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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from Symion in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Is there a reason why I should trust that guy?
    He is aware of his own hypocrisy, that is a good thing.
    Although I think there is still a conflict of interest with his invitation to LTX, he may be closer to Linus and LMG as a company than Steve is, having a bias towards LMG as a personal relationship with a business. Which is what Steve said he doesn't do and says reviewers shouldn't be doing.
    Ian also defends the choice of LMG hiring someone from Asus that was a marketing director for Asus, because they worked at Anandtech before, that also raises a concern of bias. IMO a massive tech company like LMG having Asus as a main sponsor shouldn't be hiring people from Asus, because it only causes a bias within the company towards Asus as a brand.
     
    What has happened has already happened, I don't see why anyone else need to be making videos digging this up even more.  LMG f$%^ed up and needed the call out on it, Steve could've been more clear on his own biases, he could've reached out first to make sure he's getting all of the info, although the whole situation wasn't about him and it seems like Ian discussed more on Steve than he did on LMG.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from HighQ_LowZ in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    I don't really mind GN saying a product is trash, he isn't concerned with sponsorships as most tech youtubers are, I can see why people with a bias towards a brand might think he's biased against some brands, although everyone is going to think a certain brand is trash. There were people bashing on GN in this thread for testing on the Asus AM5 motherboard issue,when the company in that case was being trash.
    So that would indicate LMG cares more about views than accuracy, I said it before but it seems like the lab is a way for Linus to feel like he makes more professional content, so Linus is jealous of GN and HWUB's analytical testing.
    I have my own bias I would admit, I can sit through an in depth testing video and don't need funny sponsorships and jokes in the content.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to Erioch in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Because they did.
     
    Strawman.  No one is saying that.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from Smileyblue13 in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    The issue I have is that Linus is still doing most of the videos though, and I think it would be great if the rest of the talent at LMG could script and host videos as IMO Linus needs to take a break from LMG.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    The issue I have is that Linus is still doing most of the videos though, and I think it would be great if the rest of the talent at LMG could script and host videos as IMO Linus needs to take a break from LMG.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to Godiwa in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    pretty sad the lmg army goes rabid and doesn't understand common sense
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from SuperGnu in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    That isn't true, Nvidia has higher margins than even Apple does. Nvidia profits so much from consumer graphics cards it isn't even their main focus, they cared about more about crypto when it was the hype, now they care more about AI/ datacenter sales, the egregious prices with the 40 series shows Nvidia doesn't care about selling gaming GPU's.
    Because LTT doesn't, and its very clear they don't care given they monetized their video response and put merch store ads into the video. LTT hasn't cared about getting accuracy right for years, even when people like GN have called them out before but Linus either goes on a rant about he's never wrong or ignores any requests to improve video quality. The surprise wake up call was necessary or else Linus would've tried to deny and deflect everything, he tried to deny any wrongdoing and decided to deflect instead of simply apologizing with the pinned post in this thread.
    Meanwhile the LTT fanbase has to find something to be mad about and decided to be hyper fixated on LTT gaslighting about ethics when they didn't have any ethics or objectivity in reviewing regarding the Billet issue and decided to spin the blame back onto GN.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from K4shira in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    The LTT labs engineer did say they were doing better than someone else, they said they were doing something along the lines of running every CPU and graphics card every time they do a benchmark review, implying they do better testing than GN or HW Unboxed.
     
    IMO making this sort of comment, even on a private tour, is a mistake as they didn't even bother to ask how GN or HW Unboxed runs benchmarks. Instead of LMG throwing the blame back at GN for pointing out mistakes a simple apology could've been made with a promise to focus on better testing accuracy.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to Erioch in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    If other youtubers call out GN for not testing properly, then yeah, Steve should definitely go after them.  You seem to forget that this all started because an employee of LMG accused GN of not testing properly.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to Thaldor in LTT's Youtube channel died when it turned into clickbait junk!   
    Don't forget there's more "industry standard" way to show the pickup pattern called... *drum roll*... Polar graph! Of course it doesn't give you frequency response around the mic as LTT showed, because that is kind of a silly thing to be worried about and test because optimally you use the mic as it is meant to be used and the point of pickup pattern is to limit the amount of surrounding noises the mic captures so you want to test how well the mic dampens the noise coming from unwanted directions. But I guess it's more important to show how your voice sounds around the mic than how the mic blocks unwanted noise.
     
