow the instructions
on how to do it. Load it up on PC and see what happens. What could go wrong? So if I wanna play any of these games, I just need to log into
whichever STEAM account I want. So there's like for example, if I wanted to play Final Fantasy 7, there's three different STEAM accounts with three different
logins that I could try. Boy, that's sus! - [Alex] I will say that the
listing for this is long gone. It is long banned. - It got nuked right?
- [Alex] It got on Etsy, It is long banned. - I mean I think it
should go without saying, don't try this at home. Don't give people on Etsy,
money for stolen STEAM accounts. So I'm an offline mode for STEAM. It does show that I play apparently 36, no, sorry,
3,800 hours at Elden Ring. Okay, I mean that is in fact Elden Ring working on an illicit copy of STEAM. So it's all offline, but
it does look like it works. But here's the thing, there is a 0% chance that this is allowed by anyone. Clearly Etsy banned these people. I'm sure they're gonna ban every one of their accounts to pop up. STEAM probably bans you too, if they see 70 people logging
into the same STEAM account, pretty sure you're not allowed to do that. On top of that, if you're
trying to play a game, someone else logs into that same account, you're gonna get booted. Your saved file is gonna
be all over the place, 'cause you're sharing it
with all these other people. Like I'll give them credit that this is kind of a clever idea. And yeah, technically I
have access to the game, but big old, yikes. All right, next up. Well it's very, okay, well
we've got the glittery paper. This is encouraging. So this is classic Etsy. So someone has taken what
seems to be an old hard drive and they have made it into a clock. So if I pull this off, that's neat. So this looks like the main board from like a very old hard drive. This is dope. This is absolutely cool, 'cause you think about it, all this stuff is e-waste, right? It's going straight in
the landfill somewhere. But instead you can repurpose it and turn it into something really neat. How much did I pay for my handcrafted neat-o burrito hand PC device? (Alex chuckles) - [Alex] Okay, you paid a low amount of $46. - That is totally worth it.
This is really, really cool. See? And we got ourselves
some little bonus-ey items. This video is a video of ups and downs, but this, this is just delightful. This just puts a smile on your face. I think it's time for a fun
lighthearted little romp through the delights of Etsy. What's wrong with saying romp? Okay? I wanna take a lighthearted
romp or what? What? Don't hold me back. Okay. - [Joanna] Okay. (Austin chuckles) - Wait, what did I buy again? (chuckles) Wait, this is an NES? Is this a portable NES?
Is that what I bought? Is that what this is? - [Alex] Yeah. - [Joanna] Yes. - [Alex] And we got it for
the low low price of $121. - $121 is a lot of money. But this is Etsy we're talking about. This is not some mass
produced knockoff NES clone. No, this plays the real thing, using what I can only assume is like a Pi Zero or
something on the inside. Let's actually fire it
up and see what happens. I'm very curious. All right, this is a copy of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. (device clicks) Oh, okay. So gotta give a little bit of force. Let's try again. Let's try our NES boy. Ah it works. (chuckles) Alright, it's on there. Whatever. All right, let's play our super NES Boy. Oh, well I will say that
screen's real low quality. If you look up close, it looks like you can see it's connected to be like AV or something, 'cause everything's a little bit soft. Not necessarily like a cool CRT way more so just a cheap LCD kind of way. (game sound effects) Okay, so I have a few concerns. One of which is every
time I press the A button, the screen gets a little flickery. In fact, actually,
anytime I hit any button, which I think what it is, is that the way the buttons
are mounted in the case, every time I press it, it puts a little bit
of like pressure on it. Like look, if I push here, you see how the LCD gets a little ghosty? You see like those lines,
those like horizontal lines that show up when I touch it, I think the screen's
just mounted too close. So every time I press a button it gets like a little jittery. Something else I'll say, these buttons don't feel great, they're fine. But that combined with the fact that it's actually kind of sharp, especially on the edges, it's not super comfortable to use. It's kind of cool. Like I don't wanna be
