AdmiralKird

Even according to Madison's own statements about her employment, it sounds like LTT realized they brought on the wrong person fairly quickly. Someone made a high-risk, high-reward call to make her part of the company because she exhibited real unique talent. For a multitude of reasons there was a breakdown. In the vaguest terms it sounds like Madison mistook the content of the videos as what working at the company was like and was in for a shock when the underlying work environment didn't match that. Reciprocally, it seems like Madison was brought on under special circumstances and just placed into the rest of the team like a regular hire. She probably needed a mentor and a different type of focus to succeed but few if any companies would be willing to do that. On top of this, there may be things that are actually alarming regarding the behavior by some employees towards her. Most may be misunderstandings or misreads, but others might be deviant. It's honestly impossible for LTT to honestly address the public about Madison's statements because even if there weren't legal reasons for avoiding explanations, LTT telling their side would just feature a lot of what would be considered "victim blaming" and just tarnish their reputation further. They are better examining it internally and just giving a bunch of PR speak about the matter. I do hope they figure out what happened and if any wrong-doing was committed that those individuals are punished appropriately.

Honestly, I don't think anyone who is at risk of seeing that as therapeutic is very healthy for any of his followers to watch. It's a very one-sided vampiric "reverse-creator" parasocial type of relationship / therapy. I don't even know if there's a more defined term for it. Instead of where the influenced falsely believes a social relationship exists with the influencer (when they don't know the specific influenced exists and aren't trying to unduly attract them) it would be where the influencer doesn't know the specifics of when people exist but still talks to them and treats them openly and outwardly as if they actually were a close friend. I can see why people would find this soothing, but when I watched it I felt used. I felt like I was having my attention used in order to think about someone else's problems when I couldn't vocalize anything troubling myself back like you or I would do in a normal friendship. It's probably most harmful for people who are extremely caring and want to help someone but cant actualize any efforts to fulfill themselves through providing that care.

He hosts a weekly public personal therapy session cloaked as a tech show for dealing with his own mental anxiety by getting off on toting and wielding the raw enormous social media power he built as a coping mechanism. He loves attention too much to get pushed into the background and his current methods of "dealing" are completely ineffective. If anything he's been sucked into this for too long and what he really needs is to go on a mental retreat into the woods for a month. Touch some serious grass, wood, rock, etc. Climb a tree, ride a dolphin, fight a bear, find jesus, whatever he needs. Remember what its like to just be a creature on this earth, then come back. He's mentally locked into treating his business and social media like its the most important thing in the world when what he's never learned is its a constantly moving target to fulfilling actual self-worth. He doesn't need to need to have "more time to think about the situation" to write a response when the problem is he's currently broken and a better response would just be obfuscation. There was a likeable person there once. I liked him. He might be able to reset but he needs a serious reboot done with as little of tech and social hierarchy as possible.