    And the video just proved my age old reason why I loose my interest when I see clickbait. "wHy EVeRyOnE is ByUiNG ThIS miC?" "Because it has unicorn vomit amount of RGB, comes with the most questionable accessories to make it look like Rode mics (which also aren't that good, at least the cheap ones everyone use) and it's dirt cheap", watched the video and didn't get disappointed anymore.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from CameronP90 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    LTT saying they planned on sending the prototype back isn't the same as promising and telling Billet they would send back the monoblock.
     
    Except we don't know if Billet had some sort of contract with the block, and the important part to note is Billet said they could keep the block as long as LTT would do more videos with it. Linus said the block was crap, refused to do any more testing with it, so of course Billet labs wanted their one off prototype back as any company should with a valuable product when a reviewer refuses to give it a fair and objective review.
     
    There was no contact for several days because LTT screwed up the email, that isn't Billet lab's fault.
     
    And LTT only reached out to Billet labs after GN made their video, the conversation on LTT's side doesn't look good given Linus was arrogant and childish refusing to correctly test the product, LTT decided to auction it off and Linus said it wasn't sold it was auctioned, then LMG sent and email saying something along the lines of "at least it wasn't sitting on a shelf" so the fact LTT screwed up so badly doesn't look good with their treatment towards a small company.
     
    It does seem like lying and thievery when the product wasn't tested properly, Linus trying to brush off that the product was wrongly sold, and the fact that the block wasn't returned when Billet labs asked for it back. All the fault is on LTT, GN only reported on what happened.
    You're trying to throw shade at people for their grammar here, yet you say that? Please try harder.
    Also could you point any flaws GN has in their video of pointing out LMG's mistakes?
    Everyone makes mistakes, yet mistakes should be learned from, which LMG didn't seem to care about for a while now as they decided to prioritize rushing videos out over correcting mistakes which shouldn't have made it past their editing team.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to FreelancerSystem in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve put his reputation on the line, LMG is massive compared to GN and this could easily tear GN down. So it's incredibly important for GN not to look like its toning things down or hiding things just because "Steve is Linus' friend". The context should come straight from LTT, not GN. Which is the response video we got
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    Blademaster91 reacted to escape093 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    What has Steve criticized LMG for that he is also guilty of himself? The argument seems to be "not having journalistic integrity", despite the fact that Steve displayed examples, cited sources, gave context and the like. Steve's videos are well edited, pretty well clear of mistakes, all thanks to a very flexible upload schedule and content production pipeline. He doesn't review products he has a significant investment in, and steers clear of conflicts of interest in his videos. But no, he had the audacity to not reach out to Linus before dropping the video, depriving him of the opportunity to sew the seeds of doubt in the community, so now he "lacks journalistic integrity", apparently just as much Linus who lept at the opportunity to go on damage control and misrepresent the timeline of events.

    Give me a break.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to FreelancerSystem in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    I disagree. As Steve said in the HW news follow-up video, LMG is a corporation. That corporation informally attempted to slander GN and HU via that Labs tour clip. After the "Trust Me Bro" scandal, Steve has publicly stated that they will only report on LMG as a corporation and not as a personal relationship due to a conflict of interest for unbiased media coverage. With all that in mind, he has no obligation as a journalist outlet to contact LMG for comment on the situation before publishing a piece that exposes ethical and systemic issues within the company structure. When you attack an outlet that takes extreme pride in standardized hardware testing, you better have your ducks in a row. Which LMG didn't. So Steve did the appropriate thing and showed there were a lot of things LTT needs to figure out and change before they even think about comparing Labs to the quality of GN testing. Plus, a lot of large companies don't make any meaningful changes until they've been publicly exposed. GN avoided a major bullet by not reaching out to LTT for comment or trying to solve this behind closed doors, given Steve's promises on how he would be reporting on LTT and LMG.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to Alvin853 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Well LMG has really been going downhill lately, I hope they see this as a wakeup call to reconsider some of their strategies. I'm not a fan of drama, but I have noticed a lot of issues with LMG videos lately and was hoping sooner or later this topic gets brought up so LMG can do the right thing.
     
