pauloforte

Put yourself in their shoes. Think of everything that could actually go wrong if they made any sort of statement, tweet, post, whatever. Whatever they say at this point is going to never be enough for a very vocal part of the community (=haters). You know what they are doing. They've said what's going on behind the scenes when they decided to halt for a bit. So sit down and find something else to complain about. This is beginning to sound like drama queens running out of drama.

Agreed. People jonesing for the next video and putting pressure on content content content, and quantity over quality, is: what got us in this mess in the first place, and what everyone keeps blaming AAA game companies for doing, when they release half-baked major titles to meet an arbitrary corporate deadline. I often thought of this during many-a WAN show, when Linus rants randomly about some comment or chat he read and blows it up to high hell: Linus should stop paying too much attention to the vocal minority of nay-sayers and haters. These will always exist. There will always be people disagreeing with anything you do for whatever reason. Just do your thing. Take your time. Everything will be alright, if your heart is in the right place.

How are we still discussing this when LMG themselves already classified this as a gross error in judgment? Let it rest: it was wrong. It is still wrong no matter how you put it. How much of a scandal this is and whether this warrants all of this drama is up for discussion, but there should be no discussion on whether this was right or wrong, anymore.

You should watch Dr. Cutress' video on this.

Well, no: my reply would simply repeat what I said but emphasizing the parts they decided to gloss over. And which actually make all the difference for the point I tried to make. That this comes off as condescending is not really on me, is it? At most you can call me lazy, but that's the choice I made. So what I'm trying to say is not "No, because I said so" but "No, because of the points I already made and which I choose not to repeat for your sake."

We do not require trolls at this moment, thank you.

@HenrySalayne: my posts in this thread say everything I want to say. If you read them, you will find the answer to your comments. That's all I have to say about this.

Those quotes are rearranged and their presentation like this forms a different narrative than what I said. I politely disagree with your conclusion on this and the points made thereafter as well.

Though I generally agree on the sentiment of improving, I fail to see the point behind a few of these... This is completely out of proportion. It's indeed an issue with their internal communication procedures but the fact that something like this is being waved as tantamount to High Treason, while this is a miscommunication between two companies, is something I can't really get my head around. Put yourself in the same position, writing the same things, but replace LMG and Billet with, say, Asus and NVidia. Do you realize how utterly pointless that is? These are companies, people. They deal like companies deal and sometimes things go wrong. I'd really like to see this sort of discussion about why a certain graphics card only has 8 GB VRAM and none of the board partners seems in the least inclined in increasing this. For example. Would that generate the same amount of drama and outcry? Guess we'll never know.... Oh wait, we do know, cause that happened and no one batted an eye. And this is something that actually impacts many more consumers. OK, you can argue that there is a "journalistic" and "review" aspect to the matter, that LMG's opinion matters, but that has nothing to do with the outcry I'm seeing. I didn't see any of this right after the video came out: only right now. And LMG, for better of worse, reacted immediately by taking a step back themselves. If anyone discussing this really cared, Linus should have heard about this back then, and not now. ...with what? What is actually your point and how would this change actually help anything to do with LMG? Seems like one of those things people are just throwing out into the discussion in order to say something, anything, though I fail to see the point. This as well begs the questions: what's your point? The question of perception goes out the window when a review/opinion is based on actual facts obtained in a scientific way. So I think that putting out a suspicion on LMG employees for the sake of who knows what is rather egregious as Dr. Cutress said, when the data and the open communication on both the product and said potential conflicts of interest should be sufficient for the public to form an informed decision. This is true of manual benchmarking as well. WIth the very very big difference that, with manual benchmarking, the amount of manual steps and inputs is exponentially higher, also exponentially increasing the chance of human error. With automated benchmarking, the human factor comes into play mainly during review of the process, which is much easier to do. So automated processes are by definition more efficient and less prone to error.