The problem is Yvonne's choice won't make them the most money. I wanted them to sacrifice money for quality years ago, but there's a reason McDonald's doesn't sell $20 hamburgers. The changes people are asking them to make would change what they are. Most companies are never willing to do that. They find creative ways to make the problem go away such as rebranding, letting time pass, making short-term expiring changes, etc. I watched the last video. So what's going to happen with these changes? Ignore that a second; that's the wrong question. What is going to happen to their income statement? Eventually Terren is going to have to show Linus an increase in viewership and income. What will do that better: Sticking with the new model they're coming up with or the old one? Sigh... it will be the old one. It is more streamlined. It is inevitable. Listening to the recent video of their future plans, adding all this documentation of this or that and putting it out for the community - is going to tank ROI by double digit percentages. Employees, who are already complaining about the speed, will have to increase work to meet the same production amounts. The teams will be stressed even further for time, perform more, and still try and hit something close to those earlier numbers. There will be an outcry again of employees being overburdened. And lets be real, after a few months, barely anyone is going to check their open source data. It's a nice gesture of transparency but unless you're paying someone to re-perform it and author a digestible response - no one in their right mind will do that work (well) for free. Anyway, internally someone is going to bring up how little views that data actually gets and it will be seen as an unnecessary burden. This is going to create a hole in the new reforms. It will be partially and quietly rolled back. Those who wanted change will get slowly pushed back over a period of months and years to lessen this new burden on the staff and to return to income statement normalcy. Pressure will mount, monetary results from rollbacks will be shown, more rollbacks will be done, and people will just go with it. And to the people pushing back against the reforms... they'll be right. The only thing that matters is what people believe. We've seen this before, particularly among gamers: The placebo effect will be in full force. Income will go up and things will be just like they are today (mostly). The reality is if you're on this board, you're in a niche of a niche of a niche. LMG will be fine without earning anything from anyone here or following any viewer suggestions. What matters is how the mass amorphous body of eyeballs out there. Whatever they can do to (a) prevent that from going away and (b) maintain the same level of effort is the long-term path they will choose. They'll debate it, but... Sadly, I guarantee the cheapest way for a company with a subscriber moat like LMG to make money is to create the belief of value, which is much cheaper to produce than real audited value. Look no further for affirmation of that than Linus' vision of not paying to re-run the Billet tests. It's not like he's going anywhere or has actually been "demoted" or is no longer a top tier cutthroat businessman. He will still be captaining the ship in a year even with someone else's hands on the tiller. They just have to make people believe their data is fine again. And it's not just Linus. I'm sorry, but if that audio recording of the HR stuff is any indication, regardless of the Madison situation veracity, this is a company culture that more than anything just wants uncomfortable stuff to go away. I do believe there is sincerity present in people in LMG, and some people more than others, but sadly it's in the minority or it would have won out a long time ago and we wouldn't be here. And to anyone who thinks GN should have contacted Linus in private... look at what their first public response to this was and their response to internal problems in private. The only thing GN could do that would have any chance at a possible meaningful impact was to back their words with consequences. If ya think LMG would have attempted a rewrite of a seven, eight figure company over a DM from a competitor/colleague... I don't know what to say.

After ~5 years of watching I unsubbed from LTT a few years ago. I found that the once >80% of videos that I was interested in watching had dwindled to <10%. The thumbnails were annoying and nondescript - each one felt like a bad joke mystery box. The whole necessity of them and "growing the business" I heard from Linus on the WAN show had gone too far for my tastes. Speaking of the WAN show, Linus constantly going into diatribes about his own personal life rather than his industry experience left a bad, unnecessary, one-sided creator-oriented forced parasocial taste in my mouth. That, and the WAN show is far better without Linus, as it was some weeks pre-pandemic. I'm sorry, but Linus' presence turns Luke into a yes-man supportive-pumpkin versus when he's been on with James, Emily, Riley, etc and they come off as equal partners. Not having Linus on the show loses a lot of inside industry knowledge, but it gained a lot through staying on topic and a better reporte. I hoped more people would have just unsubbed during the past few years to enact change - but this wasn't and isn't going to happen... One, the bizarre community critique in this 38 page (and growing) thread about "how LTT should phrase its response appropriately" is a big jackie chan dot jpg wtf to me. Guys and Gals, this is their sincerity. If it doesn't jive with you then you can always watch other channels. They're a video production company. If they can't get this satisfactory without your help then maybe they're not worth watching. You can't make sincerity into a phrasing problem. Sometimes its just not there anymore. I'm sure the LTT team feels like their hearts are in the right place and they probably are - right now - but I've seen this happen. It's not going to last... Second: There are not going to be wide sweeping changes. This monster is too big to fail now and as much as people might think and say "the internet remembers," the internet also forgets very fast. You'll get a weekly pause and people will want to do better. But then others will forget. And they will forget. And they will go back to doing the same thing because they gotta pay the bills and hedge against potential losses. There might be some minor lasting production changes, but if you think one BP oil spill is going to stop offshore drilling then you're cray. Linus and Terren will do whatever they can to put this operation back in the green ASAP. There will be some lost growth, and a niche of the gaming community will turn anti-ltt, but ultimately people will go back to clicking the first excited thumbnail for their review of the one plus galaxy pixel phone plus xl donkey matrix tm. The money will come rolling in, growth will happen, and we'll be back here in five years.

