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The TV guy from Labs who hasn't been on the channel much was one of the lead technical people from RTings. And he did a lot of on camera stuff for RTings. RTings is based in Montreal so they would have had to move cross country. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brandon-dickerson Edit: The audio guy also came from RTings. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/samvafaei waffle iron fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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A quick couple of google searches got me: Gary Key - Head of Labs - Asus, Sr Director of Marketing - AnandTech, Sr Editor Tim Holowachuk (the guy who made the "better than GN and HuB" comment on the tour - doesn't appear to have a linkedin, his website says - AD in Mechanical Engineering, apprentice as an auto mechanic, president/chair/director of multiple non-profits Jake Daynes - GameBench, Tech. Manager, R&D, and about 4 other positions with the company over 8 years there Tynan Stack - BASc minor in Commerce and Physics - Mechanical Engineering - Then looks like he got into actual hands on engineering jobs Those were just the people I recognized. I couldn't easily fine Dan's linkedin (like Twitter, can't search unless you have an account).
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Your head of a technical department being a marketing guy is a bit hmm.
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Koskun posted:Those were just the people I recognized. I couldn't easily fine Dan's linkedin (like Twitter, can't search unless you have an account). This looks to be him: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/daniel-b-6139411b9
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Am I the only one who thinks that thinking your company is better than their competitors is a pretty normal thing and not uncommon at all? His only fault was not being media savvy enough to know not to be recorded by guests while saying that.
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"I love where I work and by gosh we're the best folks around" is one thing, "our data is more accurate than another outlet" is a little more demonstrable
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EngineerJoe posted:Am I the only one who thinks that thinking your company is better than their competitors is a pretty normal thing and not uncommon at all? His only fault was not being media savvy enough to know not to be recorded by guests while saying that. You can't say you're better and then cry about how you thought we were all on "Team Media" when someone calls you out for sloppy testing though.
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EngineerJoe posted:Am I the only one who thinks that thinking your company is better than their competitors is a pretty normal thing and not uncommon at all? His only fault was not being media savvy enough to know not to be recorded by guests while saying that. I will put my hand up to admitting to this, but my company is quite literally *my* company and I'm fastidious and nitpicky as gently caress with everything I do (small business owner brain is a hell of a thing). I can't say I ever had a particularly strong affinity to any company I was previously employed by unless I was being paid to sell that company's positives. I seem to remember the guy in question that kicked off this element of the shitstorm is some weirdo coffee dork extolling the virtues of roasting beans at a very precise temperature or whatever so I'm entirely open to the idea that he huffed way too many of his own farts to be objective and rational about anything beyond what his central nervous system controls. The video in question was an LTT one about the hobbies of their staff.
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EngineerJoe posted:Am I the only one who thinks that thinking your company is better than their competitors is a pretty normal thing and not uncommon at all? His only fault was not being media savvy enough to know not to be recorded by guests while saying that. I don't think any of the companies I've ever worked at were better than our competitors. In fact, everytime I walk into a new place I look around and think "my god, what a shitshow."
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Aug 30, 2023 18:16
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To the places i worked in i'm just a number and HR was never my friend... once you accept that you just do the job and go home at the end of the day.
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EngineerJoe posted:Am I the only one who thinks that thinking your company is better than their competitors is a pretty normal thing and not uncommon at all? His only fault was not being media savvy enough to know not to be recorded by guests while saying that. That comment absolutely had the air of someone looking to score brownie points with their boss.
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would this whole thing have been avoided if he'd just said "some other youtubers" instead of calling out GN by name
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no, steve said he'd been working on the story for months
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VostokProgram posted:would this whole thing have been avoided if he'd just said "some other youtubers" instead of calling out GN by name I don't think so. Steve said they had been working on that video for months. The comment from coffee guy came 2-3 weeks before he put the video out (was during a tour of LTX, whichever weekend that was). I'd guess he added it to his video to further show how they are trying to put on big boy pants now, but get so many basic, and technical, things wrong over and over. If anything it was just an extra little touch of frosting on the cake.
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EngineerJoe posted:Am I the only one who thinks that thinking your company is better than their competitors is a pretty normal thing and not uncommon at all? His only fault was not being media savvy enough to know not to be recorded by guests while saying that. If you're realistic and your job is good then you probably think there are some things you do better than your competitors and some things you do worse that you should improve on.
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DoombatINC posted:"I love where I work and by gosh we're the best folks around" is one thing, "our data is more accurate than another outlet" is a little more demonstrable Yeah if he had said something more vague like "I think we perform tests that are more closely aligned with what our viewers want" or whatever, or even "I think our data is more readable" then nobody would have cared, and when GN's video came out it would have probably led to a bunch of "well that's embarrassing for LMG. anyway," reactions. Instead, uh, whoops.
