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Vir posted:I think LMG is going to handle this badly, unfortunately. Literally 100% of their past history says you are correct, so........
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:09 |
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Rinkles posted:Did LTT apologize at least? Not sure how you even 'apologize' in this situation, it's not a critique of a single or a couple of screw-ups, it's a systematic takedown of his entire project. Steve was generous in framing this as an overstressed workforce, and they are - but it's not like they slipped on a banana peel and fell into this situation. The 'fix' for this is for Linus to be a different person, so good luck with that I guess?
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:11 |
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Not sure how you even 'apologize' in this situation, it's not a critique of a single or a couple of screw-ups, it's a systematic takedown of his entire project. Steve was generous in framing this as an overstressed workforce, and they are - but it's not like they slipped on a banana peel and fell into this situation. The 'fix' for this is for Linus to be a different person, so good luck with that I guess? I meant to Billet Labs, and before this video.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:16 |
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All I could think of while watching that video was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZFbGJxSlk&t=19s
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:18 |
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Jiro posted:I wonder if Linus saw this coming and tried to head it off by not being in charge of his own company anymore having the other guy he used to work with as a fall guy. I mean, it's still his name on the door so you'd have to think if this was the final nail in the coffin and he was anticipating it, then he'd have been better off taking that hundo mil and loving off into the sunset. Like Steve said, it's like Linus is completely off base in thinking more content is equivalent to success when that is demonstrably not the case when it comes to accuracy. The other part that stuck out to me was Billet Labs saying how they'd explained to Adam how to use their product properly and what I inferred was that LMG staff are part of an all too common hero worship/rainmaker situation and go along with what Linus says rather than call him out and say he's being a doofus and should read the goddamn manual. You can see it with Luke on WAN show, he seems to be one of the very few employees who will call Linus out when he says dipshit things.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:19 |
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The end result of all this will be that LTT continues to be a complete youtube juggernaut and keeps putting out shoddy videos and treating small companies badly while unabashedly sucking up to the big manufacturers, book it!
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:19 |
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Jiro posted:I wonder if Linus saw this coming and tried to head it off by not being in charge of his own company anymore having the other guy he used to work with as a fall guy. nah, he was front and center in the most egregious video cited and if he just wanted to head off complaints about LMG's testing accuracy there are/were multiple obvious and easy (if bottom-line affecting) solutions that don't require stepping down - not hard to adjust internal processes while proactively getting ahead of anything by running off a couple (more) videos about hard it is to start up testing and vowing to do better going forward his stepping down also doesn't remove the issues of organizational conflicts of interest, change the fact that as the owner/face of the business there's only so much deflection "upward" that can be done about externally visible issues before "well why don't you do something about it?" comes to the fore, etc. I don't think there's any particularly good reason to go looking for explanations outside of the reason(s) Linus himself provided - offloading a job/responsibilities he doesn't particularly like on someone else because he's in a position to do that priznat posted:The end result of all this will be that LTT continues to be a complete youtube juggernaut and keeps putting out shoddy videos and treating small companies badly while unabashedly sucking up to the big manufacturers, book it! p much yeah
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:23 |
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Rinkles posted:I meant to Billet Labs, and before this video. Ah ok my bad. Seeing a number of takes along the lines of "I hope LTT improves from this" in other avenues and had my brain stuck in that mode - like, what? Linus is first and foremost a marketing guy, that's where he comes from and that's what he's always done. Like what are these people expecting? Edit: Jesus, Shiba Inu videos don't get ratios like this
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:23 |
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priznat posted:The end result of all this will be that LTT continues to be a complete youtube juggernaut and keeps putting out shoddy videos and treating small companies badly while unabashedly sucking up to the big manufacturers, book it!
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:25 |
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Ah ok my bad. if linus/ltt/lmg had stayed being a marketing vehicle that would be one thing but they're now saying they're an authority and like the tour of the labs pointed out, they're taking potshots at other people's methodologies when they're doing poo poo themselves
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:25 |
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VostokProgram posted:How is the waterblock thing not theft? it is. there's literal video of them auctioning it off after billet asked for it back. its a prototype, so if they were planning on selling the finished product for $800, then its worth considerably more than that. i really hope they sue cause that's hosed up and who knows where that prototype can end up.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:26 |
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Arivia posted:they're taking potshots at other people's methodologies when they're doing poo poo themselves This is the really crazy thing, like does this video even get made if LTT doesn't directly try to say their testing is superior to GN?