like super mean to it, but it is a lot of money. And what you're getting here is, I mean, exactly what they say. I mean it is a way to
play NES games on the go. I've just gotta feeling that there's better ways of doing it. (game shut down sound) That was really timed
well. I'm proud of myself. I was just vamping there so that I could hit that musical cue because I concluded the segment and we move on to the next item. Oh, you're gonna throw it? Oh my God. Yeah, give me, give me. - [Joanna] Wait, wait. Can I throw this? - Do it, do it. Do it. - [Joanna] Okay. - Yeah, you did it. - [Joanna] Oh, you caught it. - All right. Oh snap. Oh. Oh. This is, I mean this is the simplest item we've had for the whole video. This is supposedly a real silicon wafer that has been framed and... (gasps) Okay, so if you're not familiar, the chip in the device you're
using to watch this video and like every device ever, comes on little wafers. And so essentially what happens is you can see all the individual chips, these all get sliced and picked and put into the various
parts that you know, inside the CPUs and whatnot. Oh my God, that's so cool. How much did we pay for this? - [Alex] So we paid $155. - Okay, so this is not cheap, but knowing that this is a
legitimate real silicon wafer is really cool, because if this was full of
iPhone processors or something, this thing could cost
like $8,000 or whatever. Like it is incredibly expensive and good luck trying
to get one from Apple. But you know what? I feel like this belongs to be on the set. After the video of course. So we wouldn't ruin the continuity. Neat. Okay. (speaks gibberish) Oh it's the mouse thing. So this is that little super
duper ultra light mouse. Yeah. Oh. So this is the, oh, so this is
the whole fully built thing. Okay. So you know what
I think in my order, they just gave me one of their prototypes just because I guess they
didn't have anything better to do with it. A lot of people like a
super lightweight mouse and it is hard to get any more lightweight than the guts of Razer mouse
3D printed in this enclosure with some, I'll admit, very
slidey skates even on this. - [Alex] I mean for context, the Logitech Pro X Superlight is 63 grams. That which you're holding
in your hand is 24 grams. - So it is less than half the weight of an ultra light mouse. Let's get this thing hooked up. Let's play a game, shall we? - [Alex] What you doing? - I'm practicing. I will say it feels terrific. Like it really is nice and it would feel even better
if I could unplug the cable. But even with the cable connected, it's really not bad at all. Now how much was this though? 'Cause it's not cheap. - So if you buy the whole
thing, including the PCB and all the guts of the mice, it is $155. - So yeah, not cheap at all. You could save some money if you just buy the 3D printed enclosure, and provide your own guts. - [Alex] Yeah, that would only be $40. - Yeah, I would personally
not wanna do that, just 'cause that's a lot of work. I mean trying it, it's not
gonna be a durable mouse. I feel like because it's so exposed, you're probably gonna sort of whether the 3D printing is gonna wear down or whether you're gonna
accidentally damage that PCB, it's probably a little bit
of a temporary solution. Maybe get like six months
or a year out of it. You know what though man, I kind of like it more
than a regular mouse. Like it just, it's so quick and that's what the cable... I'm gonna disconnect for a second. I have just enough battery
to last a minute or two. (gentle upbeat music) That's smooth man. It is
so lightweight to the point where I feel like I am operating, almost more on feel than my like muscle. You know what? I'm sold. This thing actually really, really cool. This might be my favorite item
of the video. This is legit. Thanks Etsy. Well, I mean, not really thanks 'cause I gave you all the money and some of the other items
in this video were not good. But this one, thumbs up. So what have we learned today? We've learned that Etsy is a place that has some highly illegal
stuff and some erotic demons. If you watch "This Is", you know exactly what I'm talking about. He is a highly erotic demon
who takes you from ev... No, no, no, stop it, stop it, stop it. But on the other hand, some of this stuff was
actually pretty good, but let me know in the comments, should we do episode two? Should we go even deeper down
the rabbit hole that is Etsy? Or should I go back to the
safe, warm embrace of Temu? Nah, I'll go back to Etsy.
That's a better idea.