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Koskun posted:I don't think so. Steve said they had been working on that video for months. The comment from coffee guy came 2-3 weeks before he put the video out (was during a tour of LTX, whichever weekend that was). I'd guess he added it to his video to further show how they are trying to put on big boy pants now, but get so many basic, and technical, things wrong over and over. If anything it was just an extra little touch of frosting on the cake. It may not have caused GN to make that video, but it was certainly a pretty important point. That statement is even funnier in context given that LMG's own analysis pointed a poo poo ton of errors in their videos afterwards.
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njsykora posted:Your head of a technical department being a marketing guy is a bit hmm. Nah, look at the other job. What happened starting about 10 years ago was as the best guys from the first-gen websites (anand, TR, PCPer, etc) started to get older and look at things like paying for their kids to go to college, the website money just wasn't it. So they all left and got hired into the marketing departments of major PC hardware companies. Not because they were "marketing guys", but because they'd have expert advice on how to handle media and public relations from the other side, how to present internal benchmarks in the best way, how to avoid customer revolt, etc. Possibly if he was still at Asus they wouldn't have fumbled so badly on the whole AM5 overvolting thing.
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Funny how Linus whined about professional courtesy when his company is very obviously trying to overtake the entire modern tech YouTube space
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Rules for thee, but not for me.
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Shugojin posted:If you're realistic and your job is good then you probably think there are some things you do better than your competitors and some things you do worse that you should improve on. If you're good and objective you very quickly work out where your employer is gouging and feel bad about it if you have any moral fibre.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeZQ3pky-w Steve spending months of work and $10k on arguing with YouTube commenters. Kinda relatable, tbh "we actually have Friday benchmark parties where we stare at the GTA V benchmark loop run for 95 minutes" is... he throwing shade on Linus again? lmao TheFluff fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Linus: $500 to test something properly? gently caress that. Steve: Motherfucker wants to throw a sample size comment at me? Buying $10k of CPUs because gently caress him.
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TheFluff posted:"we actually have Friday benchmark parties where we stare at the GTA V benchmark loop run for 95 minutes" I think he's making fun of himself and HUB for their reputations as being chart central.
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anakha posted:Linus: $500 to test something properly? gently caress that. This is a kind of petty I feel deep, deep in my soul. Just a primal, deep seated version of: 
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Beve Stuscemi posted:mercedes has been backlighting their front logos like they're 2008 Apple Here is the thing that I found most funny about that for awhile, I am sure they have fixed it because I don't know how you could sell an expensive car that isn't a Tesla that doesn't have a decent ADAS, but at least you could not have a ADAS optioned on a Mercedes because the forward looking radar was integrated into the logo and they didn't have a version that had both the lighting and the radar. But no light and no radar was the base and the logo light was an individual option on the base. So, if you had the light that meant that you paid extra to have a worse optioned car.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I think he was the subject of the most recent $5000 tech upgrade. given the history it seems more like the tech upgrade is linus tricking amd / intel into paying his employees severance
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TheFluff posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeZQ3pky-w free cpu if you spend $220 in GN merch, if these are still available 
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Rinkles posted:free cpu if you spend $220 in GN merch, if these are still available Per the GN Discord they're all already sold out. Apparently they lasted all of 14 minutes.
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Steve was incredibly optimistic in the video saying they might last 2 days.
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you guys will like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7C-hpibr4 go into it blind
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Rinkles posted:free cpu if you spend $220 in GN merch, if these are still available Ignoring the merch you get with it, that's an okay 7600 price but I think the cheapest the 13600KF has ever been. I'm not surprised it went quickly. At that price I think the 13600KF is a no-brainer over AMD if you care even slightly about MT performance. E: holy poo poo Tim from labs, the coffee guy that made the GN comment, is no longer on the team. He is off the webpage, his Twitter no longer has LTT in the bio, and his linkedin is updated to have it as a prior job. BurritoJustice fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Good after all that somebody needed to be fired to show a modicum of accountability.
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Perplx posted:Good after all that somebody needed to be fired to show a modicum of accountability. they fired the one guy the simps are mad at
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Perplx posted:Good after all that somebody needed to be fired to show a modicum of accountability. They fired some guy who made an off-hand comment. It was misinformed but ultimately harmless.
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Ok Comboomer posted:they fired the one guy the simps are mad at They are? According to the sub, he is their special boy who did nothing wrong.
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We’re here to prove we’re not a terribly toxic work environment by firing a low level employee after we allowed him to represent our company on camera without any sort of editorial oversight which ultimately brought to attention larger systemic top-down issues that exist in our company.
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Jeff Fatwood posted:They are? According to the sub, he is their special boy who did nothing wrong. really? I figured they’d be mad at him for causing Linus all of this obviously undeserved drama
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