While I agree on the overall sentiment of this thread, I think most of the takes here are simply taking this whole thing too seriously. All of this. ALL of this, even what relates to workplace environment - more on that below -, is being taken to a proportion which I haven't seen outside major corruption scandals. And even then. You'd think the man was caught embezzling or something. There are shouts for him to get out of camera. For a whole number of measures that I bet most of you asking for them don't even expect from your own government...! No. There were mistakes, yes. They need to be dealt with, yes. I think that these mistakes were exploded by the fact they were very public and very exploited by other channels. Although this created drama and a sense of scandal, if you actually look at it there is no scandal here. There were mistakes made and there is a company being forced by public pressure to perform in a week's time the sort of adjustments that companies and organizations normally take years to achieve. And they will be absolutely hammered by haters whatever they say next. Saying the company needs to grow, that management needs to put on their adult shoes is rather disingenuous: they know that, they've been saying this for ages, if you've been listening to then number of internal adjustments they've been making over the last couple years, or to the number of times they themselves complain about internal processes or simply the fact that Luke is freakin' Chief Technical Officer. Damn, even a couple of months prior, the actual CEO and founder willingly stepped down to make place for someone who can actually lead the company into more sustainable growth. This literally happened a couple of months ago and suddenly everyone is acting as if they're still producing out of the Langley house and making WAN Show sitting on a couch with a wall of boxes behind them. Do not expect them to come out with mind-blowing measure out of the gate. Rather with their growth mindset explicitly drawn into a publicly available time-line. I for one expect them to never abandon the cheeky "nice", or the double-entendres, or the jankyness. That, together with a solid scientific approach and Linus' candor, honest takes and pro-consumer views are what makes me love the channel. And I bet I'm not alone on this. Creating just another generic, bland, gray corporate-looking reviews outlet is something that would kill the channel. You know this, they know this. Competitors know this. On the workplace environment: It's important to separate what we already know is the workplace environment by their own words - a fast-paced difficult demanding workload - from the allegations of harassment. I actually think that the latter is not the company culture and therefore I am not including it under the term "workplace environment". Like Dr. Cutress said, a workplace where people are driven to produce more is the norm. I venture saying it should be the norm when you are working alongside people who are passionate in their respective fields.

This should be pinned, at least shout louder for the cheap seats in the back. It's glaringly obvious that people commenting about this whole situation are either trolls or have absolutely no idea what it means to work at a fast growing company/VC/startup/whatever you wanna call it. I agree with every single one of these points and I hope that LMG has the clearmindedness to separate the trolling from the actual constructive criticism and define the actual issues and carve a sustainable path forward. NOTHINGBURGER is the correct term to be used here for everything except for what happened to Madison. Hopefully everyone can remember they're adults during this whole process.

Why is it that anyone discussing the benefits and disadvantages of unions are automatically anti-labor? Even Linus is accused of this, even though he has said he is not opposed to unions many times. As much times as he has said that he would see the creation of a union within LMG as a personal failure, since he tries to ensure that the benefits of one are already there at the company to begin with. Honestly, all these discussions about LMG seem fed by trolls, opportunists and disaster-voyeurism, at this moment.

This thread has devolved into people circular-arguing about what has been discussed publicly, facts that anyone can search if they want to do their own due-diligence and aren't lazy. I realize that mods may be iffy about moderating a thread which is meant to foster frank discussion, but I think the latest couple hundred posts are anything but constructive, and this discussion is serving no-one any purpose if it keeps going on like this.

It's more difficult than the Define (at least the Define R4, it's the only one I had) but that's not hard, since that was a bigger case. The narrower space behind the motherboard, along with the thinner side panel (compared with the Define, which is a tank: those panels were THICK....) mean you need to actually perform good cable management. if your setup is relatively straight-forward (even with air-cooling), cable management is good. Simply good, what you would expect fom Fractal. Of course modular PSU's and the simplicity of your setup help in this. If you're going with more than the standard case fans, you have to get inventive with their cables. Be sure to have enough Y-splitters. If you're planning on installing HDDs, things start to become crowded in that lower PSU shroud... (more cables, less space) Be sure to read the specifications VERY carefully. Overall I'd say it's pretty good. There are lots of build videos with those cases (especially the North, insanelly popular case) so be sure to check out how they go about cable management.

Since OP is referring only to using that TV as monitor with the desires resolution and refresh rates, the answer is: Yes. You'll definitely see an improvement. I upgraded (forcibly) from a RX 270x to a 3070 and the difference was enormous. Even keeping every other piece of my PC (i5 4690k, 8GB DDR3), I was able to see a huge improvement in my games. I have now a CPU bottleneck but that will be solved when I upgrade the rest of the system