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:30 |
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njsykora posted:This is the really crazy thing, like does this video even get made if LTT doesn't directly try to say their testing is superior to GN? this specific video, maybe not. it felt like the straw that broke the camel's back for right now, right here. but it's very obvious that steve's been collecting issues and preparing a response for a long time while checking all his poo poo, so this was gonna happen sooner rather than later. steve doesn't make a video like this without being ready. he's way too organized and cautious a guy to do that.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:32 |
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njsykora posted:This is the really crazy thing, like does this video even get made if LTT doesn't directly try to say their testing is superior to GN? i think it does, even if steve is human and may have pride in what he does, it seems like this video was a possibility outside of that because of the waterblock thing. they ordered the video from minor to worst which does frame it more like a response to that comment, since a chunk of it was testing errors. the waterblock thing had deeper coverage than "we just opened a random video and here's some examples"
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:35 |
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njsykora posted:This is the really crazy thing, like does this video even get made if LTT doesn't directly try to say their testing is superior to GN? From Steve's comments at the start it sounded like they still weren't going to until Linus decided to do his usual whole-rear end-showing in response to HUB being rightly annoyed at those original comments.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:37 |
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Can't wait for the inevitable WAN show section where Linus expresses his deepest disappointment in Steve and plays the victim.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:43 |
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a/b tested youtube thumbnail with serious linus face and some variation of vague "we need to talk" as a title
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:44 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:Can't wait for the inevitable WAN show section where Linus expresses his deepest disappointment in Steve and plays the victim. Friday is only a few days away! I can't wait to see Luke's perpetually disappointed expression lol.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:48 |
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I am entirely unsurprised that the charismatic darling sales guy of shady defunct retailer NCIX is a scumbag.VostokProgram posted:How is the waterblock thing not theft? It sounds like it'd be classified as "theft by conversion", which is basically theft via selling something you don't actually own. Like if you rented a Lamborghini for a week and sold it to a chop shop (a thing that some incredibly stupid people do).
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:49 |
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Kazinsal posted:I am entirely unsurprised that the charismatic darling sales guy of shady defunct retailer NCIX is a scumbag. Lol yep this is the main source of dislike for him, forever tainted by that lovely company.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:52 |
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Kazinsal posted:I am entirely unsurprised that the charismatic darling sales guy of shady defunct retailer NCIX is a scumbag. And if you do that do they sue you, or do they file a police report?
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:53 |
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Man, my first inclination was to brush this off as Youtube drama but
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 21:56 |
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I just watch this thread for the reports, but now you all got me on the edge of my seat.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:14 |
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mewse posted:Yeah. I’m projecting a little bit because my first job was in VFX in Winnipeg so I know the “creative” industry in Canada a little bit - but I can’t imagine those editors are getting paid much to drop everything multiple times per day and help out with whatever Linus’s most recent stupid idea is Do I get credit for saying LTT is probably a terrible workplace in 2019
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:16 |
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mewse posted:Do I get credit for saying LTT is probably a terrible workplace in 2019
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:23 |
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https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1691149928683155479?t=_y-3f3CYGECYCDSb9I-Kdg&s=19 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:26 |
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Linus is the human avatar of gently caress Around. Steve has devoted his life to mastering the art of Find Out. It was always destined to end this way.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:28 |
SlowBloke posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc Arivia posted:Oh my god that power supply review. I had little to no idea about this poo poo. How has LMG been letting this stand?! Arivia posted:there's a mention of a second possible video about issues with lmg ties to companies in categories they're reviewing (linus' framework investment, the labs guy having ties to stuff, same for the new ceo) and steve is very clearly holding some poo poo back. this is gonna get even more hot before it goes anywhere. Rinkles posted:Did LTT apologize at least?
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:29 |
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Remind me who that guy is again? I vaguely remember him saying GN was talking poo poo over the backpack thing as well. Also I just noticed one of the other things being auctioned off at Linuscon was a Youtube NFT lmao.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:30 |
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Internet Explorer posted:I just watch this thread for the reports, but now you all got me on the edge of my seat. This is a time where you absolutely should watch the video.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:30 |
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So Linus has responded... https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526180-gamers-nexus-alleges-lmg-has-insufficient-ethics-and-integrity/?do=findComment&comment=16078641 quote:There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:35 |
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WTF is this. Did his fanbase drive someone to suicide? https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15r7sem/gn_could_have_gone_deeper_on_the_ltt_communitys/
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:36 |
I ain't reading that bit of whine.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:36 |
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linus i'm not actually sure you are a real person. you may just be a mutated gnome.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:37 |
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Internet Explorer posted:I just watch this thread for the reports, but now you all got me on the edge of my seat. Were you scared when you saw 100 new posts
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:37 |
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Linus is mad
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:38 |
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He’s not mad, he’s disappointed Completely different
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:39 |
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Only read the first part because tl;dr, but "we didn't sell it, we auctioned it" lolwat. And if GN was in contact with Billet, they sure would have mentioned said claim of compensation from LTT?Phone posted:He’s not mad, he’s disappointed --edit: That dickhead tripled down on the faulty Billet testing and conclusion.
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:40 |
StrixNebulosa posted:Linus is mad
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# ? Aug 14, 2023 22:40 |
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# ? May 31, 2024 14:27 |
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I ain't reading that bit of whine. All you need to know is he said what everyone expected. Whining that Steve didn't come to him, despite multiple historical examples of Steve going to him and getting nowhere until doing a video on whatever the thing at the time was. Also refers to "Team Media" seeming to push the idea that all the media outlets should be on the same side which gently caress the hell off dude. quote:To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He also says the water block auction was due to a "miscommunication" which, loving how my dude? You said you'd send the block back in June and auctioned it off at an event in loving August.
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