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Cool collection, OP!

It's funny because I never buy game related merch junk. For some reason though I became slightly addicted to collecting Fallout sets and merch. I know they opened a store later, but I bought nothing from there.
 
So let's start at the beginning. Fallout.
 

 
That is the Interplay collection. I also have this, never been opened.
 


Because why not lol.
 
FO3. The ONLY set I do not have is the original Pip Boy one. Mostly because they were just a clock, and known to break, and sell for several hundreds of pounds the last time I looked in about 2010.
 
So lunchbox ed.
 

 

 
Game has been replaced with the GOTY, but I still have the original (all three copies ffs lol).
 
This is what you got with the BOS edition.
 

 
And of course another copy of the game.
 
I would say this here is my rarest item. Rare because they were never released or sold, and were only worn by the dev team who created FO3. IE Bethesda Softworks. I bought this at a charity auction in 2009, to help kids with autism.
 

 
If you watch the documentary on FO3 you will see a lot of those shirts.
 
Moving on - FONV.
 

 

 

 
This was got through pre ordering the game in the USA only. My friend sent this over.
 

 
He also sent me this. This was the point of sale hardboard poster for the launch of the game. It is now framed, complete with the backward date from the USA and all.
 

 
Like the dev shirt that is probably my rarest FONV item. They would have ended up in landfills.
 
Fallout 4.
 

 
Nuka Zap shirt (Zap your thirst !). These were given out at the launch event.
 

 
As were these face masks. Again, buddy in the USA (he used to work at Game stop if you were wondering how he got them).
 

 
Vault 111 shirt. This was a gift from my step son.
 

 
And the FO4 Vault Dweller Survival Guide. With map of the locations and some socks lol
 

 
And finally this absolute monstrosity.
 

 
TBH it was the best part of the game. Even though it had mould spores in and could kill you.
 
These are the shit plastic soldiers and map.
 

 
And of course the main event and ONLY reason any one should have bought FO76.
 

 
Mould and all lmao.
 

 
And I bet you thought I was done didn't you? nope !. Any one who was around then will know all about "Bag Gate". IE, Bethesda promised us all a lovely canvas bag. They then shipped out a shitty nylon one. Nerds were angry, and lawsuits threatened, and the result was this LOL.
 

 
A real canvas bag 😄
 
Oh and the one that caused such nerd rage 😄
 

Human malware slowed things. My fingernails now have weird dents in them 😕
 
The cooler came a while back. I also found an old P68 board in the cupboard with white RAM retention levers, so I robbed those.
 

 
Had they been black I would not have bothered, but they match it really well.
 

 
Unfortunately what also slowed things another week was the fact that the Phanteks extensions I bought were out of stock. And they didn't tell me. For a whole week, when I asked them. I hate it when companies do stuff like that. Any way, I got a refund on them and found this as B stock for £40.
 

 
It's a full Cablemod set in paracord. Which is much better than the horrible plastic stuff on the original custom cables, as they were a real git to bend. These are nice and floppy. The only issue here? they were made for a Cooler Master PSU. However, they had the correct pins both ends unlike the Phanteks, and, have dedicated braided SATA and Molex too. So earlier today I set about taking them out one by one and switching them into my loom. I was annoyed that a lot of the 24 pin wires were doubled on the extensions, and angrily started tossing them to one side. I then realised that on this PSU (Silverstone ITX) that the 8 and 6 pin PCIE are doubled on 6 wires. There is only one connector at the PSU end. So those doubled ones? man, saved me a lot of time and potentially nasty modding.
 

 
So, we now have a fully done 24 pin, 4+4pin EPS and the 8 pin to 8+6 pin PCIE. All done, without needing anything but a pin remover. Awesome.
 
I will buzz the SATA and molex connectors next time I go at it (week or two, got some stuff to do for Christmas in the meantime) and get that all done.
 
So overall very happy. The only thing left wrong with the motherboard now from my original rage fest back in 2015 is one snapped USB3 header pin. Thing is I am not going to be using it so yeah, I will leave that. If one day I do want to attempt to repair it though? I can use said P68 board in my cupboard for pins.

Good afternoon all Linus fans.
 
