Editing The Pen Addict 392/transcript (section)

== Real-Time Chat Follow-Up ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' We have some real time follow up in the chat room from Connor. There is a website, Kobe and Nagasawa is the web address. They have a video of the capitalist LS in operation. Oh God. Okay. So we can actually see how the mechanism works, I guess. So I'm looking at it right now. It is a, it looks very different. The knock is much, much larger because it really sticks out kind of like the Curidas. Honestly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But the knock twists in. This is, actually, this makes it worse.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What is the, what is the twisting supposed to do? So when you press the knock down, the twisting mechanism kind of spins around and then you can, but you can also use the twist to retract it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is this necessary? Do we need this? No, because it's the same. What's happening?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's, it's basically, why not have both? I think the idea, Brad, here is that it is a, it is a vanishing point that doesn't make a noise. Yeah. That's what they're going for. No, no, no, that's the marketing. Yeah. But like, now I see it, I get what they're doing. Like, that is all it is. And it is way thicker than it looks like than a vanishing point as well to house this mechanism. So it's effectively just as you push the knock down, this little cuff just spins around, which you can then also use to return, like, so you have a choice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That is wild. Yes. So we weren't clear on why this pen exists because it was just too funny to read the other things about it. It exists to make the vanishing point quiet. That is the marketing of this pen. It is the luxury silence vanishing point.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So taking away the vanishing point's best feature. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' For a lot of people, which is how satisfying the knock is. It's one of the best, if not the best. So apparently this is a problem for people to thud their vanishing point in a meeting or something. So they need one that costs twice as much just so it's silent.