    Just look at this segment: 
    Mr Framework Investor and supposed Right to Repair advocate Linus thinks it's "pretty cool" that the mainboard and case are non-standard so once you want to replace either one of them, the other one is unusable and becomes e-waste. 

    Stuff like this happens way too often, and if LMG doesn't want to become a joke and untrustworthy they need to work on it.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from Alex T88 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    That isn't true, Nvidia has higher margins than even Apple does. Nvidia profits so much from consumer graphics cards it isn't even their main focus, they cared about more about crypto when it was the hype, now they care more about AI/ datacenter sales, the egregious prices with the 40 series shows Nvidia doesn't care about selling gaming GPU's.
    Because LTT doesn't, and its very clear they don't care given they monetized their video response and put merch store ads into the video. LTT hasn't cared about getting accuracy right for years, even when people like GN have called them out before but Linus either goes on a rant about he's never wrong or ignores any requests to improve video quality. The surprise wake up call was necessary or else Linus would've tried to deny and deflect everything, he tried to deny any wrongdoing and decided to deflect instead of simply apologizing with the pinned post in this thread.
    Meanwhile the LTT fanbase has to find something to be mad about and decided to be hyper fixated on LTT gaslighting about ethics when they didn't have any ethics or objectivity in reviewing regarding the Billet issue and decided to spin the blame back onto GN.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from SuperGnu in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Claiming Steve only made the video as a "hit piece" or that he "acts as if the'yre anointed by god" is complete nonsense.
    The reasons are very obvious why Steve didn't want to have to make the video but it is well justified as he reported on things out in the open in videos, when someone can point out mistakes being made for a long time then the call out needs to be done.
    If you don't like the style in how Steve does videos thats fine but attacking GN in order to defend Linus and LMG is wrong in my opinion.
    All of the companies that Steve has called out for anti-consumer things were right of them to do, these companies are selling things to the consumer that are a fire hazard, or can ruin a CPU then deny warranty or even admit they did anything wrong.
    I'd like to see more tech youtubers call out companies for bullshit, but many of them don't want to risk upsetting sponsors, or care more about the money as LMG clearly does, and more about the money than getting basic testing in a review right.
     
    The thing with the PCI-e riser is that the paint could be easily scratched off by installing and  removing it just a few times, and the company admitted it was an issue and tried to fix it, before anyone buying it risked ruining their PC or worse setting their house on fire.
     
    As for the PSU, those were also dangerous and should've been fully recalled by Newegg, Newegg as a company has also been going downhill with terrible support and allowing marketplace sellers to sell junk so buyers have to be careful when buying that an item comes from a reputable seller or directly from Newegg.
    And as for the Asus motherboard issue, Asus chose to put that disclaimer in a BIOS when the BIOS was causing the motherboard to break the CPU, no other manufacturer was denying warranty even if others had the same problem.
    Also for the whole Billet labs issue, that is on LMG, they sold it, then claimed it was fine because "at least it wasn't sitting on a shelf" then Linus said it wasn't sold it was auctioned, it being for charity also makes it worse as the charity is involved in the probelm.
     
    And no the whole issue is on LMG to improve, GN only brought up the mistakes LMG has been for years now, GN tried to contact them with the "trust me bro" issue but Linus ignored them and took it personally instead something they need to resolve as a company. Steve decided to treat LMG like every other company he's done a video on after that and I think that is justified when Linus takes everything personally instead of admitting they made a mistake.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from ze77y in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    There may not be any actual bias, it is the fact that Linus has a interest in Framework. It would be like a reviewer that is a shareholder for Intel or Nvidia for example doing product reviews, IMO they aren't going to be the most trustworthy source.
     
    I agree the Billet labs block and the Pwnage mouse need to be fixed, and I think videos for those should be taken down, or a proper review for the Pwnage mouse.
     
