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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Tech Youtubers are only here to show us things we can't afford?   
    It's not even reviews: product placement is the most effective form of marketing. Say Linus wants to make a janky CPU cooler? Companies will be desperate to provide them not just with a top-tier CPU, but also motherboards, PSUs, RAM kits... They don't need them to advertise them, praise them, or anything other than use them, and perhaps list them in a part lists at some point in the video. Their presence alone in the video instills a latent demand in the viewers. This then helps companies in two ways: 1) increase demand for higher-tier products, at a price range most people shouldn't / wouldn't be buying otherwise; 2) create a halo product effect, leading buyers to get whatever product from the same brand they can afford, unconsciously expecting it to be better than a similarly priced competitor.
     
    All this is more important than reviews, hence why intel would send an 18-core, "walk-in-the-rain" CPU for Linus' 3-year old daughter PC. The best illustration of this is an LTT video from back when Zen hadn't launch yet. In that video, Linus went over the products bought in Amazon using LTT's affiliate code. In that video, the best-seller CPU was a K i7, despite every LTT video telling viewers they didn't need more than an i5 for gaming, nor a K chip unless planning to overclock (which probably also wasn't worth the cost in FPS/$ terms). The explicit message was against Intel desires ("don't pay 50% more for an i7, get the i5"), but all the i7s and HEDT builds in the channel were able to overpower the explicit message.
     
    In the end, the whole tech youtube ecosystem (and similar ones for other industries) strived and consolidated on the basis of channels acting as marketing arms for manufacturers, not in the blatant shilling or "paid reviews" sense, but in this, more indirect way: companies were willing to sponsor the channels and supply parts for their projects because their mere existence was good for business, regardless of what they said about one particular product or other.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to YoungBlade in Tech Youtubers are only here to show us things we can't afford?   
    For three reasons:
     
    1. Sending out a product for review is a negligible expense for a company like Apple or Intel or Nvidia. Even 1,000 copies of a product is a drop in the bucket when you intend to sell millions of them.
     
    2. They actually do flood the zone with their marketing. What do you think the Nvidia CES livestream was? And why do you think that the official Nvidia YouTube channel has over 1 million subscribers? But the videos hardly get any views, and marketing products there it isn't that effective because...
     
    3. While we like to joke about sheeple and NPCs online, and fanbois do exist, most people are not so stupid as to assume that all information about a product from a company is 100% accurate and genuine. Third party review outlets, on the other hand, are considered by most to be a reliable source of information. Which is also not always ideal, because technically Userbenchmark is a 3rd party review site, but it's still better than blindly trusting that Nvidia isn't lying to you when they say that the RTX 4070 is 2x faster* than the RTX 3090!
    * In one single game, and with DLSS 3.0 FG enabled
     
    So while you might think at first glance that it's a bad idea to send out review samples, it actually makes the companies more money than it loses. Which should be obvious, since they basically all do it. Nvidia is often called "Ngreedia" for a reason - they are a publicly traded company. They wouldn't be handing out free RTX 4090 cards if it was actually losing them money.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to Birblover12 in Sick of "AI"   
    It's a marketing term, exact same thing as sticking "GAMING!!!" onto any product along with some cheap LEDs and charging 3X the price because it creates the illusion of something which is more than it actually is. Companies love to play follow the leader and follow whatever the largest companies are pushing as the "newest thing". 
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to LAwLz in Kickstarter bans AI-generated art enthusiast group "Unstable Diffusion" and refuses to deliver their successfully raised $56k funds   
    I am not a fan of companies like Kickstarter deciding what projects are or aren't allowed on their platform. 
     
    I also like how they claim to be on the side of humans, but then seemingly ban a tool that would benefit 99% of humans by giving them access to creating images they need assistance in creating. I dislike this narrative currently going around that creating images should be something reserved for an elite group of people, not something the common person should have access to. 
     
     
    So copying or mimicking others' art is no longer allowed on Kickstarter? Are they going to ban all western projects that use animestyle artwork then? Because those are definingly mimicking and copying a particular style of imagery.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Red :) in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from AbsoluteWoo in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Levent in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Flavius Heraclius in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Lurick in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from da na in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to cooky560 in Living without a cellphone of any kind. Is it possible?   
    I don't want to comment as to what I think of the reasons OP has chosen to dislike phones. However the answer to the question is yes, people lived thousands of years without phones, and you still can, life might be less convenient, but no-one has ever died from lack of a cellphone
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Shouldn’t this be called Whale LAN instead of WHALE LAN   
    But then
     
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to Giganthrax in Legacy Ad-Free HBO Max Subscribers to Lose Access to 4K HDR, Max Parent Company WB makes content on competing streaming services worse   
    The many ways streaming services fuck over their customers are insane to me. They actually make Denuvo look good in comparison.
     