I began modding PCs in and around about 2003. Since then it has been a long journey, with a lot of lessons learned along the way. This particular PC was modded and created way back in 2015, and was originally called the Pockit Rockit. IDK how many of you have been around here that long, but the original log is here.
 
 
Slight change of usernames since then as the forum had a bug where it would not send a confirmation to hotmail addresses after an update. So I had to create a new account.
 
Any way, onward and upward !
 

 
So just shortly after doing that mod I hated it so much I stopped using it. TBH it was a daft idea, because I had two other gaming PCs at the time and it was underpowered at best. So I removed and sold the Titan Black, put in a Quadro of sorts and gave it to my aunt when my uncle was first diagnosed with cancer. At that point she had been using an Ipad, but obviously then needed a proper PC in order to go through all that. Sadly my uncle passed back in January after having beating it twice. RIP Unc, I love you.
 
As such my aunt no longer needed it and it was heading to a landfill near you. I had spent a lot of money on it (pointlessly) and thus could not let that happen. But, I needed to come up with a use for it as I am now older and wiser. And the thought hit me... LAN rig. Doesn't need to be powerful at all (we play the original HALO, COD4, COD3 and FEAR) and thus it would be worthwhile doing.
 
So here it is back with me after 8 years.
 

 
It looked like this inside.
 

 
Sans the Titan, and this outside.
 

 
So the idea here is to spend as little money as possible, yet create something that stands out. Before I got into that though the hardware needed a boost. Somehow a dual core Pentium wasn't going to cut it, so I ordered this.
 

 
No gamble needed, I already checked the CPU support list. I then dug out 8gb of DDR3 a pal sent me last year (it only had 4gb in) and tested it. This is also the GPU I shall be using in here. It's not as extravagant as a real 1080ti sadly, it is a 980ti in drag (yes the cooler fits, you just need to mill off one screw post).
 

 
Sorted. So after checking I realised that I had broken the USB3 front panel header on the board (one crushed pin. I could try fixing it but CBA) and one of the DIMM levers had snapped. This case is a real PIG to work in, and I think frustration got the better of me back then. The cooler is also broken.It uses horrible plastic lugs and pins and two are snapped. So, the big spend. I got this.
 

 
I am going to use the extensions to make a new custom loom. I have pins, so that shouldn't be too much bother. The fans are to replace the ones I modded into it originally. They were Yate, but you could only get 20mm then. These are 15, meaning the case side panel will fit better.
 

 
OK so the first idea I had for the refresh. The side panel grill is going. It was supposed to be meshed, but the mesh was crap so I put a window in it. That is being replaced with this.
 

 
Left over from a project. So think this.
 

 
The left over rocket grill will go on the fans in the bottom, to save them going into your fingers when you lift the case. I forgot what a nice job I had done on that tbh.
 

 
So, strip it down and clean it all up.
 

 

 
The orange plexi was under the silver dinoc. Result, no painting needed there 😄
 
Mod one. Make a real fan fit in the top.
 
This took some head scratching. The fan in there was 120mm, but another fan would not go over the pins on the case. After a lot of thinking I realised it was the holes in the fan. So, I made them larger and.
 

 
Need to cut down some long M3 bolts, but that is done. Then it was onto the IO. Like I said, the USB3 header is broken and I don't need any front IO. So....
 

 
OK so why the heck would I do that? I will tell you. Because getting a full length GPU in there is like water torture. And that did not help. Nor did this.
 

 
So that is being cut out also.
 
Now the astute among you would have clocked a whacking great bar handle. Yup, that would be this one.
 

 
Hmm.
 

 
OK so let's see what we can do there..
 
Scan.
 

 

 
Make circle.
 

 
To get this.
 

 
Machine 4x out of 5mm scrap of white acrylic, and.
 

 
That has now been fixed to the case with epoxy and I have begun the frenching process with JB weld.
 
So with that all done let's talk about the plans.
 

 

Better pic of the insides before I did the end cap.
 

Next week we build !
 

I attempted to put the cover back on it yesterday. I failed. It was a sod at the best of times, but it seems because of the way I built the internals it would not slot in at the sides any more. So I had to cut off the tangs that used to go in. I also had to cut the back, as it would not clear the new power socket.
 
