Tuxedo Gin posted:

Dr Ian says his video script about it is up to 25 pages. He's been mostly defensive of LTT on Twitter.

c355n4 posted:

Forgive my ignorance. Who is this Dr. Ian Cutress person?

gradenko_2000 posted:

used to be a writer (senior leadership?) for Anandtech, but has struck out on his own. His YouTube channel is TechTechPotato

Lister posted:

Simply assuming someone would lie as a reason not to ask them doesn't make any sense

Lister posted:

I do dispute that their own people are dissatisfied with the lack of quality or the rate they have to work. Being asked "what would you change about your job?" and answering "we could use more time on videos" isn't a smoking gun. We don't know the full answers those people even gave in that video. Maybe they said "everything's pretty great here, but if I had to give an answer, we could use more time on videos." Maybe they really did mean that they feel overworked and it's leading to problems. A journalist's job is to find out which of those possibilities is true instead of just believing you know. That's due diligence that GN did not do. Instead they cut clips from incomplete interviews they didn't give and assigned a particular meaning to them in a new context that the original answers had nothing to do with.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

I don't agree with all of Lister's points, but this is fair in my opinion:

Even if we think we know what the LMG employees meant by what they said, we don't have a full understanding of each one's stance on this subject, so it feels kinda weird to see their words taken by by Steve to make a point that those people may not fully agree with. I think it would be fine if he just left it as "based on what they're saying, it appears that their video schedule is rushed," but he sorta attributed that opinion to the employees in order to lend credence to his own assertion. It didn't feel like an appropriate thing to do in the video.

grack posted:

Linus himself said that at least one employee wanted to retest the Billet water block on a 3090 TI, but wasn't allowed to because it would take more time, cost more money, and delay that video. That clip is in the original GN video.

So... there's precedent here for GN to say this.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

I don't agree with all of Lister's points, but this is fair in my opinion:

Even if we think we know what the LMG employees meant by what they said, we don't have a full understanding of each one's stance on this subject, so it feels kinda weird to see their words taken by by Steve to make a point that those people may not fully agree with. I think it would be fine if he just left it as "based on what they're saying, it appears that their video schedule is rushed," but he sorta attributed that opinion to the employees in order to lend credence to his own assertion. It didn't feel like an appropriate thing to do in the video.

The Archaic posted:

And the fact that Linus didn't want to spend $500 getting the proper video card, which in turn has cost him over 4000 floatplane subscribers now.

grack posted:

Hey, maybe losing money is something that Linus will actually learn from.

Branch Nvidian posted:

Reminder that he called his ex-wife "wifeysauce."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQx-EHMPk0g

Fantastic Foreskin posted:

Lmao, he's going to throw another temper tantrum.

Paul MaudDib posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmQOO4WLI4

Paul MaudDib posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmQOO4WLI4

Kazinsal posted:

If he goes scorched earth and shuts down/sunsets Floatplane he's gonna have a buuuunch of other creators at his throat.

L1T, HUB, and Bitwit (eugh) all have Floatplane channels. The DankPods/Garbage Time guy also streams regularly there, successfully at that (though he's also a dogecoin millionaire so the impact of Floatplane going tits up wouldn't be as high for him)

grack posted:

Apparently LTT is sending emails to all the auction winners from the night that waterblock was auctioned off asking people what they purchased.

Somebody posted a redacted version of the email they got on the Reddit thread. Apparently LTT is sending these emails out because they lost their master list and need it for "tax purposes".

They didn't even loving know who wound up with that prototype block

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15s8ew8/lmg_is_contacting_auction_participants_they_lost/

Inept posted:

jesus christ

Branch Nvidian posted:

Reminder that he called his ex-wife "wifeysauce."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQx-EHMPk0g

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

When you have 6 people , including Linus himself, bring up the same critique of 'too many videos!', and one person actually saying "Very rarely am I particularly proud of a video I've worked on", and another saying a benefit of producing less content is that it would be nice to 'look in the rearview mirror and see how things went', arguing that they each needed to be personally interviewed by Steve himself to discern their actual meaning is just ridiculous.

As others have said, that is already the PR version.

The allegation is not that employees are necessarily being treated poorly, or unhappy with their job as a whole. They might love it, but the only implication Steve - and again, a generous framing imo - is making is that they are making mistakes (cough) by rushing to produce content after content. Showing a series of interview snippets where some of the most prominent on-air personalities of LMG say one of their critiques is that they produce too much content is the most obvious thing you could possibly add to the video to support your argument. Again, it's not drawing the conclusion that LMG is too focused on volume based solely on their interview segments, the substantial evidence that they're too focused on content is based on, you know, all the loving content with all the mistakes. This is just saying "Look, even their employees are concerned about the pace". You don't need to even imply they're phrasing it as a serious complaint for it to be relevant.

Tuxedo Gin posted:

If GN had contacted Linus for comment, we wouldn't have been able to see Linus outright lie about already taking care of Billet.

Abroham Lincoln posted:

still lmaoing that had steve not made the video it's incredibly likely that LTT would have just used the product wrong, poo poo on it for their own incompetence, stole their gpu and sold their product and IP, and just... that's that. get hosed.

please allow us to review your products.

spunkshui posted:

LTT not uploading on main channel today.

Bet they post apology tomorrow, let writers and testers have the time they need / not upload if video isn’t ready.

Lets see how dumb linus is.

Ultraklystron posted:

Video Title: Will losing $20,000+ a month in revenue smarten me up!?

spunkshui posted:

LTT not uploading on main channel today.

Bet they post apology tomorrow, let writers and testers have the time they need / not upload if video isn’t ready.

Lets see how dumb linus is.

Thom12255 posted:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15sberh/this_roast_has_aged_wonderfully/

Mooktastical posted:

Yeah, with how many subs they've lost, and how this whole thing has blown up on the forums/sub, they kind of have to reverse course on this. The radio silence from Linus' personal forums account is smart, as is not releasing a video today. Whether it's tomorrow or on the Wan show Friday, I'd imagine an apology video is almost definitely in the works.

I'm curious how much influence folks like Luke will be able to exert on Linus, and therefore how much he ends up changing positions, if at all. Moreso, I'm curious to see if they end up actually improving their production pipeline, or any hypothetical apology ends up being straight lip service.

Whitest Russian posted:

I wonder if the LMG CEO will say anything publicly or do anything privately. Or is he like the current Twitter/X CEO.

what a stupid loving name. it felt so dumb writing X

gradenko_2000 posted:

Whitest Russian posted:

I wonder if the LMG CEO will say anything publicly or do anything privately. Or is he like the current Twitter/X CEO.

what a stupid loving name. it felt so dumb writing X