    At this point, paying for this stuff instead of sailing the high seas just sounds like a massive hassle, and it should be the opposite.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to Lunar River in Legacy Ad-Free HBO Max Subscribers to Lose Access to 4K HDR, Max Parent Company WB makes content on competing streaming services worse   
    Is things like this that justify my aversion to anything subscription based.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Wan show more of a 3hr long infomercial /hype rally for LTT store than it is a podcast   
    Why do people feel the need to state the obvious? 
    - I don't like the latest TV show
    - You don't have to watch it
    - The latest album by band X is disappointing
    - Well, you don't have to listen to it
    - This game is boring
    - You know you don't have to play it right?
     
    Of course they don't have to watch it, it doesn't mean people should never discuss the quality of anything. And it's a discussion forum, FFS, the whole point is for people to discuss things beyond consuming them or not! And you know what? You don't have to read this thread (well, maybe @LogicalDrm actually has to because of his role 😛).
     
    There's a huge difference between you liking it and it not being true - in fact, the discussions you enjoy kind of prove OP's point. Objectively, the WAN Show has grown longer and more merch-centric. Whether each of us like it or not is subjective.
     
     
    Yeah, I think it boils down to them not having enough time to spend in something as unprofitable as the original WAN show. They just could no longer justify it on the basis of them enjoying it alone. It probably got close to being axed at some point (can't remember if they said so themselves), so it mutated into this more bottom-line-oriented format, which kept it alive. To some, that's a good thing; to others, it might as well have ended if this was the cost of keeping it alive.
     
    Personally, I think I could still splice together a 60-minute show from different segments, maybe 90 minutes in a good day, that would more or less work the same way as older WAN shows for me. But until some ML algorithm does it automatically for me, it's getting harder to play it through (even as a VoD, the "good bits" could be anywhere, from news topics to random tangents off audience questions, and same goes for the "filler" - merch promotion, uninteresting merch messages, etc). Even leaving the length aside, I find myself clicking away from it more often, rather than just letting it play in the background.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from Birblover12 in Wan show more of a 3hr long infomercial /hype rally for LTT store than it is a podcast   
    Why do people feel the need to state the obvious? 
    - I don't like the latest TV show
    - You don't have to watch it
    - The latest album by band X is disappointing
    - Well, you don't have to listen to it
    - This game is boring
    - You know you don't have to play it right?
     
    Of course they don't have to watch it, it doesn't mean people should never discuss the quality of anything. And it's a discussion forum, FFS, the whole point is for people to discuss things beyond consuming them or not! And you know what? You don't have to read this thread (well, maybe @LogicalDrm actually has to because of his role 😛).
     
    There's a huge difference between you liking it and it not being true - in fact, the discussions you enjoy kind of prove OP's point. Objectively, the WAN Show has grown longer and more merch-centric. Whether each of us like it or not is subjective.
     
     
    Yeah, I think it boils down to them not having enough time to spend in something as unprofitable as the original WAN show. They just could no longer justify it on the basis of them enjoying it alone. It probably got close to being axed at some point (can't remember if they said so themselves), so it mutated into this more bottom-line-oriented format, which kept it alive. To some, that's a good thing; to others, it might as well have ended if this was the cost of keeping it alive.
     
    Personally, I think I could still splice together a 60-minute show from different segments, maybe 90 minutes in a good day, that would more or less work the same way as older WAN shows for me. But until some ML algorithm does it automatically for me, it's getting harder to play it through (even as a VoD, the "good bits" could be anywhere, from news topics to random tangents off audience questions, and same goes for the "filler" - merch promotion, uninteresting merch messages, etc). Even leaving the length aside, I find myself clicking away from it more often, rather than just letting it play in the background.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to Avocado Diaboli in Wan show more of a 3hr long infomercial /hype rally for LTT store than it is a podcast   
    No, this is an awful take. If you enjoyed something or see the potential of what it could be, it's only natural to offer feedback for improvement. This is doubly true if you feel something has degraded in the qualities that mattered to you. Giving feedback is important and every content creator should welcome said feedback. Whatever the creator decides to do is up to them. But to shut it down entirely is nonsensical and everybody who tries to shut down feedback as an unrelated third party does arguably more harm than the critic.
     
    Also, the popularity argument is nonsense. If you aim for the lowest common denominator, quality or vision be damned, you can sack the show entirely and become a content mill that churns out low quality bullshit with clickbait titles and terrible thumbnails. "It isn't for you" is a nice sentiment, but it's rarely true if something was for you but no longer is due to changes that are well worth criticizing. Again, whatever LMG decide to do with that criticism is up to them, they're under no obligation to heed any of it. But the point is that trying to shut down the criticism with trite retorts is just not appropriate. It's borderline offensive.
     
