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If they're taking this extra time to improve their video production pipeline, among other issues at the company, I'm happy to give them all the time they need.

What has Steve criticized LMG for that he is also guilty of himself? The argument seems to be "not having journalistic integrity", despite the fact that Steve displayed examples, cited sources, gave context and the like. Steve's videos are well edited, pretty well clear of mistakes, all thanks to a very flexible upload schedule and content production pipeline. He doesn't review products he has a significant investment in, and steers clear of conflicts of interest in his videos. But no, he had the audacity to not reach out to Linus before dropping the video, depriving him of the opportunity to sew the seeds of doubt in the community, so now he "lacks journalistic integrity", apparently just as much Linus who lept at the opportunity to go on damage control and misrepresent the timeline of events. Give me a break.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black See? I knew you didn't know what it meant. Also, look up the word "hypocrite" and come back.

No. Again, that's not what "pot calling the kettle black" means. You can't just say "Steve is a hypocrite for calling out a pattern of errors in videos and in testing because he didn't reach out to Linus and that's sort of a question of ethics there, POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK" despite being innocent of everything else he is accusing LMG of. If that saying were appropriate here, Steve would be guilty of the majority he is accusing LMG of. Which, as we know, is pretty fucking far from the truth. 1. What was inaccurate about it? The only inaccuracies were from Linus misrepresenting when he reached out to Billet. 2. The entire point of the video is how their current content pipeline is resulting in multiple errors across their videos, with some errors that were corrected in one video, becoming uncorrected in another. Them saying they're looking at a solution with fixing the videos doesn't mean much if the cause of the errors is so deep-rooted, and they're still making big errors, like the Pwnage mouse review you literally mentioned. 3. Other creators doing it doesn't magically make it okay. The video is about Linus Tech Tips. 4. Seriously? Doing less reviews with which you have a conflict of interest with a risk of bias, unconcious or otherwise, does not solve the problem and does not "follow the journalistic ethic and integrity issue". It's the fact they are done at all which is the issue. Sure he discloses it - he is legally required to do so - but doing reviews of products you have an investment in is pretty damn far from journalistic integrity! 5. ??? Did you even watch the video? He is warning of the risk of bias, concious or unconcious, due to things like partnerships. He does not "insinuate bias", unless you count perhaps the ASUS 4070 Dual review where the reviewer literally makes a blanket statement about their product always being great.

Not testing a product properly is an objective matter. It's not "ethics." He literally tested the thing with a GPU it wasn't designed for, and decided to not bother retesting it with the right card. There was an objective way to test the block - with the card it was made for - and he did not do that. Oh and they later auctioned the thing off, without telling Billet Labs, and misrepresented what happened to it, which is borderline illegal. Steve chose to not reach out to Linus, despite having all the time in the world to work on the expose video. No schedule, no rush. Some will say that wasn't the "proper" thing to do. Maybe, maybe not. But that's a subjective matter. He knew the consequences could have been, as he says in his expose, Linus trying to run out ahead of the narrative (which, again, he basically tried to do anyway, as Steve predicted: "we didn't sell it, we auctioned it.") Also, Steve is specifically defending Billet Labs based on their treatment by LMG. He says in his expose he has "no connection to Billet Labs." He took no stance on the value or pricing of the product, other than the cost to manufacture that Billet were now out after LMG auctioned it. Pot calling the kettle black, my ass.

LMG not further testing a small company's product because they don't want to spend an extra $500 on labor, and then knowingly publishing inaccurate data based on faulty testing, and then going on to publicly misrepresent the product and tarnishing what little reputation a small company like Billet Labs has - again, based on knowing inaccurate data is not the same as Steve not reaching out to Linus (of huge media company with giant reach, LMG) because it may give him the opportunity to run out ahead of the narrative (which he then tried to do anyway with his initial response), and publishing data he believes, to the best of his ability and knowledge, to be accurate and objective information

Also, you didn't answer my question. Where is this "pot calling the kettle black" in his videos? Where are the several asterisked or non corrected errors in GN's videos?

If we're talking about the English language works, "pot calling the kettle black" doesn't even make sense in Cav's example. It means someone is accusing someone else of doing something they themselves are guilty of. GN's modmats had a formal warranty. LTT's did not. Where is the hypocrisy?

So his original comment had nothing to do with the GN warranty vs LTT warranty, but also, the only example he gives of GN apparently "throwing stones from a glass house" is the GN warranty vs LTT warranty. He says: THIS is a scenario. THIS. As in, the errors in videos thing. So where is the example of "the pot calling kettle black" with regards to errors in videos? Also how on earth am I the one moving goalposts when Cav was the one inserting the warranty thing, and then you conveniently say "oh, well that was just an example, his original comment had nothing to do with the warranty stuff."

I don't know what you're trying to say.

GN's entire thing with the LTT backpack is that LTT had no formal warranty for the backpack (hence, "trust me bro.") Calling this a "pot calling the kettle black" situation, when the thing Cav is criticising of GN is not even the same thing as what GN criticised of LTT, is just moving the goalposts. Cav is criticising GN for having a less-than-ideal repair solution, and that may cause someone to damage their equipment by relying on inaccurate pin-out information. While that is true, what GN criticised LTT for is not having a formal written warranty for the backpack. GN had a formal written warranty for the modmat. Cav also said "there was no product-replacement option", but that's covered by the warranty:

No shit. You would think that LMG, a multi-million dollar company, who are able to cover those kinds of costs, would be held to a higher standard than Gamers Nexus.

What is "basic jounalistic courtesy" to you? Letting Linus get ahead of the narrative? What information was there that Steve was missing? I think Linus would have just used it as an opportunity to downplay the whole thing and proceed as normal. Hell, he tried to do just that with his first response!

Just jumping in to make my first post on the forum in over 6 years lol

Got the HD PVR 2 to record from my Original Xbox over component. I can record audio and video perfectly fine, and I'm getting video to the monitor from the Xbox, but I'm not getting any audio from the HDMI channel of my monitor, which means I'm playing with no audio. I can't listen to the audio from the Hauppauge recording software because it's a full 2 seconds behind the real-time video. I'm using the latest drivers for the HD PVR 2.