    In my opinion putting a note in the WAN show isn't a very good correction for things like messing up on the Billet labs or Pwnage mouse review.
     
    I think they should re-shoot the corrections instead of just putting an asterisk with text in the video, or slow down with the content and get it right before uploading the video, as by the time corrections are made with how LMG is rushing their pace, most people already watched the video with an error in it.
     
    As for Anker, Linus said they were dropping Anker and made a huge drama out of it, the fans took that and were saying Anker as a brand is bad, and I have to wonder how bad that hurt LMG with all the sponsors they have, it probably hurt Anker more by people refusing to buy Anker products.
     
    Regarding working with brands, I think they could've dropped the Asus sponsorship, and bought their own Asus hardware for review, at the least it would show they aren't being biased towards Asus. Also continuing to work with brands means they still endorse the product, viewers will see he still uses Asus and buy stuff from Asus.
    And for Intel, they've done sponsorships more with Intel, it seems like he's willing to do sponsor spots with who is willing to pay more.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from ze77y in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Tim still represents LMG as a company, what he said was at the company, even though it wasn't as PR or in public I think it shouldn't have been said in a tour.
    1.  Steve explained why he didn't contact Linus in the video and decided when the "trust me bro" controversy happened, Steve said he would treat LMG like any other company, he doesn't contact a company every time he makes a review, those that watched the GN videos on this, and GN's reviews show he is objective.
    2.  How is Steve to blame for any of this? He didn't have to contact Linus and if he did Linus would've forced him to only talk about certain points, and I doubt the Billet labs thing would have came out at all. I'm glad it did as Billet labs got paid for the value of the product and Jayztwocents has mentioned on twitter/X he wants to review a Billet labs block.
    3. It would've been nice if Steve had asked first, but why should other youtubers have to ask Linus for permission to point out mistakes they've been making for a long time now? Linus shifting the blame and complaining about ethics when they need to seriously work on their own ethics in reviews show their arrogance towards others on getting criticism.
    4. LMG disclosing Framework about doesn't mean anything other than Linus essentially saying he's giving other laptops a fair review and the audience can only base that on trusting Linus. Steve is well known for providing good data driven benchmark reviews, again anyone that watches his videos knows that.
    5. Steve has done videos on Asus and their issues with motherboards killing CPU's, IMO that doesn't show there is any negative bias against Asus. Reporting problems with a product isn't having a negative dispute with a company.
    LMG/LTT has a clear bias towards Asus, which is against their policy of blacklisting companies that have done anti-consumer things.
     
    It is because people aren't objectively criticizing GN, they're taking things out of context to throw the blame at GN, when all GN did was report on the issues that need addressing.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from Exty in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    1. GN had reasons for not contacting LMG, he has tried to contact LMG in the past over things they got wrong or things that needed to be addressed, Linus ignored them, so Steve understandably didn't want to contact them.
    2. GN making a video didn't cause Linus to make an emotional response, that is Linus's problem.
    3. If the reason LMG are getting consistent inaccuracies in their videos is because of restructuring, then they need to slow down on video production, restructuring in the company and still rushing out videos every day doesn't excuse the kind of errors they're making.
    4. GN reported on things they've been getting wrong for a long time, people on the forum have been asking for LMG to improve for years now. There is no cancel culture here, the only ones I've been seeing trying to "cancel" anyone are the angry Linus fans trying to attack GN.
    5. I've seen both of the GN videos, can you point out where GN admits they manipulated facts that were already public information in their videos?
    6. GN contacting LMG wouldn't have made any difference as LMG decided to deflect away from admitting they messed up.
    Those aren't facts, those are twisting things to attack GN, when GN was simply the messenger here.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from Slizzo in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    If you think the manner in which Steve makes videos means he's jealous then you clearly don't watch any of Steve's videos. Him being a bit snarky or sarcastic is just how he makes video, its dry humor at times.
    Also saying "other tech channels" doesn't mean anything really, if he is hinting at LMG, then its because of the inaccuracies in videos, which do deserve to be pointed out.
    It seems like you have concerns with GN because you don't like how he makes videos, he isn't to blame for the facts he brings up in both videos.
    Also Linus is deflecting, he shifted the blame to GN in a very corporate sounding way rather than just taking the accountability for it,Linus has the reputation for not wanting to accept any blame.
     