Nintendo only legally fights when they know they can win, otherwise they run the risk of expanding legal protections for emulation. Most of what they do these days are exploit and abuse systems designed to prevent actual infringement to their benefit, or shakedown small modders. "Oh that's a nice fanmade sequel to Majora's Mask. It woulda, ya know, be a terrible shame if anything happened...' Could Nintendo sue Floatplane Media? Yeah. Will they? Probably not. They might issue a cease and desist letter. Then Linus will make a video. I'm picturing the thumbnail with Linus wide-eyed on the left side where he's biting a printout of the letter to a background that makes Lisa Frank jealous while Anthony looks on from the other side in horror and the bottom has giant Impact text of "CEASE AND DESIST." And the title is like "Nintendo did WAHAHT?" If there is a chance of Nintendo suing though don't talk about it unrehearsed on The LAN Show. No one needs to give their lawyers any off-the-cuff remarks to work with for a legal argument.

With accounting its extremely helpful to be able to view all the documents you require simultaneously instead of flipping back and forth - saves time especially with data entry, alleviates frustration, allows you to figure out problems faster. Running VMs won't really help with that. Clarence was top notch. More Clarence pls.

Well you've got two approaches, the first is through the DC port. A D cell is 1.5v, most laptops are 19v so you'd need 12 in series. The second is to go through the battery port internally which are usually around 3v or so, so you could possibly get by with 2, 3 but there are going to be battery communication issues since you'd lack the bms. Also depending on the laptop manufacturer, if you don't have a special chip in there, looking at you Dell, its gonna run like a dog under anything that isn't told it can draw at full speed.

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I wanted to see Anthony call the number on the Turbo controller box and try and get his money back.

It's not just that. Most wives will also be upset at having their family finances put up for bidding on social media, Linus for even thinking that was acceptable, calling her during the middle of a stream to discuss family finances - the company CFO no less, and putting her publicly on the spot and ignorantly potentially setting her up to be seen as 'the enemy' if they didn't do it. If he wasn't put in boiling water this weekend it was because Yvonne was merciful.

This isn't going to really hurt hedge funds. The whole point of a hedge fund is it trades on both ends of the equation to hedge the bet; its in the name. Nor are any of those gains or losses on the derivatives side realized until the contracts come due on the third Saturday of the month - in about three weeks. If the stock itself was originally being shorted by these hedge funds than they would have also bought calls months ago, in which case Melvin Capital and the like are now making money when the stock goes up. It's just going to hurt individuals who had shorted Gamestop and don't have their positions properly hedged, and all the people buying into this now. You had a stock valued on its fundamentals at around $10, then people boosted the value artificially, now it costs $300 when it's worth about $10. All those people that put money in it since are just going to lose it. No one is going to give you $300 for a stock worth $10. It's a pyramidal pump and dump, it's the same thing that happened with bitcoin several years ago when its price suddenly spiked way above comparable long-term storage assets. This whole thing is driven by scammers using social media to manipulate others into making them wealthy by giving them money. Its not the hedge funds giving them money, it's the people behind them they're encouraging to "invest" because they're sticking it to "bad people." It's a scam. And ya'll should stop and think about the company at the center of this. This is Gamestop. There has never been a retailer that deserves to go out of business more than Gamestop. Their entire business model for decades has relied, at its core, to largely preying on kids for their entire game collections, buying them up at 1/5th their market value, giving them credit for one new game, then turning around and selling everything that kid owned for a huge profit. How is this a corporation that should be saved?

I don't understand how you could be the head of PR at a major international firm and write off a multi-paragraph e-mail like that in an official capacity to a news reporting agency. It's a complete lack of baseline competence. How can you be a janitor and not know how to mop a floor?

