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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from HalaMadrid_VTT in is it ok to rest my feet on my pc   
    yes it's absolutely fine.
    however
    don't kick it or shake your foot way too much if you got mechanical drive in there. Like I mean you're playing a  game, and you get mad cause you got good but someone else got gooder, and kick it in anger, bad. If you fidget a lot, and you tilt the case back and forth or rock it constantly, bad maybe. Shake your foot a little or just leave them there? it's fine. 
    So yea go for it. 
    That said, a lot of cases are thin enough that will will flex/sag over time if they have a lot of material cut out on the top for fans/rad and you have nothing installed there. Ain't hurting the computer though. 
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from CoreySolomon in Tommy Hilfiger are Filthy Scammers   
    I was reading this thread as I often do for video releases, and this series of posts you have made are dumb enough to have inspired me to actually log in and post for the first time in a long time. 
    You took a viewpoint that would normally be easy to defend- "Maybe don't spend 250$ on a backpack, and it's kinda crazy there's such a huge market for all these youtubers to huck this merch"
    Where you could have chosen some easy vectors
    Youtuber merch is just needless consumerism and bad for the environment Youtubers and streamers prey on the parasocial relationship of viewer to get them to buy shit even when they shouldn't financially Possibly not worth it for anyone to spend that much on a backpack like that regardless of their financial status And you chose option D
    Take one of the few influencer hucksters that actually make a custom product and say you can find it on Aliex, then when challenged post a completely different product and try to bury your embarrassment by posting a diagram from an instructables guide on how to make a backpack to prove you know how bags work. 
    The argument and challenge wasn't other places sell bags. It's that other places sold this bag and you're very desperate to redefine that challenge. 

    It's difficult to be so blatantly wrong yet try to move such well defined goal posts but you trucked right on ahead, reducing the collective intelligence of everyone with the privilege of reading this. Your commitment is impressive and your sheer lack of embarrassment is commendable, and as a result my first appointment for stereotactic radiosurgery for the cancer that has spread from my eyes to my brain is next Monday. 

    Congratulations.





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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Tinmanx64 in The legend of the colored star wars "towel.blinkenlights.nl telnet command thingy"   
    I can confirm the color is a joke, it's still b/w
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Mr.Nelf in Tommy Hilfiger are Filthy Scammers   
    A bag remotely similar would have been appropriate, instead you posted a bag that is not even remotely similar just because it was probably a better value. We all know there are many places you can order a product and slap your logo on, we know chinese factories bootleg things a lot, and we all know you can get quality bags cheaper. 

    They were open about exactly what they did for the screwdriver, exactly who they licensed the driver from, and exactly what changes they made. 
    And of course the factory makes different bags than the LTT bags. Holy shit it's almost like a different bag made for a customer using different material to different quality standards using a different design is a thing that a lot of factories offer, or more accurately it's literally their business model. Your claim was that you probably could already find this bag sans logo, and the counter claim is that they hired a so far honest factory to make custom bags to their specs and it thus far has no copy.

    Again you took what I would think is the winning argument here and just dunked on yourself by opening you mouth before googling first. 
     
     
    but you did
     
    And it would have been real easy to stay on the defendable side here. Watch.

    "oops, I guess not yet since they did actually do a custom product, it might take a little while for a quality bootleg if the demand is there, but I bet one day soon. And it's still a bad value anyway- the entire argument is that a quality bootleg would be very profitable at the prices the real one sells for"

    and your point still would have stood with dignity- right or wrong it's a well reasoned argument against a product like this and is the reason that probably like you I just don't buy youtuber merch. But you deflected, then when called on it doubled and tripled down.

    He only called you on it because it was so obviously and confidently wrong it was an easy win he could be cheeky as you said and just take an easy W. If you hadn't insisted on that double down, deflection, then light novel about quality pulling doughnuts around the point he probably wouldn't have engaged cause you might have had a good point that would have looked bad to argue with. 

    But you responded to a comment from Luscious that made the argument that "this is probably going to be bootlegged at a much lower price" and immediately pushed the yoke in providing an opportunity for some low hanging fruit for him to pull an easy W on and take out some frustration.

    That's what's so impressive about it. I wouldn't have bothered logging in just for a bad opinion. You argued an opinion I agreed with so poorly that I felt embarrassed to share the same opinion. When I read "Almost identical" my stomach dropped holy hell man you could have pivoted the argument and saved face. 

    No one here seems to think Luscious had a complete braindead take. Wonder why. Cause right or wrong it wasn't.

