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"Genius Bar"
Lol...

IT's late and I'm both hungry and tired from shooting Scrapyard Wars (which by the way is an LTT series and will be airing ad-supported on YouTube very soon for your viewing pleasure).
 
But there are a few points to address and you've already been patient enough.
 
I said LMG content would always be free. This was poor wording on my part. There has always been content produced by me and my team that was not necessarily available on a free platform like YouTube.
 
These "The Boost" videos that we make on contract as a sales training resource for Intel, for example:
 
 
 
In much the same way, Vessel has contracted LMG the production company to create an original series for their platform. They bankrolled the whole thing, giving us an opportunity to make something that otherwise would have been too costly, and per the licensing agreement they own the right to exploit this content. It's their show until such time as they decide it's not anymore.
 
We played more of a "production company" role in this than we're accustomed to.
 
This could, and SHOULD have been communicated better, and for that I'm sorry. The community should have heard about this from us FIRST, and not from a random email newsletter, but I've been (and so has the whole team) absolutely busting ass to not only get Nerd Sports produced, but also make sure that we're keeping up with everything else that we've got going on including not having missed a single day of LTT uploads for something like 5 years..
 
With that said, quantity isn't everything, and I've noticed that not everyone has appreciated the LTT content as much as usual lately, but it's hard for me to tell if that's because they don't like our new direction (fewer reviews, and more exploratory or experimental videos) or if they just saw a video or two they didn't like and raised hell in the comment section - it wouldn't be the first time.. And I will say, too, that honestly if a couple of the videos felt rushed then it's probably because they were.. HOWEVER, the primary reason for the rushed videos was  the entire week we're taking off this week to film Scrapyard Wars Season 4, which will be premiering on Vessel sometime in the next few weeks or so, followed by a release on YouTube 1 week later, which is the standard agreement for OUR content that is paid for by LMG or our sponsors.
 
Nerd Sports was shot 40% during evenings and weekends with employees taking time in lieu later on when we hire some more staff or when things slow down a little. We were careful to avoid disrupting any of our other commitments because imo you guys deserve the best we can deliver.
 
Which is another point that was brought up in this thread - "How will LMG keep its commitment to maintain the pace and quality of the other content if they're making Nerd Sports or other contractual content?"
 
We couldn't. We're hiring.
 
I've never shied away from investing in more staff or better equipment or a better facility to make sure that we're doing our best for ourselves, each other, our sponsors and our viewers. If we play our cards right, absolutely everyone wins.
 
Nerd Sports has been a fantastic learning experience for us, and whether we continue the series with Vessel, create other completely different web series in the future, or just say "fudge it" and flip burgers from now on, we'll be able to do those things better than we could have without having done this.
 
So bottom line is this. I screwed up the way I communicated "LMG content", which was meant to be content funded BY Linus Media Group rather than content funded entirely by and licensed to a 3rd party, and I screwed up in a MUCH bigger way the LACK of communication about this project. Sorry guys.

Chrome is one of the worst browsers on the market right now, so I'd get off the bandwagon and try some alternatives. 
 
I swore left right and centre by Chrome, but Chrome is just bad at resource management and loves burning battery for no real reason. Im happy I stopped using it, got a good 2 hours of battery life back just by switching browsers. 

Next thing people will lose their shit about is the camera app accessing the camera or the phone app accessing your contacts. When this was huge I made a list of Apps on my phone that had the same permissions.
List of Apps That Can Access Your Camera and Microphone
[ ] Angry Birds: Star Wars 2 and Go! (camera only)
[ ] Stock camera app
[ ] Google Chrome
[ ] Dialer (camera only)
[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google Play services
[ ] Google +
[ ] Google Hangouts
[ ] Google Keep (microphone only)
[ ] Messenger
[ ] Phone
[ ] Screencast (CM 11s exclusive)
[ ] Shazam (microphone only)
[ ] SIM Toolkit (microphone only)
[ ] Snapchat
[ ] Sound Recorder (microphone only)
[ ] Android System UI
[ ] Ultimate Guitar Tabs (microphone only)
[ ] CM11s Torch App (camera only)
[ ] YouTube (camera only)

For awhile, my mum had the belief the entire internet was a very easy to define file or folder on my computer. The entire internet, on my computer. I had to give her the series of tubes talk.

For awhile, my mum had the belief the entire internet was a very easy to define file or folder on my computer. The entire internet, on my computer. I had to give her the series of tubes talk.

For awhile, my mum had the belief the entire internet was a very easy to define file or folder on my computer. The entire internet, on my computer. I had to give her the series of tubes talk.

Elysium, anyone?

For awhile, my mum had the belief the entire internet was a very easy to define file or folder on my computer. The entire internet, on my computer. I had to give her the series of tubes talk.

ah welcome to Australia 

Saw an M8 in the flesh the other day at a Telstra store. Is anyone else with me in thinking they look pretty ugly?

Neither, I'll take a Find 7. lol

That has to be made with some seriously high quality components to fit in that form factor!
 
I'm sure this PSU will be a new favorite for the SFF enthusiasts, especially with Maxwell around the corner.
 
 
Edit: I didn't even see that it was modular  dear god  B)

This'll definitely be GOaTY.

Until smartphones come out reasonably priced with more than 64GB of storage, I'm sticking with my iPod Classic. I can't even get a whole day out of a smartphone listening to music, surfing the web and communicating with people either. More storage and battery please! 

Looks faaaaake.

So uhhh... Is that 8+8+4 pin power? Fuck me

So uhhh... Is that 8+8+4 pin power? Fuck me

So uhhh... Is that 8+8+4 pin power? Fuck me

So uhhh... Is that 8+8+4 pin power? Fuck me

So uhhh... Is that 8+8+4 pin power? Fuck me

I'd wait for non reference That Arctic heatsink is an ugly looking thing

A company nowadays that sends out review samples would be out of their minds to not at least do a thorough check on those samples before they get sent out. So what if AMD does it? It's been made very clear to the community that Nvidia does it as well (see TTL's rant on AMD's R9 GPUs in regards to how well the overclock + thoughts on ASUS Matrix cards). That being said, a lot can still happen between the time a sample gets picked and when it actually arrives at the reviewer's doorstep and the actual long-lived performance is always an unknown. Heck, this is even apparent in areas outside of the tech industry. Let's take a brief look at the auto industry.
 
Everyone remembers a while back when that Tesla Model S was sent to a reviewer and it received a terrible score. Tesla Motors would have done checks on the vehicle to ensure it performed, hence why they installed a black box prior to sending it out. Was the bad score a reliable representation of the product? No, it was clear that the reviewer did not know how to handle an electric vehicle in accordance o manufacturers specification. That's a fault on the part of the reviewer; however, manufacturers are not entirely out in the clear either. Take a look at SRT (Dodge, for those who don't follow). They sent their new Viper to Motortrend for a large-scale car review. They knowingly sent them a base car, let alone one they knew was not perfect, and still chose to let Motortrend review it in the competition (it did not perform as theirprevious Vipers and actualyl fell apart / dismantled itself during the test). Is this the fault of the reviewers (Motortrend)? The answer is no.
 
So it's pretty damn clear that "cherry picking" by the manufacturer is evident everywhere (to some degree) in today's consumer society. This should not be a surprise to anyone; just because a company like AMD hasn't made headlines regarding this issue before, does not mean it hasn't happened before. In the end, it always goes back to the vicarious relationship between the manufacturer and they each do their respective jobs in providing the latest products for affiliates to look at such that they can give the public an accurate representation of what they received. It's on the responsibility of both parties to provide what they believe would be best for the end consumers.