Obviously a subject in a tub is not the easiest route to ground (and is a dead end for it anyway cuz you're not significantly grounded), rather if there isn't a ground on the tub it has an increased likelihood of entering a subject in a bad pathway during its "search" for a pathway to ground. The fiberglass basin and a plastic drain are going to be highly restive, so it's going to take a while (in nanoseconds) for it to find a pathway to earth and even if it does it'll have to raise the power coming into the tub until the energy lost to ground is ~50miliamps and causes the GFCI to trip. If you get shocked in a bathtub you're going to get shocked by more power versus what you would have had just standing on the ground and electricity will have access to enter the body in worse ways because you're surrounded by a conductive medium. GFCI's are a wonderful piece of technology and we need more of them in homes, but it's like a safety on a gun. You're still not going to get rid of human user error and they can only do so much. The best safety feature of a firearm isn't the safety, but making sure to never point the barrel at anyone, just as the best safety feature of electricity+bathtub is not putting live electrical wires over the body of water. I'm all for using electronics in a hottub or bathtub, as I have done quite often, but design the setup responsibly. This setup is not, promoting it is not, and its flat out dangerous if not deadly. I'm flabbergasted that for all the time this channel has spent discussing "cable management" of low voltage DC lines for aesthetic value that its so dismissive and aloof towards placing live AC lines over a bathtub. Which one actually matters?

A GFCI is not guaranteed electrocution prevention. They trip incredibly fast with only a very small difference in potential but... for someone submerged in a body of water there are going to be a lot more accessible bodily entry points than say, the fingers on one hand. Idk what it's like for Linus but practically any time I work on a PC I end up cutting a finger here or there. If you have two cuts on opposite hands things get very bad if you come into contact with electricity as the quickest complete circuit for electrons searching for ground is through one hand and out the other, and your heart happens to be between them. In the context of this video though another important factor is the drain pipe on that tub. If you have an older home you're almost certainly going to have an iron drain pipe which will be a ground. Since you're likely not going to be interfering with this pathway when being inside the tub, and something happens you'll probably? be fine? I'm not sure what happens if the surge protector falls into the water, and the tubs pipes are PVC, and what the TV's capacitors will do in this scenario. Will they start dumping their charge immediately when turned off to ground? And there's a third factor here if you want to talk about GFCI's, and maybe the most important one...whether or not the TV even uses a dedicated ground. Some Mr. Dink "very expensive" OLED TVs do not even have dedicated grounded plugs. You can see Samsung and LG's two prong in this reddit thread. A GFCI isn't going to be able to do anything with that if you have PVC or plastic drains as the GFCI needs to be able to detect something wrong between the hot and neutral. Maybe if the TV impacts the water the GFCI would start getting DC voltage back on the neutral, the GFCI would go "wtf?" and trip, but idk. Let's just remove the TV entirely. If that power cable falls into the water, and the drain isn''t a ground, then you're... you're done. The GFCI can't tell you're not part of an expected load. You'll need to wait for the breaker to trip when it surpasses frying you with 15amps. Addendum: A GFCI works by expecting to see the same current returning on the neutral/line as it does sending it out on the hot/load. So if it sends 5amps out it expects to see 5amps coming back. If you have a ground and a problem, then it'll send 5amps and get 4.97 back for a microsecond and trip itself. That 0.03amps went to a ground somewhere. So if you like, stick a fork in the load/hot of an outlet, it won't get those 5amps back on the neutral and trip immediately. If you're in a fiberglass tub and a three prong plug falls in, 5amps comes from the hot and will want to exit with 2.5a on the neutral and 2.5a on the dedicated ground. A GFCI will trip this nearly immediately when 30-50ma just starts to enter the grounded plug. If there's no dedicated ground with a two prong plug then the neutral acts as its own ground, ei, 5amps out and 5amps back on the neutral. And if you're in a fiberglass tub and there's no immediate ground then you're connected to both the hot and neutral lines through the water. You're part of the circuit. You look just like an appliance. The GFCI tripping will depend on 30-50ma escaping the circuit through... fiberglass and plastic.