    And I know I sliced and diced your reply to format mine. but I promise I read it all. 
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Mr.Nelf in Tommy Hilfiger are Filthy Scammers   
    I was reading this thread as I often do for video releases, and this series of posts you have made are dumb enough to have inspired me to actually log in and post for the first time in a long time. 
    You took a viewpoint that would normally be easy to defend- "Maybe don't spend 250$ on a backpack, and it's kinda crazy there's such a huge market for all these youtubers to huck this merch"
    Where you could have chosen some easy vectors
    Youtuber merch is just needless consumerism and bad for the environment Youtubers and streamers prey on the parasocial relationship of viewer to get them to buy shit even when they shouldn't financially Possibly not worth it for anyone to spend that much on a backpack like that regardless of their financial status And you chose option D
    Take one of the few influencer hucksters that actually make a custom product and say you can find it on Aliex, then when challenged post a completely different product and try to bury your embarrassment by posting a diagram from an instructables guide on how to make a backpack to prove you know how bags work. 
    The argument and challenge wasn't other places sell bags. It's that other places sold this bag and you're very desperate to redefine that challenge. 

    It's difficult to be so blatantly wrong yet try to move such well defined goal posts but you trucked right on ahead, reducing the collective intelligence of everyone with the privilege of reading this. Your commitment is impressive and your sheer lack of embarrassment is commendable, and as a result my first appointment for stereotactic radiosurgery for the cancer that has spread from my eyes to my brain is next Monday. 

    Congratulations.





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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Middcore in Tommy Hilfiger are Filthy Scammers   
    A bag remotely similar would have been appropriate, instead you posted a bag that is not even remotely similar just because it was probably a better value. We all know there are many places you can order a product and slap your logo on, we know chinese factories bootleg things a lot, and we all know you can get quality bags cheaper. 

    They were open about exactly what they did for the screwdriver, exactly who they licensed the driver from, and exactly what changes they made. 
    And of course the factory makes different bags than the LTT bags. Holy shit it's almost like a different bag made for a customer using different material to different quality standards using a different design is a thing that a lot of factories offer, or more accurately it's literally their business model. Your claim was that you probably could already find this bag sans logo, and the counter claim is that they hired a so far honest factory to make custom bags to their specs and it thus far has no copy.

    Again you took what I would think is the winning argument here and just dunked on yourself by opening you mouth before googling first. 
     
     
    but you did
     
    And it would have been real easy to stay on the defendable side here. Watch.

    "oops, I guess not yet since they did actually do a custom product, it might take a little while for a quality bootleg if the demand is there, but I bet one day soon. And it's still a bad value anyway- the entire argument is that a quality bootleg would be very profitable at the prices the real one sells for"

    and your point still would have stood with dignity- right or wrong it's a well reasoned argument against a product like this and is the reason that probably like you I just don't buy youtuber merch. But you deflected, then when called on it doubled and tripled down.

    He only called you on it because it was so obviously and confidently wrong it was an easy win he could be cheeky as you said and just take an easy W. If you hadn't insisted on that double down, deflection, then light novel about quality pulling doughnuts around the point he probably wouldn't have engaged cause you might have had a good point that would have looked bad to argue with. 

    But you responded to a comment from Luscious that made the argument that "this is probably going to be bootlegged at a much lower price" and immediately pushed the yoke in providing an opportunity for some low hanging fruit for him to pull an easy W on and take out some frustration.

    That's what's so impressive about it. I wouldn't have bothered logging in just for a bad opinion. You argued an opinion I agreed with so poorly that I felt embarrassed to share the same opinion. When I read "Almost identical" my stomach dropped holy hell man you could have pivoted the argument and saved face. 

    No one here seems to think Luscious had a complete braindead take. Wonder why. Cause right or wrong it wasn't.

    And I know I sliced and diced your reply to format mine. but I promise I read it all. 
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Middcore in Tommy Hilfiger are Filthy Scammers   
    I was reading this thread as I often do for video releases, and this series of posts you have made are dumb enough to have inspired me to actually log in and post for the first time in a long time. 
    You took a viewpoint that would normally be easy to defend- "Maybe don't spend 250$ on a backpack, and it's kinda crazy there's such a huge market for all these youtubers to huck this merch"
    Where you could have chosen some easy vectors
    Youtuber merch is just needless consumerism and bad for the environment Youtubers and streamers prey on the parasocial relationship of viewer to get them to buy shit even when they shouldn't financially Possibly not worth it for anyone to spend that much on a backpack like that regardless of their financial status And you chose option D
    Take one of the few influencer hucksters that actually make a custom product and say you can find it on Aliex, then when challenged post a completely different product and try to bury your embarrassment by posting a diagram from an instructables guide on how to make a backpack to prove you know how bags work. 
    The argument and challenge wasn't other places sell bags. It's that other places sold this bag and you're very desperate to redefine that challenge. 

    It's difficult to be so blatantly wrong yet try to move such well defined goal posts but you trucked right on ahead, reducing the collective intelligence of everyone with the privilege of reading this. Your commitment is impressive and your sheer lack of embarrassment is commendable, and as a result my first appointment for stereotactic radiosurgery for the cancer that has spread from my eyes to my brain is next Monday. 

    Congratulations.





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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Killertaker in general question for Wireless mice users   
    Every logitech mouse I've owned in the last 8 years or so has lasted a matter of months before problems. Their wireless mice are fantastic, but it prevents me from wanting to drop so much on a g502 wireless when it's the same low quality as the recent g502s, which my current one is only a few months old and almost kapoot. If I'm going to get a mouse thats gonna double click and have a junky scroll wheel in a few months, I'm sticking with the 30-40$ wired ones. 
     
