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    Thaldor got a reaction from 1337Dennis in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

  2. Agree
    Thaldor got a reaction from CentreMetre in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

  3. Agree
    Thaldor got a reaction from K.V.Vedanth in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

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    Thaldor got a reaction from GuiltySpark_ in Why do studios use reference displays and Monitors.   
    The thing is in the word "reference". The point isn't to have median value, the point is to have exact and set value that will be globally the same with every other device required to show that same value.
    Instead of calculating median flight path from the flights, it's a made ideal flight path to which every flight is compared to. Except in case of image and sound the ideal happens to be pretty boring and bland because humans are odd and like a bit more saturation and contrast to make the image more captivating, bit more bass and treble to make the music sound more alive and bigger and so if the image/music is good on the reference gear, it will be great on the consumer gear.
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    Thaldor got a reaction from Tigerleon in Tidal vs Spotify and is there really a difference?   
    I have to say now that I have taken free deep dive into the premium quality Tidal, that there is a difference.
     
    They have some very bad mixes.
     
    That can be also my taste in music but, seriously, holy fucking shit where the fuck they have gained so flat mixes that I have heard more dynamic planks in hardware stores?
    I had to go through and I even disabled any post-software EQ's and all that to find out was it just something in my signal chain that makes Tool sound like wooden hammer with as much balls as castrated cat and Deep Purple sounded like someone recorded them from C-tapes, even my self ripped LP rips from my fathers collection somewhere around 90's to early 00's with garbage level mp3 had more dynamic range than Tidals whatever mix they found from the Goodwill. And I don't even want to talk more about Rainbow... Stargazer's into snare is dead on Tidal mix... And I have some really high quality rips and some absolute garbage rips from the Rising album but none managed to turn "tshhhh" into "tsk" (even the Deluxe Edition both mixes lack the lower spectrum compared to the SHM-CD from which the "New York Mix" should be from, those are way better mixes than the non-Deluxe ones on Tidal but I have no idea where they got that bad mixes).
     
    And I am not talking about something that would come from fileformats or bitrates (while those can affect but not this much). The low level rumble is just gone especially from Tool, in Jambi it's like Tidal mix was afraid to break something by really driving that bass and before someone says I have higher quality rips from my CDs and CDs have higher quality audio, no, Tidal should have "superior dynamics" because 24-bit and 96kHz compared to my 16-bit 44.1kHz FLACs but no, stuff like the Schism's 1:20 bridge is just not there and 2:00 mark sounds like someone booked Tool to play in a fucking school disco because the soundstage sounds that small.
     
    I wasn't sure was I fucked up or just added some EQ to my rips and started to strictly compare Tidal to Spotify (without any EQ) and there was the same thing, Tidal mixes were flat. Spotify mixes were as far as I can tell identical to my rips.
     
    Also how fucking stupid must someone be to fall for the "Max/MQA" garbage? They don't even fucking hide it that it's just some mumbo jumbo garbage, they literally say directly "Max/MQA up to 24-bit 192kHz", just to make it even clearer:
    "UP TO"
    No, they aren't saying the "Max/MQA" quality is something superior from "Max/FLAC" or whatever High or anything. It's just probably up to somewhere there or not even close to but fuck they tell you. Same garbage scamming as I would sell my car as "You know Toyota Yaris can go over 300km/h on dirt roads?" and in reality, yes, Toyota GR Yaris (Rally2) tuned and made for WRC can fucking rip the dirt road, but my Toyota Yaris 1.0L can hardly get to 150km/h downhill on highway, but hey "Toyota can go over 300km/h", I am not wrong but I am misleading you like a pig to the slaughter house.
    They're not afraid to tell the bitdepths and sample rates for FLAC recordings but MQA and you get basicly no information unless you rip the songs and look at it by yourself at which point they would probably pull the normal audiophile scamming argument "it's not our system, it's yours" even if you had airtight proof that it's non-altered file from their servers.
     
    And when it comes to audiophile stuff. Always remember that most of the Beatles albums were rough mixed with the Beatles in studio that only operated in mono and everytime you hear stereo mix of the Beatles, it's completely mixed by some audio technician as "extra mile" without the Beatles giving two fucks about it. Back then and earlier stereo systems were so rare that pretty much no one had them and what little stereo mixes were done were mostly just to market that the studio can do it, not that the music sounded any better, just that the studio had the capability to do it. That's an example what goes in the other side, unless you have insider knowledge, you will have pretty much zero idea how the thing was supposed to sound and the best you can do is to listen it however you think it sounds the best. So, go crazy and experiment, add bass, twist the V, play with the reverb and remember that there's a reason why it's "studio monitors" and "high-end HiFi" separately.
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    Thaldor got a reaction from Needfuldoer in How do you guys like your veggies?   
    One magic word: Steaming.
     
