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quote:With their production schedule, I doubt they could afford the man-hours.
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I keep coming back to thinking that maybe Linus sees himself as basically Tech Bro Steve Jobs, in which case, does hiring a CEO to replace him make this his John Sculley moment?
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SourKraut posted:I keep coming back to thinking that maybe Linus sees himself as basically Tech Bro Steve Jobs, in which case, does hiring a CEO to replace him make this his John Sculley moment? ![]()
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If you’re not pulling for love, why are you pulling? e: this isn't the fate/grand order thread >:[ StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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slidebite posted:Response to this general comment/defence that probably goes without saying, that's likely true, but their production schedule is totally their own creation. It's not like the Justin Trudeau is giving them a decree they need to publish X videos/week. I don't mean this as a defence of LTT, but that's not completely true. It's pretty obvious that they do need to keep up their unsustainable production schedule because it's the only way to balance the books in the wake of their massive expansion and/or whatever dubious financial decisions were made back when everyone was sat at home in quarantine watching tech videos.
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He's Elon Musk. He's building the everything channel.
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slidebite posted:Response to this general comment/defence that probably goes without saying, that's likely true, but their production schedule is totally their own creation. It's not like the Justin Trudeau is giving them a decree they need to publish X videos/week. The youtube algo pretty much is giving them that decree, if they want to stay at the top of youtube's rankings.
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Don't most people at LMG work for their creator warehouse aka merch store anyway?
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Do they still have their production for hire section active? I remember a while back it was talked about how they did a bunch of contract editing work for Canadian media.
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Linus? Turn down money?
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I thought the labs were a giant expensive thing Linus unilaterlly forced and is now a sword of damocles hanging over the company which can not afford to slow down. That move triggered the new CEO, the heavy merch push and I suspect some background deals.
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Klyith posted:The youtube algo pretty much is giving them that decree, if they want to stay at the top of youtube's rankings.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:The capitalist mindset of constantly improving year over year growth is one that is inherently unsustainable, even if you completely ignore the fact that people are going to be burned out by it. I mean, they’ll keep dialing up pay just enough to keep the burnt out people going until they completely break, at which point the person leaves or gets fired, then replaced by a much cheaper option. Unfortunately there’s a lot of runway still left for that mindset…
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GN response to Linus's response in the HW News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso
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lol good thumbnail
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It just gets worse![]()
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No one should by this overpriced water block. Now buy my $250 backpack.
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No, I will not the spend the price of the backpack to properly test their block.
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Linus’s forum post accuses gammers nexus of saying “ltt sold the block.” Gammers nexus clearly reported it was actioned off for charity. I know they reported right because they are the only reason I know the auction happened. Linus is once again more worried about his wallet and speed of posting vs being accurate and apologetic. His forum post was so bad I unsubscribed.
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The fact that he lied about having already come to an agreement with Billet is pretty egregious. He knows GN was in contact with Billet. How did he think he was going to get away with that lie?
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He mailed billet back 2 hours ish after GN's video, so "we already agreed to reimburse them"-blog post is talking about a 60 minute old "agreement".
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Rinkles posted:HU has a bit of response, but don't really say much (I only watched this abridged version). That pretty much summarizes HBU. Tim generally seems far more objective.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:The fact that he lied about having already come to an agreement with Billet is pretty egregious. He knows GN was in contact with Billet. How did he think he was going to get away with that lie? I love that companies/people continue to make this mistake after GN puts them on blast about something.
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How is that LMG video channel thing going these days?
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Lienus Theft Tips
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Jeff Fatwood posted:Lienus Theft Tips ![]()
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Imagine saying you’ve done a thing and not thinking GN wouldn’t immediately contact the people involved to see if you’re lying.
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I generally defend LTT and their goofy poo poo they do, and I also do think that Linus *generally* wants to run a good company, but his response to this is extremely stupid. Steve just handed you a gift - an opportunity to reset and revisit your process in a way that lets you draw a clear line between 'before' and 'after'. You could have just taken that and ran with a bog-standard apology, and even if you don't change anything, you *still* come out looking pretty good as 'guy who (at least pretends) to care'. And instead, Linus can't get over himself for more then 30 minutes and just argues semantics. It's so dumb and down right embarrassing.
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Vir posted:I think LMG is going to handle this badly We've reached cryptobro-tier shenanigans. I didn't even catch the weasel-language about the monoblock payment timeline. I'll do better next time.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:I generally defend LTT and their goofy poo poo they do, and I also do think that Linus *generally* wants to run a good company, but his response to this is extremely stupid. That's the thing: LTT, and Linus, as a goofy clown tech channel are actually reasonably entertaining which is why they have the audience that they do. But Linus' ego is so loving huge that he wants to be taken seriously as a hardcore real tech journalist, too. But, he's not willing or capable of doing it properly. And he lashes out at any criticism which is hilarious because he is on record advising his fans to hold companies to a certain standard, but when he is asked to live up to that standard, too, he cries and says he's doing his best and we all just need to trust him.
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"We didn't sell it, we auctioned it!".... jesus loving christ!... i'm out of words on that reply. ![]()
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“Good news! It’s not just sitting on a shelf somewhere! It is being reverse engineered by your competitors!”
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Kazinsal posted:Wendell would be on Team Steve as well, which means we need to find the opposite of Wendell for Team Linus. What about the techtuber who likes to do whole episodes using very racist Chinese accents?
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:And instead, Linus can't get over himself for more then 30 minutes and just argues semantics. It's so dumb and down right embarrassing. Very tired of rich out of touch white guys making a mess of things because someone hurt their feelings once. It’s at gonna be really funny if the LTT fanbase starts mass downvoting GN videos forever and ever now.
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mA posted:What about the techtuber who likes to do whole episodes using very racist Chinese accents? no no no it's not racist because his UNCLE has an accent.
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priznat posted:“Good news! It’s not just sitting on a shelf somewhere! It is being reverse engineered by your competitors!” No worries there, remember it's a bad product that no one should buy, so no one will want to reverse engineer it.
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mA posted:What about the techtuber who likes to do whole episodes using very racist Chinese accents? lol BitWit has a Floatplane channel
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:24 |
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He’s got major founder-brain. He can’t separate himself from his company and has a hard time apologizing for much of anything. It’s gotten worse over time and it’s sad.
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