Nit3Rid3R

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

It's becoming reality, still a little bit messy and needs some small adjustments, but basicly works.
What I have already found out, not all compartments in a Kallax are qualiy sized nore squared. I have found a deviation of +-2mm between compartments.
And Yes, I know, the airflow will be horrible.
 
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Back:

A large bottle of coke, gulp gulp gulp. :D

A large bottle of coke, gulp gulp gulp. :D

A large bottle of coke, gulp gulp gulp. :D

Picking the right PSU for your system. 
 
And Modular vs Semi Modular vs Non Modular. 

Ah...mine came from L4D, if anyone remembers...The Midnight Riders 

Ah...mine came from L4D, if anyone remembers...The Midnight Riders 

I just had to do this
 

Ah...mine came from L4D, if anyone remembers...The Midnight Riders 

I just had to do this
 

Was a good meet up today all, had tons of fun when we were actually in the game!

Well the first Project Eden (or is it an operation now?) meetup was held today, and aside from the usual client issues I would say it went well. Participation was much stronger than expected, and frankly, after BEX, we were not really prepared for that! Nevertheless, all of you guys did great today and we managed to actually do some of the stuff that we intended. I commend your spirit, as well as your patience during the lengthy "lobby sessions".
 
 
We gathered much valuable experience for future trainings today. We will work on organizing schedules, streamlining the lobby joining process and generally working around the Alpha's bugs to get as much flight and combat experience as we can before 2.0, where the real work will begin.
 
With 1.3 just around the corner, I really hope CIG have improved client stability for creating larger private matches so we can still have fun but by mostly flying instead of talking.
 
Great job guys and see you next week!

You sneaky you

Was a good meet up today all, had tons of fun when we were actually in the game!

Was a good meet up today all, had tons of fun when we were actually in the game!

Was a good meet up today all, had tons of fun when we were actually in the game!

Competition ended
 
What's that?
A giveaway based on your performance in Star Citizen
 
Sounds cool. What do I have to do?
Get into a public Battle Royale and blow shit up
 
But I suck at blowing shit up.
Don't worry even if you suck you can get a higher rank just by playing longer plus practice makes you better and thanks to the REC system you can also get better equipment by playing.
 
What are the stakes?
1st place gets a 25$ gift card, 2nd place a 10$ gift card and 3rd place gets a 5$ item from the pledge store
If someone manages to hit the front page (overall rating 5th or better) prices will be doubled, 3rd place will get a 10$ gift card instead and 4th and 5th place will both receive a 5$ item from the pledge store
 
Ok, what do I need to know?
Here are the rules:
 
Members of the UOLTT only due to RSIs filtering
Since I'll send the prices through the forum you have to be listed in @rucdoc s list
Start will be the start of the 2.1 trail on the leaderboards and the end will be the end of that trail. The ranks will be determined after that.
The squadron leader @Adreyu (dusk) @CommanderFett @Corwin111 and myself are excluded from this giveaway, @rentaspoon opted out as well.
Member of the UOLTT Militia will receive a 5% bonus on their rank. Apply here
Any means necessary. Ships, weapons, maps doesn't matter. However the ranking system must show valid entries. If something is off (like a M50 with guns bigger than size 1) you may be disqualified.
 
Some clarification: I'm the sponsor for this giveaway and if you're not able to participate in this one there will probably more like these in the future, but not every patch and not with the same rules.

now you can get interviewed while taking a shit

Hell. Yes.

 
Barring that:

how about this one?
 

Just to let you guys know the Organization has passed the $200k in reported funding

I just had to do this
 

im all lonely and stuff on the teamspeak

I shall put in $5