    Carrots, green beans, broccoli, asparagus, sprouts, potatoes, pretty much whatever you fancy chopped in uniform size (nice big pieces, baby carrots are pretty much the minimum size you would like because you want that steam to get everywhere and move freely), steam for 5-15 minutes, add some olive oil, pinch of salt, freshly ground black pepper and if you want some herbs and lemon juice (butter and honey are also excellent).
     
    I would recommend investing into layered pot so you can have good amount of water without needing to care about adding more and couple layers of steaming pots so you can add hard stuff like carrots, potatoes and cauliflowers early and just add the next layer with green beans, broccoli and other soft stuff in the middle (you don't want them too soggy). But you can just use something like metal strainer in deep pot to keep the veggies off from the water (you don't want to boil them, so not in the water, on top of the water in the hot steam). You can also just use microwave safe bowl, put veggies and half-deciliter of water in it, close tightly with lid or plastic wrap and throw in microwave on high for like 5 minutes, check if good and if not add more water and repeat.
     
    The best part is, you cannot fail. Try them with a fork and if too hard, let them sit couple minutes more, if they get too soggy, that's the worst, not nice to eat but don't worry, you cannot burn the veggies so just throw them into blender or mash them into purée and they are saved.
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    Thaldor got a reaction from da na in What would you all think about a collab with Coffezilla?   
    LTT isn't tech support, especially for people with actual needs and problems and not want to be janky AF and fiddle around everything all the time.
     
    I am not saying LMG didn't have people who know what they do and have expertise and wisdom in things they do. It's more just that LTT viewers probably don't want to watch 15 minute recap of setting up good old solid storage that doesn't have any glitter, ADHD, brand spanking new features and doesn't boast the newest and most powerful hardware possible. Building rocksolid editing rig that isn't boasting halo products and doesn't have some "wow"-thing in it and installing normal NAS just isn't LTT video and I presume staff knows it and won't be doing that kind of video but would stuff it like thanksgiving turkey with that kind of stuff that would lead to janky as fuck shit that "just doesn't work" but requires support and care afterwards more than people would give and even could give.
     
    Like imagine some (imaginary) Top Fuel dragster channel making video about fixing someones work truck, could they do it? Totally but the guy probably won't be very happy with his truck now running only with nitromethane and being incapable to drive longer than a minute and requiring engine rebuild after every couple of drives and the viewers wouldn't like to watch them rebuild just everyday diesel engine without it being at least rigged with enough horsepower to do drag racing.
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    Thaldor reacted to wanderingfool2 in What would you all think about a collab with Coffezilla?   
    Honestly, it sounds like he has a general handle on things himself anyways.  Probably just a bad power supply, or something similar that caused the crackle/fried hdd.
     
    Honestly the whole Storinator stuff would be exactly why I think anyone should just run from LTT.
     
    Just as a reminder, this is the same kind of platform setup that seems to have caused LTT data loss on their archive because it wasn't setup right, and they didn't have the automated messaging of issues arising.
     
    iJustine - Moved to Jellyfish, because LTT's setup clearly wasn't meant for her workflow.  Yes it's great to have all those nice features but if you need someone more tech-savvy to utilize it it becomes a nightmare.  Users like iJustine are looking almost for a set and forget setup or at least one where if an issue arises you don't have ample support (something Jellyfish can do0
    SlowMo Guys - greatly appears as though he didn't do any research on how much data Gavin had.  SlowMo guys now uses a new storage alternative.
     
    In general LTT itself seems to have issues with their workflow from the appearance of things as well, so I wouldn't necessarily trust them to make a solution that doesn't end up having it's own "gotchas" that someone like Coffezilla might need their help again to diagnose.
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    Thaldor got a reaction from Bananasplit_00 in Funimation users will not be able to keep purchased media after Crunchyroll merger   
    I remember when Crunchyroll was blatantly stealing subs from fansub groups by cutting out the credits and starting to collect money from using their service like they were something more than a pirate site. Then they got couple garbage level publishers behind them and sued a ton of fansub groups because "ripping their subs" (even when it was vice versa in the first place).
     
    And then there were the time of "ooops, didn't mean to do that" when some titles were first shown as "This title is only available to paying subscribers" and when you got the subscription "This title is not available in your country".
     