    As for the Billet labs mistake, LMG didn't pay Billet labs until GN published their video, LMG screwed up and sent the email to the wrong address, and while the intention may not have been malicious the intent seems that way because Linus says they didn't sell it they auctioned it as if that made it any less of a mistake, and the email said "it wasn't sitting on the shelf" which does imply they didn't intend on sending it back.
    The block being sold for charity doesn't make it any better either when it shouldn't have been sold in the first place because the Billet labs block was a one off prototype that could have ended up in the hands of a competing company.
    Also Billet labs said LMG could keep it if they did more videos on it, then Linus said it was crap and refused to test it again claiming it was too expensive to retest it, but doesn't have any problem with reviewing other expensive hardware when sponsorship money is involved.  People have pointed out the facts with the Billet labs mistake, but people keep blaming GN for it even though GN isn't to blame for anything here.
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from dalekphalm in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    IMO, GN aren't being disingenuous, LMG is known to make funny content for entertainment, their content is edutainment at best. Also possibly a hot take, I think LMG's "labs" seems more of a way for Linus to feel like their content is more professional by saying they had their "labs" run a bunch of benchmarks, even though LTT still manages to get their info wrong because they'd rather rush out content than focus on accuracy.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to FullStackEditor in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    It's pretty simple. If GN would reach out first nothing major would happen. This way Linus was forced to have a deep think and start making (more) changes (faster).
    Some of the fanbase was lost as Linus lacks introspection (most rich people do) and could have make the necessary transitions sooner.

    It was a good push for LTT in the long run. All these 300 pages pro et contra will be meaningless to LTT in a year.
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    Blademaster91 reacted to WallacEngineering in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    For those of you still thinking GN just did this for the money - more evidence that you couldn't be more wrong.
     
    Steve could have continued with the drama and digging into LTT with more "public beatdown" videos but look at that, that didn't happen now did it?
     
    What is today's video? About new technology coming to aid testing and ensure greater accuracy than ever before.
     
    Steve literally doesn't give two f***s about the drama, its actually pretty hilarious that he just casually ignores all the BS and continues straight on with the next topic:
     
     
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    Blademaster91 got a reaction from RevGAM in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Tim still represents LMG as a company, what he said was at the company, even though it wasn't as PR or in public I think it shouldn't have been said in a tour.
    1.  Steve explained why he didn't contact Linus in the video and decided when the "trust me bro" controversy happened, Steve said he would treat LMG like any other company, he doesn't contact a company every time he makes a review, those that watched the GN videos on this, and GN's reviews show he is objective.
    2.  How is Steve to blame for any of this? He didn't have to contact Linus and if he did Linus would've forced him to only talk about certain points, and I doubt the Billet labs thing would have came out at all. I'm glad it did as Billet labs got paid for the value of the product and Jayztwocents has mentioned on twitter/X he wants to review a Billet labs block.
    3. It would've been nice if Steve had asked first, but why should other youtubers have to ask Linus for permission to point out mistakes they've been making for a long time now? Linus shifting the blame and complaining about ethics when they need to seriously work on their own ethics in reviews show their arrogance towards others on getting criticism.
    4. LMG disclosing Framework about doesn't mean anything other than Linus essentially saying he's giving other laptops a fair review and the audience can only base that on trusting Linus. Steve is well known for providing good data driven benchmark reviews, again anyone that watches his videos knows that.
    5. Steve has done videos on Asus and their issues with motherboards killing CPU's, IMO that doesn't show there is any negative bias against Asus. Reporting problems with a product isn't having a negative dispute with a company.
    LMG/LTT has a clear bias towards Asus, which is against their policy of blacklisting companies that have done anti-consumer things.
     
    It is because people aren't objectively criticizing GN, they're taking things out of context to throw the blame at GN, when all GN did was report on the issues that need addressing.
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