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I showed my dad an example of Alex's work and my dad, Retired engineer that worked at BMW, Said "No self respecting firm would ever hire him"
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I showed my dad an example of Alex's work and my dad, Retired engineer that worked at BMW, Said "No self respecting firm would ever hire him"
And oddly as it's started to get into Steve's territory he suddenly has a issue and posts that video.
Strange
GN posted the video because LTT staff stated on video that they were better/more accurate than GN and HUB. That's why GN posted the video. It's like some folks just don't pay attention any more.
I'm picturing a scene of going into a meeting and Dave from finance has done a power point presentation with graphs on how **** my team are. :O
I've never been able to gel with Alex at all. To me it's felt like he's been winging it all along with no real knowledge of what he's doing half the time. I know it often plays along with the fun and janky vibe the channel often has, but some of the things he makes or assembles are awful. I wouldn't feel proud of what I was doing in most cases there.
There's others like Jake who initially I didn't like. But he's toned himself down a little and grown into his role quite well, and gained a ton of knowledge.
It sure is an expensive gamble. I do hope it pays off though. The more independent reviews we can get the better, especially if they are properly in-depth and thorough like the Labs promises.
It's a light hearted tech channel, people are forgetting that.
Steve attacked it as if it was a factual channel.
For bringing tech entertainment to the masses I don't think there's been a better channel.
But as soon as they start pivoting to become a rival the knife came out didn't it
May i remind you that LTT started this by attacking both GN and HUB and GN were responding.
Well, when they are reviewing a product with graphs of benchmarks, that is factual.
Edit: Arguably, when half of those graphs are inaccurate, it could be regarded as fiction.
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Distrust witch hunts or distrust Steve? What did Steve do to you?
Indeed I agree it only 4 days but that's 4 days of going hey we solid your thing and then nothing, no actual response, no back and forth. They had a brief email saying woops we sold it and then didn't say anything else.Just some of them then
We finally got there in the end. I agree he is/was responsible for the process.
It was weeks to send off the prototype. Or when ever the video came out.
However it has only been 4 days since the issue of selling it off was discovered.
I agree they should have apologised but that is on the competence or lack of in this case of the LMG employee that was dealing with them. However we haven’t seen the actual email so we don’t know what was said.
Go look at billet labs, own breakdown. Of the situation. It has only been 4 days ( worst case depending on time zones.)
A response in 4 days is pretty good going. I’ve been waiting for some information at work that I requested back in May. Yes I’ve been chasing up on a nearly weekly basis. Still no idea when im going to get that information.
Now that is on the extreme end of things but it goes to show that decisions can happen at glacial paces because everyone is busy and have their own priorities.
Do you think that this is only thing they are dealing with? They have other jobs they can be getting on with and each person has their own priorities. Priorities change in response to situations, like a video dropping that criticises your company.
A Rule for working in a corporation. Just because something is critical to you doesn’t make it critical to everyone else.
Yes lots of people have lots of things going on, however some things become a priority and this should have been for the CEO technically and the team to review. At no point should have taken 4 days for nothing.
I would have honestly expected a conference call setup with the team responsible to the CEO if not in person and then the CEO to have contacted Billet within 48hrs of the initial email and then to discuss terms of reimbursement or option to retrieve said item and oh return the 3090ti which has also not been returned to date or shipped even.
It should never have got to the point that a video section was done for said item if any had done their job. Why does the video come out and suddenly they can respond to Bullet within 2hrs of said video but not prior to any of that. It took a fire to actually get some traction. It is clear it has taken weeks at a time per reply to do anything (which they actually failed to do anything on) and how do you miss communicate honestly from we will return it and send tracking to oops someone else in our company auctioned it off without checking with the person responsible for said item. Mistakes happen but there are half a dozen within this one situation alone and a huge lack of checks and balances.
The big issue bing how Linus has been and dealt with it in response after the fact. That is no real surprise that people are salty. It's literally been getting worse for months and Linus seems oblivious to this where he's pushing about how team working on it and getting better and doing better but they are not and he is leading that charge for being worse by stating I cant be bothered to my job properly based on his Wan show responses.