So for the first time since the day it arrived it is now back in one whole piece.
 

 
The only issue is you can see the silver through the sides now. Easy bit of painting at the end.
 

 
It's worse the other side. I had to clearance around back too.
 

 
But it is all happy enough now.
 

Linus says, and I quote - £700 billet block is an egregious waste of money"
 
 
So why did you not try and talk him out of spending that much on a PC, that was, hilariously, an egregious waste of money.
 
Further more, how much did the TV stand you bought recently and then boasted about cost? wasn't it $15k or something like that?
 
Dude you so out of touch you've already reached Mars. Tell Elon he lost.

Just remember brah. The more money you get the less you have to admit mistakes. $100m? LOL you never have to admit you are wrong ever again.
 
And yes, for the less sharp out there I was being sarcastic.

Linus says, and I quote - £700 billet block is an egregious waste of money"
 
 
So why did you not try and talk him out of spending that much on a PC, that was, hilariously, an egregious waste of money.
 
Further more, how much did the TV stand you bought recently and then boasted about cost? wasn't it $15k or something like that?
 
Dude you so out of touch you've already reached Mars. Tell Elon he lost.

Just remember brah. The more money you get the less you have to admit mistakes. $100m? LOL you never have to admit you are wrong ever again.
 
And yes, for the less sharp out there I was being sarcastic.

Linus says, and I quote - £700 billet block is an egregious waste of money"
 
 
So why did you not try and talk him out of spending that much on a PC, that was, hilariously, an egregious waste of money.
 
Further more, how much did the TV stand you bought recently and then boasted about cost? wasn't it $15k or something like that?
 
Dude you so out of touch you've already reached Mars. Tell Elon he lost.

I know a lot about business. An awful lot. I know that it is hard. I know that for the first five years you will not be able to spend one penny, as it is all make or break for five years. I have worked with corporations, and I know a lot of inside info about the dirty business of sales, sales techniques and so on.
 
Linus lost his character years ago. As soon as the business started making bank and he started buying big houses? you lose that hunger. That dedication. This has been easy to see with the content. Rushed, cynical cash cow videos. He even did a video explaining which videos make him the most money. He said it was live streams, and then what do you know? lots of live streams happened.
 
The problem is? when it becomes all about money many things are sacrificed. It no longer becomes about learning, it becomes about posts like the OP - AKA damage limitation.
 
Let's face it. LMG is a well oiled, capitalist corporation. And for making money? it totally works. People didn't even stop watching when the videos started becoming laden with "claymores". IE, sales claymores. Injecting as many shout outs to his products as possible. Hell, people even joked about it and thought it was funny. But it wasn't. It was about him making MORE AND MORE AND MORE money. And that? is what it now is. the ENTIRE structure of the channel. Look at the comments from his own staff. "I wish we could slow down and you know, make proper videos" and so on. But no. Even Linus admits this himself. But that is against the terms of being a corporation and that is? to make money at every single opportunity.
 
I stopped watching because of the endless self promotion. Like, the meme side of it was funny for a couple of weeks but then it just totally got on my tits. Couple that with Youtube ramping up ad insertion and etc? Youtube itself to me became just a big meme and a big joke.
 
I do watch content now BUT ONLY with Smart Tube Next. Which blocks all ads, sponsor claymores and god knows what else traps people have stuck in their videos. And it is the only way I can watch it. Like watching an episode of South Park on TV which is like 19 mins long and plumped up to a round 45 minutes with the ads in - UGH.

GN dropping these 2 vids was like watching a B-27 dropping little boy and fat man on Nagasaki and Hiroshima (aka ltm and linus)
 

How can any of you find this acceptable?

 
"The good news is that it isn't just sitting on a shelf" WTF!

Why are you taking this personally? You should never make a company part of your identity, because that's what this response screams.

Yeah, and it's pretty telling that people are taking that implication - not even a statement, an implication you read between the lines - and assuming it means there's some "other side of the story."
 
If the timeline was wrong, you'd expect literally anyone from LMG to dispute it, but all I've got are crickets.
 