    I will say it's not necessary to flip them, but doing so is not the cause of either the double clicking or the scroll wheel problems. Just using them normally is. 

    Take this from someone who literally has a drawer FULL of gaming mice of many brands some many many years old, they don't make them like they used to, especially Logitech. 

    As for when logitech starting having these issues the first mouse from them i had with double clicking was all the way back to the g600. 
    They are willing to just replace without you sending them back these days I've heard, they'd rather pay for good support than just better mice, so if you're willing to deal with getting a few RMAs that might work for you. Some guy on reddit says he's done it more than a dozen times. 
    I've also heard there are other more appropriate switches you can solder yourself to say a g502 or their other mice too I assume, but it's not just the buttons that break on my 502s so YMMV on a different mouse but maybe just get one and replace the switches yourself with better ones. 
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    Syntaxvgm reacted to ItzzBlueCircle in Substitute for soldering things?   
    ItzzBlueCircle#8376
    I sent the fr req
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    Syntaxvgm reacted to poochyena in Capture One Has Insane Clause in EULA   
    LTT should add this clause to their GPU program. Linus personally comes to your house to verify you are, in fact, a gamer.
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    Syntaxvgm reacted to Somerandomtechyboi in Substitute for soldering things?   
    Soldering irons are like 2-3$ for the lower power ones, i dont see a point in just not buying one cause 2-3$ for something that you may only use once but can become useful in the future isnt a bad deal, i have a 40w soldering iron that i havent used yet and it was like 1$ when i bought it, i dont know how to use it yet but since ill be f ing around with bga rework then itll prob come in handy for desoldering
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    Syntaxvgm reacted to Matttis in Apple's REALLY tempting me...   
    Ok, this isn't about Apple or the new Macbooks at all, but I noticed something while watching the video.
    The image of the tiger they use on hdmi.org to show the difference between the different resolutions? Shown at about 6:11?
     

     
    His name is El-Roi, he lives at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, where I am volunteer staff photographer and that photo is one of mine 🙂
     
     

     
    That was a nice surprise 😄
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from WolframaticAlpha in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Dominik W in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Lewellyn in Outraged by the implementation of Women in Battlefield 5   
    Much like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, wolfenstein is clearly not selling itself as somewhat historically accurate. Not at all.
    I get tired of these comparisons. Woflenstien is wolfenstien and BF is bf. This is the first battlefield that's a dieselpunk ww2-inspired game. Literally furiosa as a main character.

    Each game has a level of realism it markets and targets for both gameplay and setting. People are gonna expect Arma to be more realistic than call of duty. People wouldn't excuse something unrealistic in BF because say fortnite did it. People shit on BF1 for literally pretending the french and Russians didn't' exist in  WW1 which was made up with dlc. This is not any different. If they really wanted plenty of women soldier storys without controversy,  they had an opportunity to tell bf like stories using real Russians in real battles that are really interesting and very rarely covered in games. Or they at least could have dropped the literal robot arm. We expect them to embellish these, of course, but not strait up just put a girl with a robot arm as a lead, trying to pass it off as a realistic prosthetic because it's styled like one. But this is supposed to get a pass because why? Because wolfenstein is about 'the germans won and something something mecha nazis'?

    Is saving private ryan, a movie based on decently realistic things telling a fictional story the same thing as hellsing ultimate, where mecha sequal-hitler fights dracula spelled backwards using vampire nazis launched from a blimp called the "deus ex machina" like planes? Are your expectations of those similar? Cause they're both ww2 movies.


    I personally would love more outlandish shit with a realistic aesthetic. I really would have preferred they went full steam ahead instead of revision style changes. If they marketed it as ww2 re-imagined or an alternate ww2. Battles that never happened, guns that never existed and stuff like that. Could be really cool, and it gives a lot of freedom.
     
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from flo_306 in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Red :) in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from linuxChips2600 in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from sub68 in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from minibois in Who is this dude?(At LTT Worplace)   
    my friend he is resident tracksuit expert 
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Computernaut in Techquickie idea- why linus wears sandals with socks.   
    I want a solid 5 minutes explaining why this is the superior footwear choice. As someone who wears socks and sandals (the slip on kind) I need a good video to link to people. 

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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from lewdicrous in Opinion: Apple isn't ripping anyone off   
    I can deny the holocaust too and call it my opinion but my opinion would be stupid. 
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Letgomyleghoe in one of the threads of all time   
    send dick pics to @Slick
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from Ben17 in LTT Official Discord!   
    I get to shitpost in real time, nice. 
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    Syntaxvgm got a reaction from rattacko123 in Fossil HR, Smartwatch with 2+ week battery life   
    A thick ass smart watch with a day battery life and a reflective screen is such a compromise in 2019. 
    I'm glad there's some pebble-like options creeping back out there. 
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