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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If no one else notices, cares, or appreciate it.

I loved the SimAnt intro - including the awkward foodsharing animation when you get hungry.

That's some ironical timing. Having never owned a SFF PC before, I got two Optiplex 7010's, both with i5 3570's and 4gb in two dimms, last week for $26 a piece. Looks like Linus via Riley lost a blowout Small-Form-Factor Scrapyard Wars he didn't even know he was participating in, awwwwwwwww yeaah.

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.

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.

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.

The point is to have multiple screens' worth of information laid out before you, so you don't have to Alt+Tab between different windows (or virtual desktops) that all compete over the same pixels.

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.

Please involve Clarence in some more videos. Maybe as a non gamer you could use him for some "can you tell the difference between" type videos

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jan/29/huge-mess-of-theft-artists-sound-alarm-theft-nfts-proliferates
 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jan/29/huge-mess-of-theft-artists-sound-alarm-theft-nfts-proliferates
 
 

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?

Nice! Using GFLOPS/$ is a better way of doing it than what I suggested. Although, there is a problem with the 33% increase (orange line) in the graph. If the y-axis on the graph is scaled logrithmically then a linear 33% increase due to time (x-axis) shouldn't end up being a straight line; it would bend logrithmically and flatten as you moved forward in time.

I reperformed the data using techpowerup and usinflationcalculator (using fxtop would have required 4 times as many drop downs for an extra 2% of precision which is kinda unnecessary for the time I want to put into this), and unscaled the y-axis:


 
This is why this launch is so crazy, because there is a lot, A LOT (one could say even a metric butt ton) of performance per dollar that is so far ahead of what we've seen in a long time. You can't... you can't just scale that increase away.

But just looking at it doesn't tell the whole story. Let's go back in time a week. Let's remove the current RTX 3080 from this data set. Let's see what we should have expected for 2020 by using the 2006-2018 flagship 80 series data, graphing the data in the same scatter plot, and analyzing the GFLOPS/$ amount using a trendline. This will tell us what GFLOPS/$ amount we should have expected:



So for September of 2020, using historical data the 3080 was expected to have a GFlops/$ ratio of 16.7. We would therefore reasonably have had expected a new, 3080 to have looked one of three ways:

1. A return to the $700 price point

If a card were to have released under this scenario, using that 16.7 we would have expected a $700 card to yield GFlops of 11,690 (700*16.7) - basically a limp 2080 Ti with a $500 price cut. Of course most of us didn't expect the 3080 to just be a weak 2080 Ti, we expected...

2. A modest increase in performance over the 2080 Ti.

A 2080 Ti has a FP32 Gflops performance of 13,450 (according to techpowerup). Let's say the 3080 would bring, I don't know, 25% more performance over the 2080 Ti. This would give us a Gflops figure of 16,813. And we would, using the 16.7 figure, have expected it to retail at launch (16,813/16.7) for $1,006. So we would have gotten a bit more bang, but it would have also cost us more. But there's a third scenario we could have expected...

3. A Whole Lotta performance.

In this case, let's say the 3080 were to launch with exactly it's current specs. We get a huge increase - 29,770 Gflops. Using our 16.7 figure, (29,770/16.7) we would have expected this card to retail for... $1,783. Eeeek. Someone throw Riley a life preserver.

But that's not what the 3080 is going to be, it is that performance, but at only $700, which is what makes this all so exciting. It bucks historical trends, both in the increase in power, and the price point (at least all the way back to the 8800 GTX). I'm done. I'm not owned by Nvidia, I have no duck in this race. I'm just pretty thrilled.

And I've spent way too much time on this.
 

The price isn't just driven by the cost to manufacture, it's driven by consumer demand and willingness to pay. Back when Linus and Luke were reminiscing about graphics card prices in a recent WAN show, they, and many of us, were teens back in those early 2000's days. Most gamers at the time were fairly young and couldn't afford $1,000 graphics cards. I remember staring at a Geforce 2 demo when I could only afford a Riva TNT2 thinking "man, that card and it's reflections are amazing, but a GF2 is $200 and I don't want to spend that." PC Gaming was definitely more niche, with most gamers between 13-30. Now everyone has gotten older, and the age has spread to 13-45. And as you get older, you work, you can (hopefully) afford to buy things, and that $200 GF2 which might have taken you a few birthdays to save can be saved for a 2080 Ti in a few biweekly paychecks. And for the past decade, people have been willing to save and pay those prices for the greatest cards on the market. We can call it absurd, but not really irrational; it's fiscally understandable in a noncompetitive market.

Look, I'm not saying I personally agree with $1,000 to 1,200 cards, I haven't bought a new graphics card since the 780 GTX. I've been eager for gamers to stop paying these high amounts (and *cough* miners, god dang wallabies). But I can't blame Nvidia for charging a price that the market supports, and I can't blame them for winning the GPU wars for all of the 2010's. This is just what happens in capitalism when a company corners the market due to making better, cheaper products than the competition. But eventually after enough stagnation, competition will return as we see with the Xbox and PS5. It's also kinda important to Nvidia they price these "competitively" as they won't want to lose PC gamers to consoles. If the best they could do would be 2080 Ti performance at $1,000 in 2020 and 2021 (see: Intel), Nvidia would lose long-term customers for a decade due to high-end gaming moving to much more affordable console systems with equivalent performance for roughly half the price.

Competition is here; it's good. And after a decade PC gamers finally have some modicum of a win. I'm just happy that affordable, good, upgrade-worthy hardware is long at last coming to the PC after a whole generation of varying degrees of what I can only affectionately describe as expensive trash.

It will be some kind of exponential. To be fair, Dollar inflation is just one criteria. GPUs are a global product, so they might not be influenced only by the Dollar. And as we get further to fundamental technological limits, the annual increase might get lower. In the long term performance per Dollar should increase somewhat comparable to Moore's law.
 
You can easily do it in Excel and switch the trendline to exponential even on a linear scale. It should match my findings then. 😉