It was the same sillyness where they did secrete shopper as a team and had to lead Asus to the correct answer themselves and still gave the rating they did. He kinda back tracked a tiny bit on that in WAN but they don't correct their information properly as shown and it really causes issues when you talking about the casual market.
They advocate hard about watching multiple reviews and similar about products but do so on WAN where it is generally the more tech savvy audience whom watches/listens to that compared to hundreds of thousands of casuals that watch their short format video reviews and such.
Tbh I'm tired of it being half baked from them as a company and I think others are too and this just been boiling point after all this time.
LTT called Steve/GN out, they fired the first shot and Steve dropped a nuke on them in responce.
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Linus is the one trying to publicly pivot LTT to be more factual, Steve has assessed the content as such.
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It’s a youtube channel run by a shaved chimp talking nonsense and peddling stuff.
Linus has a quote which he likes to say, do your own research.
They are starting to move into the benchmark area, but the lab wasn't fully done and it wasn't perfect. But Steve went for the jugular and all the brigade went behind him.
No one should take a single source for benchmarks, hell Steve was called out quite regularly a couple of years ago for using benchmarks that favoured intel and Nvidia.
And that right there is why you won't change from your current course of actions
Huh?
Gamers nexus does a bad job at reviewing stuff for its intended audience.
Hes one of the reasons why we have uber expensive motherboards, people will say well we have uber quality motherboards.
Most PC users don't even install a 2nd pci express bit of hardware or go beyond 2 storage drives.
Stating sub £100 boards as bad quality meant the board makers no longer sell those as they don't want bad reviews.
In short, Nexus is a dumb ass that reviews stuff only for enthusiasts POV only.
Not to mention, the way he reviews things are so arbitrary that most users will never encounter them especially for cases, as a result case makers go back, overbuild the case ( even if its was budget ) and then we get something more expensive for no reason.
Even most people here on this forum barely make use of the hardware they have.
( for one, I am running out of PCI express slots on my motherboard before anyone asks )
However modern day LTT content for the last few years have been terrible, I rather Nexus just called that out, LTT making stuff for people with short attention spans and rewarding them when they should be sh.at on really.
Hes one of the reasons why we have uber expensive motherboards, people will say well we have uber quality motherboards.
Most PC users don't even install a 2nd pci express bit of hardware or go beyond 2 storage drives.
Stating sub £100 boards as bad quality meant the board makers no longer sell those as they don't want bad reviews.
In short, Nexus is a dumb ass that reviews stuff only for enthusiasts POV only.
Not to mention, the way he reviews things are so arbitrary that most users will never encounter them especially for cases, as a result case makers go back, overbuild the case ( even if its was budget ) and then we get something more expensive for no reason.
Even most people here on this forum barely make use of the hardware they have.
( for one, I am running out of PCI express slots on my motherboard before anyone asks )
However modern day LTT content for the last few years have been terrible, I rather Nexus just called that out, LTT making stuff for people with short attention spans and rewarding them when they should be sh.at on really.
"Your Mum, lttstore.com" ?
It isn't though. It's a factual channel with technical data and a labs with professional testing happening. That is what is being discussed and reviewed here by others. It wasn't even an attack. It was a factual evidence based video showing that the information provided is factually incorrect.
And Linus has come out during WAN saying it's too much work to actually do fact checking. If you can't be bothered to do it properly, don't want to pay someone to do it then just don't do it instead of doing half baked.
It literally flies in face of the their PSU testing video (which had facts wrong as pointed out) where Linus says don't do it by Half's effectively but then all their videos are literally that whilst providing what should be factual data with checks and balances.
Yes mistakes happen. GN has had mistakes, HUB has, J2C has etc but generally they own it and respond accordingly when have done so certainly compared unfortunately to LTT/LMG whom have literally blamed others, case in point the mouse debacle. Sorry but that was also scummy of LTT do post what they did and again doubled down. It's this constant it's not me it's them attitude.
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