Nope, lmao, doubly so if Steve reached out to Linus beforehand.
 
Even worse - LTX was mid July. Allegedly, they got the prototype back in June. I know the Billet Labs email was 4 days ago, but it's definitely been more than 4 days at this point.
 
People are desperate for a reason that Linus and LMG are innocent here, and they're coming up with wild conspiracies in their heads to justify it.

Whoa there buddy a "hit job" would imply that Steve's video's were all filled with lies and half truth's and where carefully planned in advanced.
 
Journalistic integrity implies reporting on the truth no matter how many fee fees it hurts in the Linus Tech Tips circle jerk that's currently going on with the Linus defenders all out in full force defending a man THAT JUST LIED TO THEM RIGHT IN THEIR FACE.
 
Linus Media Group is a corporation and should be treated as one. The days of them being just some random YouTube Channel is long gone. IF THIS WAS ANY OTHER CORPORATION THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN RAKED OVER THE COALS.

I know a lot about business. An awful lot. I know that it is hard. I know that for the first five years you will not be able to spend one penny, as it is all make or break for five years. I have worked with corporations, and I know a lot of inside info about the dirty business of sales, sales techniques and so on.
 
Linus lost his character years ago. As soon as the business started making bank and he started buying big houses? you lose that hunger. That dedication. This has been easy to see with the content. Rushed, cynical cash cow videos. He even did a video explaining which videos make him the most money. He said it was live streams, and then what do you know? lots of live streams happened.
 
The problem is? when it becomes all about money many things are sacrificed. It no longer becomes about learning, it becomes about posts like the OP - AKA damage limitation.
 
Let's face it. LMG is a well oiled, capitalist corporation. And for making money? it totally works. People didn't even stop watching when the videos started becoming laden with "claymores". IE, sales claymores. Injecting as many shout outs to his products as possible. Hell, people even joked about it and thought it was funny. But it wasn't. It was about him making MORE AND MORE AND MORE money. And that? is what it now is. the ENTIRE structure of the channel. Look at the comments from his own staff. "I wish we could slow down and you know, make proper videos" and so on. But no. Even Linus admits this himself. But that is against the terms of being a corporation and that is? to make money at every single opportunity.
 
I stopped watching because of the endless self promotion. Like, the meme side of it was funny for a couple of weeks but then it just totally got on my tits. Couple that with Youtube ramping up ad insertion and etc? Youtube itself to me became just a big meme and a big joke.
 
I do watch content now BUT ONLY with Smart Tube Next. Which blocks all ads, sponsor claymores and god knows what else traps people have stuck in their videos. And it is the only way I can watch it. Like watching an episode of South Park on TV which is like 19 mins long and plumped up to a round 45 minutes with the ads in - UGH.

I watched Linus at the very beginning. I found his squeaky voice quite annoying, but I loved the hunger. And the enthusiasm and everything else.
 
The problem? somewhere along the line it became all about money. Like, 100%. Cynically so. "Buy a water bottle" "Buy a banana". I mean, the guy even jokes about how many sponsors there are and so on.
 
Now? it is the MacDonalds of channels. Junk views. No real substance, just empty calories.
 
Which too is why *I* don't understand why he did not just sell up. But, I guess he just can't let go of that control. Which is quite sad.

And if Steve wants to be the journalist he says he is? then that is how it has to be. Lesson one in journo - you won't make many friends.
 
It's like I said. The truth is not often very pretty and can hurt. But, it is the truth and the truth will set you free.

Exactly. This is business, not personal. Linus tried to keep it personal, where I would imagine he would have swept it under the rug and we would have been none the wiser.

As I said it could have gone two ways. It took guts, and I have respect for guts.

TBH whilst I have my grievances with GN (and I do, I am not a hypocrite, they took $100k for a fan testing machine from their viewers and have never used it) it took a lot of guts for Steve to do this. As it could have very easily gone one of two ways. 1. You ruin yourself and your life for speaking out or 2., as it would seem it is going, people appreciate you for it.
 
TBH? what I am most impressed about with Steve was his basically turning off the monetisation for the video. He could have very easily made bank from this but did not. And let's face it, people love a "beef" and a bit of drama nowadays.