    Then there were the upscaled titles which were... Let's just say 360p needs a bit more than just stretching to get into 720p.
     
    Even still from some corners of the internet where I lurk I occasionally hear complaints about the quality of Crunchyroll subs and get giggles because their subs have sucked pretty much from the get go when they tried to be nice and not ripoff fansub groups.
     
    Why am I not surprised they would be doing something like this too?
     
    (My memory can be a bit hazy about a service which I am each time it comes up more surprised it's still a thing and even more surprised some people pay for that shit. So, I can be wrong in some points but there's a wild history when it comes to asshole named Crunchyroll.)
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    Thaldor got a reaction from soldier_ph in Your favourite cursed/weird tech item on the internet?   
    Favorite?
     
     
    But for real products, the 3.5mm TRS to dual-XLR adapters. They're fine if you really know what you're doing but once you connect your phone to the +48V mic port for AUX input, oh boy, are you going to have "fun" time.
     

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    Thaldor got a reaction from Tigerleon in Dolby atmos is worse than I expected   
    Just to clear one thing, the SBX Surround is just spreader, not virtual surround. As in, SBX surround is an effect that spreads whatever sound sounding like it would be surround, it has zero idea about spatial audio or anything relating to position of the sound. It's same as some old stereo spreaders that took 1 audio channel in, used some high and low pass filters to create 2 a bit different audio streams and gave 2 channels out, it made mono mix sound a bit more like stereo mix but in no case turned mono mix into stereo mix.
     
    DTS and Atmos, at least when it comes to their Windows encoders, are more down mixers, they take in the actual surround mix of the audio and down mix it to stereo retaining the positional "information" (as in adding delays and stuff to trick your brain to think sound comes from certain direction, as in sound that is coming from the back right channel gets tiny bit lower volume and is played 0.something milliseconds earlier on right channel than on left channel with even more lowered volume, and yes, our hearing is that stupid in reality).  They're basicly turning surround sound into the ages old virtual barber demo.
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    Thaldor got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Your favourite cursed/weird tech item on the internet?   
    Favorite?
     
     
    But for real products, the 3.5mm TRS to dual-XLR adapters. They're fine if you really know what you're doing but once you connect your phone to the +48V mic port for AUX input, oh boy, are you going to have "fun" time.
     

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    Thaldor got a reaction from Tigerleon in Tidal vs Spotify and is there really a difference?   
    And then there's this:
    I already called horseshit on the specs and method, it's good to know that audiophile snake oil is still complete horseshit especially when someone throws some actual testing into it. There was also just recently Techmoan video about MQA-CD's and the outtake was pretty much "they seem to be just louder" (the classic "higher-quality audio" trick, just make it louder).
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    Thaldor got a reaction from NinJake in Tidal vs Spotify and is there really a difference?   
    If you're questioning the quality difference, do as I have outlined in the Stahlmann's thread: Internally (with software within your PC so none of your audio equipment matter) record the exactly same song from both services at your chosen qualities, import them to a DAW like Reaper or whatever as long as it can do phase reversal, make sure both tracks start at exactly same time and play exactly the same (zoom in to first sound wave or find some easy to align peak and match both tracks to that), reverse the phase of one track and play both tracks at the same time. The phase reverse will negate the sounds from the normal track and what you have left is the difference between the tracks.
     
    Just to make it clear: None of your audio equipment matter before the last step of listening the outcome. If you need to crank your volume up a lot to hear the outcome, well, the difference between the tracks is so minimal it basicly doesn't matter at the listening levels you would normally use.
    If you need to boost your volume to hear anything, that is the same as running the audio into oscilloscope and zooming into singular sound wave and comparing the differences of 0.000..0001V region where you will find differences from anything and everything.
    It is also the isolated difference, so there's nothign else than the difference so if you hear a small hiss, hearing that hiss through the track is probably pretty damn impossible.
  15. Informative
    Thaldor got a reaction from Tigerleon in Tidal vs Spotify and is there really a difference?   
    If you're questioning the quality difference, do as I have outlined in the Stahlmann's thread: Internally (with software within your PC so none of your audio equipment matter) record the exactly same song from both services at your chosen qualities, import them to a DAW like Reaper or whatever as long as it can do phase reversal, make sure both tracks start at exactly same time and play exactly the same (zoom in to first sound wave or find some easy to align peak and match both tracks to that), reverse the phase of one track and play both tracks at the same time. The phase reverse will negate the sounds from the normal track and what you have left is the difference between the tracks.
     