    And you know how I know that your take is awful? You decided to chime in and voice your disapproval. This point always makes itself, because the person saying "don't like it, don't read/listen/watch it" can always be made the direct target of the same retort: Don't like my criticism? Don't read it.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from jerkwagon in Wan show more of a 3hr long infomercial /hype rally for LTT store than it is a podcast   
    Why do people feel the need to state the obvious? 
    - I don't like the latest TV show
    - You don't have to watch it
    - The latest album by band X is disappointing
    - Well, you don't have to listen to it
    - This game is boring
    - You know you don't have to play it right?
     
    Of course they don't have to watch it, it doesn't mean people should never discuss the quality of anything. And it's a discussion forum, FFS, the whole point is for people to discuss things beyond consuming them or not! And you know what? You don't have to read this thread (well, maybe @LogicalDrm actually has to because of his role 😛).
     
    There's a huge difference between you liking it and it not being true - in fact, the discussions you enjoy kind of prove OP's point. Objectively, the WAN Show has grown longer and more merch-centric. Whether each of us like it or not is subjective.
     
     
    Yeah, I think it boils down to them not having enough time to spend in something as unprofitable as the original WAN show. They just could no longer justify it on the basis of them enjoying it alone. It probably got close to being axed at some point (can't remember if they said so themselves), so it mutated into this more bottom-line-oriented format, which kept it alive. To some, that's a good thing; to others, it might as well have ended if this was the cost of keeping it alive.
     
    Personally, I think I could still splice together a 60-minute show from different segments, maybe 90 minutes in a good day, that would more or less work the same way as older WAN shows for me. But until some ML algorithm does it automatically for me, it's getting harder to play it through (even as a VoD, the "good bits" could be anywhere, from news topics to random tangents off audience questions, and same goes for the "filler" - merch promotion, uninteresting merch messages, etc). Even leaving the length aside, I find myself clicking away from it more often, rather than just letting it play in the background.
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    SpaceGhostC2C got a reaction from LogicalDrm in Wan show more of a 3hr long infomercial /hype rally for LTT store than it is a podcast   
    Why do people feel the need to state the obvious? 
    - I don't like the latest TV show
    - You don't have to watch it
    - The latest album by band X is disappointing
    - Well, you don't have to listen to it
    - This game is boring
    - You know you don't have to play it right?
     
    Of course they don't have to watch it, it doesn't mean people should never discuss the quality of anything. And it's a discussion forum, FFS, the whole point is for people to discuss things beyond consuming them or not! And you know what? You don't have to read this thread (well, maybe @LogicalDrm actually has to because of his role 😛).
     
    There's a huge difference between you liking it and it not being true - in fact, the discussions you enjoy kind of prove OP's point. Objectively, the WAN Show has grown longer and more merch-centric. Whether each of us like it or not is subjective.
     
     
    Yeah, I think it boils down to them not having enough time to spend in something as unprofitable as the original WAN show. They just could no longer justify it on the basis of them enjoying it alone. It probably got close to being axed at some point (can't remember if they said so themselves), so it mutated into this more bottom-line-oriented format, which kept it alive. To some, that's a good thing; to others, it might as well have ended if this was the cost of keeping it alive.
     
    Personally, I think I could still splice together a 60-minute show from different segments, maybe 90 minutes in a good day, that would more or less work the same way as older WAN shows for me. But until some ML algorithm does it automatically for me, it's getting harder to play it through (even as a VoD, the "good bits" could be anywhere, from news topics to random tangents off audience questions, and same goes for the "filler" - merch promotion, uninteresting merch messages, etc). Even leaving the length aside, I find myself clicking away from it more often, rather than just letting it play in the background.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to LogicalDrm in Wan show more of a 3hr long infomercial /hype rally for LTT store than it is a podcast   
    -> Moved to General Discussion
     
    As noted, if you don't like the content, don't watch it. The current trend of both length and merch advertising started with LTTStore becoming more prominent (2020-21 winter). The length became this massive after The Hack. In the end, it's become just glorified Twitch stream where two washed tech "journalists" are reading chat.
     
    The glory days just after Razer Comms era are still best this show has ever offered.
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    SpaceGhostC2C reacted to Seccedonien in EU Mulls Expansion of Geo-Blocking ‘Bans’ to Video Streaming Platforms   
    The EU is looking at it's current laws about geo-blocking and might want to apply them to audiovisual material as well so consumers all over the EU have access to the same content on a Netflix or Disney+ subscription which sounds like a huge win for everyone. But of course the rights holders seem to think otherwise:
     
     
    This idea from the EU could absolutely work so consumers are not as tempted to pirate things (also making policing it less work lowing the costs for all parties involved since it doesn't have to be setup for every single country) and yet the rights holders are crying about it because they can't milk the consumer as much as they can currently and thus threaten to up the subscription prices for everyone if this gets passed. Am I getting this right?
     
    https://torrentfreak.com/eu-mulls-expansion-of-geo-blocking-bans-to-video-streaming-platforms-231206/
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