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Love how he just comes out swinging again to torch Linus' response. Hope it triggers Linus to make more public statements and dig a deeper hole.
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Love how he just comes out swinging again to torch Linus' response. Hope it triggers Linus to make more public statements and dig a deeper hole.
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Yeah the first video I felt like he was trying to be nice while throwing them under the bus but this one was more “give me a break” style.
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I had to skip past the first 23 minutes of picking apart issues with their graphs or testing. I get that it is wrong and may be indicative of more systemic issues with procedures, deadlines, and pressures, but it all seemed a bit petty and made me ask "why?"
The ethical concerns and other things taken in total look pretty bad and LTT or LMG has been on a downward spiral ever since Linus went full megacorp. He has this nice bell curve of irrelevancy to peak usefulness and now back down to being irrelevant b/c it is all so corporate and just marketing.
But, did I miss what really, specifically, made Steve target them? There's 100,000 different tech channels that do as bad or worse than LTT. Is it because LTT is so large and has such reach Steve feels the need to defend consumers from the bad actions of LMG? Power supplies blowing up and other consumer advocacy things that GN has been involved in seemed a bit more egregious and seriously related to consumer safety or straight up theft.
It just seems like there's a whole layer behind the scenes that we aren't seeing and Steve is trying to handle it as diplomatically as possible and in the way Tech Jesus knows how to do it.
Crazy videos though.
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Steve covers it in the first minute of the initial video. On a video tour of the Linus lab an emplyee says they are way than Gamer Nexus and Hardware unboxing since the test new hardware and everytime and have more acurate results. Then Linus addressed it on his podcast being smug about. That triggered Steve to torch Linus.
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Well the picking apart all the errors was a good way to show a lot of quick examples of LTT rushing content. Showing how they were not retracting their mistakes, and were publishing the videos with known mistakes in them.
My guess is people were very mad about the selling of the cooling block, combined with that LTT video of them lying directly about their test results versus NG’s. I assume he took that personally, and said fuck it video time, I know I would.
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Yeah, that is a good point. I think by 40 minutes in I had forgotten that brief intro part showing that comment.
*edit: I think where I was coming from is that spending 20m going over that isn't as useful as highlighting the other shady stuff and opens GN up for a rebuttal of every time GN has made a mistake in a graph or test. And anyone else can attempt to create a trend based off those errors the same way Steve did. Even though GN stands behind their process in communicating issues with their tests and any errors, etc.
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Yeah, Steve appears to have those receipts that further makes LTT look real bad. Watching 2nd video now.
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He definitely does. Second video looks really bad for LTT.
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LTT was sent the correct video card with the prototype waterblock by the company, but they lost it before testing and decided to use a completely different model instead for the review. Other buyers from the auction reported they were sent an email asking what products they bought because LTT could not even manage to keep records of what they sold and to who. So in desperate attempt to verify where the waterblock went they emailed everyone.
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It took Steve's video for LTT to get off his ass to do anything about it. What a fucking Canadian clown.LTT was sent the correct video card with the prototype waterblock by the company, but they lost it before testing and decided to use a completely different model instead for the review. Other buyers from the auction reported they were sent an email asking what products they bought because LTT could not even manage to keep records of what they sold and to who. So in desperate attempt to verify where the waterblock went they emailed everyone.
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