    Just to make it clear: None of your audio equipment matter before the last step of listening the outcome. If you need to crank your volume up a lot to hear the outcome, well, the difference between the tracks is so minimal it basicly doesn't matter at the listening levels you would normally use.
    If you need to boost your volume to hear anything, that is the same as running the audio into oscilloscope and zooming into singular sound wave and comparing the differences of 0.000..0001V region where you will find differences from anything and everything.
    It is also the isolated difference, so there's nothign else than the difference so if you hear a small hiss, hearing that hiss through the track is probably pretty damn impossible.
  16. Like
    Thaldor got a reaction from Stahlmann in Tidal vs Spotify and is there really a difference?   
    If you're questioning the quality difference, do as I have outlined in the Stahlmann's thread: Internally (with software within your PC so none of your audio equipment matter) record the exactly same song from both services at your chosen qualities, import them to a DAW like Reaper or whatever as long as it can do phase reversal, make sure both tracks start at exactly same time and play exactly the same (zoom in to first sound wave or find some easy to align peak and match both tracks to that), reverse the phase of one track and play both tracks at the same time. The phase reverse will negate the sounds from the normal track and what you have left is the difference between the tracks.
     
    Just to make it clear: None of your audio equipment matter before the last step of listening the outcome. If you need to crank your volume up a lot to hear the outcome, well, the difference between the tracks is so minimal it basicly doesn't matter at the listening levels you would normally use.
    If you need to boost your volume to hear anything, that is the same as running the audio into oscilloscope and zooming into singular sound wave and comparing the differences of 0.000..0001V region where you will find differences from anything and everything.
    It is also the isolated difference, so there's nothign else than the difference so if you hear a small hiss, hearing that hiss through the track is probably pretty damn impossible.
  17. Informative
    Thaldor got a reaction from Ydfhlx in Funimation users will not be able to keep purchased media after Crunchyroll merger   
    I remember when Crunchyroll was blatantly stealing subs from fansub groups by cutting out the credits and starting to collect money from using their service like they were something more than a pirate site. Then they got couple garbage level publishers behind them and sued a ton of fansub groups because "ripping their subs" (even when it was vice versa in the first place).
     
    And then there were the time of "ooops, didn't mean to do that" when some titles were first shown as "This title is only available to paying subscribers" and when you got the subscription "This title is not available in your country".
     
    Then there were the upscaled titles which were... Let's just say 360p needs a bit more than just stretching to get into 720p.
     
    Even still from some corners of the internet where I lurk I occasionally hear complaints about the quality of Crunchyroll subs and get giggles because their subs have sucked pretty much from the get go when they tried to be nice and not ripoff fansub groups.
     
    Why am I not surprised they would be doing something like this too?
     
    (My memory can be a bit hazy about a service which I am each time it comes up more surprised it's still a thing and even more surprised some people pay for that shit. So, I can be wrong in some points but there's a wild history when it comes to asshole named Crunchyroll.)
  18. Agree
    Thaldor got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Tech Youtubers are only here to show us things we can't afford?   
    Because it's ridiculously effective and cheaper than doing it yourself.
     
    Say which one would you trust more when looking for a new car: A) The car manufacturer telling you their car is the best ever for you or B) Your friend Suzie being happy with her new car?
    B, unless you know that Suzie is a complete idiot and you wouldn't trust her even to boil water without burning the whole house down, but you would still give Suzie's opinion more weight than the pure ad of the car manufacturer.
    So, now you have your friendly neighborhood Linus Sebastian bringing you daily whacky content on YouTube and he says putting seaweed into your water will turn your life upside-down and cure even the stupidity of Suzie. He is your friend, he is smart, he makes whacky videos, he would never lie to you. Will you buy the seaweed brand Linus recommends to you?
     
    Traditional marketing is super expensive. For top end example, you want your ad into the most watched yearly sport event in the US with crazy reach, that's going to be 30-second ad spot on Superbowl and your marketing budged has just realized to be over $7,000,000 and you still need to pay for the actual making of the 30-second ad. And that still doesn't mean anything and your ad could be just a fart in Sahara if the half time artist has wardrobe malfunction. Normal TV ads depend on time they are shown, length and the show during which they are shown but I would remember we are talking about hundreds to tens of thousands per play. And those are just to get the ad spot, you still need to pay for the actors, camera crew, editor, writer, get the equipment, the shooting location and all that.
    LTT video ad spot probably costs around $5-10k and it includes making of the ad, per one million views that is 6th of the Superbowl ad spot cost at worst (LTT videos collect around 1-2M views while Superbowl 2022 gained 115M views).
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    Thaldor got a reaction from Uttamattamakin in Tech Youtubers are only here to show us things we can't afford?   
    Because it's ridiculously effective and cheaper than doing it yourself.
     
    Say which one would you trust more when looking for a new car: A) The car manufacturer telling you their car is the best ever for you or B) Your friend Suzie being happy with her new car?
    B, unless you know that Suzie is a complete idiot and you wouldn't trust her even to boil water without burning the whole house down, but you would still give Suzie's opinion more weight than the pure ad of the car manufacturer.
    So, now you have your friendly neighborhood Linus Sebastian bringing you daily whacky content on YouTube and he says putting seaweed into your water will turn your life upside-down and cure even the stupidity of Suzie. He is your friend, he is smart, he makes whacky videos, he would never lie to you. Will you buy the seaweed brand Linus recommends to you?
     
    Traditional marketing is super expensive. For top end example, you want your ad into the most watched yearly sport event in the US with crazy reach, that's going to be 30-second ad spot on Superbowl and your marketing budged has just realized to be over $7,000,000 and you still need to pay for the actual making of the 30-second ad. And that still doesn't mean anything and your ad could be just a fart in Sahara if the half time artist has wardrobe malfunction. Normal TV ads depend on time they are shown, length and the show during which they are shown but I would remember we are talking about hundreds to tens of thousands per play. And those are just to get the ad spot, you still need to pay for the actors, camera crew, editor, writer, get the equipment, the shooting location and all that.
    LTT video ad spot probably costs around $5-10k and it includes making of the ad, per one million views that is 6th of the Superbowl ad spot cost at worst (LTT videos collect around 1-2M views while Superbowl 2022 gained 115M views).
  20. Agree
    Thaldor got a reaction from Murasaki in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

  21. Funny
    Thaldor got a reaction from da na in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

  22. Funny
    Thaldor got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

  23. Informative
    Thaldor got a reaction from Thomas A. Fine in Pronunciation Pronouncements   
    Well, not really. He did a lot of tests to try to separate the metal from alumina (aluminum oxide) and got far in it but didn't manage to separate the alumnium from iron. The one who "found" (successfully separated pure aluminium) aluminium was Hans Christian Ørsted in 1824 but that is contested and he might have had potassium in his aluminium still and the actual person who made pure aluminium metal first would be Friedrich Wöhler in 1845. This is a bit problematic because Ørsted did even consider his aluminium been a find at all and when Wöhler continued his research and made his aluminium and proved Ørsteds method would have left potassium in aluminium Ørsted approved this but later Johan Fogh proved that Ørsted could have made pure aluminium because some miscalculations and happy accidents.
     
    If we want to talk about who found out that alumina has some yet undiscovered metal in it, that would be Baron de Hénouville in 1760 who was probably the first to try to reduce alumina into metal or Antoine Lavoisier in 1782 who theorized alumina is an oxide of a metal or even broader spectrum Pierre Macquer in 1758 wrote that alumina resembles metallic earth (which would be pretty much the first time aluminium was considered metal rather than salt). Unless ancient Greeks and Romans didn't figured more about alum (natural aluminium sulfate) but didn't leave written records from it and in couple almost first centuries some aluminium-containing alloys were used in China but again no written records so hard to say how far they got.
     
    But either way Sir Humphry Davy didn't manage to separate pure aluminum and so didn't find it. He just coined the other name.
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    Thaldor got a reaction from Thomas A. Fine in Pronunciation Pronouncements   
    Sir Humphrey Davy named it alumium in 1808.
    After Swedish Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1811 coined the term aluminium in 1812 Sir Humphrey coined the aluminum for his chemistry textbook which Thomas Young reviewed and proposed to use the aluminium rather than the less Latin sounding aluminum and after that the aluminum was only used by some in Britain while everyone else (including Americans) used and adopted the aluminium.
     
    Why Americans use aluminum and the rest of the world (pretty much) aluminium isn't about who coined the term but actually about who made American dictionary. In 1828 Noah Webster released his "American dictionary for English language" where he used aluminum and as it became the American dictionary against English dictionaries (like the later Oxford English Dictionary) the American scientists moved to use aluminum because now that was kind of official American-English.
  25. Funny
    Thaldor got a reaction from Bismut in Help launch a class action against Ubisoft?   
    IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
     
    What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
    Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
     

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